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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg

One of my favorite parts of my local pper is the news from 100 years ago today

following the Spanish flu pandemic and Prohibition turmoil was very interesting

Years ago, I stumbled across a website called the "houstorian" (Houston Historian) and spent several weeks reading. It also had scans of old newspaper articles that was really fascinating. https://houstorian.org/

I recently stumbled across this guy's videos. He makes videos about the old, traditional ways of doing things which are also absolutely fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/@eugeniomonesma-documentales/videos

I've watched videos on ways that folks used mistletoe to catch birds for food in Spain, making huge batches of charcoal, make knives, etc...