If you were to credit one inventor in history with the genius and ingenuity that allowed for the technological advancements that we now use every day who would it be? Thomas Edison, right? He invented the light bulb. What would the world be like without... What's that you say? He didn't invent the light bulb? Joseph Swan invented the light bulb and was installing them in England before Edison even got his working?
A while back, I bought a fancy dancy photo scanner. One of those that you slide the photo through and it saves the image on a disk. No need to even hook it to a computer! It made the daunting task of scanning my family’s photos seem actually manageable.
If you were to look through pictures of my Grandma, Norma Mae Chrasstil, you would have a tough time finding one without her holding her chin up. I never noticed it before, I never saw past her being my Grandma, but now I see her for the woman she was before she was my Grandma. I see the elegance that exuded from her during her 20’s and 30’s and into my father’s childhood.
Nebraska City has many wonderful programs that benefit both adults and children. Last fall I decided to participate in one of these, and am confidant that I made a good choice.
