| ▲ | nephihaha 8 hours ago |
| It says she died at 105 and spent almost a century fishing for lobsters. I doubt she was catching many at the age of five. |
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| ▲ | defrost 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| * Fishing's not catching, * I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from a furnace and rolling them on a bench, using optic moulds, canes for decoration, etc .. at the age of five. Sure, we weren't running them like chimney sweeps or coal mine donkeys 24/7 - that's what they wanted to do for pocket money - make their own, how ever many, and sell them. |
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| ▲ | rubzah 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Fishing's not catching Sounds like something from an MLM seminar. "Telling's not selling!" | |
| ▲ | nephihaha 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I doubt she was doing much in this direction until at least the age of eleven and even then... | | |
| ▲ | defrost 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I can't say either way, having never met her. I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later. My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family. | |
| ▲ | cucumber3732842 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In the days before OSHA there was a lot of stuff on a lobster boat an 8yo can be tasked with. | |
| ▲ | barry-cotter 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Depressing to realise that soon most people will not even have second hand experience with children being useful. |
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| ▲ | jpk2f2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| From 8 to 105...97 years. I'd say that qualifies as "almost a century". |
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| ▲ | tokai 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| She started working at the age of 8. Which we both know from reading the article. |
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| ▲ | simonw 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Presumably that's why they said "almost a century" and not just "a century". |
