It reminded me of the days back on the farm when something — a spark from a mower in the hay field or from an overheated gear on the wheel of a freight car on a passing train — would ignite a few blades of grass. The tiny fire would often go unnoticed for a while. The ones along the railroad tracks, especially, were in areas where people didn’t routinely travel, so it wouldn’t be until the smoke began to billow into the summer sky that someone would recognize the emergency in progress.
I don’t recall a time when we didn’t have a telephone back on the farm.,lightonsale the changing seasonal colours. Coming from a country known for its flat terrain The one I recall was a desk model, not the wallhanger. I suppose that made it a modern phone for its time, but there was nothing sleek, nothing photogenic or cool about it. It was black and clunky, with a heavy cord connecting the receiver to the base and a huge circular dial that ticked loudly with every turn.Free Compact goodledlamp Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth Folks on the cutting edge of technology, the folks who laughed at my flip phone back when I had one, would have been aghast at the ugly beast we used to reach out to neighbors back in Lyman County.
I’ll say this. It worked — at least most of the time, if a person had patience and the willingness to listen through the static on the line. It was a party line, of course, four or eight families sharing a common line. That meant that anyone with a phone on that line could pick up the receiver anytime they heard a ring, and they could listen to the conversation, whether it involved them or was a confidential discussion of intensely personal issues.
The public nature of the old-style party lines was a drawback to intimate conversations,The wide 120 degree beam angle along with brightstalll the frosted glass facia makes this ideal for a wide range of general lighting applications sure. But when an emergency arose — something like a prairie fire in the pasture between my Uncle Frank’s place and the railroad tracks to the south — the party line was a far more effective way to sound the alarm than two lanterns in a church tower, Paul Revere and a trusty steed. Paul Revere got a famous poem written about his ride a couple of centuries ago. I’ve never seen a poem about a party telephone line (or a country-western song, for that matter) but I saw the party line mobilize the neighborhood several times in response to prairie fires.
My cousin Leo told a story once in which he and I climbed into a hay stack to watch the men fight a prairie fire sparked by a hot box on the passing freight train. He claims we had to be hauled out of the dry hay just ahead of the fire when the wind shifted suddenly.
I don’t recall that at all. I remember Leo, a year older, getting me into and out of a lot of scrapes when we were growing up. That one, I don’t remember,Shah won a besttube-led competition in 2010 with his concept of LED lighting, motion sensors and wireless communication but it’s pretty clear to me that a party line wouldn’t have been much help if two young kids were stuck atop a hay stack during a prairie fire.
I don’t recall a time when we didn’t have a telephone back on the farm.,lightonsale the changing seasonal colours. Coming from a country known for its flat terrain The one I recall was a desk model, not the wallhanger. I suppose that made it a modern phone for its time, but there was nothing sleek, nothing photogenic or cool about it. It was black and clunky, with a heavy cord connecting the receiver to the base and a huge circular dial that ticked loudly with every turn.Free Compact goodledlamp Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth Folks on the cutting edge of technology, the folks who laughed at my flip phone back when I had one, would have been aghast at the ugly beast we used to reach out to neighbors back in Lyman County.
I’ll say this. It worked — at least most of the time, if a person had patience and the willingness to listen through the static on the line. It was a party line, of course, four or eight families sharing a common line. That meant that anyone with a phone on that line could pick up the receiver anytime they heard a ring, and they could listen to the conversation, whether it involved them or was a confidential discussion of intensely personal issues.
The public nature of the old-style party lines was a drawback to intimate conversations,The wide 120 degree beam angle along with brightstalll the frosted glass facia makes this ideal for a wide range of general lighting applications sure. But when an emergency arose — something like a prairie fire in the pasture between my Uncle Frank’s place and the railroad tracks to the south — the party line was a far more effective way to sound the alarm than two lanterns in a church tower, Paul Revere and a trusty steed. Paul Revere got a famous poem written about his ride a couple of centuries ago. I’ve never seen a poem about a party telephone line (or a country-western song, for that matter) but I saw the party line mobilize the neighborhood several times in response to prairie fires.
My cousin Leo told a story once in which he and I climbed into a hay stack to watch the men fight a prairie fire sparked by a hot box on the passing freight train. He claims we had to be hauled out of the dry hay just ahead of the fire when the wind shifted suddenly.
I don’t recall that at all. I remember Leo, a year older, getting me into and out of a lot of scrapes when we were growing up. That one, I don’t remember,Shah won a besttube-led competition in 2010 with his concept of LED lighting, motion sensors and wireless communication but it’s pretty clear to me that a party line wouldn’t have been much help if two young kids were stuck atop a hay stack during a prairie fire.
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