Living History Project

What is your name?
What is your age?
Who were your parents?
Where were you born?
How many brothers & sisters did you have?
Who were your grandparents?
What did your Father do for a living?
Did your mother work outside of the home?
How did you travel?
Where was the closest store?
What was going to the store like ?
What stores & businesses were in towns nearby ?
Did you have chores to do at home ?
What school(s) did you attend?
Who was the teacher(s) ?
What were those school days like?
What games did you play in the different seasons?
Where did you go to church?
How did you spend Easter?
How did you spend Christmas?
How did you spend Halloween?
How did you spend Thanksgiving?
When did you start dating or courting someone?
When did you first get electricity?
When did you first get running water?
What were the days like before electricity & running water (how did you bathe before then) ?
Who did you marry?
Where did you meet your spouse?
How long did you date/court?
Where did you get married?
What kind of celebrating did you do after the wedding?
Did you go on a honeymoon?
When did you buy your first car?
What kind was it ?
How much did it cost?
Where was your first house as a married couple?
Do you remember when someone died , how they were laid out & how things were ?
What were the prices of gas, food, houses, land when you were growing up & first married?
Did you have children?
Where were the children born?
Who was the doctor?
Who are your children & grandchildren?
What do you remember about the different towns nearby?
How much did it cost to see a doctor or dentist?
What could you tell them that would surprise them about you ?
What piece of advice would you give them?
Do you remember anyone talking about Col. Blees & his Military Academy, & all that he did for this city ?
Do you remember when Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanitorium took over the building ?
Do you have anything or things that you would like to be placed on display in the Macon County Historical Society Museum (commonly known as the Blee's Annex ) ?
Anything else you would like to tell us or future generations ?

Thanks for being a part of the Macon Co. Historical Society "Living History " project !!!