I grew up in the 1940s and 1950s - pre-television, telephone, motor car, and when the radio was turned on almost exclusively for the news.
Our best memories are of the nights of storytelling, banter, and card playing, through the long winter nights, with a blazing fire in the hearth, and a little oil lamp on the wall. Every area had its variety of characters, and some of them were witty individuals who could relate even the most mundane...
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