Just think if Strom Thurmond's, Larry King's, or Tony Randall's sons wait until late in life to have children. There's a hundred an fifteen year gap between Grover Cleveland's birth and his grandson's. This could be topped by decades.
The age gap between successive generations of males in my family is not as extreme (approx 35 yrs/generation), but I'm not yet thirty, and I found it remarkable that my grandfather told me stories of his grandfather's experiences as a boy in the 1840s. I found it amazing that I could hear stories of events from the Tyler administration on a second-hand basis. The stories themselves (much like this post)... not that interesting.
K
· 3 years ago
These things can be startling at first glance.
One of my grandfathers was born before Napoleon died. And my son has an excellent chance to stretch the string of only four generations into a fourth century - 19th, 20th, today, 21st.
Oddly enough my other grandfather fought in the Civil War. He was no kid when my mother was born.
No wonder I alway regarded Cleveland as an unfairly forgotten, great President.
Kevin
· 3 years ago
How funky, that's like being Jesus's great-nephew.
TGGP
· 3 years ago
Is it you or the other blogger here who asserts the Constitution is "not written on paper but in the hearts of the people". I prefer Spooner's emphasis on the actual words in the document and their meaning, even if he felt the document itself was "No Authority" (and I myself think it would have been better if we had stuck with the Articles of Confederation).
Many of the best presidents are the ones we never hear about: van Buren, Cleveland and Coolidge.
R.J. Lehmann
· 3 years ago
And just think -- two out of those three were Democrats from New York.
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Just think if Strom Thurmond's, Larry King's, or Tony Randall's sons wait until late in life to have children. There's a hundred an fifteen year gap between Grover Cleveland's birth and his grandson's. This could be topped by decades.
The age gap between successive generations of males in my family is not as extreme (approx 35 yrs/generation), but I'm not yet thirty, and I found it remarkable that my grandfather told me stories of his grandfather's experiences as a boy in the 1840s. I found it amazing that I could hear stories of events from the Tyler administration on a second-hand basis. The stories themselves (much like this post)... not that interesting.
These things can be startling at first glance.
One of my grandfathers was born before Napoleon died. And my son has an excellent chance to stretch the string of only four generations into a fourth century - 19th, 20th, today, 21st.
Oddly enough my other grandfather fought in the Civil War. He was no kid when my mother was born.
No wonder I alway regarded Cleveland as an unfairly forgotten, great President.
How funky, that's like being Jesus's great-nephew.
Is it you or the other blogger here who asserts the Constitution is "not written on paper but in the hearts of the people". I prefer Spooner's emphasis on the actual words in the document and their meaning, even if he felt the document itself was "No Authority" (and I myself think it would have been better if we had stuck with the Articles of Confederation).
Many of the best presidents are the ones we never hear about: van Buren, Cleveland and Coolidge.
And just think -- two out of those three were Democrats from New York.