May 20

Today I ask Great Grandmother about the changes she has seen in her lifetime.
 
‘Perhaps the most obvious change is in the degree of isolation in which we then lived.’ Great Grandmother says. ‘We had so little information about the outside world. Reports from the war fronts were propaganda, letters rarely got through to our town’.
 
‘Today I see you and your generation struggling with too much information. Except up here where you are cut off from the internet, your cell phone is like another limb. Even my infant great grandchildren reach for the screens.

​If you have a question you can ask the internet. But in those days we had far too little information. Even what we had was usually false news. Of course you complain that you are also bombarded with false news. But you still have other sources you can turn to. We did not’.
 
‘Tourists come to this part of the world because they want to savour the remoteness, the feel of an earlier way of life. I am proud of the traditions we have retained such as this summer migration. But I am also glad of our new ties to a wider world and that my great grandchildren will be so much better connected than my generation was’.