Back to blogging? Would not count on it! But every once in a while I may run across something that compels me to post something.
The other day, for instance, I was doing a search for something and I stumbled across a very very old photographic portrait. I'm talking 1840s-1850s. What was even more remarkable was that it was a portrait of a very old person. So not only was I looking at an actual photograph of a man who live 150 years ago, I was actually looking at a man who had been born in the mid eighteenth century. For some reason, I found this mind-boggling.
After a bit of searching, I found this site, which features photos of American Revolutionary War veterans in the autumn of their years. Never mind the fact that these men faced down the redcoats and saw George Washington with their own eyes... One of these fellows, Conrad Heyer, was alive during the Seven Years War. He was ten years old when Wolfe and Montcalm fought on the Plains of Abraham, 250 miles north of his home. And he was already a man in the prime of his life the year his country was founded.
Conrad Heyer of Waldoborough, Maine: Born 1749, died 1856 at the age of 107. He may well be the earliest born human ever photographed.
