It was a pre Civil-War house, later modernized sufficiently to have electricity and the old coal-burner boiler in the basement converted to run on oil.
> 3) What is the oldest book you've read?
Assuming you mean physical copy of book and not things like the Bible or the Tale of Genji... hmm, probably my hand-me-down copies of Nancy Drew mysteries, printed during wartime in the 40s.
> 4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?
My Macintosh SE is on the fritz, so I'll have to go with my Power Mac 7100. Vintage 1996.
> 5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?
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Date: 2020-10-09 02:41 pm (UTC)I have a piece of petrified wood on my desk that was a live tree several hundreds of thousands of years ago, does that count?
> 2) What is the oldest home you've lived in?
This one: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8559054,-73.1815065,3a,15y,11.08h,91.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sql3odr66KJ76MNsmVQwq3Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
It was a pre Civil-War house, later modernized sufficiently to have electricity and the old coal-burner boiler in the basement converted to run on oil.
> 3) What is the oldest book you've read?
Assuming you mean physical copy of book and not things like the Bible or the Tale of Genji... hmm, probably my hand-me-down copies of Nancy Drew mysteries, printed during wartime in the 40s.
> 4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?
My Macintosh SE is on the fritz, so I'll have to go with my Power Mac 7100. Vintage 1996.
> 5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?
Schloß Meersburg in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meersburg_Castle