Comment by nephihaha
Comment by nephihaha 3 days ago
It says she died at 105 and spent almost a century fishing for lobsters. I doubt she was catching many at the age of five.
Comment by nephihaha 3 days ago
It says she died at 105 and spent almost a century fishing for lobsters. I doubt she was catching many at the age of five.
I can't say either way, having never met her.
I can say that Sandy over the road (now deceased, made it to 94) was hitching bullocks to sled a water tank to a spring and back every morning setting out at 4am from the age of five or so - both his parents died of influenza just a few years later.
My own father, (still alive, born 1935) was shooting and trapping rabbits at that age to feed the family.
Depressing to realise that soon most people will not even have second hand experience with children being useful.
In the days before OSHA there was a lot of stuff on a lobster boat an 8yo can be tasked with.
There are many small tasks to be performed on a lobstering boat, especially back in 1929. An 8 yo could absolutely perform many of them.
But sure, it's highly likely that she headed out with a parent or older sibling initially. This doesn't seem controversial or worth making quibbly points over.
* Fishing's not catching,
* I just pulled up a family video of several kids, mine, my siblings, friends, making commercial marbles for sale pulling glass from a furnace and rolling them on a bench, using optic moulds, canes for decoration, etc .. at the age of five.
Sure, we weren't running them like chimney sweeps or coal mine donkeys 24/7 - that's what they wanted to do for pocket money - make their own, how ever many, and sell them.