Originally Posted by b.zang
I've been reading "Little House in the Big Woods" to my DGD which is full of description about how Ma and Pa made this or that. Although I know that our lives are easier and we live longer with these modern conveniences, I can't help but wonder what we are losing.
I recently watched a Native woman fillet a whole tub of salmon in the time it takes me to do one - poorly.
I think there will be people who will keep these skill alive; if only as a curiosity or to get their PhD in anthropology. There are a handful of people who can still make stone tools the way (we think) people were doing it 50,000 years ago.