Earlier this month I mentioned that I had started following @Genny_Spencer's Twitter Feed. It's a real line-a-day diary of a young farm girl in 1937 posted to twitter by her grand-nephew (@griner)
Today's post:
Editor's Note: Genny Spencer passed away today, Feb. 26, 2009. My family thanks each of you for your interest in her life. —@Griner
I hadn't realized she was still alive.
David Griner, the aforementioned grand-nephew had just posted to his blog about the unexpected viral success of the feed. He expected only his friends and family would have any interest, but currently @genny_spencer has over 2300 followers. Why? Because it's a window into the past made visible to us through a new tool of technology. It's like a little mini time-machine into a time and world so foreign to us and yet delivered to us in a familiar modern way.
Even if you've never read a Twitter, don't want to, or don't know what it is, read some of hers: http://twitter.com/Genny_Spencer
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