Heh. I guess I'm just an "old soul."
Still, the stuff I talk about mostly isn't from way back in the 1950s or 1960s. I mean, I talk about remembering "New 80" being completed (and my grandfather driving us on it before it was) or the tolls being removed from the Mountain Parkway or, even more recently, the "Four Lane" bypass of Prestonsburg (US 23/US 460) -- those things are more recent than the 1950s and 1960s. Other than that, I do pass along what my mother's or other relatives' experiences were growing up in eastern Kentucky (e.g., driving along KY 122 when portions of it was still the creek bed -- that was before my time...although the completion of KY 680 into Minnie certainly was not and cut a lot of time off of the drive from Martin to Wheelwright for us). Thought I was pretty good about prefacing whatever I said as coming from what my mother told me when that was the case; sorry for the confusion.
Then again, some more cynical people might claim that some parts of Floyd County were a decade or so behind as is!
