The past keeps slipping from our fingers

[struggle4progress]

Last week, I went to the funeral of a Tuskegee Airman; he remembered people who had been born in slavery. I probably still know one or two people who remember people born in slavery, but they're frail

Here are the last known photographs of Otto Lilienthal in flight: http://www.lilienthal-museum.de/olma/eba1896.htm
Lilienthal's fatal crash occurred several weeks after these 1896 photos. I never met the photographer, RW Wood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Wood . But I do personally know at least one person who knew Wood. So perhaps it was really not so long ago that Lilienthal was flying

[TK421]

1. fascinating shit, isn't it? makes you think how much time we actually have here

on this planet, anyways...