I am 82 and began writing at about 60, when retiring. I read two of the local weekly newspapers from 1868 to 1968 and made about 1800 pages of notes that made up several of my books and were part of my other research for the other books. "Books about the hardships, local news, new inventions, and life as it was, to be relived and re-experienced." Not the old style school books with dates, figures, and names.