ANCIENT HISTORY

A Tale of the Landline Natives

Listen up, millennials!

Illustration by the author from a photo by Dhscommtech at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Gather around the campfire, young’uns. Let me tell you a spooky story about members of the ancient tribe known as the landline natives.

When I was 3, my family moved from the city of Buffalo to a rambler in a new suburban subdivision, a house built by my mother’s brother, a general contractor.