I was talking with my parents about the show and they don't know what the big deal is. My father grew up on a farm and it was not until he was a teenager that they got electricity and even then they were not part of the grid but rather used wind power and batteries to power their house and barns. His school was a one room school house. They would bring a potato to school in the morning, place it in the hot coals of the stove and have a baked potato for lunch. Now our local high school does not have a cafeteria but rather a "Food Court" and the kids still complain about the food!. And my mother had plenty of stories about late night visits to the out house when she was a girl. <br><br>The funniest part is my parents are not from Montana or Alaska. They grew up in Nebraska not 100 miles from Kansas City. Shows how much and how fast things have changed. <br><br>DK<br>