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In this interview, Jack Chefetz engages with his grandmother, Almeda Nicholson, to discuss her experiences in the mid-20th century, focusing on energy-related events. Almeda recalls growing up in Garden City, New York, and later moving to Boston, where she worked after attending secretarial school. Reflecting on the 1965 Northeast blackout, Almeda describes the chaos it caused in Boston, emphasizing how it influenced people to invest in battery-powered devices. She notes the public's growing mistrust of atomic energy during the 1950s and 60s, heightened by incidents like the Three Mile Island crisis. Although she wasn’t directly affected by oil shortages, Almeda remarks on the energy policies of President Jimmy Carter, whom she recalls as personable, yet notorious for his energy-saving initiatives.

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