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And we return to our American stories.

The oldest surviving photograph in the world was taken in 1826.

For reference, that's when John Quincy Adams was president, who coincidentally is also the first president to be photographed.

So needless to say, photography has been an industry for a very long time.

Our next story is about a family involved in that industry.

Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story.

Our story begins in Joplin, Missouri, the hometown of Joshua and Derek Carter, the grandsons

of Dwayne Steinley. But they had another name for him. We called him Bobob. That was kind of

his grandpa name that we called him. So we were always saying Bobob and stuff like that. And Josh and I were

very, very close to our grandfather, partly because, so we have a sister that's eight years younger

than me and ten years younger than Josh. And when our mother was

pregnant with our sister, she was on bed rest and was not doing very well for many, many months.

And so that's actually, at that point, is when my grandfather's semi-retired from the business

to come over to Joplin. And before it had always been, you know, kind of a treat of getting to go and spend the weekend at our grandparents and then

Getting to spend every day for a year with our grandfather was just so much fun

He lived with us and took care of us and took us to school and we spent all day every day with our grandfather and

Our grandfather was a very curious person. He liked to learn and was always interested in finding out about new things. He traveled all over the world, all over the country, learning anything that interested him. That was something that he always was very good with us about as well. He would take us as little boys and we would just drive all over the place and he'd take

us into shops or he'd take us to, I believe we went to a power plant was the one that I remember. We were driving through the field and I remember I was probably six or seven years old and I asked and I said, well, you know, what is that massive thing out there is just outside of Pittsburgh, Kansas? and he said, well, that's a power plan.

Do you want to go find out how it works?

And I said, well, sure.

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