Here is another incredible storyteller - old lady - 100 years old! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/buCfh8hprbC7aYk.html

I am a RN and worked in a rural hospital for a time about 20 years ago. I would always ask the older folk about how they lived their lives - most were farmers. They would talk about hand milking 30 cows twice a day and hand threshing, and horse teams for plowing. I was often picked on by the other nurses for these conversations - they’d hear me talking with them and laugh saying “Molly’s getting the farm report again.” I enjoyed hearing stories of the lives lead by some of the hardest working folk I have ever known.

She was born 16 years after Lincoln was assassinated and interviewed 10 years after the Moon landing.

I use to take care of a 100 year old man and I will always remember what he said to me about today's technology, "people today have more accessibility with one and another but are more isolated than when he was young, people were more united".

"I'm no happier now than I was in those days. Then I thought I had everything... maybe a little more." This speaks volumes.

"Back in 81"... Hits a little different when talking about 1800s

In 1975, I was 19 years old, and helping feed a woman who was in her 90’s. She was telling me about when her family had moved to Texas in a covered wagon. All I could think of was, WOW!

I sat with my 94 year old neighbor and watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon in 1969. I was 15. He came to California in a covered wagon and lived long enough to see a man on the moon. While he did tell me stories of his youth I didn't understand at the time, the treasure of knowledge and history I had sitting next to me. I wish I had a few minutes with him today. He was a good man and I'm glad I knew him.

My great grandmother ( 1887 - 1977 ) said she loved her lifetime because she witnessed from horse and buggy to the moon landing. So very much innovation. Plane travel, automobiles, TV, two world wars, the depression era, it was wonderful listening to so much history lived by one person.

I was born in 1981, yet I had a kindergarten teacher who was 93 years old. I knew people who, in turn, knew Civil War veterans and others who remembered that time. In my earliest years, an old man in my neighborhood was almost 100, the son of a former slave. And having known countless people who were born before 1920, they were contemporaries with people who were born in the last years of King George III's reign (he died in 1820). My point is, younger ones need to appreciate that these people and their stories aren't ancient. They're still very, very recent. We just don't live long enough. People will one day look at 2020 the way we look back on 1920 and 1820. It goes by fast, one second at a time.

My grandmother, born in 1896, used to call underwear, "unmentionables."

Watching her makes me realize how fast life goes by and then our time on this earth is gone.

A little perspective for those young ones. This woman was 31 when the Titanic sank!!! I was comparing this woman to my Gram, then I realized she was born 1 year after my great great gramma. It's so wonderful to see this video. I hope it made it to her family. This is pure gold!

She's old enough to remember stage coaches, but hip enough to have Hollywood Squares on the TV. This is just fantastic stuff!

I am thinking, she had no idea she would be seen and listened to around the earth on little super computers we held in our hands....

Up until the 70s my great grandma had her own garden, killed her own chickens and had no electricity through the 80s in Corbin Kentucky. She passed in 2018 at 103 I miss those times dearly

I’m a software developer, so I’ve embraced technology in that way, but there’s also no doubt in my mind that on the whole, people are far less happy than when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s. At this point the difference is actually dramatic. We’re evolving technologically but devolving culturally

She speaks of “the youth of today”. I graduated high school in 1979, the year this was recorded. It’s now 2020 and I’ll be 59 in the spring, nearing retirement. I always marvel at the passage of time.

When she talks about how none of the technology made her any happier, that's a valuable lesson we could all learn from.

That TV in the background locks this in time for me. My grandmother ("nanny") was of this generation. She remembered horses bringing ice for the icebox, survived the depression with humour and could beat a large group of my teenaged friends at knowing the punchline of every dirty joke ever invented. I wish I could bring her forward in time for one dinner. Damn, I miss that woman.

My great grand father was born in 1900.he passed in 1987,but once we sat down together and I asked him about what he was like as a young man. He told me great stories of being in the Cavalry Service... I miss him terribly!

I'm a care provider for old people. The best part is listening to the stories that they tell.

My great aunt Margret is 104, born February 8, 1916 and it blows my mind whenever I see her. She’s seen so much and she’s still sharp and sweet at 104. Bless her heart 💖

She was alive during the Victorian Era, The Edwardian Era, the 2 world wars, and Martin Luther King.

Writing letters - it was far more special to send and receive than emails or texts. When I was a kid in the 80s, I would get letters from my pen-pal in Northern Ireland. I remember thinking I was a worldly big shot because the envelopes I received were clearly from overseas, and no one else in that small town was getting those. Thank you, lady, for bringing back those memories.

I mean I know it's a wig and dentures but my goodness she looks great! Such pride in her appearance. I worked in a care home in the 90s with plenty of residents that were born before the turn of the century. I absolutely loved hearing the stories and seeing how the past generations behaved. I made a genuine best friend in a 98 year old lady and I was 23 and newly married. She helped me be a newly wed and advised me on my first baby. learnt a lot to carry with me through my life. Absolutely priceless. Thanks for this.

Wow, just 3 “automobiles when she moved there” then everyone had horses and couldn’t afford cars now everyone has cars but can’t afford horses

How did they stay in touch and get information? They wrote letters! I love it!!! I mail handwritten letters to friends. A handwritten letter and greeting card are so meaningful...and they still touch people today.

She feels the same way about technology as I do. "We live in a wonderful world today but...I'm not any happier than I was before I had all those things" What a beautiful soul.

This is a treasure. Not enough stuff like this in the world.

I always say, older people are living history books.

My great-grandmother, who was born in 1896, would tell me about the 19th century. She died at 97 when I was 4 years old. She was a fascinating women.

Interviews like this are gold. My grandmother was first gen American, born in 1888 in North Georgia and died in Tennessee in 1982 when I was 21 and she was 94. She was bright and vibrant until her very last year. I adored her! She had gone from horse and buggy to seeing a man on the moon! I remember my mother telling me I should ask her questions and even record her (on my cassette player!) but I never did, too busy living in the present, I suppose, not knowing that the future depends a lot on the past. I’m 60 now and seeing this vid really makes me regret even more that I didn’t record her. Moral of the story - listen to your mama, she probably knows best (at least mine did.)

My grandparents were born in the 90's (1890s), so I'm very familiar with folks like this wonderful lady. My late father was born in 1917, my mom is 93 and still with us. Time goes by quickly, best not to waste it griping about others.

Fascinating. This woman lived through one of the greatest times of technological and social change in human history. She witnessed the invention of the phonograph, the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, the radio, the television, the atom bomb. She witnessed the Spanish-American War, WWI, the rise of communism and the Soviet Union, the women's suffrage movement, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and WWII, the Holocaust, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic age and the Cold War, Sputnik, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the moon landing, the Civil Rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK, the Watergate scandal and the resignation of a president, Voyager 1 and 2, the dawning of the computer age, and the beginning of the women's liberation movement and the gay and lesbian rights movement. She lived through a time that saw the eradication of polio and smallpox, the discovery of insulin to treat diabetes, the world population explosion, the splitting of the atom, the discovery of DNA. An individual born in the 1880s would for the first time in human history hear recorded voice and music; ride in a horseless carriage; hear voices and see images transmitted live from hundreds or thousands of miles away; see people riding flying objects in the sky faster than the speed of sound; watch rockets soar into outer space carrying humans that would set foot on the moon; and witness human carnage and weapons of mass destruction that the world had never seen. There was no generation before or since that lived through such profound changes in human history.

My great grandma is thankfully still alive, 92, stays at home, never learned to drive, and surviving COVID-19. I prayed for her to live to be 100, and I’m still praying. Love you Bonnie Gordon👍😊🙏❤️💚💕✝️ She will be 93 on November 26, 2021. (Born November 26, 1928)

Her talking about her wedding trip to boston and her chuckle as she had a mental flash back is the best.

This is a huge gift to people my age. More young people need to treasure history and learn from it

"in my youth, I had no worries" wow, what's that like

1928 she got a radio 🤩 that’s just so awesome to hear her say. I appreciate this era so much. My dad told me that when he was little tv wasn’t color so they had glass screens with colors to go over your tv and it looked like it had some colors in there. Miss my grandma 🥰

"I thought I was better off than most everyone else." ❤️ Oh to be content, and feel you live in abundance, even if you don't.

She goes..."I was born in '81" That's 1881, ha.

This woman is the definition of blast from the past

What a treat to listen to her. My grandma was born in 1918, she passed two years ago, she was 101, I loved hearing her stories. Thank you for sharing this!!!

"What you have today. Depends on your government." She summed up life in America, with 8 words.

She is a very sharp individual for 98 years. Very well spoken, cognizant, and oriented.

I said to my dad” I bet grand daddy wouldn’t believe that people would be walking & driving with phones & Tvs in their pocket huh?” My dad said “ Hell boy, daddy wouldn’t believe you’d be paying a dollar for a bottle of water!” That really put it in perspective.

I wish I had the foresight to ask my grandmother more about the olden times when I was young.

My grandmother passed two years ago at the age of 86. I remember talking for hours at the dinner table. No electricity til after she was married. She and my grandfather, who passed 27 years ago, were sharecroppers in their early years. She remembered when he got his first steady job with the city of Vidalia, Louisiana making $28 a week, and how good it was to have steady money. Up until the last couple years of her life she kept a garden growing in the back yard, made the best golden brown biscuits and cornbread on a black skillet. Canned her own jelly-and had story after story to tell and wanted nothing more than for her kids and grandkids to come visit so she could cook for us. I miss her so much.

This makes me wish that I would have asked my own grandparents more questions!

"Technology"Not much happier now than she was then. Back then she had everything she needed! GOLDEN words right there!

Interesting, the bit about how times arent necessarily happier now than they were then for her. They had everything they needed. Beautiful

My great grandmother was born in 1899 and I got to spend a lot of time with her as a child before she passed away. I loved hearing about her life in the early 20th century. She was in her 40s during WWII! She lived to see 9/11. It's crazy.

Rip to all grandmas and grandpas that were born in the 1800's. I still remember my grandma.... RIP

My great-grandmother was born in 1889, and lived to be 103 years old. She never talked about the past, unless you asked her, and my aunt was always asking her about what life was like back then. It was fascinating to listen to. I remember she said that the first time she ever saw an automobile, it scared her, because she didn’t know what it was. She didn’t have any idea such a thing existed, and it was loud, and fast! Faster than the horse she was on!

This lady was born 7 years BEFORE Jack the Ripper began his reign of terror on Victorian London - just insane!

My great grandfather was born in 1893. He was filled with so much wisdom & stories of life. I wish I could of had more time to hear more of his life experiences. He passed away @ 97 years old in 1990... I was only 9, but I still remember the sound of his voice & the way he dressed (Always wore overalls). His kids my grandfather, uncle, & aunt have also since passed on & are greatly missed. My grandmother just turned 90 this pass Nov. She has days where she can give u detailed stories of when she grew up on a ranch & ups/downs she had throughout the years. Cherish your elders & if they are still around chat with them! You might learn something!

This piece of film is an absolute treasure. And this woman is just fantastic.

I still remember my great grandmother who was born in the 1880's. She lived in this really cool old house that was built in the 1800's and was on the side of a small mountain in Roanoke Virginia. She was the sweetest person ever. The first time I met her was when I was 8 years old in 1970. In her thick southern accent she said to me and my siblings "well, hello theyah' little dahlins'! So wundahful' to meet you. Would yawl like some fudge? I made it special, just for yawl".

As a person who loves history I love talking to older people about their life. My grandpa was born in 1929 and is still alive today. He told me what life was like during the depression and he would see nothing but sadness and disparity but he was blessed that his father found a stable job and the desperation did not even affect him at all. He said he felt so bad it was a terrible sight to see to see all those bread lines so long. He would tell me how in the Bronx he would collect little pieces of scrap metal and hand them in for the war effort so on. He was very bright for his age too, he told me he always read the paper to see where the allies were advancing or retreating so on at the time. My great grandpa would also teach him various terminology that obviously a 12 year old wouldn’t understand for he was in Austria-Hungarian army. I asked him what his father thought of when the Germans and Russians signed the non aggression pact and he said was absolutely shocked but even more so when the Germans invaded. My great grandfather said to my grandpa that he didn’t think the Germans could pull it off. He thought that it might have worked if the Germans weren’t forced to divert forces to Greece to help Mussolini and his escapades all around the balkans. Good thing at 91 he is still around so I can ask him as many questions I want and he still sharp as a tack. He has his license and drives, reads 3 books a week, and reads the paper every day. One of the smartest men I know.

Back when I was a kid children were to be “ seen and not heard”. And that’s good because I learned to listen. And by listening to the old folks stories I learned a lot. They had a lot to say about the history they lived through. Amazing history that is now a blessing to me to understand their perspective.

I want to get this old so I can tell people about before the internet 😂

"I'm not any happier now, I thought I had everything back then" just wow.

Whenever I talk to old people, there's always a couple things that peak my interest. The first is about their speech, how close is their speech to when they were young. Their fluency, their accent... how much of it is a reflection of how people must have talked back then, being confined to smaller social bubbles without the same education or exposure through TV etc. I always try to figure out the line between what was caused by age and mental decline and what was caused by the times. The other is their fashion (and smell without being to creepy); the way they dress and smell probably hasn't changed all to significantly. How we identify these things in elderly people today as signature of their age, was probably signature of youth back in the day. My mind melts whenever I try to look through the ages and see how these trends change beyond the scale of human lifetimes. These tiny little glimpses into the experience of existence at different stages of the progress of our species. Sometimes I try to extrapolate these changes beyond further generations, alas the further you go, the greater the error. I am now only weeks away from completing my machine.

My grandma was born in 1926 and I remember her telling us a story about her mother in the late 1910's when they first saw an aircraft as they were ploughing corn fields. They dropped everything and ran in fear from a 'metal flying monster'

Too bad you didn’t interview my grandfather who remembered EVERYTHING! Even each day of the week anything happened on! He lived to 101, grew his own veggies and was the healthiest man I’ve ever seen. I miss him to much! But I agree with this movie producer... why didn’t we get so much more of these beautiful people? Darn.

I love that “I thought I had everything and more back then” really puts things into perspective

I miss my grandma she was 95 when she passed away back in 2016. And the biggest things she ever witnessed in her life time are the transition from silent movies to talkies, black and white films into colours, abdication of King Edward VIII, cars with air conditioning, and telephones to iPhones (when she was alive she used to call my iPhone “that stupid thing”) and she’s was happy that the world never had another world war.

my grandmother just passed at 101, born in 1920 rural Ontario. Born a farmer's daughter she grew up in the great depression and in ww2. It was amazing to see how the circumstances of her upbringing shaped how she lived the rest of her life, particularly towards reusing everything to ensure there is no waste. I distinctly remember waitresses and nurses commenting about how lucky she was to grow up when she did, which surprised her as she didn't believe anyone could be particularly lucky to grow up in such an era of need.

I love the fact she brings up how close the family and community were back then. She was happier. Makes sense.

“The family life isn’t what it used to be”...imagine if she could see it now. This is 41 years ago, and family life has changed so much since then for the worst in most instances

Our house was built in 1855. It has so many unique and quirky features that you just don't see today and such beautiful woodworking throughout. I wish the walls could talk! I bet they'd have some really neat stories to tell :) Just like this amazing lady. I can't believe her patriotism - makes me proud. I could listen to her talk for hours. I wish there were people like her around today :(

It's very interesting to hear her explain how the information revolution has not made us happier than what we were before. People start taking things for granted and their appetite keeps growing. However, the essential components of our happiness are probably unrelated to the level of our technological advancement.

I’m in my 40s and I should let my son interview me so that I can tell him of the games we played like marbles, jacks, hop scotch, riding bikes popping wheelies and making ramps with bricks and plywood, catching horned roads, catching lightning bugs, playing tag, hide and seek, red light green light, mother may I.. dang, kids these days are missing out

As a little girl I was fascinated by the stories my elderly neighbor told me of her family's move to Kansas in a covered wagon.

Man, I miss my great grandparents! They had such good stories, advice and knowledge to give.

Wish I could give this a 'Love' instead of a 'Like'. What a wonderful lady. An amazing glimpse into the every day lives of our ancestors.

Two and a half miles to get the mail. This was a young girls chore. Where is my 16 year old??? She needs to hear this!

Was listening to her and watching the TV behind her. The days when a tv was something you could put stuff on. We had one like that.

Why do I feel so much nostalgia!!! Life is passing us by let’s be present and enjoy each day we are here!!! This was beautiful to watch 🥰

Don't beat yourself up about what you could have asked, could have filmed, could have saved with this wonderful woman Mr Hoffman. If you hadn't done this all these years ago, her story would have gone to the grave with her. As a non-American but citizen of this planet, this story still resonates strongly with many lessons for today. Thank you for bringing her and her era back to life through my smart phone across the gulf of time. A fascinating clip.

This lady is sharper than most the young people I know today.

"Everything you have today depends on the people you have at the head of your government". Wow, she should know. She seen it all. These movie tapes are priceless, and should be archived in The Library of Congress.

Had a neighbor back in 2000 I was 9. The neighbor was 102 when he passed 2 weeks before 9/11 . he said in the early 1920’s people were very handy and creative than today. He even called that problems were going to occur in the world. More sicknesses more diseases. RIP mr Moe 💙 he was a well spoken man with intelligence and knew so much about weapons

The city I currently live in was established in 1887. We still have poles where people used to tie their horses to back in the day. This woman was born in a time when America was still being developed. Wow

It hurt when she smiled and talked about the future generations keeping and loving this country.

She had me when she mentioned the stage coach. She got her radio in 28. "One Man's Family" started in 32 and ran for 27 years. She mentioned how it was easy to help back then. We were more of a team than today. In the 19th century you would let a stranger sleep in your house or even your bed. You would give bread to a passing Indian or wary traveler. All of this is why I love to hear from folks back then. Thank you for posting this. If you're interested in this, read a New York Times from the early 1800s. They are awesome. Currently, I'm around June of 1843.

What an incredible piece of film. Thank you, David. Now THIS is history. This woman seems to have an understanding of what's to come; particularly with her concern of the lack of patriotism and family, from what I gather.

He asks her how she feels to live at the dawn of the Information Age: “I’m not any happier” Man, this hit hard. For all we have done, we’re not happier.

“The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.” - Brooks Hatlen

"I think it was about 1928 we got a radio, it sat right here.." ...points to the 1979 TV.

My grandmother was born in 1926, so her oldest memories went back to the 1930s, half a century later than the lady in the video. Yet Granny lived in a similar sort of world growing up in a rural farming village in Cambridgeshire, England. No electricity, no telephone, no television, not even a radio. Bathing in a tin bath by the fire, wearing exclusively homemade clothes and patched hand-me-downs, eating mostly homegrown food. People driving horses and buggies and pony carts through the village instead of cars, most of the locals living out their entire lives without ever moving out of the village. I suppose it must be different in the USA, where general development was more rapid than in Old Europe.

I could listen to her talk for hours. Living history ♥️

The title is this clip should be: “None of the technology has made me any happier.” So profound!

“The family life isn’t what it used to be”.... she was spot on about Patriotism, as well....very wise lady❤️

She was in her 50s when my grandparents were born. They’re 84 and grandpa is looking rough but grandma is her same old sweet self. Thankful for them and this interview. Thanks, David!

"The youth are going to carry this nation. And I want them to hold their patriotism and love this nation." Unfortunately her wish has become the total opposite. I fear this country will become unrecognizable in a very short time. What a beautiful lady.

Don't worry, 100 years from now people won't be able to imagine how we are able to live like we do now.

I was so blessed. My grandparents came from huge families. My I am the youngest child of youngest children of youngest children. My grandmother was born a 13th child in 1889. Growing up in the 70's I was surrounded by these great aunts and uncles who were born in the 1800's. What a blessing ❣️

My Grandfather was born in 1877, he shared the most fantastic stories of events, ancestors and general history. I feel fortunate to have been able to spend years sitting at his feet listening while wrapping balls of yarn with Grandma. 😁 My grand-uncles were caught overnight in Mr Green's cow pasture during the Great Blizzard of 1885 Iowa. Many written accounts of their experience survive today in history books. My ancestors were founders of the US and as an adult in the late 80's I started pen to paper genealogical research. My grandfather immigrated to Canada in 1901.