1965 Interview with 107 year old farmer

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He was asked what was the biggest change he had seen in his lifetime - he said ... "machinery".

Not Tractors or cars or airplanes but basically, an industrial revolution.

Born in the first half of the 19th Century. Incredible

I asked my great grandmother (who was born in 1891) what she thought the most amazing thing she’d seen. (This was about 1988.) Answer? Cheap large print books.

Yeah - those reprints of novels for libraries. It's basically a Show Reader View for wood pulp. As my eyes deteriorate I can see where she is coming from :-)

Edit: also kudos to you for having the foresight to ask - I don't know what age you were but to most kids a great grandmother is not a source of wisdom but a distraction from friends and tv. I hope she told you lots :-)

It’s mind-blowing to me that he was alive during both the American Civil War as well as both World Wars. Those events seem so far apart because of the technology differences in how they were fought, but when you place them in the context of a single man’s life it’s astonishing how close in time they actually were.

These two guys fought in the Civil War: https://youtu.be/4qGX0XM84Ck?t=74

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