Farmer Born in 1842 Talks About Life and Change: Filmed in 1929

[kentuck]

[appalachiablue]

2. Love these films, people's lives & perspectives

from generations ago are so interesting, full of insights. Thanks for posting, I just watched this recently.

[Jeebo]

3. That's a trip in a time machine ...

... back to almost a hundred years ago, listening to reminiscences from almost a century before that.

That's one of the reasons I love old movies. They're like a window, a portal, into the past. You can't step through that portal, but you can look through it into the past.

Thank you for sharing that.

-- Ron

[bronxiteforever]

4. Kick and recommend. Very cool! Thanks!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kentuck.

[Delmette2.0]

6. I wish I could talk to my Grandmothers.

One lived the farm life had 13 babies raised 12. All born at home with a midwife. Didn't have an inside toilet until my Dad came home from WWII.

The other lived in a midsize city. Very active in the local politics, Democrat always. So much tragedy in her life. How did she get through it all?

Their lives were so different and I have so many questions.

[japple]

9. My GA grandmother had 12 children and my TX grandmother had 10--all born at home. They were both

strong, capable women who could do anything. They both lived in rural areas, farmed cotton, and grew/preserved all of their own food. They were remarkable women.

One of my most vivid memories is hearing my mother telling how her mother told her to go hitch up the wagon so she could go into town to have all of her (remaining) teeth pulled. "Town" was 12 miles away on a rutted dirt road. My mother went with her. I can't even imagine...

[Delmette2.0]

16. I'm sure their daily lives were similar.

Back when the winters were long and harsh in Montana I can't imagine keeping warm with wood stoves. And keeping children warm enough. One aunt recalled her experience in a winter. She accidentally pulled a pan off the stove with hot grease in it and it spilled on her back. She credited the heave wool sweater Thilda made for absorbing all the grease, because was not burned.

Granted there were lots of hand-me-downs, but that is still a lot of laundry to be done.

[BlueSky3]

10. Yes,

Me, too. My grandmother was born in 1895, one of 6 children. She married a farmer from south Georgia, my grandfather. They had to leave the farm during the depression and moved to Orlando, where he was able to find work in an ice house. There’s so much I would ask her now, if I could.

[BlueSky3]

13. I just realized

I finally hit 100 posts. It only took me 9 years!

[Delmette2.0]

17. See my post above.

[tinrobot]

7. His accent is really fascinating

It really takes you back to a different time.

[japple]

11. Yes it is. You can often hear that accent and see people like him in the early talkie

films.

[momta]

8. My grandfather was born in 1896.

I always love telling my kids that. Of course, they never knew him, but it's fun to talk about.

This chap reminds me of him a little.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Interesting to hear what he thinks about this or that

I wonder if people knew more than they thought, or were "allowed" to think by the press. If you thought it, knew it, felt it, it didn't matter much if there was no way to tell the masses. I did more than a bit of genealogy. One g-g-grandfather b. 1834 lived into the 1920s. I have one pic of him. He was a Civil War vet. Another also. Yet another went Tory, left the US in the 1760s as a child, his grandson returned 100 years later and I believe married a Civil War widow. Others came to America later, Ellis Island style (that's post 1892). A cousin born 1875, traveled to the US on a steam ship that also had masts and lived until 1969 outside a major US airport. Lived through WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam. From the horse and buggy to the man on the moon. I sometimes wonder what went on in his mind.

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. My father's mother was the telegrapher at the Canadian end of the transPacific undersea cable.

She once walked miles along the railroad track to get to the closest town with a small crochet hook buried in her hand.

She was born into money in England (her mother's dowry was a hotel), but her father was bilked out of a huge portion of his money in a stock swindle in Toronto in about 1900. Something like 80,000 pounds.

She was very young at that time, so I guess that's how she adjusted to the life of working people. She didn't really know any different, although her father had still had enough money left that he never had to work. Not enough money to leave any behind, though.

[NurseJackie]

15. Oh, this is wonderful! Thank you SO much for sharing it!!!!

I've subscribed to his youtube channel so that I can watch more later, and be notified when new videos are posted.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Nice clip. Thanks!