87 Year Old Farmer Talks About the Good Old Days in a 1929 Interview

Footage from the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Resource Collection features a 1929 interview with an 87 year old farmer in Catskill, New York, who talked about the good old days while also looking towards the future.

We live in a world of change. The trees are just the same as the one when i was a boy only larger. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west but when i was a boy we didn’t have the telegraph and we didn’t have the telephone of course not the electric license and uh any of these other things which have come up to bother us and help us…it’s all right but then the good old days were pretty good.