Stories of Elders: What the Greatest Generation Knows about Technology that You Don't

Americas Greatest Generation (born before 1945) witnessed incredible changes in technology and social progress. From simple improvements in entertainment to life-changing medical advances technology changed the way they live work and identify. Sadly with each passing year fewer members of the Greatest Generation remain alive to share their wisdom as the last Americans to grow up before the digital revolution. In 2015 Millennial author and cultural anthropologist Veronica Kirin drove 12000 miles across more than 40 states to interview the last living members of the Greatest Generation. Stories of Elders is the result of her years of work to capture and share their perspective for generations to come. Stories of Elders preserves the wisdom thoughts humor knowledge and advice of the people who make up one of Americas finest generations including the Silent Generation. Their stories include the devastation that came from major events in U.S. history like World War I the Dust Bowl the Great Depression and World War II. The Greatest Generation (many of whom are now centenarians) saw the routine use of airplanes cars microwave ovens telephones radios electricity and the Internet come to fruition in their lifetimes. Their childhoods were simple relying on outdoors games and their imagination for fun. How they went to school pursued their careers and raised their kids was radically different than the way we live today. By chronicling more than 8000 years of life lived during the most transitional time in American history Stories of Elders offers old-fashioned wisdom and insight for Americas future generations.