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| Preshow #1 100 yr |
key: family/ marriage |
| Intro 100 Year Old |
key: health/ health care |
| 100 Year Old Couple |
key: UNH |
| Tag Aging |
Tonight 10:00 |
| Web Pointer |
WEB PROMO |
| Goodnight |
Post Show Log |
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On this New Hampshire Outlook: Remembering that first kiss. A walk down memory lane with a Newmarket couple --marking their 100th year. Plus -- a conversation on the "graying" of NH. |
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Hello. I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. The global population is aging at a rate "unprecedented" in history. The number of those 65 and older is expected to DOUBLE in the next 25 years thanks to the aging "baby boom" generation. According to the National Institute on Aging, by 2030, 20-percent of Americans -- about 70 million people-- will have passed their 65-th birthday. Those 85 and above are now among the fastest growing segment of the older generation. And while no one lives forever -- an ever-increasing number of Americans are becoming "centenarians" According to U-S Census figures -- 50-thousand Americans are over the age of 100. Just shy of 14-hundred have made it to age 110. In February, Arnold and Dina Larson of Newmarket turned 100.becoming not only the town's oldest citizens. but their oldest couple. Their love story dates back. 88-years. |
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In the 1930's Big Band Music was the rage - and the The Great Depression had was in full swing. In 1937 - just 4 years before the onset of WWII Arnold and Deana Larson tied the knot. It was love at first sight. ... Arnold: Not at age 12. WELL THAT'S WHEN YOU KNEW SHE WAS THE GAL. 22:26:53 Deana: he said that's the girl I'm gonna marry someday. WELL YOU GOT MARRIED AT 32, YOU WERE 12 WHEN YOU MET, WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE 20 YEARS? 22:09:02 Arnold: the depression. I was a dentist and I just graduated and the depression started and oh boy, those were a tough five years. I wasn't accustomed to not paying bills and that sort of thing and I got behind on everything, DO YOU REMEMBER THOSE DEPRESSION DAYS DEANA? Deana: oh yes, well I don't remember too much about it, in those days I don't think anyone even mentioned the words depression. SO YOU WAITED TO GET MARRIED BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO BE ON FINANCIALLY GOOD FOOTING? Arnold: yea, I couldn't get married and have her support me, she wasn't making that much money anyway. 22:31:41 Beth: Oh you've known her for 88…married for? Fif…68. Ok, you've been married almost 70 years, you're turning 100. What is it that got you this far? Special diet? Exercise? 22:32:00 Arnold: I think it a good cook in the kitchen. and we had, we had arguments, but we never let them go to the next day. Once the day was finished we forgot the argument. I think that happened a lot. YOU'VE LIVED THROUGH A COUPLE OF WARS? Arnold: yes, I joined the navy for the second world war. PAINT A PICTURE FOR ME IF YOU WILL NOW, ABOUT THE TIME YOU WERE GETTING MARRIED, WHO WAS PRESIDENT, WHAT WAS GOING ON? Arnold: Roosevelt. ROOSEVELT WAS PRESIDENT. YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR MANY PRESIDENTS, DID YOU VOTE FOR EVERY PRESIDENT? Arnold: I always felt it was my duty to go out and vote Deana: we were trained that way to go out and vote WHO STANDS OUT AS PRESIDENTS IN YOUR MIND? Arnold: well, hoover, hoover did a good job. WHAT WAS IT ABOUT HIS JOB THAT YOU LIKED? We started to come to life sort of, commerce and that sort of thing, I thought he was pretty good. NO COMPUTERS BACK THEN? Arnold & Deana: nooo, we don't even understand computers. Arnold 22:20 I don't know anything about computers and I won't begin to try it. 22:20:33 SO WHEN YOU WERE A BOY AND YOU WERE A GIRL, DO YOU REMEMBER BEING AMAZED BY ANYTHING TECHNOLOGY WISE? Arnold: oh yes, we had a cut glass bowl in the dining room it was my parents, and so my brother fooled around with the radio and he had a crystal set and we stand around the dining room table with the cut glass bowl in the table and listened to music, it was pretty good. Deana: we had fun. 22:21:23 SO DO YOU RECALL SITTING AROUND THE RADIO AS A GIRL? 22:21:28 Deana: Radio? I have to think back. Arnold: You know where we had a little, we scratch the little crystal with the pin you know. And you listen and then pretty soon but you could put it in the middle of the dinning room table and because of the bowl you could hear it all the way around. 22:21:58 Deana: Now it seemed to me that everybody sat around the dinning room table. Arnold: Sure we did, we all had crystal sets. Deana: It was very cozy. 22:22:13 WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN TELEVISION CAME AROUND? 22:22:16 Arnold: Oh that was wonderful of course. We thought it was fun. We had a set that we... Deana: I don't think we suffered. Arnold: No, we didn't suffer. 22:23:40 22:27:12 22:27:12 NOW AND WE TALKED ABOUT RADIO, SITTING AROUND THE RADIO AND TELEVISION COMING ON THE SCENE. BUT AS A YOUNG GIRL, YOU USED TO GO TO THE MOVIES. BIG MOVIE WATCHERS? THE SILENT MOVIES? 22:27:25 Deana: I was. Arnold: Deana played the piano for the neighborhood did we tell ya that? For the neighborhood movie you know on Saturdays I think it was. And she would play the Indians, the Indians are coming. Deana: Nobody knew the difference, they thought it was great. 22:27:48 22:28:16 22:41:37 Beth: Well, tell me Arnold. Deana use to do the piano with the silent movies. You are the artist in the family? 22:41:46 Arnold: Well, I putz around with it Yeah 23:00:56 OK NOW AND THIS ONE HERE OF DEANA. Arnold: I did all of those. 22:34:41 Beth: And you had only one child. Barbara. 22:34:44 Arnold: Barbara… 22:35:18 Beth: And you've come full circle. Now you're living here with Barbara. 22:35:21 Arnold: Yes, yeah Deana: She invited us Arnold: Yes 22:35:24 Beth: With her, now with her children, how is that going? 22:35:28 Arnold: Well, that goes pretty well. Yes 22:35:32 Beth: Is that keeping you young at heart? Teenagers around. 22:35:35 Deana: I hope so Arnold: Yeah, they have a lot of teenagers. Adam's on the phone all the time with the girls… 22:35:44 Deana: Ohhh, how things have changed. This telephoning all the kids do… 22:35:49 Beth: Ya mean you don't have a cell phone, Deana? 22:35:51 Arnold: No, we don't. 22:38:43 Beth: When you look at your grandkids and you see their life. How is it different from when you were that age? 22:38:51 Arnold: Well, we had a manufactuary thing that we did, practically. See baseballs and bobsleds and all that sort of thing we worked at. And Deana did a lot of sewing 22:39:10 Deana: And I'll have to tell you about the dress I sewed for myself. I probably had only one. And I made three dresses out of it. One with short sleeves, one with long and then a different length skirt. I had three outfits, I was all set. 22:39:31 Beth: Nowadays they have 33 outfits 22:39:33 Deana: Yeah I know. But those three did very well for me and I … SO YOU PLAYED SPORTS, YOU PLAYED BASEBALL? 22:23:44 Arnold: Yes, baseball and basketball and tennis and soccer and anything you can mention. 22:23:53 AND GOLF YOU PLAYED WELL INTO YOUR 90S? 22:23:56 Arnold: Yes, I won four club championships and quite a few lesser tournaments. 22:24:08 DO YOU THINK ALL THAT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HAS KEPT YOU SPRY? 22:24:12 Arnold: Oh I think so. It kept me interested in things so I did pretty well. Deana: And I like playing baseball. Arnold: Yes, Deana was a pretty good baseball player. 22:29:09 Arnold: Oh yes, yeah we belonged to a lot of dance clubs. 22:29:14 Beth: Well what kinds of tunes did you dance to? Who did you like as far as music? Benny Goodman? Im tryin to think. Big bands? Was it big band music you would… 22:29:24 Arnold: Yes big band music. Lawrence Welk 22:29:27 Deana: We did the cha cha. You know what that is? 22:29:29 Beth: Uh, I wish you could show me but I think… 22:29:32 Deana: Its tough going but you…the cha cha 22:29:35 Arnold: Lawrence Welk, uh, in fact we got to know Lawrence Welk a little bit. Cuz a friend of mine handles his insurance. And, he came to Minneapolis with his big band. He came to St. Paul really. 22:29:54 Beth: So, you grew up listening to the big band music. Now you have your teenage grandchildren listening to hip hop and some of that music. What do you think of their music? 22:30:07 Arnold: I don't care to much for it. 22:30:09 Deana: I don't either. Some of it sounds ridiculous to me. It's just like they pound on one note. I don't see the sense of it. 22:39:41 Beth: Life was simpler back then. 22:39:43 Deana: Ohhh Arnold: Yes it was Deana: It really was Arnold: And much easier, really 22:40:27 Beth: When you look at society today, do you feel that we treat the elderly the way they should be treated? 22:40:39 Arnold: I would think so. It seems to me in all of the, I can remember when people when to the poor house. We don't have poor houses anymore. 22:40:54 Deana: Is that what they called it, the poor house? 22"40:56 Arnold: They did in those days. Yeah, and um, people will get worn out, not have any money and then go to the poor house, spend their last days. I don't know how they were treated there, I have no knowledge of that. But uh, I think its nicer now. Social security… ===== 00:00:11 Beth: Yeah, How has it been? You know cause you have teenage kids in the house and then you have your parents who are 100. Is there any kind of generational gap there? A: Well, it's very busy and they are certainly on different time schedules because my folks are early birds and my children are night owls, so somebody is up at almost all hours of the day, day and night. But my folks are pretty good kids, and my kids are pretty good too in terms of interacting with my folks. You know, I think it has worked out pretty well. The worst part of it is there is too much stuff everywhere. 00:00:51 . There are more and more people these days who reach 100, but there aren't too many couples who reach 100. Beth: Right, Were they thrilled to get these canes? The oldest living person in Newmarket. Old Man: We thought it was kind of fun. It's sort of fun to be the oldest people in the village. Old Woman: No, I would rather be 80. |
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Here's something else to think about. The Gerentology Research Group says --the secret to Old Age is not so much about what you eat, whether you drink and smoke -- or even excercise --but, instead has a LOT to do with your genes. Almost all those who lived to 110 and beyond -- also had long-lived relatives. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/01/05 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 05:00 minutes On this New Hampshire Outlook: Remembering that first kiss. A walk down memory lane with a Newmarket couple marking their 100th year. Plus a conversation on the "graying" of NH. Hello. I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. The global population is aging at a rate "unprecedented" in history. The number of those 65 and older is expected to double in the next 25 years thanks to the aging "baby boom" generation. According to the National Institute on Aging, by 2030, 20-percent of Americans about 70 million people will have passed their 65-th birthday. Those 85 and above are now among the fastest growing segment of the older generation. And while no one lives forever an ever-increasing number of Americans are becoming "centenarians" According to US Census figures 50-thousand Americans are over the age of 100. Just shy of 14-hundred have made it to age 110. In February, Arnold and Dina Larson of Newmarket turned 100 becoming not only the town's oldest citizens but their oldest couple. Their love story dates back 88-years. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Arnold Larson \100 years young, Dina Larson\100 years young, Beth Carroll\NH Outlook, Barbara Larson\Daughter |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/01/05 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 15:00 minutes On this New Hampshire Outlook: Remembering that first kiss. A walk down memory lane with a Newmarket couple marking their 100th year. Plus a conversation on the "graying" of NH. Barbara Larson says she did the math and figured out the "Average Age" in her household was now 59. We thought this might be a good opportunity to talk about Aging and the so-called "graying" of NH. Joining us for this discussion: Peter Francese, a demographics expert from Exeter and director of Demographic Forecasts for the New England Economic Partnership, Jamie Bulen, from AARP and, Pat Francis, the Director of the Senior Activity Center of Nashua and secretary of the New Hampshire Association of Senior Centers. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Peter Francese\New England Economic Partnership, \Jamie Bulen\AARP, Pat Francis \Director, Senior Activity Center of Nashua |
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005: We pretaped tonight's in-studio conversation last week. We pretaped the rest of tonight's show on Monday, 2/28 in case of snow. All went well. We finished by 5:45pm. |
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