That's Vernon Williams winner of the old time Fiddlers contest held in the Moorhead Center Mall as part of the senior citizens Day activities, but the Williams 60 years old his from Fort Worth, Texas. His wife is from Marion, North Dakota.I've had a fiddle all my life and my granddaddy told me how to play the fiddle than I study music and I can play some Classics. It's one of the things that people retain isn't it the old time fiddling of the past. This is Arthur never will die. It's something that was handed to us and it will never die because it has its live music. It has it has that certain swing through it a certain feeling that you get when you hear the old breakdowns or hold on as I call him being play the old-time Wallace's they shot us is to put your little feet and the Paul Jones's things like this are being revived every day all over the country is it reminds us of the past? That's the whole thing in a nutshell it does and it's a great feeling don't you think?If someone happens to make a mistake and asked me to play a while there I am I just happen to have that feel along with me.Vernon Williams winner of the old time Fiddlers contest Old-time music isn't the only thing for the past week are you today for a lizard 82 originally from Bemidji was one of the elderly at a luncheon at the First Lutheran Church. I asked her what old values of the past that she thought should be continued into the future first thing and a family is love for the family to stay together and be happy as we were we had to clean home. There was no drinking or tobacco or anything in our home. My husband is a blacksmith the best blacksmith in the Northwest and he lived there until he was almost 86 and passed away seven years ago last Thursday. What was it? Like when you were out here and Minnesota in the early days, it is hard time. We thought but that was the best times ever a knife.Cuz we were together and we had work all the time accepting in the first depression. You know, I mean the other depression and I don't know what time is a child who was raised in a log house north of Staples Minnesota being born in Alexandria on my folks moved up north to Staples and my father was a carpenter and then he was a sawmill man and he I had a sawmill are we lived there until I was fourteen we moved to Pine River Minnesota. And that's where I met my husband and he was in the finer herb when he was a boy before there was even a real brain over the last and of the radar look at that time and I met him there. He was a little older and I am then I was rather and but we met together two years. I got married. I worked hard all my life. I was a cook but trade and since I quit cooking I've been babysitting a good deal and even babysat last winter and then I went to put in March and went on a trip to Portland and Libby Montana have a daughter needs place to and how was it that people had time to make more things by hand they do now because they didn't run around so much we didn't spend her time Crossing in the smoking and running around there was no cars or cars and it was The years when I was a child before we had even a horse and buggy, but I was a horse woman. I used to ride horses a lot. They called me trying and then as soon as I was about 11 years old, I learned to drive for horses and how big load the number 15 miles to town for my father go alone and drive us for horses. Sing quite a lot of changes, haven't you? Yes, I've seen a lot of changes and I don't know if it's for the worse or for the best. I guess we have to make the best of what we have you think crabs with all the additional material things that we have really really have have not gained too much in terms of you mentioned that love was important in the family and we hear that that isn't is as prevalent account commodity these days the different kind of love. It isn't as deep down a lot of is there was then cuz when we got married we didn't think about being married for a while and being divorced and that on, you know, you get tired of our meat and so on but there is I don't have anything against the young people of today because I think they do what they've been brought up to do. A lot of the damage is done by the children nowadays is really the parents is called Lisa. Here in the school and so on that too. Well, I guess we just have to make the best of everything and and leave it to the Lord from day-to-day. That's all I know what to do, but it's it's different times. Now that wasn't course. There's more people there so many cars I still drive my own car got beautiful car take my neighbors with me when I come down here when I go on your place and enjoy myself as best. I can by being a widow, you know, so. And so you find the people found happiness in simpler things. Oh Yas. My we was happy. We invite our friends over and if we didn't do any people make candy enfolded, you know, how big is to make sure they have those Happy Paws and then we play games. I played games right to my children when they were growing up. I had the Forum in a little over five years and I just live good to turn. My husband had to be gone away to work quite a bit. So I was really kind of the the main one in the family in order to look after the children. To we were happy with anything anything your little things we had to do. What do you miss most about the the old days? Well, of course know what I miss most of my husband but of the olden days, but I miss the horses to you know, there's a lot of horses, but of course I can't have one anymore. And I used to drive her rest of the lot. In fact there after he is married to oil. My husband is way to work on a bender and to go to town for groceries. I had rode with the wild as hard as he was no man dare to go in the barn with him and I used to encourage him and feed him and drive him. I'm a little bobsled take my son with me then to get groceries every week and I miss the horses and the course my husband the malls that too well in different named sweet, we enjoyed nature more than they do now. We used to enjoy just watching the stars and the heavens in the evening and we used to climb trees in the daytime and we had a couple of small calves. We just leave them around and pick blueberries by The Bushel and wild fruit and that's the most we had to it to put up with the never thought of buying any of In later years crossword goodbye features with her, but just enjoying the outdoors I think was the best part of our growing up enjoying one another and I love the outdoors and the few things we had to do with and I think that there are growing up was a better environment than nowadays for now living in Fargo at conversation recorded at a luncheon for senior citizens at the First Lutheran Church in Fargo. The Fargo-Moorhead centennial celebration was not entirely I'll look in the rearview mirror looking in the past also made us aware of our own mortality. How does a community looked in attics for old Photographs & Antiques? We realize that and another hundred years. Someone would be looking through our present-day things for a bicentennial celebration to help our unborn descendants both Fargo and Moorhead are going to bury a time capsule in the form of a burial Vault and they are doing hoberg wrote this letter which will be right by residents of the Year 2075 as mayor of Moorhead during our Centennial year of 1975. I extend greetings to you as the bicentennial Mayer. Despite the fact that from 1875 to 1975 more knowledge was gained and technological development made then in all of man's history before this time. We are unable to project into the future. The general attitude of the city as of 1975 is we're living in comfort and security. According to the standards of our time we in the city and in America have enjoyed far more benefits than the rest of the world. And for this we are thankful. As you open the Time Capsule review the artifacts and read of life in 1975. We trust it is a time of peace and prosperity for all mankind. May the year 2075 find that our world as we know it in 1975 has progressed to a way of life beyond our comprehension. May your bicentennial year be as happy and as successful as our Centennial year and I've signed it that was Moorhead mayor Dwayne hoberg then representatives of local businesses and institutions filed by and place their documents in the world Paul thoresen director of public relations of Concordia College tell us what that institution is leaving for the future representing Concordia College will be three Publications the current telephone directory which has pictures and names of the faculty and staff and a listing of all of the students. In addition, the college handbook is Incorporated in the same document which of the rules and regulations of a college and we thought it might be fun a hundred years from now to see how that rules might have changed. When are the second document is the most recent issue of the alumni news, which has our feature stories are in the Bots? Dr. Joseph Knutson who is retiring at this time and also about dr. Aubrey the president-elect the third and last document is copper Chronicle the history of Concordia College from the day of its founding through its 75th year. Actually, it's more than a history of the college is more a history of the Fargo-Moorhead Community because it deals with life in the early days of the college and prominent people of the early days next Rodger young executive director of the Chamber of Commerce and directors and some photographs. membership roster budget, you know how much money we have and where we spend it and maybe a hundred years from now that's going to look kind of strange where some of our expenditures went to. I know I've looked through old copies of chamber minute books that go back into the early nineteen-hundreds and I find it kinda interesting reading to see how their money was spent in the projects that they worked on and I think that it'll be interesting for them to see many of the same things. We we put in this time, but they're they're basically things that tell the story of the chamber and also the community we put a lot of Civic brochures into it that are apart of the packet that we would typically send out to a newcomers to the community or or anyting of that sort. I am from the American State Bank and I'm putting in a brochure of our new bank are together with our financial statement. How about you sir for putting in a brochure showing the facilities? We have to offer plus a catalog listing all of the holiday and throughout the world. I am from Northport clothiers in the holiday Mall in Moorhead were putting in a list of all of our employees a brief history of our store. It's beginning and also a Merchandise current to today's clothing. What's the piece of merchandise? It's a necktie and kccm participated by including some copies of our monthly magazine preview and tape recordings such an experience provides an opportunity to reflect upon death and immortality. the nineteenth-century agnostic lecture in politician Robert G Ingersoll said our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope Placing what's important in our lives for future lives was exercising that hope we know that we are more than ashes and dust that will go to the ground and be buried trees and plants grow out of the ground, but people don't our roots are in families, which spread to communities the human spirit is nor'-east by myths dreams beliefs work expanding the mind and other people with whom we share Mutual concerns respect care and love. We wish there was a more significant tangible product reflect the Wonder of the human spirit and we leave that to the writers artists Architects and crafts folks. Are raw materials and finished product our ideas and this becomes the essence of our work lives. The Time Capsule is a way of affirming Our Lives as a Roman orator and leader Cicero said the life of the Dead is placed in the memory of the living. Replace this part of our lives in the Time Capsule to be remembered in 2075. Here's a short sample of the voices and ideas of 1975. People will hear in a hundred years. I was born and and 1885 and old shots little should say old. It was a new sod Shack then they haven't even have a floor and there's a door in it yet and Campbell County South Dakota. I guess I was the first baby in that county and that was a few settlers there in the Builder song Church. A Reformed Church there about 3 miles away from my folks is few settlers that were there. There was mostly Dutchman my folks live there for two years. And then these Homestead rights came out and he went further into North Dakota to look for a homestead and he found a place that's about seven miles. South east of here between here and Hague and he filed on that as a homestead and that's where I was really a raise that I lived on that place for over 50 years spent most of my life there in the first years why Folks at my folks Farm there they had to bring the rain. They're weak to Eureka my wagon and auction first and later by horses. And as time went on, you know, the country progress. They used to have horses that might bought their horses from Indians by the river. They call them Broncos. Have you ever heard of that? Bronco horses? They call them Bronx Tale As Indians use to tame them and they'd come through the country and sell them to the settlers here. And why's that don't they were tough? That's how we had our first horses. I know but I remember my dad plowing with the auction talks team yet Shirley took determination to come here and the they made goodbye. If I'd a had our good times and hard times, but I think they were wise they came and it was too because of all of the military rules. They had their you know of being drafted, you know, if they had everybody every boy had to become a soldier if his shelf of fiction off and he had a sure I term in the in the service even if there was worn off and they weren't satisfied with a government. And then when the United States, of course at the same like that, they got a good report from the United States that these things are all so different and everybody was his own boss. Should I say and that interested that my guess what was it like to grow up out here in those days no weed ever do any better, you know, we didn't have no shoes to where we at and we walked Barefoot during the summer and in the winter time while we little kids. We just stayed inside. My folks had a sod house. And that was built like this and that was that they had a T2 it with a barn for their horses and cows. And then in there there was a kind of a little hallway between and we had our toilet and that all we didn't have to go outside for that and my folks will get that in from the back and they fix the roof over the Haystacks and all that full of hay and I ride from the inside they could get the hay to the cows and horses and we lived in North most of the time. My dad would go to Eureka maybe once a month and he'd get a few groceries and But I think as far as being a satisfied and happy we were people of our satisfy them than there are no you didn't have all kinds of toys that we can lay our hands. Well in the in the winter time, we will do your least sit around and that's on house. I remember that we had that people around here. They had burners made of something like an old fashioned wash boiler. Do you know where the old fashioned washboard was that they used to heat water on for washing? Well, they offered like that made they could get that made and Eureka by the blacksmith. and They would feel that false flag straw by my folks usually have some flax straw and send it stopped. It just suppose they could and then they would set that on a cookstove. It took those two ladies off said that upside down and that that strong wood burn slowly and pretty soon. We had a red. Hop2 stole just like it's cozy and I'll wind. And with my my dad spend most of his time in the way to reading stories we have stories books week is considered they're all in there is Dutch. We could sit there all evening and he would read such an interesting story, you know, and then we didn't want to go to bed and read some more Dad read some more. Of course it was all in. You know Uncle Tom's Cabin was one of my favorite stories. That is the neighborhood and that's what we would have him read that over one more than once to get the full drift out of it then and then there was another one that was today. An alarm the alarm play sister Gertrude The Lamplighter that was a book about a little girl that live with her father and I want of the lighthouses on the shore of the ocean. You know, that was one of my favorite ones and then we play checkers or something like that. And I don't know what time they were bleeding heavy on my hands that I can remember when I was child. I got married when I was going on 20 and that we raised a big family. We had 11 children. They say women don't work nowadays when they are housewife, but I I was a housewife and I worked that was Adriana new small 90 year old resident of Strasburg North Dakota enabling listeners in a year 2075 to have auditory contact with one of our earliest settlers in the region for contrast. We also included in the Time Capsule at contemporary projection into the future by Stanford University physicist, Professor William tiller who has this vision of a new age. I think we certainly are going into a new age. I think that man Has developed along a Time Track the last several hundred years developing. a very sophisticated science at the five physical senses level of the universe and he's determined a very large number of consistency relationships and is woven those into a very good description of the universe expressing at that level and he has manifested that into a technology which is very much as influenced Our Lives. His benefit of many many things has caused another array of problems. In itself, but the problems have been very much caused by the attitudes of people towards these things people have accepted them. They're not really thought about them. They just use them. They haven't seen a relationship of these things to themselves and their own evolution. It seems to me at this point in time. If man continues along the same path just with a linear extrapolation. Then analyses show that he's unlikely to survive Beyond about three to four decades. In anything like his present form the number of ways in which you can terminate seems to grow exponentially with time so that by the year 2000 the possible. Pathways to saving of mankind or diminish greatly. I don't think man is going to become extinct. I think what is required is that he dig deeper into himself. He open another door into other dimension Alex the universe and I think that's what's happening. Now that's part of the new age is a natural part of the large cosmological pattern this unfolding. I think it's now becoming part of man's conscious attention at least to some degree. And it is in by looking in this Dimension that he will develop. New knowledge new insights new technologies new philosophies of man's relationship to himself and to the rest of the world and do the rest of the cosmos. In fact, and he will resolve the many of the problems created by our existing technology to create new problems. Man will have another chance or enhanced chance if you like this all those. I think it does get very much to this business of the right side of the brain versus the left side of the brain to left side very much that. The Logical side of the brain. The right side seemed to be very much the intuitive side of the brain and the receiving of some of this other dimensionality of the universe seems to occur by that location within our structure. I suspect that occurs in many other ways that we don't know of yet. We know very little about this but there is research going on around the world. And I think the research is saying a number of things that are very important for us to think about it to perhaps work on Stanford University physicist. Dr. William tiller. It's been a portion of some of the material we deposited in the Time Capsule. I'm Bill Sebring.