Margaret

About me:

I was born on February 1, 1907, in the backwoods of Minnesota on a homestead, 25 miles from Backus, which now has a population of 2,500 people, the year before Henry Ford came out with his first Model T Ford. I have seen the history of the 20th Century; watched the boys leave for war -- World War I, that is, as well as World War II, The Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq. I remember the 1918-1919 flu epidemic. Any 100 year old has done a lot of living. I think I have packed more into my lifetime than most. I have lived all over the country, from California to New York City to Richmond, Virginia, saw the first rocket go off at White Sands, New Mexico, visited Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, among other places, counted movie stars such as Lillian Roth, Marie Dressler, Peggy Ann Garner, Elizabeth Taylor and Wallae Beery as friends, started the Virginia Cerebral Palsy Association and spoke at the Virginia Health Conference on Crippled Children, worked as Authorization Manager for Lord and Taylor in New York City, made a commercial for McDonald's, met Grant Woods, Albert Einstin, Bill Pachner, Gustav Rehberger, Leonard Goldenson, founder of ABC, among others, published a successful novel and written another for the Eldred (my maiden name) family. I am presently completing another novel about a marriage made in heaven or hell, as the case may be. Presently I write a weekly column for a local newspaper, based my my insights and understandings of the past and present. I'm currently putting together my own website called www.memoirsofacentenariancrone.com. I welcome anyone who wishes to e-mail me and will answer as many as possible.