If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians

Title: If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians
Author: Neenah Ellis
ISBN: 9780609608425
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 272
Section: Performing Arts | Radio | General
Publisher Description: What started as a NPR Morning Edition assignment -- to speak to our oldest Americans and compile an oral history of life spanning the 20th century -- became a personal journey of growth and transformation when Ellis realized what these passionate, resilient, spirited seniors had to say about savoring life, staying positive, loving one another, and living in the moment.

Fans of Garrison Keillor and Charles Kuralt will delight in the wonderful characters Ellis discovers: a couple who courted by horse and sleigh in the winter of 1918; a nationally-known expert on dyslexia who published a book at 96; and the 103-year-old skinny-dipper in Massachusetts who confides that she indulges her passion only "when it's foggy and there's no fishermen around." Their stories add up to a course in living well, with lessons and inspiration for all of us.