Check out this 1939 interview with Sammy Spring, a Massachusetts fiddler and dirt farmer. Here are a couple of good quotes:

That’s what I call living. Folks don’t know how to live today. They won’t go out like they used to, ‘cept to go to the movies, most of ’em, or stay at home and listen to the radio. Those old chicken pie suppers and things like that used to make them more neighborly. It’s too bad. When you look at the way folks used to live and see how they git along today. They ain’t no more of that ole spirit of corporation. Just dog eat dog today.

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You know they’s some sense to square dancin’. Why I rather see younguns dance that way then to try to do that crazy jitterbug stuff. Ain’t no sense to it at all. Jumpin round like crazy loons or monkeys trying to climb a tree, that ain’t dancin’. They aint no sense to it.

Remember, this is 1939…sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it?