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Memories bring tears to 101-year-old Mira Orr.

I met Sweet at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. He tugged at my camera and wanted to know if I used Canon equipment. That's what he had used in his days at Paramount studios in Hollywood. He was engaging, alert, and knowledgeable. He knew who he…

An elderly couple enjoying the warm weather on their front porch.

Paddy, a sharp 93 year old, was a nurse on the front lines of World War I. She came back from the war and became a nanny to some of the most important politicians in Canada. And she still tells dirty jokes.

Warmed by the sunshine of another spring, octogenarians Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Hyatt pause to reminisce about their sixty-five years of marriage.

On a rare night out, Kathy Pfeiffer, a resident of Glenwood Terrace Nursing Home in Glenwood, IL is entranced by a scene from William Inge's Bus Stop, performed at Thornwood High School in South Holland, IL.

Eighty-three-year-old Florie Darnell shares a soap opera with one of her dogs.

Appearing as a silhouette, a plane passes through the sun's corona during the Feb. 26 total eclipse of the sun, the last that will be seen over North America in this century.

It's no pretty site for residents living near unpaved county roads in dry dusty areas such as this scene in southeast Kansas. Every time a car whizzes by a cloud of dust slowly tles--but not before it has the rural residents gagging and cursing…

Photograph of a car driving through a dust storm.