[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, thrilled to be on my latest adventure, here in San Francisco. The woman at the heart of this story also loved to travel and took home the smallest of souvenirs from every place she visited. Those tiny keepsakes could add up to abigpayday for her heirs. My name is lise mousel. For over half a century, my glamorous aunt naomi traveled the world in style. She always had a surprise for us, but the biggest one came after she passed away. [ knock on door ] i want to know more about those surprises, so i meet lise and her mother, carol, at the condo where aunt naomi lived for more than 30 years. Lise now calls the place home. Oh, i love the way its decorated minimalist. It wasnt always true, when naomi was here. Really . Yes, there was stuff everywhere. There was furniture and there were antiquities, and then there were the beads. Beads everywhere. Beads . Beads. Naomi lindstroms story begins in a tiny logging town in british columbia, canada, where shes born in 1924. Sister carol comes along nine years later. Were you rich or poor . We were poor. Naomi used to love to tell the story that if we needed a grouse for dinner, shed take the shotgun and go and get it. But the backwoods life is too small for naomis big dreams. By 18, shes a premed College Student in seattle. She had one quarter left, but it was summer, and she saw a sign from United Airlines saying were hiring. She thought, ill do it for the summer. What do you think it was about that sign asking for people to sign up to be stewardesses that attracted her . It was the travel. She always was an adventurer. Naomi instantly falls in love with the globetrotting lifestyle. She was hooked. She was hooked, and she never regretted it. In 1952, she jumps ship to Panamerican Airways not just the most prestigious of carriers, but a cultural icon. Pan am was founded in 1927 as americas First International airline. An innovator in the use of jet aircraft, pan am becomes legendary for its luxury, panache, and above all, its classy, gorgeous stewardesses. Pan am flight attendants were iconic. Did she fit the bill, lise . Oh, good lord, i think she createdthe bill, actually. Howd she look in her uniform . Oh, she looked gorgeous. She looked gorgeous until she retired. The stews life gives naomi the chance to see the world. During layovers, while her stewardess friends sit by the pool, naomi immerses herself in the local culture, which leads to a new hobby beads. Thats how she befriends jamey allen over their shared love of the small mementos. What do you think naomis fascination with beads was . She liked the fact that beads put you in touch with the culture that you admire or are interested in. In some cultures, theyre money. In others, magical charms. For naomi, they slide easily into a suitcase and through customs. They are mankinds oldest portable art form. Naomi soon identifies the perfect way to add to her bead count archaeological dig sites. And her 10 per diem from pan am comes in quite handy. At that particular point in time, the archeologists werent interested in beads, and for 10, she could get a lot of beads. What if she needed the money to eat . Oh, she knew that she could find somebody whod buy dinner for her. Naomis tiny keepsakes soon include glass beads from china, jasper from south america, stone beads from the middle east, and countless more from around the world. These red coral beads come from india. Naomi gets them in 1959 after striking up an acquaintance with a famous passenger. Filmmaker and broadcaster Lowell Thomas is on a mission trip to aid the dalai lama, and naomi tags along. Thedalai lama . Yes. Naomi was working in first class. She met Lowell Thomas. He was looking for somebody who could buy, inexpensively, all the supplies to build houses for the refugees. That is amazing. Over the decades, naomi stockpiles her beads in her San Francisco condo. I thought she was a smuggler, which made it even more exciting. What . she was this kind of biggerthanlife, independent woman who did exactly what she wanted, and i thought she was magic. She never married . No, she never did. She had many proposals. She had so many Diamond Rings that she took all the diamonds and made one band. From different guys . All from different guys. By the early 2000s, naomi is long retired from pan am, and her world travels have come to an end. But even into her 80s, shes still feisty as ever. She was probably about a year beyond needing fulltime care, but she kept sending her caregivers home. So mom and i decided that the best thing to do was to have a Family Member live with her, and i was portable at the time and eager because i loved her so much. Lise lives with her aunt naomi for the next year. 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Pan am stewardess Naomi Lindstrom circumnavigates the world, amassing a huge assortment of beads from everywhere she goes. After her death in 2014, her sister and niece are rummaging through her San Francisco condo, wondering whether their inheritance is filled with treasures or trash. I was desperate to get things cleared out. It was overwhelming because i didnt have a clue what i was looking at. Do you take a garbage bag and just get started . It was tempting. It was really tempting. There was drawer upon drawer upon drawer. And when you opened them, every drawer was just overflowing. She converted closets into bead drawers. These are beautiful. Its not just loose beads stashed everywhere, but hundreds of bead necklaces. We probably spent the better part of two days just taking the necklaces out and laying them across the beds. The handmade pieces range from glamorous to exotic to simply bizarre. This is a necklace that naomi wore. Its dogs teeth. Dog teeth thats a new one. Thousands upon thousands of beads. Its simply overwhelming for carol. When you looked at all the beads, what was your first reaction . Wow. What have we gotten into . But helps just a phone call away to naomis friend and fellow bead enthusiast jamey allen. Well, we were all astounded. We were not prepared for what we found. Jameys first step is to catalog the collection. Jamey and i spent months together, going through drawers, with me helping him sort and saying, jamey, whats this . Jamey, whats this . The beads may look alike to lise, but not to jameys discerning eye. Hes able to deduce a beads cultural origin by studying its material, shape, color, and markings. For instance, the distinctive reddish hue on this strand reveals its provenance. These beads were made in burma. How do you know . Whereas most amber is yellow, burmese amber is more often red. So, you can determine a lot of things visually by the color, by the clarity, by the uniformity of the color. Other hints help determine a beads age erosion signs, texture, and rarity. Another clue older beads typically have larger holes, due to the lack of sophisticated cutting tools. Beads were made by hand, and they were made by artisans, and they were made one at a time, and they had a lot of skill and time invested in them. Jameys analysis yields a stunning conclusion many of naomis beads are not only very old, but rare. Ancient items include 17th Century Glass trading beads from venice and these amber ones from the chinese qing dynasty. They probably were originally in a Mandarin Court necklace about 150 years ago. Other beads, he tells them, are even older. Theres west african quartz more than 1,000 years old, precolumbian ceramic from peru, and afghani beads from the 3rd millennium b. C. Are these museumworthy . Absolutely. There are many, many museumworthy pieces in the lindstrom collection. I had no idea. I mean, to me, its a bunch of beads. A bunch of beads that jamey says might be worth their weight in gold. A wellmade bead from 3,000 years ago is a very valuable thing. But justhowvaluable . Before i knew it, she was practically hyperventilating. I was just overtaken by the beauty of everything that she had. Thats next. Heres another quiz question for you. The answer after the break. You dont use this old thing, do you . No or how bout this dinosaur right here . Nope then why are you still using a laser printer . Its got expensive toner cartridges. But this. Is the Epson Ecotank color printer. No more expensive cartridges big ink tanks. Lots of ink. If you dont think this printers right for you, just pick up your phone. chuckling . And give me a call. The Epson Ecotank. Just fill and chill. Available at. Beyond the routine checkups. Beyond the notsoroutine cases. Comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. All working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gigspeed network. Because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. To do the extraordinary. Take your business beyond. [ drathis holiday. Ahhhhh ahhhhh a distant friend returns. Elliott. You came back and while lots of things have changed. Wooooah woah its called the internet. Some things havent. Get ready for a reunion 3 million light years in the making. Woohoo yeah so, which of these beads is typically the most valuable . Its c. Imperial jade is a prized material symbolizing water and life. In 2014, a jade necklace sold in hong kong for more than 27 million. After the death of her glamorous aunt naomi, a retired pan am stewardess, lise mousel and her mother, carol, are astonished to learn the exotic details of naomis vast bead collection. It spans about 5,000 years of history and everything from indonesian, african, chinese, japanese, european. They came from everywhere. Naomi also created oneofakind necklaces from her tiny treasures beaded jewelry that now might be worth a small fortune. Did you have any idea how much they were all worth . No. I knew nothing about beads. She finds out when she invites rhonda harness of michaans auctions to naomis San Francisco condo. When i walked in the house, i was just overtaken by the beauty of everything that she had. You just dont see these items. The collection is phenomenal. Its immediately clear to rhonda that this is one of the top bead collections in america and deserves its own standalone auction which im previewing today, just hours before the big event. What are you wearing, to start . Im wearing an ancient tibetan necklace of coral. From what i understand, the piece youre wearing has an estimate of 30,000. That is correct. Coral is so popular right now, and you just dont see it the size, the color, the quality. Its almost impossible to find. Is there a big market for beads . Theres a big market for beads. Beads are the First Jewelry that was ever worn. Beads were worn before clothes were worn. They were also used as charms like this ancient tibetan dzi bead, said to bring good luck and ward off evil. I see people Walking Around new york city with evil eye bracelets. This is the real deal . This is the real deal. What would this little bead go for . Well, we have it very reasonably priced at 1,500 to 2,000. This is an incredible necklace right here. Theyre ancient beads from afghanistan, and theyre glass beads. Its presale estimate 3,000. This really caught my eye. Its precolumbian, and its beautiful beads of crystal carnelian. Very rare to find these. Can i put this on you . Please do. Why wait . It looks like it was made for you. And it could be mine for 6k. Rhonda tells me that memento from naomis time helping the dalai lama should also attract attention. I have had so much interest in it. I feel this is going to do very well. The presale estimate more than 10 grand. While this Central Asian necklace from 700 b. C. Is appraised at 18,000. Theres no telling what the entire cache will bring in. Ready to find out . Thats next. Are you nervous . Im terrified. With that, we will begin. I am hoping that ive done everything i could have done up to this point. 500 is bid. Online at 500. Whats your strange inheritance story . Wed love to tell it. Send me an email or go to our website, strangeinheritance. Com. Now back to strange inheritance. 200 to start. Do i have any takers for 200 . 200 right there. 225 now. 225. Do we go 250 . In march 2016, the Naomi Lindstrom collection hits the Auction Block at michaans in alameda, california. The treasure trove includes ancient beads and necklaces spanning more than 5,000 years of history that the pan am stewardess acquired from around the globe and bequeathed to her sister carol. Like these ancient beads excavated in mali. These are at least 1,000 years old. Wow. Unfortunately, this day is gonna cost me some money. Id say collect it now, because youll never see it again. Naomi would be standing there with her chest out, her head back, and a big smile on her face, saying, yes, i did this. Shed be so proud. Shed be thrilled. Naomi felt all of these things were her babies. And today, were looking for a lot of good homes. 475. 475 now. 475s the bid. Go 500 . The auction gets going. Some of the presale estimates are right on the button. Lot number 4418 an ancient afghanistan glass bead necklace. Those afghani glass beads i tried on. 3,000. [ Cash Register dings ] 4359, tibetan coral bead, gilded silver needle case necklace. And well start the bidding off on this at 6,000. 6,500. That necklace from naomis time helping the dalai lama. Bidder 561 is for 11,000. Whoo way to go. [ laughs ] whew yeah. This is fun, isnt it . [ laughter ] its even more fun when items go way above their appraisals. Many do. Remember that tiny tibetan spiritual bead priced at 1,500 . And well start the bidding off on that at. This is the best one. 1,500 is bid. 1,500, 1,600, 1,700, 1,800. 1,900. 1,900, 2,000 2,250. 2,500. 2,500. Now go 2,750s online. 3,000 the bid. Were holding at 3,000. On the floor with 3,000. 2,250. Now go 2,500. 2,500. 3,500 is on the floor. 3,750s online. No advance. 4,000. 4,000 still bidding online. 4,250. Now go 4,500. 4,500. 4,500 is bid. Online at 4,500. [ gavel bangs ] sold online for 4,500. Thats triple its preauction estimate. More big sales follow. Chinese white jade necklace. And well start the bidding off on that at 1,000. Like this chinese white jade necklace. [ gavel bangs ] 4,250. [ Cash Register dings ]. And an ancient himalayan strand that earns 5,900. [ gavel bangs ] bidder 604 for 3,000. The auction goes on for more than five hours. Last call 3,750. Nearly 300 lots, thousands of beads on the block. [ gavel banging ] in total, the auction earns more than 300,000 bucks. When you first looked at this collection and think, ohhh theres a lot of beads, and then you walk away with hundreds of thousands of dollars. That was an incredible gift from your aunt. Oh, my gosh. It really was. And shed be happy that people thought her things were interesting enough to buy them. And that may be just the beginning. Many toptier items that didnt hit their reserve will be reoffered down the line, like that ancient tibetan coral strand, the Central Asian stone necklace, and these mongolian beads. The plan is to market the heck out of it. And then well just hope that the right buyers are there on that particular day, looking. Day of the auction, did it feel like naomi was there . Shewas. Excuse me . I had her ashes in my purse. She went to the auction. Absolutely. She wanted to be put in a lake in british columbia, and i called mom and said, would it be okay with you if we kept half of her ashes out and took them with us . And she said, sure. Why not . I think its the best Memorial Service we could have given her. A fitting tribute to the pan am stewardess and her precious keepsakes from a life adventurously lived. On 10 a day. 10 per diem. [ laughs ] so, if lise brought half of aunt naomis ashes to the auction, what happened to them afterward . Well, once they gave naomi one final day with her precious beads, they decided to scatter the rest in places dear to naomis heart. Some will go in the soil outside her condo, while others will be sprinkled from this balcony over the city San Francisco that she loved so much. Bon voyage, naomi. Thanks so much for watching strange inheritance. Im jamie colby. Remember you cant take it with you. A farmer with an unusual hobby hands down a humongous collection to his family. Anybody that collects 150 tractors doesnt that make you eccentric . He spent a lifetime, and a pretty penny, amassing it. Definitely a method to grandpas madness. Is it a treasure trove of valuable americana . It was almost out of control maybe you would say. Or a herd of White Elephants . Dad, are you ever gonna stop . You know, for one thing, youre running out of room. Where are you going to put them all . [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and im just pulling into le mars, iowa. Its a short distance from sioux city. Im about to meet a family thats farmed this land for generations and learn about a very strange inheritance. My name is roma lancaster. After my dad passed away, we knew that there would be a lot of things that would have to be sorted out and gone through on the farm. Romas father, dave hawkins, has deep roots in this part of iowa, going back more than a century. My fathers ancestors immigrated to the United States in late 1800s. They moved westward with the expansion of the railroad, and my grandfather, my dads father, albert hawkins, farmed just south of here, about a mile. Dave hawkins grew up hearing stories of his ancestors plowing this land behind a team of horses. As a young farmer in the 1950s, just out of school, dave spots a tractor rusting in the weeds. It sparks his imagination. The 1920 9d is the tractor that belonged to my grandfather. Thats what got my dad into the collecting again was when he restored that tractor that had originally belonged to his father. As his farm grows to over 500 acres of corn and soybeans, and his family prospers, hawkins seeks out the next vintage tractor to buy and restore. Then the next and the next, including this one, a minneapolismoline that hawkins bought, restored, and donated to the Plymouth County museum. How old would this one be . Its a 1944 model. Incredible. I meet bruce brock at the museum. A fellow history buff, he and dave hawkins went way back. I was proud to be his friend. He was a good businessman, he was a good father, a good husband, a great neighbor, and a Good Community guy. I understand coin collecting and car collecting, but tractors, bruce tractors . What was he thinking . These are a representation of the past that farmers and farm families and farm relations really enjoy looking at because it brings back memories. Tractors are part of iowas history. In 1892, John Froelich invented the practical gaspowered tractor in a tiny village about 300 miles east of here. The mechanization of farming helps america become an agricultural giant. Alex, are you in here . There he is. And even though none of daves four children tills the soil like he did, he does share his passion for tractors with his grandson, alex. I can remember as young as 3 or 4 years old, riding in the combine with my grandpa and taking naps on the floor, and if we werent doing that, we were driving up and down the road looking for other tractors to work on and fix up in the shop. Pretty soon, daves sheds are filled with old tractors in various states of repair more than 100 of them. Did mom ever say, no more tractors . No, not really, but i remember dad called the tractors his savings account, you know, to justify it. Through the years, as things became tight in the sheds, and, you know, there was just kind of a joking question about dad, are you ever gonna stop . The answer is, no, hes not going to stop. Family vacations become crosscountry tractor hunts. So would you say that he was eccentric . He was a little crazy sometimes, but he was definitely a savvy businessman. Over the years, grandpa probably put 100,000, probably not over a quarter of 1 million million into his collection. But it wasnt about the money. It was a passion, it was a love, and it was just something he wanted to do. He didnt really get into the collecting real heavily until he had the money to help us go to college and make sure we got the education that we wanted. Born of hardy iowa farmer stock, dave seems as indestructible as those tractors. Everybody assumes hell plow on forever. Then, all of a sudden, in the summer of 2011, his 73yearold body grinds to a halt. Dad was a man who never complained. He was only sick for a few days. We did not even know what was wrong with him. The autopsy results came back that we found out that he had cancer. [ voice breaking ] im sad because my dads gone. Sorry. It was more than just a shock. It was a lifechanging blow. He went to the same church from the day he was born until the day he died. He was baptized and had his funeral in the same small country church. It was very important to him that we all knew that legacy and continued that on, also. At first, life on the farm continues as before. Daves soninlaw, alexs dad, todd popken, farms the acreage. Alex tends the tractors. But soon, the loss of their patriarch sends ripples of change through the family. Daves widow, judy, moves into town. Did that surprise you . No. Mom had said for 10 years, if something happens to you first, i do not want to stay out here by myself. Daves absence creates a crisis, sparking strong disagreement within the family. Should they hang on to daves beloved collection or sell it and close out his savings account . At the time of his death, how prepared was he for you to take on this huge obligation . I wish we would have even had just a couple days to ask him some questions that would have helped us make sure we made the decisions that were how he wished for them to be made. And obviously the more people involved, the harder that decision becomes. You have to know, there were some bumpy roads that we traveled there. Thats next. 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Thats why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. Talk, talk [ bird caws ] now the answer to our strange inheritance quiz question. Its b, lamborghini. The untimely death of iowa farmer dave hawkins in 2011 leaves his family in a state of upheaval. His widow, judy, moves into town, leaving the homestead empty for the first time in generations. Daves grandson, alex, a 23yearold newlywed, and his wife, maria, buy the house and move in. A bold move by the young man, who has the best shot of keeping the hawkins tradition of family farming alive. Alex says his grandma made the house deal easy for the firsttime buyer. Now, isnt that what grandmas are for . So, did she give you a good deal . Yeah. A family deal. But the family hasnt even started to discuss what to do with the strange inheritance dave hawkins collection of rare and antique tractors. We didnt even talk about it until at least a year or almost a year had passed. I dont think it was easy for anyone. And we did go through that where, you know, we werent all agreeing. The numberone toughest decision was, can we keep the collection or do we have to sell part of it . Financially and timewise, there was nobody that could do what dad had done. Did he tell you before he passed . We had talked about it, but never made a decision, or he had never made a decision about what he wanted to do. Finally, daves widow, judy, asks the kids to come to a decision. Its not easy. How do you come to an agreement when each party has a different idea of what is right or wrong . To please five parties is a tough, tough decision to have to come to grips with. Amid this family discord, tammys son, alex, spends nights and weekends keeping his grandpas precious tractors from deteriorating. Theres a lot of expenses to keep them insurance, upkeep, batteries, tires, and to keep the collection and not upkeep it, in my opinion, was not an option. Dave hawkins pride and joy is becoming a sore point. I was at a fulltime job, as i was just graduated from college, just got married, and maybe some of them didnt realize all the time and work and money that it was gonna take to keep those tractors up. Alex thinks that could add up to more than 10,000 a year. There just is too much of a financial and Time Commitment that none of us were able to exercise, and that we didnt expect alex to exercise, and we made the decision then at that point to sell the items. The family decides the best way to maximize the collections value is through that Great American country tradition the opencall auction. And they keep it local by hiring dads old friend bruce brock, whos also an auctioneer. They wanted their father and their husband represented in a fashion that would make him proud because i know that he made them proud, and i think that was important. What did the family tell you about how much they wanted to generate from the sale . They didnt really tell us anything. They just trusted us to bring them home as many net dollars as we could. But its not quite that simple for the hawkins heirs, who made a curious discovery after their father died, one that could affect their bottom line and their fathers legacy. From beyond the grave, dave hawkins is guiding his family on how to handle their strange inheritance. Thats next. Heres another quiz question for you. The answer when we return. [ bird caws ] chime shaq magenta . I hate cartridges not magenta not magenta. Im not going back to the store. Magenta cartridges are so. buzzer vo the Epson Ecotank. No more cartridges. It comes with an incredible amount of ink that can save you a lot of frustration. The Epson Ecotank. Just fill and chill. Available at. No, its not in my records. Youve got a lot on your plate. Deliveries. Billy, come in. Shift times. I just need to know if its there. Compliance. Can i get your 20 . For 100 drivers. Doug. Doug . And where is doug . 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Whats your idea . I put it out there with a godaddy website. Make the world you want. So, how many acres could a farmer till in a day with a horsedrawn plow . The answer is b, 1 to 3 acres. After months of discussion, dave hawkins heirs have come to a painful conclusion its time to auction off his lifelong collection of tractors. But one more Family Member gets to weighs in dave himself. It was discovered in my dads desk that he had a handwritten list of the tractors that he wished for us to save. These tractors, going back to the 1920s, are the cream of daves crop and must stay in the family. Their dads list gets them thinking. What else should they keep off the Auction Block . So, they each make their own lists. It had to be godly intervention that when we got together for a family meeting and compared our lists, nobody had picked wanting the same item. At first, roma herself is undecided. One day, i would think, yes, i should keep a tractor. And the next day im thinking, you know what . Its only metal, and my memories of being with dad are invaluable to me. In the end, she cant resist keeping two bright green john deeres a 1943 b and a 48 m. Meanwhile, alex and his dad work the family farm with this 1964 deere. Okay. Thats one. He asks if i want to drive it. Over there are your brakes. Brakes are important. This is your lever to select the gear that you go in. And, of course, hes gentleman enough to coach this city girl on the basics, like how you turn the darned thing on. Im gonna start it up. I see a key. Yep. [ engine turns over ] there you go. Perfect. I wouldnt. [ laughs ] we dont have anything like this in new york. Nothing like this . No, nothing. You think the taxis will get out of the way . Oh, i think so. I think everyone will get out of the way. [ engine shuts off ] unbelievable experience driving a tractor. My pleasure. Thank you. That was exciting. Hard to imagine that the hawkins heirs had to wrangle more than 100 of these things to get ready for auction. You worked hard to get ready, im sure. Alex and todd popken worked through the winter ahead of that sale date getting tractors ready. A lot of sweat, a lot of tears, and a lot of laughter. Auctioneer bruce brock knows the key is getting as many motivated bidders as possible to the hawkins farm on auction day. Tell me about the night before. You get a good nights sleep . Very little. We are entrusted to, in just a few hours, bring to fruition a lifetime of collecting and sacrifice that the familys gone through. It was a big day for us, and we had everything planned, right down to the most minute detail. Well, every detail except one. [ thunder rumbles ] the day of the auction started out a little bit on the rocky side. Thats next. [ thunder rumbles ] everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. Expedia. Im part of a community of problem solvers. We make ideas grow. 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Disappointing that it might damper the crowd, but you cant ever wish away rain if youre a farmer. Dad would sing a song, you are my sunshine, to all of us a lot when we were small, and so that morning, on the way over here, i had ran into town and got us four yellow roses. Then the clouds part. And so, after it stopped raining, i took a yellow rose to my mother and my two sisters and said, you know, dad will always be our sunshine. So, we all carried our yellow roses around, and he was our sunshine. [ auctioneer calling ] once the bidding starts, its immediately clear that dave hawkins isnt the only one obsessed with these big machines. Was it a sellout . It was a sellout. And we were hoping to get 500 or 600 people, and we were almost double that. The bidders come from as far away as canada and mexico. 1936 john deere a sold. 2,000. 46 deere slant dash sold. 3,000. 49 case cs sold. 600 51 oliver rowcrop sold. 8,000. 58 john deere 730 diesel sold. 20,000. Tractors are pretty valuable to people. Tractors are pretty valuable, both emotionally and financially. The familys dedication to dave hawkins memory pays off. The auction nets around 400,000 for his heirs. I guess you could say dave is still taking care of his family. I had one child still in college, and my oldest child had graduated from college. And so, i was very excited to be able to use that money to help them with their college debt. Dave, who hated debt, would be proud. Oh, my goodness. But it could have been a lot more. If you add up the value of the 23 tractors that stay in the hawkins family, it comes to more than 180,000. Still, there are a few tears as 100plus tractors are trucked away to collectors around the country and beyond. It was kind of a bittersweet deal. There was a couple that i would have liked to have kept. I just feel bad for alex going out to all the empty sheds. But alex hopes the sheds wont be empty forever. As i get older and get my own collection going, maybe ill have the same problem again in 50 years. And remember that 29 john deere, the one that belonged to alexs greatgrandfather . That very first one that dave rescued from the junk pile . So, this is it . This ones it. In his will, dave hawkins sets that one aside for alex. Perhaps it will be the seed that grows into another grand collection, just like his grandpas. Living out here on the farm is good. You always get to walk somewhat in his footsteps, day in and day out. Hes still here a little bit for me. People that grew up on farms, thats your lifestyle. You breathe and die farming. I couldnt help but notice alexs pride, not just in that machine, not simply a strange inheritance that turned out to be quite valuable, but rather in the way of life that links him to those who came before him on this land and the determination of dave hawkins heirs to keep his legacy together for at least one more generation. We learned one other story about dave hawkins from his family. He never spent time with his tractors without having one of his children or grandchildren alongside. A completely positive person thats how they described him. So positive that hed answer the phone good morning, whether it was morning or night. In fact, after he passed, they had tshirts made that said good morning with gramps on the sleeve to wear their first christmas without dave. Thanks so much for joining us for strange inheritance. Im jamie colby. Remember you cant take it with you. Do you have a strange inheritance story youd like to share with us . Wed love to hear it. Send me an email or go to our website, strangeinheritance. Com. A strange inheritance mystery. I thought, what . What is going on . A Norman Rockwell shocker. Is it a fake . Well, this was the question that was in everyones mind. Oh, if these walls could talk. I want you to put your hands like this, and were going to pull it toward me. Aah there you go. Oh, my goodness. Keep going. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby in arlington, vermont, once home to Norman Rockwell. It was also home to a man who left his children a multimilliondollar conundrum involving the iconic american painter and illustrator. My name is don trachte jr. My siblings and i were supposed to inherit from our father one of Norman Rockwells bestknown paintings. What we got was a mystery. What the heck had dad done with it . Hi, don. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. So nice to meet you. So great to be in vermont. What is this place . This was my dads studio. Back in the 1950s, dons dad, Donald Trachte sr. , is a syndicated cartoonist working on the popular strip henry, which features a baldheaded boy, simply illustrated with clean lines and minimal backgrounds. Can you support a wife and four kids drawing henry . It was a good living. My dad had to come up with all the gags. Really . And he would have a sheet of paper next to his drawing board, and usually, hed come up with about three or four gags at a time. Were they gags about you kids . Well, sometimes they were. So life for the trachtes is pretty good here in arlington, a picturesque artists colony with a worldfamous resident Norman Rockwell. How did your dad meet Norman Rockwell . When we arrived in arlington, we met a realtor, and if you showed artistic ability, he probably dragged you down to Norman Rockwells house. Did rockwell come to your fathers studio to visit . He did make a couple visits but very short. You know, norman worked seven days a week, and he just was on high gear. Don sr. Even poses for rockwell, playing the principal in one of his famous saturday evening post covers. And don jr. Gets his shot as a rockwell model when his dad volunteers him to pose for this photo from which rockwell paints a child life magazine cover. Is that you . Thats me. Youre Holding Hands with the girl. Yes. Which you did not like yet. Well, i may have liked her. I was just embarrassed. Don sr. And rockwell develop a pretty close professional acquaintance. They share tricks of the trade and the same sense of humor. Heres the cartoonist with the great painter wearing matching bow ties and french berets. How close did he get to rockwell . Did he look over his shoulder while he was painting . My dad had a great sense of observation, and when he watched rockwell, he would look at his paints, his paintbrush, what kind of varnish. My dad just worshipped Norman Rockwell. They keep in touch after rockwell leaves vermont for stockbridge, massachusetts, in 1953, where he continues to paint some of the most Iconic Images of smalltown america. All the materials that you see here were actual rockwell tools. He was very neat. You can see how clean his brushes were. Oh, my. Stephanie plunkett is chief curator of the Rockwell Museum in stockbridge, which includes the painters barn studio. I see the chair. It would mean a lot to sit in Norman Rockwells. Please . Jamie, we would be honored to have you sit in rockwells chair. Oh, my gosh. This is amazing. Norman rockwell painted in this chair. Oh, my gosh. Its from this chair in 1954 that rockwell paints breaking home ties, which will become one of the most popular saturday evening post covers of all time. What is the story in this . What did he want people to know . His idea was, this is a young man from a very Rural Community in america, and he is leaving home for the first time to go to college. His father is a rancher, and he is slumped. Hes holding two hats. Oh. Which is such a beautiful memento. Hes holding his own and his sons. And the collie dog is feeling. Sad. And dad is, what, reflecting on the end of an era maybe . His son wont be a rancher with him . Very much so. Classic rockwell a single scene tells a poignant story of the joys and laments, worries and hopes, sweet and bittersweet rhythms in the life of every american family, like the trachtes. As the years go by, henry gives elizabeth and don sr. The wherewithal to acquire their own impressive little art collection. Its in 1962 when they see breaking home ties for sale at a vermont art gallery. They buy it for 900. Was there anything particular about the subject of this painting that you think your father became particularly attracted to . Well, two things. One is the character the old man sitting on the Running Board was our neighbor floyd, and my dad thought the world of floyd, as all of us did. I think also that the painting told a story. Its a separation of your children from home, so i think its that emotional connection that probably grabbed my dad. Do you think it could be you leaving . It could be. Perhaps at that time, my father was experiencing the separation of all of his kids, and maybe that was it. Did your dad know it was a good investment . You know, i dont think he bought it as an investment at all. He just thought it was such a wonderful piece of art. Why would you even sell anything like that . Of course, it is a good investment. Just 2 years after he purchased it, don sr. Receives an offer in 1964 for 35,000 bucks. Thats a lot of money then. It was an extraordinary amount of money. A lot of us wouldve just sold right then and there, wouldnt we . Yes. But not my dad, not interested. I actually have a letter right here. Take a look at that. From Norman Rockwell, stockbridge, mass. Dear don, you must be crazy not to sell it, but i adore your loyalty. As ever, norman. Ha thats it. Hes saying you shouldve sold. Thats right. Breaking home ties remains on display in the trachtes vermont home, but as more time passes, life for the trachtes resembles less and less a Norman Rockwell painting. When they divorced, i mean, how do you cut a rockwell in half . Thats a terrible thought, isnt it . Heres a strange inheritance quiz question. Why did Norman Rockwell keep a mirror in his studio to reflect sunlight onto his paintings, to watch himself while he worked or to look at his painting in reverse . The answer after the break. Yes im stuck in the middle with you, and im wondering what it is i should do, its so hard to keep this smile from my face, losing control, yeah, im all over the place, clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here i am, stuck in the middle with you no one likes to feel stuck, boxed in, or held back. Especially by something thats supposed to do the opposite like your cloud. Its a problem. But the ibm cloud is different. Its open and flexible enough to manage all your apps and data securely, anywhere, across all your clouds. So it can help businesses take on anything from rebooking flights on the fly, to restocking shelves on demand, without getting in your way. So why did Norman Rockwell keep a mirror in his studio . It was to look at his paintings in reverse. He believed that if the picture was also engaging when looked at backwards, it was sure to be a winner. After purchasing the Norman Rockwell painting called breaking home ties for 900 in 1962, don and Elizabeth Trachte display it in their vermont home. Don sr. Continues drawing the comic henry but spends more and more time painting, too. He did a lot of painting later in his life. He did western art. He did what i call cape cod art. Hes pretty good. He was pretty good. But hes increasingly withdrawn and estranged from elizabeth. At some point, do you get an inkling that your parents might divorce . I think it was just time for them to part ways. And they do in 1973 after 32 years of marriage. So what to do with the art they collected together . They have seven relatively valuable paintings from lesserknown artists in addition to that famous rockwell. When they divorced, was there an issue about. I mean, how do you cut a rockwell in half . Well, thats a terrible thought, isnt it . The couple agree to give the eight paintings to their children their inheritance to be received upon their parents deaths. Until then, elizabeth keeps five and don three, including the rockwell. By the way, it jumps in value when rockwell dies in 1978 at age 84. Don sr. Builds this home and art studio in the woods. He draws the sunday edition of henry until its canceled in 1994. By 2001, now in his 80s, Health Problems force don sr. To lay down his pencils and brushes altogether, and he begins splitting his time living with his children. We just wanted him kind of with us and safe. With their Fathers House empty and cold, don jr. And his siblings worry about their strange inheritance the famous painting on the wall thats now possibly worth millions. Looking for a safer place, they call the Norman Rockwell museum and chief curator stephanie plunkett. They say, would you like to exhibit it . And we, of course, were thrilled because this is actually an icon in rockwells career. Did you tell dad . Yes, and he never said anything. He just nodded. Ever take dad to see it . Oh, no. Withing a year or two, he went into assisted living. I just thought it was a lot for him to absorb, so i never took him down to the museum. I said, why put him through that . Don trachte sr. Passes away in 2005 at age 89, but just as his four children formally inherit breaking home ties, they start hearing whispers that the famous painting just might be a fake. One art expert walked in and said, its a thirdrate replica, and i thought, what . I was concerned, like, what is going on . 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Look in the area of the boys face, and look at those two side by side. Well, his face is much fuller. Yeah. Theres some differences, arent there . And thats primarily. Eyes are different. The eyes are different. Mmhmm. And the mouth is different. Mmhmm. But there must be an innocent explanation. The museum believes the painting was probably subjected to a subpar touchup job. Thats why, when don and his siblings decide it might be time to sell breaking home ties, their comfortable reaching out to sothebys in new york. Sothebys appraiser Peter Rathbone visits the Rockwell Museum to see it. Like some other experts, hes perplexed. It just wasnt as well painted as one had sort of become accustomed to seeing in rockwells work. But here you are in the Norman Rockwell museum, where the painting has been on public display for, you know, several years. Rathbone believes the painting could bring between 3 and 5 million at auction. In 2002, we sold the iconic rosie the riveter that brought just under 5 million, so we were obviously looking at a very bullish market for rockwells work. But before they test the market, the family decides to test the painting. They send it to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in 2006 for a detailed analysis. The family faces three possible outcomes. Its the original rockwell thats been touched up, or a second version of the painting by rockwell himself, or it could be a forgery. Having them take a look could take the millions that you and your siblings are entitled to and throwing it out the window if it doesnt go your way. It could, but we were so adamant that we had to understand what is wrong with this painting . Now, my best hope was that wed actually find that this was the original painting, but someone had repainted or painted over parts of the painting. No dice. It turns out the painting is a completely original and pretty wellexecuted fake thats when, you know, the air was going out of the balloon. Disheartened, confused and a lot poorer than they were days before, don jr. And his brother david go to their late fathers studio in hopes of finding anything that could solve the mystery. What happened . When dave walked over here, he noticed this little crack. Push against that. Oh. Uhoh. Wait a minute. It moves. It moves. We said, what the heck is going on here . Whats your strange inheritance story . Wed love to tell it. Send me an email or go to our website, strangeinheritance. Com. Theres a lot of talk about value out there. But at fidelity, value is more than just talk. We offer commissionfree online u. S. Stock and etf trades. And, when you open a new Fidelity Brokerage account, your cash is automatically invested at a great rate thats 21 times more than schwabs. 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My brother walked over to this space right here. He noticed this little crack, and he pushed against the wall. Push against that, and you see . Oh. Uhoh. Wait a minute. It moves. It moves, and we said, what the heck is going on here . Don and his brother snap these pictures as they begin to dismantle pieces of their fathers bookcase. Now, i want you to come over here. I want you to put your hands like this, and were going to pull it toward me. Ah there you go. Oh, my goodness. Keep going. Behind this secret sliding wall, don and his brother discover what they didnt even know they were looking for the original rockwell painting, breaking home ties. Did you scream, cry, hug each other . We didnt say a word. But they must Say Something to the curator at the Rockwell Museum. I received a call from don jr. , and he said, i have good news, and i have bad news. The good news is i know where the original is, and the bad news is that its not at the museum. Did word get out that the museum had a forgery . Yes. As a matter of fact, it was a challenging moment for sure. The strange inheritance story makes headlines, which is actually good news to Peter Rathbone at sothebys. We adjusted our estimate slightly from 3 to 5 million up to 4 to 6 million. This is the rockwell property of the trachte family collection. Breaking home ties goes up for auction in new york city in november 2006. You remember the first bid . I do. It was, lets start the auction process at 4 million. I have 4 million, 4,100,000. So the bidding then continues. Now were at 6 million, 7,800,000, 8 million, 9 million. Oh, my gosh. And then it started to go faster. Ten million. I have 11 million. Twelve million dollars. And then, all of a sudden, it stopped. All done . Sold for 13,750,000. Add to that the buyers premium and the grand total hits 15. 4 million at the time, a new world record for a rockwell painting. Its a happy ending for the trachte kids, even if the mystery is never to be completely solved. Don can only deduce that sometime before his parents divorce, his father was the one who copied the rockwell. Accepted by a museum that just has Norman Rockwells. Thats right. Did you know he was that good . No, i didnt. Don is unsure of the answer to the bigger question. Why did dad do this . I think he just wanted to protect this, and people would come up to me and they came up with all the what ifs. What if the house burned down . What if it got bulldozed . What if we sold it . But i didnt have ready answers. All don is certain of is that his father wasnt trying to defraud anyone, much less his mother. He didnt have a war with my mom like a lot of people suspect. You had to let mom know. How did she react . She put her hands on her face like this and listened, and she said, this doesnt surprise me. Really . Yeah. She was 89 at the time. She took it well. She took it well. By the way, remember those other pricey paintings . Don sr. Kept those originals hidden behind his secret wall, too. So he painted duplicates. He painted eight duplicates. I decide to bounce off don my own theory about his cartoonist father. Did your dad want to be Norman Rockwell . I dont think he wanted to be Norman Rockwell. I think he just wanted to absorb and be as, perhaps, as great as Norman Rockwell in his own right. And in a way, don is now helping make that happen. Youre surely asking, where is the fake rockwell now . Well, its on its own museum tour. Thats right. Don jr. Is showcasing his fathers amazing rockwell duplicate along with the seven other paintings he copied, all nearly indistinguishable from the originals. The exhibit places the real and the duplicate painting side by side. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Im jamie colby. Thanks so much for watching strange inheritance, and remember you cant take it with you. It stands in the way. Its just her house in the middle of the block. She wont sell out. The 84yearold seen here turned down 1 million payout. Hes caught in the middle. I promised her that i wouldnt let them take her away. Thats a really big promise. Whats up with that . People from all over the country and even around the world have stopped by this house. They put balloons on the house, and thats how it became the up house. It is amazing. I cant believe that she held out. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today, im in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. Its an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one mans strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. My names barry martin. I inherited a tiny, hundredyearold house from a little old lady. If there ever was a realestate niche, this is one. Hi, barry. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. I meet barry in front of this little house. Yep, this is it his strange inheritance. Its just 600 square feet, and its now surrounded by a huge Shopping Mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. Who leaves this to somebody . Well, edith left it to me. Edith . Yep. Love to learn more. Okay. Come on. Barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shinglemill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. There was fishing on elliot bay there, and the shinglemill industry, all along shilshole avenue here. Cass ocallaghan from the Ballard Historical Society tells me more. Did the neighborhood really change over the years . In about the late 30s, early 40s, the commercial district moved north and businesses moved out. Nobody wanted to be here anymore. With the exception, that is, of Edith Macefield and her retired single mother, alice wilson. Ediths early life is a bit mysterious. We know she was born in august 1921, and that her parents divorced shortly thereafter. During her 20s, edith disappears to england, she says, where she seems to have gotten married once or thrice. But, again, its hard to tell fact from fiction. [ camera shutter clicks ] by the 1950s, shes back in ballard, single, and working as a store manager for spic n span dry cleaners. Edith buys this house for her mother and the two name it whitewood cottage. Edith is able to pay off the 3,700 mortgage in just a few years. In her off hours, she babysits for nextdoor neighbor gayle holland. Hi, gayle. You know why im here to hear about edith. Ive got a lot to tell you. Come on in. Our street was very quiet and edith would play games with us. So she was older, but she loved to hang out with children . Oh, yes. Everybody liked edith. She would play her saxophone or her trumpet outside. We would sit and listen to her, and shed let us blow on her instruments. What a character they ask her about her past, and, oh, the stories she tells. I know she had a son who died of meningitis. Edith shares only a few sketchy details that the boy was born out of wedlock, that his father was jewish, that james macefield, a much older englishman, married her to help save the boy from the nazis. Its all very complicated. You see, edith was spying on hitler for britain at the time. Is it all true . Who knows . Gayle just loves hanging out with her eccentric neighbor, until her family, like so many others, abandons the area. So, you left and edith stayed. Yes. It was the early 60s when we moved away. In 1976, ediths mother, alice, passes away on the couch in the front room. Not long after, edith retires and spends her days watching greta garbo videos and listening to big bands on vinyl. More and more, whitewood cottage stands apart her oasis amid urban blight. By the 90s, homeless living in parked cars provide an edgy backdrop for the grungerock scene. But all the while, developers are slowly gobbling up ediths neighborhood, says realestate broker paul thomas. Each time a parcel came up on the market, theyd just quietly acquire it and let it sit in an llc, and they assembled the whole entire block, except for her house. Its in early 2006 when edith gets the knock at her door. Its a representative of kg investment management, which wants to put up a Shopping Mall. The developer makes a proposal they think the 84yearold cant refuse 750,000 what do you think the house was worth . 150,000. [ chuckles ] it wasnt worth very much. Edith could buy five whitewood cottages. Even so, she does refuse the offer. And the bulldozers roll around her. I have a picture when they tore everything down in the whole block and it was just her house in the middle of the block. Reporters catch wind of the story and turn edith into a local folk hero a steadfast champion against yuppification, standing up for seattles old neighborhoods, defying the encroaching chain boutiques, food courts, and those 6 lattes. Thats how they portray edith. And thats exactly who barry martin expects when he becomes construction manager of the mall. How did you meet edith . I always go visit the neighbors and give them my card so that if they have any problems, they know who to get ahold of, and i walked past her yard and introduced myself. She was actually very pleasant and said she was looking forward to the activity. Turns out, edith wasnt watching garbo flicks because she vanted to be alone. That becomes clear with ediths beautyshop appointment. She needs a ride, so she calls barry. Not exactly what he was thinking when he dropped off his card, but what the heck . He drives her. They get to talking. A lot of people thought that she was against development, and that wasnt the case at all. It was more she just didnt want to go through the exercise of having to move. Indeed, edith actually makes fun of the antidevelopment types, who, among other things, are trying to get landmark status for the local dennys. Ediths view things get built, things get torn down. Thats the way of the world. It wouldnt be their last car talk. Soon, barrys coworkers call him driving miss daisy. Could you rattle off for me some of the errands you were asked to do for her . I would take her laundry out to be done. We would go get her lunch. I would take her to all of her doctors appointments. She didnt pay you. No. She just needed it. Youre not a saint. Nope. But his wife and two highschoolage children surely have the patience of job, when barry spends more and more time at ediths. I made her meals three times a day, seven days a week. On the weekends, basically, id stay there, and if not, then i had made sure that somebody else was there. Barry isnt there one night when edith falls and lands in the hospital with broken ribs and a platoon of social workers insisting she should no longer live alone. Then tagteaming executives from the Development Company show up again with a deed ready to sign and another big fat check. They offered her 1 million and actually offered to buy a house for her in ballard and she refused that, also. 1 million for a little old granny and a new house in her neighborhood, and she says no. Yes. What would you have done . I would have probably taken the money and had somebody fanning me with big feathers and feeding me figs. The 84yearold seen here turned down 1 million payout. It just adds to the Edith Macefield legend a story that cant help but go national. Whats infuriating barry is that he believes hes cast as one of the black hats, trying to manipulate old edith into selling out. The truth, he says, is just the opposite. I promised her that, um, i wouldnt let them take her away and that she could stay there and die in her house. Thats a really big promise. It is. And it became a lot bigger deal than, you know, i had originally anticipated. Thats next. But first, our strange inheritance quiz question where was americas first indoor Shopping Mall built . The answer in a moment. I am totally blind. And non24 can make me show up too early. Or too late. Or make me feel like im not really there. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442342424. Male anchor . An update on the cat who captured our hearts. Female anchor how often should you clean your fridge . Stay tuned to find out. Male anchor beats the odds at the box office to become a rare nonfranchise hit. You can give help and hope to those in need. Heresthe first ones. Y ones. The hey, i look good with this ones. The black, brown, red, and grey ones. The itchy ones. The ones grown by dad. The ones grown for dad. 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Tommy dorsey, the band leader once, when he was short on cash, she bought his sax. Mickey rooney she taught him dance steps. And so on. Barry has one thought ediths a wack job. I was thinking crazy old lady for a while. But in the winter of 2007, ediths health suddenly declines. Just as suddenly, the construction manager finds himself doing things he really never signed up for helping edith shower, use the bathroom, take her medicine, including insulin shots. A big question occurs to barry what happens when the mall is done and he moves to another job . What happens if edith lives to 100 . That wont happen. In april 2008, edith is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She declines treatment and, knowing shell soon need someone else to make her decisions, gives barry her power of attorney. Its a big responsibility. Did you really want it . I didnt really want it, and i didnt really understand exactly what all it meant. Uhoh. Yeah, uhoh. I said, do you understand the power youre giving me . And she said, why do you think i chose you . Did you know all along that you were going to get that house . No. I didnt know until after she asked me to become her power of attorney. Then she said that she wanted to redo her will at that same time. Barrys a bit sheepish, knowing many suspect him of angling for the house from the beginning. But thats her wish like her desire to die on the same couch as her mother three decades earlier. And on june 15, 2008, death does come as a friend to whitewood cottage. I promised her that i wouldnt let them take her away and that she could stay there and die in her house. Does it make you emotional . It does. Why . Um. Because i got to help her end her life the way she wanted to. The little house in the big mall is now barrys. But soon hell discover that, thanks to a hollywood blockbuster, Edith Macefield fans will claim it as their own. There were people out on the sidewalk taking pictures and leaving little notes and putting up balloons with messages on them. Thats next. Heres another quiz question for you. Youve met barry martin, the construction manager in this story. The answer after the break. You dont use this old thing, do you . No or how bout this dinosaur right here . Nope then why are you still using a laser printer . Its got expensive toner cartridges. But this. Is the Epson Ecotank color printer. No more expensive cartridges big ink tanks. Lots of ink. If you dont think this printers right for you, just pick up your phone. chuckling . And give me a call. The Epson Ecotank. Just fill and chill. Available at. What are you doing back there, junior . Since were obviously lost, im rescheduling my Xfinity Customer Service appointment. Ah, relax. I got this. Which gps are you using anyway . A Little Something called instinct. Been using it for years. Yeah, thats what im afraid of. He knows exactly where were going. My whole body is a compass. Oh boy. The my account app makes todays Xfinity Customer Service simple, easy, awesome. Not my thing. Some people say thats ridiculous. Age is just an illusion. How you show up for the world, thats whats real. Whats your idea . I put it out there with a godaddy website. Its a, John Ratzenberger. Just a coincidence hes a dead ringer for barry martin, the heir in this strange inheritance story. Its spring 2009, and barry martin is trying to figure out what to do with his strange inheritance a house he helped build a mall around. The owner, Edith Macefield, had died the year before, and barry assumes memories of her will fade, too. But then disney comes acalling. Its ready to release an animated feature called up. Its about a crotchety old man who, just like edith, refuses to sell his house to a developer. Disney wants to use ediths house to promote the film. They wanted to put balloons on the house for their premiere here in seattle, so they came out and put balloons on the house and took a picture and thats how it became the up house. Did you think it was a good idea . I thought it was rather funny, myself, and then after i saw the movie, theres actually some photographs that look very similar to the picture in the movie. Soon, ediths cottage and that of character Carl Fredricksen are associated as one. There were people out on the sidewalk taking pictures and leaving little notes and putting up balloons with messages on them. And inspirational, it sounds like. Very. Inspirational to different people for different reasons. Kids loved it because they thought it was really the house from the movie. Youd see grownups crying on the sidewalk. She stuck to her guns, you know, even though she could have made a ton of money. This woman was kind of the last holdout. She wanted to keep her home, and thats huge. Its amazing. I cant believe that she held out. But by the time the movie up comes out, the nation is in a downer the great recession. And barrys real life is anything but a storybook fantasy. That was right about when we had our downturn. I was out of work. So, barry decides its time to sell ediths house. She once turned down 1 million for the place, but the window on that offer closed long ago. Did she tell you she would be okay with you selling it . Oh, yeah, and she told me to hold out until i got my price. What did you sell it for . I sold it for 310,000. [ Cash Register dings ] what did you do with the money, may i ask . Paid for my kids to go to school. I invested the money and got money back monthly, and it made my house payment. Thats not nothing. Plus, barry says the new owners planned in the spirit of up to raise ediths house 20 feet off the ground and make a public tribute to her below. But they run out of money, and the house falls into foreclosure. What was your role in all this . I was hired by the bank to sell the house for them. The bank includes a provision in the face of pressure from local Community Groups who want an homage to their folk hero. One of the terms of the sale was that each person was required to memorialize edith in some way. 38 offers come in, but its the 39th that wins at 450,000. [ Cash Register dings ] the buyer . The same folks who offered edith 1 million years before kg investments, now the manager of the Shopping Mall. They plan to knock the house down, eventually. So, ultimately, ediths house went to the organization that wanted to buy it all along. Well, its kind of neat in a way because she got what she wished for and the Shopping Center ended up being able to buy the property at a lot lower price than they originally had offered. Will they do anything to remember edith . The ownership has committed that theyll put up a brass plaque that memorializes edith. It will be just one more way the Ballard Community pays tribute to its folk hero. Theres also an annual Edith Macefield music festival. You can even get a tattoo of ediths house with the legend underneath steadfast. For the heir in this strange inheritance episode, thats further proof edith was misunderstood. Maybe even, hed discover, by himself. You must have learned an awful lot about edith once you started to go through her things. I learned a lot more than she had let me know. Thats next. Whats your strange inheritance story . Wed love to tell it. Send me an email or go to our website strangeinheritance. Com. Apps are used everywhere. Except work. Why is that . Is it because people love filling out forms . Maybe they like checking with their supervisor to see how much Vacation Time they have. Or sending corporate their expense reports. Ill let you in on a little secret. They dont. By empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. To learn more, visit paycom. Com now back to strange inheritance. Barry martin doesnt just inherit Edith Macefields home, but Everything Else she owned. Wow, you must have learned an awful lot about edith, once you started to go through her things. I learned a lot more than she had let me know. And enough to question whether all her stories were as wacko as he once thought. Did she have a vivid imagination, or do you think most of it was real . Im a little im not quite you still dont know. I still dont know. Exactly. What did you find . Well, evidence that she was benny goodmans cousin this album, inscribed your cousin, benny goodman. And quite personal notes from alist actors clark gable, katharine hepburn, spencer tracy, and errol flynn. Theres charlie chaplin. Theres tommy and jimmy dorsey. Okay, okay nothing about meeting hitler or being a spy. Still, it dawns on barry that the most valuable thing edith bequeathed to him could be her story now his. I had an agent contact me about writing a book, and she actually talked me into doing it. You ever write a book before . No, never written a book before, and she got me a ghostwriter, and we did it that way. Whats the story . The story is basically about edith and myself and our little adventure and then the lessons that i learned. Under one roof gets barry a 75,000 advance from the publisher. And thats not all. Actually in the process of making a deal with fox searchlight. Did you ever think youd be making a book and a movie about all this . No. I just about fall down on the floor laughing because its hysterical to me. I think it could work. Im picturing a driving miss daisy type of guy meets a female forrest gump and they go on a reallife up adventure. And definitely got to give John Ratzenberger the lead. Theres a scene in the movie up that sounds exactly like one edith might have had with barry. Carl fredricksen, the man whose house the realestate Company Wants to buy, says to the construction foreman, tell your boss he can have my house. Really . Asks the foreman. Yeah, when im dead, growls carl and slams the door. Im jamie colby for strange inheritance. Thanks so much for watching, and remember you cant take it with you. Sunday. This hour maybe well all have wires coming out of our bodies one day. This is potentially saving peoples lives . Yes. Maria to transportation. To protecting our troops. I dont want the kill decision to be made by a sleepdeprived 19yearold kid. Maria but what could it mean for humanity and is a. I. Dangerous in the wrong hands. The political military version of a. I. Is on the horizon. Maria when you hear the word Artificial Intelligence, what comes to mind. Take a second to think about it. Do you realize how prominent a. I. Is in your life today . Maybe you use facial recognition on your smart phone or gps to help you avoid traffic. The capability of a machine to imitate intelligent Human Behavior. Imitate. But we have only scratched the surface. Will computers transcend Human Behavior . Will we be cohabitating with robots . Are we heading towards a future that doesnt need us as in human beings. Artificial intelligence is change our lives from the way we do our jobs to the way we do business to the way we drive a car to the National Security tools we use. It has the potential to transform the world making us healthier and safer but at what cost . Tonight, the leading minds will help us understand the good, the bad, and the scary. This new Technology Brings with it concerns. Your assistants are getting smarter. The next level of computing has arrived. And its software studying your routines. Listening to your voice and recognizing your speech. Watching you work. Learning your habits. Enabling the machine to take over routine tasks. Manage simple calls to return good. Organize data. Map out a ride, all good from point to point. Most of people have seen personal computers and cell phones and other devices get smarter with software. But the next kind of software is the a. I. Software which takes a lot of information from the real world and can understand it in a way that is too intense for people to program by hand. So an aivment can do things that are very hard for humans to do because they can look at millions of pictures and find Common Elements and look at a million eyes and understand which ones are diseased and which ones are not. In certain areas of path oughty and raid ollie we can show in Cancer Detection the computer does a better job than the doctor. Maria the machine will mine through data quickly. The more data collected, the better equipped it will be to anticipate your next move. Finish your next sentence. Its Artificial Intelligence and its job killing and lifesaving. Lets say we wanted to train a machine. The director of research at ibm. Its a well defined task. If i have lots and lots of examples of the past. You could use all those examples to train a machine and network to be able to sort of make a determination as to whether it is malign or not. Maria the a. I. Healthcare market is slated to expand to 36. 1 billion in 2025. We have been an investor in healthcare. This is a long road. But this is one of the industries so badly in need of aivment. Maria the ceo of ibm mines data to get ahead of disease from cancer to parkinsons. We have been working on health and oncology. Its one of the early thing we started on. We are in 300 hospitals and over 125,000 patients around the world where ai helped the doctor identify the diagnosis and treatment. At mayo klein i can, almost every patient goes through to find out if there is a Clinical Trial match. You didnt realize how infrequently they were done or done with precision. Maria this is potentially saving peoples lives. Yes, it is. In 2013 i was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and treated in massachusetts general hospital. Maria based on her own diagnosis, the m. I. T. Professor is using Artificial Intelligence to help with Artificial Intelligence. Even though m. I. T. And ngh are just one stop away, they are ages away in terms of technology. A lot of times with machines doing very well in many other industries, they are not doing them in healthcare, which is if i affects all of us. Using data from 60,000 patients, the professor uses a mammogram to learn patterns in breast tissues that could be precursors of cancer. You it can predict cancer as far as five years into the future. We are able to detect Breast Cancer earlier than a radiologist might. Maria the provost at m. I. F. s teams are driving research. A radiologist and a machine algorithm is doing transformative things in terms of detection of Breast Cancer. We have faculty to bring down all the record for ways that have been synthesized for all the literature. And it allows you to design specific chemicals and compounds. You think about that in the realm of drug discovery. Maria before saving lives well have to survive the job kill. A. I. Is eliminating white collar jobs faster than you think. A large number of jobs will be displaceable by a. I. In the next 15 years. Maria the meteoric rights of maria the meteoric rights of aivment, well be right back. Everything your trip needs for everyone you love. Expedia. No, its not in my records. Youve got a lot on your plate. Deliveries. Billy, come in. Shift times. I just need to know if its there. Compliance. Can i get your 20 . For 100 drivers. Doug. Doug . And where is doug . He should be sleeping. So should you. 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Im convinced machine can and will think. I dont mean machines will behave like men. I dont think for a long time well have a difficult problem distinguishing a man from a robot and i dont think my daughter will marry a computer. Maria a chad pod is claimed he named eliza. 1968, 2001, a space odyssey featuring one of the most of sophisticated computers. The film intrigued and terrified viewers. This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Reporter millions of americans bring a mac or pc into their home. 1997wai scores another win lit a toughly and figuratively. Deep blue defeats the world chess champion. 2000 as we see a newly limb yum Sun Microsystems cofounder bill joy pens a piece for wired magazine called why the future doesnt need us. Making human beings an endangered species. We give individuals so much power that we most ability to make choice because those are made for us. Maria a. I. Goes further into the mainstream as siri becomes a virtual assistant. This town is known as sin city. And its downtown is known as liver gulch. A twoday total of 77,147. Maria during a match of go considered to be the worlds most of complex game. Here, too, a computer wins. We are going to see today maria a. I. Is everywhere. I visited ibms ai labs in new york. Here they are trying to get ahead of wildfires using Artificial Intelligence to detect which forest is most of vulnerable. We have hundreds of layers of jeof of geospacious data. This is where fires took place in california, and what we do here is we take layers and we have selected a few layers, vegetation index of the United States, daily precipitation and temperature data. So we take that, and in a matter of hours we can create an ai model that uses that data to create a wildfire index prediction. Maria at m. I. T. In cambridge, massachusetts, the professors ruse is in charge of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab at m. I. T. Her students are identifying jobs people dont want, like separating recycled bottles and cans. This robot is able to grab an object, squeeze it a little bit to figure out what material its made up. And it decides its made of metal, plastic or paper and it recycled it automatically. This is extraordinary because recycling is such a terrible job. We hope to offer people working in the recycling injury to operate the robots from a distance. Maria but Artificial Intelligence is only as effective as the information it is given. If there is bias in the data, the result will reflect it. The results were mixed on the chihuahua puppy and blueberry muffin. They are running around doing errands for us, but its the job of the human to interpret what the system has done. For this reason, the use of these technologies require that we think carefully about how we insure consumer confidence. Maria in march of 2018 an uber selfdriving car made National Headlines after striking and killing pedestrian in tempe, arizona. The incident heightened the publics concerns over how ready we are for selfdriving vehicles to hit the streets. A selfdriving vehicle has sensors that perceive the world around it. Similar to the way we use our eyes. All of the driving experience we train and test the vehicle, it never forgets that experience. The founder and ce off of an Autonomous Vehicle Platform Company lead headquarters in pittsburgh. He says selfdriving cars will be safer than humans behind the wheel. It never gets distracted. Well be able to i believe eliminate roadway fatalities and injuries. We are teaching the car to see, so it has to have perception. Maria the ceo of ford motor. We are teaching it to decide. As it gets input, it has to make choices. And its teaching it to direct. Maria ford joined forces with volkswagen investing 2. 6 billion in argo. Maria its in selfdriving mode . Yes. You can see green lights just above the dashboard. Maria i took a trip out to argo headquarters where they took me for a test run. The computer said i want to go that direct. The other one is the steady green. When there is a steady green light, you know you are in auto. The next part, there are real people on the road, and we can learn everything we need to after the fact by taking log data we are storing on the computers in the car. We can pull that data out and replay what was going on. What was the car thinking. And what it would have done. Am i in danger of my car getting hacked and driving somewhere i dont want to go . This is a big challenge even with vehicles. The way we designed it today, in our architecture we cordoned off the system so a hacker cant get inside and have control of the whole car. Particularly the power and acceleration and steering. It is the kind of thing that you are trading here, you will have all this power that will hope you have a better day in your life that some bad people will try to figure out how to manipulate that. Maria if machines are so good at our jobs, where does that leave the rest of us. The power of a. I. Sparks debates about the ethics of this is the Epson Ecotank color printer. No more buying cartridges. Big ink tanks. Lots of ink. Print about. This many pages. The Epson Ecotank. Just fill and chill. When you think of miami you think of,you know,rich,glamour but 5 miles away from the beach theres people who have never seen a beach. I was confused why somebody was in this situation especially in america. Music oooh,oooh,oooh so when i started joshuas Heart Foundation it was a key thing to be able to engage youth in the foundation. To help them participate. 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Maria in the summer of 2019, two Million People took to the streets of hong kong to protest chinas authoritarian rule, knock down facial recognition cameras in the process. They used the cameras to identify anyone attending the protests. China has an advanced state sponsored surveillance network. China is willing to be much more aggressive. It doesnt see any restraints. They are willing to use and apply a. I. In all these ways where we are slower. Maria the ability of a computer to recognize a persons face can be used for unlocking your phone or photos. This a. I. Bar in london uses your face to put you in a queue when you walk up to a bar. The fierce over privacy and human rights expand across the world. China has so much data because they are running a Police Surveillance state. Maria his Company Makes drones and military warfare. I dont think the people of the United States want or will accept mass surveillance of our population. I am not going to work on that technology because i dont want it to be used that way. Maria San Francisco became the First American city to want use of facial recognition. Civil liberties groups worried about abuse by government. It will help us cure cancer and address almost every issue that we are concerned about. But italso raise new concerns. Something like facial recognition. It can be used to follow us around the Shopping Mall. It can be used in other countries to open the door to mass surveillance. Maria googles project uses a. I. To pinpoint intelligence from drones. Google says its as simple as its principles did not line up with the government. Facial recognition is only one part of the power of a. I. From Machine Learning images and Data Collection and its potential to replace millions of jobs. Its sparking a debate on how to unleash it in an ethical way. Its a little like nuclear. You dont let everyone have nuclear bombs. Maria the black stone group you get the m. I. T. 350 million and they will build the scooflt computer. This is a big number. Its obviously going to move the needle at m. I. T. I met a lot of the people, and they have a National Policy of developing Artificial Intelligence using their universities, their come this and military. And i looked at what was going on in the United States and we didnt have that level of focus. Maria he pledged 190 million to oxford university. Part of it is in the hands of people. So we can control, regulate other types of mechanisms to introduce the technology in a way that is really good for people. And minimizes disruption. Its like the Industrial Revolution on steroids. So its important that there is monitoring and certain rules. Maria are you ready for the disruption . The jobs most of vulnerable to a. I. Way to let your kids have fun and learn a skill that can save their life. Swim lessons, woo this is how we got started. Thats right, my parents wanted me to feel safer around the water. 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He says anything any job that relies on data can be done easier and faster by a ma she. Later, jobs like trucking will be replaced. The vehicle will replace some kind of job that drivers are required to do today. But it will create new stunts because of the expansive effect on the economy. The whole nature of warehouses will change. There are piles of inventory waiting to be sold are in the wrong place. But with the economy you can move things around very quickly. We can make the size of the vehicles very large over the road trucks with very small pods. Maria we have Seen Technology replace workers for years now. But a. I. Is deepening the threat. It goes far beyond truckers. Supermarket chain testco will charge the cart as they leave. Amazon does the same its use robots to move inventory in its warehouses. And its testing drones to deliver packages. An a. I. Powered Voice Technology at the drivethru. Other burger joints are experimenting with robots in the kitchen. This robot flips burgers and can learn and acquire new skills over time. Companies are increasingly using speak recognition for telemarketing and call centers. Speech recognition has been so sophisticated studies show Customer Satisfaction is shire with a. I. And a person. 86 Customer Satisfaction in that engagement. And half of all the calls are managed automatically. Maria su li predicts 86 of workers at the call centers can be replaced. As long as its quantitative in nature, over time it will eventually get displaced. Maria he says 40 of jobs could go away in the next decade. I will believe it when i see it. Its not showing up in any of the numbers. Most of jobs are not repetitive. We are not an agricultural society, repetitive parts of agriculture were aught bhaitd tractors and farm equipment. We are not in the industrial economy anymore a lot of manufacturing has been automated. So in a way the parts that could ease lid been automated have already been automated. Do you want to automate your Yoga Instructor and Kindergarten Teacher and doctors office. Maria the Way Investment in the Digital Economy of did in the 90s, investment into a. I. Is expected to soar. Now some 2,000 companies with a. I. Is a core part of their Business Model globally. Price Waterhouse Cooper says it will add 16 trillion to the global gdp. Is a. I. Going to put everybody out of work . I am not worried about this. We are so unimaginative about what future jobs will look like and what they are going to be. The Superstar Companies that have grown to 100 billion and up. A lot of those companies will be using that Machine Learning technology to make our operations more efficient. Amazon is trying to get rid of people delivering people to your door with a scooter or drone. A lot of it is about technology to get people out of the loop to cut costs. Maria when we come bark. Ethics in the military. Ethics in the military. 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Building robots and Artificial Intelligence that does a great job of working with people. People should not have to be in the line of fire. I think its the same thing with a lot of military jobs. The guy whos driving the truck on the convoy. Thats a job for a. I. , not a person. Bomb disposal will be handled largely by a. I. And robots. Maria unclassified r and d is up 15 percent. Designation of a. I. As the administrations priority. Some say the problem is china is spending much more on a. I. Investment and financing in a. I. Reached 39. 5 billion in 2017, with china accounting for 70 of that expense. A. I. Is growing by leaps and bounds. We are using it to help control drones in the air as well as on the sea. China also is rapidly building this capability. I think their advancement is greater than ours. The thing about the United States, we are at a strategic disadvantage because of the ethics we have. We are not willing to let machines decide what targets to kill and not kill entirely on their own without human soup vying. Vyingo d shiewsm supervision. Russia and china have no problem with any of those things. Maria google walked away from a contract with the pentagon. In the United Statess great that you have the right to do that. I Want Companies to work the u. S. Department of defense. But they have the right to walk away. But in china thats not the case. There is no difference between the civil sector and military sector. Thats why when you help chinese Companies Work on Artificial Intelligence you are almost directly helping the Chinese Military work on Artificial Intelligence. A lot of people, a lot of companies in Silicon Valley see china as the ultimate business opportunity, not the ultimate adversary. Maria while google pulled out of the pentagon contract, they have an a. I. Lab in china. The argument is googles r d effort. This means a lot of Different Things and can be used in a lot of different ways. It clearly has a lot of military applications from processing satellite images, helping create process data. Automating drone warfare. Cyber warfare. There are all these ways a. I. Is a dual hughes thing for military and civilian uses. Maria we reached out to google and a spokesman said the allegations are baseless. Any innovation that happens in chinas industrial economy must be brought ultimately to the Peoples Liberation army. Its part of their objective to close the gap with the u. S. Military. Its designed for conflict with the u. S. And their allies. Maria chinas 2025 goals target the country to be the World Largest super power. Its pursuing a. I. To track citizens and military deployments. The chinese behavior is agreesist among every dimension of international power. Their weapons systems, space technology, all those things that can project power beyond their own country. Maria using a. I. In the it in raises important questions. Who should be in charge of making the calls to kill. Man or machine . Drones can be program offed to shoot at man and objects if they are hostile. But who makes the call, reacting in seconds. If we dont lead and define the rules how a. I. Will be used in warfare, it will be defined by russia and china. Maria how can a. I. Do things better than people . There is a whole bunch of things. Lets say you want to predict where you will need certain military assets before you perform some action. Doing that prediction takes huge teams of people doing analysis with enormous quantities of data. If you need to snap your fingers and its done, a. I. Can work faster than a person could. Say you want realtime surveillance analysis across hundreds of thousandsize. And bring it all into one super powerful brain and think about what it means from those one million eyes. A person cant do that. Maria we are in whats called the drone zone. The. The company uses sensors and Artificial Intelligence to help the military. It allows Law Enforcement and First Responders to be aware of their surroundings. This drone can see as far as 600 meters away. The ultimate idea is to give soldiers and other First Responders a perfect picture of everything going on around them. And a perfect picture of whats happening in the near future. A. I. Will be used to allow people to plan better. And we want people making those decisions to have as much information as possible. I dont want the kill decision over an ambiguous target to be made by a tired, sleep deprived 19yearold kid who is worried hes about to be shot in the head. Thats not how you get the most of rationale decisions. Maria the technology is only getting smarter. So how much smarter do we want our computers to become . Coming up, a. I. Versus a. G. I. Where computers can dosing humans can. Everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. Expedia. A more secure diaper closure. 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But with computers enabling so much, so fast, replacing jobs in the process, it is worth questioning just how smart we want machines to become. Are we heading toward a future like the one seen in the terminator film franchise where they become so smart they want to take over the human race. Do you see a time where machine can actually keep on intellectual tasks that a union can do. Not for a long time. And if it replaces humans altogether we have totally different problems. Theyve been sounding the alarm without proper oversight for years. In 2017 elon musk tweeted china, russia, soon all countries with strong Computer Science, competition for ai superiority at a national level, most likely the cause of world war iii, in my opinion. He cofounded open ai, a company that recently received 1 billion from microsoft and developed computers that will mimic the human brain. While ai is used largely to help people by taking on routine tasks, the machines are not generally intelligence. They are fast learners and good at certain functions, but they cant reason or problem solve, show emotion or apply one idea to her Different Task away human brain can. With artificial general intelligence and machine will be able to teach itself. If you ask a machine to say hey, create a Business Plan, we wouldnt even know how, thats a very general form of intelligence that requires understanding and creativity. Working with people, forming teams, raising capital. So at some point could that computer and up and understanding how to put a Business Plan together based on the knowledge. If ultimately, the question ultimately is couldnt artificial form of intelligence exist, i think the answer, scientifically is yes. Whether we have enough understanding to create something and understand the nature of intelligence. So when will humans be coexisting with robots . Is it ten years away, 50, 100. The thing about Artificial Intelligence as you can see these huge leaps out of nowhere. Ten years ago you couldnt have imagined the things being done with ai today. Because of a few breakthroughs we have been able to do incredible things in just a few years. I think theres a chance that happens again. The hypothetical general Artificial Intelligence, nai. [inaudible] hypothetically it could happen tomorrow. We need to be ready for the when those types of jumps to happen. Can humans exist when theres machines that are godlike. Theres been Science Fiction movies made about this but in the long run the amount of power in these intelligence machines will bring is something we really dont have the vocabulary to talk about how to cope with it so in their ability to understand, i think its a challenge for us long term. Whether we ultimately see the kind of general intelligence that produces the terminator is hard to know. Are we headed for art imitating life, i maria, thanks for connell its complicated. Tense trade talks between the United States and china highlighting the serious challenges facing the worlds two largest economies. Were taking the toughest ever action to confront chinas chronic trade abuse. Connell the uncertainty has sent Financial Markets on a roller coaster ride. At the center of it all, the issue of trust between governments, companies and people. The accusation that china is stealing from the u. S. Is completely warrantless. You may find theres