internet. he also has a cell phone and is not sure about an iphone yet. think of the changes in 99 years roy has seen. it s unbelievable. if you stop and think. i hadn t thought so much about it until i started writing the book. reporter: imagine what roy has witnessed. my grandfather served in the civil war. reporter: he remembers the dust bowl days, countless wars, blizzards. floods. farming with horses. steam engines, tractors, crank telephones, electricity. a day in 1922 that wdy radio went on the air. he rushed home from school and remembers being on a picnic outside. lying there in the shade and dream about all those word going by us in radio. roy has lived in the same house here since world war ii. he ran the mercantile store, hardware, machinery, you name it. a few years back family asked hem to record his history.