The Most Unusual Sad Story I Ever Recorded & It's True!

Hello subscribers and others, I'm David Hoffman, the filmmaker, here with another

story

that I hope you enjoy. I appreciate you watching my Gym Key and Bill Key Horse

story

and enjoying it so much. Here's another one. This one involves a film I made about a woman. who's telling the story that's really hard to believe but it's

true

I'm going to prove it's

true

after you watch this clip her name is Nettie Mitchell the time is the 1970's she's al

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90 years old and she's a reporter in small town Maine Fayette Maine and she gossips and stuff like that and I'm doing a TV series about people I call independent Americans, people who do things their own way, who don't listen to the government in particular or their neighbors. particularly and I tell stories and Nettie Mitchell is one of the people that I chose and I'm going to Maine and I'm filming the story, which is a story of Nettie reporting on local events, a baby pageant and she's just a great old lady, a beautiful personality .

The last day arrives at the last minute and we take a photo of the team that Nettie and I are leaving and then David says I have a story to tell you and she kisses me on the lips and I was shocked, pay attention. David, I have a story, so I let my cameraman set up a beautiful scene, she was sitting in her kitchen and I said, Neddy, tell the story to Francis and she tells you the story you're about to see, it's one of the

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shocking stories I have. I've sometimes heard that it's hard to believe it's true, but it is before you see the clip, let me tell you a little about New England at that time.

I think it's important: this is Puritan New England, there is cruelty and kindness, there is correction and there are things that you. We're not supposed to do things like dance or have fun. I remember someone told me that in Maine, in the days of the fathers, you would take a moment off from your job from the tasks you had to do when you were sick and dying, that was the only time you took time off, there was not much joy, I think it was 1816 and 1821, it was freezing

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y day, nothing was growing, I mean, people were starving, these were extremely poor farmers in extremely difficult conditions in an extremely cold time and around 1840 these mills fell down. in Massachusetts, the Lowell Massachusetts wool yarn mills and they were extraordinary because they hired girls and young women to come off the farms and stay in these dormitories that were safe, they said, and they worked for a couple of years, the women They would be left with a part. of the money and part of the money would go back to the farm.

He was the first time women had an opportunity like this to make money like this and Emmaline, the story you're going to hear, went to one of these mills. as a girl of about 14 years old I will let Nettie tell the rest of the story and then I will tell you what happened as a result of this recording. I'm Nellie Mitchell. I am 89 years old. I live in the town of Fayette. where I was born and spent practically my entire life and I would like to tell you one of the saddest and most heartbreaking stories I have

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known, it is a true story, something that happened right here in this town a long time ago that I knew that So, lady, when I was a little girl and was very sweet and charming, she was part of a large family of children in a very impoverished home at the beginning of the 19th century, at the age of thirteen, business from Lynn Massachusetts came to the house and saw the poverty and deprivation there they said: why don't you let us take my line back with us to win and she can work in the cotton factories?

She is old enough to work there and she can go work in the cotton and send you money to help with a The expenses at home thought about it and decided to let her go and she left; she was an efficient and hard-working girl, but if she was entirely among strangers in a strange man, very, very different from anything she had ever met before among those who were a friendly tour most of them didn't go because she was completely different she was a young boss him and her man and he became very friendly and she gave in to his persuasion and when she was 14 she was already the mother of his son and she did not dare to let other people at home know what people are discussing while she said she made arrangements to sell her baby to a childless couple near them who would pay her expenses and then pay for transportation back home she would go as soon as she could she went back home and worked very hard in the fields and all that, but she didn't join very freely into the social life of the community as he grew up, his parents and others began to wonder why he rejected all the young gentlemen was wrong.

She was a very pretty girl and they couldn't understand it. When she was 21, they started to worry because she had already passed the first mark and she was going to be a spinster and they really wanted to get married and have a house. Barone a. Time passed and despite all the insistence of those about it, she remained reticent and when she was about 30 years old they began to wonder why she did not respond to anyone and in reality she was a spinster in her early thirties while she was working at home the young man came to the city to build roads and He was a very nice young man and they came to stay at his house although she was many years older than him.

He fell madly in love with her and she with him and they decided to get married and have their own house, they built a small cabin next to the shore of the pond. Mosher, they moved there and had been married for just under a year when their people from Massachusetts decided to come visit them. They fell into their horror and discovered that he had married their elderly mother, of course, when this was revealed, their marriages were now declared broken and Hebert's luck was totally better, they said goodbye and returned to their adoptive parents in Massachusetts or Maine for the rest of his life.

The indignation of her parents and the community at the fact that she had had an illegitimate child had to hide that fact from the marled these years was considered a horrible sin for love of Heather child and she had married a legitimate and therefore So much so that she was completely ostracized, even though her house was almost in sight, almost across the road from that of her mother and her brothers and sisters who still live there, she was prohibited from entering that house to get close to it. None of them came to our house and talked to her. and no one spoke to her, no one when Tara, except from time to time, a kind friend, a kind person who brought her some tea or something.

Years passed, she ate life with our own efforts, gardened and cleaned Mother Spader herself and made Mr. Marais eat as much as possible and knit and do very diverse things and a very small stipend, but it became necessary becoming a dad, which was another misfortune and she had a call to the city for things for existence. A very stern widow came and it was a long time of course in those days there was no way for anyone to know what you needed to really think there was no telephone there was no Arif T's there was no way of communication and as she was ostracized and left alone, it was not possible for him to communicate in early spring, the mud was very, very deep, one of the silica men who lived in another section of the city was forced to go to Chesterville this way, he thought he called the house . he would see how a moorhen was doing he hadn't heard from him all the windows here yes, they knocked on the door there was no answer the door was closed he thought he heard a moan inside and desperately he managed to burst the durian and when he entered he saw this shape lying on the ground with faint moans throughout all these years I had suffered so terribly seeing the mother's coffin carried to the cemetery and not even being able to keep it inside and all these terrible things have been happening and now here she lay At death's door, He lifted her carefully and laid her on her bed and when he came out he turned his horse and began to go around more waterfalls to look for a doctor on the way, he stopped at a house, accepted Edwards' house and asked the lady.

Edwards came over and she said I can't because Will left with the horse and I have no way to get there. She went up to the deck of the house and made the same request and there they meant further with the horses. My mother was there and she said, "I'll go home and put the harness on him." Orson went and did it and found her in this terrible condition without finding anything in the house. The signal had some possible value for diet or anything else. There were some drops. of molasses stuck to the bottom of a jar and a few grains of cornmeal in the corners of a box and there was nothing else there the poor old woman had things until she died while she perished before the doctor true the sadness of the whole thing I had been Downstairs there was a child who was sent many times with some tea and some little things and I love that he rolled so when my mother came home and told us what had happened I started crying a few days later his funeral was held in the Church de Musel they placed her in a wooden box and as a coffin and a simple ceremony was performed and some people who would not have spoken with her in life and Esther says that the last ones were there at the end of the ceremony, which was her sister. to the coffin and putting his hand on it and with his hands up, he said that he had finally paid for it, that's how the tragedy of the whole lake happened, the climax of the tragedy and my mother came home so upset and so annoyed. and really my mother, although she was a very kind person, said I think her sister said more than she did, this terrible abandonment of her over all these years, do you think she would be the sweet, sweet old lady she would be? ? a childhood, coming and talking to her ladies, just the silence of all those years when she was a child, a 13 year old girl far from home, in a strange city around her, that she had never seen and only one person was really friendly with she and probably didn't have I can't understand what the consequences of that association would be.

First of all, I want to thank Nettie Mitchell for telling that story and for being so kind to this woman at a time when people were terrible. It's a terrible moment. story this topic of rejection is really important to write the story I lived in Maine for 25 years in a small town and I saw people reject people and they rejected me, look at you, they don't talk to you, they do it like you don't . It doesn't exist, it's certainly less violence than violence, but it's pretty powerful when the entire city rejected Emeline. I made a documentary for television called The Sins of Our Mothers.

There was also a book written called Emmeline by Judith Rossiter who I made a deal with for her to write. the book, an interview with Nettie and giving Nettie some money so she could survive the rest of her life, she got heat for her house and things like that about the rights to the book and what happened to that book, an opera was written called Emmaline , a pretty interesting opera and I have featured clips of this film on my YouTube channel before, but first I wanted to tell you how I knew it was true. My colleagues and I did a lot of research in the Fayette libraries and archives and discovered that there was indeed an Emmaline, who lived in Moser Pond, you could see her name in these Journals, so the person did exist, but we had to find someone who knew someone who knew online and sure enough, we found this 97 year old lady in a nursing home who says Yeah, I knew Emeline.

Some people have asked me if I ever found Emeline's children's family. I didn't know. I don't know that name. I couldn't find that name, so we never found out what happened to the young man when he was taken away. I left Emmaline's house, I left the marriage, I left Maine, and I was never heard from again. I love stories like this that have power, emotion, tragedy, comedy, beauty, kindness and cruelty. I want to thank those of you who have been sharing. their stories with me as comments and as emails. I don't answer phone calls and I wish I could record every good one because they are spectacular, but I know that ordinary people are extraordinary and have extraordinary stories to tell, although holy moly Emmaline.

What a story anyway, thanks for watching David Hoffman, filmmaker, goodbye.