• If I was___________ thinking back on significant occasions, people or interests in my life, what would I think about the most?
• If I was___________ looking back on my life in Ann Arbor what would I notice had changed the most?
• What has___________ seen or done in his/her life that you wish you could have seen or done?
• What could___________ do when they were young that you can't do today?
• What can you do that he/she couldn't do when he/she was young?
• If I were a friend of___________ when he/she was my age how would we spend our time together? What would be our favorite activity or game?
• What parts of your life today do you think you will remember when you are ___________ 's age?

Reflections from Letitia Byrd's life
Alana:

• I would think about the dinner her mother cooked. Because the way she described it sounded so good.
• I would change to stop getting sick so much so I could play in my dollhouse.
• I wish I could gone to her school because they did so much neat stuff and it sounded like they had the greatest teacher, and they were very well educated.
• She used to go to drive-in movies and people today rarely go to drive-in movies. When she was a kid she couldn’t play indoor soccer because indoor didn’t exist.

Eleanor

• I would love to think back on all the places I had been, as Letitia had been to many places and also when I had been young fighting for African-American’s rights. I like to say that I had helped African-Americans like myself get their rights.
• I had made the decision to move here because of my son. I wanted him to have the best education and Ann Arbor did not fail.
• I won Ann Arbor’s best citizenship award and I was so proud! My heart nearly burst when I saw that I was on the front page, my face beaming on the picture!
• When I was a friend of Letitia’s, we used to go out roller-skating together. She always came back with a scraped knee or a hurt arm and sometimes she would get real sick and we would play in her dollhouse and wave to her now and then.
  

Tracie:

• I would think of how Michigan changed. Michigan changed a lot because now there are more cars and some of the cities have a larger population than they used to.

Reflections from Lois Jelnick's life
Jackie:

• I would think about my schooling as a nurse and the ugly brownish dresses they had to wear.

Reflections from Linda McKenny's life
Annie:

• I would think back to how Ann Arbor changed so much. Because it is so different now. I would think of Tumy road. It was a dirt road before and now its paved. I would probably miss the way we played on that road. It was so fun! I love it now but I loved it even more back then.

• She lived on my street. She saw our house and road a long time ago.
  

Sarah B.:

• If I were Linda McKenny, I would think about the way things have not changed like Burns Park has been here since she was my age.
• I wish I could have seen the schools and stores. And see what kind of things they had.
• We would run around Burns Park and sing songs.

Reflections from Grandma Tina Parravano's life
Claire:

• I would think about sitting out in the sunshine embroidering with friends and showing her mom what she had done and feeling pride in her heart.
  

Elspeth:

• The war and sewing. It was Grandma Tina’s most popular subject. The war was a popular subject because it was a big thing and it was hard to forget.
• We would play dolls and house. Very feminine games. That’s what Grandma Tina did when she was my age.

Reflections from Alice Sano's life
Claire:

• Playing my cello in the camps for all the people to hear and playing with my friends and to lighten people’s spirits there in concentration camps.

• I can’t walk to an ice cream store whenever I wanted. I can play on the computer, and she couldn’t.