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If you could go back in time and ask each member of your family only ten questions, what would you ask? Flora and Harry Ness and
their Children Before Flora Burak and Harry Ness married in 1914, they had worked and lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They were not in the United States for that long, having arrived in the United States in 1907 and 1906, respectively. After they wed, they moved into a cold-water flat in Lower Manhattan before moving into a tenement in nearby Kings County, or Brooklyn. This is the only existing Ness family photograph showing the entire family. Each of the Nesses has a story to tell, each having lived their own uniquely interesting life. Let's say that they were your grandparents and one of the three children in the photograph was your parent. If at the time this photograph was taken you could go back in time and ask each of them only ten questions in order to learn more about them, what questions would you ask?
What questions would be the most important for you to ask the parents, knowing that you can only ask each of them only ten questions?
In what ways are asking older
people and children questions about their lives different? |
The Ness Family from
Brooklyn, cir 1921 |
If you had the opportunity instead to ask your own grandparents (or parents, aunts or uncles) only ten questions, what you ask them? How about if you could ask them only ten questions? Would you ask them the same questions? How about if you were able to ask each of them questions fifty years later. How might your questions differ and why? |
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