I really liked both of these speakers coming all this way just to share their stories with us, for me it was very enjoyable and I thank them. Angeline was a very good story teller, usually all women are, they give you a peak the feelings and tend to add more details that make it a lot easier to understand. Where as guys just tend to get their point across, i even do this too. I know how tough the great depression was, and history classes tend to show all the bad things about the event, but with two living subjects that have been through it seemed happy and joyful. They even said that they had a great childhood. Angeline's life did reflect that of an early american immigrants life, sleeping multiple kids to one room, not having clothes or toys to play with, having to share food amongst her family. They didn't have electricity or heating so finding coal was necessary for staying warm. To us now a days that life seems like something unbearable but but as she put it to them it was normal, that was the life that they grew up knowing and they lived it up. It wasn't just their families though everyone in the neighborhood was poor and didn't have alot. Angeline told us about how her and her brother, and all of the others in the surrounding neighborhood used to hang out at the city dump and search for coal or toys that were salvageable. She said she never had a doll before until one day her brother came home with one and gave it to her on christmas, and this was the most memorable christmas for her. Family was a big thing back they they were very tight knit and loving, both speakers realized that that trait is diminishing today. Work was hard to come by so her family would go search in the woods for wild berries and sell them to people for some cash. Whereas John, his dad didn't want him or any of his brothers to work, and his dad was very strict about that. So what he did is he would sneak out at night to help the milkman or throw papers,