Having Our Say

Having Our Say Reflective Paper Hitting one hundred years old is a real accomplishment to have in your life. The Delany sisters both lived to be over one hundred years old. In fact, their family had quite the tract record for living for extended periods of time. Their mother was ninety six when she died, their father was seventy when he died, their grandfather was seventy when he died, their grandmother was sixty six when she died, and all of their brothers and sisters all lived over the age of fifty. Now one must remember that back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the average lifespan was around 45 years old, and their entire family surpassed that, and that is another great achievement. Which is why the Delany family is an overall extraordinary family especially Elizabeth and Sarah. To start things off, the lives of Sarah and Elizabeth are quite peculiar and interesting to me. Amy Hill Hearth first met the one hundred year old sisters, Sarah (Sadie) Delany and Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany when she was a reporter for the New York Times. When I found this out, I automatically thought this was going to be a good book because one, it is about two sisters who are over a hundred years old, and two, because Amy Hill Hearth is a reporter for the New York Times, which is a prestigious newspaper. In order to contact the Delany sisters, Amy had to call them, but to her dismay they sisters had never installed a phone in the Mount Vernon home, in New York. Now that is just weird. How do they not have a phone, in order to do almost anything in this society, you need a phone, not having a phone is like living in a cave, being secluded from the world. The occupations the two sisters had are also interesting. Elizabeth was a well known dentist in Harlem and also the first black woman to teach domestic science at public high schools in New York City. , and Sarah was the first black home-economics teacher at a public high school in New York City. Since