my name is adele. i’m 19. my favourite time in history is the 1920s. i wish i had been a young woman in the USA then. Women got the vote and enjoyed more freedom. if i had lived in the 1920s, i would have worn flapper dress and my hair would have been short. i love jazz music from that time - from new orleans and new york - wish i had heard those songs when they were new and exciting! if i would been young then, i would have danced like they do in the musical chicago and i would have said that everything was just swell.
my name is ruth. it is 1924 and i am a farmer’s wife in the south of the usa. i wish we had more money to buy new clothes. times are hard and i wish i were not living on a farm. our hut does not have electricity or water my husband cannot sell the cotton that he has grow. if only we could sell the cotton, we would be able to find somewhere better to live.