What is your favorite memory of Memorial Day? Asked at the Senior Center.

Peggy Skillings: “We used to have big picnics. All my aunts and uncles would come up from White Plains.”

Bea Piskura: “Growing up in Bethel, our school system had an essay contest. The winner would march in the parade and then read the essay. We ended with a hike and a picnic.”

Harriet Ford: “We always hired the pavilion at Macedonia Park in Kent and have a big family gathering. We would picnic and have a lot of fun.”

Dorothy Bartlett: “We would collect our pennies to donate for wreathes that would be placed along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx to honor the World War I vets.”

Abe Kramer: “I liked visiting the cemetery to honor the soldiers. I served with the British in World War II in Africa and Italy.”

Dorothy Bresson: “We always had a picnic at my house. The whole family would come, all my brothers and sisters. There were eight of us.”