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Students, seniors share past, present together via music

Alexandria Reese (left), of Mokena and Layne Boyce (middle), of New Lenox, share music with Clarendale of Mokena resident Rose Carney. Reese and Boyce, both juniors at Lincoln-Way Central High School, spent time with Carney to help build a playlist for her as part of the Alive Inside project. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media
TJ Kremer III, Contributing Editor
4:00 am CST November 19, 2019

In a sitting area inside Clarendale of Mokena, five residents were transported back to their youth through the power of music on Thursday, Nov. 14.

It was on this date that 10 students from Lincoln-Way Central High School who participated with Alive Inside — a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping communities connect, intergenerationally, musically and empathetically, according to its website — returned with special music players loaded with songs from the seniors’ youth.

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