text:  I asked Rosie Rios about that. She is leading the planning as chair of what is also called America 250. Do you have some particular relation with or interest in American history that drew you to this project? I remember the bicentennial like it was yesterday. I was 11 years old here in Hayward, California, where I was born and raised in the Bay Area. I remember very clearly taking that field trip to go see the Freedom Train at the Oakland train station. Oh.