Moving Pictures: Using Photos and Music to Trigger Memories

As a teenager growing up in the music-rich mid-'70s, Steve Berube remembers becoming almost obsessed with the work of Bruce Springsteen.

"I remember being in high school in 1975 when Born to Run came out..." he said, not finishing that thought, but instead shaking his head a number of times to effectively get his point across about how deeply the music impacted him.

He couldn't possibly have imagined then that, more than 20 years later, subsequent songs from the Boss would help trigger memories of moments he, his wife, Lisa, and their two older children shared together - recollections he thought were lost forever after a horrific car accident in 1995 led to a double …