An issue of the Detroit Free Press published on Sunday, July 7, 2047 offers the headlines. The top headline reads: "LAST OFFICERS STANDING," and photo highlighting a bronze statue of a police officer atop a neighborhood in Detroit. Continuing, it says, "After the latest round of Detroit Police Department Layoffs, there are now more statues commemorating police than actual officers on the force, a trend common across other American cities." Other headlines read "CITY BUDGET WIN FOR RESIDENTS, $317.6M to fund whatever Detroit neighbors want," "EAST-WEST GREENWAY WATER LEVELS ON THE RISE, Waterways aren't just fun and games," "Mental health facility opens on site of shuttered county jail," "Cooperatives rule Detroit's restaurant scene," "Guaranteed income guarantees disaster," and "Neighborhood-run race track opens to much fanfare, noise complaints."

A children's book entitled We Who Turn to Face the Sun, which teaches kids about conflict through allegory about sunflowers whose back cover reads: "Each and everyday, sunflowers turn to follow the sun as they grow. The sun is a powerful source: its heat and light might put a strain on you momentarily. But, as a daily practice, choosing to face the sun is an act of survival. It helps us grow in countless ways. Learning to address conflict is a daily, uncomfortable process too.

A series of four maps depicting the water stewardship system and regional geography, which make up part of Stevie R. Williams-Moore's study materials for her water steward exam. They depict both the regional landscape and elements of neighborhood food and water infrastructure.

The uniform jacket belonging to Stevie R. Williams-Moore, who served multiple terms as a water steward for their neighborhood—managing the filtration of a distributed water harvesting and conservation system.

A textbook, handwritten notes, and vials belonging originally to Ella Moore, but passed on to Stevie R. Williams-Moore, who was studying to become a water steward—a role cultivated in a waterbound landscape redefined by the Great Flood, where homes built on stilts and floating markets were the norm. The water-forward terrain demanded a different, more localized system of water treatment and neighborhood structure, which functioned based on principles carried forward from Indigenous knowledges about relationships to water as agential being; meaning, water bodies and water (among other more-than-human kin) as being are considered and consulted in both policymaking and infrastructural decision-making, to ensure the long-term sustainability of both people and natural environment. The role of water stewardship is one to which all residents are drafted throughout their lives, though some, like Stevie may serve multiple terms as volunteers.

A historical account of the ascension of police in the United States and their demise. The back cover reads: "Drawing on the revolutionary press of the time, this is the oft-told story of the events that led to the collapse of the American policing institutions told in exquisite detail: Reaching from its antecedents, to its far-reaching expansions, its terror, and the long-lived resistance sustained and reignited time and time again by Americans. Rice catalogues the deep cleavage between the mandate to "protect and serve" and the reality of police terror across the country throughout its four-hundred year reign and the many adaptations the institution undertook to remain central to the operations of state-sponsored oppression. Significant attention is given to what the author describes as the fascist failings that began, they argue, the unraveling of wider public trust in policing in the early decades of the twenty-first century."

A quilt believed to have been one of the earliest works of Mary Williams or one of her siblings—exact origins unknown. Williams was a prolific quilter, known for carrying forward the legacy of Black quilting practices using scraps and improvisation from the South with her as a practice that facilitated her organizing and movement work as well.

A 3rd edition Ojibwe-Anishinaabe Dictionary, commonplace in homes during this time period, as a resurgence of Anishinaabemowin (and other Indigenous languages across the former midwestern United States) picked up steam over the last several generations.

An obituary commemorating the life of Mary Williams, the matriarch of the household.

A bottle of ginger beer that reflects a hyper-local food system responsible for producing a staple drink for Detroiters in this time period produced with ingredients from around the city.

A bag of hot chips, a hyper-local throwback to a popular mass produced staple snack loved by young people in the early part of the twenty first century—these red hot corn chips were produced with ingredients from cooperatively-owned farms around the city of Detroit,

A pocket-sized handbook designed to help readers navigate the complex multi-currency landscape, since various currencies are in circulation—the former US dollar, though deeply devalued; the Canadian dollar; time currency; and other local currencies implemented by various regional authorities that emerged in the wake of the United States' dissolution.

A book cataloguing Mary Williams' movement work and life. The back cover reads, "In this collection of essays laced with deep political analysis, anecdotes on movement work, and reflections on relationship-building in the midst of global turmoil, we witness Mary's travels—literal and metaphorical—between Michigan and Chiapas, where she encountered and studied the Zapatista Caracoles and their respective Juntas de Buen Gobierno or Good Governance Boards. As the rebels in the southeast say, the Caracoles serve as 'windows to see us inside and for us to see outside,' that of 'megaphones to get our word out and to hear the ones far away.' Amidst a climate crisis that, for the first time in contemporary history, began to shift notions of statehood and nationhood in regions of the United States most vulnerable to flooding, she and her collaborators stitched together new governance practices back and forth between Chiapas and Detroit much in the way she composed her acclaimed quilts."

A Conflict Resolution Summons issued by the Office of the Conflict Resolution Commissioner of the Superior Court of Wayne County, calling Ella R. Moore to serve on a "panel," a state-sponsored adapatation of restorative justice circle processes that facilitate community dialogue and reparation in the wake of conflict. The form includes a parking permit, information about the panel (e.g. duration, term, fees, proof of service, additional notes) and a reminder that failing to respond to the summons may be held in contempt of the court and punished.

Chrysanthemum City is a graphic novel emblematic of the times in the 2040s, when a radical turn away from media that endears children to police, once termed "copaganda," took place alongside the dismantling of many American police departments. In it, a troupe of young people race toward a dark underground, where a stash of defunct police robots have come back to life, threatening—once again—to terrorize the city of Detroit and its inhabitants. This band of kids committed to keeping themselves and their city safe are prepared to do everything in their power to stop the zombie cop robots from decimating their world.

Apart from being a typical vessel for drinking hot liquids, this mug is an heirloom once owned by grandmother Mary Williams, passed down to her daughter Tiny and now used by her granddaughter, Stevie as they share a home. While a fairly unassuming item, it holds great significance for this particular family, given Mary's known revolutionary organizing between Detroit, Michigan and Chiapas, Mexico, in the wake of the Great Floods in the mid-late 2000's, which was built on the traditions of the Black Liberation Army, of which Assata Shakur was once a member.

A piece of junk mail received by Ella R. Moore invites her to pay a fee to hire a surrogate to serve in her place on a restorative justice panel to which she was summoned by the county. In the wake of the county's initiation of this program, which was seen as more involved, arduous and uncertain than the long-held jury service, several get-rich-quick schemes popped up to take advantage of a loophole in the regulations around panel service, which allows for panelists to recommend another community member to take their place as surrogate.

A memory jug is a traditional funerary object originating in West African Bakongo culture, transplanted with enslaved Africans to the Southern United states, and reignited in parts of the new midwestern territories in the years after the Great Flood. This one commemorates the life of Mary Williams. Composed of small objects assembled on the surface of a water-bearing vessel with clay or other binding material, they sometimes include beloved belongings of the departed to accompany them into the next life.

Time currency bills in three denominations—1, 12, and 20 hours—issued by the Great Lakes Equitable Time Exchange. In the wake of the United States' dissolution, these are the most common units of exchange because of their uniformity.

The set of three keys and a leather keychain belonging to Ella R. Moore. The keychain reads "EAST SIDE LAND TRUST," which became one of the largest land trusts in Michigan history — founded with help from the inaugural Freedom Dreams Community Land Trust, one of the first and longest-running land trusts in the state.

A guaranteed income check (No. 80092) in the amount of $1041.66 issued by the United States Treasury addressed to Stevie R. Williams-Moore. The federal government began issuing these payments after the prolonged financial crisis of the 2020s, in an attempt to shore up working-class families' financial footing after out-of-control rises in housing, energy, groceries, and other basic costs of living.