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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Gilded Imagination ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Gilded Imagination&quot; is about one of my favorite architects, Stanford White (a terribly flawed human being but a genius nevertheless). Few artists have had as great an impact on RI as White who designed countless gorgeous buildings throughout the state during the golden age (the turn of the 20th century). My house painter grandfather may have known Stanford White when he was working on some of the great mansions of the period. By today&#039;s standards the color schemes and decoration of that time would seem rather gloomy (muted and dark—perfect as a background for all the gold, silver, and silk on display). Each of my issues deals with some aesthetic that interests me and Rhode Island is a perfect place for artistic exploration.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[April 2023]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[COVID Diary ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Inspired by Lynda Barry’s COVID diary, which appeared in the New York Times on May 8th 2020, I decided to keep my own collage diary. I began with the simple prompt, “When did this become real for you?” Some chaotic impressions tumble out on that first page as I recount my memories of an oddly timed trip to New York City just prior to the lockdown. I took on the diary project thinking it would give me something constructive to do other than just feeling immobilized, but I never could have imagined all of the unlikely and devastating events that were to unfold in the coming months. So many deaths: George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, John Lewis. So many unbelievable and terrifying things were happening—fires in California, a mass death of pilot whales, violence against protestors, political strife, and always the numbers of COVID dead kept mounting. In these pages, I track large events and small ones, reflections and encounters, from March 16 through Sept 2020 while living here in Providence Rhode Island. Ordinary life in this strange new world of COVID shelter-in-place is juxtaposed with grim statistics from the daily headlines. This pandemic has touched so many that no one can remain unaffected. The “old” normal was never really fair. One hopes that the “new” normal, whatever form that might take, will be more just, but there is never any guarantee unless we fight for it.<br />
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    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Martha Kuhlman ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[January 2021]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[More Improbable Occurrences: Post-Pandemic Journal]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[I tried to make the June issue, one that summed up my four-years of confrontation with difficult times for humanity—still proceeding with the Ukraine war which I explore in a one-act play. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[June 2023]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[More Preternatural Investigations: post-pandemic journal ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A creative writing and journal project. Although my tales are rather fanciful, I have still tried to express what my mind has gone through during the years of Covid-19. I was particularly interested in what estrangement does to us—and in particular to me. As a legally blind individual I have always felt a bit isolated in that I have never been able to drive. And yet I know that now 83, I have had a wonderful life—the experience that art can give us where we explore the interior of existence. I think I have mentioned to you that as a child that my parents read to me the great works of  literature  for an hour every night. And this continued into adulthood.  As to my journal, I have already written much of the next two issues which I will call now a &quot;Post-pandemic Journal&quot; and focus on how life has changed with the epidemic behind us.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[May 2023]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes &amp; Quill Cutters Tale]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[I am interested in creating imaginative diversions and comments on society as it is evolving during this strange period of the Ukraine war as well as a culture war at home. This is indirectly referred to in this March issue.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[March 2023]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kally Hanifin interview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interview with Sophia Richter and Kally Hanifin (and her dog) about her many diverse projects during Covid. Furlough politics in the workplace, working remotely and connecting online for a social life, developing a community garden, turning an abandoned church into a space for the Chariho Youth Taskforce, working with her family who live off the grid. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Richter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2/4/2021]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Rockville, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Whitney Smith interview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interview with Sophia Richter and Whitney Smith about her experiences during Covid. Whitney reflects on getting furloughed from her job at Mohegan Sun and what she learned about the job market, about how to critically evaluate sources and how she got involved in the Southern Rhode Island Volunteers. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Richter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[11/19/2020]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Richmond, RI ]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Susan Hoopes interview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interview between Sophia Richter and Susan Hoopes about her personal experiences of raising a family during Covid as well as managing a major grocery store. She worked at Belmont Market and share the many creative efforts they made to respond to people&#039;s needs in the community. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Richter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[10/22/2020]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Wakefield, RI ]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[John &amp; Sue interview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interview between Sophia Richter and John &amp; Sue. They share their earliest memories of Covid, having been in Ecuador right before the U.S. shutdown. John and Sue reflect on missing music at the Pumphouse and going out to restaurants, taking health precautions and how Covid impacted their involved with their church. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Richter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/12/2020]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[West Kingston, RI ]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Kevin Sullivan interview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Interview conducted between Sophia Richter and Kevin Sullivan. Kevin is an elder, a volunteer in our community, and a business person. He reflects on how past health issues around the world educated him on public health, how his diverse life experiences offered him a more international perspective, and about civic duty. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Sophia Richter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[12/2/2020]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English ]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Wakefield, RI ]]></dcterms:coverage>
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