102 10 1657 https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/0f57cecad136263f28be153423672602.pdf 3b422a53497b8a199d16ba76fce52dbc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Henry Barnard School Description What is it all about? Classroom teachers, Sarah Hess and Michelle Nonis, asked the second grade students at Henry Barnard School in Providence to document their lives during the COVID-19 stay-at-home-order by creating a time capsule and journal. In response to the question, "What will the text books say about this moment in history in a year, a decade, or a century?" second graders and their families chronicled schooling at home, online sports, alternative holiday celebrations, more family time, new hobbies, and their bittersweet feelings about adjusting to this "new normal." Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Providence, R.I. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? My COVID-19 2020 Time Capsule by anonymous 1 Creator Who created this item? LB anonymous Description What is it all about? This student work is the result of an assignment in the 2nd grade classrooms of the Henry Barnard School. Students were asked to complete a time capsule with their families from March-May during the stay-at-home order. This student's project includes 9 pages of journaling. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Providence, RI Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Henry Barnard School Language A language of the resource English Children Distance education Families Home Routines Schools Social distancing Students https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/60f7424f8aeb9376f761ee78206e4f12.pdf 2e94e847272939e19741a99da0265ee4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Public Contributions Description What is it all about? Crowdsourced stories, images and recordings that reflect the individual experiences of Rhode Islanders during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Location Where was this item created? Providence, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Before Covid19 we had at least one grandson every day after school pick up. They would stay, we would do homework, play and eat supper. We would drive them home after wash up, bath or shower ( depending on child and night). We call it “stay late night”. We miss it soo much. We now walk to one of their houses and stand outside on the lawn, their mom opens the window and we talk. We drive to our daughter’s house and we sit on the lawn there and the 3 boys sit in the open window. In both cases we all hug ourselves and send them as 6 ft. hugs to each other. I am 73 and my husband is 77 and since the dads are out “in public” we haven’t been closer than 6 ft. Our older son , who is single, comes on Sunday and sits at a table on the porch. We put snacks out and we sit at the open window and we enjoy each other’s company. I actually started writing this at the beginning of the month but added or changed it as I watched the Governor’s press conferences on tv. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? A Tribute to Rhode Islanders Creator Who created this item? Lenore Backman Gratitude Older people Poetry Social distancing https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/4f97b1c2e6c498067cc13bed48a3a350.pdf de5e4b781fb68136030189b76389ac97 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Segue Institute for Learning Description What is it all about? Humanities teachers John Rosenbaum, Joshua Chevalier, and Caely Flynn, asked students from Segue Institute for Learning in Central Falls to choose from several different projects in order to document their experiences and reflect on life during the Spring of 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 quarantine. Central Falls was especially hard hit by the Covid-19 outbreak Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? A Letter to Someone 100 Years From Now Creator Who created this item? Lesly Cante Date When was this item created? 6/4/20 Description What is it all about? A 7th grader's response to write a letter to someone living in the year 2120 explaining the experience of COVID 19 in 2020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Central Falls Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Segue Institute for Learning Language A language of the resource English Boredom Future Quarantines Young adults https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/dd13666447b46bc486696a3e7d4e7e22.pdf 471646b793dbe0770402bad7d7de6b60 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Segue Institute for Learning Description What is it all about? Humanities teachers John Rosenbaum, Joshua Chevalier, and Caely Flynn, asked students from Segue Institute for Learning in Central Falls to choose from several different projects in order to document their experiences and reflect on life during the Spring of 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 quarantine. Central Falls was especially hard hit by the Covid-19 outbreak Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Illustration of Life During Quarentine Creator Who created this item? Lesly Cante Date When was this item created? 6/5/20 Description What is it all about? An illustration by a 7th grade student of some of the images that come to mind during the 2020 quarentine in RI Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Central Falls Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Segue Institute for Learning Language A language of the resource English Art Quarantines Young adults https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/d084801fc00ec96c01a917a51a3c6dad.jpg 3ec8984211821bc9a1eaf6b663e90125 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. COVID-19 JOURNAL #1 CORONA FLOODLIGHT For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light. -Luke 8:17 BSB Such as?  —What has always been the case but never shouted from the rooftops until impossible to ignore: Those among us who do the most labor-intensive work, perform the most essential services, and serve others most dependably are compensated the least of those among us at the other end of the spectrum who serve themselves first, who utilize (exploit) others to uphold their own interests, and who seek every means they can find to accrue more wealth to themselves while giving the least possible back to those who provide them with their wealth. Is anybody today still blind to what is happening to nursing-home caregivers, grocery store clerks, delivery people, trash collectors, postal workers, bus drivers, police, home-care workers, home health aids—all those who must get close to others in their work, who must put themselves in harm’s way to do their jobs, who minister to the sick and dying without sufficient medical means to protect themselves or their patients? This is, of course, not a new phenomenon, nor is the recognition thereof new: “The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.” However, the inequity (read: injustice) has perhaps never in history nor on such a broad scale been so undeniably obvious to everyone everywhere at once, as our nurses and caregivers, childcare providers, food servers, truck drivers, trash collectors, and the rest of the unsung, keep giving what they have to give for the benefit of the rest of us—many, if not most, while struggling to put food on their family’s table or pay their rent. The things often hidden, ignored, or taken for granted are now being illuminated like a night game at Fenway Park when the switches are thrown—in the floodlights of this equal-opportunity invader called Covid-19—the global enemy from which no one and nothing is safe. The pandemic has thrown into stark relief those who are most at risk and least able to protect themselves for lack of economic and social support. The other side of the coin is the great potential for rectifying this human tragedy by changing the world for the better. But will we? For that matter, is there any "we"? Will this common enemy unite us in the interest of the good of all human beings, the worth of every human life, and the need to honor all persons and care for the welfare of all persons everywhere—young, old, black, brown, yellow, red, white? To care for the earth itself and all the resources and life- forms on it—rather than just for our immediate and narrow needs and wants? We will see. Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? The social inequities brought to light by the pandemic Date When was this created? 2020-05-11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #1 CORONA FLOODLIGHT Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Diaries Economics Equality Essential workers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. “The Church has left the Building” It is one of the blessings of this enforced hiatus from the external world that we get to realize more vitally how we are together in spirit. It's beautiful to have a physical church in which to come together to worship. After all, Christ taught and worshiped in the temple and in synagogues. But he also taught and worshiped in corn fields and olive groves, on dusty roads and on mountains… The Spirit of God is not limited by our time, space and physical edifices. Nor by our ideas and rituals. In the Spirit, we are together—wherever we may be physically. Our Vicar counseled us early in the pandemic to “take this time to grow deeper in your faith.” Having to stay home for weeks, divested of the noise and frenzy of the world, has given us an opportunity for solitude, silent communion and quiet prayer—an opportunity to deepen our individual relationship with God. We will be all the richer for this experience when we come back together in person in our places of worship. _____________ Corona Virus Journal for RI Historical Society Covid-19 Archives Journal #2 “The Church has left the Building” —Lfj Gill Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Virtual Faith Community Date When was this created? 2002-05-12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #2 "THE CHURCH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING" Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Churches Faith Hopkinton Spirituality https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/5f9c21bc32f8162f58294c8ba4686298.jpg dabe9376d51ca772590fe3fbd08fbb22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. From an email to a friend today: May 13, 2020 Yep, things have certainly changed. As an introvert, I have greatly (almost guiltily) enjoyed the quiet, the staying in and having everybody else staying in, too—the corridors empty, no chatter, no ambush when going down the hall to get the mail or empty the trash—hardly any traffic on the roads the few times I went out to pick up my groceries... I am sure it is harder on extroverts, though maybe some have taken this chance to discover they have an inner life, full of potential riches, the din of the world having been silenced for a while. As you say, strange times indeed. Terribly tragic times for so many. Listening to the various governors' news briefs now is like listening to the evening news during Viet Nam—so many infected today, so many in the ICU, so many deaths. Already far more than we lost in Viet Nam—and yet—maybe because I don't look for it—I don't hear much of a hue and cry—not enough for the situation at least. Eighty-five thousand Americans DEAD—and that’s only so far! I vividly recall we would sit in front of the TV every evening, cringing in horrified anticipation, watching the news report of the day’s body count. It was our friends, brothers and sweethearts being sent to the slaughter at that time. I can still feel the pain in the heart, watching the images of body bags and hearing the soul-wrenching numbers. And that was a situation both created by and stoppable by human beings. Yet the slaughter went on and on, insanely, unforgivably. Now in this Covid situation we get data. Every day in the governors’ news briefs, “Today’s numbers are: 650 new positive cases, 400 hospitalized, 100 in the ICU, 75 on ventilators, 85 new deaths…” Numbers, with no human faces. Bodies, not souls. Why don’t they include a look at some of those people trying to breathe in the ICU? There are videos popping up on Youtube made by patients with their phones, gasping out their stories and warning people to “take this thing seriously”—and some are quite young. Maybe the people who don’t deign to protect the rest of us by wearing face coverings would wake up if they saw the human beings behind the numbers on their screens. _____________ Corona Virus Journal for RI Historical Society Covid-19 Archives Journal #3 The Human Beings Behind the Numbers —Lfj Gill Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Data vs real live human beings Date When was this created? 2020-05-13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #3 HUMAN FACES BEHIND THE NUMBERS Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Communication COVID-19 (Disease) Death Friendship Governors Hopkinton Journalism https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/4583bc0828b476cb1550d700cba451c6.mov b481de7bdb7c7f03432ba0526848be1b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Moving Image A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession. Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output from a simulation. Location Where was this item created? At home in Hopkinton RI Language What language is it in? English Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #4 WORLD AT MY WINDOW Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Date When was this item created? 2020-05-14 Description What is it all about? COVID-19 JOURNAL #4 WORLD AT MY WINDOW Life in abundance comes to my window every day. I am not alone. "Beauty before me; with it I wander” (from a Navajo poem.) I look up from my desk and it can be a bluebird, an Oriole, a Grosbeak, an indigo bunting, goldfinches, catbirds, downies--I've seen 22 different species at the feeders this year--and that's only when I happened to be looking. Not only do they bring life and beauty, they bring immense relief from listening to the sad, frustrating, and infuriating news bombarding us every day, all day. Not that one has to listen to it, but it is hard to avoid it altogether. Thank God for the hopeful, the compassionate, the inspiring counterbalances coming from those among us who actually care about and honor human life. Meanwhile, these lovely creatures carry on according to their design and nature, with never a protest, no politics involved. Corona Virus Journal for RI Historical Society Covid-19 Archives Journal #4 World at my Window —Lfj Gill Birds Faith Hope Hopkinton Journalism Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. COVID-19 JOURNAL #5 NOT POLITICAL “We’re trying to give you the very best advice we can, and it is going to be changing goal posts…. I don’t set the goal posts. The virus sets the goal posts. As we see things change, our guidance is going to change.” —Governor Raimondo (News brief 5/15/2020) Covid-19 is not political. Not even bi-partisan. It is a mindless, soulless, non-human pathogen transmitted from human to human by breath (talk, sneeze, cough, laugh)—whether or not the infected person has symptoms—and which to date has sickened 1.4 million Americans and sent 86,000 through horrible suffering to death. As state and federal governments attempt to mitigate its effects and prevent further disaster, the limitations of their (or anyone’s) control are increasingly obvious, and the political maneuverings of some in government increasingly horrifying. I, for one, am deeply grateful for a governor, health department, and congressional delegation who do their utmost to utilize the best advice of epidemiologists and infectious disease experts as they work to protect and serve us, the people in Rhode Island. Some informative notes on viruses I found today while attempting to learn more about what we are dealing with: “A virus is a microscopic organism that can replicate only inside the cells of a host organism…. Viruses infect all types of organisms, including animals and plants, as well as bacteria and archaea. “Viruses are microscopic parasites responsible for a host of familiar – and often fatal – diseases, including the flu, Ebola, measles and HIV. They are made up of DNA or RNA encapsulated in a protein shell and can only survive and replicate inside a living host, which could be any organism on earth. This means no life form is safe from infection by a virus. “Ultimately, science may never agree on whether viruses are alive or not. E. Rybicki described them as being “at the edge of life” – for now, this may be the closest we will get to an answer.” ________________ 1 CDC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html 2 Encyclopedia of Life —www.eol.org Nb: Scientists still argue whether to call a virus an “organism”, since that term implies life. See final note. 3 https://www.newscientist.com/question/are-viruses-alive Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Covid-19 is not political, nor partisan. Date When was this created? 2020-05-15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #5 NOT POLITICAL Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill COVID-19 (Disease) Death Diaries Government Governors Politics & government https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/07004b3ce8966f0b536c995813af2298.jpg 6568d0b59b2648a6593c931016d5864b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? Lfj Gill: A Long Day’s Journal Description What is it all about? Navigating a double pandemic in a divided world. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. COVID-19 JOURNAL #6  “LOOK FOR THE HELPERS” In his May 4th talk in the series “Habits of Grace,” Bishop Michael Curry cited a story Mr. Rogers once told about his mother*:       When he was a little boy, he asked her about scary things in the news—about difficult and painful things in the news—and his mother gave him some simple advice of how to handle that. She said to him, “Always look for the Helpers.”       I have a sneaking suspicion that signs of God’s continued watchful care, signs of hope, are in the helpers.      This past April 27th was the 100th birthday of one of those helpers. Captain Tom More**, retired Royal Air Force, celebrated his 100th birthday. But even of more significance than that, earlier in April Captain More, who had just had hip surgery—he was 99 at the time—began trying to raise money for the health system in Britain. And he hoped to raise about 1,000 pounds, by walking and asking people to give on a web site.      Well, he raised more than 1,000 pounds… Between the beginning of April and his birthday on April 27th he raised more than 40 million dollars! People from all over the world gave money to support and help the National Health System during this crisis. People from all over the world…      Mr. Roger’s mother was right. If you want to see the hand of God even in the midst of the most difficult times, look for the helpers. I thought about the helpers I know, and know of: A friend who works at Walmart—there every day, mask and all (once they got masks)—a place whose doors I have not darkened since February, and don’t plan to; the postal deliverers who come every day into this building of 50 apartments; the Amazon, Fedex, and UPS drivers who come right to my apartment door with my orders; the postal clerk behind the counter (of necessity not 3 feet from the customer); the homemakers and home health aides who come faithfully into the apartments of the elderly here; the building manager who comes in and often goes door to door with notices; the nursing home caregivers who cannot avoid physical contact with their patients; the grocery store staff stationed at the counters (not 3 feet from the customer); the pharmacists and assistants; the truck drivers moving food, oil, gasoline, etc. over the land to keep us all supplied; those answering phones at 2-1-1 and other hotlines; the state governors and health departments; nurses, doctors, and hospital staff; custodians and maintenance workers… In a word, those who have not been able to stay safely at home as I have, or who have chosen not to, in order to serve others—shopping for them, running errands, caring for their health, etc. It struck me that these people, regardless of what their personal belief systems may be, are doing in actuality what others may only give lip-service to. In one of his letters, John says, “Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”***  What is serving others before self, if not love? At the end of his talk, Bishop Curry read this prayer for Helpers: Compassionate God, support and strengthen all those who reach out in love, concern, and prayer for the sick and the distressed. In their acts of compassion, may they know that they are your instruments. In their concerns and fears, may they know your peace. In their prayer, may they know your steadfast love. May they not grow weary or fainthearted, for your mercy’s sake.  Amen.                                                                                                                          —Lfj Gill ______________   *    “Habits of Grace,” May 4, 2020, Bishop Michael Curry. https://episcopalchurch.org/posts/publicaffairs/habits-grace-may-4-2020-invitation- you-presiding-bishop-curry **  <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/world/europe/captain-tom-moore.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/world/europe/captain-tom-moore.html</a> ***  1 John 4:16 Location Where was this item created? At home in Hopkinton, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? The front-line helpers, caregivers, clerks, deliverers, truck drivers, nurses, doctors, home health aides, store clerks, postal workers, custodians, maintenance workers, volunteers; selfless giving. Date When was this created? 2020-05-16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title What would you title this item? COVID-19 JOURNAL #6 “LOOK FOR THE HELPERS” Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Diaries Essential workers Faith Front line workers Healthcare workers Religious services