117 10 1657 https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/f408483a40cf2f4d90b161e13b0bb742.jpg d7607825a3f96fde75eddb6c9b9b36ed 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? Mask Up RI Description What is it all about? Mask Up RI is an initiative to promote the importance of masking up during this Covid-19 pandemic. Showcasing Rhode Island citizens wearing masks and doing their duty for the health of others and themselves. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Creator Who created this item? This might be you or someone else. Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Claire Uziel Date When was this created? 04/29/2020 Location Where was this item created? One Union Station, Providence 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? Photo of woman wearing face mask with the Industrial Trust Building in the background Description What is it all about? I had to bring something to the Rhode Island Foundation for work. This was maybe my first time downtown since the lockdown started. I'd heard of Mask Up RI and thought a photo in front of this iconic Providence building would be a good addition to the collection. My mask was made by someone in Pennsylvania I tangentially know through Facebook. Downtown Face coverings Masks Portraits Providence https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/e5b5ea965982e98908e94d1492fed09e.JPG 5c57574a8022e35f648b07e5766fe833 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. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Creator Who created this item? This might be you or someone else. Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Anonymous Date When was this created? 25 April 2020 Location Where was this item created? Intersection of Rt. 7 & Rt. 116, Smithfield 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? Photograph of "Together we can" sign, April 25, 2020 Description What is it all about? Sign installed by Smithfield Fire Fighters (IAFF 2050) at the intersection of Rt. 7 and Rt. 116 in Smithfield. It reads "Together we stand / Six feet apart / Stay Healthy / Help Stop the Spread". Photograph taken at 2:55 pm on April 25, 2020. Encouragement Signs Smithfield Social distancing https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/7924706aeb0b4fc649a4c13ec9abcf0b.JPG 8402af315ccd7c508f3cec9ea3bc5fef 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. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Creator Who created this item? This might be you or someone else. Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Anonymous Date When was this created? 25 April 2020 Location Where was this item created? Chapel View, Cranston 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? Photograph of line for Starbucks drive thru, April 25, 2020 Description What is it all about? Taken from the passenger-side window of a car, this photograph only partially captures the extraordinarily long line for the drive thru of the Starbucks in the Chapel View shopping center in Cranston. Taken at 3:46 pm on 25 April 2020. Cafes Coffee Cranston Queues Social distancing Stores & shops https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/296b4a38b46a44596b814bb8f9cf2688.JPG 09fe77aa3aa4d57e4db9287876181915 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. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Creator Who created this item? This might be you or someone else. Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Dr. David Weed, Coordinator of the Sowams Heritage Area Project Date When was this created? April 2020 Location Where was this item created? Warren, RI 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? Plagues, Pokanokets and Pilgrims in the 17th century Description What is it all about? Before the arrival of Europeans in the Americans in the late 15th century, the Pokanoket people lived in a relatively disease-free environment.Starting in 1616, those same people began to suffer from a series of pandemics that wiped out up to 90% of their numbers. So, how did these infectious diseases first come to New England in the 17th century and what was their effect on both Pokanokets and Pilgrims? This fifteen minute video presentation reviews the worldwide history of pandemics an their effects on shaping 17th century history in New England. See it at https://youtu.be/5HYHVHx3WII COVID-19 (Disease) History Indigenous peoples New England https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/0d8bcc27cb291f2993bedcdf9f51f26c.jpg 6fb0ad3d3b701ab3039a7d6f3446c218 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. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. Creator Who created this item? This might be you or someone else. Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Rebecca Stokes Date When was this created? May 2021 Location Where was this item created? South County Playground 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? Playground Description What is it all about? Thanks to COVID-19, life looked different for everyone, even our children. This picture is a representation of the importance of play and the resilience of our children. (Ages 5 and 2) I learned about this archive opportunity and realized the importance of donating after viewing the How We Remember documentary. https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/bc354730012a0a2b89fab65193ea5f1e.pdf f45e10739cf852bf96091cab844c301e 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? Recrudescence (Pandemic Journal 2020-2022) Description What is it all about? As the pandemic continued month after month and the isolation became unbearable but still necessary, I found that I no longer gained enough intellectual satisfaction from creating classical music compositions (my forte), especially since my newest works probably would not be performed until Covid-19 was conquered. So instead I wrote and gathered together diary-like essays, literary critiques, philosophical musings, poetry, short stories, and narratives from contemporary experience as well as from deep in memory. I had written them each month to send to friends, with no thought of continuity—they would range where ever my mind and imagination wanted to go. I preferred to stay away from discussions about the coronavirus of which I knew little, the care givers who appeared to be so heroic, or the victims of the disease who were even more confined than I was and whose desperate circumstances were so frightening. Nor was I thinking of it as being a diary—my hermetic life was not interesting enough for that type of documentation. No, my writings were meant to be a diversion, to take one away from the horrific plague that in 2020-22 ingulfed us. I must confess that I have made no attempt to stick with subjects that I think would interest a general public. I am not even sure I would know what these would be. So, my suggestion is to only read those entries which excite your own imagination or generate some curiosity. About the Author Geoffrey D. Gibbs, Professor Emeritus of Music Composition at the University of Rhode Island, received a DMA degree in composition and voice from the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester, NY) in 1974. Born in 1940, Dr. Gibbs began his music training at age seven and was soon composing his own pieces. In high school he studied composition privately with Elie Siegmeister noted for championing American folk music. At Eastman he studied composition with Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. He began teaching composition and related subjects at URI in 1965 and has remained in Rhode Island since that time. He retired from URI in 2001 to devote all of his energies to creative projects. His interest in literature blossomed when he typed, edited, and annotated a thousand of his father’s poems and many essays. During his years of retirement three operas of his were premiered. His works were performed in Boston, Providence, Dartmouth College, the University of Rhode Island, Vibe of the Venue, Aurea Ensemble, Verdant Vibes Ensemble and the Fall River Symphony. As well he has had works performed at the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) and as far away as Russia and South America. As mentioned above, it was during the last two years when it was difficult to present concerts, that Geoffrey Gibbs devoted much of his time to creating his pandemic journal. Creator Who created this item? Geoffrey Gibbs Date When was this item created? 2020-2021 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? Playthings of God (May 2022) Description What is it all about? This issue of my pandemic journal is a continuation of my exploration of 19th-century American expansion westward. In March 2022 I covered my great-grandmother Christina Miller’s adventure in frontier Nebraska. This month I turn to my great-uncle Louis Crowell and his experiences as a soldier in the Dakota territories of the 1870s (there is a question mark about the authenticity of this story). The terrible exploitation and cruelty toward Native Americans was not all that different from the treatment of countless Europeans who fled deplorable conditions of poverty and subjugation to come to America, forsaking their homelands and cultures. Someone was profiting from all this misery? Even the industrial revolution of the 19th century proved to be a disaster for many people as they were forced to work in extraordinarily inhumane conditions with little concessions to the safety and wellbeing of workers. Creator Who created this item? Geoffrey Gibbs Date When was this item created? 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Please list the full name or "anonymous" if you prefer Anonymous Date When was this created? 5/7/20 Location Where was this item created? Pleasant Valley Parkway and Rankin Avenue, Providence 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? Pleasant Valley Parkway Closed to Through Traffic Description What is it all about? Pleasant Valley Parkway is one of 13 miles of Providence streets being closed to through traffic to provide extra space for safe social distancing. Government shutdowns Providence Signs Social distancing Streets https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/cf39f7b526879f13fbfcd5fd062d78d1.mp3 fe9c91ec1b4b31581a38ac4e79b13791 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? Cityside at Wheeler Description What is it all about? The Cityside program at the Wheeler School is a a year-long interdisciplinary experience embedded in the City of Providence for 8th graders. The program leverages Providence’s 25 neighborhoods, working with various NGOs, non-profit organizations, community groups, and branches of government to provide a rich curriculum for civic engagement, project-based learning, inquiry, and research. Cityside supports students in their exploration of interests as they form meaningful partnerships with collaborating organizations including Waterfire Providence, as well as other Providence artists, activists, local business owners, environmental experts and city officials, to develop projects of relevance to the student, to create value for the community, and to leave a positive impact on the city and student. For the 2020-2021 school year, students were asked to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on the City of Providence. Creator Who created this item? Wheeler School Sound Could include oral histories, music or other recorded sounds. Date When was this created? 5/5/2022 Location Where was this item created? Providence 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? Podcast on how Covid affected small businesses of Providence, RI. Creator Who created this item? Gennaro F, Jack G, Alex M, Dante F, Description What is it all about? Our project talks about the small businesses of Providence and what they have gone through in order to succeed. We interviewed three businesses and we got very different answers from each individual. 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. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. I mean to take my phone out to the trampoline Every afternoon when the kids and I do our bouncing When we collapse in a heap on our backs, breathless The tree above looks different every time After all, it's spring, so the buds, that were at first imperceptible, Then tiny fists both crushing and nursing something within Are now exploding with tiny flowers. If I had my phone, I could take a picture every afternoon And record each infinitesimal change while lying on my back. Or, on two days that it looks almost unchanged How the clouds behind the branches moved, made new shapes. But those pictures would miss all the rainy days when we stared out the windows and the giggles, the games we invented The fear, boredom, and lonesomeness. Besides, should I always have my phone at my hip? With all the news and numbers and words. Because it's not just for the trees or the kids or the giggling: When I'm at the apex of one bounce, before the rebound and the creaking strain of springs, There is no tether. Location Where was this item created? Wakefield, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Poem aboutlock down with children 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? Poem about lockdown with children Creator Who created this item? Jaime Palter Cellular telephones Children Families Parents Poetry Stay at home 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. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. 2020 is here time to start a new year at first it was fun then it begun covid-19 we thought we could brush it off thought it was only a slight cough thought it wasn't deadly enough we were mistaken family members didn't make it 2020, hate it but 2021 is what we make it no more death bring back school I'm tired of sitting home with nothing to do all I can do is eat food and maybe watch tv but it's not fun for me I wanna see my family I just hope 2021 is there for me so I can see my people Date When was this created? 1/29/2021 Location Where was this item created? north providence Rhode Island 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? poem on how covid changed my life Creator Who created this item? cameron brackett Language A language of the resource english Description What is it all about? how covid-19 began to effect my life Poetry