58 10 1657 https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/c24b2cb1e8f6a0fbdb254b9c025906fc.pdf f4d479879375291bfdb37d21218ca70d 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? Winman Middle School Description What is it all about? Classroom teacher, Julie Connors-Costello, asked her eighth-grade students at Winman Middle School in Warwick to document their lives during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order They were given prompt options such as "a day in the life" or "note to past and future selves" with output options including writing pieces or a media presentation. 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? Letter to my past / future self Description What is it all about? Past self, future self Creator Who created this item? Samantha Stotler Date When was this item created? 5/12/2020 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Warwick, RI Young adults https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/75219a366e1073f22f69681048248182.jpg 21f5963c4faf98cd522fd5ce78da73f0 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 Grace Yost Date When was this created? March 2020 Location Where was this item created? Bryant University Smithfield, R.I. 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? Together-Alone Description What is it all about? This was completed as an assignment for LCS220, Creativity and the Arts, as a possible mural design expressing what students were feeling at the time. Creator Who created this item? 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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? Inequality Creator Who created this item? David Fonte Description What is it all about? Recent events in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic have highlighted the inequalities in our society. If all homo sapiens (ie humans) share the same emotions, then our actions, which are based on our emotions/feelings, should be the same when excluding external environmental factors. I believe, as many would agree, this is not true. I ask for your participation. Attach a video reciting the following, 'Anger, Fear, Disgust, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Contempt.' Then if interested email me at dfwg4@hotmail.com, to take part in a brief survey. I would like to show how a person's appearance can affect how others respond to them. Thank you. Date When was this item created? 07/26/2020 Language A language of the resource English Anger Depression (Mental state) Equality Loss https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/242262283c6bd4bd4fe831cc5d368730.MOV 17106ed586c6ae501e3f0f35b0c6f488 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. 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. Text Write a memory, journal entry, essay, list, poem, or story below. You can attach a file below if you'd prefer. So. At the beginning of Covid-19 the hoops were taking down due to the fact we all have to be 6 feet away and wearing mask. But just 2 weeks ago, I went by the Omar Polanco Basketball Court on Oxford St and I was nice to see people playing basketball after a long time of being in quarantine. Date When was this created? 08/02.2020 Location Where was this item created? 207 Oxford Street, Providence, RI 02905 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? Basketball Court during the Pandemic Creator Who created this item? Jessie Polanco Polanco, Jessie Description What is it all about? The City of Providence. The Lower Side of Providence. So. At the beginning of Covid-19 the hoops were taking down due to the fact we all have to be 6 feet away and wearing mask. But just 2 weeks ago, I went by the Omar Polanco Basketball Court on Oxford St and I was nice to see people playing basketball after a long time of being in quarantine. 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; Omar Polanco Basketball Court Providence, R.I. Basketball Providence Sports Sports & recreation facilities https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/6d474903278b1da6b6eb9e0c5049d400.pdf e11d05b1b5c5f0e4b520670cb1ef215f 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. 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? Providence Diary Description What is it all about? A photograph project, edited by Lisa Limer and designed by Jason Tranchida, that documents the impact of COVID-19 on Rhode Island’s capital city. Photographs submitted by residents of Providence were compiled with photographs by Lisa Limer from March-June 2020 and compiled into a publicly accessible e-book. Creator Who created this item? 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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. Age of the Lie **One-hundred-seventy-thousand American deaths in six months.** August 16, 2020 Back when they told me we were entering “The Age of Information,” I wondered what, exactly, we would be eating. Apparently we were now going to live on information. This was not many years ago, from my latter-day perspective, and no time at all ago from the perspective of archeological time. So, where we had been living in the Age of Meat and Vegetables—at least in my middle-class [remember them?] American home—I understood we would now be serving platefuls of information at the dinner table. This prospect made liver and onions sound like strawberry shortcake by comparison. I found it all depressing. The doctor prescribed Elavil. So I went along in the Age of Information. Perhaps I became more informed; it’s hard to tell, as I felt pretty informed before that. No one, however, mentioned when we would be entering the Age of the Lie. That might be because lies are sneaky. Lies pose as truth—that’s their nature. They can be somewhat subtle—all those ads and movie scenes, for a minor example, where the female is asleep in bed, her face made up with eye shadow, mascara, lipstick and foundation—you know, how all us female humans go to bed at night with our faces caked with makeup. We never wash it off. Saves time in the morning. So it slipped in stealthily while we were busy soaking up Information, being gradually lulled to sleep in the surfeit like a gourmand after gorging, as the Age of Information morphed into the Age of the Lie. Of course, now everybody knows all about it, slinging around terms like “dis-information” and “fake news” (thanks to our articulate Dear Leader for the latter * 1.) Everybody is now well aware that the Other People are trafficking in lies. Not themselves, however. Such that we are now at a sort of Hegelian thesis-antithesis stage, in which the nation is at least as divided as north and south in the Civil War. (Odd name for a war.) If you are a Republican, the Democrats are obviously lying through their liberal, left-wing, commie-pinko, socialist teeth. Whereas if you are a Democrat, the Republicans are obviously lying through their self-serving, money-driven, racist, fascist teeth. This sector of media serves up lies while that sector tells the truth, and vice versa, depending on which battle ground you occupy. All Democrats are harebrained, reactionary, tree-hugging, unrealistic incompetents without a clear platform. They know what they are against, but not what they are for. Oh yes, add “baby-killing” to that list. Democrats are baby-killers. All Republicans are selfish, war-mongering, rich White Supremacists who will say anything and do anything to promote their own wealth and power, preferably in the name of God and Country. Thus we have the Age of the Lie, membership not yet claimed by most of its inhabitants, but rather riven down the middle with each side hurling accusations over the abyss at the other, naming the others liars and themselves truth-tellers. An unfinished dialectic, obviously, for those wishing to take a look. Thus here in 2020, where we have not yet achieved the acuity of vision that term implies, but stand obliged to do so—we have uprisings, foment, destruction and disease coming up out of that chasm, infecting both sides of the divide without prejudice. Email and headlines pummel me daily with an endless barrage of negative news—one destructive plan, action or consequence piled on the next. Examples from the first few days in August: -- EPA rolls back vital clean air protections during a respiratory pandemic Yes, that’s the Environmental *Protection* Agency (NRDC) --The Corona-virus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp “The camp took precautions but did not require campers to wear masks” (NYT) --The latest ‘COVID party’ had 700 attendees and took New Jersey police 5 hours to break up (Daily Kos) --Trump has time to golf as states report more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths for fifth day straight (Daily Kos 8/3/2020) --Reckless ‘Gain-of-Function’ Experiments Lie at the Root of the Pandemic “In these labs, scientists use genetic engineering … to give pathogens [e.g., viruses from animals] new functions, making them more lethal, contagious, infectious or resistant to treatment.” *2 Every day, without fail, for weeks now, in my email comes some variation of the headline: “300 new confirmed cases of corona virus, 20 new deaths” in Massachusetts. And this is in the “flattened” time of the virus in my neighbor state, while their economy is “opening up.” The death toll there is over 8,600 people so far, with over 114,000 confirmed cases to date (as of 8/16, www.mass.gov). The numbers are so big, here and everywhere in these Dis-United States, and so relentless, they truly are numb-ers. They numb the senses. One sustains yet another wound to the heart on hearing the news, and moves on with the day. ________________ In six months of Covid-19 we have already lost nearly three times the number of Americans lost in the entire eight years’ involvement in Vietnam. Covid-19 Pandemic 2020: In the country to date, after six months of the pandemic—to which the federal government STILL has not responded with effective leadership and help—there have been nearly 5.4 million known cases and just under 170,000 American deaths—and still climbing. The U.S. tops the list of Corona deaths by nation in the world. *3 One-hundred-seventy-thousand American deaths in six months. “Spanish Flu” Pandemic 1918: By the end of 1919, after months of lies, secrecy, cover-ups and denials by both the Federal Government and the medical establishment, exacerbated by public noncompliance with health directives (as we are seeing in the present pandemic), America had lost upwards of 675,000 citizens in the “Spanish Flu” (H1N1 virus) pandemic. *4 Six-hundred-seventy-five-thousand American deaths in two years. Vietnam War: By 1973, we’d lost 58,000 of our citizens in the entire 8-year U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War *5—the war which did nothing for anyone except bleed the country of young citizens and perhaps enrich those who profit from the war machine. Fifty-eight-thousand American deaths in eight years. World War II: While the world lost many millions of people in the carnage of World War II, the United States lost some 298,000 citizens during our 4-year involvement. *6 Two-hundred-ninety-eight-thousand American deaths in four years. One-hundred-and-seventy-thousand Americans have died a horrible death, alone and suffocating, without so much as a national expression of concern, let alone grief, from those governing this land. And yet here is a horrible, but containable, disease agent, a virus whose lethality I strongly suspect was at least partially engineered by human beings *2—containable and stoppable. Witness the success of other countries whose citizens are complying with what the virus—not politicians—requires: “If you want to defeat me, you MUST stop the inter-human spread. Here is how you do it: prevent your breath from reaching others, as they prevent theirs from reaching you. Very, very simple. If you do not, I will happily infect as many of you as I possibly can, destroy your inner organs, and kill you wherever possible. You have been warned.” That is not a government talking; that is the disease agent itself talking. That is the corona-virus talking. Politics and human rights have nothing to do with it. “But by the way, I would especially like to thank all of you kind folks who settle for someone’s else’s opinion or simply cop an attitude, without looking into what I am and how I behave. No need for all that tiresome research. You make my work so much easier, and I am truly grateful. And you should be proud—you’ve put your country right on top, where it belongs. --Yours, Covid" ________________ I’ve found it all depressing. The doctor prescribed Lexapro. I declined. Yes, the state of affairs in this country at this time is depressing. You would have to be brain-dead for it not to be. How can deep division accompanied by hatred among brothers not be depressing? Is anyone elated by this state? The devil, maybe. Probably. (In case you’re not up on your demonology, try reading C.S. Lewis’ "The Screwtape Letters" for an update.) I can feel the earth, the wildlife, the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the swelling ranks of the war-ravaged, displaced, starving, desperate, enslaved, persecuted, and murdered among us around the globe—feel the dishonoring of life seeming to grow exponentially, and see the earth bowing under the weight of oppression in an image that would disavow any shred of hope. So yes, I find the state of the Dis-Union to be depressing, profoundly so. But that does not mean I am therefore depressed. The fact that depression is not the only option is clear in the many life-affirming, reasonable, compassionate voices rising up out of the dust clouds of foment; the many actions of self-sacrifice showing up all over the nation, and the world; and the many creative forces taking shape to address the disunity and inequities coming to light in the wake of a racially-motivated murder—witnessed by the whole world—in the midst of a deadly pandemic ravaging the entire human community. Against all reason, out of the carnage I see heads rising up, hear voices speaking up, note the humble, the compassionate, the self-giving, the wardens of truth, the devotees of the sanctity of life standing forth—a rising tide of courage and integrity amidst the forces of destruction. I see, amidst a sea of lies, the one power greater than the Lie, the power that does, and will, prevail. No, I am not blind to the carnage, the suffering, and the deaths consequent upon the actions of liars in power. I know my own life is at stake as much as anyone else’s. But I also know, and choose to pursue, the greater power behind those courageous human beings unafraid to speak, and live, the Truth. —Lfj Gill August 16, 2020 ________________ *1 Actually, come to find out, he got it from the Nazis: “…Hitler and the Nazis had found the simple slogan they repeated again and again to discredit reporters: ‘Lügenpresse.’ Today the extreme right in Germany has revived this term, which in English is “fake news.”
— https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/opinion/hitler-speech-1919.html *2 https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/covid-19-reckless-gain-of-function-experiments-lie-at-the-root-of-the-pandemic?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+668&utm_content=OB+668 *3 https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html *4 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
 https://www.history.com/news/1918-pandemic-spanish-flu-censorship *5 https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War *6 https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Costs-of-the-war#ref53608 File: Covid-19 Journal #11, RI Covid-19 Archives Date When was this created? August 16, 2020 Location Where was this item created? Hopkinton, 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? Covid-19 Journal #11 -- Age of the Lie Creator Who created this item? Lfj Gill Language A language of the resource English Description What is it all about? The 2020 Pandemic: What is the truth in a sea of lies? Depression (Mental state) Diaries Loss Politics & government https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/7a5c1ef27a3f1469ac1b1c6253f72404.mp4 d48414007c4c91cb2b07a95956329c4e 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? Rose Weaver Description What is it all about? <em>Don’t Take the Memories with You: COVID-19 As a Catalyst to Examine My Arts Work in Rhode Island</em> is an individual research and archiving project led by scholar and artist <a href="https://www.roseweaver.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rose Weaver</a>. Inspired by the stay-at-home order during COVID and her own experience as an at-risk person, Weaver was motivated to document and preserve the history of theater and performance in Rhode Island through the examination of personal and professional experiences and practices. 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Inspired by the stay-at-home order during COVID and her own experience as an at-risk person, Weaver was motivated to document and preserve the history of theater and performance in Rhode Island through the examination of personal and professional experiences and practices. Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. 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 Selfie Description What is it all about? Self portrait of Rose Weaver wearing a cloth mask. Creator Who created this item? 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Still Image This could include any kind of visual item. For example: photographs, paintings, drawings or maps. 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 Selfie Description What is it all about? Self portrait of Rose Weaver wearing a cloth mask. Creator Who created this item? Rose Weaver Black women Masks Self-portraits