66 10 1657 https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/e1de911223ce5040a11b1e325fcefeb1.wav 1e0bc3ecd8e164d8bd82494c2d76d10a 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. Sound Could include oral histories, music or other recorded sounds. Date When was this created? 4/1/2020 Location Where was this item created? Federal Hill, Providence Description What is it about? This song recaps the news cycle of the early weeks of the US' response to the Covid-19 pandemic to show how the pandemic itself didn't cause the socioeconomic blows felt by most Americans, but how a lack of federal support and the systemic frailty of free market capitalism put average citizens in dire scenarios that will likely take years, if not decades, to stabilize. 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? Golden Thread Creator Who created this item? Anthony Savino Economics Music Providence Social distancing Songs https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/0f16b823d1348721994950fd23297d3c.jpg f18a03773bc4d18c60c633167d0398f9 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. 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? Gondoliers are back in action and masked up and ready to go Creator Who created this item? @mask_up_ri Date When was this item created? 2020-08-15 Description What is it all about? Portrait posted to Instagram as part of the @mask_up_ri initiative created by StyleWeek Northeast (@styleweek), RMO Public Relations (@rmopublicrelations), Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (@goprovidence) and Rhode Island Commerce (@ricommerce). #RhodeIsland, #MaskUpRI, #MaskUp, #WeAreRhodeIsland, #DoYourDuty Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Rhode Island Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? @mask_up_ri Language A language of the resource English Masks Providence https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/d61277fe27c77d8c371eb02e479870a2.jpg ca2c4c7e3516746a56ecebb51a42e7e0 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. 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? Gonzalo Cuervo, Chief of Staff | Deputy Secretary of State Creator Who created this item? @mask_up_ri Date When was this item created? 2020-04-09 Description What is it all about? Portrait posted to Instagram as part of the @mask_up_ri initiative created by StyleWeek Northeast (@styleweek), RMO Public Relations (@rmopublicrelations), Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (@goprovidence) and Rhode Island Commerce (@ricommerce). #RhodeIsland, #MaskUpRI, #MaskUp, #WeAreRhodeIsland, #DoYourDuty Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Rhode Island Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? @mask_up_ri Language A language of the resource 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? 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. As a child, one of my favorite movies was High School Musical, it portrayed the perfect life of high schoolers having the time of their lives enjoying senior year. I was excited to have prom, senior skip day, a graduation party, and most of all graduation, I thought it was going to be like the movies. Then coronavirus changed everything. Now I sit on my bed everyday doing online classes, waiting with anticipation for what's going to happen with my graduation dreams. As an athlete, the saddest part was not getting a senior season, or a senior night. I play both softball and throw for my school's outdoor track and field team, so the spring season is what I look forward to most. Knowing I will never step foot on a softball field again with my high school teammates puts me into tears every time I think about it. My senior trip to Tennessee for spring training was cancelled and I will never take a trip with my favorite coaches again. My senior year at Westerly High School was ripped away from me within weeks, of course the health of our nation and loved ones are far more important, it is sad I missed all the opportunities years past got to have. I have had to say goodbye to many things from this pandemic: seeing my friends in class everyday, playing sports, senior events, going to Tennessee, and much more. Many of us are spending time off during this school closure, reminiscing on what we could've been doing, as we get our daily assignments and spend the rest of our school year on google meet. It feels like it all ended too soon. I have worked far too hard and it seems pretty silly to want to walk across a stage at a ceremony to receive a piece of paper with my name on it. Location Where was this item created? Westerly, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Senior Year 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? Graduating in Quarantine Creator Who created this item? WHS Senior Graduation ceremonies High School seniors High schools Loss Students Westerly Young adults https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/02cf2fa971d6122845a14934c42c872c.JPG e46aeeafabfd1e7d1b7bb5b3ff9d4f58 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 Abigail Borchert Date When was this created? 04/17/2020 Location Where was this item created? Westerly 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? Granite Theatre Sign Description What is it all about? A sign outside the closed Granite Theatre offers words of encouragement. Encouragement Hope Signs Theaters Westerly https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/7162555348fc31758d78244435e563ea.pdf c3af53adeb26fb10a5cbe77b16cbb56d 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? Picturing the Pandemic exhibit Description What is it all about? "Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journal Project and the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive" was an exhibit at the Providence Public Library in Spring 2023. It drew from contributions to the Pandemic Journaling Project co-launched by anthropologists at Brown University and University of Connecticut and from the RI COVID-19 Archive. Visitors to the exhibit were encouraging to create new contributions to the archive in response. Creator Who created this item? Providence Public Library Date When was this item created? May-June 2023 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? Greetings from Harlem NY Description What is it all about? Reflection on COVID-19 from Sharon who was living in New York when lock down began. This item was contributed in person to a collective binder at the exhibition Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project and the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive. Creator Who created this item? Sharon Dorr Date When was this item created? June 2023 Language A language of the resource English Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? Providence Public Library Government shutdowns New York https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/4694c0f0b7de11f36e8d626c60def75c.jpg c694d5521e9682abdcbc9d423fca1074 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 William Schaff Date When was this created? May, 2020 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? Greetings from Isolation...wish you were here Description What is it all about? During the isolations and lockdowns that happened with the onset of COVID-19, I created handmade postcards to send to folks who themselves were in the same situation as me. This is one such example of a postcard I made. Art Illustrations Postcards Solitude https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/7a7dcba1d7f76b7fa178fcd998e91d51.jpg 64730513c00a95b06a0070062186b3f8 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. My husband is immunocompromised following a kidney transplant, so it was clear to me from the very beginning that I wasn't going to any grocery stores, ever. I had to find ways to get all the food for my family of four delivered or ordered online. At the beginning, I struggled through waiting long weeks for Instacart deliveries, and hours searching websites of big box stores that seemed to be out of everything we needed (no pasta? no rice? no flour?). At some point a neighbor told me about Munroe Dairy, a local milk & grocery delivery service, but they were not accepting new customers and only had an option to join their waitlist. Through hours of searching, I discovered the life-saving WhatsGood app. This service compiles several local farms, lets you place one order, and delivers the food directly to your doorstep. I couldn't believe it! After waiting weeks for Instacart or online orders to arrive (often with incorrect contents), WhatsGood literally came the next day and brought delicious local food. In addition to produce from local farms (bags of apples from the orchard! beautiful fresh kale!), I've ordered local beef, chicken, seafood and regional products like Cabot cheese through WhatsGood as well - reasonably priced, trustworthy and delicious. We had already been receiving Misfits Market produce, but now it became a vital resource: opening the box like a wondrous treasure chest. Misfits sources organic produce that has been rejected from grocery stores for cosmetic reasons, so consumers get a big discount, there's nothing wrong with the produce (sometimes a carrot is too big or too small?), and you're preventing food waste since otherwise, the products would be thrown away. We ended up doubling our order. For staples like tuna, beans and peanut butter (and okay, chocolate), we turned to Thrive Market, an online wholesaler of discount, Whole Food-ish healthy brands. And then, heaven-sent, I received a call from Munroe Dairy: they were accepting us as a customer! Since then, we've received a weekly delivery from Munroe. Not only their luscious fresh milk in gorgeous, heavy glass bottles, but butter, cheese, eggs, produce, meat and, yes, ice cream. My kids so look forward to the Munroe delivery (we've yet to find a gender-neutral alternative for the milkman) that they literally cheer when the "cow truck" pulls up. So now we're in a pretty good sourcing groove with WhatsGood, Munroe Dairy, Misfits Market and Thrive Market. We've even managed home delivery of beautiful fresh fish from RI commercial fishing boats, like the Narragansett Lobster Co, who are now delivering straight to consumers (try their clam chowder!). Before the lockdown, having enough food in the house was challenging enough, with a husband and two boys who tended to eat dinner before soccer practice AND dinner after soccer practice. We generally managed to squeeze in a trip to Trader Joe's on a weekend, with frequent desperate after-work dashes into our local Dave's Market (which my husband maintained would cost $80 even if you were determined to only get three things). Truth be told, most "where is this field?" soccer games in random Massachusetts suburbs ended with the cure for all starving children, Dunkin egg and cheese bagels (and you know Mommy deserves an iced coffee). Whenever this moment ends and we can grocery shop again without terror, I will continue our new focus on hyper-local sources of food. The Rhode Island farms, fishing boats and dairies have been more reliable, more delicious, and more ethically gratifying than any chain store. When I mentioned to my 87-year-old dad that I now have a milkman, he told me a story about his younger brother hopping in a milk truck and driving down the street in the 1940s, and laughed and laughed. I can't imagine a story about Walmart would have been as funny, or as touching. Location Where was this item created? East Greenwich, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Our family's food shopping habits shifted from chain stores to hyper-local farms, dairies and other sources, opening up a delightful RI food world along the way. 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? Groceries and COVID: How we learned to shop local and eat better at the same time. Creator Who created this item? Katie Silberman East Greenwich Food Groceries Grocery stores https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/4d9d3d469bfbc0e44fc9f3145bb84654.JPG b857d6d23749be26e0be6441225dd2a8 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 Maureen Taylor Date When was this created? June 27, 2020 Location Where was this item created? East Side Marketplace 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? Grocery Store Description What is it all about? Empty shelves at East Side Marketplace Grocery stores Providence Scarcity Shopping Stores & shops https://ricovidarchive.org/files/original/c3e37eac4b7aaf4faff84436e5853cd0.jpg 238128741c90b305b40f8bb3583b7112 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. 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? Haley Cahill, Registered Nurse Creator Who created this item? @mask_up_ri Date When was this item created? 2020-04-15 Description What is it all about? Portrait posted to Instagram as part of the @mask_up_ri initiative created by StyleWeek Northeast (@styleweek), RMO Public Relations (@rmopublicrelations), Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (@goprovidence) and Rhode Island Commerce (@ricommerce). #RhodeIsland, #MaskUpRI, #MaskUp, #WeAreRhodeIsland, #DoYourDuty Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Rhode Island Publisher Are you submitting this on behalf of someone else? @mask_up_ri Language A language of the resource English Healthcare workers Masks Nurses