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Pleasant Valley Parkway is one of 13 miles of Providence streets being closed to through traffic to provide extra space for safe social distancing.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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The posters are pop art images of Governor Gina Raimondo and Nicole Alexander-Scott, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health. Following the governor's use of "Knock it Off" in a daily briefing, the phrase became a symbol of her leadership…

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Sign at casino entrance from Old Louisquisset Pike reads "Casino closed until further notice" on Saturday, March 14, 2020, the first day of closure.

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Posters in Lippitt Park, on an electrical box, in support of prisoner release.
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