145 10 1657 https://ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/c004fb48e23eab19dd88acc44dc77667.jpeg 1451065d204459dd0671fc885d3e9f51 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 Heather Cole Date When was this created? March-May 2020 Location Where was this item created? Warwick, 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? List of birds observed in my yard, Spring 2020 Description What is it all about? There are a number of large old trees in my yard, and while working from home over the past few months I've been able to observe all of the local wildlife more closely. I was never a birdwatcher before, but lately I've been awed by the variety of birds who live here or are passing through. It's a lovely respite from daily stress, or even just all the Zoom meetings, to look up and watch the birds. Birds Nature Warwick Yards https://ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/4714be1bc158091a073bb89490e59f47.jpg d2bea683e9831de2050e13b606bde0f4 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 Ashley Nicole Date When was this created? 4/1/2020 Location Where was this item created? Wicked Tulips Flower Farm 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? Virtual Tulip Portraits Description What is it all about? Provide your picture and we put it on a tulip background. We partnered with RISunshine.com to bring this to our customers since they can't walk through the fields. Farms Flowers Government shutdowns Portraits https://ricovidarchive.rihs.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? 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Newport 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? Cliff Walk, Easter Easter Flowers Newport Parks https://ricovidarchive.rihs.org/files/original/679c28f120354d0c12fe3b1536953236.jpg f7953c0d3889be138a41147dc363fd00 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 Phil Barber Date When was this created? 4-5-20 Location Where was this item created? 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? 2020 Vision Description What is it all about? We need glasses Brewing industry Providence Signs 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 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. If I were to tell the future generations about these times during the pandemic, I would say that you shouldn't take things that are important to you for granted. I would say to cherish every second with friends and family. I would let them know how quickly things can change, so live a little. You never realize how much you need someone or something until it is taken from you. These times during this pandemic are insane and crazy. I would let them know how the hospital staff, doctors, and nurses are outstanding and deserve all the recognition in the world and that you should never take them for granted. They put in so much to save lives and during this time proved they were strong and brave. During these times it was hard for everyone. Physically, emotionally, and mentally. Being in quarantine was a struggle for everyone. It left people with thoughts that they never had before because those thoughts were put to the back of their minds because they had things like school and friends to allow them to forget about it. I would say be grateful for having the ability to have physical contact with everyone and everything because it can easily be taken from you. I would tell them to always keep in touch with the older family members in their lives. I would say, don't take for granted having food on the dinner table, and easy access to almost anything and everything you need in your homes. Cherish the ability to go outside without a mask and breathe fresh air. If something is important to you, don't take that for granted, whether it be sports, arts, photography, or anything you love because anything, like a pandemic, can take that away from you. Most importantly is your education. Don't take for granted the privileges you have to be surrounded by the friends you've grown up with, and the ability to have an education that isn't through a computer screen. I would tell them that things get tough, but if you fight through it and think positive, good things will happen. Location Where was this item created? Portsmouth, Rhode Island; 02871 Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? This piece is about telling future generations about these time during this pandemic. 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? When The Going Gets Tough Creator Who created this item? Hope Arsenault Future Gratitude Hope Portsmouth Social distancing 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. -The Pandemic- By: Charlotte Byon Stock markets are crashing, governments are clashing If only people knew what the virus would do. Face masks and gloves are obsessives TP has become collectives First responders work all day and night, please give them the strength for the good fight. Wisdom for Governor Raimondo, For there are millions on furlough. In our governor and God we trust, pray our economy will not bust Worldwide blood, sweat, and tear, carry poison we fear, But come to find out, within is so pure, Holds the very thing we look for, the cure. Location Where was this item created? Barrington Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Life of a sixth grader during the pandemic of 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? Student Life Creator Who created this item? Charlotte Byon Date When was this item created? April 27, 2020 Barrington Creative writing Economics Government shutdowns Governors Poetry Students Young adults 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. Are house has become a nursery and a school Our chromebooks are now more than a tool. Life here is chaotique, But outside, the pandemic is chronic. I feel so helpless inside, While Healthcare workers are on the frontline worldwide. I experience claustrophobia, Me who thought home was a perfect utopia. Time flies by, June is nearby. Just thinking of freedom makes me want to wave goodbye to all of the fear and restrictions, Making way for new hopes and convictions. Life goes on, The virus won’t be as thought upon. These optimistic thoughts give me hope but I still wish for the contact of people, Without it being illegal. Location Where was this item created? Barrington, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? The life of a sixth grader during the Covid-19 pandemic. 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? Sixth Grade Covid Poetry Creator Who created this item? Eva Desjarlais Date When was this item created? April 27, 2020 Barrington Creative writing Distance education Poetry Students Young adults 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. Coronavirus dictates my days My life has changed in so many ways I used to be free to come and go as I please But now it feels like nothing comes with ease I pass the time with my family inside Sometimes it helps to get out for a bike ride I enjoy doing things like learning from home But I miss my friends and the freedom to roam People are hoarding, the store shelves are bare I hope when I need it TP will be there My house smells like Lysol and lots of straight bleach Oh how I long for the fresh air of the beach Thank you to those who are helping my family and friends through this time Like policeman, doctors, and the nice lady at the grocery store check out line I don’t like wearing a mask I’ll readily admit I’m looking forward to the day when I can stop and throw it in a pit Location Where was this item created? Barrington, RI Language What language is it in? English Description What is it about? Student Life during the Pandemic 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 Poem Creator Who created this item? James Rocco Date When was this item created? April 27, 2020 Barrington Creative writing Disinfection and disinfectants Food Internet Poetry Scarcity Shortages Young adults