Zachary Benz shares stories of his life in Hibbing, Minnesota during the time of COVID-19. He describes how he first heard about COVID-19 via Twitter, where he was posting material for his own project, the Daily Planet news site. He covered it as a news story himself and knew that it had the potential to “spread like wildfire, if unchecked.” He ...
Creator:
Benz, Zachary
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tom Hanson shares the experiences and challenges he has experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially how it has affected his businesses, including the Duluth Grill, OMC Smokehouse, and Corktown Deli. He describes his early life, his move to Duluth with his family, his progression from restaurant management to restaurant ownership with hi...
Creator:
Hanson, Tom
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-27
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Timothy Broman shares his experiences of living under COVID-19 in Northeastern Minnesota. He describes how his visits with his 88-year-old mother, who also lives in Duluth, have changed over the months, from the beginning of the pandemic to now. Tim is currently working in retail and details the new safety procedures required at his job, which i...
Creator:
Broman, Timothy
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tiffani Skroch shares her experiences as a college student living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls sitting in class when her Apple Watch buzzed with a news update about Coronavirus numbers rising, and remembers this moment to be the one when she took more seriously what was happening. She lists some of the mainstream news so...
Creator:
Skroch, Tiffani
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-09-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Thomas O’Rourke shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about his weekend getaway at a cabin with his wife and friends just before the lockdown happened, describing it as a “calm before the storm.” Tom is the executive director of the Hartley Nature Center in Duluth, Minnesota, which provides many prog...
Creator:
O'Rourke, Thomas
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tate Haglund-Pagel shares his experiences of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. As an educator who is an instructional technology integration coach, he talks briefly about his work in the school system on the day students and teachers were sent home last spring. He says working from home is a mixed blessing; there have been some additional str...
Creator:
Haglund-Pagel, Tate
Contributor:
Jacobson, Katie
Created:
2020-10-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Suenary Philavanh shares stories of her life as a college student in Duluth during the time of the COVID-19 quarantine and shut-downs. She shares how she first heard about the virus before her spring break from college, and how she changed her trip from the original plan to go to Portland, Washington because cases were rising there. She describe...
Creator:
Philavanh, Suenary
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-27
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sheila Packa shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She talks about the early months of 2020 when she first heard about the novel coronavirus. She tells us that she keeps a journal and refers to it when she is looking back and reflecting on these early days. She talks about her partner, Kathy, and their decision ...
Creator:
Packa, Sheila
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Shannon Walz shares her experiences living and working during the COVID-19 pandemic. She remembers the precautionary measures implemented while working at an environmental learning camp in the state of Washington over ten years ago during the H1N1 flu outbreak. Based on that experience she recounts her reaction to COVID-19 in the early days of t...
Creator:
Walz, Shannon
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-09-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sarah Curtiss shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins the interview by introducing herself in Ojibwe. Sarah is the co-executive director of the non-profit Men As Peacemakers and describes what the organization is, the many ways they serve the community, and how COVID-19 has impacted much of what they do...
Creator:
Curtiss, Sarah
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-08-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Sarah Brokke discusses her work and experiences as a visual artist and art professor at St. Scholastica in Duluth, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic began. She shares her experience with traveling in Bali just as the pandemic was beginning, and returning to a home that seemed changed. She discusses how teaching changed so much when it ...
Creator:
Brokke, Sarah
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-30
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Salaam F. Witherspoon shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls first hearing about the novel coronavirus on Facebook and that she initially thought it was a joke. She recounts the days when the schools were closing and the churches were closing, as the time she realized it was real. She has since known ...
Creator:
Witherspoon, Salaam F.
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Robin Washington shares experiences from his life and work during the COVID-19 pandemic. He lists the news outlets he turns to for information and says that as a journalist he is well connected to colleagues and their work and explains that because of these connections, the information in his social media feed tends to be quite reliable compared...
Creator:
Washington, Robin
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Phoebe Davis discusses her personal life and her experiences during the time of COVID-19. She shares that she had COVID-19 and mentions that she lost close to sixty pounds because of the illness. She details what this experience was like for her, including the “double quarantine” in her household. She mentions various native medicines that she u...
Creator:
Davis, Phoebe
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-11
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Paul Lundgren shared stories and perspectives as an active, social Duluth resident during the time of COVID-19. He has produced the Homegrown Music Festival field guide content every year since 2006, and this year the annual festival was cancelled due to quarantine right before the field guide was set to go to print. He also discusses his work o...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-07-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Natalie Baker shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls hearing about the novel coronavirus in the very early months and explains that she had some disbelief about its seriousness at the time. She lists her main news sources, including the daily reading of El País [Spanish language daily newspaper, ba...
Creator:
Baker, Natalie
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-10-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Moira Villiard discusses her experiences as an artist and active community organizer in Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the summer of 2020. She describes leading a community-engaged mural art project at the Clayton Jackson McGhie memorial after the death of George Floyd, partly in response to some graffiti on the memorial. She felt it wa...
Creator:
Villiard, Moira
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Miriam Kloss describes her life as a high school senior at Duluth East High School in Duluth during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares stories about how her schooling had to convert to online learning very quickly with short notice, and the struggles of attempting to learn complex subjects like physics and calculus while working at home away from...
Creator:
Kloss, Miriam
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Mike Scholtz discusses some of the ways that COVID-19 has affected his life. He shares that much of his work life hasn’t changed significantly because he has been able to continue the video editing part of his work from home. He says he has been working on old projects and has also been fortunate to get some new work since the pandemic began. He...
Creator:
Scholtz, Mike
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-07-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Melissa Plucinak shares her experiences of life as a new mother during the COVID-19 pandemic. She recalls that she gave birth to her daughter the same week she started hearing about the prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States. She tells how she “felt pretty robbed” of the excitement of having her first child and sharing the experience with e...
Creator:
Plucinak, Melissa
Contributor:
Moxley, Brandi
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth