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
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
Samuel Miltich speaks about the impacts of COVID-19 on his life and his music career. He recounts how in March he was performing in Florida and had to depart early, just as the country was beginning to shut down. He says the pandemic led to the cancellation of his rigorous schedule of on-the-road performances. He talks about how the economic imp...
Creator:
Miltich, Samuel
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-07
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
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
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
Mary Fox shares her experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview was conducted six days prior to the 2020 presidential election, so she describes her early voting process and how voting was different this year from other years due to the pandemic. She talks about her preferred news outlets and her concern about ...
Creator:
Fox, Mary
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kraig Decker shares stories of how his life at work and his recreational activities has changed during the time of COVID-19. He is very active with local climbing and biking groups, and concerns about transmission of COVID-19 impacted how he was able to climb, either in an indoor climbing gym or even outside. He shares stories about how there wa...
Creator:
Decker, Kraig
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Karen Sunderman, or Karen Sunderman LaLiberte, shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that her life and work were first affected by the novel coronavirus during a trip to Arizona in March. She describes her transition to working from home. As a critical consumer of news, and working in the news industry,...
Creator:
Sunderman, Karen
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jonathan Otis shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon names his preferred news outlets, but says that in the past month or two he has intentionally distanced himself from the news media due to the negativity, choosing instead to listen to music albums, podcasts, or audio books, read books, or work on profes...
Creator:
Otis, Jonathan
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jeremy Kersaw shares stories of his life as a registered nurse working in the mental health field as well as a small cycling event business owner during the time of COVID-19 in Duluth, Minnesota. He shares stories about how he first heard of the virus entering the United States, and how procedures had to rapidly change at his hospital workplace ...
Creator:
Kershaw, Jeremy
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jazmin Wong shares her experiences at work and in her community during this time of COVID-19. She talks about her role as the shop coordinator for Indigenous First Arts and Gift Shop at AICHO [American Indian Community Housing Organization], where she has continued to be employed throughout the pandemic. She describes the many ways AICHO has bee...
Creator:
Wong, Jazmin
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Hyland Garvey shares his experiences of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about being a full-time student just starting his education program in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic forced schools to change how they taught. He tells us he is continuing his studies through the summer and fall semesters, and describes how COVID-19 is sig...
Creator:
Garvey, Hyland
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-10-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Erin O’Daniel shares their experiences of life during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Erin gives examples of how COVID-19 became more and more of a reality for them in the early months of 2020. As the Manager of External Partnerships at Planned Parenthood, they talk about the adjustments they needed to make, including a lot of PPE (Personal P...
Creator:
O'Daniel, Erin
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-11-19
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Elizabeth (Libby) Spehar shares stories about their life and perspective as an active resident and business owner in Duluth, MN during the time of the quarantine and COVID-19. They discuss their own challenges with running a small business, The Snooty Fox Tea Shop, which is currently closed due to the pandemic. They mention tea shop employees fin...
Creator:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-08-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Michelle McMullin and Christopher Woolery, a married couple, were interviewed together and share their experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. They share their recollections of first learning about the novel coronavirus and discuss why they choose particular news outlets for information. They have three young children who...
Creator:
Woolery, Christopher; McMullin, Michelle
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Christopher O’Brien shares his unique experiences in rural Finland, Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the adjustments he had to make from working with around 325 people at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, to being at home with his family of four after he was laid off and then furloughed due to the pandemic. He descr...
Creator:
O'Brien, Christopher
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-07-26
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Brandi Rose Moxley shares her experiences of work and life during the time of COVID-19. As a nurse working in infection control in a nursing home, she first began to hear about the coronavirus at work and took it seriously even when others did not. She is open about her decision to leave her job due to her own health concerns. She explains how t...
Creator:
Moxley, Brandi
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth