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Collected Item: “Christmas in Cochrane, 2020”

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Christmas in Cochrane, 2020

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text, photograph

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This file contains both a photo and a text story to accompany it, it's mainly just my thoughts surrounding the holidays in the pandemic, firstly with what I did, what my previous Christmases were like, and my family's reasoning with staying home and abiding with quarantine restrictions in opposition to the many other examples of people breaking these restrictions for the sake of family. I think it's important mainly, because the pandmic has redefined, or put a new emphasis on familial love - do we love our family by choosing to stay home during a deadly pandemic? Or do we love them by breaking restrictions to visit them during said pandemic.

Submitted for HST 580's first assignment at Arizona State University, Pandemic Prompt: Holiday's.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

pandemic prompt, HST 580, Arizona State University, holidays, Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, Christmas, family, love.

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Padraic Harold Cohen

Give this story a date.

2021-01-12
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