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Solid Wall of (No) Sound

Title (Dublin Core)

Solid Wall of (No) Sound

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Description (Dublin Core)

I was a college student during the initial phases of the pandemic. Classes were moved to all online, and I moved out of the dorm back home, since most of the campus was closed. My most distinct memory of the time is of walking my dog on the first Monday morning of the lockdown. The world was so still. The only soft noises that could be heard were birds chirping and squirrels chittering to each other as they ran around. I lived right next to a major road, so the sudden silence was almost oppressive. That vacuum of sound was the loudest thing I heard on the walk, and it came with the sudden awareness that the area I was walking in was completely alien to the one I had grown up in. I have visited home again since then, but have been completely unable to ever capture that eerie feeling again. It felt special, like a completely ethereal place in time that would never be recreated again.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 23, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Devin Harrison

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Online Learning
English Animals

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

dog
lockdown
sound

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Sensory History

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/24/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/24/2022
06/19/2022
06/27/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/23/2020

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This item was submitted on May 24, 2022 by Devin Harrison using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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