Collected Item: “Neighbourhood entertainment”
Give your story a title.
Neighbourhood entertainment
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photograph, Merlynston Train Station and surrounds, Coburg North, Victoria, Australia
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.
Early in the Covid 19 lockdown I found these notes posted on telephone poles along my path to the train station. I later heard a rumour that they'd been sighted all the way along the local bike path. Whether the story they tell is real or not I love that someone in the neighbourhood was providing a story for the community to follow on their daily walks. It felt like following an old fashioned newspaper serial. We've all had to find new forms of entertainment, and since gyms shut down and people started working from home, people seem to have been taking up walking like never before. (HIST30060)
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?
Melbourne, connection, stories, walking, neighbourhood, community, entertainment
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
story poster: anonymous, photograph: Zoe Manoussakis
Give this story a date.
2020-05-08