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Collected Item: “Trick-or-Treating During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

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Trick-or-Treating During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

A photograph of my porch in preparation for trick-or-treaters

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.

For this year's Halloween, my mother wanted to hand out candy in a safe, fun way for the trick or treaters to enjoy. She found a way to maintain the appropriate 6-foot distance by utilizing a long PVC pipe as a chute to send the candy shooting down to the trick-or-treaters below on our front porch steps. This picture exemplifies the measures people have done to maintain normality amidst this devastating crisis and I believe it captures the common effort to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19 while still engaging in fun activities.

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?

#Halloween2020, #Trick-or-treating, #Massachusetts, #Hope

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

Sarah Webber

Give this story a date.

2020-10-31
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