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Mini oral history with Margaret Geddes, 2/20/2021
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Mini oral history with Margaret Geddes, 2/20/2021
Margaret Geddes Oral History, 2021/02/20
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Mini oral history with Margaret Geddes, 2/20/2021
Interviewed by Padraic Cohen
Interviewed by Padraic Cohen
Recording Date (Dublin Core)
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
Partner (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
oral history
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Home & Family Life
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Collection (Dublin Core)
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
02/21/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
03/13/2021
03/16/2021
09/05/2021
08/02/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
02/20/2021
Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)
Padraic Cohen
Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)
Margaret Geddes
Location (Omeka Classic)
Calgary
Alberta
Canada
Format (Dublin Core)
mp3
Language (Dublin Core)
English
Duration (Omeka Classic)
0h:03m:16s
Transcription (Omeka Classic)
Padraic Cohen: Hi my name is Padraic Cohen and I’m a graduate student intern with the COVID-19 archive at ASU. The date is February 20th, 2021the time is 3:38PM and I’m speaking with Margaret Geddes.
I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience, but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 archive. The COVID-19 archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
Margaret Geddes: I say just yes, right?
Padraic: Yep!
Margaret Geddes: Yes
Padraic Cohen: Okay, thank you. So first, can you tell me your name, age, race, and where you live
Margaret Geddes: Okay um, I’m 86 years old, my race, I was born in Canada but my parents uh, both from England, British and um, you want my address?
Padraic Cohen: Oh no no, just your name
Margaret Geddes: What else do I have to tell you, I’ve forgot now
Padraic Cohen: Oh, just your name
Margaret Geddes: Margaret Geddes
Padraic Cohen: Okay, there we go, now I’d like to ask you a question about the Pandemic, so here’s the question here
Margaret Geddes: Alright
Padraic Cohen: We’ve experienced a lot of changes in 2020 and many have been negative and disruptive. But perhaps it’s not all bad. What’s one positive thing you’ve experienced during the pandemic?
Margaret Geddes: One positive thing?
Padraic Cohen: Mhm!
Margaret Geddes: I guess, for me personally, I don’t go out very much but I guess the positive thing would be, hm, hard to say uhm.. Just that so far everybody in my family has been safe, and that’s the, I guess the big positive thing, I haven’t been in contact with any one that has the virus, I don’t know anyone that has the virus, so I guess that’s all positive
Padraic Cohen: Mhm
Margaret Geddes: Is that good enough?
Padraic Cohen: Yeah, that’s totally fine, is that what you want to say
Margaret Cohen: I think so, I very rarely go out so I don’t see a lot of people
Padraic Cohen: Yeah, that’s me too, well that’s all that there was, there was only one question, thank you for your time today and I will conclude the interview
Margaret Cohen: That’s it?
Padraic Cohen: That’s it! Unless you want to say anything more!
Margaret: No um, I’ve never lived through an epidemic before, I’ve never experienced that, oh maybe when I was a child there was a polio epidemic, but it didn’t seem to affect us there again we didn’t go anywhere
Padraic Cohen: So about the same thing?
Margaret Geddes: yea!
Padraic Cohen: yea! Well thank you so much gram
Margaret Geddes: Okay, thank you!
Padraic Cohen: I’m just gonna stop recording, I’m not gonna hang up, I’m just gonna stop recording so I can talk to everyone
(I forgot to ask her where she lives, this interview was conducted remotely with me in Cochrane Alberta, Canada – and Margaret in Calgary Alberta, Canada.)
I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience, but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 archive. The COVID-19 archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
Margaret Geddes: I say just yes, right?
Padraic: Yep!
Margaret Geddes: Yes
Padraic Cohen: Okay, thank you. So first, can you tell me your name, age, race, and where you live
Margaret Geddes: Okay um, I’m 86 years old, my race, I was born in Canada but my parents uh, both from England, British and um, you want my address?
Padraic Cohen: Oh no no, just your name
Margaret Geddes: What else do I have to tell you, I’ve forgot now
Padraic Cohen: Oh, just your name
Margaret Geddes: Margaret Geddes
Padraic Cohen: Okay, there we go, now I’d like to ask you a question about the Pandemic, so here’s the question here
Margaret Geddes: Alright
Padraic Cohen: We’ve experienced a lot of changes in 2020 and many have been negative and disruptive. But perhaps it’s not all bad. What’s one positive thing you’ve experienced during the pandemic?
Margaret Geddes: One positive thing?
Padraic Cohen: Mhm!
Margaret Geddes: I guess, for me personally, I don’t go out very much but I guess the positive thing would be, hm, hard to say uhm.. Just that so far everybody in my family has been safe, and that’s the, I guess the big positive thing, I haven’t been in contact with any one that has the virus, I don’t know anyone that has the virus, so I guess that’s all positive
Padraic Cohen: Mhm
Margaret Geddes: Is that good enough?
Padraic Cohen: Yeah, that’s totally fine, is that what you want to say
Margaret Cohen: I think so, I very rarely go out so I don’t see a lot of people
Padraic Cohen: Yeah, that’s me too, well that’s all that there was, there was only one question, thank you for your time today and I will conclude the interview
Margaret Cohen: That’s it?
Padraic Cohen: That’s it! Unless you want to say anything more!
Margaret: No um, I’ve never lived through an epidemic before, I’ve never experienced that, oh maybe when I was a child there was a polio epidemic, but it didn’t seem to affect us there again we didn’t go anywhere
Padraic Cohen: So about the same thing?
Margaret Geddes: yea!
Padraic Cohen: yea! Well thank you so much gram
Margaret Geddes: Okay, thank you!
Padraic Cohen: I’m just gonna stop recording, I’m not gonna hang up, I’m just gonna stop recording so I can talk to everyone
(I forgot to ask her where she lives, this interview was conducted remotely with me in Cochrane Alberta, Canada – and Margaret in Calgary Alberta, Canada.)
This item was submitted on February 21, 2021 by Padraic Cohen using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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