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  2020-08-19

  Portfolio of a JOPL Intern, Summer 2020, Lyn Ribisi

  This is my portfolio for my 15 weeks as an intern working with The Journal of the Plague Year. I was anxious to learn the skills involved in gathering, creating, and archiving materials to preserve history in our lifetime. The pandemic of COVID-19 is a once in a century occurrence, and I felt it was very important to preserve our thoughts, emotions, photographs, jokes, and events that are shaping our lives now. Generally, I’ve been fascinated by archives and the potential they hold for telling our stories. I’ve also been frustrated by the lack of accessibility they all present. I’m hoping that the digital archive techniques we have employed will ease that problem. We’ve had the freedom to use tags (or, in archive-speak, folksonomy) to make the content searchable and accessible to all who come after us. In addition to archive work, my branch of historical interest is in the everyday lives of people. This digital repository satisfies both passions. Lastly, working on preserving the events of this pandemic has helped me find my way during this difficult time. I feel that I've been able to contribute--at least a little bit--and thus been able to be causative over some little part of this global nightmare. I am earning my Master’s degree in order to teach at the college where I work now. I’ve been functioning as a TA for the last several years as well as working as a classified staff member. I should graduate in May 2021, and become an adjunct. However, with all learning remote and the campus closed, hiring may be delayed. My mission is to inspire a love of history and the ability to think critically about the past and present. Too often history is still being taught as a memorization exercise of dates, names, and events. I will teach against that model and hopefully inspire a love of the past and its lessons and stories in my students. I want to thank all of our staff at ASU for delivering a professional learning experience—I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to be a part of it.
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  07/17/2020

  Adelaide and Eloise Posner Oral History, 2020/07/17

  This is an interview with two sisters, Adelaide, 13, and Eloise, 10. They discuss their lives since COVID-19 hit as well as humor and its role in facing hard times.
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  2020-07-10

  AG Oral History, 2020/07/10

  This is an oral history interview by AG, a 39 year old mother of three young children living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She discusses the stresses and worries about the Coronavirus time.
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  2020-05-20

  Empty Parking Lots that Were Once Filled

  These parking lots were empty for months during the COVID pandemic. Businesses were ordered to close unless it was deemed a "essential business." Those businesses included grocery stores, home improvement centers, real estate agents, pharmacies, ranching, farming, food production, health care, motels/hotels. As a result, retail, restaurants, small businesses, salons, gyms, and so many others suffered incredible financial losses. Many will not recover.
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  0202-07-07

  Mask won't stop My Mustache!

  Masks are everywhere! I saw this gent in Target and was interested in his big mustache. He enjoyed having his picture taken
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  2020-06-03

  Dining Out at Yard House. They Opened!

  The restaurants were all closed for in-store dining after 3 months! My husband and I decided to go and eat out for the first time in about the same amount of time. We went to Yard House in Rancho Mirage. Every other booth was blocked off to ensure social distancing. The food was excellent, and it felt quite special. One very weird aspect was that, since they are a sports bar, they were expected to show sports on the televisions that are all around the restaurant. Looking closer, I saw that they were playing games that were decades old. That was depressing and a reminder of the current state of the world.
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  2020-06-13

  Black Lives Matter Collage on Boarded up Shop

  This is a shot in Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. It was a week or so after the riots and mid the series of protests. It is an art piece about Black Lives Matter.
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  2020-06-07

  Hollywood is deserted and all boarded up

  We drove on Sunset Blvd in the beginning of June. This was a week or two after the protests and riots. Hollywood was deserted and boarded up, looking like a war zone or something. Desolation.
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  2020-06-01

  COVID-19 Shots Around Town

  I shot a few pictures as I was going to different places. In this one collection are photos of social distancing, "We're Open!" signs, COVID warning signs, empty grocery shelves, a salad bar unable to be used due to contagion of the virus, new protocols for shopping
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  03/30/2020

  Will Quarentine Ever End?

  This is a meme I made after about two weeks into the quarantine. Many of us felt like it would never end. Little did we know that we had so many more weeks ahead of us. #homelife, #coronavirius, #isolation, #shelterinplace, #williteverend #ASU #HST580