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  2020-01

  A Prophetic Proposal

  I'm a Public History MA student at Northeastern University taking a course about museums. As part of the course, our final project was to design an exhibit about some element of Boston history. Planning for this project began in late January. Trying to think of some element of Boston history that was relevant to today, I came up with the idea of the 1919-20 flu pandemic. It was 100 years since the pandemic. Boston was the first hit city in the US, and I had seen news about the coronavirus spreading in China, so it felt very topical. Little did I know how topical the project would become.
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  2020-03-29

  Untested

  A twitter conversation between the contributor and a British twitter uses, where she talks about being sick with a suspected case of the coronavirus, but because she was not hospitalized, she was never tested
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  2020-03-29

  Text conversation featuring homemade face mask

  A text conversation between Sebastien Hardinger and his parents, Chris Hardinger and Johanne Lamarche, about a face mask that Johanne made herself from an old sheet
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  2020-03-24

  Tuesday Trivia

  With bars closed, Tuesday Trivia was instead held among friends as a Zoom meeting