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These oral histories are part of the Chippewa Valley Archive Project that is archiving interviews from individuals from the Chippewa Valley in Wisconsin, and the surrounding area, and focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and its influence on individuals.
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11/20/2020John Verdon Oral History, 2020/11/20
John Verdon was born and raised in Lansing, Iowa. After attending college, John had a long and successful teaching career at Waverly Shell-Rock High School in Waverly, Iowa. John Verdon is currently retired and resides in the town where he was born and raised. In this interview, John Verdon illustrates how COVID-19 affected his life, his family, his friends, and the small midwestern community he lives in. He discusses the rising number of COVID cases raging across the United States, leadership response to the pandemic, how individuals that he knows responded to the virus, and what impact COVID-19 has on our future.