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Pensacola Beach Quarantined

Title (Dublin Core)

Pensacola Beach Quarantined

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

I live in Pensacola, about 10 mins from the beach. I have spent many a day at the beach with my family. The sounds and smells of the beach that are familiar to me are children playing, seagulls flying above, someone playing the radio, waves crashing, people talking and laughing, and the smell of nearby restaurants and suntan oil. It was the first week of April 2020, and I had terrible cabin fever from being quarantined, so I decided to take a drive up the coast. After about an hour of driving, I turned around to head home. That is when I really looked at the beach; I had never seen it so empty, void of all humans. I pulled over and got out, and the sounds were different. There were no laughing children, no songs on the radio, just the thunderous crashing of the waves. There was no suntan oil smell in the air, just the smell and taste of saltwater. It was surreal to experience the beach so barren but more serene than it had ever felt.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 2, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Katherine Seals

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Katherine Seals

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Public Space
English Environment & Landscape
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Pensacola Beach
Florida
beach
quarantine
drive
empty

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

sensory history
Pensacola Beach quarantined

Collection (Dublin Core)

Environment

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/03/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/16/2022

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on February 3, 2022 by Katherine Seals 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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