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Wilmington, NC: Camping with a close friend

Title (Dublin Core)

Wilmington, NC: Camping with a close friend

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Description (Dublin Core)

Camping was one of the few ways my hometown best friend and I could travel, enjoy nature, and spend time together during covid. We both graduated high school in 2020 and went to different universities. Summer was one of the few times we could catch up in person, and during Covid our options were more limited. Campfires are objects around which I've had some of my most fun and meaningful conversations with my friends throughout my life. This particular one was especially bright and meaningful because my friend and I were both going through a transitional phase of our lives that was made more complex by the twist of the pandemic. A phase of our lives that was supposed to be super social was made less so by the coronavirus, a disappointment we kind of mourned over yet bonded over. To me the brightness of the fire in the dark woods represented hope and life in a time of uncertainty. Even though we felt uncertain about what our lives would look like after college, we remained hopeful and encouraged each other to press on to our goals regardless of the uncontrollable factors. In 2024 we both graduated college and gained commissions into the Armed Services.

Date (Dublin Core)

May 11, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Margaret Bartles

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Travel
English Social Distance
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

camping
friendship
change
nature
hope

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

Arizona State University
HST643
Spring A Session 2025
History of Tourism
fire

Collection (Dublin Core)

Mental Health

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Tourism story for the COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/30/2025

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/10/2025
02/17/2025

Date Created (Dublin Core)

05/11/2022

Item sets

Covid 19
College Students Respond to COVID-19

This item was submitted on January 30, 2025 by Margaret Bartles 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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