Summary(1:25) Quarantining alone in studio, Park Slope -- (2:18) Virtual connections -- (3:50) Software engineer working from home, from March 13 -- (4:50) Changes to Park Slope Food Coop operations -- (8:20) Key Food market -- (9:36) Politics shifting left -- (11:23) Attitude changes towards essential workers, often immigrants -- (12:18) Desire to re-structure capitalism -- (13:55) Residential block more connected -- (14:25) Sing-alongs -- (15:44) Deaths -- (17:30) Park Slope, a wealthier neighborhood, less impacted -- (19:20) Canceled travel -- (20:12) Social inequities -- (20:50) Fear second wave of illness -- (22:00) Connection with boyfriend, mother -- (23:25) Awareness of daily life, good fortune.
NoteAudio interview conducted on April 26, 2020, by Virginia Marshall. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
SubjectQuarantine ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; Epidemics ; Coronaviruses ; Telecommuting ; Park Slope Food Coop ; Food cooperatives ; Grocery trade ; Politics and government ; Social justice
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TitleOral history interview with Meredith Edwards on 2020 April 26.