Summary(1:28) Calling from Greenpoint -- (4:00) Before quarantine: working on start-up business, very busy. Launched at beginning of pandemic, then shut down -- (6:30) Scientist friend advised stocking supplies for several months -- (7:40) March: anxiety growing, immune-compromised -- (10:00) Relieved not to go out at beginning -- (12:40) Video games (13:50) Tech difficulties with interview -- (14:10) Resume interview. Daily schedule, sharing chores -- (21:00) Cannot recall month of May -- (21:150) Business resumed. Safety measures -- (23:30) Black Lives Matter protests -- (24:10) Unable to join protests -- (26:20) Goes outside only occasionally due to health issues -- (28:50) Computer games by video chat. Keeping more in touch with people -- (35:00) Hard to give up summer family vacation in Michigan -- (39:20) Difficult to have any sense of time. Sleep disrupted. No solitude -- (41:30) Misses contact with neighbors, bodega, dry cleaner -- (43:10) Worried about being too cautious.
NoteAudio interview conducted on August 7, 2020, by Maria Luisa Gambale. 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.
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TitleOral interview with Jennifer Sutton conducted on 2020 August 7.