Summary(1:50) Adam’s interview: Entering quarantine March 12 -- (2:50) Office closed for Covid-19 -- (3:30) Not leaving home -- (4:06) Son does online school -- (4:50) Grateful to have job -- (5:10) Exercise and entertainment in confined spaces -- (6:08) Responsibility toward colleagues, other New Yorkers -- (7:43) Changes in Park Slope: sounds, friendliness -- (8:42) 7pm claps for essential workers -- (10:40) Worry about reopening -- (11:40) Public reckoning: loss of life -- (14:30) Naomi Raquel Enright's interview -- (15:50) New normal, surreal -- (18:12) Family in Guayaquil, Ecuador -- (19:33) Explaining pandemic to son -- (22:05) Son talks to classmates about pandemic -- (24:17) Changes in neighborhood -- (26:04) Changes in her work with student teachers -- (27:00) Connecting online -- (30:22) Sebastián begins his interview -- (age 9) (31:48) Online school -- (32:07) Staying inside difficult -- (33:38) Eager for summer and seeing friends.
NoteAudio interview conducted on April 21, 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.
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TitleOral history interview with Adam Whittaker, his wife Naomi Raquel Enright and their son (age 9) Sebastián on 2020 April 21.