About This Item
- Call NumberOSOS_OH_0067
- Summary(2:00) Unemployment status pending, time for personal projects -- (3:10) Finances dwindling, formerly worked at Amazon books -- (4:40) Questions about Amazon reopening, retail environment -- (5:38) Worry about financial future, introversion no longer a choice -- (6:36) Unemployment process unpredictable, caseworkers are overwhelmed -- (7:40) Comparable experience: 2004 Florida's hurricane Ivan -- (8:40) Navigating clinical depression -- (9:40) Connecting with friends, family in Florida Panhandle: rural, different conditions -- (11:18) Building, streets eerily quiet -- (12:20) Neighbors moving away, others moving in -- (14:30) Recently arrived in NYC -- (16:14) Crisis found us politically divided, unprepared -- (17:50) Hopes for better response in future -- (18:52) Memory needed to prevent repeating mistakes -- (20:09) Personal contacts outside of NYC ignorant of situation in city.
- Date2020-05-01
- Physical Description1 sound file (22 min.) : digital, WAV
- CreatorMerchant, Kelby
- CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
- Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
- Formatsound recording-nonmusical
- Genreinterviews
- NoteAudio interview conducted on May 1, 2020, by Adwoa Adusei. 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 ; Unemployment insurance--New York (State) ; Amazon Bookstore
- PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
- RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
- TitleOral history interview with Kelby Merchant on 2020 May 1.