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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0155
  • Summary(1:35) Currently employed. Commutes by train or bike to Manhattan -- (2:04) Pandemic changed communications at work -- (3:09) Recalls uncertainties in April. Stores closed or badly stocked. Masks appearing -- (4:00) Nervous about shopping, viral transmission. Intensive cleaning, quarantining mail and purchases -- (4:30) Routine established -- (4:50) Anxiety about parents living in San Francisco -- (4:45) Covid-19 precautions -- (6:15) Outside dining festive in summer. Wonders how the restaurants will fare in winter -- (7:38) Food deliveries helpful -- (8:30) African diaspora dance school -- (10:12) Zoom classes, dancing in park -- (11:10) Exercise groups, drummers in Fort Greene -- (12:53) Late March stayed indoors -- (13:50) Working from home -- (14:16) Communicating with relatives and friends (14:48) Navigating information about virus, with focus on China -- (16:35) Product shortages. Made own masks -- (17:30) Concern about first responders -- (18:17) Constant sirens -- (19:02) Work as sock designer. Talks about socks: culture, yarn, care of -- (25:25) Pandemic halted her ceramics activities-- (26:30) Difficulty concentrating early in pandemic -- (27:10) Making videos during the protests -- (27:57) Documenting friends talking about their neighborhood -- (29:39) Foresees vaccine, and future lockdown -- (31:48) Hopes to resume travel in next 14 months.
  • Date2020-10-26
  • Physical Description1 sound file (33 min) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorLuk, May
  • CollectionBrooklyn Covid-19 Stories
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on October 26, 2020, by Anna Zemskova. 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 ; Socks
  • PlaceFort Greene (New York, N.Y.)
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  • TitleOral history interview conducted with May Luk on 2020 October 26.