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A history professor in our town has a tradition of making elaborate, thought-provoking Halloween displays. This year, he -- and his friends and family, media reports share -- tackled both #BLM and COVID-19, as well as the death of RBG. My family and I went for a walk over the weekend to check it out. It's impossible to capture the full display in a single photo, but I've tried to snap a few. Media reports -- local and national -- capture a bit more. For example: A Connecticut man's Halloween display features real-life horrors: The coronavirus and Black lives lost https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/us/connecticut-man-halloween-covid-blm-trnd/index.html West Hartford family's annual Halloween display tackles BLM, COVID-19 https://www.wfsb.com/news/west-hartford-familys-annual-halloween-display-tackles-blm-covid-19/article_b22f79a0-0724-11eb-97fd-5f5558807e19.html This panel shows Black people killed by police. It's part of a series of four panels that starts with excerpts from announcements of runaway slaves that appeared in local Connecticut newspapers in the 1770s and 1780s, followed by a second panel showing quotations from Frederick Douglass, WEB Dubois, and MLK, then this panel showing people murdered by police. A horrible continuity.
October 8, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I haven't been journaling the last few weeks because unfortunately my grandmother has passed away last week.This, of course, was very hard for my family and me. It was especially hard, because even though I had my family as emotional support, I couldn't talk to my friends at all. Today was the funeral and because it is close to Christmas, I felt really sad and lonely. We have a "hard lockdown" again in Germany and I realise that I start to worry whenever I'm in a public place, like a supermarket, which I have not before. I also realised that I will probably not see my friends before February or March next year and since some of them still meet illegally I feel left out and I am scared, that I will loose some of my friends, because they take my staying away personal.
December 21, 2020