About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0061
  • Summary(1:52) Work as freelance book editor -- (2:46) Missing personal interactions, connecting with friends and family in Australia -- (3:45) Working from home -- (4:45) Bed-Stuy Strong mutual aid group -- (6:50) Community events, livestreams, baking and fermenting -- (8:15) Longstanding involvement with mutual aid groups in Bed-Stuy -- (9:30) Awareness of privilege, desire to share -- (10:30) Paying attention to neighbors and staying connected to distant loved ones through technology -- (12:10) Reaching out to neighbors, importance of stoops -- (14:19) Worries for future: long-term impacts, testing -- (17:08) Future needs of people -- (18:20) Future depends on new perspective and focus on community -- (19:00) Deciding, as an immigrant from Australia, to stay in Brooklyn
  • Date2020-04-27
  • Physical Description1 sound file (20 min) : digital, WAV
  • CreatorKing, Georgia Frances
  • 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 April 27, 2020, by Zoe Grueskin. 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 ; Telecommuting ; Fraternal organizations ; Baking ; Fermentation ; Immigrants ; 
  • 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 Georgia Frances King on 2020 April 27.