{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/cf9j38kz5z/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Bonus Episode: Missing Them"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis bonus episode of The Borough We Became is a collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library's team responsible for the  \u003cem\u003eBorrowed\u003c/em\u003e  podcast. We decided to bring voices from Queens and Brooklyn together as part of a citywide initiative called Missing Them, by online newspaper THE CITY.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWant to learn more about the topics brought up in this episode? Check out the following links:\u003cbr\u003e• Attend The CITY's   \u003ca href=\"https://letsreimagine.org/missingthem\"\u003e\"Missing Them\"\u003c/a\u003e  event (running online December 11 - 13) and   \u003ca href=\"https://projects.thecity.nyc/covid-19-deaths/\"\u003esearch\u003c/a\u003e   the names and stories of those who've passed from COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e• Queens residents: Share your story with  \u003ca href=\"https://queensmemory.org/\"\u003eQueens Memory.\u003c/a\u003e  If you live in Brooklyn:   \u003ca href=\"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/oral-histories\"\u003eRecord your COVID-19 story\u003c/a\u003e   with Brooklyn Public Library.\u003cbr\u003e• Listen to past Brooklyn oral histories on BPL's   \u003ca href=\"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/osos\"\u003einteractive map,\u003c/a\u003e  or on our previous Borrowed episode,   \u003ca href=\"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/stories-pandemic\"\u003e\"Stories from the Pandemic.\"\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Listen to Season 2 of Queens Memory,   \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/show/queens-memory-covid19-project\"\u003e\"The Borough We Became\"\u003c/a\u003e  for more COVID-19 audio stories, or view Queens COVID-19 photos and stories on   \u003ca href=\"https://qplnyc.urbanarchive.me/cities/nyc\"\u003eUrban Archive.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Create a temporary memorial with tools from   \u003ca href=\"https://namingthelost.com/memorials/\"\u003eNaming the Lost Memorials,\u003c/a\u003e  and see COVID-19 memorials that have gone up   \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/namingthelostmemorials\"\u003earound the country.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Visit   \u003ca href=\"http://www.maplegrove.biz/\"\u003eMaple Grove Cemetery\u003c/a\u003e  or   \u003ca href=\"https://www.green-wood.com/\"\u003eGreen-Wood Cemetery\u003c/a\u003e   for a quiet walk.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBorrowed is hosted by Krissa Corbett Cavouras, and Adwoa Adusei, produced by Virginia Marshall and written by Adwoa Adusei and Virginia Marshall, with help from Fritzi Bodenheimer, Jennifer Proffitt, Meryl Friedman and Robin Lester Kenton. Our music composer is Billy Libby.\u003c/p\u003e (summary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library, 2020. For reproduction requests, please contact queensmemory@queenslibrary.org\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2020-12-10 (released)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Kevin Zambrano (Contributor)","Catherine LaSota (Contributor)","Lydia Howrilka (Contributor)","Vanessa Emile (Contributor)","Esra Dayani  (Contributor)","Adam Whittaker (Contributor)","Bonnie Dixon (Contributor)","Kay Turner (Contributor)","Caitlin Antonios (Contributor)","Adwoa Adusei (Host)","Krissa Corbett Cavouras (Host)","Virginia Marshall (Producer)","Meral Agish (Production personnel)","Fritzi Bodenheimer (Production personnel)","Jennifer Proffitt (Production personnel)","Meryl Friedman (Production personnel)","Robin Lester Kenton (Production personnel)","Natalie Milbrodt  (Production personnel)","Billy Libby (Composer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis bonus episode of The Borough We Became is a collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library's team responsible for the\u0026nbsp; \u003cem\u003eBorrowed\u003c/em\u003e \u0026nbsp;podcast. We decided to bring voices from Queens and Brooklyn together as part of a citywide initiative called Missing Them, by online newspaper THE CITY.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWant to learn more about the topics brought up in this episode? Check out the following links:\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026bull; Attend The CITY's\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://letsreimagine.org/missingthem\"\u003e\"Missing Them\"\u003c/a\u003e \u0026nbsp;event (running online December 11 - 13) and\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://projects.thecity.nyc/covid-19-deaths/\"\u003esearch\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;the names and stories of those who've passed from COVID-19.\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026bull; Queens residents: Share your story with\u0026nbsp; \u003ca href=\"https://queensmemory.org/\"\u003eQueens Memory.\u003c/a\u003e \u0026nbsp;If you live in Brooklyn:\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/oral-histories\"\u003eRecord your COVID-19 story\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;with Brooklyn Public Library.\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026bull; Listen to past Brooklyn oral histories on BPL's\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/osos\"\u003einteractive map,\u003c/a\u003e \u0026nbsp;or on our previous Borrowed episode,\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/stories-pandemic\"\u003e\"Stories from the Pandemic.\"\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026bull; Listen to Season 2 of Queens Memory,\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/show/queens-memory-covid19-project\"\u003e\"The Borough We Became\"\u003c/a\u003e \u0026nbsp;for more COVID-19 audio stories, or view Queens COVID-19 photos and stories on\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://qplnyc.urbanarchive.me/cities/nyc\"\u003eUrban Archive.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026bull; Create a temporary memorial with tools from\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://namingthelost.com/memorials/\"\u003eNaming the Lost Memorials,\u003c/a\u003e \u0026nbsp;and see COVID-19 memorials that have gone up\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/namingthelostmemorials\"\u003earound the country.\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u0026bull; Visit\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"http://www.maplegrove.biz/\"\u003eMaple Grove Cemetery\u003c/a\u003e \u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.green-wood.com/\"\u003eGreen-Wood Cemetery\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;for a quiet walk.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBorrowed is hosted by Krissa Corbett Cavouras, and Adwoa Adusei, produced by Virginia Marshall and written by Adwoa Adusei and Virginia Marshall, with help from Fritzi Bodenheimer, Jennifer Proffitt, Meryl Friedman and Robin Lester Kenton. Our music composer is Billy Libby.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library, 2020. 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And, we’re talking about it because we believe archiving people’s stories at the library is important, but if listening to people’s stories of death is hitting too close to home right now, we’ll be back in two weeks with a lighter story.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1.0,22.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\n[Music]\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=22.0,24.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKevin Zambrano: Almost everyone in my family works as a maintenance worker, you know, in all of these huge office buildings. And my grandmother was the first one to get sick. She was the first one to get a fever and a headache, and we did later learn that someone at her job had received a diagnosis of COVID-19 right around the same time she was working. Once my grandmother got sick, it was just a matter of time before the people who lived in the apartment with her got sick. And then, of course, my grandfather got sick.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=24.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: This is Kevin Zambrano, a student at NYU. He was born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and he recorded his oral history with Brooklyn Public Library in May in order to remember his grandfather, who died of COVID-19 at a Brooklyn Hospital.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=68.0,88.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKevin Zambrano: His name was Fortunato Martinez. He was a maintenance worker for the majority of his live. Prior to, he was a truck driver in Mexico and had decided to come to the US to have a better life for his kids. He was in many ways like a dad, just because I had very few interactions with my own dad. I was his grandson, but I would catch it in his slips of like, when he would talk to me, and when my grandmother would talk to me, they would say the Spanish word for son, which is mi hijo, and it was in those moments I would realize that our bond was paternal.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=88.0,144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\n[Music]\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=144.0,146.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKevin Zambrano: I can’t grieve in any sort of normal way by going to visit family. Just the other day, I went to go pick up his death certificate, and on the death certificate, there’s a box that says \"informant\" and in that box was my name. And I just thought about that word, I thought about what it meant to be an informant of death, and to be surrounded by it, but not understand it, and the thought of what it meant to work cleaning empty office buildings for people who could work at home and could be at home with their families. But, meanwhile my family was being sent out every night to go clean those buildings and disinfect them. So, it was a very frustrating moment, and one of anger, because my family didn't have the privilege to work from home.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=146.0,206.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: Today on Borrowed, we’re bringing you a special episode on grief during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we can move forward as a community.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=206.0,216.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: This episode is created in partnership with Queens Memory and the online newspaper The CITY. I’m Adwoa Adusei.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=216.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: And I’m Krissa Corbett Cavouras. We’re calling this episode: Missing Them.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=223.0,230.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\n[Music]\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=230.0,235.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: One way New Yorkers have been documenting their grief is in local community archiving projects. At the start of the pandemic, back in April, our colleagues at Queens Memory, the ongoing community archiving program supported by Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY, put out a call for stories relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. What resulted was an influx of written testimonies, pictures, and voice recordings from Queens residents who wanted to document their experience in a borough that was then the epicenter of the evolving COVID-19 crisis.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=235.0,269.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nCatherine LaSota: Being here in Queens and having communications with people in other parts of the country, when it was really hitting us here, being like, we all know people personally who have died and you don't, and that feels different. \r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=269.0,282.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: Catherine LaSota is a resident of Long Island City in Queens. She’s a writer and works at Columbia University, and back in March, she and her family got sick with COVID. She recorded her oral history with Queens Memory, and talked about what it felt like to be in Queens during the peak of New York City’s COVID surge.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=282.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nCatherine LaSota: But yeah, actually I remember when we first knew somebody who died, that was kind of a turning point. You know that you're going to know somebody who's going to die. Like, you can feel it coming.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=300.0,315.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":" \r\nLydia Howrilka: I know seven people personally, who've died from COVID. Seven people who were former teachers, colleagues. One of them was a student who passed away, unfortunately.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=315.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":" \r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: Lydia Howrilka lives in Floral Park, Queens. She’s a public school teacher in Brooklyn, and she’s also a union rep for the United Federation of Teachers.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=328.0,338.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nLydia Howrilka: As a teacher, like, we were pushing our union to really enforce for the DOE that schools needed to be closed. Because as teachers, we see kids riding the subway and buses, they're getting contact with people and so they were picking up the virus in public transit, passing on to their parents,  many of whom are first responders, essential workers. And then a lot of teachers were getting sick. It's estimated that roughly 80 teachers in the public school system have passed. I remember, in March and April, when everybody was getting sick, like, it truly felt that like three quarters of the city had the disease at one point. Because like everybody who lived in the city knew someone who had lost somebody or who was sick or they knew or they themselves were sick. So, it really just felt like this all encompassing thing.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=338.0,396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: Across the city, this pandemic has affected everyone, in different ways. We have all been impacted by it.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=396.0,405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: Shortly after Queens Memory started up their project, we at Brooklyn Public Library began to collect COVID-19 stories, too. Over the past eight months, a team of a dozen volunteers recorded over 40 oral history interviews. It was clear that Brooklyn wanted to talk, too, and many came to us in order to remember loved ones lost to COVID-19.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=405.0,425.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: One of those Brooklynites was Vanessa Emile, a high school teacher who lives in Canarsie. Her family was particularly devastated. In the space of one month, she lost four of her family members. During her recording, Vanessa recited the names of those family members, so that they would not be forgotten.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=425.0,443.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nVanessa Emile: My grandmother’s name is Mary Anne Tabernacle Emile, and she was 95 years old. My uncle is Roger Emile and he was 71 years old, I believe. My father is Jean Yves Emile and he was 69, and my aunt is Marie Emile, and I believe she was 66. For my father, I can honestly say that this was very unexpected, but even through it all he was very strong through it. And I think the hardest part about all of this is that he was unable to be with his family, or to see his family, see his kids, be with his wife. It was the first time, losing someone so close to us. Not just once, but four times, all at once, which is a lot. It just really shows us how time is not given to us, and the time that you spend with people is so important and valuable. Because, even now, I just think about the times I did have with my father, my aunt, my uncle, my grandma. I’m just thinking about how could I have maybe spent more time with them, or have done something differently with them.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=443.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: It’s hard to imagine how a person can recover from that kind of loss and trauma. This interview was recorded at the end of August, when New York City had a bit of a reprieve. People started to gather again, and businesses and restaurants were opening up. Vanessa spoke about the strangeness of that moment.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=540.0,559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nVanessa Emile: In the beginning, like in June and July, when things started opening up, it was hard to step out. And it was this fear and paranoia of just taking off your clothes by the door and making sure you wash it right away. And now we’re at a point where people are just walking freely, and there’s more understanding around how the virus is spread. And then there are times were I’m looking at people and I’m just like, how could everybody be so free and happy when we just experienced this crazy pandemic? 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And that's something that we usually sit down and for at least an hour, you know, chat with the people and get a feeling for where they are and what they want. And, that wasn't, we couldn't do that. We didn't have the time to do that. People were anxious to get in. I don't know how we're going to recover from that. 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Kay has studied traditional practices of mourning as a folklorist, and in early June, she was part of a program put on by the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Guyanese Cultural Association called “In Times Like These.” The program highlighted the changing mourning practices in Brooklyn’s Guyanese community, and when we interviewed her for this podcast, she described the way a traditional Guyanese funeral might unfold.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=831.0,858.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKay Turner: Stories would be told about the person. Then, there would be a nine night's celebration after the death, and that would be another opportunity for people to gather. 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And a lot of people, I think, continue to suffer with this, that the the normal vehicles of mourning are, like sitting Shiva for the Jewish community, people can't come into a home and sit Shiva for seven days when someone has died.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=903.0,926.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: Two cultural communities with grieving practices that rely on large gatherings of people, Jewish and Caribbean cultures, both of those communities exist in large numbers in Central Brooklyn, which is a neighborhood particularly hard hit by the pandemic.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=926.0,951.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: Because so many of our traditions around mourning have been halted, more and more New Yorkers are looking for ways to memorialize loved ones in a safe way that was still emotionally impactful. Kay Turner was one of those people.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=951.0,956.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKay Turner: After the pandemic started to run up tremendous amounts of deaths in April, a number of activists and artists and folklorists in New York City got concerned because the administration, the Trump administration, didn't seem to be creating any national grieving outlet of any kind. 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Krissa, you live near there, right?\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=991.0,1014.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: Yeah, I do. And I would go to Green-Wood all the time in May and June, because it’s a place you can walk and get some solace. And I remember seeing these paper templates that had been written on and decorated, sometimes with photographs, and it really stood out to me that this was so immediate, that this grief was really fresh. These were people in my own neighborhood who had probably lost someone in the past few weeks.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1014.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: The memorials that went up in May were really popular. So the group decided to make monthly memorials to recognize different communities that had experienced loss from COVID-19. \r\n\r\n[00:17:35\r\nKay Turner: We need to encourage these kinds of common memorials that people can make on their own, perhaps annually. This is a part of the way that the people can take control of what they want to memorialize, what they feel is worthy, what they need to take account of.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1043.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\n[Music]\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1080.0,1085.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: Naming the Lost Memorials has since put up displays at Madison Square Park for the march to fund undocumented workers, at nursing homes in Staten Island and in Washington Heights, at an MTA bus depot in Brooklyn, and there are more popping up across the city and the country. We’ll put a link to the Naming the Lost Memorials Facebook page, where you can see pictures of recent memorials. \r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1085.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: Many of us are grappling with this question, about how to have a reckoning of loss in this city, how to move on from this crisis and honor those that have been lost to a deadly virus.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1110.0,1122.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: The online newspaper The CITY is trying to figure out, too. In May, they launched an ambitious project to record obituaries for every New Yorker who died from COVID-19. They called their project, “Missing Them,” and it’s an online space to remember and honor every person who died, who they were and what they meant to the city. \r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1122.0,1143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: Of the nearly 25,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in New York City, the Missing Them project has collected nearly 2,000 names and written nearly 200 obituaries, and they’re aiming to capture all of them, because public memorials — obituaries like the ones you might see in The New York Times or The Washington Post -- are only capturing a select group of people. Usually younger, more white, and wealthier. The CITY is trying to capture and memorialize everyone else.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1143.0,1177.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nCaitlin Antonios: What's special about this project is it doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter what your job was. It doesn't matter if you had a job. It doesn't matter where you lived. 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And that's all people are quoting and saying and watching. They're not numbers. They're people. I lived very close to a hospital throughout all of April, and I was constantly hearing the sirens and my heart was just breaking. And this felt like a way to make sure that nobody was forgotten, make sure these stories were told. Every person that I was talking to, in the midst of their own grief, was thinking about everyone else's grief. And they kept saying things like, thank you so much for doing this for my loved one, you know, I'm thinking of everyone else's loved ones who had to go through this as well. And that sort of empathy, I think, is just really special to the feeling of community that's in New York.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1199.0,1255.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: To search for names and stories of loved ones, or to add a story of your loved one who died from COVID-19, visit TheCITY [dot] nyc [slash] missing [dash] them. 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We’ll also put a link to that in our show notes.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1293.0,1306.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: If you live in Queens, share your story with Queens Memory by visiting queensmemory [dot] org, or call (855) QNS-LOVE, that’s (855) 767-5683.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1306.0,1321.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: If you’re a Brooklynite, you can record your oral history about COVID-19 and archive it in our ongoing oral history project, Our Streets, Our Stories. Visit BKLYN Library [dot] org [slash] podcasts [slash] oral [dash] histories for more information. You can also call (917) 426-1271.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1321.0,1346.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: And, The CITY is putting on a virtual event to bring New Yorkers together to remember and honor those lost to COVID-19. Starting on Friday, December 11 and running until December 13, you can log on and listen to the stories of lives lost during this pandemic. Families and friends of loved ones who have passed are encouraged to share memories, and community partners like Brooklyn Public Library will be sharing poetry, writing workshops, and theater performances, all designed to honor our lost loved ones. You can register for the free events and read more about the schedule of events at reimagine [dot] org [slash] missing them.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1346.0,1389.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nAdwoa Adusei: We’re going to have all of those resource links on our website.\r\n\r\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1389.0,1391.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440/transcript/21051/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\r\nKrissa Corbett Cavouras: And, until next time, we’ll be listening for your stories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/943/collection_resources/32614/file/101440#t=1391.0,1397.6432"}]}]}]}