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The Individual, the Collective, & the Crisis: Public Health in Rural Wisconsin

Collected Item: “My Pandemic Life”

What type of object are you contributing?

Document/File

Provide a brief title for the object you are contributing.

My Pandemic Life

Provide us with a brief description of this object and, if it is not obvious, how it connects with the Chippewa Valley. For example, if this object is an image describe for us what the image displays and why it is significant.

This is a poem about how I survived one year as a widow living alone with a very small circle of other people to interact with.

When was this item created? Please use a "month day, year" format, for example, "April 10, 2020."

March 26, 2021

Share with us the geographic location where this item was created. Please include, if possible, a ZIP code and an address or cross streets to help us map this location. For example, "Rice Lake, Wis., 54868, intersection of Main and Knapp."

6601 North Shore Drive, Eau Claire, WI 54703

Who created this object?

Candace A. Hennekens

Tell us who is contributing this object to the Covid-19 archive. For example, "John Smith."

Candace Hennekens

Help us identify a category for this item by selecting one option from this list that best fits the item you are contributing.

Social distancing

(Optional) If there is another category that this item also fits please select it from the list.

Home and family

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about this object? Feel free to add relevant hashtags or a course hashtag if applicable.

I wrote this poem for the April meeting of my writing group. Normally we would meet at L.E. Phillips Memorial Library but we have been meeting monthly by zoom ever since the pandemic began.

Your name.

[private]

I have read and agree to the terms and conditions associated with contributing objects to this project.

Yes
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