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  • Collection: Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project

Oral history interview with Tom McMurdo

AudioFileCOVID-043_mcmurdo.mp3
Tom McMurdo discusses the Vermont Department of Libraries' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He speaks about the closure and subsequent reopening of state library offices in Barre, Vermont. He also explains how their services were provided to public…

Oral history interview with Amy Mason

AudioFileCOVID-042_mason.mp3
Amy Mason discusses her experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially her own long COVID symptoms and treatments. She speaks about how she first contracted COVID on a family trip to Europe in August 2022, which was followed quickly by her…

Oral history interview with Justin Marsh

AudioFileCOVID-041_marsh.mp3
Justin Marsh recalls how the early days of COVID-19 pandemic affected their job as director of development at the Pride Center of Vermont. Like most places of employment, the Pride Center shut its doors and was forced to work and connect with their…

Oral history interview with Shannon MacVean-Brown

AudioFileCOVID-040_macveanbrown.mp3
Bishop Shannon MacVean-Brown discusses her work at the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, she conveys how she needed to quickly adapt to lead her parishes in continuing their ministry virtually. She explains how…

Oral history interview with Neale Lunderville

AudioFileCOVID-039_lunderville.mp3
Neale F. Lunderville describes his role as a volunteer assisting the administration of Vermont Governor Phil Scott during the state's response to COVID-19 pandemic. Both Lunderville and Liz Miller, a chief of staff to former Vermont Governor Peter…

Oral history interview with Lisa Hoare

AudioFileCOVID-038_hoare.mp3
Lisa Hoare discusses her experiences as a garden educator at the University of Vermont Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes the grant-funded Gardening for Health Program that she developed with Michelle Gates (former executive…

Oral history interview with Mark Levine

AudioFileCOVID-036_levine.mp3
Dr. Mark Levine discusses his experiences and actions as Vermont's top public health official and part of the state's COVID-19 leadership team during the COVID-19 pandemic. He describes regularly collaborating with state officials and agencies on the…

Oral history interview with Andrea Howe

AudioFileCOVID-033_howe.mp3
Andrea Howe discusses changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to both the town government in Marlboro, Vermont, and other aspects of her life. As the town's assistant treasurer, she describes their in-office practices and the transition of their town…

Oral history interview with Denise Hartman

AudioFileCOVID-030_hartman.mp3
Denise Hartman discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on her work as a physical therapist in a long term care facility. She describes the many procedural changes at her workplace, including testing and increased use of PPE. She also speaks…

Oral history interview with Jill Greene

AudioFileCOVID-029_greene.mp3
Jill Greene describes both her experiences as a nurse in a Michigan hospital at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent move to Vermont in September 2020. In Michigan, she was redeployed from the PACU to the ICU, but did not perceive that…

Oral history interview with Ellen Gnaedinger

AudioFileCOVID-028_gnaedinger.mp3
Ellen Gnaedinger, DNP, APRN, discusses both the rural pediatric primary care office where she worked in Royalton, Vermont, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and her transition to a school nurse role in summer 2021. She describes modifications…

Oral history interview with Dennis Fuller

AudioFileCOVID-027_fuller.mp3
Dennis Fuller discusses the operations of the Canaan Historical Society during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, he describes the historical society's relationship with the Alice M. Ward Memorial Library. The historical society's museum is in the…