Oral history interview with Nicole Patterson
Title
Oral history interview with Nicole Patterson
Description
Nicole "Nicky" Patterson discusses in detail the logistical changes made at St. Albans Town Education Center (SATEC) throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes their transitions to fully remote learning and hybrid learning as well as the return to fully in-person school. She talks about the long-term aftereffects of the pandemic on early childhood development and school staffing. Personally, she contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic and explains her experience navigating testing, quarantine, and other aspects of the illness.
Patterson also speaks about her experiences as a single mother, particularly how the pandemic impacted her adopted son's experience at a residential school in Lake Placid, New York. She touches on other impacts of COVID to her family, including the changing rules for visiting residents at her grandmother's nursing home and other family members' experiences with COVID. She lives close to her parents, who were almost seventy at the start of the pandemic, and was able to form a pod with them. Other topics she reflects on include changes to church services, people's political views about COVID-19 responses, and travel (including details of protocol changes for cruise lines).
Nicole "Nicky" Patterson began her teaching career in 1997. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she taught 3rd and 4th grade at St. Albans Town Education Center (SATEC) in Saint Albans, Vermont.
Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.
Patterson also speaks about her experiences as a single mother, particularly how the pandemic impacted her adopted son's experience at a residential school in Lake Placid, New York. She touches on other impacts of COVID to her family, including the changing rules for visiting residents at her grandmother's nursing home and other family members' experiences with COVID. She lives close to her parents, who were almost seventy at the start of the pandemic, and was able to form a pod with them. Other topics she reflects on include changes to church services, people's political views about COVID-19 responses, and travel (including details of protocol changes for cruise lines).
Nicole "Nicky" Patterson began her teaching career in 1997. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she taught 3rd and 4th grade at St. Albans Town Education Center (SATEC) in Saint Albans, Vermont.
Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.
Date
2024-02-29
Subject
Source
Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project
Identifier
AudioFileCOVID-048
Format
MP3
WAV
Type
Audio file
Rights
Permission to publish material from the Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project may be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.
Interviewer
Wingerson, Amber
Interviewee
Patterson, Nicole
Duration
1 hr., 47 min., 1 sec.
Repository
Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4215
Collection
Citation
“Oral history interview with Nicole Patterson,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed April 2, 2025, https://digitalvermont.org/vtcovid/AudioFileCOVID-048.