Browse Items (22 total)

Ifedayo Kehinde, Oral History Interview with Albert A Kabura, Ifedayo Kehinde, May 3, 2021

The initiative by oral historians to document our COVID 19 experiences in the past year is ingenious and sacrosanct. The COVID MKE archive, when fully…

Tags: Audio, Community, Conversation, Face Mask, Federal Government, Home & Family Life, International, Interview, Mental Health, Oral History, Quarantine, Social Distance, Technology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

A COVID Halloween, Chris Cantwell, 2020

Our block on the East Side of Milwaukee has a lot of kids on it. So we agreed to have a low-key, invite-only Halloween where the kids could get candy…

Tags: Community, Halloween, Photograph, Video

Community Appreciation, Danielle Flood, 2020

I took this picture in April, 2020 after walking out of a long 12-hour shift at the hospital. Every time I look at this picture it brings back many of…

Tags: Community, Healthcare Workers, Photograph, Thank You

Easter Sunday 2020 in Racine, Wisconsin, Ben Schultz, 2020

While I was spending the early part of the pandemic living with my parents, one of their neighbors had a birthday that coincided with Easter Sunday.…

Tags: Celebration, Community, Easter, Photograph, Racine WI

Front Porch Concert, Amanda Seligman, 2020

Neighbors down the street hosted a front porch concert. This was occurred the evening that Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential…

Tags: Celebration, Community, Music, Photograph

Support Local Commerce, Amanda Seligman, 2020

A banner tied to the empty patio of the City Market in Shorewood asks passersby to support local commerce, including employees. The sign was still…

Tags: Business, City Market, Community, Shorewood WI, Sign, Support

Glendale Election Newsletter, Amanda Irene Seligman, 2020

The City of Glendale sent this guide to the upcoming elections out to residents. The eight-page newsletter includes dates of four future elections…

Tags: Community, Glendale WI, Municipal Government, Politics, Text

Social Distance and Protests, Katherine Bischof, 2020

During the beginning of the faith based protest that began on MLK Dr. & Locust St. at 3pm, preachers urged marchers to maintain social distancing due…

Tags: Activism, Community, Gathering, Protest, Social Distance

u/saazann, So What Exactly is Going on? Reddit thread, May 18, 2020

This is a reddit thread of Milwaukeeans explaining what is happening in the city regarding the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling of the safer-at-home…

Tags: Community, Conversation

Patti Sherman-Cisler, Email from Patti Sherman-Cisler 5/13/2020, May 13, 2020

This is the weekly communication from the staff of Jewish Museum Milwaukee to members and subscribers updating them on developments at JMM.

Tags: Community, Fundraiser, Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Museum Moment, Museums & Libraries, Text