Their first stop was Chattanooga, Tenn., where they conducted three interviews they had arranged in advance through a friend. I get to sit here and look into that old world.. And check out their powerful, sweet and hilarious mix of post-pandemic wishes. And Sharon, 22, a Santa Fe, N.M., restaurant worker trying to balance her college studies with helping her family, including her drug-addicted brother and his girlfriend, who had a baby, also born drug addicted. Most of my junior year was spent wandering from bedroom to bedroom, each its own ecosystem. Jean-Christophe Cloutier is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and Undergraduate Chair of Penns English Department in the School of Arts & Sciences. They used an app, called Social Explorer, to chart a route with socioeconomic and ethnic diversity. The professor and I were on the phone over winter break trying to brainstorm some ideas for a long-form project before the start of the semester, says Jinich. And Im proud of what they've been able to achieve, he says. We used that to inform a long list of potential stops that we could hit.. And they were super down to chat, they were interested in why we were in Circleville and we got to talking, but when we told them Oh were interested in doing these interviews for this project, they were way more skeptical. In high school, I started a culture and identity magazine that was predicated on personal storytelling. All members agree to receive our weekly newsletter, members-only communications, invitations to exclusive events and occasional breaking news updates. Check out our interactive tool looking at the rising gas prices in our region. But after that, they would pull into a new place and start asking strangers who looked like they were in the age range if they would be willing to be interviewed. JBP: How has this experience affected your already-strong friendship? We wanted the peoples stories to speak for themselves.. As Ive grown older, I started to realize that not everybody has those opportunities to be able to process what theyve gone through and then release it. Sriracha. Also, we want your reactions to last nights Sixers game and the return of Ben Simmons. [Hendrickson] has a rare gift for finding beauty and significance in everything. David provides a running analysis on how the fashion trends have changed (guys dont wear tank tops anymore) and how out-of-place he feels on campus (I dont remember the last time I went to a party). He experienced a lot of bad things this year related to custody of his child and not being able to stay physically fit in the way that he wouldve liked to. Deveraux visited Penn Museum to study the complicated legacy of the photographic genius of Edward Curtis, the premier photographer and ethnologist of indigenous Americans in the early part of the 20th century. He sent me a link to Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk and it set my mind loose.. 2021/10/12. Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive undertaken by Penn English major Max Strickberger and Penn English minor Alan Jinich, featured in Penn Today. Life was all neon and Fling parties were on campus. Who knows how this will percolate in the long run for them: exhibitions, photographs, maybe works of non-fiction down the road? Enlisting his friend and roommate, disillusioned Penn English major Max Strickberger, the two took off their spring semester, loaded up Jinich's mom's SUV with food and . They read several classic texts and recent writings included Studs Terkels Working, first-person interviews with a variety of workers in the 1970s, and Hard Times, first-person accounts of daily life during the Great Depression. Then came another place, another challenge. No one gets in unless they comply. Maybe an archive that will go on to inspire others and launch new endeavors? he says. The result is Generation Pandemic, a stunning online archive of oral histories and photographs that screams to be turned into a National Geographic spread, a Discovery Channel documentary, the foundation for an updated take on Arnetts theories. The Peregrine Prize from the Academy of American Poets. At first glance, his face reminds me of my younger brothers. We kept talking for 10, 20, 30 minutes, they showed us around their garage and stuff, and then eventually we told them What were doing now? He takes his job seriouslysafeguarding The Scroll and carrying it with him through medical school, through various moves, through travels. It appears time will expire on the tenure of Scott Petri as executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority today. They read and talked about Studs Terkels Working, a 1974 collection of oral histories from workers around the the country, James Agees Let Us Now Praise Famous Men about poor tenant farmers during the Depression, and Washington Post reporter Eli Saslows narratives, Voices from the Pandemic. Elyssa Chou, Blueprint. Anya Miller, Juxtaposition I. Savannah Naib, untitled. b. Through the daughter, you glimpse the mother. Go see a live concert feel the beat from the speakers in my chest and feel the energy of the crowd around me, wrote one. Only by doing interviews, getting better at interviews, getting rejected a bunch of times, could something more concrete come into focus. If I could get the support, Id totally just keep going. AJ: It got me so excited to do more of this stuff. In a simple world, the house was already a monument in the history of our livesthe last stop on our way out of college. Carrots and hummus. And I think being rejected was inherent to the project and got us much more comfortable with it.
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