Interview with Harold Glass
InterviewerInterviewed by
Samariya Smith
Date2022 July 5
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 3 Minutes, 45 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
Description(a) Interview with Harold Glass. Interviewed by Samariya Smith on July 5, 2022 at Christ Church Community Soup Kitchen, 84 Broadway, New Haven. (b) Photograph of Harold Glass collected by CHP staff at his interview. He was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Historical Society's Community History Project discussing his experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Harold Glass is the head cook at the Christ Church Community Soup Kitchen in New Haven, Connecticut. He has worked there for 37 years. Harold did not remember where he first heard about covid or what the first disruption to his life was due to covid. He does not believe that the pandemic ends and believes that this is the new normal. Harold described the pandemic as a disaster. The biggest lesson he learned was to take care of himself instead of others first.
Harold Glass is the head cook at the Christ Church Community Soup Kitchen in New Haven, Connecticut. He has worked there for 37 years. Harold did not remember where he first heard about covid or what the first disruption to his life was due to covid. He does not believe that the pandemic ends and believes that this is the new normal. Harold described the pandemic as a disaster. The biggest lesson he learned was to take care of himself instead of others first.
Object number2022.20.18a-b
NotesSubject Note: The Connecticut Historical Society’s Community History Project (CHP) is a public-facing initiative, focused on contemporary collecting, gathering items of the recent past as well as from events happening today. This program developed community historians to identify, document, and preserve their experiences as residents of Connecticut, and to share these experiences during a series of community presentations. The project focused on the impact of Covid-19 on Connecticans, particularly on Black and Brown communities, funeral homes, and on nursing home and elder care populations.Cataloging Note: This cataloging project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-249472-OMS-21.
Subject Terms
- New Haven
- Oral history
- Interviews
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
- Oral narratives
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- People of color
- Christ Church (New Haven, Conn.)
- Soup kitchens
- Cooks
- Health
- Public health
- Death
- Masks
- Face masks
- Social distancing (Public health)
- Social distancing (Public health)
- Vaccines
- Mental health
- Relationships
- Black people
- Interviews and Oral Histories
- Born Digital Audio
- Community History Project IMLS Museums for America Grant
- COVID-19 Pandemic Collection
Collections
- COVID-19 Pandemic Oral History Interviews (Community History Project), 2022-2023
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