Interview with Dawn Ennis
InterviewerInterviewed by
Abbie Cowan
Date2022 July 27
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes, 33 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
Description(a) Interview with Dawn Ennis. Interviewed by Abbie Cowan on July 27, 2022 at the Connecticut Historical Society, One Elizabeth Street, Hartford. (b) Photograph of Dawn Ennis given to CHP staff at her interview. She was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Historical Society's Community History Project discussing her experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Dawn Ennis is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and works with the West Hartford Pride Organization. In her interview, Dawn discusses the challenges that the community faced because of the pandemic, and how she helped to provide reliable information as a journalist while creating a safe space for those within the community. Dawn describes the systemic problems within the United States that she believed were brought to the forefront of society because of the pandemic. Her interview additionally sheds light on the economic challenges the pandemic caused and how she coped with the passing of her seven friends. Dawn also goes into detail about the shift in political thinking and how it has affected her personally.
Dawn Ennis is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and works with the West Hartford Pride Organization. In her interview, Dawn discusses the challenges that the community faced because of the pandemic, and how she helped to provide reliable information as a journalist while creating a safe space for those within the community. Dawn describes the systemic problems within the United States that she believed were brought to the forefront of society because of the pandemic. Her interview additionally sheds light on the economic challenges the pandemic caused and how she coped with the passing of her seven friends. Dawn also goes into detail about the shift in political thinking and how it has affected her personally.
Object number2022.20.29a-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
- Hartford
- Oral history
- Interviews
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
- Oral narratives
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- People of color
- Health
- Public health
- Professor
- College teachers
- Teachers
- Journalists
- Schools
- Grocery shopping
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Vaccines
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- LGBTQIA+ people
- Death
- Zoom (Electronic resource)
- Mental health
- Healthcare workers
- Elections
- Voting
- Students
- Black Lives Matter movement
- Activism and advocacy
- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021
- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021
- Suicide
- Social distancing (Public health)
- Social distancing (Public health)
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Jewish women
- 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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