Interview with Peter Moran
IntervieweeInterview with
Peter Moran
InterviewerInterviewed by
Abbie Cowan
Date2022 August 18
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 1 Hour, 20 Minutes, 36 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionInterview with Peter Moran. Interviewed by Abbie Cowan on August 18, 2022 at the Connecticut Historical Society, One Elizabeth Street, Hartford.
At the time of his interview, Peter Moran was an intern at the Connecticut Historical Society and a graduate student at Central Connecticut State University studying public history. Peter discusses how the pandemic prompted a career change leading him to go back to school and move across the country in the midst of a global health crisis. He goes into detail about the uncertainty of a virus that spreads so quickly and his thoughts regarding the community's well-being in terms of masks and vaccines. To end his interview, Peter discusses why he joined the Community History Project and describes his time at the Connecticut Historical Society.
At the time of his interview, Peter Moran was an intern at the Connecticut Historical Society and a graduate student at Central Connecticut State University studying public history. Peter discusses how the pandemic prompted a career change leading him to go back to school and move across the country in the midst of a global health crisis. He goes into detail about the uncertainty of a virus that spreads so quickly and his thoughts regarding the community's well-being in terms of masks and vaccines. To end his interview, Peter discusses why he joined the Community History Project and describes his time at the Connecticut Historical Society.
Object number2022.20.37
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)
- Central Connecticut State University
- Education
- Health
- Masks
- Face masks
- Vaccines
- Connecticut Historical Society
- Public health
- Family
- Relationships
- Friendship
- Weddings
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Suicide
- White people
- Men
- Students
- Film production
- Physicians
- Zoom (Electronic resource)
- Moving, Household
- Black Lives Matter movement
- Activism and advocacy
- Elections
- Voting
- Absentee voting
- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021
- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021
- Coup d'état
- Mental health
- Video games
- Vaccine mandates
- Social media
- Death
- 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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