Interview with Cara Turner
InterviewerInterviewed by
Peter Moran
Date2022 August 22
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 2 Hours, 1 Minute, 3 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
Description(a) Interview with Cara Turner. Interviewed by Peter Moran on August 22, 2022 at Otis Library, 261 Main Street, Norwich. (b) Photograph of Cara Turner taken 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.
Cara Turner's family has lived in Norwich for generations. In her interview, Cara spoke at length about her community and family. She is involved in multiple amateur sports leagues in Norwich, and described what it was like during the COVID-19 pandemic. She supported mask and vaccine mandates. Cara also spoke at length about Black Lives Matter and her perspective on racism and raising Black children. Cara discussed mental health and the stigma against mental health in the Black community.
Cara Turner's family has lived in Norwich for generations. In her interview, Cara spoke at length about her community and family. She is involved in multiple amateur sports leagues in Norwich, and described what it was like during the COVID-19 pandemic. She supported mask and vaccine mandates. Cara also spoke at length about Black Lives Matter and her perspective on racism and raising Black children. Cara discussed mental health and the stigma against mental health in the Black community.
Object number2022.20.38a-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
- Norwich
- Oral history
- Interviews
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
- Oral narratives
- COVID-19 (Disease)
- People of color
- Family
- Sports
- Health
- Children
- Black Lives Matter movement
- Discrimination
- Public health
- African American children
- African Americans
- Black people
- Incarceration
- Work from home
- Vaccines
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Vaccine mandates
- Masks
- Face masks
- High school students
- Students
- Friendship
- Relationships
- Floyd, George, 1973-2020
- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021
- Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021
- Activism and advocacy
- Protest demonstrations
- Racism
- Elections
- Voting
- Absentee voting
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Biden, Joseph R., Jr., 1942-
- Mental health
- Mental health stigmas
- 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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