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This is a downloaded version of a class forum on google slides used by the AMST 294-03 class Troubled Waters: Race, Law and the Environment to keep up with each other during Covid-19. Not all slides from the original document are included here.

A video of an oral history interview conducted over Zoom with Elise Mills, member of the class of 2020.

This is my handwritten reflection on helping with this COVID-19 Archives Project as part of HIST 376: Public History. It reads:

I decided to participate in this project because I’m living through such an important historic event and felt like I…

Picture of a handwritten list in a journal of what to do after quarantine. Some are more personal items (such as "get my third piercing!") while others such as going home or getting ice cream at Nelson's might be shared by other Macalester students…

Two photographs show a blue betta fish swimming in a tank in front of a window. At the bottom of one photo is a chart for checking off whether she has been fed morning and night every day. This is Celeste, and she belongs to a student who lives on…

The photo shows a cardboard egg carton, each cell numbered and filled with potting soil, sitting in a sunny windowsill. A sheet of lined paper is stuck in the back of it. The paper is a key, each cell 1-12 labelled with the type of seed it holds:…

The photograph shows four 13.4-oz (can-sized) cardboard boxes of beans lined up on a counter. Since the beginning of quarantine, the Whole Foods near the Macalester campus has instituted a bean limit: four cans or boxes and two dry bags of beans per…

Audio and lyrics of a song called 'You Didn't Tell Me' created, written, and recorded by Milly Cogen while social distancing. She wrote the first part of the song staring out her window at the beginning of quarantine.

Audio and lyrics of a song called 'Burnaway' created, written, and recorded by Milly Cogen during the pandemic.

Tweet from Lester, Macalester's unofficial student-operated mascot and "Professor of Puppet Studies" reading: "HEY REMEMBER THAT PROJECT LESTER WAS WORKING ON? IT'S DONE NOW. FEEL FREE TO SHARE WIDELY." The tweet includes Lester's project: images of…