Allegheny Strong: A Digital Collection of Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic
This collection is the result of an invitation to Allegheny College Community members to submit their personal reflections on how the Covid 19 Pandemic has impacted their lives and the lives of those around them. The collection shares these items as a way to build understanding, strengthen our community, foster human connection, and preserve personal accounts of this global event for future generations and scholarly research.
Material in this collection is the exclusive property of Allegheny College, or has been issued with expressed permission of the copyright owner. The institution hereby releases these materials as digital copies for preservation and research purposes. Allegheny College does not relinquish the rights of ownership to these files. These items are not created with Creative Commons Licensing and are not to be considered public domain. Items may not be modified, published, transmitted, sold, or in any other way exploited without expressed permission from the institution. Items are for personal use only and must be documented in any further publication. No changes to attributions can be made.
Recent Submissions
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Hold onto the sweet (on the campus evacuations of COVID-19)
(Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), 03/25/2020)Poem written March 25, 2020. -
Lament to the epidemiologists at Johns Hopkins
(Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), 04/05/2020)Lament written April 5, 2020. -
Accidents: My Allegheny Experience and The COVID-19 Pandemic
(Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), 05/19/2020)Essay created on 5/19/2020 in Potomac, MD. -
Saint Covid Day
(Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), 03/17/2020)In 2019, I formed an improvisational music group "The Vamplifiers" that recorded every time we ever got together, both rehearsing and public performances (that were purposefully limited to art galleries). When everyone was ... -
unposed reality April 1 2020
(Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), 04/01/2020)April 1, 2020- at home. I was walking by this table and realized that a new reality was happening; Easter eggs in the background with sanitizing wipes, blue gloves and a mask in the foreground.
