Collected Item: “At Home COVID Easter Egg Hunt Supplies from the City of Pflugerville Texas”
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At Home COVID Easter Egg Hunt Supplies from the City of Pflugerville Texas
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Photograph of an advertisement in a newspaper taken on a smartphone
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This photograph shows an advertisement from the City of Pflugerville in the State of Texas. It announces that in lieu of its annual Easter Egg Hunt, the City of Pflugerville is offering families $5 at home egg hunt kits containing 20 eggs prefilled with "candy and toys" for children. Although this advertisement is for the 2021 Easter season, one year after COVID became a problem in the United States, many cities, towns, business, individuals, and other groups still wished to avoid in-person gatherings because they believed doing so would prevent additional hospitalizations and deaths (despite precautions such as masks, social distancing, and increased vaccinations). The advertisement communicates the sense of "cautious caution", in other words hesitation and apprehension, that many people still have about large gatherings, yet it also shows the strong desire to continue age-old traditions. This is also an excellent example of modifying public activities and events for at home enjoyment and performance. This became a mainstay during the spring and summer 2020 lockdowns and continued, for the most part, throughout spring 2021.
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#HST494, #ASU, #CoronaCulture, #Holidays, #Texas,
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210326065427/https://parks.pflugervilletx.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/26576/392?backlist=%2F
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Kayla Nicole Phillips
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2021-03-10