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Collected Item: “Swimming as an Essential Activity”

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Swimming as an Essential Activity

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photograph

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

While Florida is not predicted to peak until the first week of May, some cities are reopening closed beaches now, in mid-April. This hit the national news with much controversy, spawning the hashtag #floridamorons on social media. The day before I saw this article, I spoke with my parents who are at the New Jersey shore. They told me one man there was ticketed for walking his dog on the beach and a couple was ticketed and threatened with jail time for being on the beach.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#staugustine, #flaglercollege, #swimming, #essential, #beaches, #florida

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://publichumanities.omeka.net/items/show/2

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Kelly Enright

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2020-04-17
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