Welcome to our senior class project!
This year we have been faced with the challenge that is a global pandemic. This event has directly affected everyone on the planet. Though we recognize that so many people in the world are suffering, and we are grateful that most of us in our school community have been spared tragedy at this time, we have also found it to be exceptionally difficult to miss out on the many senior traditions that happen in the spring.
We attend Killington Mountain School, which is already very non-traditional, but we still look forward to many spring activities like senior prom, senior skip day, class trips, graduation and just getting to spend our last semester surrounded by our friends. Instead, our class was suddenly separated by many miles across many states. We have been deprived of what every senior dreams of: to walk across the stage on graduation day in front of family, surrounded by our classmates and best friends.
So our English teacher, Shayna Miller, asked us to conduct interviews to make artifacts of this historic time and to participate in the StoryCorps Connect project. StoryCorps started in 2003 in Grand Central Station in NYC, as a single story booth where people could walk in and record their conversations with each other. Since then, millions of Americans have recorded the stories that reflect the myriad versions of life in America. For our project, one interview was with a classmate and the other with a family member or other person of our choosing, either in our homes or virtually. The interviews were to focus on normal life topics and then advance into questions about COVID-19 and the pandemic.
We hope that you enjoy our interviews as we throughly enjoyed making them and sharing them with you!
Happy listening,
Killington Mountain School Senior Class '20