COVID-19 Student Interviews - Priest, Tommy
Deacon Experiences during COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic
Priest, Tommy audio interview
Item Details
- creator
- Strackman, Braden
- Preist, Tommy
- date
- 2020-09-08T19:38:58Z
- 2020-09-08T19:38:58Z
- 2020-07-22
- 2020-09-08 (issued)
- description
- Tommy Priest is the Owner of Coffee Park, a coffeeshop in Winston-Salem which has locations at the Coffee Park Airstream, founded 14 years ago, and at an Arts Center, added 6 years ago. Priest shares his early concerns about COVID-19, which began after he read an article about the virus on January 8th, and his early frustrations as he tried to convince his neighbors and friends that the pandemic would have a large effect on their lives and the United States. Coffee Park Airstream is unique because it was already designed in a pandemic-friendly way- as a quick drive-thru experience- and Priest shares how his employees at that location helped out those at the Arts Center, unable to reopen because of its dependence on large events. He expresses gratitude for the Winston-Salem community, who continued to visit and support him during the period and examines how he has seen public actions, such as social distancing and mask wearing, ebb and flow over the course of the pandemic based on the latest messages from the media. Priest touches on his participation in the Black Lives Matter protests and how COVID-19 has exploited structures of oppression in the U.S. He shares how he has seen artists both thrive and struggle during the quarantine period, and expresses concern about the future of COVID-19 in America.
- format
- audio/mp3
- Oral histories
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/96974
- language
- English
- relation
- Special Collections and Archives
- Z. Smith Reynolds Library
- Wake Forest University
- Office of Civic and Community Engagement (RG22.6)
- rights
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- Rights Statement
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- subject
- Coronavirus infections--History--Sources
- COVID-19 (Disease)--History--Sources
- Wake Forest University--History--Sources
- Social justice
- COVID-19 Student Interviews
- Office of Civic and Community Engagement
- Winston-Salem (N.C.)
- Black lives matter movement
- Protest movements--United States
- Coffee shops
- Artists
- Musicians
- title
- COVID-19 Student Interviews - Priest, Tommy
- type
- Sound
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