Item

First Day Free

Title (Dublin Core)

First Day Free

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

HIST30060. The first day out of the second lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, I got invited to a picnic with friends from high school. We went to a park that was local to everyone and no one at the same time, having been going there for parties and gatherings for the past six years. This photo is of a café local to Yarraville in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Alfa Bakehouse backs right out onto the train station where I get off and the only reason I went passed it was to check if a froyo place I loved had yet reopened with other retail and hospitality businesses. To see this many people together was both exhilarating and uncomfortable at the same time. Knowing that freedom was finally in our grasp but the overlying fear that we could easily return to lockdown if we are not careful. I made my way to my friends shortly after this picture was taken and talked and ate for hours, even getting a sun burn, and it reminded me how all that time in lockdown was worth it if people can see one another again and enjoy their time together.

Date (Dublin Core)

October 28, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Meg Bate

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Meg Bate

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph of Café Visitors in Yarraville, Australia

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Consumer Culture (shopping, dinning...)
English Food & Drink
English Neighborhoods
English Public Space
English Cities & Suburbs

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Alfa Bakehouse
picnic
cafe
community
hospitality

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Victoria
lockdown
Australia
freedom
fear
excitement
friends

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

2020/11/03

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

2020/11/04
02/17/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

2020/10/28

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 3, 2020 by Meg Bate using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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