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Audio Recording Jennifer Robinson interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-18

Jennifer Robinson interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-18
Audio recording of interview with Jennifer Robinson conducted by Nicole Musgrave.

About this Item

Title

  • Jennifer Robinson interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-18

Summary

  • Jennifer Robinson grew up in Pike County, Kentucky, and still lives there today. She has worked in child care for roughly 26 years, beginning when she was in high school. She has worked in a variety of contexts: in after-school programs with school-aged children; caring for newborns to pre-K; at a YMCA as a teacher and director; as the owner of a private child care center; and as an unlicensed home-based provider. She left child care in 2022 and currently works for the United States Postal Service. In her interview, Jennifer discusses her professional trajectory in child care; how she switched to being a home-based provider when the child care center she operated flooded; why she left child care in 2019 to pursue work in the school system; why she decided to offer home-based care when the pandemic hit; COVID-related precautions she took; challenges of her work during the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on the children she cared for; how she and her grandmother sewed masks together; and why she decided to leave child care again.

Names

  • Robinson, Jennifer, 1978- interviewee
  • Musgrave, Nicole, 1987- interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-01-18.

Headings

  • -  Robinson, Jennifer,--1978---Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Kentucky
  • -  Child care workers--Appalachian Region--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Appalachian Region
  • -  Nonprofit organizations
  • -  Home-based businesses
  • -  Children of working parents
  • -  Working mothers
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Psychological aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2020-2030
  • Sound recordings
  • Personal narratives
  • Oral histories
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Field notes: Toward the end of the interview, a library worker held a sign up to the glass window to alert me that the library would close early due to an incoming winter storm. I paused the recording to relay the information to Jennifer, and we proceeded to wrap up our interview so that the library could close.
  • -  Recorded at the Pike County Public Library, Pikeville, Kentucky, January 18, 2024.
  • -  It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Medium

  • 1 sound recording (1:08:31, WAV) : digital
  • 2 photographs : digital, color, TIF
  • 1 manuscript (PDF) : digital

Source Collection

  • It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project AFC 2023/017

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024655284

Rights Advisory

  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

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Online Format

  • audio
  • image
  • pdf

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Credit line

It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago citation style:

Robinson, Jennifer, Interviewee, and Nicole Musgrave. Jennifer Robinson interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-18. -01-18, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655284/.

APA citation style:

Robinson, J. & Musgrave, N. (2024) Jennifer Robinson interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-18. -01-18. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655284/.

MLA citation style:

Robinson, Jennifer, Interviewee, and Nicole Musgrave. Jennifer Robinson interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-18. -01-18, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655284/>.