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Audio Recording Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-26

Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-26
Audio recording of interview with Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie conducted by Nicole Musgrave.

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Title

  • Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-01-26

Summary

  • This interview largely focuses on Sydney Boyd and her experience as an early-career child care worker. Sydney is from Richlands, Virginia and currently lives in Bristol, Virginia. She graduated from college in Spring of 2020, majoring in early childhood development. She has worked as the 4- and 5-year-old teacher at Miss Amy's Child Care since September of 2020. In her interview, Sydney discusses how her student teaching was canceled because of the pandemic; finishing her college program virtually; entering the workforce during the pandemic; the COVID-related safety protocols implemented at Miss Amy's; the pandemic's impact on children's development, and how she addressed these challenges; and staffing challenges that started with the pandemic. Toward the end of the interview, Amy Bowie becomes the primary interviewee. Amy is from Bristol, Virginia and is the owner of Miss Amy's, which she opened in 1990. She has worked in childcare for 48 years. Topics that Amy discusses include: her professional trajectory in child care; staffing challenges that started with the pandemic; how parents have become more anxious about putting their children in child care; financial support the center received during the pandemic; and the state of child care in southwest Virginia.

Names

  • Boyd, Sydney, 1998- interviewee
  • Bowie, Amy, 1962- interviewee
  • Musgrave, Nicole, 1987- interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-01-26.

Headings

  • -  Boyd, Sydney,--1998---Interviews
  • -  Bowie, Amy,--1962---Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Virginia
  • -  Child care workers--Appalachian Region--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Appalachian Region
  • -  Employee morale
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects
  • -  Children of working parents
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Educational aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  Recorded at Miss Amy's Child Care, Abingdon, Virginia, January 26, 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 (1:15:54, WAV) : digital
  • 21 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

  • 2024655286

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  • 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:

Boyd, Sydney, Interviewee, Amy Bowie, and Nicole Musgrave. Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-26. -01-26, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655286/.

APA citation style:

Boyd, S., Bowie, A. & Musgrave, N. (2024) Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-26. -01-26. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655286/.

MLA citation style:

Boyd, Sydney, Interviewee, Amy Bowie, and Nicole Musgrave. Sydney Boyd and Amy Bowie interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -01-26. -01-26, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655286/>.