Audio Recording Kelly Seigneur interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-09-04 Audio log of interview with Kelly Seigneur conducted by Nicole Musgrave.

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Title

  • Kelly Seigneur interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-09-04

Summary

  • Kelly Seigneur is the owner and operator of Kelly's Play Place LLC, an unlicensed child care center that she runs out of her home in Chillicothe, Ohio. She opened her home-based center in 2015 to earn income while staying home with her first child. Prior to that, she worked at a preschool in Columbus, Ohio for 8 and a half years. In the interview, Kelly discusses how she got into child care work; opening her home-based child care center; being immunocompromised and deciding to close her center at the start of the pandemic out of safety concerns; deciding to reopen her center out of financial need; what it was like reintegrating kids into her home; the COVID-related safety measures she implemented and the measures that are still in place; how the kids she cares for have not been impacted by the pandemic; how more home-based providers have popped up in her neighborhood since the pandemic; her hopes of opening a child care center outside of her home; and the ways she is working to increase her income in response to her job being designated as not a “real job” in her current divorce proceedings.

Names

  • Seigneur, Kelly, interviewee
  • Musgrave, Nicole, 1987- interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-09-04.

Headings

  • -  Seigneur, Kelly--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Ohio
  • -  Child care workers--Appalachian Region--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Appalachian Region
  • -  Children of working parents
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Economic aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence
  • -  Home-based businesses
  • -  Family-owned business enterprises
  • -  Work and family

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  After the interview ended, Kelly was asked if she intends to keep offering child care for the foreseeable future. The recorder was turned back on so her answer could be included in the interview, so there are two audio files.
  • -  Recorded at Kelly's home daycare, Kelly's Play Place LLC, Chillicothe, Ohio, September 4, 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

  • 2 sound recordings (52:36 and 7:05, WAV) : digital
  • 7 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

  • 2024655303

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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:

Seigneur, Kelly, Interviewee, and Nicole Musgrave. Kelly Seigneur interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -09-04. -09-04, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655303/.

APA citation style:

Seigneur, K. & Musgrave, N. (2024) Kelly Seigneur interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -09-04. -09-04. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655303/.

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Seigneur, Kelly, Interviewee, and Nicole Musgrave. Kelly Seigneur interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -09-04. -09-04, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655303/>.