Mask Making to Community Building
Sue Tucker sewing a mask for the children at William Wells Brown. Photo by Judy Owens
How Covid-19 helped build a more caring culture.
When the Covid-19 pandemic it, I documented the service of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lexington, Kentucky to meet the challenge.
By mid-March, 2020 Kentucky plunged into the depths of the worst public health crisis in more than a century, the modern-day plague that was Covid-19. Members of the Lexington Chapter, NSDAR experienced the fear and helplessness that gripped the rest of the world. Yet the pandemic was also personal. Lexington Daughters, from the chapter regent to the most recently sworn-in new member, were personally affected. Our members worked in the hospitals that would be receiving Covid patients. Our sisters were nurses. Our nephews and nieces worked in laboratories, nursing homes, pharmacies, and sterilization units.
The question was not: “Will I be affected?” In the coming weeks, we learned that we would be directly and personally impacted. The greater question was: “How would we respond?”
