156 — The Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

It was Friday, April 10th, 2020. The pandemic was really starting to roar. PPE was scarce and the supply chains were already breaking down. Every hospital was scrambling to find enough masks, gowns and face shields. It was already every state, every institution for itself.

It was everywhere in the papers. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3. On Page 9 of the New York Times, dateline: Sugarcreek, Ohio, a headline caught our eye: “Abe Make a Sewing Frolic” — In Ohio The Amish Take on the Coronavirus.

This isolated, centuries-old, self-reliant community was rising to the occasion and collaborating with the world outside to fill the PPE needs of the massive Cleveland Clinic and beyond. The story inspired us and we headed to Sugarcreek with our microphone.

In the attempt to record this story in Amish country in the midst of social distancing and the ever deepening pandemic, a new collaboration was born — artist Laurie Anderson, Ohio-born designer Stacy Hoover and producer Evan Jacoby all joined with The Kitchen Sisters to bring these voices to air.

Today, The Kitchen Sisters Present… The Great Amish Sewing Frolic.

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0:57.0	It was Friday, April 10, 2020.
1:01.1	The pandemic was really starting to roar.
1:04.0	PPE was scarce and the supply chains were already breaking down.
1:08.0	Every hospital was scrambling to find enough masks, gowns, and face shields.
1:13.0	It was already every state, every institution for itself.
1:17.0	It was everywhere in the papers,
1:20.0	page 1, page 2, page 3.
1:23.1	On page 9 of the New York Times,
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