Events and Activities : Center Point Community Historical Society Newsletter for September 2020

COVID CANCELING

Your Historical Society planned a bang-up line up for 2020; including an All School Reunion, a boy's basketball reunion, and an Underground Railroad-themed Cabin Festival. Then in March everybody's plans for everything went bust from the Corona virus pandemic.

And it's still a pandemic-in-progress, especially in the U.S. In August, the U.S. toll was more than 170,000 deaths, about 1000 of them in Iowa.

Pretty much every part of American life has been disrupted, "distanced," or diverted online. Working people are sinking, the stock market is swimming and government is treading water. Lots of us are still keeping a stiff upper lip but you can't tell it behind the Covid masks.

Iowa schools were shut down by the governor in March and didn't reopen. There were no spring school sports or arts; no graduation until late July; a late, short, summer baseball and softball season.

Unlike many libraries in the state, the Center Point public library didn't shut down. Like many restaurants, the Library went to carry-out orders only. Then in mid-July the library resumed limited, masked, in-person service.

Most of the local churches shut down or went to online services for weeks. Funerals were postponed or limited to immediate family. Businesses that could went to online. Many employees worked from home and still are.

But….Virus willing, things will be more normal next year and the Historical Society will recycle its good plans to 2021.

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