We are living through a historic moment. People will be studying and learning about this moment in time for years to come.
You have the power to shape history by contributing to the LREI@home Quarantine Time Capsule, a digital record of how we, as a community and as individuals, lived through the coronavirus pandemic.
How can we help the students of the future get as close as possible to the experiences we are having now?
Send your submissions and questions to timecapsule@lrei.org. For more information, please click here.
The following is a selection of submissions we’ve received thus far. Many more to come soon!
Self Portrait, Clyde Condos LREI ’26, May 2020
Every night after dinner, our family plays a couple of hands of Shanghai Rummy, a ten-hand card game. We have almost not missed a single night! Berthelsen-Karps, May 2020
There is a lot of racism associated with covid19. In many cases, Asian people are being blamed and treated as if they are the virus. I will miss seventh grade at LREI so much. I am so grateful that I got the chance to be taught by so many amazing teachers and befriend so many wonderful people. Being a student at LREI will still be a part of me next year, even if I’m not physically there. I can’t wait to come back for ninth grade and see all of my inspiring teachers and peers. Raine Robertson LREI ’26 5/28/20
Like many families, we were forced by the pandemic to spend Mothers’ Day apart, observing social distancing, which is really physical distancing. So we resorted to the internet for some socializing — what a gift the “reality” of cyberspace has been to the human race during this time — allowing some visual and audial contact when actual physical contact is too dangerous. And, the infrastructure has held up extraordinarily well up to this point. (Jim Wiggins, LREI Trustee, 1998-2010)
Alex Doctoroff, Fourth Grade, Letter to a healthcare worker during the covid-19 pandemic, May 2020
My friend and I have started to write letters to each other. It’s very fun, and we get to decorate the envelopes. I think it’s very useful to write because, these days we are always on our computers and phones. 4/27/20 Claire Fleming 7th grade
Observation drawing of a family member during the covid-19 pandemic. Fourth grader, Alex Doctoroff, drew his sister, Chloe, having one of her many zoom meetings with her teachers for online school/ remote learning. May 2020
LREI Cares helping healthcare families flyer, Dana Katz LREI ’21
Videos
Imogen Notaro LREI ’25 makes pizza in quarantine with her family, May 10, 2020
Puppet show Me vs. Covid 19, assignment for Ann’s art class, Alex Doctoroff, Fourth Grade, May 2020
Although we had to isolate and social distance, community was all around. Hanging out on the stoop once again became popular in Brooklyn. Denis Zaraya, parent of Joe LREI ’26, May 2020
Song
Their Best, song by Wyeth Zeff, LREI ’25, May 2020
