Over a year ago, the borders of some local counties and regions were shut to the public to help stop the spread of COVID-19. As part of BPR and Foxfire Museum's oral history project, Dakota Brown, education director at the Museum of the Cherokee shares what it was like when the Qualla Boundary closed during her interview with Foxfire curator Kami Ahrens. Dakota Brown: When I went to school, I was gonna be a finance major. And I hated it. So I decided that I wanted to instead be a history major.