Coronavirus memory project launched

RITZVILLE — The East Adams Library District has started a COVID-19 ommunity memories project.

Library officials are asking for submissions of letters, diaries, photographs, posters and other items that shed light on how the pandemic is affecting lives.

Librarians Kylie Fullmer Morgane Plager Roth said they created the project to preserve history for “our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who will one day ask how we responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

“The purpose of this project is to encourage individuals, organizations, and agencies from across Adams County to document their actions and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to provide a way for this documentation to be collected, maintained and shared as a community archive,” they said.

The organizers said those not sure what to share, should consider the following questions:

• What is the toughest part of your days right now? The best?

• Is there someone you can’t see right now who you really wish you could?

• How is this experience different from other historical events you’ve lived through?

• What memory of this time do you think will stay with you?

• If the quarantine ended tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d do?

Community members are encouraged to submit all forms of media along with stories and photographs, including but not limited to music, poems, and artwork.

Fullmer and Plager Roth created an online submission form available from the library at  www.eastadamslibrary.org/community-memories-project.