Documenting Life During the Pandemic
The Pandemic Memory Project is an ongoing program of the Local History & Genealogy Center of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library designed to collect first-person stories and images that document Trumbull County’s experiences and responses to the pandemic. We are asking for the community’s help to establish a lasting record of how we are living, working, and coping during this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To Participate
You are invited to share how you have personally been impacted by this global health crisis. If you would like, you may also upload a digital photo that helps convey your experience during this pandemic. PLEASE NOTE: Submissions will become part of the archives of the library.
Compiling your stories, anecdotes, and observations now will allow us to make a lasting record of how we are living, learning, and working during this unprecedented time.
Possible Questions to Consider:
- How did you experience any food, housing or job insecurities?
- How are you juggling family and caretaking responsibilities?
- What do you miss most about your pre-COVID life?
- If working remotely, what has working at home been like?
- How did the pandemic affect your business?
- How are you coping with social distancing?
- How has your daily life changed?
- How did you experience any major milestones or life events since the start of the pandemic (weddings, funerals, graduations, etc.)?
- How were your family gatherings altered?
- How did you alter your worship practices?
- Are you still shopping in person? What is that like?
- How has COVID-19 affected relationships with family, friends and coworkers?
- Have you or anyone you know gotten sick?
- How are you getting your news?
- What was the first thing you did when the stay at home order was lifted?
- What will the long-term consequences of the pandemic be?
About Your Story and Photo Submission
Selected stories and photos may be posted on the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library website, on library social media, and will become part of the library’s online digital archive, the Trumbull Memory Project.
The library is no longer taking pandemic story and photo submissions online. Please contact the Local History and Genealogy Department if you wish to submit your pandemic stories.