The DeKalb History Center wants you to help it chronicle life during the coronavirus pandemic.
The history center has put out a call for DeKalb residents to submit their stories, photos, videos and other items that will become part of a collection available for research by future generations.
The Atlanta History Center has also launched a similar effort.
Don’t know what you’d say or submit? The DeKalb History Center provided a few suggestions:
What are your biggest challenges? How do you continue to work, learn, teach, spend your time, cope with mental health challenges, worship, celebrate, and mourn? How are you creating community in these challenging times? What history are you making right now?
Make a video, write a story, and/or send in pictures that represent your experience with COVID-19. Photos could show your work from home co-workers, homemade masks, nature walks, children's projects, or empty shelves at your local grocery store.
In addition to your own created content, what materials are you receiving that illustrate your story? We are already collecting newspapers and county declarations. Please consider materials that illustrate your life during COVID-19, like grocery lists and menu plans, gardening ideas, and business signage.
The submission process can be started online online here.
The DeKalb History Center is located at 101 E. Court Square in Decatur.
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