In Indiana, restaurants and bars are shuttered, schools are closed, and like much of the country, people are being ordered to stay home.
The Indiana Historical Society is trying to document what it’s like to live in this time, and have asked the public to help.
“We thought, this is a period of time people are going to study for centuries,” says Jody Blankenship, president of the Indiana Historical Society. “And we need to collect the voices of our community right now.”
The historical society is asking the public to submit videos, photos, recordings, art or writing that will help tell the story of the pandemic.
The Indiana Historical Society is one of several institutions around the country that has started thinking about recording oral histories or collecting items related to the coronavirus pandemic, an approach known as “rapid-response collecting.”
At the Indiana Historical Society, a few hundred submissions have streamed in so far…
To read the entire article from NPR, click https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/10/831709294/indiana-historical-society-begins-building-a-coronavirus-collection?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates