North Carolina historians are already pondering how the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered by future generations.
The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources says it’s collecting objects, digital and physical documents and web content about what’s happening. Now it’s asking residents to share with the agency their experiences and to save materials that could wind up in the State Archives and North Carolina Museum of History.
The locales want interested persons to check out online an initiative called “Your Story is North Carolina’s Story” to see how to participate. The archives seek first-person accounts like diaries, photos and video and even home lesson plans. The history museum wants personal protective equipment and objects associated with living under a quarantine or with social distancing.
The museum and archives are currently closed, so citizens are asked to save physical items for future collection and to keep using necessary items.
Photo via the North Carolina Museum of History.
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