The Longmont Public Library is seeking community stories from the coronavirus pandemic.
In an email Tuesday, the library put out a call for oral histories to be part of a local project dubbed #StrongmontStories, Sharing in Place.
“We are currently living through one of those rare times in which we know — even as time is passing — that this is an historical moment,” the library stated in a Tuesday email. “What will happen and who we will be on the other side of this crisis remains to be seen, but what we are experiencing right now will be remembered and retold and referred to for the rest of our lives.”
The program is being produced in partnership with StoryCorps, a nonprofit organization “that promotes the preservation and sharing of humanity's stories through informal interviews and personal narrations that are recorded and archived. Its goal is to use stories to create connections and facilitate a more just and compassionate world,” according to the library email.
Participation in the project is open to anyone who lives, works, goes to school or otherwise participates in the Longmont community on a regular basis. “If you identify as a Longmonter, we want to hear from you,” the library stated in the email.
Learn more about the project and/or record a history by visiting the #StrongmontStories webpage.
