Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Personal stories of the pandemic — sincere accounts from people with ties to the Miami Valley — are being collected and preserved by the Special Collections & Archives at Wright State University.
The project, Document Your Story, began last year to encourage people to keep a written, visual or audio diary for future generations.
“It’s important to collect and keep these things so we have the voices of everyone, not just people interviewed for the newspaper or television,” Lisa Rickey, archivist and collections manager, said. “That’s how we find out what it is was really like for everyone.”
More than a dozen submissions have been donated and the Special Collections & Archives would like to collect more.
The experiences of medical students, physicians, personal shoppers, parents and historians are among the donations.
