Share your story
Marquette, Michigan
Stories of the Pandemic
In Collaboration With:
Marquette County Stories of the Pandemic
The Marquette County, Michigan, Stories of the Pandemic is a collaborative project initiated by Northern Michigan University, the Peter White Public Library, and the Marquette Regional History Center. The Project seeks to document and curate the experiences of individuals, families, and organizations (business, schools, local government, civic groups) living and working in Marquette County, Michigan, as they deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
NMU is hosting and managing the Project’s website and will curate material for use by the public and researchers for decades to come.
Individuals, families, and organizations maintain create records that document their experiences with the Pandemic. We hope they will participate in this project by proactively identifying and saving relevant digital material, such as correspondence, journals and diary entries, photographs, audio recordings, and moving images of their experiences during the Pandemic. The Project provides an online mechanism to maintain and share this information with the entire Marquette County community.
FAQs
The project will accept physical or digital materials that help to tell the story of how individuals, organizations, government entities and others acted and reacted before, during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
To donate physical documents and artifacts, please contact mrobyns@nmu.edu.
Topics might include:
- The shift to distance learning
- Displacement from campus
- Working from home remotely
- Passing the time
- Staying in touch with friends and family
- Local group activities
- Front-line worker stories (grocery, banker, law enforcement, and healthcare workers)
- PPE creation by local institutions and people
- Social distancing
- Self-quarantine
- Changes in leisure activities, celebrations, religious events
Documentary materials may include, but are not limited to:
- Photographs, such as of you working from home, empty shelves in stores, closed playgrounds and parks, people wearing home-made masks, messages of hope in windows, chalk drawings on sidewalks;
- Social media posts, such as from businesses announcing altered business models, groups formed in response to the pandemic, personal posts sharing life in quarantine;
- Video clips, such as of quiet streets or crowded trailheads, neighborhoods howling, social distancing
- Diaries, blog posts or journal entries reflecting your experiences
- Newsletters or email from a business sharing updates with employees or customers
- Business records, such meeting minutes, budgets, notes from incident command teams, and continuity plans
- Oral history interviews
- Creative works, such as a song, poem, zine or short story
Artifacts or three-dimensional items may include, but are not limited to:
- Medical Equipment – (After the crisis and are no longer needed)
- Sports Uniforms and Equipment from tournament teams
- Costumes and props from canceled plays, recitals and performances
- Arts and Crafts
- Communications equipment
- Porch or Window Displays
- Furniture and Equipment
Our online submission form will accept text documents, powerpoints, spreadsheets, pdfs, photos, audio and video in the following formats: .doc, .docx, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, .odf, .png, .pdf, .ppt, .mov., .mp3, .mp4, .jpeg, .tiff. File uploads are limited to 10 files. Each file is limited to 100 MB. If you wish to contribute files in a different format, files that are larger than 250 MB, or physical materials please contact mrobyns@nmu.edu.
The submission form and our other donor forms require that you provide us with your name and e-mail address. This information will remain associated with the files and other contextual information you contribute. We will also use this information if we need to contact you about your submission for any reason. We may include your name on content we make available online or in person as part of this archive, but we will not share your e-mail address. We will not add you to mailing lists or otherwise share your contact information outside this project. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact mrobyns@nmu.edu.
Yes, you can chose to restrict public access to the material you contribute for a period of years. Please contact mrobyns@nmu.edu. to discuss options.
We may still be able to add your content to this project even if you are not the creator of the content, are not sure if you are the copyright holder, or if you do not have the copyright holder's permission to contribute the content. Please contact mrobyns@nmu.edu to discuss options.
The Marquette County Stories of the Pandemic: Share Your Story project is intended to gather and save the experiences of individuals who live, work, or go to school in Marquette County, Michigan, as well as the experiences of organizations based in or doing business in Marquette County. The Library of Michigan has established a statewide COVID-19 pandemic documentation projects. Please consider contributing to this project if you have material documenting the pandemic events outside Marquette County.
Featured Stories
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Peter Pless, NMU Professor, Pandemic designs and productions
Images of face shields and negative pressure intubation canopies to help local hospitals fight the pandemic.
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Peter Pless, NMU Professor, Pandemic designs and productions
Images of face shields and negative pressure intubation canopies to help local hospitals fight the pandemic.
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Peter Pless, NMU Professor, Pandemic designs and productions
Images of face shields and negative pressure intubation canopies to help local hospitals fight the pandemic.
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Peter Pless, NMU Professor, Pandemic designs and productions
Images of face shields and negative pressure intubation canopies to help local hospitals fight the pandemic.
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Peter Pless, NMU Professor, Pandemic designs and productions
Images of face shields and negative pressure intubation canopies to help local hospitals fight the pandemic.