Covid-19 has made a large impact on how our daily lives have changed over the past few months. Schools were cancelled, stay at home orders were issued, many businesses were not allowed to operate and even a trip to the grocery store was significantly different from what we had been used to. While some of the stay at home orders have been relaxed and some businesses have been re-opened, it still remains to be seen how we will return "back to normal" or how we will adjust to a "new normal".
With the impact of the pandemic, we have aspired to capture this historic moment to share with future generations. To that end, we have begun the process of collecting materials; including written and print materials, to add to our archives to preserve this modern historical event. We are currently in the process of making an informational binder on Covid-19 news articles from the Ludington Daily News from first initial case in Michigan to the present and we will continue to add articles as they appear in the paper. These binders will allow for easy and organized reading on the pandemic and the archival quality preservation materials will allow the articles to be viewed for many generations to come.
Creating a collection of these items is important for future generations. Without keeping up with modern history we may loose what was once common knowledge. History is an extraordinary thing, with the ability to go back in time and see similarities between events. A perfect example is the 1918-1920 flu epidemic and the current Covid-19 pandemic. We have articles from the local news sources in our Research Library from this time period, which allowed researcher and President of the Board, James Jensen, to write an article of these events to share with current audiences of today.
Along with the COVID-19 project, we have many binders filled with the history of the Mason County Area. You can discover topics on Lumbering, the Ludington State Park, and the different schools in the area.
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