
The Chapel Hill Public Archive's Pandemic Stories Project provides a space for Chapel Hill and surrounding communities to record memories and reflections about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read the questions!
Each set of questions below is designed for recordings of different lengths. That way, you can easily participate whether you've got an hour to spare or just five minutes.
How have you been caring for yourself and your family during the COVID pandemic?
What do you want to be sure future generations will remember about COVID?
What advice would you give to future generations experiencing something like the COVID-19 pandemic?
What will you remember most vividly from the past two years?
What did you do for fun during the pandemic?
How have you stayed in touch with loved ones?
In what ways has your mental, emotional, and physical health been affected by life in the pandemic?
How do you think living in Chapel Hill shaped your experience of the pandemic?
Is there anything you wish you had done differently earlier in the pandemic?
What do you hope we keep from the pandemic?
How would you describe the different stages of the pandemic as you experienced it?
What did you do for fun during the pandemic?
Did you take up any new hobbies?
How has the pandemic changed your work life?
Describe the first moments when you became aware of the pandemic?
How does it make you feel to look back at things like pictures or journal entries from earlier in the pandemic?
What will you remember most vividly from the past two years?
How have you stayed in touch with loved ones?
Did your interpersonal relationships change during the pandemic? If they did, how?
In what ways has your mental and emotional health been affected by life in the pandemic?
In what ways has your physical health been affected by life in the pandemic?
How do you think living in Chapel Hill shaped your experience of the pandemic?
How has the pandemic affected your relationship to your faith or spirituality?
How has your thinking about risk changed over the course of the pandemic?
Is there anything you wish you had done differently earlier in the pandemic?
Is there anything you wish others had done differently earlier in the pandemic?
What do you want to be sure future generations will remember about COVID?
What do you hope we keep from the pandemic?