Let's collect as many stories as we can from people all over the country so that this archive can be as diverse as this country is, and so that as many voices can be heard on the radio as possible.
Hopefully this process of recording and sharing our experiences and thoughts of this time will help us all get through a little more easily.
And this archive will be a resource for future generations to know what this pandemic was like, not just from the news reports, but from the voices of the people who lived through it.
I'm Katie Semro, independent audio producer living in Southern Maine, with my husband and 2 kids. I was trying to figure out what would help me get through this time and I thought that maybe recording an audio diary would help. And then I though that it would be really amazing to do it on a bigger scale, a kind of collective audio diary. So the idea for an archive was born.