It's a crazy time we're living in with COVID-19 changing all our lives. Not only is it emotionally challenging, but it's history in the making.

So let's capture this moment by recording it.

Let your voice and your story become part of history. Record your answers to 4 questions, send them in, and your voice becomes part of the Transmission Times Archive. It also may become part of The Transmission Times podcast.

The 4 Questions:

Record on your your smartphone or call 847-354-4163 and leave a voicemail.

What will you remember from this pandemic?
What was the lowest point of this time for you?
What good has come from this?
What are you hoping for the future?

Please send your recordings in by October 23rd. Thank you!

How it Works

1) Record your answers to the 4 Questions.

Use your smartphone or call 847-354-4163 and leave a voicemail.

Record your thoughts, experiences, and stories of what life has been like during this pandemic.
These are typically short, 3-7 minutes, but can be longer.
Feel free to include other pandemic-related stories that are not covered by the questions.

2) Email the files to me, if you are recording on a smartphone

Most files are small enough for email.
Longer files can be sent using WeTransfer

If you called in you are all set!

ALL of the files you submit will be in the Transmission Times Archive which will find a permanent home when this is all over.

*By submitting your recording you are giving me permission to keep your recording in the archive, use it on the Transmission Times podcast, and use it if the podcast is broadcast on the radio.

3) Listen to the Transmission Times Podcast

I can't guarantee to use your entries, but I will try my best to get everyone on the podcast at least once.

The podcast is also being broadcast on the radio! It's on WMPG in Portland, Maine, Radio St Pete in St. Petersburg, Florida, KWMR in Point Reyes Station, California, and WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana regularly as well as other stations occasionally.

Thank you!!

Why Join?

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.

Who am I?

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.

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