Medfield Historical Society wants your COVID journal

Medfield Historical Society Asks You To Share Your COVID Journal

By David Temple, Society President

Imagine this scene 100 years from now - your great-great-grandson or daughter walks up the steps in our Historical Society building at 6 Pleasant Street and wants to learn about day-to-day life in Medfield during the historic COVID pandemic in 2020-22.

Information requests like this are everyday events at historical societies.

Now’s your chance to make it easy for the curator on duty to reply, “Yes, of course. That was a really challenging time for the people who went through it. Here are some of their journals and letters for you to look at.”

In the society, we’re building a file with your letters, emails, pictures, and other memorabilia of COVID. The best thing would be personal stories of your family and friends’ experiences.

Please send them in via email (medfieldhistoricalsociety@gmail.com) or snail mail to 6 Pleasant Street, Medfield.

There will be periodic updates in The Portal newsletter on what comes in.