The Pandemic Project: Long Beach COVID-19 Stories |
Why this survey?
The Historical Society of Long Beach is collecting stories from those who live and work in this community to become part of our permanent archive. It is important for us to capture your story in your own words. We encourage you to process and reflect on the situation and to share your experience in your own voice. Think of how you might record all of this in a journal or recounting to a friend. Please take your time and include as much detail as possible.
Many of you have already responded with great detail about life under the pandemic. We acknowledge that a lot has changed since we first released the survey, from the reopening of businesses to nation-wide protests. If you have already responded we invite you to fill out the survey again with any new information that can provide future scholars with insightful understandings of how Long Beach tackled this historic moment in our lives.
The HSLB aims to hear from people throughout the city to ensure the responses represent the diversity of Long Beach including people of all ages, neighborhoods, and backgrounds. Please share and encourage others to fill this survey out. In doing so, these stories will become part of our collection of local history materials preserved for future researchers, students, healthcare professionals and others as a means to understand the ways this 2020 pandemic affected life in Long Beach.