Resilient Redlands: COVID-19 and Our Town

Help A.K. Smiley Public Library document life in Redlands during the COVID-19 pandemic. Share your impressions through photographs, stories, poetry, works of art, or anything that will inform future Redlanders of life in the midst of an outbreak. Your submissions can be uploaded below and/or you can answer a few questions. These items will be added to the Library’s COVID-19 remembrance collection and may be used for educational purposes, including exhibitions and publications. Please contact the Heritage Room for information on in-person donations.

Tell us how life has changed since the outbreak began by answering a few questions. Share as much as you’d like. No pressure!

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How did you spend your days on a regular basis before the pandemic? Let us know if you are employed, retired, a student, what you like to do in your free time, etc.

What were your initial thoughts/feelings when you learned of COVID-19?

What were your thoughts when the “stay at home” orders were put in place?

What have been the biggest changes in your life since the pandemic began in the United States?

How has it affected your family and friends and how you interact with them?

How have you spent your time during the pandemic? Please provide as much detail as you’d like. Names of television shows and/movie, titles of books, etc.

How has your community changed?

In what positive ways have people responded?

What have been the most challenging aspects of life during the outbreak?

How have your thoughts changed since the start of the pandemic? What issues have most concerned you during this time?

How do you believe it will change life in the future?

Resilient Redlands: COVID-19 and Our Town

Tell us how life has changed since the outbreak began by answering a few questions. Share as much as you’d like. No pressure!

Feel free to upload or email your remembrances if you have more to share.

Thank you for adding your voice to “Resilient Redlands: COVID-19 and Our Town”!