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A wife's heartfelt account of her husband being in and passing in a nursing home during COVID. She also discusses the aftermath of this, how different holidays are, and what she has done to get through it.

Illustration titled barbijo, which is Spanish for surgical mask.

The material was submitted by the student through the COA COVID-19 Community Archive Project Google Form.

For Halloween 2020, Juliana L'Heureux and her husband Richard got creative with their meal prep, creating Jack-O-Lantern style stuffed peppers. Juliana says:

"In the COVID-19 environment, we are preparing many more creative recipes at home, rather…

Slides from Melissa Maginnis' workshop at the 2021 Raymond H. Fogler Professional Development Day regarding the work of the Advisory Board.

Maine Contemporary Archives welcomes Megan MacGregor, who will take us through the basics of Creative Commons Licenses and how to use them, both as the creator who places them on a work, and the user who wants to work with these licenses.

Megan…

Members of Maine Contemporary Archives share takeaways from the first year of collaboration. Presented at the Maine Library Association Annual Conference 2021.

The Maine Community Archives Collaborative invited the public to a statewide Zoom event on Thursday, August 13, 2020 to share information about our libraries’ COVID-19 collecting projects.

Presenters include:

Renée DesRoberts, McArthur Public…

Digital handout for the virtual professional development event Archives Tech Lightning Talks.

Learn about tools for digital preservation, content management and display with your colleagues from around Maine. Get the basics on ArchiveIT, Archivematica, ArchivesSpace, Past Perfect, Digital Commons and Omeka and answers to these questions: What…

Join Maine Contemporary Archives as we learn about the Roadmap for Participatory Archiving (RoPA) with Dr. Carolyn Goldstein, Public History and Community Archives Program Manager at UMass Boston. RoPA is a set of modules designed to guide librarians…

What can a portrait tell us about a person, their experiences, and the world they live in? In this lesson, students will learn strategies for engaging with a portrait by identifying its elements and uncovering its layers of meaning. Students will…

What can an old photograph tell us about history? Plenty! Photographs hold a wealth of information about what life was like in the past. In this lesson, students must act like sleuths and uncover the clues!Photographs can be “read” just like any…

Where do primary sources come from? This activity will have students document an aspect of their COVID-19 experience in the form of a social media post, donate it to their community archive, and then think about how that resource will inform people…

Why study sound? And who studies sound? Historians, geographers, scientists, conservationists, and architects do. Historians think about how the past sounded. Geographers consider how sounds define a sense of place. Scientists and conservationists…