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Mount Prospect Partnership Launches “Pandemic Reflections” to Preserve Memories
The Mount Prospect Historical Society has teamed up with the Mount Prospect Community Engagement Committee and the Mount Prospect Public Library, to collect and preserve for the future local memories of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21. The Historical Society and the Library began collecting essays, photos, artwork, news articles and videos via the Historical Society’s website in June and the Village joined the effort in the fall.
This time will go down in history as a momentous one that is hard to forget – like The Great Depression, the World Wars and September 11, 2001. While right now we long to once again walk free and maskless at concerts, sporting events, movies and crowded restaurants, one day we will undoubtedly reminisce about the Year of COVID and relate our shared hardships over holiday dinners to those who don’t remember or were not yet born.
It is important, therefore, that the remembrances conveyed are accurate and not distorted by poor memories. So, they must be preserved now.
The Pandemic Reflections team believes that Thanksgiving presents an ideal time for Mount Prospect residents to begin recording their thoughts, emotions, and memories for posterity. So, the group has posed a question related to the season,
Has COVID impacted your thankfulness this year? How?
. . . and is asking residents and others associated with Mount Prospect to share short thoughts via the “Padlet” board at (https://www.mtphist.org/padlet/).
More substantial entries, such as essays, photos, videos, art and more can be found on our Pandemic Moments page. Also, be sure to watch for new monthly questions starting in 2021 and make contributing your thoughts as an ongoing project.
MPHS Offers New, Inspirational T-Shirt and Walking Tours
Solicits Personal Pandemic Submissions
Mount Prospect is a caring and resilient community, a fact that has particularly come to the fore during this challenging time in human history.
So, the Mount Prospect Historical Society is introducing a timeless and inspirational t-shirt which proclaims “Mount Prospect Proud – Life is All About Peaks and Valleys” to tout our community’s strength and ability to endure difficult times of all kinds, while waiting for better days to return.
That t-shirt is now available through the Society’s website at mtphist.org. The shirts come in many sizes and begin at $25. There is also a discount for members. You can purchase it at this link here.
In addition, the Society has introduced four downloadable neighborhood walking tours to entertain those who are increasingly walking and bicycling through town and a website page which encourages resident and other associated with Mount Prospect to submit: essays, photos, videos, poems and so forth about their 2020 experiences. This solicitation effort is being done in partnership with the Mount Prospect Public Library and the Village of Mount Prospect.
