KEENE VALLEY — Storytellers have recorded 160 first-person accounts about life in the town of Keene, yesterday and today, and there are opportunities for people to participate in this Keene Valley Library project as you protect your families by staying home.

“Adirondack Community: Capturing, Retaining, and Communicating the Stories of Who We Are,” is a multi-year local history project that collects and organizes three- to five-minute audio stories and related photographs through an online platform to share the rich social and cultural history of this town.

“This is an opportunity to record history in the making,” Keene Valley Library Director Karen Glass said. “Twenty-five years from now, when people want to know what daily life was like during COVID-19, they will be able to find it in the stories we recorded.”

Go to “http://myadirondackstory.org”>myadirondackstory.org. The “Catastrophe” category has numerous stories, and there are also two podcasts dealing with local catastrophes. There are also seven other categories: arts and culture, work, people, outdoor activities, daily life, community, and the natural and man-made environment.

“We are home, worrying about our families here and far away, wondering what comes next. We may find some comfort in hearing about catastrophes and how our community has come together, time and time again,” says Jery Y. Huntley, the Adirondack Community project lead. “The history and lived experiences shared in the first 160 stories demonstrate how this project will preserve Keene history for future generations, especially the challenges we are currently facing and have overcome.”

Do you have a story to tell, especially about what we are facing today? If so, email myadirondackstory@gmail.org to receive a link with instructions on how to tell your story. Telephone help is also available.

Adirondack Community, found at myadirondackstory.org, was initially funded by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, the Northern New York Library Network, and now by community supporters using Memria.org. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed on myadirondackstory.org do not necessarily represent those of sponsors.