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MARCH 2021 ■ www.ReporterNewspapers.net Community | 19 DUN Preservation Trust to start pandemic historical archive BY SAMMIE PURCELL The Dunwoody Preservation Trust is calling for residents to send in photos and other mementos to remember the COVID-19 pandemic. The Preservation Trust — an organization dedicated to saving and sharing Dun- woody’s history — joins the likes of the Atlanta History Center, which launched the “Corona Collective” last year as a way to preserve history of the pandemic for fu ture generations. “In Dunwoody, we don’t know much about what happened 100 years ago with the Spanish Flu,” said Suzanne Huff, executive director and chief operating officer of the Dunwoody Preservation Trust. “We don’t know much about anything that hap pened here, if anything did.” Huff said the idea originally started last April, but lost a little bit of steam over the summer before she picked it back up late last year. Since October, she said she’s received about 23 mementos, including photos and stories sharing what it’s been like for residents during the pandemic. Huff said the trust has received mostly photos and stories at this point. Every thing sent in so far can be viewed on the Preservation Trust’s website. Photos in clude masks hanging from key rings, Zoom calls between friends, a socially dis tanced football game, and empty grocery store shelves. Huff said the trust would be interested in receiving physical artifacts as well, such as masks, hand sanitizers, or journals from the early days of the pandemic. “I sew, so I made all my face masks,” Huff said. “So I would keep some of those in our collection, as well as the generic ones.” The items can be viewed online, but Huff said she would be interested in starting a physical exhibit post-pandemic. The Preservation Trust operates out of the Don- aldson-Bannister Farm at 4831 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, and Huff said any exhib it would most likely take place there. Anyone interested in submitting mementos for the collection can send an email to dunwoodypreservationtrust@gmail.com. SPECIAL One of the photos from the Dunwoody Preservation Trust’s collection, showing a socially-distanced football game. YOUR MOUNTAIN PARADISE AWAITS LET US WELCOME YOU HOME iijLUUUul m THE PRESERVE WHITESIDE CLIFFS 470-602-9693 Grace.Battle@evrealestate.com ENGEL&VOLKERS
