Reposted from Front Porch Forum:
Vermont Historical Society 2023 Flood Archive
Montpelier, VT
Montpelier – No. 7208 • Andrew Liptak, The Vermont History Museum
Aug 8, 2023
When it became apparent that the flooding that was taking place in early July was going to rival some of the other floods that loom large in our collective memory, we at the Vermont Historical Society decided to set up a new digital archive to collect images and other ephemera from it.
We hold a considerable number of records of past floods in our collection, including images and video from the Flood of 1927, the Montpelier flood of 1992, and of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, and others. Those records exist because they were documented by the people of Vermont and sent to VHS to preserve, and they're currently used by researchers, journalists, and members of the public to recall and understand those events.
We want to be able to have records of the 2023 flood as well: we're inviting the public to submit their photographs, audio files, video recordings, and other related documents to this crowdsourced archive, in order to preserve the memories of this tragic event for the future. You can check out the archive here: http://floodof2023.digitalvermont.org/
We've also begun to expand the media collection for the Flood of 1927 on our archival portal, Digital Vermont. Our digital media librarian has been uploading dozens of photographs and scans of documents from our collection for the first time, and you can check them out here: https://digitalvermont.org/items/browse?collection=12