The following excerpt is from an article by David Drury, posted at courant.com:
The now century-old conflict known to its contemporaries as the Great War left an indelible imprint on Connecticut.
For those who lived through it, on the battlefield or the home front, it was a life-defining event, and the Connecticut State Library wants to assure that family-held memories and mementos will be preserved and available to historians, students, genealogists or the simply curious.
Beginning later this month, state library officials will hold a series of community events at which local residents are urged to bring in family letters, photographs, diaries, recorded stories and other objects from the World War I period.
Those materials will be processed and digitally scanned on site by volunteers….
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In conjunction with the project, a new website, http://www.CTinWorldWar1.org, launched this fall that provides a platform for sharing historical material from local libraries and institutions about Connecticut wartime experience at home and abroad…
Upcoming sessions of the Connecticut State Library’s digitalization project will be held at the Middletown Library Service Center, Oct. 22, 6 to 9 p.m.; Willimantic Library Service Center, Oct. 25, 1 to 4 p.m.; the Connecticut State Library, Nov. 8, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.