Welcome to Stories from Behind the Mask, a collection of stories, poems, journal entries, photos, and interviews describing the experience of Central New York residents living through the Covid-19 pandemic. Feel free to navigate the site and consider submitting your own story or artwork. A project of Phillips Free Library in Homer, NY, Stories from Behind the Mask is funded through a grant from the Libraries Transforming Communities: Focus on Small and Rural Libraries, an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) in collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL).