You're cordially invited to "Growing Up In Boston," an exhibit opening and story circle on Monday, December 2nd. Curated by the Boston-Thurmond Neighborhood Archive Team, and hosted at MUSE Winston-Salem, the exhibit opens at 6:00pm and Story Circle program begins at 6:30. Share your memories of the neighborhood or listen and learn from community members. Refreshments will be provided. The Boston-Thurmond Neighborhood Archive Team also invites attendees to bring photos, letters, videos, and other flat or digital memories of the neighborhood to share during the program, and to be scanned on site. A scanner will be set up during all exhibit viewing hours.

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The historic Boston community (today often referred to as Boston-Thurmond) was established in 1892 and is one of the last intact historically Black neighborhoods in Winston-Salem. In the 1920s and 30s, Boston was a thriving, self-sufficient, mixed-income community but like many other historically Black neighborhoods, it was disrupted by numerous “public improvements” such as Cherry/Marshall Expressway (University Parkway) construction, school integration, and urban renewal.

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Since 2021, a team of Boston-Thurmond residents and local scholars, filmmakers, and artists have been collecting oral histories and archival materials to create a virtual exhibition and “living” neighborhood archive of the untold stories that humanize Boston-Thurmond, both present day and historically.

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This pop-up exhibit has been curated by the Boston-Thurmond Neighborhood Archive Team and will include film clips from North on Thurmond neighborhood documentary, multimedia stories, an augmented reality experience, and more. The exhibit is being hosted at MUSE Winston-Salem.

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Financial and in-kind support for this exhibit provided by the non-profits Boston-Thurmond United and North Carolina Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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