Welcome to the online home of The Carver High Museum & Archives of West Georgia, Inc.
A major renovation of our website is now underway. While the work is being done, we will be sharing with you slide shows from our history and various events and activities. Every few weeks the shows will change. Previously shown slideshows will be stored in our Archives that you'll be able to access in our Archives once we're back online.
Send your comments, questions, and inquiries about the website or any other CHMA matter to CHMAs Worker Bees. We will respond to your e-mail within 24 hours.
Meanwhile........
Save the Dates
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· 1st ANNUAL BLUE & GOLD GOLF CLASSIC - Our first golf tournament will be held at Sunset Hills Country Club in Carrollton, Georgia on Thursday, September 2, 2010. Registration Fee: $75 per player /$300 per team. Click here to request Golf tournament registration information.
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· 2010 GRAND REUNION - George Washington Carver High School's 55th Anniversary Celebration and Grand Reunion. Saturday, September 4 - Sunday September 5. REGISTRATION FEE: $80/per person for all inclusive package: Sat 9/4, 11 am-3 pm - Family Day Gathering; Sat 9/4, Blue & Gold Ball, 6 pm - 10:30 pm; Sun 9/5, CHMA Memorial Concert. Click here to update your contact information and/or be added to the Reunion mailing list.
A Few Choice Words From Our President
Hello Carverites & Friends,
If the question is: WHO WILL TELL OUR STORY WHEN WE ARE GONE? The Carver High Museum is the answer.
'The Carver High Generations' are survivors of survivors. We grew up under segregation and Jim Crow laws. Our parents had very limited opportunities in employment and education to improve their lot in life. But they made further sacrifices in order for their children to get an education.
WHO WILL TELL THEIR STORIES WHEN WE ARE GONE?
Some people say, 'Forget about the past.' But they do not realize that wrapped up in those big moments of Black, White and American History of the 1950s and 1960s were millions of small moments that defined our youth. To ask us to forget 'this period' in our life is to ask us to forget the sound of our parents' voices, the terror of having your mama straighten your hair (or for the boys, the big build up to asking Dad for 'the keys'), family Christmas dinners, your first Prom, etc.
Visitors to The Carver High Museum and Archives will explore and experience the life and times of African Americans during the Carver High Years - from 1954 to 1969. We wont shy away from telling the truth about the era, but we will want all to know that even in those sometimes harsh and ultra historic days, in our world life was still all about us. And as teenagers are want to do, we did everything we could to live a 'normal life' and not let segregation spoil our enjoyment of our glorious youth. These are the kinds of stories that we will tell.
In closing, the bigger purpose to be filled by the CARVER HIGH MUSEUM is to leave a legacy for future generations of knowledge about the people upon whose shoulders they stand. We will want them to know, that although we lived through tough times, when it was our time, we stepped up on the stage of life - armed with the lessons taught by our parents - and went out and changed the world as we had known it. We will ask them to do the same.
Thank you for your continuing support...see you soon.
Until the next time, may God hold you in His unchanging hands,
See Ya In The Funny Papers,
Carolyn
Carolyn Gray,
President/CEO
The Carver High Museum & Archives of West Georgia, Inc.
