Museum on Main Street
Visit the Smithsonian at Boley Community Center!
11 W. Grant Street, Boley, OK May 14, 2022 - June 25, 2022
Event Details
Crossroads: Change in Rural America is a traveling exhibit curated by the Smithsonian Institution and brought to Oklahoma by Oklahoma Humanities. The exhibit examines how small towns approach rural identity, community, land, perseverance, and managing change from a national perspective.
Boley Community Center, 11 W. Grant Street in Boley
On display May 14th through June 25th, 2022
The community center is open: Thursday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Memorial Day
Thursday, May 26, at 3:00 p.m., free showing of Oklahoma!
Friday, May 27 at dusk, free showing of Oklahoma! at Boley Community Garden, bring your own chair/blanket
Saturday, May 28, 3:00 p.m., Boley Parade
Saturday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m., Boley Rodeo at Rodeo Grounds, follow signs off Highway 62, Cost: $12 adults, $7 kids, free for 6 and under, tickets sold at the gate
Saturday, May 28 at dusk, free showing of Oklahoma! at Boley Community Garden, bring your own chair/blanket
Sunday, May 29, Soul Food Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., J&L McCormicks, 103 W. Hwy 62, Boley
Sunday, May 29 at dusk, free showing of Oklahoma! at Boley Community Garden, bring your own chair/blanket
Sunday, May 29 Gospel Explosion at 5:00 p.m., Boley Community Garden, featuring band, local artists, and worship leaders
Saturday, June 4 at 2:00 p.m., speaker Sache Primeeaux-Shaw, Topic: Crossroads Theme – Land
Saturday, June 11 at 2:00 p.m., Speaker Vanessa Adams Harris, Topic: Crossroads Theme – Perseverance
Saturday, June 18 at 2:00 p.m., Panel Discussion: Black Towns Then, Black Towns Now, Moderator Senator George Young
Saturday, June 25 at 2:00 p.m., Closing Ceremony and 13 Historic Black Towns Festival
About OKLAHOMA!
Chris Coleman puts a unique spin on an old classic featuring an all-Black cast highlighting the state’s multi-racial history and the more than 50 all-Black settlements in the state between the end of the Civil War and 1920. The musical Oklahoma! takes place in 1906, shortly before Oklahoma Territory became the state of Oklahoma. With the history of westward expansion leading up to statehood may be familiar, African American history in the Territory is far less commonly known.