"Pop Culture in Silver City," a community panel discussion, will be held in the Silver City Museum Annex, 302 West Broadway, Silver City, NM, Thursday, August 10, 2017, noon to 1pm.

Come to hear about the popular diversions locals enjoyed in Silver City and Grant County circa 1967, and contribute your own stories. Share remembrances of the cars, music, local sports teams and youth culture of the late 1960s.

To celebrate the Silver City Museum's 50th Anniversary, the Museum is featuring a historical exhibition that not only focuses on the Museum's history, but more broadly on the time and place of its founding. To enrich and expand the scope of the exhibition's content, we have five community panel discussions and a digital story-telling workshop planned. The panel discussions are closely related to the vignettes and subjects represented in the exhibition.

The exhibition demonstrates how the Silver City Museum and the community have changed over 50 years. The exhibition and programs are designed to allow visitors and event attendees see how readdressing the world as it was can lead to a new understanding of the present. Visitors and program attendees will have the opportunity to appreciate how far the Museum and the community have come in the last 50 years.

Each panel will feature speakers talking about their own experiences. Members of the community will be the experts and audience members are encouraged to share their own stories. This will be an opportunity to include more stories and points of view; to engage and be part of the larger conversation. These events are free and open to the public, though a $3 donation is suggested.

The exhibition 50 Years Ago in Silver City, the digital storytelling listening event, and the series of community panels are supported in part by a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council.

The Silver City Museum creates opportunities for residents and visitors to explore, understand, and celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of southwestern New Mexico by collecting, preserving, researching, and interpreting the region's unique history. For more information, please contact the museum at (575) 538-5921, education@silvercitymuseum.org, or go to the museum's website. www.silvercitymuseum.org.