HARLEM, Ga. () – The Harlem Museum and Welcome Center is where you can learn about the city’s history and more.

This is the teams second visit, and for this episode of “Your Hometown Road Trip”, they stopped by to chat about some of the newest exhibits at the museum.

What are some of the new things that you are showing off today?

“We actually have two new exhibits right now. The first is about the Laurel and Hardy cartoons that were created by the Hanna-Barbera Company. Everyone knows they did things like the Flintstones, Scooby Doo, but a lot of people didn’t know there was a Laurel and Hardy cartoon series, it came on for about two years there. It came out first in 1966, but it only lasted about a year or two, but once you see it you’ll see that it’s modeled after the Flintstones, the designs are similar,” said Museum Director, Meghan Foster.

For the next exhibit the team spoke with Latisha Conyers, and Domanique Abner of Alpha Zeta Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.

Tell us what this next exhibit is.

“It’s for New Zeta Sigma, it’s a chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho, which was chartered in Wrens Georgia, but we service areas of Wrens, Harlem, Thomson, Warrenton and so for us, it was important to have something here at the Harlem Museum to let the community know that we are here to help and support them,” said Conyers.

Seeing a lot of Black History here. Why is it important to showcase this?

“In this exhibit, we have pictures of our founders, we have some memorabilia, we just turned 100-years-old in 2022, so you’ll see a lot of historical facts. It think this exhibit is important because it shows what black women did and how we contributed to society, especially here in Harlem, and if you didn’t know, we actually rolled this exhibit over from March for Women History Month as well. Our founders were seven school teachers out in Indiana and they established their sorority by themselves,” said Abner.

What do you want people to take away from this?

“Something I would want them to take away from this is, you can do anything that you put your mind to. Our founders were not only educators, but a lot of people don’t know, there was racism going on in the time we were founded. So to have to go to your predominantly white institution, where the Grand Dragon was literally across the street, speaks volumes. We want people to know you can do anything you put your mind to,” said Conyers.

Exhibits are always changing at the Harlem Museum and Welcome Center, so just because you’ve stopped in once, doesn’t mean you’ve seen everything.

The folks at the museum encourage people to come out, and see what’s new.