News, pictures and information
about past events and activities
for BHS:
Bazaar 1999
2000 video project
Concerts in the Country 2000
Grants and new sign 2001
Video premiere in 2002
Archives maintenance 2004
Membership drive 2005

Boyds Negro School news stories
Vandalism 2006

Other Boyds history events:
1998 B & O
Train celebration
Wash. Post article about BNS
Community Calendar May 2006 -- history of trains
with John King
Wash. Post Black History
month 2003 event -- author's talk
by C. R. Gibbs
Evenings with Arthur Virts, Nov.
2005 and March 2007
2007 Fundraising:

Azeem M. of the Jefferson
School completed his social
studies fair project on the
history of Boyds.  Azeem and
his class held a bake sale and
raised $250.00 for the Boyds
Negro School renovation fund!
(pictured a
t right)
Time capsule story in Wash. Post 2001
History Talk with Concerts in the Country, June 2007
August 2007 Front Porch Concert at Green Earth Goods
2007 Re-building
Reopening -- Heritage
Days 2008
News  items

The Boyds Negro Schoolhouse
was closed for over a year while
undergoing renovations
necessitated by water and
termite damage to the floor and
joists.  We have been working
with donors and community
partners to repair the school
and reopen it .   (removal of
flooring pictured at right)

The full story may be found in
the Gazette newspapers:

http://
www.gazette.net/stories/11
2906/germnew193801_31986.sht
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