Boys -- Societies and clubs -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Overview

The Bunker Hillbillies was a youth band for Boys’ Club of Boston Charlestown branch members. The band was founded by entertainer Bob Munstedt in 1941, and directed by him for nearly 40 years, until 1979. The collection documents the band through photographs, audiovisual recordings, songs, ephemera, and more. A few items document the revival of the group in 1986, and commemorations of Munstedt and the band in the 1980s and 1990s.

Overview The first clubhouse of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) was founded in Charlestown in 1893. The club was meant to be a refuge and alternative space for young boys whose home life and education were not conducive to their development into productive citizens. Over a century later, the BGCB serves more than 8,000 urban youths, largely from disadvantaged circumstances, in its five clubhouses in Charlestown, Chelsea, Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston. In 1981, girls were admitted to...