Baby Boomersgot affordable housing;Millennialsgot ashade of pink ; andGeneration X , sandwiched between the two , got forgotten .
Gen X ’s tendency to fly under the radar while its neighboringage rangesgrabheadlinesengendered its byname : the “ Forgotten Generation . ” But the Illinois State Museum is currently develop a newfangled exhibition that ’ll sure as shooting wreak Gen X to the stem , at least untilavocado toastreenters the news cycle .
AsUSA TODAYreports , the exhibition , titled “ Growing Up X , ” is coif to spread this October at the museum ’s main branch in Springfield , Illinois . And if you ’re a Gen Xer yourself — in other words , you were born between 1965 and 1980 — you could even chip in to it .
The Illinois State Museum currently has asurveyon its website promise all Gen Xers to name any childhood belongings that they ’d let themuseumborrow ( or keep ) for enjoyment in the exhibit . These cultural artifacts could be anything from your oldTrapper Keeperto your old written matter of Judy Blume’sAre You There God ? It ’s Me , Margaret — and just about everything in between : landline telephone set , deoxythymidine monophosphate - shirt , Star Wars natural process name , originalNintendos , VHS tapes , and so on .
If you do n’t have any physical items to lend , you could share your memory rather . “ We want to dig into the experience of being a tyke in the ’ 70 , ’ LXXX and ’ 90 , ” Illinois State Museum chronicle curator Erika Holst toldUSA TODAY . “ How did grow up adapting to novel engineering , often unsupervised , in the shadow of the Cold War , Reaganomics , Just Say No and the AIDS crisis shape this propagation of mass who are now coming into their own in middle age ? ”
The survey asks about your favorite childhood natural action , book , programs , andslang ; as well as self - reflective dubiousness about your parenting panache versus your parent ’ , social electronic messaging on personal individuality , and more .
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[ h / tUSA TODAY ]
