Former teacher serves as longest volunteer at Harvey B. Gantt Center WSOC TV [Video]

CHARLOTTE — It takes a lot of support to keep Charlotte’s museums and cultural centers up and running. One of the major components is support from volunteers.

Doris Boyd is one of the longest-serving volunteers at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture.

The Charlotte native spends time as a docent, a natural fit for the former teacher. She said she enjoys doing tours with students the most.

“I’m a teacher, and once a teacher, always a teacher,” Boyd told Channel 9.

She moved back to Charlotte around 2008 after time in the DC area and was looking for an arts and culture opportunity.

“I was having some difficulty with, ‘Where’s the art? Where’s the museum?’” She said of looking for a place. “I knew about the Afro-American Cultural Center … so I started volunteering there.”

That center, then housed at Little Rock AME Zion Church, would eventually become the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American …