Young girls perform a Khmer dance at the More Than a Party event at the Lynn Museum Friday. (Item Photo / Angela Owens)By Amber Parcher / The Daily Item
LYNN - Sixteen-year-old Jimson Thach knew his parents came to America from their homeland of Cambodia in the 1980s. But beyond that, he said he didn't know much about their life before America.
"They don't really talk about it," he said.
An exhibit coming to the Lynn Museum next month detailing the stories of thousands of Cambodian refugees could change all of that.
Thach's parents, and most of the other middle-aged Cambodians living in Lynn, fled to America from a brutal genocide that killed an estimated 2 million people, said Kirirath Saing, the Southeast Asian Liason for Lynn's mayor.
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