Ep. 1 - Meet the Boston Sisters

Michon Boston and Taquiena Boston, co-hosts, “Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters” photo credit: BRINK Creative

Get to know us, the Boston Sisters, Michon and Taquiena, your co-hosts for this podcast,  “Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters.” Hear about upcoming episodes and find out how you can join the conversation on historical drama films and series.

Michon Boston and Taquiena Boston are real-life sisters who grew up surrounded by history in Washington, DC, where their parents introduced them to movies and took them to museums as entertainment.

Michon is a writer (New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, Washington CityPaper) and media impact producer who works with documentary and narrative films to raise awareness and inspire action on the critical concerns of our times. She is also a cultural historian, and walking tour guide who brings the history of DC’s jazz age and literary history to life. Michon is the author of Iola’s Letter: The Memphis Crusade of Ida B. Wells, a play about the anti-lynching newspaper woman and activist, Ida B. Wells. She is writing a play inspired by “The Three Musketeers” author Alexandre Dumas’s food writings. Michon studied English at Oberlin College with a focus on creative writing. While a student she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research the history of Black women who attended Oberlin in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Taquiena, a culture change strategist and coach, has earned theater degrees from Howard University and the University of Michigan. In addition to streaming and binge watching historical drama, Taquiena enjoys travel -- especially by train -- museums, fashion, reading food history and cookbooks, and cooking. Her interests and adventures are influenced by watching films about history and historical dramas, including a train ride she made from Paris to Venice on the refurbished Orient Express. She saved for the trip as a special birthday gift after seeing the film, “Murder on the Orient Express.”