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Research Inventory Grant - Westwood Historcial Society
Inventory of the Pickardt family collection, a family of German descent, who came from New York City to settle in Westwood, a rural farming community in the late 1800's, opened a business and influenced the Westwood and Islington communities from the 1880's to the 1950's.
Westwood, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Libby Johnson
awarded on: 2006-01-26
amount: $1,000
Homecomings Project
A series of public lectures, exhibits, films, workshops, readings and seminars on the theme of Homecomings from war, ancient and contemporary.
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Robert Meagher
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $5,000
"The Poets light but Lamps": A Viewing and Discussion of The Belle of Amherst
Public panel discussion following a screening of The Belle of Amherst as part of "A Little Madness in the Spring", the Emily Dickinson Museum's local annual celebration of National Poetry Month.
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Cindy Dickinson
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $2,917
Ancient Fishweir Permanent Panels in Arlington Street Subway
Research to complete text research, caption writing and final design of four graphic display panels that will be permanently installed along the MBTA Arlington Street subway station waiting platforms.
Dorchester, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Ross Miller
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $3,060
Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
Fundraising trailer for a documentary telling the story of the 1971 takeover of a Harvard University building, the surprise ending to that year's International Woman's Day march.
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Susan Rivo
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $9,993
Making a Living, Making a Life: Work and Its Rewards in a Changing America
A library reading and discussion series.
Barnstable, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Lucy Loomis
awarded on: 2006-01-10
amount: $1,000
Crime & the Cultural Landscape
A library reading and discussion series.
Westwood, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Thomas P. Viti
awarded on: 2005-11-29
amount: $500
Sarah Chayes Lecture at Wellesley Free Library
Sarah Chayes' Lecture on the Arghand Project, a nonprofit agricultural cooperative in Kandahar, Afghanistan at the Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Elise MacLennan
awarded on: 2005-11-02
amount: $250
The "Mass Memories Road Show" Visits Dorchester
Three community documentation events as part of its Mass. Memories Road Show initiative, which invites residents to bring in documents that reflect their families' origins and arrival in Massachusetts.
Dorchester, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Joanne Riley
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000
Curriculum Project: Immigration and Settlement in Watertown, 1630-2005
Development of a curriculum Sourcebook to provide information and lesson ideas for a study of immigration and settlement in Watertown over the past 375 years.
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Anna Roelofs
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $1,000
John Greenleaf Whittier Bicentennial Exhibits
Bicentennial exhibition focusing on Whittier's abolitionist activities and an exploration of his thoughts were shaped by the women in his life: his mother, sister, Celia Thaxter, Lucy Larcom and Sarah Orne Jewett.
Amesbury, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Janet Howell
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000
Wooden Synagogues: A Lost World Revisited
A traveling exhibition of 17th and 18th wooden synagogues from the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, focusing on the Zabludow and Gwozdziec Synagogues that were destroyed during the Nazi invasion in World War II.
Norwell, MA, Plymouth County (Southeast)
project director: Laura Brown
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000
Planning and Development of Exhibit Series on Immigration in Holyoke
Research/planning for an exhibit series on the five major immigrant groups to Holyoke.
Holyoke, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)
project director: Carol Constant
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000
Exhibition Planning Grant/Handled With Care
An exhibit examining the role of utilitarian objects created by the Shakers as pieces that transcended their function, becoming a vital part of religious expression, a manifestation of the Shaker quest for utopia and a concretization of the group's culture.
Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County (Berkshire)
project director: Christian Goodwillie
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000
Henry David Thoreau, Surveyor of the Soul
Preproduction phase of a feature length documentary film on Thoreau's profound impact on American literature and culture and how his are as influential today.
Portland, ME, Cumberland County
project director: James Coleman
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $10,000
Becoming American Exhibit
An exhibition exploring the changing cultural and social landscape of the City of Newton tentatively titled "Becoming American: Immigration in 21st Century Newton."
Newton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Susan Abele
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000
RIG: Lowell Historical Society
A scholary inquiry into the papers of Lowell-based magician, Louis Ackerman, as a means to explore the history of popular culture of the city and the country.
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Denise Cailler
awarded on: 2005-06-30
amount: $1,000
RIG: Brockton Historical Society
Organization of the Brockton Historical Society's collection of materials documenting the life and career of Rocky Marciano, famous boxer and Brockton resident.
Brockton, MA, Plymouth County (Southeast)
project director: Robert Wychulis
awarded on: 2005-06-30
amount: $1,000
RIG: Raynham Historical Society
Inventory of artifacts of the Leonard family, one of the oldest in Raynham.
Raynham Center, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Eleanor B. Calvin
awarded on: 2005-06-30
amount: $1,000
RIG: The Lyman Reserve
Project tracing the conservation legacy of a notable Massachusetts family, that of Theodore Lyman via an extensive collection of artifactual, photographic and written items.
Fall River, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Susan Edwards
awarded on: 2005-06-30
amount: $1,000
Stopping the Clock: A Time to Remember Salem's Pequot Mill Strike of 1933
Exhibit enhancement for Stopping the Clock; A Time to Remember Salem's Pequot Mill Strike of 1933
Salem, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Aviva Chomsky
awarded on: 2005-06-12
amount: $5,000
Crossroads of Cultures: The Islamic World, 750-1400
A summer teachers' institute that will explore the ways that the proximity of Asia, Africa and Europe prompted cultural sharing and hybrids of many kinds in the Islamic world of the mid-8th to late 15th centuries.
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Deborah Cunningham
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $5,000
Inside-Out at theHampden County Correctional Center: A Prison Project
A semester-long college course to be taught at the Hampden County Correctional Center's Women's Unit that will bring together incarcerated students and students from Mount Holyoke College in a classroom in the prison.
South Hadley, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Simone W. Davis
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $1,915
Project 2050 Knowledge for Power Program
The humanities component of Project 2050's ten-day residential retreat for participating Massachusetts youth. This year's theme confronts issues of "war" in all its forms and the gender implications of contemporary social, political, and military conflicts.
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Andrea Assaf
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $5,000
Planning an Orientation Exhibit for The House of Seven Gables
A conceptual plan, draft text, and exhibit format for an orientation exhibit to the site of the museum complex.
Salem, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Alexandria Mason
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $5,000
SecondHand: Lives and Afterlives of the Social Fabric
Preproduction support for a documentary exploring the linked cultures and histories of used clothing, focusing on the immigrant experience in Boston.
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Hanna R. Shell
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $10,000
Working Waterfront Documentation Project
Audio-taped interviews with fishermen and others whose work and lives are linked to the New Bedford/Fairhaven port. This oral history project will be done in conjunction with the second annual "Working Waterfront Festival."
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Laura Orleans
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $4,750
Honoring Eleanor Roosevelt
A public event honoring Eleanor Roosevelt featuring, a dramatic portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt, a book talk by author/historian Dr. Cathy D. Knepper, and a concert of big-band music from the 40s.
Whitinsville, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Cyrus Lipsitt
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $4,962
Afterburn-Willie Cole: selected works 1997-2004
A gallery brochure and public programs for youth and adults in conjunction with an upcoming exhibition, Afterburn-Willie Cole: Selected works 1997-2004.
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Susan L. Stoops
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $5,000
Shakespeare and Justice
A collaboration with Discovering Justice and the Actors' Shakespeare Project to produce matinees in the courtroom of the Moakley US Courthouse for 9th-12th graders.
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Maria Karagianis
awarded on: 2005-06-10
amount: $5,000
The Powder and the Glory: Elizabeth Arden & Helena Rubinstein
90-minute tv documentary on Madame Helena Rubenstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, two entrepreneurial women from different parts of the world, who pursued the American Dream by creating new industries in the time of a rising consumer culture.
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Ann C. Grossman
awarded on: 2005-06-01
amount: $10,000
Crime and the Cultural Landscape
Library reading and discussion series.
Medford, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Victoria Schneiderman
awarded on: 2005-05-23
amount: $500
Scholar in Residence - Clara Barton Birthplace Museum
"Clustering Memories of Clara" - Developing an interpretive plan that tells the complete story of Clara Barton - the child, the woman, the humanitarian, the inspiration.
North Oxford, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Cathy Woods
awarded on: 2005-05-02
amount: $2,500
Scholar in Residence - Berkshire Historical Society
Tor Court in Context: Impact of the Gilded Age on the economic and physical development in Pittsfield.
Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County (Berkshire)
project director: Catherine Reynolds
awarded on: 2005-04-27
amount: $2,500
Scholar in Residence - Robert Treat Paine Historical Trust
Research aimed to deep understanding and interpretation of the servants that lived on the property of Stonehurst.
Waltham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Ann Clifford
awarded on: 2005-04-27
amount: $2,500
Scholar in Residence - Forest Hills Educational Trust
Documentation and cataloguing of representative selection of both unusual and typical sculpture, gravestones and monuments by "anonymous" or little-known carvers which mark 19th century family burial lots.
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Cecily Miller
awarded on: 2005-04-27
amount: $2,500
Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail Guide
Revised and expanded booklet that will serve as a primary text for a Summer 2005 African American studies colloquium and for subsequent curriculum development in public school districts.
Lakeville, CT, Litchfield County (Berkshire)
project director: Rachel Fletcher
awarded on: 2005-04-21
amount: $5,000
Juniper Literary Festival
Annual gathering of readers, writers, scholars, editors, publishers and independent journals and presses.
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Lisa Olstein
awarded on: 2005-04-21
amount: $5,000
Telling the Story: The Power and Responsibility of Documenting Human Rights Violations
Symposium bringing together journalists, filmmakers, etc. who use documentation of violations with scholars who approach it from theoretical perspectives.
Waltham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Leigh Swigart
awarded on: 2005-04-21
amount: $4,130
Immigration and Adjustment: Assyrian Family Records
Exhibit and lecture series in Boston, the theme of which is how a Middle East community, the Assyrians, has been emigrating throughout the 20th century and adjusting to the United States.
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Eden Naby
awarded on: 2005-04-21
amount: $4,500