Past Grants Awarded

Supporting three online events: Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present Library Conversations: Wharton’s Men

Supporting three online events: Women in the Wheelhouse, Women on Deck: Female Fisherpoets Round Robin Mothers, Wives, and Daughters: Stories from Fishing Families Virtual Dock-u-mentary: A Fish Story - Women as Industry Advocates

Supporting three online events: “Entangled Lives:” A conversation on women and work at the PPH house in the past and the present. School Letters: Teaching with the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers Clifton Johnson: A Search for the Heart of America Picture Show and Lecture by William Hosley

Supporting two online events: Extending the Growing Season in Home Gardens WWII on the Homefront

Supporting three online events: History of the shipping industry in East Boston From Abolitionists to Suffragettes Architecture of East Boston.

Supporting three online events: The Caged Man of Buckland The Durability of a Kennedy: JFK at War, 1937-1945 Marion Turner

Supporting two online events: Virtual Lecture of Old Sturbridge Village’s Textile Collection Virtual Tour of New England on Parade Exhibition

Supporting three online events: A Taste of Old Colony History -- Wheat Bars A Taste of Old Colony History -- Blueberry Pie A Taste of Old Colony History -- Pizza

Supporting three online events: Lew Paper, “In the Cauldron” Christopher Skaife, "The Ravenmaster" Joseph Bagley, "Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them"

Supporting three online events: Urban Displacement in Boston, Past and Present: Urban Renewal Urban Displacement in Boston, Past and Present: Evictions Urban Displacement in Boston, Past and Present: Anti-Displacement Strategies

Supporting one online event: Remarkable Photos of Leon Abdalian

Supporting three online events: “This Land is Their Land" “Whaling Captains of Color; America’s First Meritocracy” by Skip Finley, historian. Stories Behind the Stones

Supporting three online events: Samuel Harrison Performance Mr. Noble Melancholy Moby-Dick Virtual Read-A-Thon

Supporting two online events: Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardner The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress

Supporting one online event: Hatfield History Comes Home: Rediscovering the Lost Slides of L.H. Kingsley

Supporting three online events: LGBTQ Immigration and Migration from the 1950s to Today “CURED” Documentary Screening “When I Knew:” An LGBTQ Storytelling Event

Supporting three online events: Tom Denenberg: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of "Old America" George Schwartz: Collecting The Globe Colleene Fesko: Working title Martin Johnson Heade and the American Landscape

For the production of a series of interactive online exhibits of historical photos highlighting the culture and landscape of central Massachusetts, framed as a microcosm of the American post-war way of life.

For the expansion of the Digital Danvers program to primary school-aged students and their families in Danvers and across the North Shore.

For the production of an online virtual tour and program of the museums' campus that can be used by schools and teachers unable to come to the museums due to costs or COVID 19.

An ongoing comprehensive digital initiative for the purposes of making valuable content available and accessible to the public, educational institutions, partnering organizations, and researchers.

A webinar series highlighting historically significant artistic relationships between artists from communities that have experienced systemic inequities in the Pioneer Valley.

For Combahee’s Radical Call: Black Feminisms (Re)Awaken Boston, an online program about Combahee River Collective and how its work still impacts racial, social, and gender justice.

For the creation of a digital interactive component to an outdoor exhibit telling the story of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians in Berkshire County.

For the creation of interactive story maps of two recent Pao Arts Center projects, Inside Chinatown and Love Letters, that will be featured on the Pao Arts Center website.

Phase II of an online virtual tour program about Ayer's historic Sandy Pond Schoolhouse, a National Register of Historic Places site, and Ayer's oldest public building.

For the digitization of the Tewksbury State Hospital intake records, which when completed, will be accompanied by a genealogy program, a virtual exhibit, and a website redesign showcasing newly digitized content.

For the development of a widely accessible digital walking tour and virtual visit focused on the little-known story of enslaved and free Black people in 18th-century Deerfield, MA.

For the creation of a digital tour of three of the museum's historic houses and a walking tour of historic Gloucester.

A natural and cultural history video project highlighting the ecology and cultural history of the land at Tamarack Hollow.

Developing and implementing a vibrant digital volunteer program at Hatfield Historical Society, including Humanities input, staff and volunteer training, and the planning and creation of digital platforms to engage volunteers both now, during the COVID pandemic, and in the future.

A website archive/virtual tour of the Gwozdziec Synagogue Project, by converting of a 3-D digital rendering of the Gwozdziec Synagogue roof and ceiling into a virtual tour video, and the building of a website portal for contextual history, process and material research information related to Gwozdziec Synagogue and other 17th century wooden synagogues of the Polish Lithuantian Commonwealth.

Design virtual workshops and adapt study guides supporting our virtual “Road to Tolerance” program for students in Boston Public Schools.

Two online exhibits and accompanying gallery talks about the history of the Black community of abolitionists and formerly enslaved in Florence, Northampton, Massachusetts in the two decades before the Civil War.

The Virtual Naumkeag Settlers to Salem Shippers education program will be a virtual education program available for students in grades 2-5 learning about colonial life.

Implementing the digital exhibition of a program celebrating the culture and heritage of the long-standing Massachusetts commercial fishing industry, highlighting women both locally and abroad.

Support for the acquisition of equipment needed to record, edit, and audio engineer productions for the Cape Symphony Digital Outreach Project, which will enable us to capture and develop the Symphony’s humanities-related programming and redirect it to a live-stream feed, or to record content for post-performance production for permanent online posting and distribution.

Creating a web site enabling the museum to display and describe a collection of Lusophone artifacts which will include photographs, artwork, artifacts relative to the unique cultural complexities of Cape Cod's Portuguese speaking community: Cape Verdean, Azorean, Brazilian and main land Portuguese.

A virtual exhibition of the upcoming show Many Trails Muhheconeok: The people of the waters that never stand still. A digital platform will enhance the narrative of the exhibition through digital representation of the objects and space on the explore.berkshiremuseum.org website and expands the audience to serve those who are unable to visit the exhibition in person.

Offer Virtual Field Trips curriculum packages for students in grades 8-12 based on Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms which will explore America's democratic ideals and practice. Also provide Virtual Gallery tours of our new exhibitions for adults.