Past Grants Awarded

The collecting of oral histories of people with experience of farming in Belmont between 1900 and 1950.

Planning for an exhibit to introduce visitors of the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum to the life of whaling merchant William Rotch, Jr.

A one-week summer institute on Massachusetts' history and geography for 25 teachers of grades 3-5.

A curriculum on the history and lessons of the Holocaust for high school and middle school students.

A two-year residency of the play at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston, a collaborative effort of Theatre Espresso and the Supreme Judicial Historical Society.

To survey of the collection of the Westport Historical Society for artifacts and documents that relate to the history of the Society's headquarters, the Bell School, and its relationship with communities of Westport.

Inventory of the Dyer Collection, letters and materials relating to the relative and changing importance of a mixed economy and mixed land use in Plainfield over the past 200 years.

An inventory of Southborough Historical Society's 18th and 19th century collection of manuscripts and artifacts to support a lecture or exhibit relating to the history of Southborough's triphammer, used for pounding and shaping iron.

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.

A series of public lectures, exhibits, films, workshops, readings and seminars on the theme of Homecomings from war, ancient and contemporary.

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.

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.

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.

A library reading and discussion series.

A library reading and discussion series.

Sarah Chayes' Lecture on the Arghand Project, a nonprofit agricultural cooperative in Kandahar, Afghanistan at the Wellesley Free Library

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.

An exhibition exploring the changing cultural and social landscape of the City of Newton tentatively titled "Becoming American: Immigration in 21st Century Newton."

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.

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.

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.

Research/planning for an exhibit series on the five major immigrant groups to Holyoke.

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.

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.

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.

Organization of the Brockton Historical Society's collection of materials documenting the life and career of Rocky Marciano, famous boxer and Brockton resident.

Inventory of artifacts of the Leonard family, one of the oldest in Raynham.

Project tracing the conservation legacy of a notable Massachusetts family, that of Theodore Lyman via an extensive collection of artifactual, photographic and written items.

Exhibit enhancement for Stopping the Clock; A Time to Remember Salem's Pequot Mill Strike of 1933

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.

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.

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.

A conceptual plan, draft text, and exhibit format for an orientation exhibit to the site of the museum complex.

Preproduction support for a documentary exploring the linked cultures and histories of used clothing, focusing on the immigrant experience in Boston.

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."

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.

A gallery brochure and public programs for youth and adults in conjunction with an upcoming exhibition, Afterburn-Willie Cole: Selected works 1997-2004.

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.

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.

Library reading and discussion series.