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William Skinner and Sons Manufacturing Co. Interpretive ExhibitWistariahurst Museum Association, Incmore
Exhibit Production Grant to build an interpretive and interactive exhibit on the William Skimmer and Sons Manufacturing Company and their part in the US silk industry, 1850-1962.
Holyoke, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)
project director: Laurie Risler
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $3,700
"Vincie N." Interpretive ExhibitGloucester Maritime Heritage Museummore
Development of an interpretive exhibit that will give insight into the culture of the people whose livelihood depended upon the Vincie N., a commercial fishing boat built in 1936 and fished by the same Gloucester family for over 50 years.
Gloucester, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Harriet Webster
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $5,000
History of Social Service in Lawrence, MassachusettsFamily Service, Incmore
Exhibit of artifacts and oral histories telling the story of the emergence of social service policy and delivery in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Lawrence, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Kay B. Frishman
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $3,700
Understanding Islam - Jones LibraryJones Librarymore
Reading and discussion series about Islam.
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Beth Girshman
awarded on: 2004-06-22
amount: $500
The Lure of the West: Films and LiteratureNational Heritage Museummore
A reading and discussion series and film/discussion series to accompany an exhibit of American West artifacts.
Lexington, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Alice Promisel
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $3,500
The Villages of Montague: History and Memory in a New England TownMontague Community Cable Incorporatedmore
A videotaped oral history project about the five villages of Montague, produced in honor of Montague's 250th anniversary. The programs will air on a local access television station in late 2004.
Turners Falls, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)
project director: Jeffrey Singleton
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $3,480
Monkey Dance Distribution GrantCenter For Independent Documentarymore
The distribution grant will cover the production of a high school teacher's guide to accompany the documentary, design and printing of a poster to promote local screenings, and film festival entry costs.
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Julie Mallozzi
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $4,980
Discover Roxbury's Art and HistoryThe Bridges Programmore
A series of five "moving lecture" bus tours highlighting Roxbury's history, art and culture, led by experts in their fields.
Lexington, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Marcia Butman
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $4,000
Concord River Greenway HistoryLowell Parks & Conservation Trustmore
An oral history project that will utilize interviews with residents of neighborhoods that abut the Concord River in Lowell. The end products will be a lengthy oral history document, a Concord River Greenway brochure, and historical signage.
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Kristin McCauley
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $3,600
Yours for Humanity--Abby, A One-Act PlayWorcester Women's History Projectmore
A one-woman play about Abby Kelley Foster.
Shrewsbury, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Linda B. Rosenlund
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $5,000
Website DesignRoyall House Associationmore
The designing of a website for the Royall House, the only home in New England with preserved slave quarters.
Medford, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Fred Schlicher
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $1,680
A Place Called Paradise: Culture & Community in Northampton, MA 1654-2004Historic Northamptonmore
A UMass-published anthology containing the articles upon which the lectures for Historic Northampton's lecture series commemorating the 350th anniversary year of the city of Northampton were based.
Northampton, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Kerry Buckley
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $5,000
A 90-minute documentary film on the little known political side of Theodor Seuss Geisal, a Springfield native.
New York, NY, New York County
project director: Ron Lamothe
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $5,000
Plastic: Credit Cards and the Culture of DebtCenter For Independent Documentarymore
A documentary investigating the culture of debt in America.
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Tim Wright
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $5,000
A series of educational public programs to enhance the Witch House's role as a center for community involvement and local history. The Witch House is the only historic building in Salem with direct ties to the witchcraft trials of 1692.
Salem, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Elizabeth Seater
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $3,400
The American Short StoryWilbraham Public Librarymore
A library reading and discussion series.
Wilbraham, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)
project director: Ardie McEathron
awarded on: 2004-05-18
amount: $150
Voices from the Oak TreeOversoul Theatre Collective, Inc.more
A series of public presentations focusing on the oral and literary traditions of the Wampanoag people.
Mashpee, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Morgan J. Peters
awarded on: 2004-03-15
amount: $2,500
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial LecturesHouse of the Seven Gablesmore
Three lectures about the life, work and legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne during 2004, the bicentennial of his birth.
Salem, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Alexandria Mason
awarded on: 2004-03-12
amount: $3,000
"Knowledge for Power" sessions for the Project 2050 summer retreat, a yearly ten-day gathering of artists, scholars, and a racially diverse group of 45 Western Massachusetts youth, at which themes connected to the projected demographic shift of 2050--when people of color will become the majority in the US--are explored through artistic and scholastic expression.
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Talvin Wilkes
awarded on: 2004-03-12
amount: $5,000
Still Present PastsBoston Collegemore
A multi-media exhibit that explores the legacies of the Korean war and encourages reflection about the devastation of all wars.
Chestnut Hill, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: G. Ramsay Liem
awarded on: 2004-03-12
amount: $5,000
African American Heritage TrailAfrican American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyardmore
The publication of a revised and expanded version of the African American Heritage Trail book that will include information on more sites on Martha's Vineyard.
West Tisbury, MA, Dukes County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Elaine C. Weintraub
awarded on: 2004-03-12
amount: $3,500
The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Search for New England's Buried PastUniversity of Marylandmore
A subvention grant for a study of Massachusetts archaeologist Roland Robbins to be published by the University Press of New England in the fall of 2004.
College Park, MD, Prince Georges County
project director: Donald W. Linebaugh
awarded on: 2004-03-12
amount: $1,000
The Genesis and Genius of IslamPrimary Sourcemore
An interdisciplinary summer institute on Islam. The course will explore the development of Islamic religious, social, and political life over time and across several cultures.
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Deborah L. Cunningham
awarded on: 2004-02-13
amount: $5,000
Changing Lives Through LiteratureMiddlesex Community Collegemore
Books and transportation for CLTL, an alternative sentencing program for repeat offenders of literature discussions in a college setting.
Bedford, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Jean Flanagan
awarded on: 2003-12-13
amount: $5,000
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties - Resistance and Reconciliation: A Series of 3 EventsOrganization of American Historiansmore
Public events in conjunction with the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians. The featured topics are the 60th Anniversary of Japanese American draft resistance in WWII, the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 30th anniversary of the Garrity decision on busing.
Bloomington, IN, Monroe County
project director: Sarah Deutsch
awarded on: 2003-12-13
amount: $3,835
Connecting with History: A Local History Curriculum for New BedfordRotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museummore
A local history curriculum for fifth grade students and teachers in the New Bedford public schools consisting of reading, writing, research and interactive activities focused on New Bedford architecture, 19th century social and domestic history and Quakerism. Based on selected primary sources.
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Blair Walker
awarded on: 2003-12-12
amount: $4,042
A State of Grace: An Exploration of the Literature of Grace PaleyUnderground Railway Theatermore
A collaborative inquiry into the work of writer Grace Paley, including three work-in-progress performances and a culminating staged reading of A State of Grace, a new play that dramatizes Paley's short stories, essays and poems.
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Debra Wise
awarded on: 2003-08-27
amount: $3,000
Ancient Fishweir Permanent Panels in Arlington Street SubwayTouchable Stories, Inc.more
Production costs to cover the design and writing of two 5' by 12' enamel panels to be permanently installed in the Arlington Street T station when it is renovated in the fall of 2003. The panels will tell the story of the 5000-year-old fishweirs that are buried under the Back Bay, alongside the tracks of the Green Line.
Dorchester, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Ross Miller
awarded on: 2003-03-14
amount: $4,000
Ending the Silence: Korean Americans Remember the Korean WarBoston Collegemore
Support of the planning phase of an exhibit devoted to the legacy of the Korean War for Korean Americans.
Chestnut Hill, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: G. Ramsay Liem
awarded on: 2003-03-14
amount: $4,550
Robert Frost's Lawrence: A Visual RecordRobert Frost Foundationmore
Support of an exhibit of photographs and historical artifacts highlighting Frost's poetry to the city where he spent much of his adolescence and young adulthood, illuminating the public as to how Frost's poems were inspired by a history and culture of the textile-manufacturing city.
Lawrence, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Mary Ellen Janeiro
awarded on: 2003-03-14
amount: $5,000
Autobiography: Writing and MemoryFriends of the Leominster Public Librarymore
A reading and discussion series that examines four autobiographies of people from varying cultural circumstances and ethnicities.
Leominster, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Edward Bergman
awarded on: 2002-08-07
amount: $400
Once Upon a Time: Margaret Bruchac Presents Native American FolkloreWenham Museummore
M. Bruchac presents Native American versions of folktales in collaboration with the Wenham Museum's exhibit of the same theme. Two sessions will be held; one for teachers and adults, one for families. The Beverly group Help for Abused Women and Children will transport mothers and children free of charge.
Wenham, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Carolyn Simmonds
awarded on: 2002-02-22
amount: $2,205
Berkshire Country Day School Du Bois ProjectBerkshire Country Day Schoolmore
Educational music/theater piece based on the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois
Lenox, MA, Berkshire County (Berkshire)
project director: John Hadden
awarded on: 2002-02-16
amount: $5,000
Capeverdean Life in America/Haitian Life in AmericaUniversity of Massachusetts Bostonmore
Two one-day workshops focusing on the historical, cultural, and linguistic background of the Haitian and Capeverdean communities in Boston.
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Erik Jacobson
awarded on: 2002-01-16
amount: $1,250
An ongoing project recording the process of restoring the Danvers State Hospital cemetery. The end result will be short, time-lapse film of the last month that the graves remain unmarked.
Conway, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)
project director: Laurie Block
awarded on: 2001-12-19
amount: $5,000
An Oral Histoy of Cy LeMieuxAmerican Textile History Museummore
An oral history project focusing on the experiences of a ninety-six year old expert on machinery used in Massachusetts mills during most of the twentieth century.
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Helen Stroud
awarded on: 2001-09-20
amount: $622
Family Affairs Series BFriends of the Beals Memorial Librarymore
A library reading and discussion series.
Winchendon, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Elaine Gaspard
awarded on: 2001-09-12
amount: $936
The Artist's Role in Effecting Social ChangeMassachusetts College of Art Foundationmore
A free lecture series investigating the various ways artists have been and can be involved in their communities, both socially and politically.
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Nicholas Sorlien
awarded on: 2001-07-19
amount: $2,495
Anna Howard Shaw Meets Harriet TubmanEventide Theatre Companymore
An Eventide Arts Festival drama that poses the question, what would be the nature of a conversation between Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, one of the first female ministers who preached at the Dennis Union Church from 1878-1885 and Harriet Tubman. The dialogue has been informed by Shaw's writing and illuminates attitudes about race that permeated the Cape during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Dennis, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Noel Tipton
awarded on: 2001-07-19
amount: $1,500
The Goody Parsons CaseHistoric Northamptonmore
A multifaceted program on witchcraft that builds on primary documents, historical artifacts, and humanities scholarship to develop public programs and exhibits to enrich K-12 curriculum.
Northampton, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Kerry Buckley
awarded on: 2001-06-26
amount: $2,500