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Reading Frederick Douglass Together and Committing Ourselves to Racial JusticeSouth Congregational Churchmore
A community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech on the meaning of the 4th of July with South Congregational Church
Supporting one online event: Living with the Atomic Bomb: 1945-1965
Close Encounters by Andover Center for History & CultureAndover Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: June Carmichael Fitzgerald, WWII WAVES and Parachute Rigger (1921- 2017) The Story of Allen and Mary Hinton - Entrepreneurs, Formerly Enslaved Addison B. LeBoutillier - Architect, Artist and Designer (1872 - 1951)
Online Programs by the Loring Greenough HouseThe Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. DBA The Loring Greenough Housemore
Supporting three online events: The Slavery and Servitude Roundtable An Evening with a Garden in the Woods Loring Greenough Interpretation Fellows Presentation
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Supporting three online events: The Global Future of Devens The Unseen Foe: Camp Devens in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic The Four Legacies of Edith Nourse Rogers
Supporting three online events: Midcentury Modern in Fitchburg: Carl Koch's Fitchburg Paper Building Uruguay's World Cup Victory of 1951: A look at Soccer history Experiencing Fitchburg's Abolitionist History
Third Annual Reading Frederick Douglass FalmouthCape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, Incmore
A community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech on the meaning of the 4th of July with Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, Inc
East Falmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $2,000
Online Programs by The Mount, Edith Wharton's HomeEdith Wharton Restoration, Inc.more
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: The Black Community in Revolutionary Cambridge Three Centuries of Black Cambridge How Have the Arts Mended Cambridge?
Supporting three online events: CHALLENGER: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe A Sign of the Times: WWI Poster Collection Murder & Mayhem in MetroWest Boston Book Launch
Supporting three online events: The Sheep at Gore Place What's Inside the Big Brick Building at Gore Place? A Virtual Guided Home Tour for Families My Farm at Waltham: Christopher and Rebecca Gore's country estate in Waltham
Online Programs by Maritime GloucesterGloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Inc. dba/Maritime Gloucestermore
Supporting three online events: Caulking with Evelyn Ansel Navigation with Amanda Madeira Knots with Michael DeKoster
Gloucester, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Redefining Heritage: Relationships With Our Environment, Past and PresentEssex National Heritage Commission, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: Redefining Heritage: Garbage to Gardens Redefining Heritage: Impactful Interactions Redefining Heritage: Art for Awareness
Salem, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Online Programs by New Bedford Whaling MuseumNew Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society dba)more
Supporting three online events: Local History Guild Part 1: How to Paint a Poem: Call for Poets Part 2: Ryder Renditions: An evening with Ryder and other poets
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting three online events: Keynote Speaker: "From the Politics of Safety to Equal Protection for All" by Johanna Fernández There But for the Workers: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph “The Boiler Project" Revisited: What Does Safety and Justice Look Like in Lawrence Today?
Supporting three online events: Lunchtime Conversation: Our Favorite Things Lunchtime Conversation: Caring for Historic Clothing Collections Lunchtime Conversation: Plymouth’s Industrial Past
Virtual Programs Sponsored by the Old Schwamb MillOld Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust Incmore
Supporting three online events: Good as Gold: The Process of Gold Leafing a Frame. Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics, Innovations that Changed the World The Artist's Enclave in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts
Arlington, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Online Programs by The Belchertown State School Friends AssociationBelchertown State School Friends Associationmore
Supporting three online events: Historical Overview of the Belchertown State School Book Talk with Kate Anderson: Images of America: The Belchertown State School Reflections on the Belchertown State School
Belchertown, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting three online events: Traveling Back Down Littleton Rd (Rt. 110) with Geoff and Bob
Online programs by The East Boston Museum and Historical SocietyEast Boston Museum and Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: History of the shipping industry in East Boston From Abolitionists to Suffragettes Architecture of East Boston.
East Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
"Safer at Home virtual talks with the Falmouth Museums on the Green"Falmouth Historical Society, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: Lew Paper, “In the Cauldron” Christopher Skaife, "The Ravenmaster" Joseph Bagley, "Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them"
Falmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Online Programs by the Historical Society of Old YarmouthHistorical Society of Old Yarmouthmore
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
Yarmouth Port, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting two online events: Virtual Lecture of Old Sturbridge Village’s Textile Collection Virtual Tour of New England on Parade Exhibition
Online Programs by the Museum of Old NewburyHistorical Society of Old Newburymore
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
Newburyport, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
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
Online Programs by Porter-Phelps-Huntington MuseumPorter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation, Inc.more
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
Hadley, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Online Programs by the Jamaica Plain Historical SocietyJamaica Plain Historical Societymore
Supporting one online event: Remarkable Photos of Leon Abdalian
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $500
Online programs by Longmeadow Historical SocietyLongmeadow Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: The Caged Man of Buckland The Durability of a Kennedy: JFK at War, 1937-1945 Marion Turner
Online Programs by the Sheffield Historical SocietySheffield Historical Societymore
Supporting two online events: Extending the Growing Season in Home Gardens WWII on the Homefront
"Women's Work: At Sea, On Shore, At Home, In the Community by New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center"New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc.more
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
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Online Programs by Berkshire County Historical SocietyBerkshire County Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: Samuel Harrison Performance Mr. Noble Melancholy Moby-Dick Virtual Read-A-Thon
Pittsfield, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
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 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
Online Programs by The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ HistoryThe History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Bostonmore
Supporting three online events: LGBTQ Immigration and Migration from the 1950s to Today “CURED” Documentary Screening “When I Knew:” An LGBTQ Storytelling Event
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting one online event: Hatfield History Comes Home: Rediscovering the Lost Slides of L.H. Kingsley
Virtual Naumkeag Settlers to Salem ShippersThe House of the Seven Gables Settlement Associationmore
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.
Salem, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-26
amount: $3,367
Cape Symphony Digital Outreach ProjectCape Arts & Entertainment (DBA Cape Symphony)more
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.
Hyannis, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-26
amount: $5,000
The Union of Minority Neighborhoods "Talented Ten" Speaker SeriesUnion of Minority Neighborhoodsmore
The “Talented Ten” speaker series will host professionals in the community to discuss various topics of interest with a virtual public audience.
A webinar series highlighting historically significant artistic relationships between artists from communities that have experienced systemic inequities in the Pioneer Valley.
Virtual Tours with the Westford Academy Museum Club for the Third GradersWestford Museummore
An online virtual tour of 5 exhibits presented by Westford Academy Museum club members (students from the local public high school) presenting virtual tours to third graders.