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Project Grant
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

The Long Road to JusticeJustice George Lewis Ruffin Societymore

A multi-media exhibition covering over three centuries of the history of African Americans in the Massachusetts court system. The exhibition will travel to courthouses statewide.

Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

project director: Julian Houston
awarded on: 1999-12-17
amount: $25,000
Project Grant
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

The City GameNew England Foundation for the Artsmore

Preproduction grant for the planning and convening of a symposium of scholars and media producers to guide the research and development for a major public television series: The City Game: Basketball and Social Life in 20th Century America.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

project director: Martha Fowlkes
awarded on: 1999-12-17
amount: $5,000
Project Grant
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

The Ecological Imagination: Reflections on Nature, Place and SpiritualityCambridge Forummore

A conference bringing together approximately 20 of America's outstanding nature writers to examine with each other the nature and role of the imaginative and spiritual impulses that prompt their writing.

Cambridge Forum
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

project director: Mary E. Tucker
awarded on: 1999-12-17
amount: $11,060

An exhibition and attendant programming on representative and unusual swords from the Higgins collection.

Higgins Armory Museum - closed 2013
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)

project director: Jeffrey L. Forgeng
awarded on: 1999-12-17
amount: $5,853
Project Grant
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)

Atlantic PearlSpinner Publicationsmore

A script development grant to produce a trailer for a 60 minute documentary on scalloping in New Bedford.

Spinner Publications
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)

project director: Joseph D. Thomas
awarded on: 1999-12-15
amount: $10,000
Project Grant
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)

American Textile History Museum Video ProductionAmerican Textile History Museummore

For the installation and production of a four-minute interpretive video in exhibit "Textiles in America" which is part of a five video series about the immigrant experience in American textile history.

American Textile History Museum
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)

project director: Linda Carpenter
awarded on: 1999-12-10
amount: $10,000
Project Grant
Newtonville, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

Connick Project, Phase 1The Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation, Lmore

The plans for an exhibition, catalogue, website and possibly a CD-ROM or DVD to explore the work of Charles J. Connick Associations (1912-1986) who were makers of stained glass.

The Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation, L
Newtonville, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

project director: Catherine Zusy
awarded on: 1999-12-10
amount: $7,500

A four-hour documentary film series on the untold stories of millions of people who participated in the struggle against apartheid and influenced the actions of the apartheid regime and their supporters.

Clarity Educational Productions
Berkeley, CA

project director: Connie Field
awarded on: 1999-12-10
amount: $25,000
Project Grant
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

Seafarers and Society: Who Defended American Shores in 1812?USS Constitution Museummore

Support for a symposium designed to bring recent scholarship in maritime history to an audience of teachers and the general public, covering topics appealing to people interested in the human dimension of seafaring during the War of 1812.

USS Constitution Museum
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

project director:
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $4,000

Production support for the design and first printing of a brochure to accompany Plimoth Plantation's new exhibition on the history of Thanksgiving.

Plimoth Plantation, Inc
Plymouth, MA, Plymouth County (Southeast)

project director: Kathleen Curtin
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $4,700
Project Grant
Somerville, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

Lost Theatres of SomervilleSomerville Historical Society and Museummore

Support for events and publicity for the exhibition "Lost Theatres of Somerville" opening in March 2003, including an interactive catalogue and support for a lecture series along with other scholarly and creative programming.

Somerville Historical Society and Museum
Somerville, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

project director: David M. Guss
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000
Project Grant
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

Video Series On Central AsiaPrimary Sourcemore

Post-production and distribution of the filming of a five-part lecture series for educators K-12, "Central Asia: Islamic Diversity from the Mongols to the Present."

Primary Source
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

project director: Nina Olff
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000
Project Grant
Framingham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

Framingham ArchitectureFramingham Historical Society & Museummore

A major exhibition which will survey four centuries of Framingham architecture, and related programming, including the relationship of these treasures to the social, economic and cultural history of the town, providing a resource for understanding Framingham's contribution to American architectural history.

Framingham Historical Society & Museum
Framingham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

project director: Dana Ricciardi
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $4,740
Project Grant
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

Schools and Society: The Current Debate on Education ReformCambridge Forummore

A series of public forums to be held at the First Parish in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on issues of education reform, the goals of which will be to explore the larger social issues that underlie the current crises of confidence in public education and to examine contemporary efforts to improve school performance with respect to their effectiveness in achieving broad-based education reform.

Cambridge Forum
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)

project director: Patricia Suhrcke
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000
Project Grant
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)

Perspectives on "The Ave"ArtWorks! Partners for the Art & Community, Inc.more

A collaborative, multidisciplinary humanities project involving a painter in residence at ArtWorks in New Bedford as well as local city experts, exploring the character of Acushnet Avenue in New Bedford's North End, a thoroughfare that has changed little over the last several decades.

ArtWorks! Partners for the Art & Community, Inc.
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)

project director: Karin G. Oen
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $1,500
Project: Media Grant
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)

Loaded Gun: Life, and Death and DickinsonCenter For Independent Documentarymore

Distribution funds and scholar honoraria and travel expenses for scholar/panelists at screenings of "Loaded Gun," a semi-comical film exploring Emily Dickinson's life and work. Funds may be used to establish the film as a teaching tool.

Center For Independent Documentary
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)

project director: Steve Gentile
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $2,500
Project: Media Grant
Deerfield, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)

Talking to the Wall: The Story of An American BargainPocumtuck Valley Memorial Associationmore

Distribution funds for a one-hour documentary that examines, over a five year period, the impacts and struggles of two rural New England towns that have confronted large-scale retail developments and the clash between national corporate interests and community needs. The proposed distribution plan includes public tv broadcasts, a local premiere, entry in film festivals, and preparing for non-broadcast educational distribution.

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)

project director: Steven Alves
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000
Project: Media Grant
Edgartown, MA, Dukes County (Cape & Islands)

"Vineyard Voices, American Stories" Pre-Production ProjectMartha's Vineyard Historical Societymore

Media pre-production project consisting of oral history interviews with eight elderly Vineyard residents as resource material for the documentary film, Vineyard Voices, American Stories.

Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
Edgartown, MA, Dukes County (Cape & Islands)

project director: Linsey Lee
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $2,500
Project: Media Grant
New York, NY, New York County

Sacco and VanzettiNew York Foundation for the Artsmore

Production phase of a video documentary about the lives and legal case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were executed in Boston in 1927 after a famous and controversial trial. (MFH funded the pre-production phase of the project as well.)

New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY, New York County

project director: Peter Miller
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000
Project: Media Grant
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)

The Banjo ProjectCenter For Independent Documentarymore

Pre-production grant of $5000 to complete a treatment and promotional videotape for a national public television documentary about the social history of America's quintessential musical instrument - the banjo.

Center For Independent Documentary
Walpole, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)

project director: Marc Fields
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000
Discussion: Reading Grant
Westwood, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)

Encounter in Norumbega: The Hidden Story of Early New England MapsWestwood Public Librarymore

Reading & Discussion program at the Westwood Library

Westwood Public Library
Westwood, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)

project director: Thomas P. Viti
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $800
Project Grant
Sturbridge, MA, Worcester County (Central)

Northeastern Native American Basketry SymposiumOld Sturbridge Villagemore

One day public symposium on Native American basketry.

Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA, Worcester County (Central)

project director: Ed Hood
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $2,500
Project Grant
Lenox, MA, Berkshire County (Berkshire)

Celebrating HawthorneShakespeare & Companymore

Shakespeare & Company, a performance and education center, produces a series of historical and interpretive events celebrating Hawthorne's bicentennial.

Shakespeare & Company
Lenox, MA, Berkshire County (Berkshire)

project director: Gordon Hyatt
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $5,000

Professional development initiative to expose Worcester teachers to their students' varied cultures through the study of literature.

Worcester Public Schools
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)

project director: Gale Nigrosh
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $4,848
Project Grant
South Hadley, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)

Young Adult Literature Reading and Discussion GroupGaylord Memorial Librarymore

Reading & Discussion group exploring young adult literature.

Gaylord Memorial Library
South Hadley, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)

project director: Megan Lambert
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $949
Discussion: Reading Grant
Wilbraham, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)

Consider the Source: Old Tales RetoldWilbraham Public Librarymore

Reading & discussion group

Wilbraham Public Library
Wilbraham, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)

project director: Ardie McEathron
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $300
Project Grant
Deerfield, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)

Native American Public Interpretation ProgramHistoric Deerfield, Inc.more

Free public walking tours of past archaeological dig sites at UMass' Summer Field School in Anthropology for three weeks in June.

Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Deerfield, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)

project director: Elizabeth Chilton
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $2,880
Project Grant
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)

THE CHAIRWorcester Center for Craftsmore

Exhibition and accompanying catalogue of THE CHAIR at WCC, concentrating on the historical context and meaning of the chair's place within culture.

Worcester Center for Crafts
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)

project director: Maryon Attwood
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $2,750

A series of humanities seminars offered to BPS teachers to enrich curriculum and humanities pedagogy.

Teachers As Scholars, Inc.
Newton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

project director: William Holinger
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $4,779
Resource Center Grant
Wilbraham, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)

Desperate JourneysWilbraham Public Librarymore

Reading & Discussion Series

Wilbraham Public Library
Wilbraham, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)

project director: Karen Demers
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $200
Project Grant
Springfield, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)

Ancient EgyptSpringfield Museumsmore

Egyptian art and artifacts on exhibit at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1/15/03 - 1/6/04, with related humanities programming.

Springfield Museums
Springfield, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)

project director: Kay Simpson
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $15,000
Project Grant
Florence, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)

Northampton's Living History Community Heritage ProjectFlorence Associationmore

Short documentary of portraits of people and institutions that reflect Northampton's diverse 350-year history.

Florence Association
Florence, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)

project director: James Ault
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $10,000

The Fund for Women Artists will distribute a one hour documentary about Jane Sapp, a leader in cultural activism and music education workshops for 'at-risk' youth.

Fund For Women Artists
San Francisco, CA, San Francisco County

project director: Julie Akeret
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $10,000

Massachusetts Center for the Book will plan a two-phase literary map of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, both in-print and on-line.

Massachusetts Center For The Book
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

project director: Sharon Shaloo
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $15,000
Project Grant
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

Dante at the GardnerIsabella Stewart Gardner Museummore

Five public readings and discussions of Dante's Inferno plus an unspecified 'day-long event.'

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

project director: Margaret Burchenal
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $8,000
Project Grant
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)

The Skinned Lan: Connecticut River Log DrivesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherstmore

Pre-production grant for a documentary exploring the Connecticut River log drives, 1868-1915.

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)

project director: Ed Klekowski
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $10,000

Historic, interpretative installation to accompany the Korean War Memorial, extended until 10/31/02

Korean War Veterans Association Cape & Islands Chapter
Dennis, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)

project director: Sarah Brophy
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $2,550

An oral history project documenting the lives of men who earned livings working at the oldest continuously operating marine railway in the country.

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Museum
Gloucester, MA, Essex County (Northeast)

project director: Harriet Webster
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $4,925
Project Grant
Newton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

American Jewish MusicZamir Chorale of Bostonmore

Lecture on American Jewish music, including presentations by three scholars of Jewish music and history. The Zamir Chorale will sing works to illustrate the speakers' points.

Zamir Chorale of Boston
Newton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)

project director: Joshua Jacobson
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $1,150
Project Grant
East Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

Maverick Photography ProjectZumixmore

Youth residents of Maverick Gardens public housing will attend formal photography training and lab courses, in order to then document images of their community, slated for demolition within the next few years. Photos will be displayed at Maverick Gardens, and a public space TBD.

Zumix
East Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)

project director: Jennifer Gilbert
awarded on: 1999-11-16
amount: $3,200

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