Past Grants Awarded

Preproduction work on "Prison Dogs", a documentary featuring a program to train service dogs for veterans.

Archaeological day trips to Spectacle Island for urban youth from communities surrounding the Boston Harbor

Annual AIA-MOS Archaeology Fair at the Museum of Science, featuring ancient technologies.

Support to collect, transcribe, archive, and present oral histories of former Norfolk Prison debaters from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Creation of a podcast, tour map, and online resources for African American sites in Old Deerfield.

Support for the public series, Remembering Galileo, including keynote speaker Dava Sobel.

Creation of a Google Earth map of the leather industry in Peabody from 1939 through the 1990s, when the industry folded.

The hosting of authors at the festival on October 16 in Boston.

A documentary about romance fiction and its authors.

Ten audio segments based on interviews with a variety of workers in fishing and related industries.

A book about sailors in the U.S. Navy to accompany the exhibit, All Hands on Deck: A Sailor's Life in 1812.

A production about the Hutchinson Family Singers, who shared stages with leaders of the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and temperance movements.

A series of exhibitions and lectures about food in Pioneer Valley museums.

Support for research and the creation of entries for an interactive online map of Thoreau's travels through Massachusetts.

Cataloging of gravestone inscriptions, conditions, and artwork in the four acre "Old Section" of Vine Lake Cemetery, dating back to 1651.

Inventory of 2,500 photographs of Holbrook from the 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Inventory and createion of a finding aid for the Charles H. Metz and Waltham Manufacturing Company collection.

Training program, walking tour and guidebook to strengthen youth leadership skills.

Editing of a classroom length version of "Coexist", a documentary about post-genocide reconciliation programs in Rwanda.

Research on and interpretation of the Society's collection of redware pottery for an exhibit in 2011.

Research and interpretation of the Society's collection of military objects from the Civil War for a 150th anniversary exhibit.

Transcription of farm journals, contextualize Gore Place farming of the Federal era, and integrate the information into a new farm plan.

Research into Mohican cultural resources in preparation for reinterpreting the Mission House and Monument Mountain in Stockbridge.

Creation of We Shall Not Be Moved, an exhibit about the Bank Tenant Association.

Performances and scholar-led discussions of Timon of Athens for inner city youth and South Boston communities.

An exhibit juxtaposing the lives of pilgrim William Bradford (1590 - 1657), and an anonymous, undocumented Chinese immigrant now living near Boston.

Installation of a permanent, hands-on exhibit based on the historical society's collection of Native American artifacts.

Creation of audio versions of the standard House tour in French, German, and Japanese.

Creation of a multi-media exhibit around archival whaling footage, for the Azorean Maritime Heritage exhibition opening this fall.

Programming to accompany Forever Free, a traveling exhibit of reproductions of rare documents about Abraham Lincoln and abolition.

Installation of the core exhibit for the Henry David Thoreau Birthplace, newly preserved and renovated as a "green" building.

Development of The Judicial Review, the arts criticism section of TheArtsFuse.com, a Web site for Massachusetts residents.

Programming to mark the bicentennial of the birth of Margaret Fuller, one of America's foremost nineteenth-century woman intellectuals.

Town-wide French and American programming on May 20 and 21, including exhibits, lectures, and performances.

Conservation and preparation of folio engravings from Audubon's The Birds of America for an exhibit opening this summer.

Programming to accompany an exhibit of images of victims and survivors of the Cambodian genocide.

Reading group examining literature about jazz and the social and cultural issues around it.

Support for writing of the libretto for a new opera entitled TRUTH, on the life of Sojourner Truth.

Support for educational materials and auxiliary programming to contextualize "Harriet Jacobs", a play based on the autobiographical narrative of a former slave who settled in Cambridge.

Support for a workshop for Worcester high school teachers exploring connections between poetry and local history.