GRANTS IN PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Division of Public Programs
Announced: March 2003

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

CONSULTATION GRANTS

Understanding Each Other: Experiencing York County's Cultural Mix
Martin Library
York, PA
Award: $6,235
Consultation with the Hartford, Connecticut, Public Library to learn how to improve and expand humanities public programming about diverse cultural traditions.

PLANNING GRANTS

Setting Forth: The Lewis & Clark Expedition in Illinois Libraries and Museums
Illinois State Historical Library
Springfield, IL
Award: $35,750
Planning of statewide book discussion programs and exhibitions about the cultural and historical significance of the early portion of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

SMALL GRANTS TO LIBRARIES

The following libraries received $1,000 to participate in the national tour of the traveling exhibition Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation.

Birmingham Public Library
Birmingham, AL

Springdale Public Library
Springdale, AR

San Diego Public Library
San Diego, CA

Nova University
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Three Rivers Regional Library System
Brunswick, GA

Decatur Public Library
Decatur, IL

Highland Park Public Library
Highland Park, IL

Orland Park Public Library
Orland Park, IL

Pekin Public Library
Pekin, IL

Tippecanoe County Public Library
Lafayette, IN

Hays Public Library
Hays, KS

Leavenworth Public Library
Leavenworth, KS

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

Enoch Pratt Free Library
Baltimore, MD

Tisch Library, Tufts University
Medford, MA

Southfield Public Library
Southfield, MI

Ypsilanti District Library
Ypsilanti, MI

Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County
Hattiesburg, MS

Southwest Missouri State University
Springfield, MO

Virginia City High School Library Virginia City, NV

University at Buffalo, University Libraries
Buffalo, NY

Middletown Thrall Library
Middletown, NY

City College Library
New York, NY

Musselman Library
Gettysburg, PA

Gaston County Public Library
Gastonia, NC

Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Cincinnati, OH

Providence Public Library
Providence, RI

Charleston County Library
Charleston, SC

Georgetown County Library
Georgetown, SC

Memphis/Shelby County Public Library
Memphis, TN

Fisk University
Nashville, TN

Toledo Lucas County Public Library
Toledo, OH

Irving Public Library System
Irving, TX

Mustang Public Library
Mustang, OK

Park City Public Library
Park City, UT

Ilsley Public Library
Middlebury, VT

Williamsburg Regional Library
Williamsburg, VA

Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MEDIA

Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Ross Spears, Project Director
James Agee Film Project
Johnson City, TN
Award: $60,000
Scripting of a four-hour television series with digital interactive enhancements about the history of Appalachia from Southern New York to Northern Alabama, from the birth of the mountains to today's human stories.

HUMANITIES PROJECTS IN MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS

CONSULTATION GRANTS

Reinterpreting The Breakers
Preservation Society of Newport County
Newport, RI
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and interpretive experts to plan a new public tour of Cornelius Vanderbilt's summer mansion.

Of Senator and Servant: A New Interpretation for Gore Place
Gore Place Society, Inc.
Waltham, MA
Award: $10,000
Consultation and site visits to plan the reinterpretation of the home of statesman Christopher Gore (1758-1827) and the workplace of his servant, the abolitionist/author Robert Roberts (ca. 1780-1860).

To the Honor and Glory of God: The Art of the Missions in Northern New Spain, 1600-1850
Dayton Art Institute
Dayton, OH
Award: $10,000
Consultation to plan a traveling exhibition that would examine paintings, sculpture, liturgical items, architecture, and other mission art within the religious and historical context of the colonial period.

Re-Interpretation of the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses
Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History
Brooklyn, NY
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and museum experts to develop a new interpretation of three historic houses that were once part of a free black community in mid-19th-century New York.

The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars to develop a traveling exhibition interpreting the cultural meanings of Jewish vacationing in America.

Isolation is an Illusion: Geneva's Connection to the Metropolitan Landscape
Geneva History Center
Geneva, IL
Award: $10,000
Consultation and site visits to plan an interpretation for a permanent exhibition about the history of Geneva, Illinois, in the context of the greater Chicago urban landscape.

Exploring the Art of the Ancient Americas: An Innovative Permanent Collection Installation
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL
Award: $9,435
Consultation to plan an interpretation for a new permanent exhibition of Pre-Columbian art.

Interpretive Planning at King
Manor Museum
King Manor Association of Long Island
Jamaica, NY
Award: $10,000
Consultation for a reinterpretation of the home of American statesman Rufus King.

Local Identity and Sense of Place in Hawaii: A Permanent Exhibition and Historic House Program
Lyman House Memorial Museum
Hilo, HI
Award: $10,000
Consultation with historians and community members to develop a plan for both the interpretation of the Lyman Mission House and permanent exhibitions in a new Island Heritage Gallery.

Planning for Reinterpretation and Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Award: $10,000
Consultation and site visits in preparation for the reinterpretation of the Wolfsonian Museum's permanent collection.

New Interpretive Plan for Vesterheim's Permanent Galleries
Vesterheim, Norwegian-American Museum
Decorah, IA
Award: $10,000
Consultation to develop a new interpretation for the permanent galleries that places the Norwegian-American experience in the broader context of U.S. ethnic history.

Sailors Speak: Life Aboard USS CONSTITUTION in 1812
U.S.S. Constitution Museum
Boston, MA
Award: $10,000
Consultation to plan a new interpretive strategy for a permanent exhibition, ship tours, living history presentations, and school programs about the history of "Old Ironsides," her crew, and their families.

Interpreting Domestic Service at Tudor Place
Tudor Place Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
Award: $9,994
Consultation to add components on slavery and domestic service to the interpretation of an 1805 Georgetown house built by Martha Parke Custis Peter, the granddaughter of Martha Washington.

The Kashaya Pomo Interpretive Trail: Russian and Native Encounters in a Mercantile Colony
Regents of the University of California
Berkeley, CA
Award: $9,988
Consultation to plan an interpretive trail for Fort Ross State Historic Park, site of an early 19th-century Russian trading outpost in northern California.

New Directions for Adult Programs at the Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Award: $10,000
Consultation with scholars, museum educators, and programming experts to develop adult programs in conjunction with a new permanent exhibition on Chicago

PLANNING GRANTS

Back to Our Roots: Interpreting Early New England Agriculture for a New Century
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge, MA
Award: $40,000
Planning for a major reinterpretation of early New England agriculture based on recent scholarship and current modes of museum presentation.

An Irish Family in New York
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
Award: $40,000
Planning for the restoration and interpretation of an apartment at the museum's historic tenement house that was once occupied by a 19th-century Irish American family.

Whaling History Core Exhibition Planning
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
Award: $40,000
Planning of a permanent exhibition with related public and educational programs about the impact of whaling on United States social and economic history, technology, literature, and art.

The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1895-1955
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
Award: $40,000
Planning for the first major traveling exhibition and accompanying public programs exploring the role of the American West in the development of American modernist art.

Designing the World of Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
Award: $40,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition, catalog, website, and related public programs examining the design and cultural impact of the World's Fairs of the 1930s.

Uncommon Threads: Wabanki Textiles, Clothing and Costume
Maine State Museum
Augusta, ME
Award: $40,000
Planning for a traveling exhibition, a television documentary, and a publication on the textiles and clothing of the Wabanaki people of Maine.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

CONSULTING GRANTS

Accessing the People, Pictures, and Words of African American History: American Black Journal
Detroit Educational Television Foundation
Detroit, MI
Award: $10,000
Consultation with humanities scholars and experts on digital presentation to assess a collection of historic American Black Journal television programs, design online features that illuminate humanities themes for the public, and create two pilot features.