MHC Grants
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Grants Made By Maine Humanities Council
MHC Grants, 1999 - 2000
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(List Current as of November 9, 2000)
Maine Humanities Council Grants are funded by
the New Century Community Program An initiative of the Maine Cultural Affairs
Council and funded by the Maine State Legislature
MAINE CENTER FOR THE BOOK
BORN TO READ/PRESCRIPTION TO READ
Born to Read - Portland
City of Portland - Public Health Division, Portland,
$500
A Born To Read project in Portland which promotes reading through
in-home visits and library programs.
Born to Read - Waldo County
Preschool-2000
Waldo County Preschool & Family Services, Belfast,
$500
A family literacy project serving families in the Belfast area.
Born To Read - The Parent Place
Child Health Center, Auburn, $500
A Born To Read program serving over 100 families in Androscoggin
and Oxford Counties.
Born To Read - Parents Are Teachers Too, Waldo
County
University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Belfast, $500
A joint family literacy project to promote reading in Waldo County
through home visiting services.
Partners for Reading 2000
Eastport Elementary School, Eastport, $500
Literacy program designed to promote family reading and increased
awareness of books by Maine authors and illustrators.
Ready To Read - Year 2
MSAD #27, Fort Kent, $1,200
A literacy program to promote reading in seven northern Aroostook
County communities.
LITERATURE & LITERACY
African Women’s Literacy Project Planning
Grant
Portland Adult Education, Portland, $500
A project to engage African refugee women and their children in
creating bilingual storybooks based on their cultural heritage.
The Bates/Community Humanities
Seminars
Bates College, Paris, $3,000
Summer enrichment reading and discussion program for high school
students in Oxford County.
Coming Home From War
St. Joseph’s College, Standish, $825; $500 planning
A reading-discussion series exploring issues related to the
experience of people returning home from war.
Community Poetry Events - Series
2000
Belfast Institute of Lifelong Learning, Belfast, $500
Readings of classic and contemporary poetry in various Belfast
community settings
Literature of Southeast Asia: Focus on Women
in Thailand
Penobscot School, Rockland, $465
Workshop and book discussion series on Southeast Asian literature,
particularly literature of Thailand.
Maine Authors in Our Schools
Vivian E. Hussey Primary School, Berwick, $395
Classroom discussions on literature by Maine authors visiting
elementary schools in the Berwick area.
MAINE READS - 2000
PCA-Great Performances, Portland, $5,000
A live program of short fiction read and interpreted by Maine
authors and performed in Portland, Buckfield, and Camden.
Soundideas
WMPG, South Portland, $5,530
A 13-week radio series featuring selected readings by USM faculty
in their field of interest and several live discussion
programs.
Visiting Writer: Ellen Dissanayake
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, $500
COMMUNITY HISTORY/CULTURAL
HERITAGE
Arts & Heritage
A new joint granting program between Maine
Humanities Council and Maine Arts Commission and funded by the
Maine Communities in the New Century initiative.
Builder of Dreams
NY Artists Unlimited, New York, $1,200
An intergenrational threatrical production relating to life in
Maine at the turn of the century; includes period music, oral
history and discussion - presented in multiple Maine venues.
Acadian History Millennium Project
Madawaska Public Library, Madawaska, $2,000
A series of eighteen oil paintings with historical narrative
commissioned to depict significant events in the history of
Acadians.
Arts & History Education Programs - The
Ruggles House
The Ruggles House Society, Cherryfield, $2,000
Funds will support development of an art and history educational
program based on the Ruggles House for schools in the towns
surrounding Coumbia Falls.
At My Best You Shall Know Me: Presentation of
Home and Self in Maine
Maine State Museum, Augusta, $1,356
Funds will support an innovative, multicultural exhibit on Maine
home life, domestic decoration and folkways. Exhibit will appear in
multiple venues.
Bangor & Aroostook Documentary Photography
Project
Fort Kent Historical Society, Fort Kent, $1,600
A photographic project documenting the history of the Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad
Brunswick in the Year 2000
Arts Are Elementary, Brunswick, $1,825
A ceramicist guides third grade students in creating clay tile
murals based on the history of Brunswick.
Center Theater Film Festival
Center Theater, Dover-Foxcroft, $2,000
A weekend classic film festival in the historic center theater
bulding, including a focus on the building’s history
Chantons
LA Arts, Lewiston, $2,000
Production of a CD celebrating the Franco-American heritage with
traditional French songs performed in both French and English for
distribution to schools and libraries.
Community Artists
Stockholm Historical Society, Stockholm, $1,850
A project to catalog, conserve, and promote the art work of local
Aroostook County landscape artists born prior to 1930.
CTAM Moving Image Preservation
Project
Community Television Association of Maine, Scarborough,
$2,000
Funds to support a film festival of Maine Community life as
captured in the film collections of Maine Community Television
stations.
Exploring St. Croix Island
Calais Middle School, Calais, $2,000
Joint project of a school and two historical societies to explore
the 1604 founding of a settlement on St. Croix Island and create a
mural as a permanent record of the event.
Franco-American Heritage Film Festival
Video
Penobscot School, Rockland, $2,000
Production of a video from footage of discussions held at the 1999
Franco-American Heritage Film Festival for distribution to arts and
cultural organizations.
George Washington’s World
Old Fort Western, Augusta, $1,000
A series of community events and activities related to the life,
death, and legacy of George Washington in commemoration of the
bicentennial of his death
Go Global!
Blue Hill Consolidated School, Blue Hill, $1,200
Year-long school project to study local relationships to the global
community through music, art, movement, literature, history, and
technology.
If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would
Ride
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, $2,000
Photographic documentation of the development and perfomance of a
community history/dance project commissioned for the Bates Dance
Festival and performed at the Portland Museum of Art.
Images, Observations, and
Recollections
School Street Arts Committee and Unity Historical Society, Troy,
$2,000
Events in conjunction with the installation of an exhibit of
Charles Reed’s photographs from his work as a Bangor Daily
News photographer, 1950-1990.
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Lewis Hine and the Maine Child Labor Photographs
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Lewis Hine and the Maine Child Labor Photographs
Quoddy Maritime Museum, Eastport and Lewiston, $1,990
Production of a travelling exhibit of photographs by Lewis Hine,
particularly his images of children in the textile and canning
industries of the early 1900s.
Lewiston/Auburn People: Then and
Now
Lewiston Public Library, Lewiston, $2,000
A series of workshops to help local people explore personal and
family stories, focusing particularly on their educational
experiences.
Lisbon People: Then and Now
Friends of the Library and Lisbon Historical
Society, Lisbon Falls, $2,000
A program to research, develop
and preserve lifestories of people from the Lisbon area.
Maine Garden & Landscape Trail
Pine Tree State Arboretum, Augusta, $2,000
Support of the Maine garden and landscape Trail project, a map and
guide highlighting Maine’s designed, historic and vernacular
landscapes.
Museum Panel Project
Great Cranberry Historical Society, Port
Charlotte, $2,000
Creation of display panels
to highlight aspects of history and culture on Great Cranberry Island.
Northeast Silent Film Festival-2000
Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport, $2,000
A showing of historic silent films related to New England,
accompanied by live piano music.
A Pantheon of Whitefield Heroes &
Heroines-Then & Now
Whitefield School PTA and Whitefield Historical Society,
Whitefield, $2,000
Student project to explore local history by researching the lives
of individuals who have lived in the community. This research will
subsequently be presented through original paintings by the
students.
Photographing Maine: 1840-2000
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, $2,000
Exhibit focusing on Maine’s significant role in the
development of photography as a fine art form.
Roy Dynasty of Painters
Acadian Village, Van Buren, $2,000
Exhibition of folk paintings by three early members of the Roy
family of the Saint John Valley, to be mounted in multiple venues
in the Valley.
Schoodic Arts Festival
Schoodic Arts for All, Prospect Harbor, $2,000
Support for interpretive aspects of Schoodic’s summer art and
cultural festival
Shaped by the Sea: The Kennebunks,
1640-1860
Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, $2,000
Grant will support an exhibit and program series on the
shipbuildlng business in the Kennebunks
UM-Presque Isle Centennial
Film-Pilot
University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque isle,
$2,000
The first phase of a new film about the history of the University
of Maine at Presque Isle in the context of Maine's normal schools
and its community.
Using the Land--Making a Living; Hope in 2000
(Phase One)
Hope Historical Society, Hope, $2,000
Funds to photograph and document the land-based work traditions of
Hope, Maine and mount a public exhibit in Summer 2000.
Wesget Sipu First Annual Gathering Arts
Demonstrations
Wesget Sipu Inc., Fort Kent, $1,876
A tribal gathering to be held in Fort Kent, featuring traditional
art and cultural activities.
A Year of Public Art
Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance, Portland, $2,000
The project highlights seven public art projects opening in the
Portland area during May and includes a lecture series by arts
organizations in Fall, 2000.
Young Folkdancers Community Outreach
Project
Franco Folk Arts Cooperative, Lewiston, $2,000
Children will learn traditional dances from the ethnic community
and share with local schools and senior centers.
COMMUNITY HISTORY
130th Anniversary of Founding of Swedish
Colony
Maine’s Swedish Colony, New Sweden, $1,000
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Oral History
Project
Fort Kent Historical Society, Fort Kent, $1,000
Documenting the history of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in
Fort Kent and the lives of the people who worked there prior to the
Fort Kent station’s closure in 1979.
Come Spring Heritage Trail
Union Historical Society, Appleton, $1,250
Creation of promotional material for the town of Union’s local
Heritage Trail driving tour.
Currents of Change: Understanding the
Androscoggin
Pejepscot Historical Society, Brunswick, $1,000
Exhibit and related public programs to explore the history of the
Androscoggin River from 1700 to 2000, as it relates to the
Brunswick-Topsham region.
I Remember...Mount Desert Island Families in
the 20th Century
Mt. Desert Island Historical Society, Mount Desert,
$1,000
A project to collect oral history and artifacts from island
families.
Islesford Community Time Capsule-A Millennium
Project
Islesford Historical Society, Islesford, $610
Programming and creation of a community time capsule reflecting the
history of the island community plus life in the year 2000.
Portland’s History Docents Training
Program for 2000
Greater Portland Landmarks, Portland, $1,000
Support of a cooperative educational program designed to train new
volunteers as tour guides for historical buildings in Portland.
Schoolhouse Memories
West Auburn School Historical Society, Auburn, $1,000
An oral history documentation project focusing on the West Auburn
Schoolhouse.
The Historic Summer Street Walking
Tour
Reeds Brook Middle School, Hampden, $1,000
A student project to research, design, produce, distribute, and
promote a walking tour brochure and map of Hampden’s historic
Summer Street District.
The Little Red Barn Museum
Brunswick Junior High School and Pejepscot Historical Society,
Brunswick, $1,000
A collaborative effort to develop a student-run museum focusing on
the Pejepscot region of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harspwell.
The Lovejoy Project
Social Justice & Truth in History, Monroe, $1,000
Production of a curriculum guide on the life and times of Elijah
Lovejoy serving Maine history and U.S. history classes.
The Origins of Yarmouth: Secession,
Shipbuilding and Social Strife
Yarmouth Historical Society, Yarmouth, $1,000
Two small publications about the origins of the town of Yarmouth,
published in conjunction with 150th anniversary
activities.
The Peaks Island Military Reservation
Trail
Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center, Peaks Island,
$1,000
Creation of a self-guided tour of the Fifth Maine Regiment
Reservation on Peaks Island.
The Unique Cultural and Architectural Heritage of Waterford, Maine
The McLaughlin Foundation, South Paris, $720
Public interpretive programs associated with an historical tour of
Waterford.
HISTORY/HERITAGE
A Day’s Work in Maine
Maine Preservation Tilbury House, Boothbay Harbor, $5,025
Development of a travelling exhibit of images from Bunting's noted
book of Maine work photographs.
A la Prochaine Fois...A Film Journey From
Quebec to the US
Penobscot School, Rockland, $5,000
Completion of a film about the preservation of Franco culture among
immigrants from Quebec.
Bayside History and Planning
Exhibit
Architalx, Portland, $500
Exhibit of community-generated plans for the future development of
Portland's Bayside neighborhood.
Crystal Spring Farm: A Dairy in Brunswick and
the Franco-American Community
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, Brunswick, $500
Recording the history of Crystal Spring Dairy Farm in from the
Franco-American perspective.
Downeast Heritage Day
University of Maine at Machias, Machias, $1,179
A one-day forum for those interested in preserving the local
history of Washington County.
Food & Farming in Am. Life & Letters:
A Symposium
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and
Unity College, Unity, $1,000
A symposium for writers, scholars, and historians concentrating on
how American writing has shaped our experience of food and the
farming that produces it.
Fourth Annual Wooden Canoe Festival,
2000
Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce and Millinocket Recreation
& Parks Department, Millinocket, $1,000
Public interpretive events surrounding local history
celebration.
"If these walls could talk..."
Whiting Village School, Whiting, $726
Study and interpretation of history related to Whiting’s
historictwo-room school house.
Let Us Remember the Old Micmacs
University of Maine, Orono, $1,200
A photography exhibit organized by the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology which will travel to various Maine sites.
Lewis Hine: The Child Labor Photographs in
Maine
Creative Photographic Art Center of Maine and Quoddy Maritime
Museum, Lewiston and Easport, $3,000
A traveling exhibit of photographs documenting the use of child
labor in Maine’s factories and agricultural work during the
early 1900s.
Looking Ahead Backwards: Soviet Cinema of the
Brezhnev Era of Stagnation
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, $500
A workshop focusing on Soviet filmmaking in the 1970s and its
connection to the events, concerns, and problems of Soviet life in
this era.
Lubec Landmarks Study Committee for the
McCurdy Smokehouse Museum
Lubec Landmarks, Lubect, $500
Planning work for historic preservation and interpretation of the
smokehouse.
Lubec Walking Tour Brochure
Lubec Consolidated School, Trescott, $352
Lubec High School history students will develop an Historic Walking
Tour of Lubec.
Milbridge Historical Society Web
Presence
Milbridge Historical Society, Milbridge, $500
Web page development by the Milbridge Historical Society to provide
wider distribution of historical material.
Models for Scientific Inquiry: Ancient and
Modern
St. Joseph’s College, Standish, $299
A symposium on the study of ancient medicine, combining input from
three pre-med students and three seasoned scholars.
Native American Traditional Arts
Kennebec Valley Technical College, Fairfield, $200
A presentation on the Penobscot and Wabanaki cultures, part of a
multi-cultural series of lectures.
Pemaquid: Crossroad of Cultures
Bristol Consolidated School, Round Pond, $500
Fourth grade students work with an archaeologist to collect
historical material of the Bristol region.
Penobscot Heritage Activity Kits: Updating
& Refurbishing
Bangor Historical Society,Bangor School Department, History
Department of the University of Maine, & Maine Forest &
Logging Museum, Bangor, $500
Assessment work in preparation for updating eight traveling history
exhibits originally developed around 1970.
Presentation of the Film "The Seventh
Day"
Friends of Colonial Pemaquid, Pemaquid, $500
An effort to promote community history by featuring a presentation
of a restored silent movie originally filmed in New Harbor in
1921.
The Helen Nearing Project
Maine Alliance of Media Arts, Portland, $225
Publicity for the premiere screening of Helen Nearing: Conscious
Living/Conscious Dying, a 60 minute film documentary.
The Herbert Hayes Homestead - Recreating The
Past To Help Understand The Future
Auburn School Department, Litchfield, $7,631
Through archaeological research at a local site, students of Edward
Little High School study the cultural history of their
community.
The Monmouth Academy Historical Preservation
Project
Monmouth Academy, Winthrop, $500
"The Photographer and the Canneries: Lewis
Hine Visits Eastport
1911" An Exhibit"Quoddy Maritime Museum, Eastport
$500
Things That Go Bump In the Night
Washburn Norlands Foundation, Livermore, $500
Three-day conference exploring natural and man-made disasters and
how New Englanders coped with them.
Town of Millinocket - Centennial
Celebration
Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce, Millinocket, $500
Public interpretive events for community history celebration.
Where’s Rumford?
Rumford Public Library, Rumford Center, $5,000
An exploration of Rumford’s diverse history through various
community activities, including a book of stories and essays; a
photo exhibit; and related school programs.
With Valor and Courage: Maine and the Civil
War
L.C.Bates Museum, Hinckley, $5,875; $500 planning
Development of public interpretive events and exhibit.
Wooden Canoe Festival 2000
Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce, Millinocket, $500
Start-up grant to plan program content for this summer’s
Wooden Canoe Festival.
World Turned Upside Down: Talks About The Am.
Revolution & The New Republic
Maine Historical Society, Portland, $500
A lecture series focusing on the changes in Maine brought about by
the American Revolution and its aftermath, and Maine’s
influence on the New Republic.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
A Woman’s Place
Mainely Girls, West Rockport, $500
A mixed-media installation representing the issues women frequently
confront in modern society.
MAINE DAWN 2001: Communities Collaborating to
Create Their Future History
Unity Scholars, Cape Elizabeth, $500
A program to help Maine communities host vision-forming events
geared to establishing their goals for the future.
Maine Preservation 2000 Annual Conference
LASTING VALUES: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE POLICIES FOR
PRESERVATION
Maine Preservation, Portland, $1,000
Two-day statewide event to address broad issues of historic
preservation and specific challenges inherent in preserving
Maine’s historic resources.
Maine Youth Center Girls’ Film
Festival
Mainely Girls, Rockport, $500
Film and discussion program for youth-at-risk.
Maine International Resource Directory: School
& Library Distribution
World Affairs Council of Maine, Portland, $1,000
Distribution to all Maine public libraries and K-12 schools of a
resource directory providing information on international
organizations with Maine ties.
Religion, Global Culture & the
University
University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, $6,036
Institute on the Impact of Globalization on Religion & the
Study of Religion
Research for Ecoart Exhibition
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, $270
Research for an exhibit of art which addresses issues in the
environment.
TEACHER ENRICHMENT
Bringing History to Life: The Maine Council
for the Social Studies 16th Annual Spring Conference
Primary Source, Augusta, $2,000
A teachers’conference focusing on history and social
studies.
Connecting Kids, Community, Curriculum &
Trails: A Workshop for Teachers
Portland Trails, Portland, $170
Do History.org--Teacher’s Workshop in
Maine
Film Study Center; Harvard University, Cambridge, $500
Novus Ordo Saeclorum: The Refounding of Rome
in the Age of Augustus (July 5-July 13, 2000)
Classical Association of New England, Waterville, $1,000
A week-long teacher’s institute covering the world of the
eastern Mediterranean from 100 BC to14 AD.
Using Art to Explore Maine Communities and
History
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, $1,881
A one-day conference for teachers and local historians on using
local resources to explore art within the context of the history
and culture of a community.
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