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Selected Grants: Responding to the Community
This is a small sample of grants awarded during 2000. For a complete list of the more than 150 grants made by the Maine Humanities Council, see our website at www.mainehumanities.org.
 | Lewis Hine: The Maine Child Labor Photographs This traveling exhibition of photographs of children working in the textile and canning industries of the early 1900's is at the Creative Photographic Arts Center in Lewiston through mid-March, 782-1369. The Center and the Quoddy Maritime Museum in Eastport received grants from MHC to support this exhibit. Photo courtesy of Susan Brown Stoddard, the Quoddy Maritime Museum, and the Library of Congress. |
LITERATURE AND LITERACY
The Bates/Community Humanities Seminars, a summer enrichment reading and discussion program for high school students in Oxford County.
Bates College & Oxford Hills Regional High School, $3,000
Community Poetry Events - Series 2000, an interpretive program of classic and contemporary poetry in various Belfast community settings.
Belfast Institute of Lifelong Learning, Belfast, $500
Maine Authors in Our Schools, classroom discussions by Maine authors visiting elementary schools in the Berwick area.
Vivian E. Hussey Primary School, Berwick, $395
Maine Reads – 2000, a live program of short fiction read and interpreted by Maine authors and performed in Portland, Buckfield, and Camden.
PCA-Great Performances, Portland, $5,000
Soundideas, a 13-week radio series featuring selected readings and live discussion programs by USM faculty in their fields of interest.
WMPG, South Portland, $5,530
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| Born to Read grants througout the state provide training to parents and caregivers in reading aloud to young children. |
ARTS & HERITAGE
This is a new grant program funded jointly by the Maine Humanities Council and the Maine Arts Commission for public programs that combine art and cultural heritage. It is part of the New Century Community Program, a cultural initiative funded by the Maine Legislature in 1999.
Chantons, the production and distribution to schools and libraries of a CD celebrating Franco-American heritage with traditional French songs performed in both French and English.
LA Arts, Lewiston, $2,000
Maine Garden & Landscape Trail, a new cultural tourism resource: a map and guide highlighting Maine's designed, historic, and vernacular landscapes.
Pine Tree State Arboretum, Augusta, $2,000
Northeast Silent Film Festival-2000, a festival of historic silent films related to New England, accompanied by live piano music.
Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport, $2,000
Photographing Maine: 1840-2000, an exhibit focusing on Maine's role in the development of photography as a fine art form.
Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, $2,000
Using the Land–Making a Living; Hope in 2000, a documentary project exploring the land-based work traditions of Hope, Maine.
Hope Historical Society, Hope, $2,000
COMMUNITY HISTORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
I Remember...Mount Desert Island Families in the 20th Century, a project to collect oral history and artifacts from island families.
Mt. Desert Island Historical Society, Mount Desert, $1,000
The Historic Summer Street Walking Tour, a student / community project to research, design, produce, distribute, and promote a walking tour brochure and map of Hampden's historic Summer Street District.
Reeds Brook Middle School, Hampden, $1,000
The Peaks Island Military Reservation Trail, a self-guided tour and audio tape narrated by historian Joel Eastman exploring the military installations and fortifications on Peaks Island.
Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center, Peaks Island, $1,000
Fourth Annual Wooden Canoe Festival, 2000, a grant supporting public interpretive events surrounding the Wooden Canoe Festival.
Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce, Millinocket Recreation & Parks Department, Millinocket, $1,000
Let Us Remember the Old Micmacs, a photography exhibit organized by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology which will travel to various Maine sites documenting Micmac culture.
University of Maine, Orono, $1,200
Lubec Walking Tour Brochure, a walking tour and brochure of historical sites in Lubec to be developed by Lubec High School students.
Lubec Consolidated School, Trescott, $352
Milbridge Historical Society Web Presence, Milbridge Historical Society will create access to its collections through the World Wide Web.
Milbridge Historical Society, Milbridge, $500
Pemaquid: Crossroad of Cultures, a program in which 4th-grade students work with an archaeologist to collect historical material of the Bristol region.
Bristol Consolidated School, Round Pond, $500
The Helen Nearing Project, this grant supports publicity for the premiere screening of Helen Nearing: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying, a 60-minute film documentary.
Maine Alliance of Media Arts, Portland, $225
The Herbert Hayes Homestead - Recreating the Past To Help Understand the Future. Through archaeological research at a local site, students of Edward Little High School will study and share the cultural history of their community.
Auburn School Department, Litchfield, $7,631
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Coming Home From War - Planning Grant. Planning grant for a reading-discussion group exploring issues related to the experience of people returning from war.
St. Joseph's College, Standish, $500
Maine Preservation 2000 Annual Conference–Lasting Values: Public And Private Policies For Preservation, a two-day statewide event to address broad issues of historic preservation and specific challenges inherent in preserving Maine's historic resources.
Maine Preservation, Portland, $1,000
Maine Youth Center Girls' Film Festival, a film and discussion program for girls incarcerated at the Maine Youth Center.
Mainely Girls, Rockport, $500
TEACHER ENRICHMENT
Connecting Kids, Community, Curriculum & Trails: A Workshop for Teachers, a day -long workshop aimed at helping teachers use Portland's extensive network of pedestrian trails as a tool for teaching about sense of place, history, community planning, and ecology.
Portland Trails, Portland, $170
Novus Ordo Saeclorum: The Refounding of Rome in the Age of Augustus, a week-long teacher's institute covering the world of the eastern Mediterranean from 100 BC to14 AD.
Classical Association of New England, Waterville, $1,000
Using Art to Explore Maine Communities and History, a one-day teacher's conference using local resources to explore art within the context of a community's history and culture.
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, $1,881
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