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  Rokeby Museum
Ferrisburgh, VT
Jane Williamson
Amount: $34,496
Planning for a permanent exhibition presenting new research on the Underground Railroad in Vermont and northern New England.

Save Ellis Island
Gladstone, NJ
Judith R. McAlpin
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with scholars and museum experts to define interpretive themes for a new center documenting America’s immigrant experience.

Scurry County Museum
Snyder, TX
Charlene Akers
Amount: $40,990
Planning for a permanent exhibition, five traveling panel exhibitions, and related educational and public programs interpreting the history of the southern High Plains.

Seabrook Village Foundation, Inc.
Midway, GA
Meredith R. Devendorf
Amount: $10,000
Consultation to develop an improved living-history interpretation of the story of African Americans on the “Rice Coast” of Georgia between 1865 and 1930.

South Dakota State Historical Society
Pierre, SD
David B. Hartley
Amount: $40,893
Planning for the final phase of a long-term exhibition interpreting the history and cultures of South Dakota, accompanied by an audio tour, online exhibition, traveling exhibitions, and educational programs.

Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center
Pueblo, CO
Ann Thompson
Amount: $5,500
Consultation with scholars on how to interpret the region’s cultural history in the center’s new displays.

South Street Seaport Museum
New York, NY
Steven H. Jaffe
Amount: $30,000**
An exhibition of photographs and oral histories that introduces visitors to the port where workers assisted in the evacuation of tens of thousands from lower Manhattan and who continued to aid the rescue efforts in ensuing days and weeks after 9/11.

  Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
Elizabeth V. Chew
Amount: $30,000*
Printing of two brochures illuminating the main themes and ideas of Jefferson’s Indian Hall exhibit for adult and school-aged visitors to Monticello.

University of California, Museum of Cultural History
Los Angeles, CA
Marla C. Berns
Amount: $250,702
A traveling exhibition, catalog, dedicated website, educational materials, and programming on the art and cultural context of rice cultivation in Asia.

University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
Kurt Helfrich
Amount: $40,956
Planning for an international traveling exhibition and accompanying programs examining the artistic careers and impact of architect Antonin Raymond and interior designer Noemi Raymond.

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Rebecca M. Nagy
Amount: $10,000
Consultation to develop an interpretive plan for a traveling exhibition, with accompanying public and educational programs, on traditional and modern Ethiopian art.

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Harold Dibble
Amount: $40,238
Planning for a traveling exhibition and catalog on the fabrication and uses of prehistoric stone tools and the lessons they offer about the cultures of their makers

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Nancy Norwood
Amount: $10,000
Consultation and staff travel to related installations in order to develop a reinterpretation of the museum’s ancient and Asian galleries.

  University of Texas
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
Austin, TX
Anne Manning
Amount: $10,000
Consultation by the Blanton museum staff with colleagues at various U.S. museums to explore interpretive plans for a new facility scheduled to open in 2005.

Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
Gary Vikan
Amount: $228,630
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, catalog, audio tour, kiosk, and educational and public programs interpreting a rare 13th-century illuminated Bible.
Western Reserve Historical Society
Cleveland, OH
Kelly R. Falcone
Amount: $40,602
Planning and evaluation by scholars of interpretive dramatic scripts and living-history performances designed to teach public audiences about the industrial history of Cleveland, Ohio.

Yale University
New Haven, CT
Richard L. Burger
Amount: $50,000*
Implementation of a traveling exhibition, public programs, and a publication on new scholarly interpretations of the history of Machu Picchu and its place within Inca society.

Yale University
New Haven, CT
Jock Reynolds
Amount: $150,000*
Implementation of a major traveling exhibition, publication, website, and educational programs on the 18th-century silversmith Myer Myers, examining broad themes in cultural, religious, family, and craft history.

M ODEL H UMANITIES P ROJECTS
Grants support the planning of public humanities programs intended to be replicated on a larger scale.

Nevada State Library and Archives
Carson City, NV
Susan Graf
Amount: $10,000
Young Chautauquan Outreach, Rural Nevada

S PECIAL P ROJECTS
Grants support a combination of programming formats, such as reading and discussion series, lectures, or websites for a regional or national audience.
 
  City Lore: NY Center for Urban Folk Culture
New York, NY
Steven Zeitlin
Amount: $30,000*
To support an exhibition of spontaneous street shrines that appeared following September 11, 2001.

Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
Lois Bragg
Amount: $9,760
Consultation with humanities scholars and a technical expert to plan a series of DVDs that would explore language arts and literary works indigenous to deaf culture.

Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Erik Jorgensen
Amount: $250,000
Implementation of pilot reading and discussion programs in Maine, Utah, and Georgia to examine the relationship between civil society and the American tradition of giving.

National Canal Museum
Easton, PA
Thomas A. Smith
Amount: $40,537
Planning of a multimedia presentation to teach multigenerational audiences about the history, culture, and legacy of America’s canals from 1786 to 1843.

  National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
Joseph T. Wilson
Amount: $10,000
Consultation with experts on the heritage of roots music to develop an interpretive plan for exhibits and programming for the new Blue Ridge Music Center.

OASIS Institute
St. Louis, MO
Marcia M. Kerz
Amount: $250,000
An eleven-week reading and discussion series at centers nationwide for older adults, an anthology of essays, a website, and related activities that examine the context and impact of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA
Timothy C. Neumann
Amount: $290,000
A website about the Deerfield Massacre of 1704 from the perspectives of the Native American, French, and British participants, placing this event in transatlantic political, economic, and religious contexts.

  Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust
New York, NY
Lisa A. Schubert
Amount: $40,376
The development of an interactive website featuring Himalayan art and culture.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Charlottesville, VA
Andrew Wyndham
Amount: $200,000
A major conference of scholars, writers, politicians, artists, and commentators exploring how notions of Irish identity have emerged and are being transformed in Ireland, the United States, and other countries affected by the Irish diaspora.

Wright State University Main Campus
Dayton, OH
Marjorie L. McLellan
Amount: $40,471
Planning for an interactive web-based exhibition and related public programming exploring experiences of change and progress during the Progressive Era in Ohio’s Miami Valley.

T HE J EFFERSONL ECTURE
Sara Lee Corporation is the principal underwriter of the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities from 1999 through 2003.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Cambridge, MA
Susan Graf
Amount: $10,000
2002 Jefferson Lecture:
“Mister Jefferson and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.” 		* Federal Matching Funds
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