CONNECTICUT HERITAGE REVITALIZATION FUND - RECENT GRANTS
January-March 2011: First Quarter
Total Awards: 7 grants, $117,891
Farmington
Giving Voice: Literature-based Learning Opportunities at Hill-Stead
Museum
Hill-Stead Museum
$6,900.00
Implementation
Monroe
Monroe Historical Society Collections Management Pilot Project
To Monroe Historical Society
$7,500.00
Implementation
Mystic
Skin and Bones: Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor
Mystic
Seaport Museum
$10,000.00
Implementation
New Britain
Connectiuct Civil War Commemoration
Central Connecticut State University
$23,450.00
Implementation
New Haven
Promoting Multiple Literacies: A Model for Sustainable Museum-School
Partnerships, 2011
Yale University - Yale Center for British
Art
$10,000.00
Implementation
New London
Reinterpretation and Reinstallation of American Stories
Lyman Allyn
Art Museum
$30,041.00
Planning
Old Lyme
Creating an Audience-Centered Museum
Florence Griswold Museum
$30,000.00
Implementation
April-June
2011: Second Quarter
Total Awards: Grants 23, $315,786
Bristol
Strategic Planning & New Governance Initiatives
Bristol Historical Society, Inc.
$3,200.00
Implementation
5/9 /2011
Chester
Get Lost: In the Lower River Valley Heritage
Chester Historical Society
$9,700.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Cos Cob
Everyday Heroes: Greenwich's First Responders
Greenwich Historical Society
$50,000.00
Implementation
4/14/2011
East Haddam
All the Comforts of Home: A Victorian Room Comedy by William Gillette
Friends of Gillette Castle State Park
$7,870.00
Implementation
5/9/2011
Essex
Associate Curator
Connecticut River Museum
$6,250.00
Heritage Advancement
6/23/2011
Fairfield
Setting the Stage (working title)
Fairfield Museum and History Center
$50,000.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Granby
Granby Map 225
Salmon Brook Historical Society
$7,000.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Hartford
Building a Heritage Audience for the Future: A Continuing Collaboration
for History Day
Connecticut Public Affairs Network
$48,330.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Setting the Stage for the Audience Experience: Assessing the Stowe
House Collections for Reinterpretation
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
$5,000.00
Implementation
4/5/2011
2011 GHAHHM Interpreter Training Symposium
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
$600.00
Implementation
4/14/2011
The Nook Farm Book Club & The "Trouble Begins at 5:30" Lecture
Series
Mark Twain House & Museum
$5,800.00
Implementation
4/5/2011
Lebanon
Expanding Educational Programming: Lebanon's Strategic Next Step
Lebanon
Historical Society
$14,941.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Litchfield
Litchfield Historical Society: Strategic Planning
Litchfield Historical
Society
$8,000.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Mystic
Museum 2.0 Workshops with Nina Simon
Mystic Seaport Museum
$9,651.00
Planning
4/5/2011
Supervisor of Interpretation
Mystic Seaport Museum
$5,119.00
Heritage Advancement
6/23/2011
New London
Fish Tales, Tugs & Sails, a Children's Festival for Fun and Learning
New
London Main Street
$9,968.00
Implementation
5/9/2011
All Things Lighthouse
New London Maritime Society
$15,000.00
Implementation
4/14/2011
Norwalk
Implementation Support for the Norwalk Quilt Trail
Norwalk Historical
Society
$8,000.00
Implementation
4/5/2011
Old Lyme
The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans at the Florence Griswold Museum – Scholarly
Symposium and Mobile Web-Enabled Website
Florence Griswold Museum
$8,900.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
Sharon
Sharon Historical Society on the Path towards Capitalization
Sharon
Historical Society
$4,307.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
West Hartford
Back to the Old Neighborhoods: Jewish Hartford Bus Tour
Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Hartford
$5,000.00
Implementation
6/23/2011
The Making of a Dictionary Project
Noah Webster House & WHHS
$13,150.00
Planning
6/23/2011
Wethersfield
Love Letters & Uniforms: Wethersfield and the Civil War Exhibition
and Programming
Wethersfield Historical Society
$20,000.00
Implementation
4/14/2011
July-October 6, 2011: Third Quarter
Total Awards: Grants 4, $37,846
East Haddam
RevolutionaryCT.com: Building a Partnership to Promote CT's Revolutionary
War Sites & Stories
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
$9,980.00
10/6/2011
East Lyme
Remembering the Nehantics
East Lyme Historical Society
$4,466
8 /12/2011
Hartford
In This House: "New London Makes History"
Judy Dworin Performance
Project, Inc.
$10,000.00
8 /12/2011
Colts and Quilts: The Civil War Remembered Exhibition and Public Programs
Wadsworth Atheneum
$13,400.00
10/6/2011
October 7, 7, 2011 - January 5, 2012
Total Awards: Grants 10, $137,563
Bridgeport
Let's Figure It Out: First-Phase Planning for Re-envisioning The
Barnum Museum
The Barnum Museum Foundation, Inc.
$19,363.00
1/5/2012
East Haddam
Nathan Hale's New London
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
$19,175.00
1/5/2012
Fairfield
Making Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation
Fairfield Museum and History Center
$6,997.00
1/13/2012
Farmington
The Legacy of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival: Twenty Years of
American Poetry in Connecticut
Hill-Stead Museum
$7,000.00
10/20/2011
Lebanon
"Long Long Ago": Lebanon's History through its Music
1800-1940
Lebanon Historical Society
$6,950.00
10/20/2011
Litchfield
Then We Talk of Home
Litchfield Historical Society
$2,000.00
11/15/2011
Mystic
Research for "Mystic As Muse" Exhibition
Mystic Art Association DBA Mystic Arts Center
$3,000.00
11/15/2011
New Haven
Audience Assessment for Egyptomania Exhibition at the Yale Peabody
Museum
Yale University
$21,078.00
1/5/2012
New London
"The Rocket's Red Glare," The War of 1812 in Connecticut
- A Bicentennial Exhibit
New London County Historical Society
$45,000.00
1/5/2012
Windsor
Civil War Programs at Windsor Historical Society: Building the
Context
Windsor Historical Society
$7,000.00
10/20/2011