CHDF Grants

Ivoryton - New Haven

Ivoryton

Ivoryton Library Association

      6/30/1998         $6,415    The Towns That Elephants Built - A Series of Programs on the History of the Ivory Trade

      9/16/2005         $4,250    Legacies of White Gold

Kensington

New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park

      12/4/2000         $5,000    New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park Exhibition - Pre Planning Proposal

        4/5/2001        $18,336    Changing Seasons, Changing Lives

      2/16/2006         $5,000    Technical Assistance for Long Range Planning

        5/8/2006         $5,375    Family Nature and Heritage Day - Barn Program

Kent

Kent Historical Society

        2/8/2005         $4,598    Kent Historical Society Strategic Plan

        7/6/2005         $5,233    Barn Again!  Projects and Exhibit

        9/7/2006         $2,025    Civil War Encampment 2006

Lebanon

Jonathan Trumbull Jr., House

      1/23/2006         $4,000    Collection Assessment

Lebanon Historical Society

      12/2/1997         $4,702    Lebanon as a Destination:  Seeking New Audiences Through A History Exhibition

        4/8/1998        $27,078    Lebanon as a Destination:  Seeking New Audiences Through A History Exhibition

        1/6/2000        $77,682    Lebanon:  Changes in the Land and People

      3/26/2002         $4,436    Vision 2007:  Developing a Strategic Plan for a Multi-Facted Historical Society

      3/23/2005         $5,238    Barn Again!  Programs, Projects & Exhibit

      7/20/2005         $5,199    Lebanon:  Heartbeat of the Revolution - an Exhibition & Hands-on room

        1/3/2007         $1,505    Revisiting Mission, Vision and Planning:  A Lebanon Historical Society Board Retreat

        1/3/2007         $1,505    Revisiting Mission, Vision and Planning:  A Lebanon Historical Society Board Retreat

Town of Lebanon

    11/21/1996         $5,747    New Audiences for Old  Buildings:  Strategies for Interpreting Lebanon History

      8/15/2000         $5,000    "Lebanon Tercentennial Encampment" - A Living History event Celebrating Lebanon's

                                            300th Birthday

      6/30/2001         $5,000    Lebanon's Historic Sites:  Enhancing the Visitor Experience

      2/25/2002         $1,389    Living History Medical Convention:  Improving the Skills of Front-Line Interpreters

        1/9/2003        $15,484    Lebanon's Historic Sites:  Enhancing the Visitor Experience

        2/8/2005         $5,148    Beams, Rafters and Pegs:  Re-creating an 18th-Century Barn Raising in a rural community

Litchfield

Litchfield Historical Society

        1/4/1996        $25,000    The Litchfield Law School:  America's First School of Law; A Reinterpretation Project

      6/26/1997        $25,250    Tapping Reeve House and Litchfield Law School Audio Visual Project

      10/9/1997      $184,250    America's First School of Law

      8/15/2000         $5,000    New England's Revolving Landscape

      9/17/2001         $3,700    Performance Survey Pilot Project

      3/26/2002         $4,000    Inspiring Fashion:  American Costume and Household Textiles, 1770-1930

        4/4/2002        $21,200    In Our Own Time:  Modernism in Litchfield, CT

        1/9/2003        $34,760    In Our Own Time:  Modernism in Litchfield 1949-1970

      6/25/2003         $5,000    Litchfield Historical Society:  Strategic Plan

        1/8/2004        $25,000    Litchfield Historical Society Digitization and Web Site Planning

      9/30/2004         $5,000    The Ties that Bind:  Quilts from a Material Culture Perspective

      12/6/2004         $3,425    Walking Tour Brochure of Litchfield's Historic Center

      3/23/2005         $5,206    The Rules of Engagement:  Courtship in the Early Republic

        4/4/2006         $3,744    The Mary Perkins Quincy Collection

    10/30/2006         $4,989    Inventing Our Past:  What, How and Why We Remember

        1/4/2007        $25,000    Litchfield County Furniture - Planning

Madison

Deacon John Grave, Inc.

        9/3/2004         $4,980    Trading Places:  Financing Every-Day Life for a Madison Family, 1685-1826

      6/23/2005        $25,240    Making Ends Meet:  Financing Everyday Life for a Madison Family, 1685-1865

Manchester

Lutz Children's Museum

      9/24/2003         $4,500    Lutz Children's Museum Collection Review

Manchester Historical Society

      6/30/2001         $5,000    Preliminary Planning for a Comprehensive, Interactive Exhibition in the Historic Cheney

                                           Bros. Machine Shop Building

      3/17/2004         $1,581    History Close to Home:  Exploring Manchester's Historic Neighborhoods

Mansfield

Town of Mansfield

      2/22/2002         $2,500    Experience 18th Century Mansfield

Middletown

Friends of Long Hill

        9/7/2006         $1,200    Long Hill Docent Symposium:  Techniques of Interpretation

Middlesex Community-Technical College

      7/27/1998         $4,450    Eolia:  The Harknesses and Their Mansion

        9/4/1998         $4,200    William Gillette:  The Man and His Castle

Middlesex County Historical Society

      7/20/1999         $4,750    Middletown Heritage Trail

      3/31/2000         $2,750    "Their Own Stories":  How Immigrants Made Middletown Home

        1/4/2001        $22,320    Middletown Heritage Trail

        3/1/2001         $5,000    "Their Own Stories":  Voices from the Melting Pot

      7/23/2001         $5,000    "Their Own Stories":  Voices from Middletown's Meltingpot

Wesleyan University

      1/23/2006         $5,250    "Ives and Religion" - A Pilot Presentation at the Florence Griswold Museum

Milford

Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center

      10/7/1996         $2,850    Development of Docent Program and Training Manual

        7/5/2000         $2,500    Mapping the Millennium:  The History of Land Use on the Lower Housatonic River

      11/6/2002         $2,500    Human Impacts on the Natural Connecticut Valley

    12/16/2003         $1,500    Getting Around in the Central Connecticut Valley

Monroe

Save Our Stepney Task Force

      12/1/2003         $4,500    Stepney Heritage Trail

Mystic

Denison Society

      9/30/2004         $3,153    Cataloguing the Denison Society's Archives & Artifacts

      9/16/2005         $2,500    Cataloging and Photographing the Denison Society's Archives and Artifacts

Mystic & Noank Library

        1/4/2007         $4,250    Digitization of Historic Newspapers Presently on Microfilm

Mystic Seaport Museum

      6/27/1996        $25,500    Mystic Seaport's "America and the Sea" Exhibition

      10/9/1997      $150,250    Mystic Seaport's America and the Sea Exhibition

        3/2/1998         $4,000    Exploring Amistad:  Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America

      3/31/2000         $5,000    Embracing Inclusive History

      10/2/2001        $20,634    Digital Voyages:  A Narrative Approach to Information Access

      6/27/2002        $75,000    Digital Voyages

      12/1/2003         $5,000    The History of African American Mariners

        4/1/2004        $62,290    Women and the Sea

      12/6/2004         $5,000    Outcomes-Based Evaluation Workshop

      1/11/2005        $55,062    Black Hands, Blue Seas:  The Maritime Heritage of African Americans

      6/22/2006        $10,405    Mystic Seaport Museum's "Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Power in Maritime America"

      10/5/2006        $17,330    Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Hudson Bay

New Britain

New Britain Museum of American Art

        7/1/2000         $3,479    From Commerce to Culture:  75 Years of Collecting by the New Britain Museum of

        3/1/2001         $2,000    Hooray for Hollywood:  The Hollywood Musical

        1/9/2003         $4,000    New Britain Museum of American Art Celebrates 100 Years  -  Discover American History

                                           Through Art

        2/2/2004         $2,162    Charles B. Ferguson Distinguished Lecture Series

        6/2/2005         $2,500    Charles B. Ferguson distinguished Lecture Series

      11/1/2005         $4,700    What's American In American Art? - humanities outreach pilot

        4/4/2006         $4,500    What's American in American Art? - Humanities Outreach Pilot

        1/4/2007        $10,000    What's American in American Art? -- Humanities Outreach Pilot Program

New Canaan

New Canaan Historical Society

      5/22/2000         $2,500    Humanity - Arthur Szyk's View of the World

New Hartford

New Hartford Historical Society

      3/10/2000            $995    Organizational & Interpretive Planning at the New Hartford Historical Society

        2/1/2002         $1,220    Business & Industry in New Hartford, Connecticut

      6/27/2002         $8,701    The Work of Two Centuries:  New Hartford's Economic Life

New Haven

Acorn Club

        5/4/2006         $2,500    Production of a Volume Entitled "Original Discontents:  Documents Relating to the

                                           Framing and Ratification of Connecticut's Constitution of 1818"

Amistad Committee

      5/31/1996            $500    Connecticut Freedom Trail Video & Audio Tape Project

      6/27/1996        $25,250    Connecticut Freedom Trail Video & Audio Tape Project

        1/9/1997        $65,250    Connecticut Freedom Trail Video & Audio Tapes Project

Architecture Resource Center

      10/3/2002         $9,000    New Haven's Cultural Landscape Website Development

        6/2/2004         $4,500    New Haven's Cultural Landscape Website Pilot

ARTE, INC.

        9/3/2004         $3,272    Our History/Here I Stay Nuestra Historia/Aqui Me Quedo

Arts Council of Greater New Haven

      8/21/2002         $2,500    Urban Museumof Modern Architecture (UMMA): New Haven

Artspace, Inc.

      10/2/2001         $4,343    "Silence":  A Public Art Intervention/Exhihibition Exploring

                                           the Legacy of the Underground Railroad in New Haven

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

      6/26/1997         $5,000    The Early Republic:  Connecticut Towns Histories

      10/2/2001        $25,220    Voices of the New Republic:  Connecticut Towns, 1800-1832.  Volume One:  What They

                                            Said.  Volume Two:  What We Think.

Connecticut Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History

      7/28/1997         $5,000    Planning Follow-Up Programs for "Suburbia:  The Good Life in Connecticut?"

CT Afro-American Historical Society

        1/4/1996         $4,500    Technical Assistance:  CT Afro-American Historical Society

Department of Jewish Education

        9/3/2003         $5,000    A Taste of Yiddish

Greater New Haven African American Historical Society

      5/10/2005         $2,415    "Lifetime Contributions" Awards Event

      5/30/2006         $2,480    "Lifetime Contributions" Awards Event

Greater New Haven Labor History Association

    10/28/1999         $2,475    1999 New Haven Labor History Bus Tour

      5/10/2002         $1,080    Preliminary Survey of Labor Union Locals' Records in the Greater New Haven Area

      9/12/2002         $5,000    Survey of Labor Union Locals' Records in the Greater New Haven Area; Creation of a

                                           Resource Guide

International Festival of Arts & Ideas

      5/29/1997         $5,000    The Festival of Ideas

        2/3/1999         $5,000    Ideas

      8/15/2000         $5,000    Ideas in the International Festival of arts & Ideas

New Haven Museum & Historical Society

        1/4/1996        $14,226    The Voyage of the Neptune, 1796-1799

      7/31/1996         $5,000    The Voyage of the Neptune, 1796-1799, Marketing & Exhibition Enhancement

      9/25/1997         $4,000    Marketing Survey for Exhibition Enhancement, "New Haven Illustrated:  Colony, Town and

      3/18/1998         $4,750    New Haven Breweries

      10/8/1998        $25,000    Planning Proposal for "City Life:  Past to Present" Exhibition

        4/4/2002        $11,800    Research Project - Reinterpretation of Pardee-Morris House

      10/9/2003         $9,474    Planning Grant for Special Exhibition on Margaret Fitch Brewster

        4/7/2005         $8,305    Visitor Orientation Project

      2/16/2006         $4,918    Planning Grant for Special Exhibition on the Federal Art Project in New Haven, 1933-1941

      4/13/2006        $19,757    Visitor Orientation Center

      6/30/2006         $2,475    Technical Assistance for Federal Arts Exhibition

      10/5/2006        $19,250    The Federal Art Project in New Haven:  The Era,  Art, and Legacy

New Haven Preservation Trust

      7/23/2002         $5,000    New Haven Preservation Trust Strategic Planning Process

Peabody Museum of Natural History

        1/1/2006         $4,000    Martin Luther King, Jr. Festival 2006 at the Yale Peabody Museum

      3/17/2006         $2,300    Art and Writing in Ancient Egypt

    10/30/2006         $2,500    Storytelling at the Yale Peabody Museum's Martin Luther King, Jr. Festival for

                                           Environmental Justice

Southern Connecticut State University Foundation

      6/26/1997         $4,792    Assessment Interpretation and Utilization of the Ethnic Heritage Society's Archival

                                           Collections

Yale University

      6/27/1996        $25,150    Planning Grant Application Machu Picchu:  A Royal  Estate of the Incas

      10/5/2000        $20,250    The Yale Peabody Museum Machu Picchu Exhibition:  Evaluation of its Presentation

      1/10/2002        $75,000    Yale Peabody Museum Exhibition:  Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas

      1/14/2005         $2,500    Martin Luther King, Jr. Event

Yale University - Yale Center for British Art

      10/3/1996        $40,500    William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection

Yale University, Yale Art Gallery

      6/30/1998        $21,205    Out of a Melting Pot:  Myer Myers and His World

        1/6/2000        $53,738    Modern Gothic;  The Revival of Medieval Art