| Brattleboro Literary Festival |
$3,000 to support, for the fourth year, the Brattleboro Literary Festival. |
| Burlington Book Festival |
$2,500 for the third annual Burlington Book Festival. |
| Burlington College Institute for Civic Engagement |
$3,500 for “Urban Nightmares, City Dreams,” a public lecture, reading, and film series. |
| Center for Photographic Studies, Montpelier |
$816 for an after-school intergenerational portrait and oral history project that paired Barre high school students with senior citizens. |
| Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston |
$2,451 for “Outsiders: Those Who Fell Outside the Cultural Norm,” a four-session reading and discussion program on the history of how certain populations in America were treated during the late 19th to mid-20th century. |
| Dorset Library |
$1,386 for “The Rise of the English Novel,” a reading and discussion program that examines four early novels. |
| Focus on Film, Montpelier |
$2,000 to support film screenings, discussions, and presentations as part of the Green Mountain Film Festival 2008. |
| Friends of Robert Frost, Shaftsbury |
$1,700 for “Sunday Afternoons with Robert Frost,” a summer lecture series on Frost-related topics. |
| Greensboro Wonder and Wisdom |
$3,250 for community poetry workshops for all ages and socio-economic backgrounds. |
| Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury |
$1,750 for public and student programming associated with a traveling exhibit about Lewis Hine’s photographs depicting child labor. |
| Opera Theatre of Weston |
$3,259 for education outreach built around Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale, The Happy Prince, and the opera of the same name. |
| Park-McCullough House, North Bennington |
$1,846 to provide humanities personnel and books for “Architect for a Week: A Victorian House Workshop” as part of an ongoing school outreach program. |
| Quechee Library |
1,998 for “Revenge,” a four-session reading and discussion program. |
| South Burlington Community Library |
$600 to support the Lifelong Learning Music Series in its fifth year. |
| Vermont Peace Academy, Plainfield |
$2,000 for a two-day conference at Norwich University to raise awareness and understanding about the Middle East. |
| Vermont Courage to Teach, Montpelier |
$2,500 for a professional development program for teachers and principals that uses poetry and discussion. |
| Vermont Historical Society, Barre |
$7,500 to support the ninth annual Vermont History Expo. |
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company
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$1,680 to support a workshop for middle and high school teachers that focused on the Playhouse’s fall production and incorporating the play into the schools’ curricula. |
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company
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$3,580 to support a new series of lectures and reading-and-discussion related to performances to stimulate community discussion and enrichment. |