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African Literature Association
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$2,400 to support Bringing the African Diaspora into the Classroom, for materials and related expenses for Vermont teachers attending the association’s conference at the University of Vermont.
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Building a Better Brattleboro
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$3,000 to support, for the fifth year, the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
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Burlington Book Festival
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$2,500 to support the fourth annual Burlington Book Festival, which features prominent literary figures.
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Focus on Film, Montpelier
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$1,625 for screenings, discussions, and presentations at the 2009 Green Mountain Film Festival.
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Greensboro Wonder and Wisdom
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$1,950 for an oral history project with Wonder and Wisdom Kids (ages 6–12) and Senior Trotters (ages 65–95) to document the community’s cultural memory.
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Johnson State College
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$2,500 for Life in Chittenden County, a video history project that is part of the Vermont History and Government class at Johnson State College.
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Main Street Museum, White River Junction
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$2,000 for Tramps, Hobos, and Transients at the Edge, an exhibition and events on hobos in American history, literature, song, and popular culture. Symposium
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The Northern Forest Center, Concord, New Hampshire
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$5,000 to bring to Vermont, Ways of the Woods: People and the Land in the Northern Forest, a mobile museum that explores the human experience in the Northern Forest.
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Park-McCullough House,
North Bennington
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$4,600 for Voices of Victorian Vermont, lectures, discussions, workshops, a presentation and musical demonstration, and a film series that explore the immigrant experience in America.
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Robert Frost Stone House Museum, Shaftsbury
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$1,300 to create educational exhibits at the museum.
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Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh
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$3,100 for curriculum materials to accompany Speaking Truth to Power, a portable audio component of an exhibit of abolitionist speeches. |
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Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Montpelier
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$1,999 for Lake Champlain Voyages of Discovery: Bringing History Home, to support a publication and Web site for a project that explains the Champlain Valley’s and Addison County’s roles in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century history.
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Vermont Public Television
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$7,500 to support Headline Vermont, a documentary film on the history of newspapers in Vermont.
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Vermont Women’s History Project
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$1,200 for My Story Matters, a conference for high school students on Vermont history.
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Weston Playhouse Theatre Company
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$2,800 for a teacher workshop that focuses on the Playhouse’s fall production of A Raisin in the Sun.
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Young Writers Project
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$5,500 for a series of five online forums connecting student writers with Vermont authors.
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