Projects We've Funded: Northeastern Massachusetts

$5,000 to the Gloucester Adventure, Inc. for a K – college curriculum on the history of the North American Fisheries spanning six centuries. (CED) (2008)

$5,000 to Lynn Museum & Historical Society for an exhibit entitled Different Journeys, Common Bonds: Stories of New Americans from the Former Soviet Union, based on the lives of seventeen local Soviet immigrants. (2008)

$5,000 to The Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence for the bilingual exhibition, Lasting Legacies: Art and Poetry for Lawrence Massachusetts, featuring Frost’s early work and paintings by his family’s minister, Rev. William Wolcott. (2007)

$5,000 to the Cultural Organization of Lowell for On the Road in Lowell, three forums examining the cultural significance of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, in conjunction with the exhibition of the original manuscript. (2007)

Jack Kerouac

$1,050 to Peabody Institute Library to support an exhibit about the role Danvers women played in Civil War relief efforts entitled, In the Spirit of Clara Barton: Almira Fales and the Women of South Danvers. (2007)

$3,413 to The Witch House in Salem to subsidize an expansion of the museum’s family-oriented program series on colonial life. (2007)

$4,000 to the Lynn Museum and Historical Society to record video oral history interviews from 15 Soviet immigrants living in Lynn and mounting an exhibition based on the recordings. (2007)

$10,000 to the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center to support the planning and design of a permanent exhibit on the history of the Gloucester fishing industry. (2006)

$5,000 to the Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation to expand and publicize an exhibit and develop a website exploring the 1933 Pequot Mill Strike and its place in the history of organized labor. (2005)

$5,000 to the House of Seven Gables in Salem to develop a permanent orientation exhibit for the historic site’s visitor center. (2005)

$5,000 to the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center for an interpretive exhibit and oral history project on the history of the Vincie N., a fishing vessel, and its place in the maritime community. (2005)

$3,700 to Family Service, Inc. in Lawrence to support an exhibit celebrating the organization’s 150 years of providing health and social services to individuals and families in Greater Lawrence. (2005)

$3,700 to Family Service, Inc. in Lawrence to support an exhibit celebrating the organization’s 150years of providing health and social services to individuals and families in Greater Lawrence. (2004)

$3,600 to the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust for a community history project focusing on the Concord River in Lowell. (2004)

$3,400 to the City of Salem Park and Recreation Department to support four free public programs in the Witch House Family Program Series, presenting interpretations of the Salem witch trials and the social history that gave rise to them. (2004)

$3,000 to the House of the Seven Gables in Salem to underwrite the costs of a three-part lecture series about the life, work and legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2004)

$5,000 to Middlesex Community College in Lowell to support the operation through 2004 of Changing Lives Through Literature, an acclaimed public humanities program that integrates reading and discussion with the operations of the criminal justice system. (2004)

$5,000 to the Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence to underwrite an exhibit of photographs highlighting the relationship of Frost's poetry to the city where he spent much of his adolescence and young adulthood. (2003)

$2,819 to the Cambodian Master Performers Program in Lowell for three public screenings of a film on Cambodian-American human rights activist Arn Chorn Pond, followed by panels of community activists and audience discussion. (2003)

$5,000 to the Town of Amesbury to help fund planning for an exhibit on Amesbury history to be located in a renovated mill building in the revitalized downtown area. (2003)

$2,500 to the Nahant Historical Society for a Scholar in Residence project to examine the evolution of Nahant from fishing and farming village to summer community, with scholar Carolyn Hughes. (2003)

$4,925 to the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center in Gloucester to collect and publish oral histories from people involved in the oldest continuously operating marine railway in the country. (2002)

$2,205 to the Wenham Museum in Wenham for a two-part program featuring Native American author and storyteller Margaret Bruchac. (2002)

$1,000 to the George Peabody House Museum for a Research Inventory Grant to inventory its collection in order to improve access for research purposes and to improve the interpretation for public programs and exhibits. (2002)

$622 to the American Textile History Museum in Lowell to underwrite the costs of conducting taped interviews with a veteran machinist whose career in the Lowell mills spanned most of the twentieth century. (2002)

$23,000 to the Cambodian Master Performers Program in Lowell for development of a Web-based curriculum on Cambodian music and dance traditions. (2001)