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2008 Annual Report

Walt Wolfram

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North Carolina Humanities Council

Invests More Than $76,000 in Eight Cultural Projects Across the State

GREENSBORO, NC (December 2, 2008) – The North Carolina Humanities Council has awarded over $76,000 in grants to eight community-based cultural, educational, and nonprofit organizations to conduct humanities programs. In a highly competitive grants award cycle, the Humanities Council funded groups across the state to address subjects as diverse as North Carolina textile history and end-of-life issues. The grant recipients will use varied approaches, such as oral history, drama, fiber art, public symposiums, and webcasts to provide forums for North Carolinians to come together in conversation.

The Humanities Council, a 37-year-old nonprofit foundation and state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, awards grants to organizations from Murphy to Manteo every year. This support allows community groups and nonprofits to provide public humanities programs that bring people together to explore the history, traditions, and stories of North Carolina and its place in the world.

The funded groups match the Humanities Council’s grants with in-kind and cash contributions. The projects supported are integral to the Humanities Council’s commitment to vital conversations that nurture the cultures and heritage of North Carolina.

Funded groups and projects include:

• Touring Theatre of North Carolina in Greensboro to support the staging and production of Piece Work, poems about Piedmont textile workers written by Barbara Presnell
• Apprend Foundation/Thomas Day Education Project of Durham for “Uncovering the Hidden History of Thomas Day: The Man, the Masks, and the Methods of Discovery”
• Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN) for the “Asheville Wordfest Media Outreach Project,” a poetry festival celebrating diversity and community
• Duke Human Rights Center of Duke University for “Pauli Murray Project Pilot Narrative: History and Dialogue as a Gateway to Reckoning and Reconciliation”
• Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe of Hollister for “Haliwa Indian School Documentation Phase I” for a project examining the crucial role played by the Indian School for members of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe
• End of Life Care Coalition of Eastern North Carolina for “Facing the End of Life through the Humanities: Artfully Stitching Inclusive Community Partnerships”
• North Carolina Conference of English Instructors and the North Carolina Community College System for “Diverse Southern Voices: Gateway to Inspiration, 2009 Southeast Conference for English and Humanities Instructors”
• Charlotte Symphony Orchestra for “Daybreak of Freedom,” a multi-media component to the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Concert

> Read more in the press release.

North Carolina Conversations

Summer 2008 Edition 

Now Available

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The 2008 Linda Flowers

Literary Award

Recipient is

Kirsten Hemmy

of Charlotte, NC.

More details to follow

after the holidays

(see Calendar for more infor.)

Road Scholars Events

Jan 8 - Ben Casey: Life along

            the Waterways -

            Exploring NC Rivers

            Pender County

Jan 10 - Margaret Hoffman:

               Blackbeard

              (Currituck and Corrolla

              Library branches) 

               Currituck County

Jan 11 - Kevin Duffus:

              War Zone - WW II

              off NC's Outer Banks

              Carteret County

New Harmonies

NC host sites announced for Smithsonian Exhibit "New Harmonies," part of the Museum
on Main Street program.

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North Carolina Humanities Council
Announces Six New Board Members

The North Carolina Humanities Council announces that six new members joined the Council board in October 2008. Five have been appointed to serve by Governor Mike Easley.*

Shown left to right:

*Dr. Glen Anthony Harris is Associate Professor of History at UNC Wilmington and author of numerous articles, including African American-Jewish relations during the first decades of the twentieth century; postmodern slave narrative; and interracial marriage.
*Dr. Tom Hanchett has served as staff historian at Charlotte’s Levine Museum of the New South since 1999, where he has curated a string of prize-winning exhibitions.

Dr. Reginald Hildebrand is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and serves as co-chair of the NC Freedom Monument Project.

*Mr. Jonathan Howes is Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Adjunct Professor of Regional Planning and Public Policy at UNC Chapel Hill. He chairs the board of teh NC Parks and Recreation Authority.

*Ms. Carol Lawrence is a professional writer and editor from Asheville and the principal with Carol Lawrence Consulting.

*Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly is former Director of the Composition Program at UNC Greensboro, and now holds the Women’s Studies Professorship. 

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Together We Read:

Boone by Robert Morgan
A series of events sponsored by Together We Read to support the seventh-annual Western North Carolina community book-read about historical truth, ecology, European-Indian relations, and African Americans on the frontier.

Standing on a Box:

Lewis Hine's National Child Labor Committee Photography in Gaston County, 1908

A photography exhibition,

November 8, 2008 through February 21, 2009.

Gaston County Museum of Art & History, 131 West Main Street, Dallas, North Carolina