Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
2003-04 Annual Report
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
2003-04 Annual Report
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VOICES OF THE PAST
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VOICES OF TODAY
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VOICES HEARD, VOICES ACKNOWLEDGED
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VOICES IN PRINT
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VOICES OF THE FUTURE
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DONORS & SPONSORS
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GRANTS
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VFH FELLOWS
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VFH BOARD & STAFF
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
At the
Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities,
we hear voices.
H
earing voices is so
central to our mission
that we listen for them
all the time: voices of
the scholar and the folk artist, the
poet and the legislator, the child
learning to read and the teacher
inspiring new generations. Then
we do all that we can to broadcast
those voices, so that they may be
heard throughout and beyond the
Commonwealth.
We seek voices of the past, especially from those whose stories
have gone unheard. This year, for
example, commemorating the
1954 Supreme Court decision that
integrated U.S. schools, we listened
to the reflections of John A. Stokes.
In 1951, as a high school student,
Stokes was among the leaders of
a strike protesting school conditions in his hometown of Farmville
in Prince Edward County. His case
and four others were adjudicated
under the momentous decision
called Brown v. Board of Education.
We scan our landscape keenly
for authentic voices representing
the ideas and spirit of Virginia
today. This year we met Mildred
Moore, a Pamunkey Indian from
Prince William, Virginia, who
makes pottery of Virginia clay
using techniques that predate
the founding of Jamestown. For
naming her a master artist in our
Folklife Program, she thanked
us with a simple phrase, full of
meaning: “You paid attention.”
When I think back on the
Foundation’s past year, it’s the
voices of people like John Stokes
and Mildred Moore that come most
vividly to mind. That’s why, in this
annual report, we chose to feature
the voices of the Virginia Foundation. It is our way of saying thank
you—and welcome to the chorus.
ROBERT C. VAUGHAN, III
PRESIDENT
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AS A VFH FELLOW, I HAVE BEEN COMPLETING A
BOOK ON CULTURAL INTERPRETATIONS OF VIOLENCE
IN 20TH-CENTURY COLOMBIA. VFH IS AN
EXTRAORDINARILY CONVIVIAL ENVIRONMENT.
COLLEAGUES READ PARTS OF MY WORK, AND
I READ THEIRS. I LEARNED MORE ABOUT
AMERICAN HISTORY THAN I HAD
IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.
— HERBERT TICO BRAUN
Horace W. Goldsmith
Distinguished Professor in
the Humanities, UVa
2003-04 Fellow
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VOICES OF THE PAST
The more
clearly we hear
from those
who have come
before us,
the better we
understand
such as the freedom
our lives today history,
rides and ghetto revolts of the
20th century, and African-Amerand our
lawyers in the New South.
prospects for ican
See page 26 for a complete listing of this year’s Fellows.
tomorrow.
This year VFH hosted history
T
his year ten distinguished scholars and
writers conducted
research, completed
book projects, and shared their
work with the larger public as
VFH Resident Fellows. Henry
Wiencek won the 2003 L.A. Times
Book Prize in History for his
book An Imperfect God, a study of
George Washington and slavery.
Bill Freehling focused on the
politics of the South’s decision to
secede. Victoria Sanford, known
for her work on Guatemala’s
Maya massacre, studied peace
efforts in Colombia, while Tico
Braun studied that nation’s
violent history, 1949-1965. Other
VFH Fellows raised voices important to our region’s and nation’s
seminars for both college-level
and high school teachers. They
came from near and far: from
Gordonsville, Virginia; the Bronx
and Manhattan; Toledo, Ohio;
Bakersfield, California. For five
weeks, teachers attended “Roots:
Teaching the African Dimensions
of the History and Culture of
America,” engaged in scholarly
discussions, visiting historic sites,
conducting their own research.
They returned to the classroom
with deeper knowledge of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, a
refreshed sense of why history
matters, and new insights to help
students learn how an understanding of the past can affect
their futures.
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One way to express our mission:
Let ideas, creativity, and understanding ring!
Success is measured in
the richness, variety,
and significance
of expression that
we help bring to
the public.
GRANTS FROM VFH ARE HELPING US TELL THE STORY OF THE
CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE. IT WAS A REMARKABLE AFRICAN AMERICAN
SCHOOL WHOSE HUNDRED-YEAR-LONG HISTORY CAN BROADEN OUR
UNDERSTANDING OF VIRGINIA HISTORY, WHICH IS NOT AS SIMPLE—AND
DEFINITELY NOT AS MONOCHROMATIC—AS IS OFTEN REPRESENTED.
— ANNA FARIELLO
Curator, The Christiansburg Institute
VFH Grant Recipient, 2003-04
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VOICES OF TODAY
JAZZ IS A CALL AND RESPONSE PARTICIPATORY MUSIC.
IT IS A COMMUNITY MUSIC
— JEFF DECKER
Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies, University of Virginia
“With Good Reason” program guest
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cross Virginia on
eleven public radio
stations, the weekly
radio program “With
Good Reason” broadcasts discoveries, debates, and new ideas
emerging from Virginia’s academic institutions. For example,
faculty interviewed this year
have helped listeners explore the
bottom of the ocean, appreciate
great jazz masters like Jelly Roll
Morton, assess the modern value
of the Greek and Roman classics,
understand forgiveness on a personal and international scale, and
delve into the newest subatomic
particle, the pentaquark.
The VFH Grant Program has
also helped fill the air with evernew knowledge through grants
to organizations that interpret
Virginia’s rich culture and history for the public. Grants support
documentary efforts, like the
films and archives underway to
preserve the legacy of the Carter
family, legendary Appalachian
musicians.
Grants underwrite oral history
collections, including interviews
with war veterans from Amelia
County and a book on the 1950
polio epidemic in Wythe County.
Grants help develop web sites
and museum displays, lectures,
concerts, symposia, and institutes. To name a few among
many, this year they have helped
the people of the Commonwealth
learn about the site of Werewocomoco, presumed Powhatan’s capital in 1607; about William Henry
Sheppard, a black Virginian and
missionary to Africa in the 1890s;
and about the Latino music traditions of Cape Charles and Galax.
See page 20 for a complete listing
of this year’s grants.
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WHEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT THE BOOK
FESTIVAL—AND THAT I COULD ENJOY
SO MUCH OF IT FOR FREE—I WAS
DELIGHTED. IT’S BEEN A DELICIOUS
DESSERT. ON THE STEERING
COMMITTEE, MY WORK HAS
BEEN TO GET EVEN MORE
OF THE COMMUNITY
INVOLVED.
— HILDA WARD
Poet, health educator,
and volunteer, Virginia
Festival of the Book
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Not only to
preserve the
folk arts but
to help them
flourish—this
is the goal
underlying the
VFH Folklife
Apprenticeship
Program.
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asters of traditional arts, crafts, and
trades teach a new generation their
skills through nine-month-long
partnerships. This year the program
paired nine master artists with eager and earnest
apprentices. Three voiced
their spirits in music—a
bluegrass fiddler, a classic
banjoist, and an Appalachian songster—while others passed along skills that
included making brooms,
making cornshuck dolls,
and making the tasty stew
called by the name of the
Virginia county from which
it first came: Brunswick.
2003-04 Virginia Folklife
Apprenticeship Program Participants
Buddy Pendleton
Montana Young
Mildred Moore
Bonnie Sears
MASTER ARTIST
MASTER ARTIST
APPRENTICE
APPRENTICE
Patrick County, Virginia
King William County, Virginia
BLUEGRASS FIDDLE PLAYING
POWHATAN BLACKWARE
POTTERY
Ganell Marshall
Sarah Mullins
MASTER ARTIST
APPRENTICE
Wise County, Virginia
CORNSHUCK DOLL MAKING
MASTER ARTIST
William “Larry” Counts
APPRENTICE Thomas Vail
Russell County, Virginia
John D. Clary
APPRENTICE Chiles Cridlin
MASTER ARTIST
BROOM MAKING
Penny Stillwell
D. Gail Lawrence
Brunswick County, Virginia
MASTER ARTIST
BRUNSWICK STEW MAKING
APPRENTICE
Wythe County, Virginia
Asha Vattikuti
APPRENTICE Janhavi Kirtane
MASTER ARTIST
CANNING
Joe Ayers
Patrick Hester
Arlington, Virginia
MASTER ARTIST
KATHAK (NORTH INDIAN)
DANCING
APPRENTICE
Fluvanna County, Virginia
CLASSIC BANJO
Spencer Moore
APPRENTICE Ben Moore, Jr.
MASTER ARTIST
Smyth County, Virginia
APPALACHIAN SONGS
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AFRICA DEFINITELY TENDS TO BE
OVERLOOKED IN WORLD HISTORY.
AFRICAN HISTORY IS HARD TO
TEACH BECAUSE OF THE LACK
OF MATERIALS. NOW I KNOW
HOW TO FIND RESOURCES
ON AFRICA AND HOW TO
MODIFY THEM FOR THE
HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.
— ELIZABETH KIM
Social studies teacher,
Ardsley High School,
Ardsley, New York
Participant, VFH
Summer Teachers’
Institute
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VOICES HEARD, VOICES ACKNOWLEDGED
In 2004, the Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities
honored the 50th anniversary
of the Supreme Court decision
in Brown v. The Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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n Charlottesville,
nearly 200 people gathered for a symposium
organized by the VFH’s
African American Heritage
Program. Individuals who
lived through those difficult
times—who spoke their
minds and acted their consciences—shared memories
that deeply affected all present. Panels and workshops
helped people understand
the legacy and continuing
challenge of Brown v. Board.
The May symposium capped
a year of programs designed
to honor and interpret
Virginia’s civil rights history.
With the July 2003 appointment of a Latin American historian as program
director, the South Atlantic
Humanities Center—a partnership among Virginia Tech,
the University of Virginia,
and VFH—launched its new
program. The Center offers
a new way to look at the
American South Atlantic.
The region extending from
Virginia through the Carolinas to Florida, Puerto Rico,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands
is a meeting place of three
continents—Europe, Africa,
and North America—and the
place where the New World
story begins and a New
South’s story continues.
Inspired by last year’s
conference, “Re-Imagining
Ireland,” VFH partnered
with Radio Telefís Éireann,
Ireland’s public television
network, to produce an hourlong documentary narrated
by Frank McCourt on Irish
identity amid rapid social
and economic change. Interviews with 34 Irish luminaries, many recorded during
the 2003 conference, are
woven together with musical
interludes and news footage.
Irish television aired the
program on St. Patrick’s Day,
to great hurrahs from many,
including The Irish Times.
American Public Television
stations will air it this fall.
The Southern Humanities Media Fund, administered by the VFH, supported
two important television
documentaries this year. Nat
Turner: A Troublesome Property traces the way in which
the story of Nat Turner
has been told and retold,
interpreted and represented,
through the 173 years since
the 1831 slave rebellion that
brought him fame. Hoxie:
The First Stand explores the
interesting case of Hoxie,
Arkansas, where in 1955 the
local school board voted to
integrate, against the tide of
resistance to Brown v. Board
elsewhere in the state. Both
hour-long programs have
aired nationwide on Public
Broadcasting stations.
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The written word stands at
the heart of the VFH mission.
W
JEANNETTE CAINES ARMSTEAD
MAY 18, 1937 - JULY 11, 2004
Recipient of the first VFH Center for the Book Lifetime Achievement
Award, given at the 2004 Virginia Festival of the Book; Author of Just
Us Women, a Motheread ® and Fatheread ® Family Literacy Selection.
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e have long championed readers—the
schoolchildren
picking up books
and pencils for the first time and
the parents showing them how; the
adults bravely taking up the challenge
of literacy later in life; the victim of
political or personal violence, finding
solace and new strength in reading;
the scholar poring over a manuscript
or letter stashed away decades, maybe
centuries, ago. We voice our advocacy
for the written word through programs, events, and initiatives of the
VFH Center for the Book.
In March the Virginia Festival of
the Book celebrated reading in a big
way. Now a decade strong, its success
grows annually. Headliners included
Garrison Keillor, Michael Chabon,
and Michael Ondaatje. Nearly 23,000
session attendees from near and far
heard hundreds of authors, editors,
and publishing professionals. In a
creative partnership, the Fellowship
of Southern Writers held its annual
meeting at the festival, generating a
wealth of events featuring its distinguished members.
VOICES IN PRINT
The work is never finished.
VFH seeks to influence more
readers every day. Through
Motheread® and Fatheread®,
librarians, teachers, and
others learn how to engage
parents in reading with
their children. Tough Times
Companion, published by
the Institute on Violence
and Survival, collects the
voices of many who have
undergone life tragedies. This
anthology of poetry and prose
is distributed free in hospitals,
shelters, counseling centers, and
to emergency care givers
and rescue workers.
FOR SIX YEARS WE HAVE RUN A
PROGRAM JUST FOR FATHERS. IT
RECONNECTS THESE GUYS TO A SCHOOL,
EXPOSES THEM TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE,
AND GIVES THEM A WAY TO CONNECT WITH
THEIR KIDS AND FAMILIES. WE HAVE FOUND
THAT IF THEY COME TO THE FIRST MEETING,
THEY COME TO ALL THE MEETINGS.
— PHILIP FELLOWS
Reading Teacher and Literacy Coordinator,
Yancey Elementar y School, Scottsville, Virginia
Motheread ® and Fatheread ® Workshop Participant
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VOICES OF THE FUTURE
A simple motto voices
our mission: Ideas matter.
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deas are the stuff of the humanities, to which we are dedicated. With ideas, we
communicate, forming a better union. With ideas, we reflect on the past, appreciate
the present, and envision the future. Our mission succeeds only because programs
of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities look forward. We hear voices past
and present, and ready our world for new voices soon to be heard.
WORKING FOR THE BOOK FESTIVAL GAVE ME AN INTERESTING
VIEW OF THE PUBLISHING WORLD, AN ODD MIX OF PUBLICITY
AND APPRECIATION I’VE ALSO ENJOYED THE WORK ATMOSPHERE
AT VFH. THE PEOPLE HERE ARE GREAT.
— PALMER CURDTS
Second-year student, University of Virginia
Intern, Virginia Festival of the Book
PHILLIP GREEN
Intern, Virginia
Festival of the Book
CHAKANA MENTOR
Intern, Virginia
Festival of the Book
Donors & Sponsors
Honorary &
Memorial Gifts
The following gifts were given in
memory of a loved one or in recognition
of a friend or family member.
Louisa Condon Barrett, in honor of
Nancy Damon and Kevin McFadden.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Cable,
in honor of David Bearinger.
Daryl Lynn Dance, in honor of Carol
Hendrix and Teresa Dowell-Vest.
VFH
Humanities
Associates
2003-04
VFH
Cornerstone
Society
2003-04
The Humanities Associates
recognizes individual donors of
unrestricted gifts of $1000 or more
annually. The VFH appreciates
the support of these donors who
provide flexible gifts which can be
applied to areas of greatest need.
The VFH Cornerstone Society
recognizes those friends who
have remembered the VFH in
their wills, who have planned
gifts benefiting the VFH, or who
have established endowments for
the benefit of the VFH. Because
these are substantial, long-term,
income-producing gifts, they
serve as the cornerstone for future
growth and contribute to the
expansion of public humanities
and scholarship in Virginia.
Elizabeth J. Deis, in memory of Gretchen
Rogers and in honor of Bob Rogers.
William K. Freehling
Madaleine Flippin, in memory
of Gretchen Rogers.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Galgano
Linda L. Hanson, in celebration of
the marriage of M. Simone Daleo
and Philip Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Conaway B. Haskins, Jr.,
in memory of Gretchen Rogers and
Sue Seawall, and in honor of Bob Rogers.
Cynthia C. Jones, in memory of
Gretchen Rogers and Sue Seawall, and
in honor of Bob Rogers.
Barbara J. Fried
Jerome S. Handler
Walter A. Jackson
William K. Freehling
Anna and Tom Lawson
Sheryl B. Hayes
Robert B. Livy
Daniele C. Struppa
Dr. and Mrs. John L. McClenahan
Thad W. Tate
Katherine Neville
Robert and Ellen Vaughan
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale
Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik
Mr. and Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield III
Richard T. Wilson, III
Margaret Kern, in honor of Evette Lamka.
Dorothy Rouse-Bottom
George W. Lawson, in honor of
Anna Logan Lawson.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Schewel
Priscilla A. Ord, in memory of
Gretchen Rogers and Sue Seawall,
and in honor of Bob Rogers.
Robert C. Vaughan III
Kathy Stuart, in memory of
Gretchen Rogers and Sue Seawall,
and in honor of Bob Rogers.
Mary Ellen Stumpf
Peter Wallenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, III
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Donors &
Sponsors
The Following giving categories
are named for individuals who,
through the humanities, have
changed the world in which we
live. Whether historians, writers,
or philosophers, each used the
humanities to reveal problems
in society, to explore new ways
of thinking, or to suggest how a
better world might be created.
ERASMUS
$ 25,000
and over
EMERSON
$ 10,000
– $ 24,999
WASHINGTON
$
5,000 –
STEINBECK
$
2,500 – $ 4,999
HURSTON
$ 1,000
CARSON
$ 500
– $ 999
TURNER
$ 100
– $ 499
STOWE
to
$ 9,999
– $ 2,499
$ 99
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
SOCIETY
Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust
The Rosenstiel Foundation
WINA AM 1070
WTJU-FM 91.1
WVPT-TV Virginia’s Public Television
Mr. John Andelin &
Ms. Virginia Geoffrey
JOHN STEINBECK SOCIETY
Acme Ice Company
(Charlottesville Ice Park)
AlbemarleFamily
David G. Baldacci
Crown Automotive BMW of
Charlottesville
Friends of the JeffersonMadison Regional Library
Harris Teeter
The Hook
ERASMUS SOCIETY
Northwestern Mutual
Financial Network
Anne Lee Ueltschi Foundation
WMRA National Public Radio
Commonwealth of Virginia
WVTF National Public Radio
Council for International
Exchange of Scholars
Walter A. Jackson
The Harvest Foundation
Jamestown 2007
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the
Humanities
United States Institute of Peace
Virginia Tourism Corporation
RALPH WALDO
EMERSON SOCIETY
1st Books
Bank of America
Biotage
Charlottesville-Albemarle
Community Foundation
Chesapeake Corporation Foundation
Dominion Virginia Power
William K. Freehling
Jerome S. Handler
Dr. & Mrs. Micahel Galgano
Alison J. & Ella W. Parsons Foundation
Gravity Lounge
City of Charlottesville
The Honorable Ray Grubbs &
Mrs. Elizabeth Grubbs
Peters Rushton Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield III
Rouse-Bottom Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Schewel
Marcy & Hunter Sims
Mary Ellen Stumpf
Robert & Ellen Vaughan
Peter Wallenstein
Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, III
University of Virginia
Alumni Association
UVA Department of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilation
WUVA — Kiss FM 92.7
RACHEL CARSON SOCIETY
Alltel
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Best Western Cavalier Inn
at the University of Virginia
Mr. & Mrs. E. Cabell Brand
Ellen Brock
The Book Broker
Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Buford
Elaine Dowe Carter
Charlottesville Regional
Chamber of Commerce
Raldolph Church
Deborah J. Dillon
Doubletree Hotel
Mrs. William A. Elwood
Joanne V. Gabbin
George & Susan Garrett
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Glenn
Mr. & Mrs. David R. Goode
David W. Haines
Heartwood Books
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Heinemann
iUniverse
Infinity Publishing
J & E Berkley Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. George W. Logan
Anna & Tom Lawson
Kinko’s
University of Virginia,
Office of the President
LexisNexis
Mailing Services of Virginia
Dr. & Mrs. John L. McClenahan
New Dominion Bookshop
Wachovia Foundation
Katherine Neville & Karl Pribram
Robert C. Nusbaum
Virginia Quarterly Review
Norman & Edna Freehling
Foundation
Niall O’Dowd
Daily Progress
University of Virginia,
Batten Institute
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ZORA NEALE
HURSTON SOCIETY
Albemarle County
Barbara J. Fried
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Peale
Gary W. Taylor
Robert B. Livy
Department of Arts,
Sports and Tourism
Pages Magazine
Peter & Kristin Onuf
Paul W. Parker
Andrew S. Chancey
Hilary W. Holladay
Ellen Gilliam Perry
Charlottesville Albemarle
Convention & Visitors Bureau
J. Shelton Horsley
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Pfau
Helen & Taylor Reveley
Caroline B. Talbot
Transcontinental Publishing
Mr. & Mrs. Hays T. Watkins
Mrs. J. Harvey Wilkinson
Andrew Wyndham & Susan Bacik
University of Virginia Bookstore
Vinegar Hill Theatre
Virginia Tile, Inc.
Jiwei Ci
The Honorable &
Mrs. George M. Cochran
Susan & Michael Coleman
Mr. Allan Comp & Ms. Selma Thomas
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Julia E. Connelly
Mr. & Mrs. Charles N. Cooper
Drs. Raymond & Patricia Cormier
York Place
Creatures ‘N Crooks Bookshoppe,
LLC
Ms. Elizabeth L. Young
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Curtis, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Damon
FREDERICK JACKSON
TURNER SOCIETY
Mr. Kenneth S. Abraham &
Ms. Susan R. Stein
Daryl Cumber Dance
Mr. Gordon Davies &
Ms. Betsy Brinson
John J. Davies
Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Abraham
Mr. & Mrs. J. David Deck
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Allan
Jane DeSimone Dittmar
Shirley Anne Andrews
Johanna R. Drucker
Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Arrington, Jr.
Emma Edmunds
Mary Evelyn Bane
Anna Fariello
Sally Nan Barber
Jean Taylor Federico
Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Barham
Elizabeth C. Fine
Mrs. J. D. A. Barr
Douglas W. Foard
Mr. Garry Barrow & Ms. Kathy May
Franklin Gilliam Rare Books
David A. Bearinger
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Frick Jr
Mr. George Beller
Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Frischkorn
Melanie J. Biermann
Sandra C. Garrett
Lauren M. Blough
Nikki Giovanni
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports
Mr. & Mrs. Lee E. Goodman
Blue Whale Books
Susan Goodman
Tommy L. Bogger
Mr. & Mrs. Luther Y. Gore
Bookwrights Book Design
and Publishing
Michael Jay Green
Herbert Braun
Anthony & Althea Brooks
Mr. & Mrs. L. Preston Bryant, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph Bunzl
Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Burton
Mr. & Mrs. Louis A. Cable
Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr.
Franz L. Canon
Mr. & Mrs. Fred V. Carstensen
Mr. & Mrs. Willam M. Catron Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Bradley H. Gunter
Brownie S. Hamilton
Edythe C. Harrison
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Hayes
Mr. & Mrs. Allen Hench
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Henson
James R. Hinkle
Mr. & Mrs. Harold R. Hite
Mr. & Mrs. Henry William Hoffman
Ronald Hoffman
Jo Ann Hofheimer
A. E. Dick Howard
Ms. Kate Hudgins & Mr. Peter
Dummett
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Hutner Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Jones
Dr. & Mrs. J. B. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. George Kegley
Margaret Kern
Virginia Kerns
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Keyser
Joan & Stephen Kindig
Lee C. Kitchin
John T. Kneebone & Elizabeth
Roderick
Dr. & Mrs. Gregg Korbon
Krispy Kreme
Helen E. Kostel
David & McCrea Kudravetz
Mr. & Mrs. D. P. Lacy
Charlene Lamb
Fred S. Landess
Elizabeth C. Langhorne
Donald W. Lappley
Alexander S. Leidholdt
James Lott
Zanne MacDonald
Faye Male
Carol S. Manning
Dr. & Mrs. Preston C. Manning Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. David Martin
Mr. & Mrs. Wiley Martin
William T. Mason
C. E. May
Diane McNeal
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc.
Richard Merrill
Mr. Peter Thompson & Ms. Barbara
Millar
Mr. & Mrs. James Q. Miller
Hullihen & Nancy Delano Moore
Oakley’s Gently Used Books
Linda Odinov
William A. Oliver
Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Palin
Mr. & Mrs. Larry E. Pearson
Catherine L. H. Peyron
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Phi Theta Kappa of Virginia
Sandra G. Treadway
Majeeda Bey
Robert A. Pratt
Patricia Trusselle
Phyllis Binder
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald H. Radden
Mr. Jorgen Vik & Mrs. Laura
Burkhardt Vik
Biscotti Goddess
Reuben & Sue Rainey
Mr. & Mrs. Ruhi K. Ramazani
Mr. & Mrs. Champe C. Ransom
Read It Again Sam
Barbara B. Rich
Ms. Julie Richter
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Roberts
Dudley F. Rochester
Felicia Rogan
Mr. Robert G. Rogers
Ronald L. Rothrock
Mr. & Mrs. Steven H. Rubin
Glenn Allen Scott
Virginia National Bank
Mr. & Mrs. Lacy B. Ward, Jr.
Sylvia B. Warner
Ross L. Weeks
Dahven White
Phyllis A. Whitney
George Michael Wildasin
Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP
Dr. & Mrs. Morton C. Wilhelm
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Williams
Kathleen Wilson
Barbara Thomson
S. Buford Scott
Seanchai Books
Judith L. Sensibar
Hasmukh & Judy Shah
Stephanie J. Shaw
Shenandoah Spring Water
Joy Blackburn
Christina E. Bolgiano
Dorothy Bomar
John D. Bonvillian
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Borgard
Eugenia H. Borum
Mr. & Mrs. Lewis H. Bosher Jr.
Gary M. Boutz
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn C. Bowler
Owen Bowman
Paddy Bowman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Bowman
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth A. Boyle
HARRIET BEECHER
STOWE SOCIETY
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Abbot
Albemarle Baking Company
Martha C. Allen
Stacy Boyle
Barbara Brodie
Rebecca Bronson
Terrence L. Brooks
John G. Brown
Shenanigans, Inc.
Mr. Samuel Anders & Ms. Lee JordanAnders
Gail Shirley-Warren
Cynthia A. Anderson
Peter A. Brown
Holly Cowan Shulman
Mr. Joseph Anthony & Ms. Cris Arbo
Sumner Brown
J. David Smith
Archaeological Society of Virginia
Mr. & Mrs. Irving Brownfield
Leonard V. Smith
Kathleen E. Armstrong
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory P. Brummett
Lloyd T. Smith Jr. & Ashlin Smith
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Arnold
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Bruner
Mr. Joel Trugman & Ms. Razel Solow
Jean Maria Arrigo
Randall Somerville
Joan S. Atherton
Mr. Robert Burnett & Ms. S. E. AllanBurnett
Sandra D. Speiden
P. M. H. Atwater
Barbara A. Spellman
Mr. & Mrs. Carlos A. Avalos
Anne L. Spence
Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bailey
Suzanne Jessup Staton
Mr. M. Bailey & Ms. Luman-Bailey
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stroud
Anna L. Bainbridge
Mr. Daniele C. Struppa & Ms.
Elizabeth Sparks
M. Leonard Baker
Mr. & Mrs. H. Brady Surles
Cherie Swenson
Sharon Talbot
Tori Talbot
Tastings
Thad W. Tate
Chica Tenney
W. McIlwaine & Elsie Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Guy K. Tower
John D. Treadway
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Betty Black
The Baker’s Palette
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Balbalian
Dennis & Nina Barnes
Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Barr
Louisa Condon Barrett
Edward Adams Beck III
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Behrens
Ben & Jerry’s
Donna F. Bergheim
Linda H. Berkhouse
Mr. & Mrs. Walter G. Berryman
Steven J. Brown
S. Kay Burnett
Cabell Insurance Associates
Chandler’s Bakery
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Calvey
Julie A. Campbell
Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Carini
Mr. & Mrs. Richard N. Carpenter
Sheilia A. Carrico
Mr. & Mrs. Cary Carson
Mr. & Mrs. Derek B. Carter
Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Carter
Virginia Carter
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce G. Carveth
Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Chamberlain
Connie Cheetham
Charles R. Chittum
Suzanne Tanner Chitwood
D. Kent Chrisman
Ms. Lisa Draine & Mr. Joel Schectman
Mr. & Mrs. Warren O. Groves
Leila Christenbury
Ms. Ellen M. Dudley
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Gulley
Linda & Eric Christenson
Mr. & Mrs. Rodney J. Echard
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gully
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Christopher
Evelyn Edson
Mary Alice Gunter
Kathleen Clark
David N. Edwards
Megan Keleher
Martin F. Clark
Timothy W. Elig
Robert Cohen
Esther N. Elstun
Mr. Robert C. Hailey & Ms. Laurence
L. Cooke
Haley D. Collums
Mr. & Mrs. Saied Emami
Joyce Galbraith
Mr. & Mrs. Kenyon S. Erickson
Mr. & Mrs. Scotty J. Conrad
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Evans
Mr. & Mrs. Raleigh R. Cook, Jr.
ExxonMobil Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas L. Costa
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Fager
Jeff & Elizabeth Coughter
Tabb T. Farinholt
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney M. B. Coulling, III
Mr. & Mrs. Terrance P. Felegie
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Crampton
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Judith Fike
Patricia Crook
Stephen L. Fisher
Roberta Churchill
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Nancy Carter Crump
Madaleine Flippin
Charlotte Crystal
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Floyd
Stephan B. Cushman
Suzanne Foley
Mr. Charles M. Heazel & Ms. Sally A.
London
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony D. Cutri
Mr. & Ms. Robert Forrest
Anne F. Henderson
Daedalus Bookshop
Eugene P. Forrester
Carol A. Hendrix
Mr. Michael I. Daily & Ms. Noriah
Din-Daily
Howard L. Franklin
Susan & Marshall Henry
Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Frazier, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Herman
Ruben G. Herrera
Rita B. Dandridge
Mr. John A. Piller & Ms. Cynthia S.
Fredrick
Angela M. Davis
Samuel W. Gage
Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli & Pablo
J. Davis
Lucia Gajda
Mr. Donald Hodgen & Ms. Maria
Rodriguez
Mr. & Mrs. George H. Garbe
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Hodges
Laura Cockerille Giannini
Ellen Neff Hoke
Kimmarie N. Gibbons
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Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Holley
Atalissa S. Gilfoyle
Katherine E. Hollifield
Thomas E. Gillespie
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Richard J. Gilroy
Helen P. Holt
Gabriel Goldberg
A. Linwood Holton
Mr. Lee E. Goodman & Ms. Paige M.
Pippin
Sarah Collins
Daryl Lynn Dance
Patricia A. Davis
Anna E. H. Dees
Elizabeth J. Deis
Connie Della Pietra
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Dembling
Mr. Robert W. Denniston & Ms.
Lavona M. Grow
Rosemary Dent
Mr. & Mrs. Avelande C. DeOliveira
Sara Dillich
Betty Ann Dillon
Paymaan Dinavari
Mr. & Mrs. Thong H. Dinh
Susan D’Elden Donaldson
Virginia Stuart Dopp
Mr. Michael B. Dowell &
Ms. Patricia A. Gooch
Margaret B. Downing
Peter J. Dowty
Donald K. Gordon
Elizabeth F. Gore
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gottlieb
Mr. & Mrs. James W. Grant
Woody & Judy Greenberg
Mr. & Mrs. William Grey
Jason Y. Hall
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew C. Hampton
Linda L. Hanson
William H. Harbaugh
The Hardware Store
Marilyn K. Harper
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Linda Hartman
Barbara Haskins
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Mary Katherine Hassett
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Simmons
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond F. Heyd
Mr. & Mrs. L. E. Hoole
Mr. & Mrs. Warren Hopkins
Hotcakes
Susan Hoyt
Mr. & Mrs. Brady A. Hughes
The Hungarian Bakery
Sally Humphrey
Lucy A. Grimm
Dennis M. Gronka
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Gropman
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Hilary Hyland
Jean B. Lee
Mary Jaffe
Mr. Edmund W. Kitch & Ms. Gail
Leftwich
Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Johns
Hugh S. Meredith
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Lehman
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Meyer
Mr. & Mrs. Barry J. Lerner
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer E. Meyer Jr.
Martha Levering
Leigh B. Middleditch
David W. Levy
Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Milano
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Jordan
Mr. Paul Donohue & Ms. Lynne G.
Lewis
Andrew J. Miller
Mr. John W. Jordan & Ms. Donna M.
Knicely
Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Lewis
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Johnson
Cynthia C. Jones
Liz Cherry Jones
Suzanne W. Jones
R. Louise Anderson Juergens
Margaret P. Junke
Jerold D. Kappel
Madge Karickhoff
Lou Kassem
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Mr. Ali Kianersi & Ms. Aekyung Lee
Hotense Mitchell Liberti
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Elizabeth J. Lipscomb
Marilyn Lloyd
Marsha Login
Mr. Jonathan M. Lohman & Ms.
Laurel Bonney
Dr. & Mrs. Maurice Lohman
Joan Losen
Betty Luse
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Lyons
Ms. Mary Lyons
Mr. & Mrs. Victor H. MacIntosh
Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Miller
Janet Miller
Teresa Miller
Judith H. Mills
Mission Home Bake Shop
Mr. Eugene Molinelli &
Ms. Judith A. Evans
Vito J. Monteleon
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Moody
Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Moore
Mr. & Mrs. Curtis F. Morgan, Jr.
David H. Morgan
Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Morneau
James P. Munger
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh R. Manley
Mr. Paul J. Murphy &
Ms. Katherine A. Driver
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew W. Marchal
Lesley L. Myers
Edward R. Markham
Lynda E. Myers
Amy Marshall
Gloria B. Neckerman
Sally Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Dale L. Kostelny
Mr. John F. Marshall &
Cri Kars-Marshall
Mr. Kenneth Koziol
Mr. & Mrs. George W. Mason Jr.
Geraldine D. Kruger
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony C. Mattera
Barbara Kudravetz
Dr. & Mrs. Philip A. May
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kurin
Thomas Mayfield
L & T Respess Books
Mr. James Mazur & Ms. Christine M.
Erbacher
Barbara B. Kling
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Kochersperger
Lydia K. Koeller
Rita G. Koman
Dolores Kostelni
Forrest M. Landon
Douglas & Rebecca Lane
Mr. & Mrs. George R. Larie
Mary LaTourelle
Thelma Z. Lavine
Page R. Laws
Sheila A. Lawson
Mr. John C. Lawther &
Ms. Jessica C. Haney
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Layman
Tuyen T. Le & Tam H. Pham
Mr. & Mrs. Mark B. Leach
Corinne LeBovit
Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Lee
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Mr. Miten A. Merchant &
Ms. Sanika D. Mody
Beverley Booth McBride
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin P. McCarthy
Sarah McConnell
Michael L. Nicholls
Myreen Moore Nicholson
Tom Nolan
Anne Noznisky
Mr. & Mrs. John A. Ohgren Jr.
Oliver & Company Books
Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Oliver
Priscilla A. Ord
Josh S. Ours
Katherine H. McDaniel
Mr. Matthew S. Palmer &
Ms. Kelley E. Baker
Mr. Kevin J. McFadden & Ms. Angie
R. Hogan
Christine Parish
James J. McGrath
Mr. & Mrs. Gene M. McHale
Sandy R. McKenzie
Susan McKinnon
Lena McNicholas
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel McSweeney
G. Neil Means
Herman E. Melton
Ellen G. Parnell
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey M. Parnes
Kristen Sellers Pate
Robert Patkin
Michael L. Patterson
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Paxton
Ms. Barbara N. Peacock
Cindy Pearson
Larry E. Pearson
John T. Schlotterbeck
Mr. & Mrs. Porcher L. J. Taylor
Catherine G. Peaslee
Kent & Judy Schlussel
Christopher C. Taylor
Mr. & Mrs. E. Marvin Pell
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin G. Schulz
Jean Taylor
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of
Central Virginia
Philip J. Schwartz
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth D. Thomas
Betty Cox Scott
Anne Wilson Thompson
George Cole Scott
Barbara Miller
Shelah Kane Scott
Patricia S. Ticer
Lynn Seuffert
Amy J. Tillerson
Patrick C. Shaw
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Tremblay
Tom Trykowski
Grover Pitts
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Ms. Barbara Greenwald
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Mr. & Mrs. E. Lee Shepard
Mr.and Mrs. Percy E. Pollard
Marjorie A. Shepard
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Pollock
Julia L. Shields
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Mr. & Mrs. Alexander
Van Doren-Shulkin
Deborah M. Prum
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Mr. & Mrs. Alex Sinaiko
Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Raizen
Mr. Peter M. Slavin &
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Mr. & Mrs. John H.
Van Landingham, Jr.
Robert T. Perry
Mary J. Peters
Mr. & Mrs. John Pickering
Hermine Pinson
James J. Piselli
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Rappaport
Barbara J. Reeves
Kim Rendelson
Richard A. Repp
Mr. & Mrs. Habib Riazi
Chris Rich
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Richardson
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John M. Roberts
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Robertson
Helen D. Rodman
Hubert C. Roop
John B. Rosenman
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Rosenquist
Jane W. Rotch
Marion Rothman
Joan Z. Rough
Philip H. Rowland
Edward D. Russell
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Vincel, Jr.
Peppino N. Vlannes
Mr. & Mrs. Horace Sneed
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Wagner
Bronwen Souders
Mr. & Mrs. Henry D. Walls
Bruce C. Souders
Anne N. Walther
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn M. Spencer
Mr. & Mrs. David E. Ward
Mr. L. Spivey &
Ms. Bettie Coombs-Spivey
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Watsky
Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Stahl
Lucia C. Stanton
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew L. Stennes
Marvin M. Stephens
Deborah Stewart
The Steward School
Arthur Frederick Stocker
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Stofko
Anne Marie Stratos
Marin I. Sabic
Mr. & Mrs. Ira Sussman
Carole B. Sa’d
Susquehanna International
Group, LLP
Mr. Robert Schaefer &
Ms. Deborah Ottinger
Delegate Mitchell Van Yahres
Mr. & Mrs. Russell S. Smith
Kathy Stuart
Michael J. Santoro
Leonor A. Ulloa
Kristine C. Vey
Ann Rutherford
Emily Salmins
William O. Tucker
Dell W. Smith
Lucy Sankey Russell
Harvey G. Saks
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert F. Tucker
Betty O. Smallwood
Ms. Beth Strohmayer &
Mr. Jeffery M. Gamble
Robert D. Saint
Elaine F. Tucker
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Webb, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Weed, II
Brenda M. Welch
A. Camille Wells
William E. West
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William N. White
Jan W. Whiteley
Crystal E. Wilkinson
Ida Williams
Roger Williams
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Cecelia G. Wilson
Nancy L. Wilson
Sandra Lymberis Wilson
Beth Sutton
Peter Winants
Carey T. Sweeny
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Gladys H. Swift
Lauvonda Lynn Young
William H. Sydnor
Anthony J. Zabukovec
Mr. & Mrs. Alan O. Sykes
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Zinck
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Grants
Adat Shalom Reconstructionist
Congregation
Bethesda, MD
“The Musical Legacy of Flory Jagoda”
$2,500 to support the first phase of
an enhanced CD recording project
focusing on the musical legacy of
Flory Jagoda, a National Heritage
Fellow from Northern Virginia who
is the sole bearer of the Ladino
Ballad Tradition.
Adat Shalom Reconstructionist
Congregation
Bethesda, MD
“Aprentesita”
$10,000 to support the creation
of an enhanced CD featuring the
music of Flory Jagoda, a master
artist in the Virginia Folklife
Apprenticeship Program, and
Susan Gaeta, her aprentice. The CD
features ballads sung in Ladino, the
language of the Jews of Spain.
Afro-American Historical
Association of Fauquier County
The Plains, VA
“Virtual Museum Tour”
$3,000 to support the creation of a
virtual museum tour designed to
make the AAHA’s collection more
accessible to both on-site and
online visitors.
Alliance to Conserve Old
Richmond Neighborhoods
(A.C.O.R.N.)
Richmond, VA
“Richmond Roots: AfricanAmerican Architecture”
$10,000 to support research and
coordination of a large-scale
effort to document and interpret
African American architecture (and
architectural history) in the city of
Richmond, as well as historic sites
related to the African American
Experience.
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Allied Arts Foundation
Seattle, WA
“Carter Family Film”
$2,500 to support the cost of filming
interviews with key Virginia figures
in a documentary film on the
musical contributions and legacy of
the Carter family.
Allied Arts Foundation
Seattle, WA
“Don’t Forget This Song”
$10,000 to support a two-hour
documentary film on the the lives
and musical legacy of the Carter
Family.
Amelia County Historical
Society
Amelia, VA
“Amelia County Veterans’ History
Project”
$7,200 to support an oral history
project to capture the oral and
written perspectives of Amelia
County veterans from, World War II
through the first Gulf War.
Arts Enter Cape Charles
Cape Charles, VA
“Masters of Mexican Music—Cape
Charles”
$2,500 to support a lecture,
printing, and promotion costs in
connection with a performance
in Cape Charles of the Masters of
Mexican Music Tour. The promotion
focuses on outreach to the Latino
communities on the Eastern Shore.
Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities
Richmond, VA
“Conviction of Duty”
$5,000 to support research and
planning for an interpretive
performance and moderated panel
discussion focusing on the close
personal relationship between
George Washington and John
Marshall.
Avoca Museum and Historical
Society
Altavista, VA
“Slave Cemetery Mapping”
$800 to support mapping a slave
cemetery on a former plantation
site near Lynchburg.
Black Theatre Ensemble of
Virginia
Lynchburg, VA
“Celebrating Brown v. Board (1954):
Impact and Legacy in Central
Virginia”
$3,000 to support a panel
discussion—presented as part
of a larger series of events—
commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the Brown v. Board
decision.
Brown’s A.M.E. Church
Smithfield, VA
“Sarah Allen and the A.M.E. Church”
$1,500 to support two lecture and
discussion programs on the history
of the A.M.E. church and on the role
of Sarah Bass Allen—a native of Isle
of Wight County—in the church’s
early development.
Carter Family Memorial Music
Center
Hiltons, VA
“Carter Fold Music Archive Project”
$2,500 to support the first phase
of a long-term project to preserve
and make accessible a collection
of music recordings, featuring
traditional Old Time, Bluegrass, and
country music performers, mostly
from the central Appalachian region.
The Carter G. Woodson
Institute, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
“Ivy Depot”
$10,000 to support development
and pre-production costs for a
one-hour documentary film on Ivy
Depot, a rural African American
community in Albemarle County
and its efforts to preserve its
heritage in the face of rapid change.
Carter Family Memorial
Music Center
The College of William and
Mary, Department of History
Hiltons, VA
Williamsburg, VA
“The Carter Family Traditional
Music Preservation Project”
$15,000 to support the first phase
of a multi-year project to preserve
and create a permanent archive of
traditional music recordings held
at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons,
Virginia, one of the most important
venues for the performance of
traditional acoustic music that is
native to the Central Appalachian
region.
“New Kent County Virginia Public
Schools: From Freedom of Choice
to Integration”
$10,000 to support research and
script development for a one hour
documentary film on the history
and legacy of a 1968 Supreme Court
case—”Green v. New Kent County”—
which advanced desegration of
public schools.
The College of William
and Mary
County-Wide League
Fincastle, VA
“African American Heritage Festival”
$2,500 to support an oral history
project and African American
Heritage Festival, as the first steps
in a long-term effort to document
and interpret African American
history in Botetourt County.
Dungannon Development
Commission
Dungannon, VA
“A Vision For Our Heritage”
$10,000 to suppport a four-day
conference on Virginia in the
Atlantic World, focusing on the
early exploration and colonization
of the Mid-Atlantic region and the
cultural encounter that resulted.
$2,500 to support consultations,
strategic planning, and the creation
of a Building Stabilization and
Reconstruction Plan for an 1830s
log structure that stands adjacent
to an important Scott County
archaeological site. The goal is to
establish this site as an interpretive
center for Scott County history and
archaeology.
Chincoteague Island Library
The College of William
and Mary
Eastern Shore of Virginia
Chamber of Commerce
Chincoteague, VA
Williamsburg, VA
Central Rappahannock
Regional Library
Fredericksburg, VA
“Blues in the ‘Burg”
$1,500 to support a film screening
and a series of lectures on the
Virginia Blues tradition, presented
in conjunction with the 2004 “Blues
in the ‘Burg” music festival.
“Chincoteague island community
Heritage Project”
$2,500 to support the first phase of
a long-term effort to document the
disappearing cultural tradition of
Chincoteague Island.
Christiansburg Institute
Christiansburg, VA
“Christiansburg Institute Virtual
Campus Tour”
$10,500 to support research,
planning, and the development of
a design prototype for a “Virtual
Campus Tour” of Christiansburg
Institute.
City of Galax
Galax, VA
“Masters of Mexican Music—Galax”
$2,500 to support interpretive
activities and materials to be
developed in conjunction with
two performances in Galax of the
Masters of Mexican Music Tour.
Williamsburg, VA
“Virginia in the Atlantic World”
“Werowocomoco Research”
$10,000 to support a series of public
outreach and educational programs
centered on archaeological research
at a Powhatan village site in
Gloucester County which most
experts believe to be the site of
Werewocomoco, the capital of the
Powhatan chiefdom during the first
two years of the Jamestown Colony.
Corporation for Jefferson’s
Poplar Forest
Forest, VA
“Interpreting African American
Experience Under Slavery at
Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest”
$5,000 to support development
and implementation of a
comprehensive plan for
interpreting slave life at Poplar
Forest, including updating and
re-printing of a brochure on this
subject created under an earlier
VFH grant.
Melfa, VA
“Cultural Heritage Tourism
Workshop”
$1,600 to support a one-day
workshop on the cultural heritage
of the Eastern Shore, designed
primarily for owners and operators
of businesses in the local tourism
and hospitality services industry.
Efforts of Grace
New Orleans, LA
“National Spirit Project”
$7,500 to support a series of
artistic “residencies” at historically
black colleges and universities
in Virginia, designed to engage
public audiences in a dialogue
about issues of African American
history and identity as part of the
development of a new play entitled
“Vo-Du Macbeth.”
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Film Arts Foundation
George Mason University
San Francisco, CA
Fairfax, VA
“They Closed Our Schools”
$15,300 to support research and
oral history interviews leading
to production of a two-hour
documentary film on the closing of
the public schools in Prince Edward
County, Virginia, placing these
events in context of the period from
the 1920s to the present.
Friends of the Thomas Balch
Library
Leesburg, VA
“Loudoun County Emancipation
Association Book”
$3,000 to support publication of
a book on the Loudoun County
Emancipation Association, an
influential organization that
promoted African American
advancement and social change in
Loudoun County during an 80-year
period from 1890-1970.
Galax Public Library
Galax, VA
“Movers and Makers—Galax”
$2,000 to support the costs of
bringing an existing VFH-funded
exhibit on the Craft Revival
Movement to the Galax Public
Library, along with a public lecture
by the exhibit’s curator.
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
“Slavery, Literacy, Freedom: African
American Literature in the
Secondary Schools”
$9,750 to support a summer
seminar for secondary school
teachers focusing on strategies for
integrating the theme of slavery
into the teaching of American
literature.
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
“William Henry Sheppard: Congo
Crusader and Virginian”
$3,000 to support planning and
research in preparation for a digital
history project on the life and
legacy of William Henry Sheppard,
an early “Africanist,” missionary, art
collector, and human rights activist.
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“Commemorating the 50th
Anniversary of Brown v. Board of
Education”
Harrisonburg Downtown
Renaissance
Harrisonburg, VA
“Court Days Festival”
$3,000.00 to support a panel
discussion on the history of the
Brown v. Board of Education
decision and its impact, particularly
in Northern Virginia.
$1,500 to support a “Court Days
Festival,” including a variety of
performances, demonstrations,
exhibits, and other activities
focusing on Rockingham County’s
rural past.
George Mason University
Historic Staunton Foundation
Fairfax, VA
“Beyond Separate and Unequal”
$10,000 to support an exhibit and
symposium on the history of school
desegregation in Buckingham
County, based in part on oral
history interviews conducted under
a previous VFH grant.
George Washington’s
Fredericksburg Foundation
Fredericksburg, VA
“George Washington’s Early Life:
Archaeology Workshops”
$3,000 to support a series of
archaeology workshops for
teachers and public participants
focusing on the use of archaeology
as a tool for understanding George
Washington’s early life.
Gunston Hall Plantation
Mason Neck, VA
“2004 Liberty Lecture Series”
$2,000 to support a four-part
lecture series on “Slave Societies:
1700s to the Present.”
Hampton University
Hampton, VA
“Brown v. Board Commemoration”
$2,500 to support an exhibit, lecture,
and public forum exploring the
history and legacy of the Brown v.
Board of Education decision, with a
focus on Civil Rights.
Harrison Museum of African
American Culture
Roanoke, VA
“Stony the Road: Desegregating
America’s Schools”
$2,000 to support rental of a VFHfunded exhibit (“Stony the Road”) on
the history and impact of the Brown
v. Board decision, and a related
panel discussion focusing on school
desegregation in the Roanoke Valley.
Staunton, VA
“Behind the Iron Fence”
$1,500 to support promotion costs
for a one-day symposium on the
architectural, historical, and cultural
significance of the former Western
Lunatic Asylum in Staunton.
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
“Furious Flower: Regenerating the
Black Poetic Tradition”
$10,500 to support a 4-day
conference exploring the
development of African American
poetry during the 20th century as
well as future directions in African
American poetry.
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
“Seventeen Stones”
$2,500 to support research and
planning in connection with a
recently discovered slave cemetery
located within the George
Washington National Forest.
Grave markers at this site include
what appear to be rare examples
of African and Afro-Cuban
symbolic writing and the project
will explore questions related
to the presentation and future
interpretation of the cemetery.
Legacy Museum of African
American History
Lynchburg, VA
Exhibit Catalogue, “By God’s Grace:
The African American Worship
Experience in Central Virginia,
1820-1950”
$3,000 to support design and
printing costs for a 24-page
exhibit catalog to complement a
VFH-funded exhibit on the African
American Worship Experience in
Central Virginia, 1820-1950.
Legacy Museum of African
American History
Lynchburg, VA
“Black Businesses in Central
Virginia, 1820-1970”
$10,000 to support research and
production costs for an interpretive
exhibit on Black Businesses in
Central Virginia from 1820-1970.
Library of Virginia Foundation
“Traditional Blues in Virginia Exhibit”
Richmond, VA
$2,000 for the creation of a
traveling exhibit on Traditional
Blues in Virginia based on research
conducted under a previous VFH
grant.
Library of Virginia Foundation
Richmond, VA
“Unboxing Virginia’s Past: A
Symposium”
$2,000 to support a panel
discussion to be presented as
part of a larger symposium
on the Underground Railroad,
Abolitionism, and slavery in
Virginia. The focus is on a recently
published book about Henry “Box”
Brown.
Lonesome Pine Office on Youth
Big Stone Gap, VA
“Pictorial History of Lee County”
$12,000 to support the publication
of a Pictorial History of Lee County.
Longwood University
Farmville, VA
“LCVA Professional Development
Workshops for Teachers”
$3,100 to support six one-day
workshops for teachers in an
eleven-county region of southcentral Virginia, focusing on arts
and humanities education in the
classroom.
Loudoun County Public Library
Leesburg, VA
“Brown v. Board of Education”
$1,100 to support a one-day
seminar commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the Brown v. Board
of Education decision.
Loudoun Heritage Farm
Museum
Leesburg, VA
“Apples and Orchards”
$10,000 to support design and
production costs for an exhibit on
the history of apple production in
Loudoun County.
Maury Elementary ParentTeacher Association
Alexandria, VA
“Teaching with Historic Places:
Brown v. Board”
$2,500 to support the creation of
a “Teaching with Historic Places”
lesson plan focusing on the five
schools that were central to the
Brown v. Board of Education case.
The lesson plan will be made
available nationwide through the
National Park Service website.
The Mariners’ Museum
Newport News, VA
“Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay
Web Educational Resource”
$2,500 to support research leading
to expansion of an existing website
devoted to early Virginia and the
exploration of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Montpelier Foundation
Montpelier Station, VA
“Gilmore Farm Documentary
Research”
$3,000 to support research leading
to the development of a database
of information on freed slaves
in the vicinity of Montpelier,
intended to provide a context for
interpretation of African American
life in Orange County during the
post-Emancipation era.
The Newsome House Museum
& Cultural Center Foundation,
Inc. Newport News, VA
“Brown v. Board in Virginia”
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA
“Brown v. Board of Education and
the “Norfolk 17”
$2,500 to support a community
discussion program and
development of a related website
on the local impact (in Norfolk) of
the 1954 Brown v. Board decision,
focusing on the experience of
the “Norfolk 17”, black students
who were the first to integrate the
Norfolk public schools in 1959.
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA
“Oral History Project Planning”
$2,500 to support research
in preparation for an oral
history project focusing on the
descendants of the former slaves
who were interviewed as part of
the Federal Writers Project.
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA
“A Tale of Two Churches:
Portsmouth’s Underground
Railroad”
$12,000 to support research in
conjunction with an archaeological
survey of two sites that may
confirm oral accounts of
Underground Railroad activities in
Portsmouth.
Presence Center for Applied
Theatre Arts
Charlottesville, VA
“Charlottesville Living History
Initiative”
$3,000 to support the development
of a community history project
focusing on Charlottesville’s
“Vinegar Hill” neighborhood, a
center of African American
business and cultural life that was
largely demolished during the
period of “urban renewal.”
$1,750 to support a panel
discussion on the history of school
desegregation, to be presented in
conjunction with a VFH funded
exhibit (“Stony the Road”) and a
screening of the film “The Road to
Brown,” which VFH also funded.
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Public Media Foundation
Steamboat Era Museum
Boston, MA
Irvington, VA
“Scribbling Women”
$6,500 to support the development
of curriculum and lesson plans to
be made available on-line along
with a Real Audio broadcast of
Ellen Glasgow’s short story “The
Shadowy Third,” which was
developed into a half-hour radio
dramatization under a previous
grant from VFH.
“Steamboats of Tidewater Virginia,
Oral History, Part II”
$9,750 to support the continuation
of an oral history project—begun
under a previous grant—focusing
on the Steamboat Era in Virginia.
Stillwater Institute for Social
Justice
Charlottesville, VA
Rappahannock Tribe,
Incorporated
Indian Neck, VA
“Rappahannock Tribal History
Research”
$2,500 to support research on
the history of the Rappahannock
Tribe, to initiate planning for
educational programs, and to
provide a foundation for additional
interpretive programs in relation
to 2007.
“Issues of Equity in Education:
Brown Vs. Board of Education—
Leave No Child Behind, 1954-2004”
$4,100 to support a series of panel
discussions, public dialogues, and
related programs exploring issues
of racial inequality, especially as
they pertain to central Virginia,
Charlottesville and Albemarle
County in particular.
Town of Wytheville
Wytheville, VA
Reedville Fishermen’s Museum
Reedville, VA
“Taylor’s Beach Documentary”
$2,500 to support documentation
of an annual baptism held at
Taylor’s Beach on the Chesapeake
Bay, a traditional African American
ceremony with roots in the
immediate post-Civil War era, one
that includes local history and
traditional music.
River Foundation (Virginia’s
Explore Park)
Roanoke, VA
“Give Me an Instrument to Play and
a Song to Sing, and Our Traditions
Will Continue”
$3,500 to support research on
the history and origins of the
Appalachian dulcimer, with the
results to be incorporated into new
and existing interpretive programs
at Explore Park.
Russell County Public Library
Lebanon, VA
“Russell County Local History
Project”
$950 to support cataloging of an
existing local history collection
and the creation of a new Picture
Archive of Russell County, to be
made available on the Library’s
website.
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“The Summer of Polio in
Wytheville: Oral Histories”
$10,000 to support design and
printing costs for a book based on
an oral history project documenting
the Summer of 1950 Polio epidemic
in Wythe County.
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
“The Mystery of Winslow Homer”
$10,000 to support pre-production
costs leading to the creation of
two related documentary films on
Winslow Homer, one focusing on
Homer’s life and artistic legacy, the
other on his depictions of the Civil
War and Reconstruction
Virginia Association of
Museums
Richmond, VA
$75,000 to support education and
professional development for
Virginia’s Museum community
Virginia Center for Digital
History, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
“Television News in the Civil Rights
Era”
$8,600 to support research, oral
histories, and the creation
of interpretive materials as
contributions to a larger effort to
make archival television news
footage on the Civil Rights Era in
Virginia accessible via the World
Wide Web.
Virginia Civil Rights Movement
Video Initiative
Richmond, VA
“Virginia Civil Rights Movement
Video Project”
$7,000 to support production and
initial distribution of a collection of
eleven interviews with key figures
in the Civil Rights Movement in
Virginia.
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
“Before and After Brown in Virginia:
Symposium”
$9,000 to support a one-day
symposium, held at two locations
(Hampden-Sydney and Richmond),
on the history and impact of
the Brown v. Board of Education
decision in Virginia.
Virginia Poverty Law Center
Virginia Association of
Museums
Richmond, VA
“The Virginia Museum
Fundamentals Forum”
$10,950 to support a 3-day
intensive museum training
program designed to serve the
needs of the staff, boards, and
volunteers of small and emerging
museums (including historic sites)
statewide.
Richmond, VA
“The War on Poverty: Where Are
We Now?”
$2,000 to support a one-day
public forum marking the 40th
anniversary of President Johnson’s
“War on Poverty,” designed to
encourage discussion of ethical,
legal, and policy issues and to
consider progress in addressing
poverty in the U.S.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
“The Brush Mountain Oral History
Project”
$6,000 to support an oral history
project focusing on three small rural
communities adjacent to the former
Kentland Plantation, which is now
owned by Virginia Tech.
Virginia University of Lynchburg
Lynchburg, Va
“The History of Virginia Seminary
and College Exhibit”
$2,500 to support a photographic
exhibit on the history of the Virginia
University of Lynchburg, the only
historically black college in Western
Virginia.
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA
“Telling Our Stories: Western Virginia
Reflections on Brown v. Board of
Education”
$10,000 to support a “Town Meeting”
and an oral history project that
will explore and document the
experience of school desegregation
in Lexington and four surrounding
counties, focusing on the 10-year
period between the Brown decision
and actual desegregation.
HERE IN THE NORTHERN
NECK, THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO STILL REMEMBER
WHEN STEAMBOATS WERE
IMPORTANT EVERY DAY OF
THEIR LIVES. BUT THEY’RE
ELDERLY. WE’RE LOSING
THEM. THANKS TO VFH, WE
ARE INTERVIEWING THESE
PEOPLE ON VIDEOTAPE SO
THEIR STORIES SURVIVE.
— DIANNE JORDAN
Executive director,
Steamboat Era Museum
Ir vington, Virginia
VFH Grant Recipient, 2003-04
I AM HERE FINISHING THE SECOND VOLUME OF MY BOOK,
THE ROAD TO DISUNION , WRITING THE LAST CRUCIAL
CHAPTERS, INCLUDING THE SOUTH’S DECISION TO
SECEDE, RIGHT UP THROUGH THE GUNS GOING OFF AT
FORT SUMTER. THERE IS SUCH A PURITY OF PURPOSE HERE
AT THE FOUNDATION. IT’S ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PLACE
I HAVE FOUND FOR GETTING WRITING DONE.
— WILLIAM W. FREEHLING
Co-holder, Singletar y Endowed Chair in the Humanities
Professor of American Histor y, University of Kentucky
VFH Fellow, 2003-04 and 2004-05
Fellows
Tico Herbert Braun
Jerry Handler
Victoria Sanford
University of Virginia
VFH Senior Fellow
VFH Research Fellow
Humiliation, Solitude, and Violence in
Colombia, 1949-1965
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave
Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Peace Communities in Colombia
Derek Catsam
Gordon Hylton
Minnesota State University
Marquette University/
University of Virginia Law (Visiting)
Freedom Rides & Integration of
Interstate Transport, 1941-1965
The African-American Lawyer
in Virginia in the New South Era
William W. Freehling
THE EMILIA GALLI STRUPPA FELLOW
IN THE HUMANITIES
University of Kentucky
Road to Disunion, Volume II:
Secessionists Triumphant 1854-1861
Thomas F. Jackson
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro
A Burning House: Urban
Knowledge, Public Discourse &
1960s Ghetto Revolts
Beatrice Pouligny
Center for International Studies
& Research, Paris
Conflict Resolution, Peace Building, and
the Rebuilding of War-Torn Societies
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Larissa Smith
Longwood University
Where the South Begins:
Black Politics & the Struggle for
Civil Rights in Virginia 1930-1956
Henry Wiencek
VFH Research Fellow
An Imperfect God:
George Washington, His Slaves,
and the Creation of America
VFH Board of Directors
David Baldacci
Michael J. Galgano
James D. Lott
Daniele Struppa
Author
Chair, Department of
History
Emeritus Dean and
Professor of English
Dean, College of Arts &
Sciences
James Madison University
Mary Baldwin College
George Mason University
Harrisonburg, VA
Staunton, VA
Fairfax, VA
Lee Goodman
Allegra F. McCullough
Mary Ellen Stumpf
Attorney
U.S. Small Business
Administration
President
Richmond, VA
David Baldacci Enterprises
Fairfax, VA
L. Preston Bryant, Jr.
Vice President for
Corporate Development
Hurt & Proffitt, Inc.
Wiley, Rein & Fielding, LLP
Delegate, Virginia General
Assembly
Washington, DC
Charlottesville, VA
Lynchburg, VA
Edythe C. Harrison
Lydia Peale
Elaine Dowe Carter
Executive Director
Christiansburg Institute
Blacksburg, VA
Johanna R. Drucker
Robertson Professor of
Media Studies and Director,
Interdisciplinary Program
in Media Studies
Community leader
Educator
Norfolk, VA
Palmyra, VA
Ronald L. Heinemann
Bittle W. Porterfield, III
Squires Professor of History
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden Sydney, VA
Betty Jean Tolbert Jones
Faculty
University of Virginia
Charlottesville High School
Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville, VA
Barbara Fried
Anna L. Lawson
Community leader
Community leader
Springfield, VA
Daleville, VA
Stumpf & Associates, Inc.
Robert C. Vaughan, III
President
Virginia Foundation for
the Humanities
Charlottesville, VA
CEO, Rice Management
Roanoke, VA
Richard T. Wilson, III
Senior Managing Director
W. Taylor Reveley
RBC Dain Rauscher
Dean, School of Law
Richmond, VA
College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Elizabeth L. Young
Consultant
Kirk T. Schroder
Hartfield, VA
LeClair Ryan, PC
Richmond, VA
Staff
David Bearinger
Nancy Damon
Kevin McFadden
Tori Talbot
Director, Grants and
Public Programs
Program Director, Virginia
Festival of the Book
Associate Program
Director, Virginia Festival
of the Book
Program Associate,
Grants and Public Programs
Althea Brooks
Pablo Davis
Assistant Director,
Development
Program Director, South
Atlantic Humanities Center
Judy Moody
Fran Canon
Sheryl Hayes
Lynda Myers
Program Associate, Grants
and Public Programs
Director, Development
Program Associate,
Development
Andrew Chancey
Jonathan Lohman
Receptionist
Program Director,
Virginia Folklife Program
Jeannie Palin
Associate Director
Susan Coleman
Amy Marshall
Gail Shirley-Warren
Director, Virginia Center for
the Book
Program Associate,
Media Programs
Business Manager
Roberta Culbertson
Sarah McConnell
Director, Research
and Education
Producer and Host,
“With Good Reason”
Receptionist
Amy Tillerson
Program Director,
African American Heritage
Program
Sean Tubbs
Associate Producer,
“With Good Reason”
Robert Vaughan
President
Andrew Wyndham
Director, Media Programs
Ann Spencer
Program Associate,
Research and Education
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Statement of
Financial Condition
JUNE 30, 2003
DUE TO A CHANGE IN ACCOUNTING PROCEDURE, THIS AUDIT
COVERS A PERIOD OF EIGHT MONTHS RATHER THAN A FULL YEAR.
A S S ETS
LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
Current Assets
Liabilities
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 1,237,293
Accounts payable
$ 107,506
756,097
Agency funds payable
SHMF receivable
110,191
Accrued Expenses
69,567
Investments
682,123
Grants payable
237935
Prepaid expenses
103,232
Contributions receivable
Total Current assets
$ 2,888,936
Fixed Assets
Total current liabilities
Temporarily restricted
$ 26,137
$ 618,508
Net Assets
Unrestricted
Leasehold improvements
203,500
Total net assets
$ 893,182
1,435,186
$ 2,328,368
Equipment
Media equipment
162,262
Furniture & office equipment
Computers and software
56,941
Subtotal
292,855
Less accumulated depreciation
(234,915)
Total Fixed assets
$ 57,940
Total Assets
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47,515
$ 2,946,876
Total liabilities & net assets
$ 2,946,876
FRONT COVER OBJECTS
The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, Edited by David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman
Cornshuck Dolls made by Ganell Marshall, Folklife Master Artist
Violin, courtesy of Stella Gibson
PAGE 7 OBJECT
Powhatan Blackware Pottery by Mildred Moore, Folklife Master Artist
Designed by Keith Damiani, Sequoia Design Co.
Photography by Mathias Tornqvist; page 10 photo by Jen Fariello
Text by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Printed by Worth Higgins & Associates
2003-04 Annual Report
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