Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Period of Performance

10/1/1986 - 3/30/1987

Funding Totals

$18,000.00 (approved)
$17,950.00 (awarded)


Common Ground: The Migration of Yankee Culture from Seacoast to Western Reserve, 1790-1860

FAIN: GL-20726-86

Newport Public Library (Newport, RI 02840)
Eileen H. Warburton (Project Director: March 1986 to October 1990)

To support the planning for programs that would explore the cultural continuities between several New England States and the "near frontier" of the Ohio Western Reserve from the foundation of the Reserve to the Civil War. Programs will include exhibitions, lectures, and dramatic presentations.