Understanding Our Past, Shaping Our Future

FAIN: BC-50245-05

Maine Humanities Council (Portland, ME 04102-1012)
Victoria B. Bonebakker (Project Director: March 2005 to July 2007)

The initiative, "Understanding Our Past, Shaping Our Future" which will include a speakers' bureau, oral history workshops, teacher institutes and a grant program focusing on themes in American history and culture.

Understanding Our Past, Shaping Our Future will help Maine people understand their country’s and their state’s history and heritage, in order to give them a context for the challenges that we face today. Focusing on themes in American history and culture, the project will include a Speaker’s Bureau, a series of Oral History Workshops, teacher institutes and a dedicated grants program.