Program

Education Programs: Education Development & Demonstration (OLD)

Period of Performance

11/1/1974 - 12/31/1978

Funding Totals

$70,000.00 (approved)
$70,000.00 (awarded)


Boston: An Urban Community

FAIN: EL-10018-75

Boston Public Library Trustees (Boston, MA 02116-2813)
Philip McNiff (Project Director: November 1974 to present)

To offer an NEH Learning Library Program entitled Boston: An Urban Community. The program will focus on Boston and its environ as a political, cultural, economic, literary, and social center, with the purpose of showing in what ways Boston is unique and in what ways it is a typical urban center. The grant will begin with a three month planning period followed by five educational themes: Politics, Culture, Economy, Literature, and The City and Its Environs.