Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1981 - 6/30/1982

Funding Totals

$31,059.00 (approved)
$31,059.00 (awarded)


Plan Exhibit/Publication, "For the Entertainment of Friends & Strangers; the Role of the Tavern in Early American Life"

FAIN: GM-*1572-81

Fraunces Tavern Museum (New York, NY 10004-4300)
Kym S. Rice (Project Director: January 1981 to October 1990)

To support planning for an exhibit and catalogue examining the colonial tavern. During the course of planning, further research will be done on the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the tavern, artifacts will be identified and selected, and the catalogue will be written.