Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1984 - 12/31/1984

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Old-Town and the Waterside: Tradition and Change in Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, 1635-1835 (Planning)

FAIN: GM-21823-84

Historical Society of Old Newbury (Newburyport, MA 01950-3053)
Peter Benes (Project Director: April 1983 to October 1990)

To support planning for a temporary exhibition and catalogue demonstrating the cultural dimensions of tradition and change during two centuries (1635-1835) inthe history of an American community that was both a rural settlement and a growing urban/maritime center.