Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

1/1/1981 - 3/31/1982

Funding Totals

$74,632.00 (approved)
$74,623.00 (awarded)


WGBH Regional History Project - An American Place

FAIN: GN-*1054-81

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Midge Mackenzie (Project Director: July 1980 to October 1990)

To support scripting of two 90-minute dramas in a proposed series on American regional history that will explore the contrasts and similarities between rural and urban communities in the late 19th century. The first programs juxtapose the 19th ward of Chicago with Sheridan County, NE and Shannon County, SD.