Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects for Youth

Period of Performance

8/1/1979 - 7/31/1980

Funding Totals

$10,143.00 (approved)
$10,143.00 (awarded)


Youth Interpretation of the Thomas Bailey Aldrich House: Home of a 19th Century Youth

FAIN: GZ-*1060-79

Strawbery Banke Museum (Portsmouth, NH 03802-0300)
John W. Durel (Project Director: February 1979 to October 1990)

To enable youth to research, interpret, and give guided tours of the Aldrich House, the setting for Thomas Bailey Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy."

To provide youth with the means to understand what it was like to grow up in the Aldrich House, the setting for Thomas Bailey Aldrich's STORY OF A BAD BOY. The youths will research the house, develop their own interpretation of the neighborhood surrounding the house, and give guided tours.