| BC-50364-07 | Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils | Michigan Humanities Council | `The Great Michigan Read | 11/1/2007 - 4/30/2009 | $146,560.00 | Cynthia | M. | Dimitrijevic | | | | Michigan Humanities Council | Okemos | MI | 48864-6012 | USA | 2007 | Literature, General | Grants for State Humanities Councils | Federal/State Partnership | 136560 | 10000 | 136560 | 10000 | "The Great Michigan Read," a statewide literature and literacy initiative focused on Ernest Hemingway's short-stories collection THE NICK ADAMS STORIES. Activities include reading and discussion groups, exhibits, a Hemingway film festival, and a Michigan author homecoming.
Statewide literature/literacy initiative for young adults-seniors featuring E.Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories; encourages citizens to read the same book, attend supporting programs. Grants available to nonprofits to encourage programming for reading/discussion groups, speakers, exhibits, Hemingway film festivals; Model T caravan recreating the Hemingway family’s 1917 journey from Chicago to Petoskey, and a Michigan author homecoming are just some of the programs to be offered. |