| GE-50191-10 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Ossabaw Island Foundation | Continuity & Change: African American Life and Culture on a Barrier Island of GA: 1760-1900 | 4/1/2010 - 3/31/2011 | $40,000.00 | Paul | Moffatt | Pressly | | | | Ossabaw Island Foundation | Savannah | GA | 31401-3726 | USA | 2010 | U.S. History | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 | Planning for an interpretive exhibit, outdoor signs, off-site interpretation, and education programs concerning an African American community on Ossabaw Island, its continuities and changes from enslavement to emancipation and into the 20th century.
Develop a long-term outdoor interpretive exhibit on Ossabaw Island, GA. The site will relate the historical experience of an African American community over two centuries, and provide a platform to discuss the community's multiple connections to the broader Atlantic world. Interpretive planning will address development of on-site (island) interpretation, off-site (mainland) interpretation and standards-based educational materials. Two themes will be explored: Continuity and change over time of Ossabaw's African American community from enslavement through emancipation into the beginning of the twentieth century. Continuity and change in community relocation from a barrier island to the mainland community. Funds will be used to assemble a team of uniquely qualified consultants and key advisors to enhance the humanities themes and define interpretive techniques. Activities include conducting archival and genealogical research, oral history and front-end audience research. |