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| A Different Kind of Fireworks |
Your community group is invited to read and discuss together Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech, “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro.”
Get all the materials you need to organize a group at www.masshumanities.org! The speech, discussion materials, supporting articles, and publicity templates are available for download.
Also, join us on Tuesday, June 2nd at noon at the State House, where Massachusetts politicians and other residents will join in reading and discussing the speech.
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| Humanities in the Spring |
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IGS VI, 1997-1999, Marvin Lipofsky.
Photo: M. Lee. Fathere. |
Hit the road and enjoy the blue skies and spring flowers on your way to a Mass Humanities-funded exhibit:
 100 Faces of War Experience, Springfield Armory Museum through June 12
Craft in America, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, through May 25
Gorton’s Seafoods Gallery, Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, ongoing
Lasting Legacies: William Wolcott's Pictures and Robert Frost's Early Lyrics, Lawrence Public Library through June 30
Our Common Wealth: the Massachusetts Experiment in Democracy, Commonwealth Museum, Boston, ongoing.
These are just a few of the things to do that you can find at our online events calendar.
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| The Public Humanist |
Going on summer vacation? Mass Humanities' group blog The Public Humanist isn’t—if you check in over the next few weeks you’re bound to find something good. Next week, in anticipation of the June 8 Mass History Conference on energy and social change, Holyoke Heritage State Park Supervisor Charlie Lotspeich will share his knowledge (and some archival images) of Holyoke’s water power, past and present. Wistariahurst Museum Curator Kate Navarra Thibodeau will chime in with the history of the Skinner family’s water-powered mills. And that’s just next week.
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| Help Needed |
Donate Today
With massive cuts in the state budget looming, extremely difficult decisions lie ahead for Mass Humanities. Now, more than ever, we need your help as we use the humanities to improve civic life for the residents of Massachusetts, in all the ways you are reading about here, and more. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today. Your support is especially significant during trying times, as we bring the humanities to bear on the tough choices people make in their daily lives, as well as those made by our community, business, and political leaders. You can send a check, or make a payment with a credit card online.
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| Recent Grants |
Mass Humanities made nineteen grants this quarter totaling more than $100,000 for public humanities projects across the state, including:
$5,000 for a new play about a resistance hero who tried to stop the Holocaust.
$5,000 for a new, permanent ship museum.
$5,000 for traveling exhibits on the history of a lighthouse and the story of the underwater archaeological search for its remains.
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| Next Grant Round |
July 1 is the next deadline for inquiries about general project grants, as well as Liberty and Justice for All and Cultural Economic Development grants. The complete deadline schedule, procedures, and guidelines can be found below.
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| For Teachers: Defining Freedom |
Summer institute where teachers will examine how Americans conceived and promoted both individual and communal liberties and responsibilities from 1763 - 1863. July 22-29, Boston & Worcester
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