2004 Funded Grants
  • MAJOR GRANTS
    · Battle of Lewisburg Heritage Committee, "Battle of Lewisburg Living History and Reenactment," $4,484
    · Berkeley County Schools, "Got Change? Part II: Storer College, Why the Lessons of Courage and Character Must Continue," x$2,800
    · Bethany College, "Japanese Institute for West Virginia Teachers," $20,000
    · Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, "Appalachian Folklore and Traditions Traveling Day Camp," $10,500
    · Historic Beverly Preservation, Inc., "The CCC Oral History Project," $8,750
    · Huntington Museum of Art, Inc., "Haitian Art: Its History and Its World Exhibit," $11,250
    · Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, "Jefferson County - Brown v. Board of Education," $5,000
    · Larry Joe Harless Community Center, "Passing It On: Appalachian Musician Exhibit," $20,000
    · Lost River Educational Foundation, "Appalachian Patchwork: Quilts and Their Meaning," $3,975
    · Shepherd University Foundation, "Appalachian Writer in Residence 2005," $4,630
    · Snowshoe Institute, "Snowshoe Institute 2005," $10,000
    · The Appalachian Appellation, "The Lost Glasshouses of West Virginia Traveling Exhibit," $15,983
    · The Fort Edwards Foundation, "The French and Indian War at Fort Edwards," $6,854
    · West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, "In Harm's Way: Domestic Violence in a Cultural Context," $8,181.69
    · West Virginia Research Corporation/ History Department, "The Sixth West Virginia University Senator Rush Holt History kConference and Callahan Lecture," $6,187.27
    · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, "J. R. Clifford and the Carrie Williams Case Reenactment," $6,950
    cWest Virginia University Research Corporation, "Before Brown: Black Community Sports in West Virginia, $6,384.04
    · Wheeling Jesuit University, "Fiftieth Anniversary Community Lecture Series," $19,140

  • MINIGRANTS
    · Adaland Mansion Development, Inc., "Judge Ira E. Robinson Booklet," $1,500
    · Allegheny Echoes, Inc., "Allegheny Echoes Summer Workshops Masters Program," $1,160
    · Augusta Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College, "Augusta Summer Lecture Series," $1,000
    · Battle of Lewisburg Heritage Committee, "Battle of Lewisburg Living History and Reenactment," $1,500
    · Berkeley County Schools, "Got Change?" $1,080.05    · Bethany College Japanese Culture Committee, "Japanese Food Culture cPresentation/Demonstration," $1,500
    · Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library, "West Virginia Day: Birth of a State - Stonewall Jackson Reenactment," $200
    · Concord College Foundation, Inc., "Well Past the Crossroads: Black Art Series Exhibit and Lectures," $1,500
    · Council for West Virginia Archaeology, "One Hundred and Twenty Years Later: A Look at the WV Archaeological Collections ofrom the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of American Ethnology," $1,500
    · Doddridge County Family Resource Network, "Festival of Talents," $912.36
    · Fairview Middle School, "A Day with Cheryl Ware: West Virginia Author," $642
    · General Alfred Beckley Sons of Confederate Veterans, "Beckley Civil War Days," $750
    · Gilmer County 4-H Leader's Association, "Voices from the Earth at Gilmer County 4-H Camp," $500
    · Grant County Arts Council, Inc., "Potluck and Stories and Songs of West Virginia," $877.79
    · Greenbrier Valley Theatre, "19th Century Fashion Dolls Exhibit by Pete Ballard," $750
    · Harpers Ferry Historical Association, "Niagara Movement Teacher Institute and Curriculum," $20,000
    · Huntington Human Relations Commission, "Tri-State Multicultural Festival," $500
    · Jackson County Public Library, "Under the Big Book with the Mountain Echoes Storytellers," $428
    · Johnstown Community Educational Outreach Service Club, "History Hits the Road Exhibit From Jackson's Mill," $500
    · Kanawha Valley Civil War Roundtable, "2004 Civil War Scholars Lecture Series," $600
    · Marshall University, WEVSARA Committee, "2004 West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference," o$915
    · Mercer County Schools, "Playin' in West Virginia - Scriptwriting," $1,500.00
    · Moundsville Economic Development Council, "West Virginia Penitentiary: A Brief History," $1,000
    · Museum of the Berkeley Springs, "Tag Team History: Rumsey v. Fitch Lecture," $1,300
    · Pendleton Council Chamber of Commerce, "Walking Tour of Historic Franklin Brochure," $1,500
    · Quilting Finale, "Quilting: The Threads that Bind Us," $1,250
    · United African American Artists of West Virginia, "African American Arts and Heritage Academy," $1,410.00
    · University of Charleston, "Andalusian Spain Lectures," $1,366.16
    · Valley Falls State Park, "Valley Falls Historical Display," $637
    · West Virginia Association of Museums, "West Virginia Association of Museums Conference," $995
    · South Charleston Museum, "A Victorian Christmas on D Street," $500
    · West Virginia State College, "Desegregation Commemoration Student Forums," $1,200
    · West Virginia Storytelling Guild, "WV Storytelling Guild Storytelling Heritage Series," $750
    · The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc., "Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation Website," $1,000
    · The Education Alliance, "Making Reading and Learning Fun for All Ages Lecture," $1,200
    · West Virginia Junior Classical League, "West Virginia Junior Classical League 2004 Convention," $970
    · West Virginia Mason-Dixon Civil War Round Table, "Foreshadowing the Future: The Civil War in West Virginia Conference," 0$1,300
    · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, "J.R. Clifford, Esq. - An Inquiry and Celebration," $1,500
    · West Virginia University Department of Foreign Languages, "French Immersion Weekend," $1,500
    · West Virginia University Research Corporation, "West Virginia University Mountaineer Week," $1,300
    · West Virginia University Research Corporation/Institute for History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, "Industrial 0Heritage Exhibit: Phase I Planning," $1,497.13
    · West Virginia Wesleyan College, "Contemporary Prose: A Celebration and Consideration," $1,500

  • PUBLICATION GRANTS
    West Virginia University Research Corporation/ WVU Press, "American Bridge Patents: The First Century," $12,000
    Kent State University Press, "Porte Crayon's Mexico Edited by John E. Stealey III," $10,000

  • MEDIA GRANTS
    Historic Beverly Preservation, Inc., "The CCC Interpretive Film and DVD Project," $20,000
    West Virginia University Research Corporation/P. I. Reed School of Journalism, "An Oral History of West Virginia's Black Veterans," $17,400

  • FELLOWSHIPS - $2,500 Research Awards
    Barbara Smith, Philippi - Humanities, "Ira Robinson: West Virginia Statesman, Scholar, and True Gentleman
    Beverly J. B. Whelton, Wheeling - Philosophy, "The Healing Act as Moral Act with Implications"
    John K. Cox, Wheeling - History, "A Study of Ismail Kadare"
    Mark L. Wilson, Charleston - Economics, "John F. Nash: West Virginian and Nobel Laureate"
    Mary Lee Daugherty, Charleston - Religious Studies, "Led By The Spirit: A Case Study of Six Churches"
    Montserrat Marti Miller, Huntington - History, "Feeding Barcelona: Markets, Policy, and Consumer Culture Since 1714"
    Rhonda Lemke Sanford, Fairmont - Early Modern/Renaissance, English Literature, "Representations of Legitimacy in Early Modern England"
    Robert Merritt, Bluefield - Literature, "Art and Wholeness: The Re-Emergent Poetry of Healing"
    Sherri C. Smith, Huntington - Victorian Literature and Feminist Studies, "Civic Fantasy: New Woman Fiction and the Aesthetic of Ideology"
    Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Shepherdstown - English, "Voices From The Misty Mountains: Talking From The Fringe"