Total Awards: 15 grants, $98,054.75

Essex

Connecticut River Museum    $4,920

Launching Liberty : The Curriculum on the Web

The Connecticut River Museum received a $4920 grant to extend the reach of its new Revolutionary War exhibit through companion curricula for middle and high schools. These materials will be developed by an education consultant and posted on the Museum's new website.

Fairfield

Fairfield Historical Society    $25,000

Planning the Core Exhibition of the New Fairfield Museum and History Center

The Fairfield Historical Society was awarded $25,000 in planning assistance to engage consultants and a design firm to plan, conceptualize and ultimately script a new history exhibition for the society's new building on the town green. This grant follows a recent $10,000 technical assistance award to catalogue, digitize and re-house the Society's comprehensive collections, all in preparation to gain intellectual access to the collection for this and future exhibitions.

Guilford

Guilford Keeping Society, Inc.    $1,050

Planned Use for the Medad Stone Tavern

The Guildford Keeping Society received $1,050 in funding to conduct a planning session to determine the best use of the Medad Stone Tavern, which was willed to the society for use as a museum.

Hamden

Connecticut League of History Organizations    $5,000

"Great Expectations: What Audiences Really Want" NEMA Annual Meeting Keynote Address

The Connecticut League of History Organizations, in partnership with the New England Museum Association (NEMA), was awarded $5,000 in CHDF support to engage a keynote speaker for the upcoming annual NEMA conference to be held in Cromwell/Hartford in November 8th-10th. The conference, entitled Great Expectations: What Audiences Really Want will help the field grapple with increasing concerns about audience, program offerings, revenue and relevance in today's society.

Hartford

Antiquarian and Landmarks Society    $5,000

Celebrating Connecticut : A Staged Reading of Prudence at the Hale Homestead

The Antiquarian and Landmarks Society was awarded $5,250 to present the Connecticut Repertory Theatre's staged reading of Prudence, a play based on the life of Connecticut State Heroine Prudence Crandall, at the Hale Homestead in Coventry .

Association For The Study Of Connecticut History    $5,000

Journal Publication, Connecticut History

The Association for the Study of Connecticut History was awarded $5,000 to print the Spring 2006 issue of Connecticut History, the state's only academic journal on state history.

Kensington

New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park    $5,000

Family Nature and Heritage Day - Barn Program

The New Britain Youth Museum was awarded $5,000 in support to host an educational program on barns and barn building as part of its Family Nature and Heritage Day. The even kicks off the Museum's 50th anniversary celebration.

Mystic

Mystic Seaport Museum    $10,155

Mystic Seaport Museum 's "Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Power in Maritime America " Conference

Mystic Seaport Museum received $10,405 to support its third conference on the diversity of the American maritime experience. The goals of the conference are to make known new scholarship to the broader heritage field; create a dialog between public and academic historians on issues of gender, race, and ethnicity; facilitate discussion between teachers and students. CHC funds underwrite the keynote speaker, A/V staffing expenses, event promotion, and post-conference publication of selected papers.

New Haven

Greater New Haven African American Historical Society    $2,480

"Lifetime Contributions" Awards Event

Greater New Haven African American Historical Society received a $2,479.75 grant to cover a featured speaker and publicity expenses for its second annual "Lifetime Contributions" awards event.

New Haven Colony Historical Society    $2,475

Technical Assistance for Federal Arts Exhibition

The New Haven Museum & Historical Society was awarded $2,475 to conduct community outreach research in preparation for a new exhibition on the Federal Art Project in New Haven. The CHC previously awarded a $4,918 grant to conduct preliminary planning for the exhibition.

New London

New London Main Street Corporation    $21,500

New London Through Time and Place: A Living History Play

New London Main Street Corporation, a National Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street program, received $21,750 to bring history alive with a multi-site living history play that physically and thematically links the Hempstead Houses, Shaw Perkins Mansion, the Customs House and the H. H. Richardson train station. The play, a collaboration with Flock Theater, will run during the city's annual Celebration of Light and Song by the Sea. The CHC provided support for the development and pilot of the play in 2004 that went on to win the "best special event" award from the Connecticut Main Street program.

New London Main Street Corporation    $2,500

Historic Waterfront District Map & Guide

New London Main Street , one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's many Main Street programs in Connecticut promoting downtown revitalization through preservation efforts, received $2,500 to reprint their waterfront guide, which includes a map, interpretation on historic sites in the district, and a dining and shopping guide.

Old Lyme

Florence Griswold Museum    $3,000

The Freedom Business: Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith

The Florence Griswold Museum received $3,250 for marketing and educational

programming associated with an upcoming exhibition on the life of Venture Smith, a former slave who purchased his freedom and that of his wife and children.

Scotland

Governor Samuel Huntington Trust, Inc.    $2,475

Gov. Samuel Huntington Trust - Education Program Consultant

The Governor Samuel Huntington Trust, Inc. in Scotland was awarded $2,475 in planning support to engage an educational consultant to develop in-class programs for school visits. The grant follows a Technical Assistance award for an organizational assessment last summer.

Wilton

Wilton Library Association    $2,500

Poetry in Motion: Art Exploration of Diversity

The Wilton Library Association received $2,500 in funding for a poetry and arts event. The event will be centered around the theme of diversity, tolerance and consequences of actions. Adolescents (grades 7-12) will be invited to submit poetry in keeping with this theme.