Total Awards:    15 grants, $80,407.50

Fairfield

Fairfield Historical Society, $4,000

Colonial Fall Festival at Ogden House and Gardens

The Fairfield Historical Society was awarded a $4,250 grant in support of their annual Colonial Fall Festival at the ca. 1750 Ogden House. Now in its 14th year, the Fall Festival combines FHS staff, re enactors, and traditional craft and trade demonstrators for a day of family-oriented activites that are both educational and entertaining.

Hamden

Connecticut League of History Organizations, $2,500

Planning for Professional Services Regranting Program

The Connecticut League of History Organizations (CLHO) received $2,500 in CHDF Technical Assistance support to conduct a series of user group meetings designed to gauge interest in a new member service that would enable museums, historical societies, and other organizations to apply for grants for short-term consulting services using a pre-approved group of professionals.

Connecticut League of History Organizations, $1,474

Out and About with the Connecticut League of History Organizations

The Connecticut League of History Organizations (CLHO) received $1,474 in CHDF Technical Assistance support to conduct their annual "Out and About" series, which offers focused workshops and behind the scenes access to historic sites around the state. The CLHO hopes to offer three workshops beginning immediately and running through spring of 2007.

Hartford

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center , $5,000

Unfolding History: Quilts in New England Collections

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center received a $5,250 CHDF Implementation grant to install an exhibition of quilts from New England collections. A companion catalogue will accompany the show.

Institute for Community Research, $3,000

Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory - Exhibit and Programming

The Institute for Community Research was awarded $3,000 to help fund the public program agenda of their traveling exhibit "Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory." CHC funds will be used to support the keynote address at the Narratives of War forum and a Peruvian-themed event, travel costs for the speakers and promotional materials. These programs are intended to provide historical and cultural context for the conflicts represented in the exhibition.

Kent

Kent Historical Society, $2,025

Civil War Encampment 2006

The Kent Historical Society was awarded $2.025 to host a weekend-long, Civil War-themed living history program for students, residents and visitors. The event is scheduled to take place September 22-23, 2006, and builds on the success of a similar event in 2004

Middletown

Friends of Long Hill, $1,200

Long Hill Docent Symposium: Techniques of Interpretation

The Friends of Long Hill Estate, which sponsors tours of Middletown 's Wadsworth mansion, received a $1,200 CHDF grant to conduct interpreter training symposium for museum professionals and volunteers.

Mystic

Mystic Seaport Museum , $17,330

Captain George Comer and the Inuit of Hudson Bay

Mystic Seaport received $17,330 to plan a major new exhibit on the life, experiences, and legacy of whaling captain George Comer of East Haddam , CT, with particular focus on his relationship with the native people of Hudson Bay during the early 20th century. The exhibit is the first public celebration of a man who collected Inuit artifacts and ethnographic documentation for many of the western world's great natural history museums, yet remains largely unknown. Grant funds support staff salaries, scholar honoraria, travel, supplies, and formative evaluation of proposed exhibit themes.

New Haven

New Haven Museum & Historical Society, $19,000

"The Federal Art Project in New Haven : The Era, Art, and Legacy

New Haven Museum and Historical Society (NHMHS) was awarded $19,250 in CHDF implementation support to install a new exhibition in the second floor gallery at the society's headquarters, highlighting and interpreting art work from the Federal Art Project (FAP) era during the New Deal administration. The show will open in late November and run for ten months.

New London

New London County Historical Society, $3,600

Republishing Caulkins's History of New London

New London County Historical Society received $3,600 in CHC support to reprint Frances Caulkins History of New London . The second addition of this book was published in 1860 and is still the premier work on early Southeastern Connecticut history. The book was last reprinted by the Society in 1980 and the NLCHS would again like to update the new addition with a revised index and new introduction on Caulkins.

New London Main Street , $5,000

Books, Brushes, Jazz & Blues Festival

New London Main Street received $5,250 in CHDF support to resurrect the city's signature event Books, Brushes, Jazz and Blues (formerly Boats, Books and Brushes), a multifaceted literary, arts and heritage event scheduled for September in downtown New London . The events many offerings present the city and its cultural offerings as a destination for residents and visitors alike.

Simsbury

Simsbury Historical Society, $4,950

Lessons Learned: Developing Audiences for the Stories of African American and

Caribbean Tobacco Workers in Connecticut

The Simsbury Historical Society (SHS) received $4,950 in Cultural Heritage Development Funds to test themes and potential program ideas with a variety of audiences around research conducted on tobacco workers in Simsbury.

Storrs

Association for the Study of Connecticut History, $2,202

Insiders and Outsiders: Ethnicity, Immigration and Status in Connecticut

The Association for the Study of Connecticut History, the state's professional organization for historians, received $2,202 to conduct their annual fall conference in partnership with Manchester Community College and the Connecticut League of History Organizations. CHC funds support speaker honoraria, and the production and mailing of promotional materials.

Washington

Institute for American Indian Studies, $4,501

Digging Into the Past: Archaeology's Contributions to Connecticut 's Culltural Heritage

The Institute for American Indian Studies and its partner, the Connecticut Archaeology Center, received a $4,501 grant to plan the design and content of a proposed new Web site entitled, "Digging Into the Past." The site will target primarily a teacher/student audience, and will be designed to support Connecticut 's social studies curriculum frameworks. The project planners also hope to engage general and specialized audiences, including amateur archaeologists, home- and property owners, and public and academic historians.

West Hartford

Noah Webster House, $4,626

West Hartford Hauntings

The Noah Webster House was awarded $4,875.50 in Cultural Heritage Development Funds to conduct a series of "“scary" interpretive tours in West Hartford surrounding the Halloween holiday. Activities include a horse-drawn carriage ride and theatrical walking tour of North Cemetery , where guests will enjoy a series of five vignettes based on those buried in the cemetery.