3 Sea Change 9 The Long Roads of Memory 29 A Mighty Tapestry 33 Impact Stories Letter from the Executive Director If you have been following our programming in the come under the threat of climate change, we wonder last year, you may have noticed some changes. I am how we’ll decide which communities and cultures proud to introduce for the first time in Views our we should try to preserve. We take a look at what’s new simplified name, Virginia Humanities (formerly ahead for our Virginia Festival of the Book as we Virginia Foundation for the Humanities). Along with celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. Another our name change, we have developed a new logo and story describes how our public radio show With visual identity that unifies all of our programs and Good Reason has partnered with James Madison’s emphasizes the statewide nature of our mission to Montpelier to produce a podcast series that explores serve the people of the Commonwealth. Through the history of dissent, linking constitutional history literature, history, and cultural exploration, Virginia with contemporary issues. You will also find a Humanities endeavors to deepen understanding and number of stories that focus on race and racial respect for what makes us unique and what connects history in Virginia. These include a piece about the us to a shared humanity. role the humanities can play in the conversations young people are having about race. We also In the months to come, we will launch the first highlight a teacher’s institute supported by the W. K. strategic plan in our organization’s forty-four- Kellogg Foundation to bring similar discussions into year history. Central to this plan is a commitment Virginia’s classrooms. We investigate how and why to programming that reaches every region of the our Folklife Program has included immigrant and state and a desire to learn what matters to you, refugee traditions in its apprenticeship program. Virginia’s citizens. This commitment also means we Yet these stories represent just a fraction of the want to identify and highlight the powerful personal programming we do across the Commonwealth. narratives, histories, and experiences that are not always taught in our schools or included in the This year, with our strategic plan in place, we hope traditional story of Virginia. Our work in exploring to be even more responsive to the needs of Virginia’s and uncovering the truths of human experience communities, to ensure we are supporting and is not always easy. It often requires challenging facilitating inclusive narratives, and that these and debunking accepted histories and dominant histories are shared in ways that will allow them to narratives. But listening to people—and providing be heard, honored, and remembered. platforms to share ideas, experiences, and historical context—is essential to our work. COVER All the best, United States astronaut Leland D. Melvin, author In the pages that follow, you will read about the plight of Chasing Space, takes a selfie with students from of Tangier Island. The only populated offshore island area schools at St. Anne's-Belfield lower school in in Virginia, it may sink into the Chesapeake Bay in the Matthew Gibson Charlottesville as part of the 2018 Virginia Festival next twenty years. As more and more communities Executive Director of the Book.

Photo by Pat Jarrett 3 Sea Change As Tangier disappears, Virginia Humanities thinks about how to preserve the island and why that's important.

Turning the Page

The Virginia Festival of the Book celebrates 23 its twenty-fifth year.

3 Sea Change 17 Just Say No 29 A Mighty Tapestry

9 The Long Roads 21 Grants 33 Impact Stories of Memory 23 Turning the Page 37 Annual Report 13 Engaging Young People in Dialogues 10 Engaging Young About Racism 27 History X 52 The George A. and Frances Bibbs People in Dialogues 28 BackStory Latimer Fund 13 about Racism Celebrates Ten Years Three recent programs seek to stimulate productive conversations about racism and the history of race in the Commonwealth, especially among young people.

Just Say No A Mighty Tapestry

A new podcast series considers dissent The Virginia Folklife Program's apprenticeship in America, from James Madison to teams are preserving an array of traditions Colin Kaepernick. that amplify the Commonwealth’s diverse 17 29 cultural heritage. 03 | SEA CHANGE Photo by Pat Jarrett Pat by Photo 2016. August in Island Tangier on Harbor Mailboat over sets sun The

Sea Change As Tangier disappears, Virginia Humanities thinks about how to how about thinks Humanities Virginia TangierAs disappears, preserve the island and that’s why preserve important. By Brendan WolfeBy James “Ooker” Eskridge, the mayor of Tangier, sorts peeler crabs on Tangier Island in August 2016.

n a humid evening last July, I met Earl Swift Swift: And it’s a very thorough tour of the place, too. Photo by Pat Jarrett and Peter Hedlund at a pub in downtown I gotta tell you, there were times when I was writing Charlottesville to chat about the work that the book that I put it to use. they and Virginia Humanities have done in relation to Tangier Island. Swift, a longtime Virginia Hedlund: Looking to see what house is next to what Humanities Fellow, proudly dropped on the table house? the latest Garden & Gun magazine, which featured an early, rave review of his new book, Chesapeake Swift: Yeah, remembering spatial relationships, that Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing sort of thing. Tangier Island.

Hedlund: So I’ve asked you this question a ton of In the news because it’s quickly washing into times, but it kind of gets at this whole “canary in the the sea, Tangier has been the object of national coal mine” aspect of Tangier, with climate change and fascination for its distinctive island culture and its sea level rise. I remember an interview you gave to residents’ resistance to the idea of climate change. CNN where you said it’s headcount that will determine On Tangier, families date back generations, their what places get priority in saving, and Tangier doesn’t lives centered around the water and crabbing. They have a chance— even speak with a unique, Cockney-like accent. Tangier is one of the most remote communities in Virginia, which is why Hedlund—the director Swift: No, I said if that’s the metric, then Tangier of Encyclopedia Virginia—wanted to document it. doesn’t have a chance, but I hope that’s not the case. Hedlund and other members of his staff created a 360-degree virtual tour of the island in 2016 using Hedlund: So what other metrics are important to Google Street View technology. consider when we look at preserving and protecting places like Tangier? Over beers, the three of us talked about Tangier, preservation, and—for lack of a better word—how Swift: If you look around America, some of the cool it is to have captured the island digitally. most hallowed ground has very few people living nearby. Yorktown Battlefield—it’s not going to be Swift: It’s a place that’s difficult to get to and the saved by virtue of its headcount. And for that matter Street View allows you to walk the streets. It’s not Jamestown, which if sea levels continue to rise will the same as going to Tangier, of course, and smelling go a long time before Yorktown does. the crab and feeling the humidity— Hedlund: We were just out there, the staff of Hedlund: And hearing the accent. Encyclopedia Virginia, and it’s amazing how wet Jamestown is.

Swift: The bites of the flies. But it’s a great service. You know, school kids can now visit a place they’ve Swift: You’re right there on the James River, almost only ever heard about as this almost mythical, lost wading in it, on the fort side. section of Virginia. It also appealed to me because if you go on Google Street View usually, the main Wolfe: And part of the metric that goes into thinking roads are all represented, but if there’s a narrow about saving places like Jamestown is that it’s very lane off that road it’s fifty-fifty if Google’s going to much at the center of a big, collective story, while make that turn. And it was great that Encyclopedia Tangier— Virginia’s virtual tour incorporates everything, all of Tangier’s sidewalk-wide cart paths. Swift: Is an outlier.

Hedlund: And the harbor. Wolfe: —is at the margins of that story. And we | SEA CHANGE

05 This crab shack, photographed in August Tangier Island is loosing approximately 2016, sits at the end of a fishing pier on fifteen feet of land to the Chesapeake Tangier Island. Bay each year.

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can try to pull it in by telling a slightly different described it as both frozen in time and actually narrative, or telling it in a slightly different way, rotting. And I thought, that’s not possible! Rotting but right now more people have not heard of it than is a function of time passing. But it’s a paradox that have heard of it. also kind of feels true in this case.

Swift: Sure. I guess it comes down to how you describe Swift: Yes and no. I would compare Tangier to a a circle. When you’re trying to describe it to someone, small town in Alaska, completely cut off from the do you describe the insides or do you describe the edge rest of the world until the mid-1970s, when they that forms its shape? Of course you describe the edge, got satellite TV. Now all of a sudden the kids are and Tangier is one of those points that demonstrates watching Rico Suave videos and realizing there are just how varied and peculiar American society can be. a lot more glamorous ways to live. To me its value is the fact that it’s remarkable. Hedlund: So is the environment or culture the Wolfe: It’s a place that feels frozen in time in a lot greater threat to Tangier? of ways. Swift: Oh, the environment. Tangier has been pretty Swift: Sure does. good at absorbing what it likes and keeping at arm’s length what it doesn’t in terms of culture. But the Wolfe: I remember reading a book a number of sea—that’s a tougher thing to stop. years ago about a small town in Iowa. And they

WALK THE STREETS of Tangier Island with Encyclopedia Virginia’s virtual tour— VirginiaHumanities.org/tangier-vr. Reverend Jacob Randolph Sr., Justin Reid’s great-great grandfather, was enslaved at Ampthill Plantation as a child. Here he poses for an unknown The Long photographer. Roads of Memory

By David Bearinger

Justin Reid tells the story this way. In 2014 he set out to find the site where his ancestors had been enslaved. What he found was not only a line connecting him to some of the most prominent families in Virginia, but also an unexpected lesson in the power of place to teach and heal, and a flood of questions that have been shaping his work ever since.

Reid is the director of African American Programs at Virginia Humanities. Growing up, he often listened to his grandmother talk about her grandfather, the Reverend Jacob Randolph Sr., or “Reverend Jake,” as the family called him.

Reverend Jake was born in slavery in 1859, in a section of northeastern Cumberland County known as Hamilton, near present-day Cartersville along the James River, on a large plantation known as Ampthill.

His mother died when he was three years old. Eventually, he attended seminary in Lynchburg, became a prominent minister, and founded the Race Street Baptist Church in Farmville, still one of the largest African American congregations in that part of Virginia. He also pastored three other churches, in Prince Edward, Cumberland, and Buckingham counties. | THE LONG ROADS OF MEMORY

09 Seeing Ampthill for the first time, Reid remembers that The early owners of Ampthill included Thomas Especially now, the power of such place-based he had no immediate feeling of the pain and trauma Randolph, Robert “King” Carter, and later, Randolph learning could be immense. that must have taken place there. Instead, he saw folds Harrison, who had asked his cousin Thomas Jefferson What do you do once you of rolling farm country, landscapes that have changed to design the brick addition. All had been prominent know this history? Places have meaning, and a power that’s sometimes little in the past 150 years, and elegant, well-maintained slave owners. hard to explain. Reid says he felt drawn to the Cartersville brick structures, including a portion of the main house area for as long as he can remember. that had been designed by Thomas Jefferson. Reid says he’s also grateful that his first meeting These are the kinds of questions that many people black with the owners went the way it did. “I could have And the journey he started back in 2014 isn’t finished. and white, in Virginia and across the country, are now Standing between the former slave quarter and the met someone in complete denial, or defensive, Reid returned to Ampthill with the staff of Encyclopedia asking as we try to confront the wounds of the past. main house he felt emotions that surprised him. “It someone quick to apologize for his family’s actions, Virginia to capture 360-degree images of a slave wasn’t a sadness,” he says. “It wasn’t anger. It was an or trying to present a narrative of benevolence.” dwelling on the property. And he continues to research overwhelming sense of completion—I set out on this Under Reid’s leadership, Virginia Humanities’ African his family tree. “I’m still looking, still hoping to come American Programs are launching a multimedia across a deed or other document that will list Reverend journey, and I’m here.” Instead, they acknowledged that slavery was an database of African American historic sites throughout Jake or his parents or grandparents.” exploitative economic system, “and I appreciated the Commonwealth—“Explored Landscapes of Afro- But he also describes later breaking down in tears, that, because that’s the truth.” Virginia,” or Ela—building on an earlier version begun imagining the child who would become his great- It’s hard work. The records of enslaved people, kept in 1999. by their enslavers, are almost always incomplete. great grandfather, and how the young Jake must But he says it also raised important questions: have felt when his mother died. “It might have been Many don’t include last names or family relationships. in this building here …” The hope is that this work will encourage schools Wealthy families often owned multiple plantations, "What do you do once you know this history? Would to focus on their local history, and on former sites making it difficult to trace the movements and the it be disrespectful to the memory of my ancestors to of enslavement in particular. Even in places where intertwining lives of enslaved people. The first time Reid met Ampthill’s current owners—direct have a friendship? Is it possible to form a friendship black and white children may be descended from descendants of the family who had enslaved Reverend when you understand that the privileges [they] have the same families, they may still not know the ways But if you look closely, it’s not hard to see the hand Jake and his mother—he remembers searching their had for generations have been at the expense of my these sites are connected to their own lives, or how of Reverend Jake still at work when his great-great faces, looking for some resemblance, seeing none, but family? Would there be festering resentment? Would their lives are connected to each other. grandson tells me, “I do wonder in the back of my mind if still knowing they could easily be related by blood. the hurt bubble up at unexpected times?” the things that I’m doing today would make him proud.”

TOP LEFT TOP RIGHT Take a virtual reality tour of a slave Hear Justin Reid tell this story Justin Reid visits the kitchen quarters at Ampthill This brick structure once served as slave quarters dwelling at Ampthill by visiting on With Good Reason Plantation in Cumberland County on July 3, 2017. at Ampthill Plantation in Cumberland County. VirginiaHumanities.org/Ampthill. at VirginiaHumanities.org/Reid-WGR. Photo by Peter Hedlund Photo by Peter Hedlund ENGAGING YOUNG PEOPLE IN DIALOGUES ABOUT RACISM

By Raennah Mitchell

n 2019, millennials are projected to surpass baby boomers as the largest living generation in America. And with a new wave of teen and young adult activists taking to the streets and making headlines—protesting issues ranging from gun violence to racial bias in police practices—young people are making their voices heard in ways that we’ve rarely seen since the civil rights and Vietnam-era protests of the 1960s and 1970s. Virginia Humanities is working within communities to stimulate productive conversations about racism and the history of race in the Commonwealth, especially among young people.

Young people of color are directly affected by systemic racism through inequities in education, the school-to-prison pipeline, and housing discrimination. But they are also well-equipped to effect change. In March 2016, a then–fifteen-year-old high school freshman, Zyahna Bryant, took action to correct the dominant narrative represented in what was then Charlottesville’s Lee Park. Recognizing the power of storytelling through memorialization, she petitioned the City of Charlottesville to change the name of the park (now Market Street Park) and remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Bryant, who is African American, argued that the celebration of someone who fought to enslave her ancestors caused her and her peers to feel so uncomfortable that they avoided the park altogether, foregoing many public events held there that otherwise were intended for the whole community.

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A new podcast series considers dissent in America, from James Madison to Colin Kaepernick

By Brendan Wolfe

e had to call it something,” Kelley Libby told me, referring to a new, five-part podcast she developed in collaboration with James Madison’s Montpelier. “So we decided on ‘American Dissent.’”

I was in Libby’s office back in July, when the series, released on September 17, was still under production.

“How’d you come up with that name?” I asked, and Libby, a producer on Virginia Humanities’ radio program With Good Reason, gave me a curious look.

We both laughed.

“Okay, I get it,” I said. “It’s about dissent in America. But why focus on that? How does that come back to Madison?”

Libby explained that the collaboration began with the idea of creating a podcast that investigated Madison and the U.S. Constitution, placing them in a contemporary context.

“We had all this freedom to come up with whatever we wanted. And I just kept coming back to this idea of religious dissent. That’s where I started—the idea that without it we wouldn’t have the First Amendment as we know it.”

One important strain of the American Revolution involved a rebellion against the established church, which required the support of all taxpayers regardless of their beliefs. Thomas Jefferson’s Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom, passed in 1786 but Virginia, Patrick Henry and George Mason were pitted drafted in 1777, played an important role in that. But against James Madison over how strong the federal Madison was critical, too. government ought to be. Henry refused to attend the Constitutional Convention at all, famously saying, “I “He went to what’s now Princeton, a Presbyterian smelt a rat.” university, right?” I said. “Another scholar was telling me that some of the “My understanding is that when he graduated from religious dissenters were put in basement jails where college and moved back home he was really upset that people on the street would urinate on them,” Libby the Baptists who lived in his neighborhood in Orange said. “So yeah, dissent could get messy.” were being persecuted for conducting their own marriage ceremonies. He wanted to respect the rights Libby, who hosts the podcast, told me that she wants of this minority.” it to reach an audience that’s a little different from the typical public radio program. “We’re looking for “So you started there, with religious dissent—” a younger audience,” she said. “I feel like the podcast listeners who are like me—in their thirties, interested “And meanwhile, Price Thomas, my collaborator in scholarship and social issues and also in just being and Montpelier’s vice president of marketing,” entertained—our ears are grabbed up already. The Libby continued, “he was really interested in the best way to reach people is to reach them when they’re conversation about Colin Kaepernick and his protest young and they’re in school. So we’re crafting this of racial injustice.” series with high school students in mind.”

Libby said that the podcast attempts to connect the She said they didn’t just talk to scholars such as Glover. forms of dissent that set in motion the founding of They also went to a high school—well, a former high the United States and that are now embedded in the school: the Moton Museum in Farmville, where Virginia Constitution with the kinds of conversations people Humanities’ director of African American Programs are having today. and the museum’s former director, Justin Reid, gave Libby and Thomas a tour and talked about the student walkout in 1951 that led to the famous Supreme Court “Basically, I’m interested in how dissent makes America ruling Brown v. Board of Education. America,” she said. “I recently saw a sign at a rally that read, ‘Dissent is patriotic.’ That’s what I’m finding over and over again. Every story someone tells, or every bit And Libby interviewed students, including a student of scholarship seems to point to this idea, that this is athlete from Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville what we do as Americans. And sometimes I think the who, before a volleyball match at Quantico, took a word ‘dissent’ carries this negative connotation, like knee during the national anthem. It caused an uproar. people think of it as though you’re just causing a stir.” Parents complained. Another team forfeited a match rather than play Tandem. The school took the energy surrounding the protest and channeled it into a I mentioned how I’ve noticed that a lot of dissent, Diversity Summit, organized in March 2017. especially when it’s successful, gets retrospectively cleaned up, so it seems less messy and loud. A historian recently mentioned how the lunch counter sit- “And this all stemmed from that spark, this little voice ins during the civil rights movement have undergone in her head that just said, ‘Don’t,’” Libby said. this process, leading some to forget the ways in which dissent can be uncomfortable and ambiguous. Released on Constitution Day (September 17), the series American Dissent can be downloaded from Libby said that she interviewed Lorri Glover, a James Madison’s Montpelier (Montpelier.org) and from professor of history at St. Louis University, about the podcast distributors, including iTunes and Stitcher. fierce debates over ratification of the Constitution. In Episodes will also air on With Good Reason. Justin Reid, director of African American Programs at Virginia Humanities (left), and Price Thomas, of James Madison's Montpelier, visit the Moton Museum in Farmville, for an episode of American Dissent. TOP LEFT - American Dissent host Kelley Libby To listen to American Dissent, visit poses in the studio at James Madison's Montpelier. Photo by Kendall Madigan (Montpelier) WithGoodReasonRadio.org/American-Dissent. Photo by Kendall Madigan (Montpelier) : 5 Transitions The Columbia Pike Documentary Project Columbia Pike Documentary Project This project, including an exhibit, a publication, and related public programs, explores changes taking place along Columbia Pike in Arlington. “The Pike,” in recent decades a magnet for immigrants 5 and refugees from many parts of the world, is once again changing rapidly, becoming more costly for businesses and residents and more 11 culturally homogenous as a result.

8 Together We Rise 2 12, 14, 15 GrantsVirginia Humanities supported these humanities Embrace Richmond Through stories and storytelling, this multifaceted project explores the projects between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. history of the Brookland Park neighborhood in Richmond by connecting local elders and youth. Brookland Park was a thriving African American To LEARN MORE about the Grants Program, community that changed rapidly in the aftermath of desegregation and 4 16, 26 is being transformed once again by the arrival of new residents. visit VirginiaHumanities.org/Grants.

Son Jarocho Poetry Meets Appalachian Song: 20 6 11 New Sones for an Emerging Culture 6 Fractured Atlas 7 8, 21, 23 9 Son Jarocho is a centuries-old musical tradition native to the 9 Mexican state of Veracruz. A series of interviews with Latin American immigrants and migrants in Virginia will result in recordings and 22 5 interpretive performances that use the traditional song forms of Son 27 Jarocho to express migrants’ lives and struggles. 24 17 UNLADYLIKE: Research and Development 10 23 13 28 of Maggie Lena Walker Video 3 1 18 19 The Futuro Media Group 25 This project will produce a six-minute documentary film on Richmond native Maggie Lena Walker, a pioneering African American business and community leader. The film is included in a thirty-one-part series focusing on women in the Progressive Era, to be broadcast in 2020 1. Center for Documentary Studies - 12. Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University - 20. Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University - during the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which The Rock Castle Gorge Film Project Poetry Reading and Panel: Poetry without Boundaries Exhibition Catalogue for Adriana Corral’s extended voting rights to women. Unearthed: Desenterrado 2. Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern 13. Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. Mennonite University - Transforming Historical Harms: (WHRO) - Born at the Do-Drop Inn: An Oral History 21. Studio Two Three - Born of Empires: Filipino Americans in the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice Webinar Series Richmond Book Art Fair: Power of the Press 18 14. James Madison University - United States and Virginia, 1565 to the Present 3. Clinch River Educational Center - Because I'm Here Journeying Together-Smithland: Building Intercultural 22. Taubman Museum of Art - Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia Parent Relations in Dual Immersion Programs Personal Connections to Reclamation 4. Coffee House Films, Inc. - The Past Is Never Dead: Through a two-day institute and a printed Teachers’ Guide, this project The Story of William Faulkner 15. James Madison University, Department of History - 23. The Futuro Media Group - UNLADYLIKE: examines the history of the relationship between the United States and Democracy in Peril? A Speakers Series Research and Development of Maggie Lena Walker Video 5. Columbia Pike Documentary Project - the Philippines and the story of the Filipino community in Tidewater Transitions: The Columbia Pike Documentary Project 16. Lydia Csato Gasman Archives - 24. The Mariners' Museum - Answering America's Call: Virginia—the largest on the East Coast. The project is based on a The Marie-Thérèse Walter Interview Project Newport News in World War I collaboration among Virginia Beach Public Schools, the MacArthur 6. Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society - Architecture and Change: Preserving the Eastern Shore 17. Ocean Ana Rising, Inc. - 25. The Prizery - One Community Initiative Memorial, and the Philippine Cultural Center. Annette M. Lane and the Secrets of the Tents 7. Embrace Richmond - Unsung Heroes 26. University of Virginia - Old Pictures, New Visions: 18. Philippine Cultural Center of Virginia - Rufus Holsinger's African American Portraits 22 8. Embrace Richmond - Together We Rise Personal Connections to Reclamation Content Academy - Born of Empires: Filipino Americans 27. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Taubman Museum of Art 9. Fairfield Foundation - Hidden Civil Rights in the United States and Virginia, 1565 to the Present Department of Religion and Culture - Addressing Inequality: Landmarks in Rural Eastern Virginia This public symposium and a series of related events explore the 19. Philippine Nurses Association of Virginia- History, Social Disparity, and the Beloved Community Initiative: stories of Roanoke residents who have recently resettled from Africa. 10. Ferrum College - Virginia Souvenirs A Culture to Care: The History of Filipino Nurses A Public Humanities Summit The project complements a traveling exhibit on the Art of the African in Virginia Oral History Project, Panel, and Photo Exhibit 11. Fractured Atlas - Son Jarocho Poetry Meets 28. Virginia Symphony Orchestra - O. Winston Link and the Legacy Diaspora, hosted by the Taubman Museum in 2018. Appalachian Song: New Sones for an Emerging Culture of Virginia’s Railways Along the Great Road: Film Production : 26 Old Pictures, New Visions Rufus Holsinger’s African American Portraits University of Virginia 5 22 Through an exhibit and a community event, this project calls attention to a large group of early twentieth-century photographic portraits in the University of Virginia’s Rufus Holsinger collection. One important goal of the project is to engage Charlottesville residents in helping to identify 11 23 the African American individuals and families depicted in the portraits. 23 | TURNING THE PAGE Page Turning takes place March 20-24, 2019 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Charlottesville, in 2019 20-24, March place takes By Brendan WolfeBy years twenty-five Virginia of Festival the Book celebrates THE TWENTY-FIFTH VIRGINIA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK THE OF FESTIVAL VIRGINIA TWENTY-FIFTH THE

the Festival oftheBookonMarch 22,2018,inCharlottesville. cryptographer Dorothy Braden Bruce attheVirginia Photo by Chaski Global for the CFA Institute CFA the for Global Chaski by Photo author LizaMundy( Elaine ChengoftheCFA Institute introduces the Jarrett Pat by Photo The event was oftheVirginia part Festival oftheBook. Bookshop inCharlottesville onMarch 22,2018. reads from herbookTheLeavers atNew Dominion The inaugural Carol Troxell Reader, LisaKo, Code Girls Code ) andtheWorld War II “It came together as an expression of the fact that the city had a lot going on from a book point of view,” Collinge explains. “The basic concept was that we were going to have partners [to host programs], we were going to do it in spots all over town, and it was going to be free.”

Since then the Festival has expanded from two to five days and attracts hundreds of authors and an average of 20,000 attendees each year. The economic impact in Charlottesville and Albemarle County is estimated at $4 million annually.

more driven by publishing, some are staged as media Nancy Damon, who served as the Festival director events, and we have a bit of that, too. But ours has for fourteen years, says, fourteen years, says, "One been primarily a readers’ and authors’ festival since of the most important things to me was that we have the beginning.” programs geared to many different kinds of audiences, not just the UVA literary society." The Festival’s organizers even seek out non-readers, or, as the event’s assistant director, Sarah Lawson, That has meant, for instance, regularly organizing put it, “people for whom books and reading are not a panels of genre fiction, such as sci-fi, mystery, part of everyday life.” They do this by spreading the and romance, as well as events for children. More event out across town, sending authors to schools and recent partnerships with organizations including The artists and illustrators Brooke Allen (Lumberjanes), the National Book Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf community organizations, and streaming some events Caitlin Rose Boyle (Jonesy), and Coleman Engle (Steven Book Awards, and the Southern Environmental Law on the Internet. Meanwhile, the Festival coordinates Universe) sign books at Telegraph Art and Books in Center have also brought award-winning writers to with more than 200 regional and state groups to help Charlottesville on March 19, 2016. The event was part of choose books and authors and to host events. the Virginia Festival of the Book. the Festival to tackle tough topics such as the re-

Photo by Pat Jarrett examination of historical narratives, race in America, and climate change. All this means that virtually anyone can attend the Festival and enjoy the experience. “You don't have to Kulow, who became the Festival director in 2014, have read any of the books or know anything about raditionally, twenty-five years marks a place, and that is being accessible to everyone.” maintains her predecessor’s commitment to the authors who are speaking,” Lawson said. “You just silver anniversary, but for the Virginia accessibility and cultural equity. “Conversations that need to be curious and open to exploring new things.” Festival of the Book every year is a paper The Festival debuted on March 30, 1995. It was the broaden one’s thinking, that help support empathy, and anniversary. Since the planning for this brainchild of Calvin Otto, a rare book collector who that welcome all participants are more important to our annual book event first got underway in 1994, died in 2009. After attending a book festival in New community—and our nation—than ever,” she said. Festival coordinators have remained dedicated to York City, he suggested to Paul Collinge, the owner celebrating the written word in all genres and from of Heartwood Books, and Tom Dowd, senior director " “My vision for the Festival is that anyone—any level One of the most important authors of all backgrounds through programming of program development with the University of of reader, any age—will feel welcome and can find a that is almost entirely free to attend. Virginia (UVA) Division of Continuing Education, that things to me was that we program that appeals to them, with the potential to Charlottesville needed something similar. The three be engaged or challenged, and will walk away still have programs geared to “The Festival is, and has always been, for all readers,” built a steering committee of volunteers, found thinking about the discussion.” says Jane Kulow, director of the Virginia Center for financial backing from a variety of local sources, many different kinds of the Book at Virginia Humanities. She also serves and partnered with Virginia Humanities to make Kevin McFadden served as the Festival’s assistant as the Festival’s director and was busy planning for the idea a reality. Local literary heavyweights, from audiences, not just the UVA director for nine years before becoming the chief

the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary when we spoke Rita Dove to George Garrett and Mary Lee Settle, PAGE THE TURNING operating officer of Virginia Humanities. He noted that " in her office. “Change is important,” she says, “and gave the Festival depth, while the participation of literary society. there are plenty of festivals in Virginia with longer we’re always looking to improve. But we also want to institutions from UVA to the Jefferson-Madison histories than the Virginia Festival of the Book. But keep an eye on what has brought us here in the first Regional Library gave it breadth. Nancy Damon they have a different focus. “There are lots of models out there in other book festivals,” he said. “Some are

To learn more about the Virginia Festival of the Book, RIGHT -Kristen Harmon, a contributor to the Tripping the Tale | visit VaBook.org Fantastic anthology, discusses her work and the experiences 09 of deaf authors at a Virginia Festival of the Book event on March 23, 2018, in Charlottesville. Photo by Pat Jarrett HISTORY X 10 BackStory

ncyclopedia Virginia published its first entry resources now, a decision that came from our close Celebrates Ten Years ten years ago. "Has it been that long?" editor work with teachers. We’ve produced two seasons of Brendan Wolfe said, feigning ignorance. a podcast called Not Even Past. And in addition to Since 2008, BackStory, Virginia Humanities’ American exceptionalism (2012) "Actually, we've been looking forward to this. images and audio and video clips, we're now publishing history podcast, has provided listeners with a weekly It's a good time to think about where we've been and three-dimensional objects in Encyclopedia Virginia. deep-dive into the past, using current events as an JOANNE FREEMAN where we're going." You can examine objects like George Washington’s opportunity to offer lively views of today’s headlines Professor of History and American Studies dentures online and even download and print them in the context of history. at Yale University Wolfe and the encyclopedia's director, Peter Hedlund, with a 3-D printer." have been with the project since the beginning and In honor of their tenth anniversary, we asked hosts THE BATTLE FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE’S SOUL: have seen it grow steadily in both its content and Several years ago Hedlund received training Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly, and Joanne One year later, a community looks back (2018) ambitions. from Google and, using the company's StreetView Freeman and host-emeritus Peter Onuf for their FIT TO PRINT: A History of Fake News (2018) technology, began creating 360-degree virtual tours favorite episodes and complied them into this top ten list. Visit VirginiaHumanities.org/BackStory-10 "That first entry must have been about literature or of historic sites in Virginia. "Thomas Jefferson's to listen to all ten episodes. twentieth-century history," Wolfe said. "We began Poplar Forest was the first place we went," Hedlund NATHAN CONNOLLY Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor with those sections, sort of figuring it out as we went. said, "but lately we've branched out to lesser-known of History at Johns Hopkins University Thanks to some grants from the National Endowment spaces. For instance, we've been documenting slave ED AYERS for the Humanities and support from the state of dwellings, so people can visit them even if they're Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities Virginia we went on to produce content on colonial not accessible to the public. But it's also a form of at the University of Richmond BEHIND THE BYLINES: Advocacy Virginia, Virginia Indians, and the Civil War. That's preservation. These structures are often falling Journalism in America (2018) when we started cooking with gas." down and won't last much longer." RARE HISTORY WELL DONE: Meat in America (2015) REVISIONIST CLIMATE: Americans and the atmosphere (2017) The free, online, authoritative resource has published Looking ahead, Hedlund focuses on the project's work SHOCK OF THE NEW: The legacy about 1,200 entries now and the staff, which also with educators. "Working with teachers has been key of the 1893 World’s Fair (2018) PETER ONUF includes media editor Donna Lucey and assistant for us," he said. "It allows us to constantly focus on making Encyclopedia Virginia as useful as possible Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History, editor Miranda Bennett, is in the second year of a BRIAN BALOGH for them. We're thinking about the new ways in which Emeritus, at the University of Virginia three-year grant from the National Endowment for Professor of History at the University of Virginia the Humanities to create content related to slavery Virginia tests its students. We're thinking about in Virginia. reworking some entries to different reading levels and LAND OF THE FREE: The history of even creating audio versions of some entries." COLOR LINES: Racial passing in America (2016) incarceration in the U.S. (segment from 2005)

"This grant has allowed us to do some new things," CITY UPON A HILL: A history of American WAR OF 1812: Which one was that? (2012) Hedlund said. "We publish lots and lots of primary It's the work of another ten years.

TOP LEFT TOP RIGHT To learn more about Encyclopedia Virginia, ABOVE -A 3-D printer in Peter Hedlund’s office at M. H. Kimball portrait of Isaac White and Rosina Downs, Looking West from Peristyle, Court of Honor and Grand Basin Encyclopedia Virginia produces a miniature version of visit EncyclopediaVirginia.org. two New Orleans slave children, ca. 1863 of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, Illinois) Gutzon Borglum’s “The Aviator” from a digital file. (Library of Congress) (Wikimedia Commons) Photo by Peter Hedlund A MIGHTY Tapestry

The Virginia Folklife Program's apprenticeship teams are preserving an array of traditions that amplify the Commonwealth’s diverse cultural heritage.

By Samantha Willis

Six strings lace the long, thin neck of the tar, an He notes that the Virginia Folklife Program instrument distinct to traditional Persian music. apprenticeship experience allows the public to view The strings are for plucking, not bowing like a violin; Middle Eastern people and culture in a new way. “At once heard, the sound they produce—a resonant, events, people will hear us and they say, ‘Wow, Iranians melodic twang—is impossible to forget. Preserving play this beautiful music, and these people are so and promoting that unique sound, and sharing the peaceful. They’re not so bad,” he says, laughing. “They rich legacy of Persian musical traditions, is at the sometimes think Iran and Iranians are associated with center of the work of the master musician Dr. Nader terrorism and all the bad things [we] see and hear Majd and his apprentice, Ali Reza Analouei. [in the media], but we are showing them we have a beautiful heritage, and a different narrative.”

“People are often surprised by our playing,” says Analouei, who moved to Fairfax County more than The classical Persian music he’s been playing twenty years ago from his birthplace, Iran. His since he was five or six is “a beautiful, ancient, vast skillful playing of ancient Persian drums called heritage,” says Majd. In addition to the tar, Majd plays Tombak garnered him international attention and five other instruments and is a scholar of Iranian a place among the most revered Persian classical music. Born in 1944, Majd immigrated to the United music players in the world. In 2009 he was a master States in 1968 and founded the Center for Persian artist in Virginia Humanities’ Folklife Apprenticeship Classical Music in Vienna, Virginia, in 1997. He has Program. A few years later Analouei began studying been a master artist in the Folklife Apprenticeship Dr. Nader Majd teaches his apprentice, the tar with Madj. Program several times. Ali Reza Analouei, to play Persian classical music on the tar in April 2018.

Photo by Pat Jarrett “It’s a give and take,” he says of the cultural exchange centuries,” Lohman said, “the fact of the matter is Born in Mongolia, Natsag studied the centuries-old between the musical traditions of his home country that other than the expressive traditions of Virginia’s craft under a Buddhist monk. He had his own studio and of his adopted one. “I listen to [other musicians’] native peoples, all of our cultural traditions come in Mongolia, teaching students how to make the music, I get inspired, and I add that layer to my from somewhere else”—whether it be Great Britain masks, as well as small sculptures and other types music. When they listen to our music, their music or Iran. of art. Since immigrating to Virginia in 2002, Natsag becomes multilayered. It’s important for us to listen has found mask making to be a vital way for him to to each other and to communicate … and exchange stay connected to his roots, enhanced through the our experiences and our ideas.” Music is a universal The apprenticeship program pairs artists and Virginia Folklife Program. language, he stresses. “It doesn’t belong to just one apprentices as a way of keeping all traditions, new part [of the world] or one people.” and old, alive. Presenting the teams at showcases and events like the Richmond Folk Festival are ways “In America, [for the] international groups living that the program “honors and recognizes these here, [cultural folkways] offer connection to each Expanding the narrative of Virginia’s cultural people as masters of their craft.” other and their tradition, especially music and folk traditions is at the center of the Virginia Folklife art. For me, it’s a wonderful experience.” Program, says Jon Lohman, the program’s director Working together with his son in the apprenticeship Eddie Bond poses with his and Virginia State Folklorist. Over each nine-month cycle, the apprenticeship program spotlights old and new cultural traditions, program was a highlight of Natsag’s continued fiddle case outside the Fries as well as the artists who bring aspects of the efforts to preserve his heritage and to help others Theater in Fries. “Our role is documenting, supporting, and ancient into Virginia’s contemporary society. Father discover it. Photo by Pat Jarrett celebrating Virginia’s folklife,” says Lohman, who and son master-apprentice team Gankhuyag Natsag stepped into his role in 2001. “To look at those ways and Zanabazar Gankhuyag contributed Mongolian “The ability to keep [the tradition] alive and to give to in which people express, ‘This is who we are,’ as mask making to the Virginia Folklife Program in our next generation is important. And showing this members of different communities, and share them 2012. Natsag was taught by his parents to handcraft to the Virginia community is very, very important.” statewide.” elaborate ceremonial masks used in the ancient Buddhist ritual dance, Tsam, maintaining an art form dating back to the eighth century. “We’re opening windows into the story of Virginia, Eddie Bond The Virginia Folklife Program has carried out this which is tremendously complex,” says David Bearinger, Virginia Fiddler Receives NEA Fellowship mission for nearly forty years. Lohman says the director of Virginia Humanities’ Grants and Community Eddie Bond’s first music teacher was his grandmother. apprenticeship program was developed in response “I make masks the traditional way. Almost all [of Programs. His work gives him a perspective on A fiddler and singer in the soulful Appalachian to a concern he heard expressed by citizens in every them] take [at least] one week,” says Natsag. “I use Virginia’s many immigrant communities that tradition, Bond was raised in the southwestern mill corner of the state in his early days as director. clay, different materials, and shape [the mask] with has allowed him to identify several artists and town of Fries, Virginia, first learning to play the guitar, papier-mâché. If it’s just a little mask, maybe [in] craftspeople who would be a good fit for the then the banjo, autoharp, and fiddle. “Down here one day I can make it.” apprenticeship program. He says the apprenticeship “I can’t tell you how many days and miles [I traveled] playing this music comes as naturally as breathing,” program reflects the character and strengths of a all over Virginia, just talking to people, finding out says Bond. what citizens want out of the state folklife program … rapidly changing Virginia. A theme that came up repeatedly is that people were No stranger to Virginia’s dances and fiddle contests, concerned that folklife traditions were dying out. Bond teaches and performs across the state, while That people were passing away, and their knowledge, It includes the stories of the appearing regularly at festivals around the world. His their expertise was passing away with them.” people who were here for latest distinction, however, is the highest the United thousands of years before the States bestows on traditional artists: Bond has been Lohman responded by creating the apprenticeship awarded the 2018 National Endowment for the Arts program, which introduces Virginians to diverse English arrived, the people who National Heritage Fellowship. cultural traditions while simultaneously preserving them. But it’s not only about preserving dying have come here as immigrants Jon Lohman, Virginia State Folklorist and director of forms. It’s about celebrating new ones, too. ever since, and also the people the Virginia Folklife Program, nominated Bond for the award. “Anyone will tell you that Eddie is as special “While many people associate Virginia’s folklife who are coming here today as they come and much deserving of this national recognition,” says Lohman. with those traditions that have been rooted here for … We want to honor all of the traditions that come to Virginia To learn more about the program or to get involved, ABOVE - Gankhuyag Natsag, a mask maker and visual To learn more about Eddie Bond and the Virginia Folklife | A MIGHTY TAPESTRY visit VirginiaFolklife.org. artist who was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia now lives in and enrich our cultural fabric. 31 Program, visit VirginiaHumanities.org/eddie-bond. Arlington. Photo by Pat Jarrett Forty teachers from across Virginia gathered for a three-day teachers’ institute produced by Virginia Humanities.

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Changing the Narrative Summer Institute IMPACT STORY

In June 2018, Virginia Humanities held the first of two summer teachers’ institutes as part of the two-year project Changing the Narrative through the Power of Story. Forty educators from schools and libraries across Virginia gathered at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville, where they learned how to use podcasting, virtual reality, and bookmaking in the classroom to tell stories that promote empathy and understanding.

Funded by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Changing the Narrative seeks to broaden and reframe narratives of Virginia’s past and to help local communities address the present-day challenges of racism and bias. The teachers' institutes are one component of this multi-program Virginia Humanities initiative.

In a program evaluation, one participant said of the experience, “It made me reflect on things that I currently do in my school and how I would like to move forward.” The participant, a school librarian, went on to say, “The institute helped inform ideas for how to bring more conversations about race and personal narratives to our library space through collaboration with other teachers.”

Changing the Narrative embodies Virginia Humanities’ commitment to connecting people and ideas through culturally inclusive programming. It targets six communities across the state: Arlington, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke. Other components of the project include financial grants for each community, in-school author residencies, and classroom visits by staff from the Virginia Humanities program Encyclopedia Virginia.

LEFT - Sylvia O’Neal, from Arlington, passes the microphone Learn more about Changing the Narrative at on June 20, 2018, the last of a three-day teachers’ institute VirginiaHumanities.org/changing-the-narrative. in Charlottesville produced by Virginia Humanities. Photo by Bellamy Shoffner Writing the American Story: Ruby Sales Master Class Diverse Voices in IMPACT STORY Distinguished Books

As part of a residency hosted by Virginia Humanities, the civil rights leader and public theologian Ruby Sales IMPACT STORY conducted a master class for fifty University of Virginia (UVA) students in November 2017. Sales participated in the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, when she was seventeen years old, and witnessed the death of In March 2018, Virginia Humanities’ Virginia Festival of the Book closed its annual five-day celebration of books, a fellow activist who took a gunshot meant for Sales. reading, literacy, and literary culture with a panel discussion on literature and race in America. “Writing the American Story: Diverse Voices in Distinguished Books” featured previous recipients of the Anisfield-Wolf Book The master class featured Sales in conversation with Wes Gobar, president of the UVA Black Student Alliance. Award, which, since 1935, has recognized books that have made important contributions to our understanding Sales called on black intellectuals to interpret racially biased law and policy in ways a layperson can understand. of racism and diversity. Accompanied by jury member and poet Rita Dove, authors Peter Ho Davies (The She cited the need to combat insidious and systemic racism with a new language, which would allow ordinary Fortunes), Tyehimba Jess (Olio), and Margot Lee Shetterly (Hidden Figures) discussed their work and reflected people to develop “a narrative about who they are and the meaning of their lives in American society.” on racial justice, especially in the context of the white-nationalist violence that had occurred in Charlottesville the summer before.

Sales also asked white allies to think about how white supremacy, misogyny, and heterosexism hurts them, and asked the audience to consider how to bridge the generational divide among black activists. “I think it’s The program attracted a diverse audience of 237 attendees from across Virginia and was live-streamed on Facebook, important,” Sales said, “for the younger generation to push the older generation who may become ossified in reaching an additional 2,000 viewers. Following the discussion, speakers welcomed audience questions, inviting the status quo.” attendees to engage with issues of race and literature and encouraging civil discourse over violent response.

Reflecting on the master class, Gobar said Sales “continually challenged me to think in new directions about One attendee called the program “timely, artful, and well done.” Another said, “I felt like I was in the presence the struggle for racial equality. Her presence that day truly changed my approach to activism and I think many of genius. So insightful, honest, and important.” In several program evaluations attendees stated that it was the of the students felt a similar way.” best Festival of the Book program they had ever attended.

Sales’ residency reflects Virginia Humanities’ commitment to racial healing and equity. By bringing diverse The program was supported by Allison Partners, UVA Arts and the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for groups of people together for honest, respectful discourse, we hope to foster a better understanding of our the Arts at the University of Virginia, and hosted by the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards presented by the Cleveland histories, our commonalities, and our differences. Foundation.

ABOVE - The civil rights leader Ruby Sales leads a master View the live video of the master class at The writers Rita Dove and Tyehimba Jess discuss View the live video of the event at class organized by Virginia Humanities for University of VirginiaHumanities.org/Ruby-Sales. their work at a Virginia Festival of the Book event. VirginiaHumanities.org/Anisfield-Wolf. Virginia students. Photo by Peter Hedlund Photo by Stephanie Gross Honor Roll of Donors

Virginia Humanities acknowledges the following benefactors who provided critical financial support between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. Their investments help create programs and opportunities for all Virginians to share their stories and learn about the experiences of others so we can explore our differences and connect through what we have in common.

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