3 A State of Many Nations: Understanding Global Virginia 11 Local But Prized Elsewhere 15 Telling Untold Stories FALL 2016 29 From the Archives to the Stage LETTER FROM

HIS YEAR marks the fiftieth anniversary Virginia is changing, becoming richer, more global. With of the National Endowment for the Humanities funding this year from the NEH’s Humanities in the Public (NEH), an occasion culminated by a Square grant program, VFH has convened conversations star-studded event in Charlottesville in about immigration and cultural identity at the Virginia September organized by our partners at Festival of the Book and with partners in communities theT University of Virginia. The anniversary has provoked us across the Commonwealth, asking questions and forging to think, perhaps even more than usual, about the impact of new connections. humanities in society. Human/Ties—that is the name of the NEH anniversary event. You’ll find those ties throughout The humanities help us not just to recognize our changing this issue of VFH Views. world but to make sense of it. Encyclopedia Virginia has been creating content related to the African American Did you know, for instance, that the largest Bolivian experience in the years after the Civil War, a story that community in the world, outside of Bolivia itself, is here ends in disfranchisement. With Election Day approaching, in Virginia? Virginia also is home to the largest balalaika this history feels particularly relevant. Funding related to orchestra outside of Russia, and the largest Filipino the centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes, meanwhile, has led population east of the Mississippi. More than ever before, With Good Reason to produce a series of interviews with we live in a state of many nations, and our programming prize winners that explore topics from military history to reflects that transformation. poetry and music to environmental science.

Last fall, the Virginia Folklife Stage at the Richmond Folk As we celebrate the influence of such venerable humanities Festival put the spotlight on 200 Bolivian dancers, while the institutions as the NEH and the Pulitzer Prizes, our work Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase, held this spring for the at VFH continues to explore the connections that tie all first time at James Monroe’s Highland, featured balalaika of us together, through time and through this home we master Andrei Saveliev and his student Aaron Mott. When love—Virginia. placed next to more traditional bluegrass fiddling or basket Virginia Foundation for the Humanities connects people and ideas to explore the human making, these artists help articulate the many ways in which ROBERT C. VAUGHAN III experience and inspire cultural engagement. PRESIDENT THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE EXPLORE THE PAST,

LEFT Photo by Dan Addison. FRONT COVER Virginia Folklife Program apprentice Chris Testerman, a fiddler and luthier from Grayson County, displayed this selection of handcrafted fiddle parts at the 2014 Richmond Folk Festival. Photo by Pat Jarrett. This year’s Virginia Folklife Stage and Area will feature foodways and musical performances at the 2016 Richmond Folk Festival, October 7-9. 3 19 A State of Many “I Will Never Tire Nations: of This Instrument.” Understanding A Balalaika Global Virginia Apprenticeship

VFH’s recent work with immigrant communities A dynamic Virginia Folklife master-apprentice pairing in helps Virginians experience in new ways the Arlington illustrates the value of traditional arts brought to increasingly diverse cultural richness of our state. Virginia by immigrants and refugees. 7 Block the Vote: Annual Report

Encyclopedia Virginia VFH thanks its generous and loyal donors for their support in Follows African the 2015-2016 year. American Freedom to Disfranchisement

New encyclopedia entries uncover the story of the loss of the African American vote in Virginia in the years after the Civil War.

11 Opening Letter “I Will Never Tire of This A Culture of Literacy: The 19 Instrument”: A Balalaika 32 Virginia Festival of the Book A State of Many Nations: Apprenticeship and Adult Learners Local but Prized 3 Understanding Global Virginia 25 VFH Grants 33 What Once Was Lost Elsewhere Block the Vote: Encyclopedia Virginia Follows African Prize Interviews: With Good Annual Report 7 American Freedom to Reason Talks to Winners of the 35

Virginia Arts of the Book Center (VABC) Disfranchisement 27 Pulitzer Prize annual group projects journey from creative 47 Credits, About VFH collaboration to special collections. 11 Local But Prized Elsewhere From the Archives to the Stage 29 Telling Untold Stories How Curly Fries Predict the 15 31 Future p 3 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE NATIONS A STATE OFMANY UNDERSTANDING GLOBALVIRGINIA and dance. many distinctive andhighly diverse forms ofBolivian music well-recognized featuresofthecultural landscape, asarethe especially, Bolivian restaurants, markets, andfestivals are German) and Afro-Bolivian ancestry. InNorthern Virginia indigenous (Quechua, Aymara, Guarani) European(Spanish, more than31,000native Bolivians, includingpeopleof numbers in the 1980s, and by 2010 Virginia was home to Bolivians beganimmigrating totheUnitedStatesinlarge in VFHViews, fall2014). Changing Face of Virginia: Immigration andtheHumanities,” the changes thatareoccurringallacross Virginia (see “The Bolivia itself, lives in Virginia. And thisfactisemblematicof Today, thelargestBolivian communityintheworld, outside language: MotherEarth. to now, themood isquieter, morereverent, asbefitsanoffering grounds—five separate dancegroupsinfullcostume. But for boisterously past this circle and through the main Festival In alittlewhile, morethan200Bolivian dancerswillparade in Virginia.existed of an immigrant community many of them never even knew introduce tensofthousandsfestival-goers tothetraditions based organizationcalledtheComiteProBolivia, isaboutto working closely withthefestival’s staffandwithan Arlington- This momentistheculminationofayear’s planning. VFH, in thecentral highlandsofBolivia, isrecitingprayers. stone courtyard whereJulia Garcia, anative ofCochabamba of several hundred people gathered loosely in a circle on the River. Smoke fromburningherbsisdriftingover acrowd Works, now the American Civil War Center, andtheJames Stage, inalargetentpitched between theold Tredegar Iron A bluegrass bandisfinishingupitssetonthe Virginia Folklife the eleventh-annual Richmond Folk Festival isinfullswing. It’s Saturday afternoon, ColumbusDay weekend 2015, and Pachamama—literally “present Mother”intheQuechua the Richmond FolkFestival onOctober 10,2015.Photos byPatJarrett. LEFT, FOLLOWING PAGES More than 200 Bolivian dancers from five differentVirginia Northern dance groups paraded through BY DAVID BEARINGER included theRussianbalalaikaplayer Andrei Saveliev. Cambodian crown and costume-maker. The previous class singer Humayun KhanandSochietah Ung, atraditional Virginia Folklife Program includes Northern Indian khyal Meanwhile, thenewest classofmasterartistsin VFH’s program ever tobepresentedentirely inSpanish. discussion onLatinoimmigration thatisthefirst VFH-funded include Russians, Ukranians, andKurds; andatelevised panel in Harrisonburg, wherethelargestimmigrant communities neighborhood; anexhibit ontheexperience ofrefugeefamilies community forum onthehistoryof Arlington’s LittleSaigon Other VFH grants aresupportingapublicationand study oftherolereligionplays inthiscommunity. State University professor April Manalangissupportingher Mississippi, andarecent VFH Fellowship awarded toNorfolk area isnow hometothelargestFilipinocommunityeastof patriotism, andmilitaryservice. The Norfolk/Virginia Beach Beach—for anexhibit andcommunityforum onimmigration, organization—the Philippine Cultural Center in Virginia levels. A year ago, VFH awarded itsfirstgrant toaFilipino This work hasalready proved tobetransformative, onmany of “globalVirginia.”communities Folk Festival, aswell asfor VFH’s emerging work withthe and parade rituals. It’s alandmarkevent for theRichmond from instrument-makingtodazzlingdanceperformances young andold, fromsacredreligious ceremoniestotextiles, together thisshowcase ofBolivian traditions thatconnects the extraordinary cultural richness ofthestate, VFH hasput experience in helping Virginians to experience and appreciate From this willingness to share, and drawing on our own long culture withothers. also demonstrate aneasywillingnesstoshareaspectsoftheir to die culturally.” And along with this cultural vitality, they have shown aremarkableresistenciacultural—a refusal here for decades. Julia Garciaputsitthisway: “Bolivians is thriving in Virginia, even within families that have lived native rituals and customs, and as a result Bolivian culture As immigrants, Bolivians remaindeeply attached totheir And the list goes on. Today, the largest

In December 2015, VFH received major funding from the Bolivian community National Endowment for the Humanities through its new initiative “The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public in the world, outside Square” to support a galaxy of programs exploring the impact“ Bolivia itself, lives in and experience of immigration in select Virginia communities and the state as a whole. Virginia.

The project includes two forum-style discussion programs presented as part of the 2016 Virginia Festival of the Book Garcia is a tradition-bearer, both an immigrant and a (“A State of Many Nations” and “Beyond Background Virginian who has taught Spanish at Thomas Jefferson Middle Characters: Life in Hyphen-America”); a wide range of School in Arlington for more than twenty years. She is also public programs developed in collaboration with more the founding director of the Sociedad Cultural Tradiciones” than thirty co-sponsoring organizations in six communities Bolivianas, an organization dedicated to preserving Bolivian statewide; and publication of two teachers’ guides on Latino folkloric dances, and the executive director of the Comite Pro immigration, one keyed to the Virginia Standards of Learning, Bolivia. Her passion for sharing the richness of her native the other to the national Common Core. language and culture with the world is one of the defining aspects of her life. Together, these programs will encourage audiences throughout Virginia (and teachers across the state and nationwide) to Through our work with people such as Garcia and Nelly look beyond the storm of headlines and divisive rhetoric. They Zapata, the former president of the Comite who made these blend the voices of scholars, writers, community leaders, and festival programs possible, VFH is forging relationships people who have lived the experience of immigration first- that are helping to reshape our understanding of what it hand. They also open the door to new collaborations with means to be a Virginian in this “State of Many Nations.” immigrant and refugee communities across Virginia. To LEARN MORE about the Virginia Folklife Program, visit Back at the Richmond Folk Festival, Julia Garcia is sprinkling VirginiaFolklife.org. drops of chicha, a Bolivian liquor made from maize. The sprinkled drops, called ch’alla, and the smoke from the burning herbs, called q’oa, are an offering to Pachamama, blessing the occasion and asking permission for the celebration to come.

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OPPOSITE TOP Julia Garcia (center) makes an offering to Pachamama, or Mother Earth, during a traditional Bolivian Mesa Ceremony at the Richmond Folk Festival on October 10, 2015, as then-President of the Comite Pro Bolivia Nelly Zapata (black jacket) looks on. Photo by Pat Jarrett. DISCOVER

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BLOCK THE VOTE ENCYCLOPEDIA VIRGINIA FOLLOWS AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM TO DISFRANCHISEMENT

ith Election Day 1883 Then, on the Friday before statewide elections, the white quickly approaching, politics chairman of the local Readjuster Party denounced the were heating up in Danville. broadside in a street-corner oration witnessed mostly by an In October a group of audience of African Americans. The next day, a white man white businessmen printed bumped into a black man on the sidewalk, tempers flared, and a broadside that blasted the violence that resulted ended in the gun deaths of at least the Readjuster Party, which five people. It also arguably changed Virginia politics forever. controlled both houses of the General Assembly and the White politicians blamed the violence on blacks and used it Danville city council. The Readjusters represented a reform- to force them out of power. Within a few years the Readjuster minded coalition of farmers and working men, Democrats Party had disappeared. and Republicans, whites and African Americans. But it was the party’s embrace of black men, in particular, that upset the merchants of Danville. Posting the broadside around town,

they complained loudly of “the injustice and humiliation to ABOVE In 1867, the U.S. government prepared to try former Confederate president Jefferson Davis for treason. The U.S. Circuit which our white people have been subjected and are daily Court for the District of Virginia assembled a pool of twenty-four potential jurors—some white, some African American—of whom undergoing by the domination and misrule of the radical or eleven are pictured above. These men were likely the first African Americans to be called to jury duty in Virginia. The trial, though, negro party.” never went forward. Davis was released on bail on May 13, 1867, and the charges against him dropped in 1869.

Standing from left to right are E. Fox, J. Freeman, J. R. Fitchett, Joseph Cox, and Herman L. Wigand. Seated from left to right are W. A. Parsons, L. Carter, C. P. Fitchett, John Newton Van Lew (in foreground), F. Smith, and J. E. Frazier. political and social dominance they had lost during the war. Danville is the perfect illustration. Disfranchisement is really the story of white supremacy.”

The encyclopedia has published entries that follow the arc of freedom to disfranchisement. With the help of editors at the Library of Virginia’s Dictionary of Virginia Biography, these entries include biographies of nearly all the African American “Race, especially, has been a big issue The Danville Riot, for starters. The members of the assembly. There are in this year’s presidential election,” EV entry allows users to read that accounts of the abolition of slavery in explains Matthew Gibson, editor of broadside in order to understand Virginia, the role of black churches, the Encyclopedia Virginia (EV), a project just how anxious white Danvillians political parties, and important laws of VFH. “So remembering the Danville were in the face of African American and court cases—all leading up to the Riot is important, especially as Election political equality. It also details the Constitution of 1902, the provisions Day comes around again.” Gibson says infamous street fight, offering links to of which nearly eliminated African THE FUTURE that what’s even more important is the testimony of various eyewitnesses, Americans as a relevant factor in the understanding the broader story of and the efforts to blame blacks for the state’s politics. Still to come are entries African Americans in Virginia in the years violence and to use fear to suppress on the establishment of public schools after the Civil War. The encyclopedia is subsequent African American voter and on lynching. Numerous primary finishing work on “From Freedom turnout. Encyclopedia users can documents and media objects round out DISCOVER

to Disfranchisement,” a three-year read a story about the violence in the the encyclopedia’s coverage, which NEH-funded grant in partnership with Richmond Daily Dispatch. “These Gibson says is a vital tool for students, the Library of Virginia. “The entries negroes [in Danville] had evidently educators, and lifelong learners. we’re creating tell a story that’s not come to regard themselves as in some widely enough known,” says Gibson. sort the rightful rulers of the town,” “Who we are today, in Virginia and

THE PAST, “Millions of African Americans were the paper’s editors wrote. “They have across the United States, is so much emancipated in 1865 and given the been taught a lesson.” a product of this time period,” says vote. By 1901, almost all of them had Gibson. “The good and the not so lost that vote. What happened in those “The story of disfranchisement is not good. It’s all there and we need to find intervening years?” the story of misrule,” Gibson says. ways not to forget.”

EXPLORE “That was the line for many years from historians, but it’s not true. In the To LEARN MORE about the African OPPOSITE John Mercer Langston was the first African American from Virginia to serve in Congress (1890–1891). Image courtesy of years after emancipation white elites American experience in post–Civil War Library of Congress. ABOVE These African American members of the House of Delegates were pictured in Luther Porter Jackson's in Virginia fought to reestablish the Virginia, visit EncyclopediaVirginia.org. Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945). Images courtesy of University of Virginia Special Collections. BELOW This ballot box was used to count African American votes in King George County in 1867. Image courtesy of Library of Virginia. p 9 and Laura Pharis(BOTTOM). Dean Dass,Janet Eden,JnanamMacIsaac,Diane Ober, andFrank Riccio(TOP);KristinAdolfson andDeanDass(MIDDLE); Barbara Payne OPPOSITE Prized Elsewhere Prized LOCAL Spreads from VABC group project Atlas of Vanishing Knowledge (2012), artwork by Bonnie Bernstein, Addeane Caelleigh, Addeane Bernstein, Bonnie by artwork Vanishing(2012), of VABCfromKnowledge SpreadsAtlas project group I around theworld alsoacquiremany ofthegroupprojects for theircollections. and Vanderbilt University. Museumsand galleriesthroughoutthecountryand libraries, includingDuke University, SkidmoreCollege, theUniversity of Virginia, projects have found homes with private collectors as well as in special collections Demonstrating thehighqualityofresultingwork, theseandother VABC group a bookorseriesofindividual miniaturebooks. traditional approach, inviting artiststocreateasignatureofpagesbeboundinto Vanishing Knowledge(2012)andtheBookmaker’s Dozen (2013), take amore a seriesofpostcard-influencedartobjects. Other projects, such astheAtlasof Another boundary-pushinggroupprojectfromthe VABC was Postmark (2011), through handcrafted objectsassembledinasewing box. the traditional ideaofabook, insteadtellingparallel storiesoftwo factoryfires Notions: A NovelinObjects(2014;seeimagetableofcontents)rarely resemble VABC artistsseektoexplore itspotentialasanartobject. Indeed, projectssuch as search tobreakaparttheideaofbookasasimplereceptaclefor content, book artistswhoarepassionateabouttheprocessandminutiae. Intheconstant These projectsoftenchallenge thevery definitionofabook, butthat’s not rare for both unexpected andricher.” approaching thesametopicorsetofparameters. The resulting work isinevitably ourselves andeach other, inaddition tonew techniques andexciting ways of creative processandoutcome. Buttherewards arehuge:we learnsomuch about member artistLyall Harris. “An artisthastobewilling togive upcontrolofthe their time, expertise, andcreativity. “Collaboration involves risk,” says VABC typically fallswithintherange oftwenty-five tothirtyindividuals whocontribute The numberofartistsparticipatinginthe VABC groupprojectvaries by year, but annual groupproject. beginners towell-known professionals, andallareinvited towork togetheronan BUT binding, papermaking, and other book arts skills. Artists range from shop, offeringclassesandresourcesfor peopleinterestedinletterpress, globe. A program of VFH, the VABC isatheartacommunityprint projects thatwilloneday make theirway intocollectionsacrossthe Arts oftheBookCenter(VABC) toproducebooksandothercreative n asmallshoppingcenterinCharlottesville, artistswork atthe Virginia BY SARAHLAWSON p 12 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE THE FUTURE DISCOVER

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“I’m constantly surprised and impressed with the amazing Abecedarian Gallery. The renowned bookbinder Samuel work that comes out of the shop,” says VABC member artist Feinstein is even preparing a special binding of The Bad Kristin Adolfson. “These projects offer artists an opportunity Quarto for the Newberry Library’s Shakespeare Exhibition to get out of their comfort zone. What results are dynamic, in Chicago. fascinating projects as well as a deeper community amongst the artists.” Looking ahead, the 2016 VABC group project, Handmade Harvest, is underway as individuals and teams of artists work Most recently, the 2015 group project set out to commemorate to create an agricultural themed series of handcrafted books. the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and With plans to complete the project in time for the Raucous the 20th anniversary of the VABC. The Bad Quarto is a Auction on November 18, these unique books will be available creative interpretation of the pirated version of Shakespeare’s as standalone works or as a collectible set. Hamlet that is thought to have been transcribed and printed (without Shakespeare’s close involvement) in 1603. The To LEARN MORE about the VABC, visit VirginiaBookArts.org. VABC’s version was acquired by special collections at Baylor University Libraries, Columbia University, University of Denver, DePaul University, Lafayette College, Stanford University, and University of Washington, among others. The Bad Quarto was featured in Shakespeare quadricentennial exhibitions at the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University, as well as an exhibition in Denver’s

ABOVE Spread by Matthew Gibson from The Bad Quarto (2015). OPPOSITE Collation of signatures for sewing into The Bad Quarto (2015). BY DONNA M. LUCEY

STORIESVFH FELLOWS INVESTIGATE THE LIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN TRAILBLAZERS

The hushed upstairs offices at VFH seem scarcely a place of intrigue. But if you look hunt for George, wrested him from the and listen more closely you might be surprised. Serious investigative work takes Creek, and sold him to a fur trader in place there by the scholars and writers chosen to be part of the Fellowship program. South Carolina. In the past two award cycles, three scholars—all of them historical detectives in a way—have turned the hallways of VFH into a kind of forensic laboratory. No George’s first real taste of freedom came bones anywhere (okay, so it’s not CSI: Charlottesville), but the scholars have been during the Revolutionary War, although carefully reconstructing lives using bits of evidence from crumbling manuscripts his personal triumph did not mirror and maps, bills of sale, and other ephemera from family plantation papers, dusty the traditional American narrative. church records, obscure articles from now-defunct magazines and newspapers, Instead, it was the British Army, not the

THE FUTURE thousands of photographs, past and present interviews, and declassified records American, that offered freedom to the from the FBI. And there’s even some jazz thrown in. enslaved population. George fled to the British to secure his emancipation and These three fellows—of the dozen typically in residence at VFH during an academic was then evacuated to Nova Scotia at year—are each at work on a biography of a relatively unknown figure whose story war’s end. Discrimination in Canada

DISCOVER illuminates an era. The characters span the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, caused him eventually to relocate to

but their stories all embody a central theme: What is the meaning of freedom? the British colony of Sierra Leone. In And what happens when it is subverted or taken away? How does an individual his quest for freedom, George traveled respond? As Americans we pride ourselves on living in a land of freedom, but each thousands of miles, and in the process, of these stories offers a complicated and troubling view of what “freedom” has left behind his mark as a founder of meant in the African American experience. black Baptist churches. THE PAST,

Former VFH Fellow Gregory O’Malley, an associate professor of history at the A half-century later, Daniel Murray University of California, Santa Cruz, is mapping the life of David George (ca. 1743– (1851–1925), a well-educated member of 1810), a slave born in Virginia who, in his search for freedom, spent much of his Washington, D.C.’s black elite, achieved life literally on the run. At nineteen he escaped from the Sussex County plantation professional success as a scholar (his EXPLORE of his birth and started a new life, but had to run once more when the plantation life’s work was the six-volume Historical owner discovered where he was. Fleeing one master, George fell into the hands of and Biographical Encyclopedia of the ABOVE African American photojournalist Ernest Withers on April 8, 1968, at the King Memorial March in Memphis. Photo the Creek Indians, who captured and enslaved him in what is now Georgia. The Colored Race throughout the World), by Jack Hurley. Image courtesy of the Mississippi Valley Collection, University of Memphis Special Collections. BELOW Sussex County master, intent on re-appropriating his “property,” remained on the as an assistant librarian at the Library Excerpt of front page of the Memphis newspaper on June 22, 1963, when Withers was beaten after Medgar Ever's funeral, p 15 from Withers's FBI file. ABOVE, CLOCKWISE, FROM LEFT: ABOVE LEFT Daniel Murray, Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress. ABOVE He documented the lynching of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in his forthcoming book, Valley of the Kings, being published MIDDLE 1765 map courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Collection. ABOVE RIGHT Unknown Memphis Police in Mississippi for supposedly flirting with a white woman, by W.W. Norton & Company. Its spring 2018 release will Department officer (left), Ben Branch (center), and Ernest Withers (right) at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. Photo probably and the brutal events surrounding the desegregation of Little coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of King’s death. by Bill Leaptrott. Image courtesy of the Mississippi Valley Collection, University of Memphis Special Collections. BELOW LEFT Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Segregationists beat Library of Congress interior view, stereograph, c. 1866. Image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. him in Jackson, Mississippi, and destroyed his film. While The three scholars have found the Fellowship program a placing himself in potentially dangerous situations, Withers boon for their research and writing. O’Malley, who lives in took some of the iconic images of the civil rights protest era: California, was thrilled at the opportunity to write about of Congress, and as a construction contractor. He lived in the New York Times best-selling author who has appeared on Jon among them, Martin Luther King Jr. sitting in the front seat David George in Virginia, on his home ground. And all of them rarified world of the black upper class, only to see his status Stewart’s The Daily Show. Her forthcoming book, The Original of a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; and the sanitation men marvel at the interaction, feedback, and collegiality among come crashing down when the federal government abandoned Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era, in Memphis, then on strike, brandishing signs saying “I Am A the Fellows and how it has helped inform and invigorate their the racial protections that had been put in place during is scheduled for release in March 2017 by Amistad Press Man.” Withers became a trusted ally of the civil rights leaders, work. Now if only they could get that TV-detective series started. Reconstruction. In the name of reconciliation with the South, at HarperCollins. grew particularly close to King, and was even allowed into the government turned a blind eye to a wave of lynchings and strategy sessions. The photographer’s business cards read, To LEARN MORE about the Virginia Fellowship Program, visit other, subtler forms of white supremacist violence that began late A third VFH Fellow, Preston Lauterbach, is completing “Pictures Tell the Story.” VirginiaHumanities.org/Fellowships. in the nineteenth century. All African Americans—well educated a biography of an African American whose life has all the or not, wealthy or not—were lumped into “colored” status elements of a spy novel, though all of it is true. Lauterbach is But did they tell the whole story? Not quite. In fact, Withers and forced into a new highly segregated world. In Murray’s a music scholar who has already published two well-received served as a paid informant for the FBI from 1958 until 1976, own words, it was “the virus of race madness.” VFH Fellow books about rock and roll in black America and about the rise helping the agency gather information on black civil rights Elizabeth Dowling Taylor has recently finished a biography of of Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. The subject of his new leaders. And yet his eloquent photographs helped promote this fascinating figure, a man who was betrayed, along with book, Ernest Withers, was one of the seminal photographers the same racial justice for which those leaders were fighting. the other members of his race, by the government. Taylor is of the civil rights movement in the twentieth century. Working Lauterbach is unearthing the story of this deeply complex man an independent scholar, the former director of interpretation out of his studio on Beale Street, Withers traveled throughout at Monticello and director of education at Montpelier, and a the South during the 1950s and 1960s, documenting the violence against African Americans and subsequent civil unrest. Gregory O’Malley Elizabeth Dowling Preston Lauterbach Taylor p 36 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE “ OF THIS INSTRUMENT NEVER TIRE I WILL A BALALAIKA APPRENTICESHIP BY JONLOHMAN ” ABOVE VirginiaABOVE Folklifeapprentice Aaron Mottplaysthebalalaika. PhotobyPatJarrett. BELOW Master balalaika player Andrei Saveliev and his apprentice Aaron Mott. Photo taken at the home of Jan Bohm, Mott's grandmother, in Fairfax on April 25, 2015. Photo by Pat Jarrett. ere’s something you probably didn’t know: the largest balalaika orchestra It was a thrill outside of Russia can be found in Arlington, Virginia. The balalaika is because I see a Russian stringed instrument with a Htriangular wooden body—often thought of as a Russian that the same three-stringed guitar—that has traditionally been played at “ community and family gatherings. Late in the nineteenth passion runs century, the instrument emerged from its folk roots into mainstream concert halls when a wealthy violin student through it all. founded the Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments. Similar groups now thrive in most Russian cities and have expanded across the globe.

Arlington’s Washington Balalaika Society was founded in And listen to the balalaika. 1988 and in recent years has been bolstered by the addition ” of the balalaika master Andrei Saveliev. A native of Saint Saveliev chose to work with twelve-year-old Aaron Mott, Petersburg, Russia, Saveliev trained as a balalaika soloist at the of Burke, Virginia. Already one of the master’s most prized Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. Because of his remarkable students, Mott was just eleven when his apprenticeship artistry and dedication to carrying on his craft, VFH selected began but had been playing the balalaika since he was him to participate in the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship three. He joined his first orchestra as a kindergartener. (The Program, which pairs masters and apprentices in a wide range Apprenticeship Program is not for beginners.) Inspired by his of Virginia folkways. grandmother, Jan Bohm, who also plays in the Washington Balalaika Society, Mott says that studying with Saveliev While the Folklife Apprenticeship Program has long included is a once in a lifetime opportunity. “Music is my life,” he master practitioners of traditions more commonly associated says. “Nothing will ever change that. I will never tire of this with Virginia, such as bluegrass fiddling and Appalachian instrument.” ballad singing from southwestern Virginia, gospel and blues music from the Piedmont, and split-oak basket making and Mott describes Saveliev’s teaching style as caring but tough. other crafts, it has also maintained a strong commitment to “American teachers tend to always tell you how good you’re including traditional arts brought to the state by immigrants doing,” he says. “The Russian style is different. Andrei keeps and refugees. The program strongly asserts that such expressive pushing me to perfect my style, to be the best I can be. So traditions—while new to Virginia, often centuries old—are in when he says, ‘That was good,’ you know he means that it fact Virginia folklife. The cultural contributions of immigrant was perfect.” communities are essential to the diverse cultural fabric of Virginia and the nation. Other recent Folklife apprentices have For his part, Saveliev describes his participation in the Folklife studied Cambodian costume making, Hindustani singing, Apprenticeship Program as “awesome.” “I really came to Kathak dancing, Mongolian mask making, Sephardic Jewish feel spiritually connected with the entire program,” he says. ballad singing, and other traditions from around the globe. “I realized at the showcase that this was part of something larger than just my work with Aaron. I had never had the Since 2002, the work produced by these master-apprentice opportunity to see the culture of all these different types pairings has been featured annually at one of VFH’s most of communities. It was a thrill because I see that the same popular events, the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase. passion runs through it all.” This year, on May 15, more than 1,200 people came to James Monroe’s Highland to hear old-time jams, taste Brunswick To LEARN MORE about the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship stew, witness a race of champion oyster shuckers, and watch Program, visit VirginiaFolklife.org. The 2017 Virginia Folklife traditional blacksmithing. Apprenticeship Showcase will take place on Sunday, May 7, at James Monroe’s Highland. p 23 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE OPPOSITE BELOWOPPOSITE Virginia Folklife masterartist Andrei Savelievplays thebalalaika. PhotobyPatJarrett. hearing thisrecord, The Red Army Chorus of the U.S.S.R., whenshelived inEurope withhersoldier husband.PhotobyPatJarrett. AaronABOVE Mott's balalaika.PhotobyPatJarrett. JanBohmsaidshe TOP fellinlovewithbalalaikamusic after OPPOSITE 4 Echoes of Little Saigon: Southeast Asian Immigration and the Changing Faces of VFH Arlington, Virginia 27 CULTURAL AFFAIRS DIVISION OF ARLINGTON COUNTY 4 A full-color booklet and community forum documents the

21 history of the Little Saigon neighborhood and Clarendon commercial center—a hub of community life for newly arrived immigrants to the D.C. area fleeing South Vietnam 3 after the fall of Saigon in 1975—which opened doors for GRANTS 11 future immigrant groups who contribute to Arlington’s VFH supported these humanities projects between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. To LEARN MORE about the Grants Program, visit thriving diversity.

VirginiaHumanities.org/Grants. 34 Ethical Dilemmas in the Digital Age 6, 12, 13, 23, 25, 29 VMI RESEARCH LABS 35 The rapid introduction of new technologies has created 20, 34 equally new ethical dilemmas in national policy and in 34 society. The complex ramifications of rapid technological 28 1 26 change were examined in a public conference held at Virginia 5 Military Institute (VMI) in March 2016. 7 30 24 14 16 19 Hidden Virginia History: The Connection 18 8 15 Between Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippines NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY 17 10 Buffalo Soldiers (African American Cavalry regiments) 32 were recruited by the U.S. military to serve in the Philippine American War from 1899 – 1902, and many of them felt 33 19 solidarity with the Filipinos they encountered. An exhibit and 9 22 2 public panel discussion explores the little-known story of this 31 shared history.

1 Amherst Glebe Arts Response – Edgar Allan Poe: Central Virginia’s 13 Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection – First People: Indigenous 23 Piedmont Council for the Arts – A Repository of Missing Places Gothic Son Writers from Australia and North America 24 Richmond Jazz Society – Jazz in Virginia: The Early Years, 1900- 30 Commemorating Virginia’s WWI Dead 2 Chestnut Creek School of the Arts – Music-Making Heritage Events 14 Library of Virginia – A State of Many Nations: Religious Diversity 1949 (exhibit) UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND 3 Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program – A State of and Immigration in Virginia 25 Senior Center – Lovell Coleman: Charlottesville’s 92-Year-Old Fiddle This project involves students and community members in Many Nations: The Many Faces of Harrisonburg 15 Local Colors – A State of Many Nations: Harvest of Empire, The Player 4 Cultural Affairs Division of Arlington County – Echoes of Little Untold Story of Latinos in America 26 St. George’s Parish Churches – A State of Many Nations: Hearing the documentation of hundreds of memorials to lost WWI Saigon: Southeast Asian Immigration and the Changing Faces of 16 Lynchburg College – Violence and Community: Exploring Hate with Our Hearts, The Music of Migration servicemen throughout the Commonwealth and the collection Arlington, Virginia 17 Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library Foundation – Nannie Berger 27 The Dream Project – A State of Many Nations: Forty Years of of biographies of Virginia’s WWI veterans. The resulting 5 Foundation for Historic Christ Church – Robert Carter III and the Hairston Oral History Project Freedom, Celebrating the Experiences and Legacy of Immigrant 1791 Deed of Emancipation 18 National D-Day Memorial – Black History Month Program with Communities in Arlington website and lesson plans will be used by educators to enrich 6 Fractured Atlas – Presentation of Son Jarocho Music and Culture Linda Hervieux 28 The Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society – Eastern Shore understanding of Virginians’ service in the Great War. from Veracruz, Mexico 19 Norfolk State University – The Arc of Social Justice: From 1619 to Virginia Historical Society Black History Month Celebration: 7 FrancisEmma – Belmead New Museum Exhibits Plan the 1965 Voting Rights Act and Beyond “Downstairs At Ker Place” 8 Friends of Breaks Park – The Breaks: Centuries of Struggle Norfolk State University – A State of Many Nations: Immigration 29 The Fellowship for Intentional Community – Saving the Past 31 The 1963 Danville Civil Rights Movement: The 9 Friends of Chevra T’helim – Tidewater Jewish Immigration: Unique and the Changing Face of Virginia 30 University of Richmond – Commemorating Virginia’s WWI Dead Protests, the People, the Stories Spices in America’s Melting Pot Norfolk State University – Hidden Virginia History: The Connection 31 UVA Curry School of Education – The 1963 Danville Civil Rights UVA CURRY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 10 Hampton University – The Aberdeen Gardens Historic District Oral Between Buffalo Soldiers and the Philippines Movement: The Protests, the People, the Stories History and Mapping Project 20 Norman Lane Jr. Memorial Project – Anatomy of a War Experience: 32 Virginia Children’s Book Festival – Parent Programs In 1963 Danville civil rights protesters met a violent backlash. 11 James Madison University – Journeying Together: Building Norman Lane Jr. and Stephen D. Joyner, the Marine Corps, and 33 Virginia Wesleyan College – Entangled Identities: Legacies of 1619 A photography exhibit, now on view in Danville, and related Intercultural Parental Relations within Dual Immersion Programs Vietnam, 1967-1968 34 VMI Research Labs – Ethical Dilemmas in the Digital Age conference programs explore their protracted legal struggle and the James Madison University – Spatial History in the Public Square: 21 Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association at the Athenaeum – Women 35 Ward Foundation – Chincoteague, Virginia Decoys and Makers: Maps, Image, & Archives in the Community of Alexandria, from Antebellum to the 20th Century Exhibit and Book campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern 12 James Monroe’s Highland (formerly Ash Lawn-Highland) – Sharing 22 Philippine Cultural Center – Honoring Our Bayanis (Heroes): Christian Leadership Conference in that city. the Stories: Visitor Brochures and Interpretation at Ash Lawn- Filipino-American Military Service Veteran’s Panel and Photo Exhibit Highland 19

4 30 31 34 p 27 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE Indecent. Photo © Carol Rosegg, 2015. AdinaVersonOPPOSITE andKatrina LenkinPaula Vogel’s killing itschildren. Jersey town fought againstthepollution—andpolluters— 2014 award inGeneral Nonfiction, explained how oneNew book talked about his long career in journalism. Dan Fagin, whose Rick Atkinson, amilitaryhistorianandthree-timewinner, of shows featuringprizewinners. the PulitzerPrize, WGRisproducing “Pulitzer100,” aseries focus. To helpcommemorate thisyear’s 100thanniversary of has allowed theprogram—briefly, atleast—to expand its grant fromthePulitzerPrizeCentennialCampfires Initiative Virginia-based scholars andacademics. However, a$125,000 program andpodcast, generally consistsofinterviews with That’s because WGR, anaward-winning weekly publicradio a chance to.” talk to so many amazing people we would never otherwise get W Toms River: A StoryofScienceandSalvation won the INTERVIEWS Prize program andpodcast, “is that itletsus With GoodReason(WGR ) radio says Sarah McConnell, hostof VFH’s hat Ilove aboutthePulitzerproject,” BY BRENDANWOLFE a betterinterviewer.” but alsoproudofmyself. Somehow she managedtomake me pre-interview withherfeelingnotjustthatshewas agenius, incredible teacher, andItotally getit. Icameaway frommy and you feellike you areapartofit. She’s known tobean other world andyou desperately want tobeapartofit— hooked,” Quantzsays. “While shetalks, shebuildsthis “When Ifirstsaw aninterview withherI was instantly that explores difficultissuessuch aspedophiliaandincest. Pulitzer PrizeinDrama for HowILearnedtoDrive, aplay In particular, Quantz mentions Paula 1998 the Vogel, won who and whatoccupiestheirmind.” who arewillingtotalkmoregenerally aboutwhothey are not justtalkinginterestingly about theirwork, butalsopeople to findpeoplewhocangive usthose ‘driveway moments.’ So who willconnectwithanaudienceviaradio. I’ve beentrying incredible thinkers,” Quantz says. “So I have to really focus on Which was easiersaidthandone. “Obviously, they’re all past winnersandfigureoutwho would give usthebestinterviews.” producer Allison Quantz. Ithasbeenherjobtolookatallthese Toms River, “and thecreditgoestoFagin, butalsotoour “That was anamazingstory,” McConnellsays, referringto Pulitzer100 series,visitWithGoodReasonRadio.org. To with oneguestwhohasnotyet beenannounced. fiction, willbefeaturedontheshow laterinthe year, along winner in music; and Junot Díaz, a 2008 award-winner in 2007 award-winner inpoetry;CarolineShaw, a2013award- won the2015PulitzerPrizeinHistory. Natasha Trethewey, a Heart ofthe World: A HistoryoftheMandanPeople, which interviewed ElizabethFenn, authorofEncountersatthe In additionto Atkinson, Fagin, and Vogel, WGRhas clicked instantly.” surprised sheisby Paula’s warm andopenpresence. They “but you canhearintheinterview how delightedand connect. “I thinkSarah was alittleunsure,” Quantzadmits, She was worried aboutwhethersheandMcConnellwould Still, Quantz says that Vogel was “kind of dark and edgy.”

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The PulitzerPrizeCentennialCampfires $1.5 millioninfundingtoforty-sixstate production inWashington, D.C.,ofthe artistic valuesthePrizesrepresent. The American HistoryGuys.TheCampfires Pulitzer PrizeBoard partnered withthe VFH radioprogram BackStorywiththe Initiative aimstoignitebroad engage- ment with the journalistic, literary,ment withthejournalistic, and Federation ofStateHumanitiesCoun- Virginia FestivaloftheBook,aspecial drew W. MellonFoundation,theFord Foundation, Carnegie Corporationof Foundation, Carnegie cils toinspire yearlongprogramming Initiative granttoVFHalsofundeda throughout thecountrybyawarding broadsides produced attheVirginia New York, theJohnS.andJamesL. humanities councils.Theinitiativeis Knight Foundation,andthePulitzer Arts oftheBookCenter, andalive two-part program duringthe2016 supported bygrantsfrom theAn- Centennial-edition trioofpoetry The Pulitzer Turns 100 Prize Board.

Among other things, the play and exhibit show how the lives of so-called ordinary people can emerge vividly from archives and public records.

They also demonstrate the importance of preserving private documents—the kind often found in shoeboxes, drawers, and attics; in bundles at estate sales; or, tragically, in trash bins when someone dies or a family moves.

Anne Thom left behind a trove of letters now at the Virginia Historical Society. The stories of Betty and Parker Pitts are documented in the National Archives Pension Files and Accomack County’s Order Books. There are other examples, too.

Mary Graves came to the Eastern Shore in 1860 to teach at Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Pitts was born into slavery near Onancock, on Virginia’s the Locustville Academy, which was closed by Union troops Eastern Shore. In 1853, she married Parker Pitts, a free man, although the state did after she refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to the United not legally recognize their union. Parker Pitts was killed in 1864 while serving with States. Her challenge to the oath’s legitimacy sparked a the 9th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops. Defying the conventions of the time, colorful exchange of letters with the Union general Benjamin his widow later sought (and won) a pension from the federal government. F. Butler. Parts of her story are found in Butler’s papers at the

Library of Congress. In the spring of 1861, Anne Parker Thom was managing a household near Eastville that included thirty enslaved men, women, and children. But as the war dragged on A woman known only as Miss Lizzie B. ran a “house of and her fortunes dwindled, she took in boarders and borrowed money to pay for her entertainment” that was patronized by Union troops, daughter’s burial. When Thom’s husband returned home after four years as a Confederate including a Lieutenant Moore of the 2nd Delaware Regiment. surgeon, she wrote, “[he] thinks I look very old. He little knows the load of care He showed up at Miss Lizzie’s one night “quite drunk,” which has rested upon me for the last four years …” threatened her with a pistol, ransacked her belongings, and rode off with an armload of dresses. The next morning, These women, and eight others, are the focus of a recent effort to bring the Civil Lizzie went to the headquarters of General Henry Lockwood, War voices of Eastern Shore women to light. A VFH grant to the Eastern Shore commander of the occupation forces, and reported what had of Virginia Historical Society supported the project, Stronger Than Steel, which happened. Moore was eventually court-martialed and an culminated in an exhibit that ran from March through June 2016 and a dramatic account of Lizzie’s story is found in the National Archives. performance that was held on May 20, 21, and 22.

At the opening performance of Stronger Than Steel, at The script for the performance was drawn largely from public records and the Long silenced voices Onancock’s North Street Playhouse not far from where Betty women’s own diaries and letters. Based on the research of Kellee Blake, the retired Pitts had been enslaved, many in the audience were moved to literally spilled forth

THE FUTURE director of the National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region, it was written by her in tears. The actresses were all cast from the local community. collaboration with a team of local historians and advisors. The staging was simple, but the impact was strong and as I untied the immediate, as if those whose lives and voices were being “ The Eastern Shore was occupied by Union troops beginning in November 1861. ‘government red tape’ honored had found a way to speak again. There were no major battles there, but the war’s impact was keenly felt, by women in particular. It’s a complicated and heretofore largely hidden part of Eastern Shore binding them since DISCOVER

The success of Stronger Than Steel is a tribute to Kellee history, one that required an unusual combination of sensitivity, imagination, and Blake and the other members of the project team. It is also a 1865. There are still meticulous research to uncover. testament to the richness that lies hidden or sometimes hiding countless equally in plain sight in archives, libraries, and historical societies; and to the importance of preserving primary documents remarkable stories

THE PAST, in a culture defined by rapid change. It is, furthermore, a testament to the power of women’s voices as keys to a full waiting to be told. understanding of the past. KELLEY BLAKE, ARCHIVIST, AUTHOR To LEARN MORE about the VFH Grants Program, visit STRONGER THAN STEEL . EXPLORE VirginiaHumanities.org/Grants ” OPPOSITE Eastern Shore residents (left to right) Laura Chuquin-Naylor, Teri Betz, Leslie Drewer, and Carol Vincent portray, respectively, Anne Parker Thom, “Lizzie B,” Tabitha Harmanson, and Susan LeCato in the May 2016 production of Stronger Than Steel. Photo courtesy of Teri Bliss and North Street Playhouse. ABOVE Tabitha Snead Harmanson, Self-portrait, ca. 1865, from the exhibit Stronger Than Steel. Photo p courtesy of Mrs. Leon Cann and Kellee Green Blake. 29 BY BRENDAN WOLFE BY SARAH LAWSON A CULTURE OF CURLY FRIES LITER ACY: The Virginia Festival of the Book PREDICT THE FUTURE and Adult Learners

In “Where Are You Going?” Briana Chrispin describes how, give the stage over to people who are still learning to write for her, attending school as a kid had little to do with learning. and who are just being introduced to the kinds of freedom “[S]chool was just a place where teachers talked a lot about and opportunity that literacy can offer.” things I hardly understood,” she writes. “A place I enjoyed n talks she gives around the country, Jen Golbeck gender, and personality to your friends and absolutely looked forward to recess and lunchtime.” Each year writers submit stories for the anthology, which marvels, and even cringes a little, at what it means politics, religion, and sexual are in turn reviewed by Erno and a team of volunteer judges. for so much of our lives to be lived on social orientation. Just in the past Reading? Math? She didn’t know why such things mattered, Together, they rank submissions and decide which will be media. A computer scientist, Golbeck introduces few years the science has although that changed. The realities of life intruded and now collected in the anthology that is released in paperback each her audiences to what she calls the Curly Fry advanced so much that Chrispin, who is nineteen and lives in Albemarle County, spring during the Festival. This year also marked the release Conundrum. To wit: At some point, someone the data can even predict understands that with an education “we can grow stronger of a twentieth-anniversary collection of essays. created a Facebook page dedicated to curly fries—a the future. and brighter. We have so many capabilities.” kind of spicy, helical french fry—and scientists have since determined These anthologies include unforgettable stories from the local that a correlation exists between “liking” that particular page and “It’s getting really creepy,” Golbeck Chrispin’s short essay appeared this year in the twentieth community but also from around the world. Seica Balak’s high intelligence. said. “We can now know things about edition of Voices of Adult Learners, a publication of Thomas essay “A Life Story” first appeared in the 2002 edition and is you that you yourself don’t know because Jefferson Adult and Career Education (TJACE). Chrispin and reprinted in the anniversary collection. It’s about waiting for So does this mean that smart people generally like deep-fried they haven’t happened yet. The science is really powerful.” other contributors also read their work at VFH’s Virginia her husband to return home from the war in Kosovo. It’s also potatoes? Or maybe they just like stuff you can find at Arby’s. Do Festival of the Book—the Voices of Adult Learners reading about violence and fear. the less intelligent like waffle fries? What about people who crave For instance, one study focused on Twitter users who announced filled the auditorium at the Jefferson School African American sweet potato fries? that they had begun attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Heritage Center in Charlottesville. TJACE and the Festival “Seica has had a stroke and no longer speaks,” Erno says, “but THE FUTURE By studying those users’ tweets along with the tweets of those they have long collaborated to celebrate writers who are working her story is still here. She was in the audience and heard the Golbeck, who directs the Social Intelligence Lab at the University of followed and those who followed them, scientists could predict to develop basic literacy skills, including recent immigrants, overwhelming response as her daughter read on her behalf. Maryland, will be the 2016 plenary speaker at edUI, a conference with 95 percent accuracy whether the users would remain sober adult learners, and other English-language learners associated Stories last forever.” for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, and for ninety days. Another Twitter study predicted with 80 percent with TJACE, which serves Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, museums. Organized by VFH, the conference will be held October accuracy whether new mothers on Twitter would experience post- Louisa, and Nelson counties, and the city of Charlottesville. Resilience and community—that’s what Erno hopes will linger

24–26 in Charlottesville. Golbeck will speak on October 26. partum depression. after reading the stories. “I hope these stories become part of DISCOVER

“Voices of Adult Learners includes everyone,” Susan Erno, the our collective community consciousness,” she says. “We need In a phone interview, she explained that no, this correlation between “I’m still kind of shocked at how well the science can predict program’s regional manager, explains. “All adult education to know them as much as the writers need to tell them.” curly fries and high intelligence actually has nothing to do with curly behavior,” Golbeck said. “The lesson I’ve learned is that it’s more and literacy programs contribute—involving everyone from fries. Instead, it has to do with something called homophily—people powerful than I would have thought. It has become really hard to hide.” long-time Virginians to newcomers. It is a very personal To LEARN MORE about the Virginia are friends with people like them. “Whoever created that curly fries reminder of the breadth of our community and the many Festival of the Book, visit VABook.org. THE PAST, page on Facebook happened to be smart,” Golbeck said. “And his To LEARN MORE about edUi, visit edUiConf.org. talents people with less formal education have to share.” The 2017 Festival will take place friends are smart. And their friends are smart.” To WATCH Jen Golbeck’s Ted Talk visit: http://ow.ly/wamy300nuoy March 22–26 in Charlottesville “What we love about this program,” says Jane Kulow, and Albemarle County. “Likes” on Facebook are just one kind of dataset that computer Virginia Festival of the Book program director, “is that it scientists can mine to learn more about social media users. In fact, really expands what we’re about as a Festival. We have EXPLORE Golbeck said, all of your online behavior—what you like but also what Pulitzer Prize–winning authors and best-sellers. But we also you purchase and search for—can betray everything from your age, RIGHT Voices of Adult Learners writer Briana Chrispin reads her work at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 17, 2016. Photo by Chip King. p 32 p 33 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE September 2,2007. PhotobyMorgan Miller. MasterPiedmont bluesguitaristJohnCephas on ABOVE Discoverycalled Virginia.” “Now I’mhelpingtocreatesomethingnew,” Perdue says. “It’s But thiswork haslargely wound down. provides Americans unprecedentedaccesstotheirhistory. University of Virginia Pressandvarious papersprojects, now the payoff. Founders Online, created in collaboration with the Ball boxing chocolates, tryingnottofallbehind—butsowas huge—Perdue sometimes jokingly equated herselfto Lucille website hostedby theNational Archives. The projectwas and documentsrelatedtotheFounding Fathers intoafree dollar projectthatfunneledthousandsofpagesletters with DocumentsCompassshehelpedleadamultimillion- she has. 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Bryan11 Irving H.Brownfield 6+ Katharine L.Brown 3 Rebecca Bronson Louis Brenner John D.Bonvillian Mary Blanchard andPeterBlake11 June E.andJohnBattaile I.Barton William Elizabeth StarkBarton 5 Sara LeeBarnes 11 Miles Barnes Ronald Barliant David M.Ballard Marie ColesBaker5 Larry andPatriciaBaker Douglas H.BakerandJulieRichter3 + Deceased Brad andMeredith Gunter 26 Maggie GuggenheimerandBlairAmberly Doniphan C.Guggenheimer Warren O.Groves Jackie andAlanGropman 8 Carol Gronstal 3 George D.Greenia 6 Heywood L.Greenberg Diane M.andRogerL.Gray Edith B.Good Patricia A.GoochandMichaelB.Dowell Lynn Gongaware Nikki Giovanni3 Gretchen M.Gillen7 Atalissa S.Gilfoyle Struthers andFrederick Gignoux3 Jennifer BillingslyandMatthewS.Gibson11 Phyllis andJamesGaskins Pamela andChristopherGale3 Emily Gadek Lilia Fuquen3 Gary andJoyceFunston3 Funderburk J. Vic Elizabeth R.Fuller3 Leslie H.Friedman F.Vivian 3 Forman Jane V. Ford Bette andCharlesFlickinger Stephen L.Fisher5 Brenda Fishel5 Judith L.Fike Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau We aregrateful for significant ongoingsupportfromthe following federal, state, andlocalentities. Commonwealth of VirginiaCommonwealth City ofCharlottesville County of Albemarle County GOVERNMENT Judith andJeffrey Kirwan7 Gary andEvelynKessler Jane W. Kerewich Barbara M.Keenan4 Francis A.Kasper Heather S.KarpandIraW. Herbst3 Lynn andEdward Kable Jay L.Joslin11 Lewellyn andDanielP. Jordan Joan S.Jones5 J. Ford JohnstonJr. 4 Carolyn W. Johnson6 Pat Jarrett Flora Jacobson Joe W. andKathyM.Jackson Anke andJ.M.RussellJackson Martha IrbyHunt Hal andDelHoran David L.Holmes6 Ronald Hoffman 23 Mary Buford andFred Hitz10 Wendy andJayHirsh7 James H.HershmanJr. 4 Carol A.Hendrix22 Carolyn Hemphill Aaron Heinsman Peter M.Hedlund Shelia HaugheyandJ.LloydSnook Linda Hartman Cathryn Hankla Gayle H.Haglund Photo byPatJarrett. 2016. October in binding Quarto the nippingpress onaBad BELOW Yolanda Merrill,VABC memberandinstructor, uses National Endowment for theHumanities National Endowment for the Arts Universityof Virginia Maurice D.Marsolais8 Reggie andLauraMarshall4 Jane N.andPreston C.Manning 3 Katherine G.andJohnW. Mallett Ann H.Mallek3 Robert andChristyMajors Elliott Majerczyk 11 Zanne O.Macdonald11 Margaret M.MacAvoy 5 Donna LuceyandHenryWiencek Joan Losen6 Ann andGeorge Loper Marsha andIvanLogin6 Elizabeth J.Lipscomb21 Brenda D.Lipscomb James R.LindseyJr. Hortense M.Liberti David W. Levy10 Lauranett L.Lee Page R.Laws Lappley10 Donald andMarney Ludwig Kuttner6 Jane andRickKulow4 A. RobertKuhlthau David andMcCrea Kudravetz4 Geraldine D.Kruger9 Dale andElizabethKostelny Gregg A.Korbon John T. KneeboneandElizabethRoderick16 Lee C.Kitchin23 Mary andDonaldKirwan p 38 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE organizations. The following organizationshave madeagift of$3,000ormoretospecific VFHprograms. 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HolleyWatts Nancy D.Waldman 5 Varian MedicalSystems University ofVirginia, Women, Gender University ofVirginia, Virginia Center Theology University ofVirginia, TheProject onLived University ofVirginia, OfficeofthePresident University ofVirginia, NauCenterfor University ofVirginia, McIntire DepartmentofArt University ofVirginia, DepartmentofPolitics University ofVirginia, OfficeoftheProvost University ofVirginia, OfficeforDiversity Rachel andDanielUnkefer3 Tupelo Press Jeannie andPhilPalin17 National EndowmentfortheArts Maurice andLauraLohman Kate Waller Barrett ChapterNSDAR 4 Sally M.andStephenA.Herman Laura F. Hawthorne Jean Haskell Cary andDeanFerguson 8 Susan andMichaelColeman28 Carl Briggs4 Paddy Bowman8 Bama Works, LLC Anonymous Virginia Folklife Program and SexualityProgram for theStudyofReligion Civil War History Provostand Vice fortheArts and Equity 2015 RichmondFolkFestival.PhotobyPatJarrett. 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VFH isgrateful for theinterestofthesedonorsandtheirsupport VFH’s mission. Charlottesville Tomorrow WINA, The Corner, Z95 Ms. BonnieBernstein Carolyn and Alex Bell Ms.Kristin Adolfson Mr. Richard Cappuccio Charlottesville Weekly CharlottesvilleFamily A PimentoCatering Ms.Kay Alexander Mr. Josef S. Beery Cardboard Safari Arley Cakes CitySpace 11 10 9 GIFTS IN-KIND Catherine and W.Catherine TuckerLemon Gearharts FineChocolates, Inc. Peyton and William Lewis Mr. Kevin J. McFadden Milli Joe CoffeeRoasters The ParamountThe Theater Ivy PublicationsLLC Ms. ElizabethJ. Peak Ms. Janet U. Eden Read It Again, Sam The Daily Progress Ms. LanaLambert Ms. Kathy Kildea Relay Foods NBC 29 Feast! 5 16 4 4 University of Virginia, Departmentof WMRA & WEMC PublicRadio Rosel andElliotSchewel WVPT/VirginiaPublic TV Route 11Potato Chips R. Andrew Wyndham Ms. Rachel J. 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Fried Author Wendy Shang shares a laugh with a reader at the 2016 Virginia Festival of the Book after the panel the after Book the of Festival Virginia 2016 the at reader a with laugh a shares Shang Wendy Author CORNERSTONE SOCIETY contribute totheexpansion ofpublichumanitiesandscholarship in Virginia. Robert C. Nusbaum Daniele C. Struppa Michael Jay Green Jerome S. Handler Elizabeth P. Piper Sheryl B. Hayes Susan Gaeta Richard T. andMarthaR. Wilson Jorgen andLaura Burkhardt Vik Robert C. andEllenP. Vaughan William andJeanne Wiley Elizabeth Louise YoungElizabeth Mary EllenStumpf Thad W. Tate p 44 EXPLORE THE PAST, DISCOVER THE FUTURE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HONORARY AND MEMORIAL GIFTS HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AT JUNE 30, 2015 In Honor of Brian Balogh In Honor of Jane B. Kulow Charles Trocano Michael Balogh John Halliday Katherine B. and Craig A. Winn Leigh B. Middleditch Eric and Diane Lawson In Honor of Robert C. 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Miller and Harold G. In Honor of Elijah William Morgan Jean Taylor Federico Compensated Absences, net of $174,728 Current Portion Leggett Jr. Juliana Morgan Media Equipment $230,045 Furniture and Office Equipment $135,719 Total Liabilities $750,580 In Honor of VFH Fellows Computers and Software $305,308 In Honor of Monica Bhide In Honor of Bettie Shields Reyes Ann White Spencer Other Equipment $12,043 Net Assets Brian Damp Angelita Reyes Sub-total $709,742 Unrestricted $3,902,542 In Honor of Kathleen Curtis Wilson Less: Accumulated Depreciation (629,815) Temporarily Restricted $1,512,819 Permanently Restricted $431,976 In Honor of Bob and Liz Blue In Memory Dr. Gerald Rozan and Perlista Henry Total Fixed Assets $79,927 Joseph K. Reid III Deborah and Joel Kovarsky Jean Haskell Total Net Assets $5,847,337 Other Assets Total Liabilities and Net Assets $6,597,917 In Honor of David and Ellen Brown In Memory of Keen Ryan In Honor of R. 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