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V ir g inia F o l k life A pprenti c eship P r o g ra m 2006-2007 Master Flatpick Guitarist Scott Fore and Apprentice Cheryl Lunsford of Radford.

Tobacco Auctioneer Master Bob Cage and Apprentice Jim Crawford of Halifax County.

Traditional Fiber Arts Master Sandra Bennett and Apprentice Linda Wright of Tazewell County.

Bluegrass Singing Master Linda Lay and Apprentice Lea Strickland of Winchester.

Hewn Log House Construction and Pioneer Crafts Master Charles McRaven and Apprentices Willy Lehmann and Daniel Malcolm of Albemarle County.

Automobile Pinstriping Master Tom VanNortwick and Apprentice Andrew Elder of Henry County.

Mandolin Master Herschel Sizemore and Apprentice Spencer Blankenship of Roanoke.

Old Regular Baptist Hymn Singing Master Reverend Frank Newsome of Buchanan County.

Since its inception in 1988, the Virginia V F H S pe c ial P r o j e c ts 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 Folklife Program American Shakespeare Center Educational program using English literature, history has been one of the and theater. best-loved and most Ash Lawn Opera Festival President’s Letter...... 2 Educational programs. publicly accessible Haitian Studies Association Annual Conference VFH Highlights...... 5 programs at the Annual conference to promote informed discussions and analyses of the country’s culture, arts, history, economy, VFH Grants...... 8 Virginia Foundation and politics. VFH Fellows...... 17 for the Humanities. The Quest Institute Purchase of 5000 dictionaries for incarcerated men and women VFH Donors...... 18 in Virginia prisons. Statement of Financial Position...... 27 Virginia Association of Museums Program Support. VFH Board and Staff...... 28

 VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES P L E A S E DISTURB 2006-07  Have you ever read a book that changed your stories of native peoples, the Virginia Indians; on their own history and how that history The humanities often cause us to confront life? Have you ever heard a speaker whose of Africans who arrived in 1619 and their is interpreted. The 80-page book includes issues that disturb and unsettle us. That words inspired you to action? Have you ever descendents; of immigrants and refugees who histories of the eight Virginia tribes, an is certainly the case at the VFH Center on written anything that helped you grapple continue to settle here. We focused on the interpretive framework, and guides to Violence and Community (formerly the Hwith some inner issue, or told a story that complex history of the Commonwealth and historical and contemporary sites. Institute on Violence and cried out to be shared? If so, you know the on the issues and questions that continue to Survival) which studies the The Virginia Folklife Program transformative power of the humanities. confront Virginians, questions about identity long-term effects of violent at the VFH also made an and culture, local history and globalization, systems – social arrangements When called upon to define the humanities enormous contribution to the tradition and change. rooted in violence. Among (as my colleagues and I often are), we anniversary by partnering with other Fellows in Residence this frequently list disciplines: history, literature VFH efforts over the past decade have the Smithsonian Institution and year, VFH welcomed David and language, ethics and philosophy, and included targeted grant initiatives; academic Jamestown 2007 to present Niyonzima from Burundi, in the various legal, cultural, religious, and folk symposia on Pre-colonial and Colonial Virginia the Roots of Virginia on the central Africa and culturally traditions – past and present – that define the history and culture; radio programs on National Mall in Washington. similar to Rwanda. One of a few human experience. Virginia Indians and on European and African Many Virginians joined other to survive an assault in 1993 settlement; speakers and panels on colonial visitors from throughout the Somehow, though, that list is never by soldiers at his school, David history; and book and author discussions at United States and around the satisfactory, for it fails to get at the dynamic resolved to work to prevent and the Virginia Festival of the Book. world to experiences treasures nature of the humanities, the engagement treat the effects of violence, first of the Commonwealth. that prompts action on our part, that causes In this, the anniversary year, I am especially by understanding it and then us to investigate, speak, listen, read, reflect, pleased to announce the recent creation of Our efforts in 2007 reached by developing an intercultural, think, and act. the Virginia Indian Heritage Program at the beyond the Jamestown experience, interdisciplinary model of healing and VFH, to become home to ongoing research as well. reconciliation that uses story and history in PRESIDENT’SYet these verbs also seemLETTER inadequate. and a database and website; higher education a continuum of help for those affected by They don’t describe how we experience The VFH African American Heritage Program summits and institutes for teachers; violence. Dr. Niyonzima’s work will inform change through the humanities. We can launched a redesigned database and website, curriculum and tourism guides, and a grant future developments of the VFH Center. vfhbecome open, empathic, understanding, which includes more than 400 heritage sites program to fund tribes, intertribal groups, and compassionate; we may be disturbed, across Virginia; the database is designed to Encyclopedia Virginia (EV) has itself been museums, and other organizations to improve challenged, chastised, or enlightened. By challenge the public to explore Virginia’s transformed this year with the recruitment their interpretation of engaging the humanities, we grow. African American history and culture. The of historians and scholars to fill the “pages” Virginia Indian history. program also entered into partnership with of this rich resource. We expect this digital At the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, In June, VFH hosted the Legacy Museum of Lynchburg and IMLS to powerhouse to provide a transformational we seek to bring this transformational power Beyond Jamestown: create the Central Virginia Museum Network, way of looking at Virginia by using 21st- of the humanities to every program we Virginia Indians Past designed to strengthen programming and century technology to link scholarship and produce. We ask ourselves and our audiences & Present, the first exhibits among a consortium of African user stories, sound and video excerpts, images to question, interpret, observe, preserve, delve, statewide Teachers’ American museums. and maps, exhibits and lesson plans, advanced and explore in order to understand the past, Institute in Virginia to cross-referencing and search functions, and confront issues in the present, and shape a be developed and led In June, VFH hosted a meeting with 21 bibliographies for further research. promising future. by Virginia Indians, members of Virginia’s Latino community only the first of a to generate ideas and opportunities for All VFH programs encourage our constituents This mandate may be nowhere more clear The humanities series of institutes collaboration. Together we began exploring to experience the transformative power of than in the VFH response to the 400th sometimes cause for K-12 teachers on ways that the humanities can help educate the humanities. Please join us as we continue anniversary of the arrival of the English Virginia Indian history. Virginians about the diversity of Latino to explore the past, confront the present and and the establishment of the Jamestown us to confront peoples along side the diversity of Virginia shape the future. colony. Ten years ago, the VFH identified this issues that disturb The landmark traditions. I heard a desire for Latinos to tell event as having major significance, not just publication, The and unsettle us. their story, including the violence of migration for Virginia, but for the nation as a whole. Virginia Indian routes and the difficult and painful journeys Following our mission to help tell the untold Heritage Trail, created this year by the VFH involved in changing identities. They shared Robert C. Vaughan, III stories of Virginia, we sought the stories in partnership with the Virginia Council on their hopes for building community. President that took place beyond Jamestown – the Indians, reflects Virginia Indian perspectives

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j U L y 2 0 0 6 • ROOTS 2006 NEH Summer Seminar for Middle and High School Teachers Teaching the African Dimensions of the History and Culture of the Americas.

septe m ber 2 0 0 6 • Visitors from the China Association for International Friendly Contact visit VFH and Virginia. 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 • Staff and Board begin Strategic Planning and NEH Self-Assessment. hts • First Encyclopedia Virginia section editors g are hired and content acquisition begins.

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bookbag and maps goes live.

• Virginia Folklife Program (VFP) celebrates its annual Virginia Folklife vfh Apprenticeship Showcase.

• VFH hosts Donor Appreciation dinner in Williamsburg The VFH Center for the and at Historic Jamestowne. Book promotes books,

reading, literacy, and the o c t o ber 2 0 0 6 • Encyclopedia Virginia convenes its Advisory Board of literary life of Virginia. respected scholars. Our vision is that every • VFP partners with the Library of Virginia and the Virginian will have access National Council of Traditional Arts to curate the to books and reading and Working Arts of Virginia presentation at the National Folk Festival in Richmond. to the power that books

• VFH Virginia Arts of the Book Center holds second and reading provide Open House and Auction to celebrate printmaking, to shape and inform graphic media, and book arts. personal and civic life.

N O VE m B E R 2 0 0 6 • VFH website online donations feature goes live.

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n o ve m ber 2 0 0 6 m ar c h 2 0 0 7 • With Good Reason hosts appreciation event for Public • VFH Board alumni host reception in Richmond to Radio station managers. promote the Virginia Folklife Program.

• Staff and Board members attend National Humanities • Staff and Board participate in Humanities Advocacy Conference in Louisville, KY. Day in Washington, DC.

• UVA Press publishes Re-Imagining Ireland book. A pril 2 0 0 7 • VFP releases its 10th CD in the Crooked Road Music de c e m ber 2 0 0 6 Series, Elder Frank Newsome’s Gone Away With • VFH Grant Program supports publication of landmark a Friend. Guide to African American Historic Sites on the Eastern Shore. • Staff and Board participate in Humanities on the Hill in Sonia Manzano, who Washington, DC. • VFH Center for the Book receives grant from National portrays Maria on Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and • The Road to Disunion, (Vol. II Secessionists Triumphiant the television show Library Services in cooperation with the Arts Midwest 1854-1861) by William Freehling, VFH Senior Fellow for programs on The Great Gatsby. is released. Sesame Street, shares her books (No Dogs j anuar y 2 0 0 7 m a y 2 0 0 7 Allowed and A Box Full • VFH staff attend Humanities Advocacy Day at the • Virginia Indian Heritage Trail Booklet is released. General Assembly in Richmond. of Kittens), and poses • Broadcast of five-partEncounter: Virginia Indians Today for pictures at Virginia series by Humanities Feature Bureau is aired. februar y 2 0 0 7 Festival of the Book • VFH Center for the Book in partnership with the j une 2 0 0 7 in March. National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Daily, and the Folger Shakespeare Library host two public events • Double CD with extensive liner notes on The Music of in Charlottesville and Washington, DC - All I Have Is a Coal is released as result of VFH grant. Voice: A Celebration of W. H. Auden’s 100th Birthday. • VFH hosts Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past • African American Heritage Program launches database & Present, the first statewide Teachers’ Institute in website redesign. Virginia to be developed and led by Virginia Indians. In March, the VFH • Leaders from Central Virginia’s Latino community meet published the second • Motheread and Fatheread hosts second My United States workshop. at VFH. edition of Freedmen of • VFP partners with the Smithsonian Institution to Barbados: Names and m ar c h 2 0 0 7 present the Roots of Virginia program on the National Notes for Genealogical • Freedmen of Barbados: Names and Notes for Mall in Washington. Genealogical and Family History Research (Second and Family History. Edition: Revised and Enlarged), by VFH Scholar in • With Good Reason wins 2006 Virginia Association of Broadcasters Award for “Best Documentary/Public This book contains Residence Jerome S. Handler is released. Affairs Program” on Public Radio, with a program information on more • Virginia Festival of the Book features Virginia Indian entitled Race, Class & Katrina. writers and leaders and cumulative attendance tops than 1,800 Barbadians 20,000 for fourth year in a row. identified as freedmen in • Former VFH Fellows reunite at Virginia Festival of documentary sources. the Book in celebration of the Fellowship Program 20th Anniversary.

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Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County The Plains, VA Virginia Emigrants to Liberia $2,500 for the expansion of an existing database of Virginians — emancipated slaves and free blacks — who emigrated from Virginia to Liberia between 1820 and 1866. American Focus, Incorporated Charlottesville, VA Crooked Road Documentary $3,000 for the planning and pre-production costs for a 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 one-hour documentary film on theCrooked Road, Virginia’s Music Heritage Trail. American Focus, Incorporated Charlottesville, VA The Crooked Road Documentary Film Project $7,500 for research and planning for a one-hour documentary film rants on traditional string music of the Crooked Road, through Southwest Virginia from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the coalfields.

g American Shakespeare Center Staunton, VA Shakesfear and How to Cure It: A Teaching Intensive on Romeo and Juliet vfh $5,000 for a one-week teachers’ institute focusing on the teaching of Shakespeare and his use of language in relation to Virginia’s English standards of learning. Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division Arlington, VA Nauck Community Heritage Project DVD and Book $8,000 for production of a DVD and accompanying print publication documenting the history of Nauck, an African American neighborhood in Arlington. Arts Center In Orange Orange, VA Orange County’s African-American Schools: A Sense of Place in Education — Oral History Documentary $3,000 for production and promotion of a 45-minute DVD (video documentary) on African American schools and education in January 2007 saw Orange County. the completion of Association of American Geographers Washington, DC With Good Reason’s Geography and the Humanities Symposium five-partNew $5,000 for a three-day public symposium exploring the growing reciprocal influence between geography and the humanities, focusing on issues including globalization, space and place and the Perspectives on increasing use of tools such as GPS in humanities research. Jamestown series, Augusta County Historical Society Staunton, VA which was made In the Presence of Mine Enemies available as a CD $5,000 for research and script development for a one-hour documentary film on the Civil War, focusing on two communities, package in April. Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.

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Day O’Connor and will result in a publication, a – specifically Nansemond – history and culture. Barrier Islands Center Concord, VA collaborative effort involving the Council, the Journal Members of the Nansemond tribe are active Machipongo, VA of American History, and the Marshall-Wythe School participants and partners in this project. Carver-Price School Oral History Project of Law. Stories From the Barrier Islands of Virginia: An $3,000 for an oral history project focusing on Oral History interviews with former students, teachers and staff James River Association Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society Richmond, VA $9,650 for the first phase of a long-term oral history of the Carver-Price High School in Appomattox County, Onancock, VA project focusing on the former residents of Virginia’s and a series of DVDs based on these interviews. Chickahominy River — John Smith Trail Barrier Islands and their descendants. Onancock Signature, 2007 $10,000 for the establishment of an historic Water Chincoteague Cultural Alliance $2,500 for the publication of a history of the Town of Trail along the navigable portions of the Chickahominy Bath County Historical Society Chincoteague Island, VA Onancock, which is being produced to coincide with River, part of the larger Captain John Smith Historic the town’s observance of anniversary events in 2007. Warm Springs, VA Eastern Shore Native American Festival Water Trail project being developed during Virginia’s 400th anniversary. Connecting with the Past: Historical Inquiry in $2,500 for portions of a Native American Festival, Ferrum College Bath County Classrooms focusing on the tribes that were indigenous to what is Ferrum, VA now the Eastern Shore of Virginia at the time of English Journey Through Hallowed Ground $5,000 for a long-term initiative in which Bath County settlement and whose descendants and currents Virginia Rockabilly Research Project Waterford, VA teachers develop local history curricula and resource members still live there. $8,500 for research leading to an exhibit and related materials based on their own research into primary African American Historic Sites in the JTHG documents related to the history of Bath County. programs, including a music CD with interpretative Region Publication Chincoteague Island Library liner notes, on the history of “Rockabilly” music $10,000 for the publication of a book containing in Virginia. Berryville Main Street Chincoteague, VA information on one hundred African American historic Berryville, VA Chincoteague Island Community sites within the region covered by the Journey Through Fluvanna County Historical Society Hallowed Ground project. Roots of American Music Heritage Project Palmyra, VA $8,600 for an oral history project designed to $2,500 for a five-part lecture and performance- Fluvanna County Rosenwald Schools Project Legacy Museum of African discussion series exploring the origins and evolution of document the disappearing cultural traditions of $3,000 for development of a strategic plan to preserve American music. Chincoteague Island. American History and interpret the history of Fluvanna County’s five Lynchburg, VA remaining Rosenwald schools. Black History Museum and Cultural Center Christiansburg Institute Slave Cabin Documentation Christiansburg, VA of Virginia Fredericksburg Area Museum and $1,500 for archaeological and documentary research Richmond, VA The Rosenwald-CI Connection: Revising an on two nineteenth century slave cabins located within Cultural Center the current Lynchburg city limits. African American Trailblazers: On-Line History Fredericksburg, VA Commemorating 400 Years of the Black $3,000 for revisions and additions to an existing website on the history of Christiansburg Institute, The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia Library of Virginia Foundation Experience in Virginia focusing on extensive connections between $1,500 for a lecture by the noted journalist Juan Richmond, VA $8,000 for production of a traveling exhibit on African Christiansburg Institute and the beginnings of Williams, presented in conjunction with a traveling 2007 Virginia Women in History American history in Virginia, focusing on the lives of the Rosenwald School movements in Virginia exhibit on the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia. $2,500 for the cost of printing an interpretive poster twelve exemplary figures from the fields of politics, and nationwide. honoring eight Virginia women— past and present— finance, literature, music and sports. Halifax County Historical Society who have made important contributions to Virginia Christopher Newport University South Boston, VA and America. Blue Cow Arts Newport News, VA The Crossing of the Dan — The American Floyd, VA The Thieves of Baghdad Revolution in Southern Virginia Longs Chapel Preservation Society Workshop Porch at FloydFest $1,000 for a public lecture and book discussion $6,000 for production of an interpretative exhibit McGaheysville, VA $4,200 for a series of interpretative performances program featuring Matthew Bogdanes, author of The that tells the story of a significant Revolutionary War Zenda: A History of a Rockingham County focusing on Applachian gospel traditions, presented as Thieves of Baghdad, which deals with the theft and event in Halifax County – General Nathaniel Greene’s part of the 2007 FloydFest music festival. Black Settlement attempt to recover the antiquities taken from the Iraq crossing of the Dan River in 1781. $7,500 for the publication of a book on the history Museum during the fall of the city and of Saddam of Zenda, an African American community in Blue Ridge Music Center Hussein in April, 2003. Hampton University Rockingham County. Galax, VA Hampton, VA Restoring a Sense of Place Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Literature and the Black Author-2007 Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library Virginia Beach, VA $7,500 for a series of interpretative programs, to be $3,000 for two new programs in an ongoing Literary Lancaster, VA presented weekly from June through September 2007, Individual Freedom in the 21st Century Reading Series, featuring discussion with leading An Expanded Portrait of African Americans in focusing on the cultural history and musical traditions $2,000 for a public forum on Individual Rights in the African American authors. native to the communities of Virginia’s southern Blue 21st Century, presented in conjunction with an exhibit Lancaster County, VA 1830-1865 Ridge and Appalachian mountains. in which several of the original documents (including $8,900 for a community research project, resulting in Historic Fincastle, Inc. a searchable database, that focuses on the history of the Magna Carta) that created the foundations of Fincastle, VA Boat People SOS individual rights and democracy are displayed. enslaved families in Lancaster County, Virginia, during Falls Church, VA Oral History Pilot the period 1830-1865. $2,000 for a pilot oral history project focusing on the Vietnamese-American Cultural Odyssey cultural and social life of Fincastle, Virginia (Botetourt $1,500 for expansion of an interpretative photographic County) during the 20-year period from 1930-1950. exhibit documenting the stories of Vietnamese refugees and immigrant families and exploring the 30-year history of the Vietnamese American community in Northern Virginia.

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Montpelier Foundation Orange, VA Interpretive Display $2,000 to support development of interpretive signage for the recently discovered Madison-era agriculture complex at Montpelier. Montpelier Foundation Orange, VA Slave Descendant Reunion and Conference at James Madison’s Montpelier $5,000 for a reunion and conference bringing together the descendants of African Americans enslaved at Montpelier and neighboring plantations in Orange County with leading historians, African American scholars and the broader public. New York Foundation for the Arts New York, NY The Road to Civil War $8,000 for research and script development for a three-part PBS television series on the coming of the Civil War, focusing in particular on events in Virginia. Norfolk State University Foundation, Inc. Norfolk, VA Voices from Within the Veil, a Conference in Conjunction with Jamestown 2007 $5,000 for a three-day conference exploring the rights of African Americans in U.S. history, presented as one of eight Democracy Conferences designated by the Federal 2007 Commission. Pamplin Historical Park Petersburg, VA Encyclopedia Virginia Teacher Institute — Diverging Americas: Antecedents of the Civil War (EV) is a multi-year $8,000 for a one-week Institute for middle and high school teachers focusing on the causes of the American Civil War. project that will Park Partners, Inc. chronicle the heritage Gloucester, VA Gloucester History Video of Virginia through $1,500 for production of a documentary video on the history of Gloucester County, focusing in particular on Powhatan Indian the perspectives of history and culture. allboxed the radioethnically, media Radford University Radford, VA culturally,program T Oand COM E Sharing History: Documenting the Life of African Americans in Southwest Virginia from 1865 to 1965 linguistically diverse $4,000 for the publication of a book on the history of five African American communities whose ancestors are buried in Mountain peoples that have View Cemetery, near Radford. lived here and have Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center helped make the Clintwood, VA Dickenson County Heritage Music Project state what it is today. $3,500 for production and distribution of a music CD with interpretative liner notes exploring the musical legacy of Billy Gene Mullins, a well-known songwriter, performer and member of the influential Mullins family of Dickenson County, Virginia.

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James Agee Film Project Washington, DC Hampton, VA Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence $27,500 to produce the first environmental China-America Festival of Film and Culture Jamestown, 1607-2007: Historic Lecture Series Action Alliance Richmond, VA history ever made about a region of America, $8,000 to support the third annual China-American $1,000 to support a four-part lecture series in Academy Award-winner Sissy Spacek, and using Festival of Film and Culture, a four-day event exploring conjunction with the 2007 anniversary focusing on The Art of Surviving: Violence and Expression music and sound effects to tell the social, cultural various aspects of Chinese history and culture and the 17th century history of the Jamestown area and $6,000 to support a series of lectures and and environmental history of Appalachia. changes currently underway in China. subsequent archaeological work. development of an interpretative exhibit on the immediate and long-term effects of sexual violence Between Slavery and the Chain Gang and how the humanities can be useful in the “art” of Southern Documentary Fund Trees Virginia California Newsreel Durham, NC Charlottesville, VA surviving this experience. $27,500 to produce a 90-minute historical Flagship: William Francis Gibbs and the SS Remarkable Trees of Virginia Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence documentary examining convict leasing in the United States $5,000 to support research and documentation leading American South (1865-1928) and its relationship to the publication of a book connecting the most Action Alliance $5,000 for research and script development for a two- to slavery and modern penal policy. “remarkable” trees of Virginia with human history.. Richmond, VA part series of documentary films on the history of the ocean liner the SS United States, her designer Williams The Art of Surviving: Violence and Expression Wednesdays in Mississippi Francis Gibbs and the role of Virginia (Newport News) University of Virginia (Phase 2) Women Make Movies Charlottesville, VA in the rise of American sea power in the 20th century. $6,000 to support development of a traveling exhibit Virginia and Liberia: A Window into Slave and $27,500 to produce a feature length historical and website exploring the aftermath of sexual documentary about an interracial, interfaith Southern Educational Foundation Free Black Life in the Old Dominion — A Digital and domestic violence and the contributions the group of ordinary women who dared to cross the Atlanta, GA History Project humanities can make to the “art” of surviving it. color line during the turbulent summers of 1964 Jeanes Supervisors and African American $9,000 to support planning, research and development and 1965. Education in the Jim Crow South of humanities content devoted to the stories of Virginia State University Petersburg, VA $3,000 to support research leading to the creation of approximately 3,700 African American Virginians who a monograph-length article on the history of Jeanes left Virginia for Liberia between 1820 and 1865. The Petersburg Oral History Project teachers and their influence on African American $10,000 to support an oral history project including education in Virginia. Urban Alternatives Foundation more than one hundred interviews with local A History of Columbia Pike residents and a publication focusing on the Civil Southwest Virginia Public Library Rights movement in Petersburg and on Petersburg’s Virginia Wesleyan College $2,500 for a research and oral history project to contributions to the movement nationwide. Norfolk, VA Directors Group document the buildings, people and traditions of From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Abingdon, VA Columbia Pike in Arlington, one of the most ethnically Religious Authority in Colonial Virginia Lessons of Jamestown and culturally diverse neighborhoods in Virginia. Virginia State University Petersburg, VA $5,000 for twelve lecture discussion programs focusing $10,400 to support a series of lectures and book Virginia Association of Museums African American Agricultural Education on the role of religion in the lives of people living in discussions to be held at eight public libraries in Virginia during the Colonial Period. Southwest Virginia during 2007. Richmond, VA in Virginia 2007 Virginia Association of Museums $3,000 to support research focusing on the contributions of two of Virginia’s historically black Visual Arts Center of Richmond Steamboat Era Museum Conference Richmond, VA Irvington, VA colleges—Hampton University and Virginia State— $2,500 to support the participation of museum to agricultural training programs that served When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits Doorway to the Past professionals from Great Britain in the 2007 annual black farmers. of Wounded Women Veterans $7,500 for an oral history project to document the conference of the Virginia Association of Museums. Steamboat Era in Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay and $9,900 to support the creation of an exhibit including Virginia Tech photographic portraits and oral histories of women its tributaries. Virginia Association of Museums Blacksburg, VA Richmond, VA soldiers who have been wounded during their military African American Schools in Virginia during service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sully Historic Site The Virginia Museum Fundamentals Forum Chantilly, VA the Depression: A Teaching Resource for $10,000 to support a three-day intensive museum World Affairs Council of Greater Forgotten Road Brochure training program designed to serve the needs of staff, History and the Social Studies board members and key volunteers at small and $3,000 to support development of a website devoted Hampton Roads $2,000 for a brochure on the history of slavery and Virginia Beach, VA slave life at Sully Plantation in Fairfax County. emerging museums (including historic sites) statewide. to the subject of African American schools and education in Virginia during the Great Depression. Great Decisions 2007 Sultana Projects, Inc. Virginia Historical Society $4,500 to support an eight-part lecture discussion Chestertown, VA Richmond, VA Virginia University of Lynchburg series on current topics related to American foreign Lynchburg, VA policy, international relations and global affairs. The Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project Sweet Dreams — The Life and Times of Patsy $9,450 for an exhibit on John Smith’s explorations Cline Symposium Ota Benga, Lynchburg and the Pygmies: an of the Chesapeake Bay, to be displayed initially as $3,000 to support a three-day symposium on the life International Conference part of the Captain John Smith’s 400 Project’s of country music singer Patsy Cline, her musical legacy $9,000 to support the three-day international re-enactment voyage. and her influence on American popular culture. conference at Virginia University of Lynchburg, where Ota Benga lived and died in the early years of the 20th century.

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Lawrie Balfour Slavery, Gender, and Citizenship in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois University of Virginia

Kenneth Bilby Christmas with the Ancestors: Ethnographic Contributions to the Historiography of Jankunu Smithsonian Institution

Scott Casper

2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: African American Life at an American Shrine, from Slavery to Jim Crow University of Nevada ws Wayne Durrill o God’s Own Vengeance: Nat Turner and the Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831 University of Cincinnati

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Lincoln’s Room for Growth: A Great President’s Early Presidential Falterings VFH Senior Fellow

vfh Grace Hale Invisible People: Down and Out in Rural America University of Virginia

John Lowe Calypso Magnolia: The Caribbean Side of the South The Virginia Indian Louisiana State Edna and Norman Freehling Fellow in South Atlantic Studies Heritage Program will help redress Katherine McNamara From the First Beginning: A Literary Memory of Peter centuries of historical Kalifornsky and his Discovery of Writing Independent Scholar omission, exclusion, and David Niyonzima misrepresentation. It Trauma Healing and Reconciliation will create opportunities Bujumbura, Burundi for Virginians of all ages, Jack (Chip) Turner The Souls of Others: John Locke, Christian Mission, and as well as visitors to the Colonial America Princeton University state, to learn about the Henry Wiencek history and cultures of A Paradox to Posterity: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery VFH Affiliate Fellow Virginian Indian people and communities, past and present. Photo by Robert Llewellyn, ©2006. First published in Empires in The Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America

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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the benefactors whose gifts have helped support statewide programs and services in the past year. This list reflects donations made to the VFH from July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007. We have made every attempt to correctly list the names of each of our donors and supporters. If we have omitted

2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 or incorrectly listed your name, please accept our apology and know that your gift is appreciated. rs o V F H re c o g niti o n s o c ieties

ns 2006-2007 Humanities Associates The Humanities Associates recognizes individual donors of

o unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more annually. The VFH appreciates the support of these donors who provide flexible gifts which are applied to areas of greatest need. sp Anonymous David G. Baldacci & Mrs. J. D. A. Barr The Honorable L. Preston Bryant Jr. rs Andrew S. Chancey o Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Church

n Mr. and Mrs. David Crowe VFH Fellows, 2007 o Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus

d The Virginia Foundation John P. Fishwick Jr.

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Dillon Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust Dominion Johanna R. Drucker WCAV CBS 19/WVAW ABC 16/WAHU FOX 27 In memory of Ann Anstrom Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus Mr. and Mrs. John O. Wynne William W. Freehling WINA AM 1070 Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Barbara J. Fried WTJU 91.1 FM Charles M. Guthridge Michael Jay Green WVPT-TV Virginia’s Public Television D o n o rs and S p o ns o rs Harris Teeter Charles M. Guthridge The following giving categories are named for Walter A. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Hofheimer Honorary and Memorial Gifts individuals who, through the humanities, have changed Robert B. Livy Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale The following gifts were given in memory or in honor of the world in which we live. Whether historian, writer, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation a family member or friend. Mr. and Mrs. William C. 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Damiani producing gifts, they serve as the cornerstone for future Hurston...... $1,000 - $2,499 Zora Neale Hurston Society Anonymous growth and contribute to the expansion of public In memory of her parents, Tom and Hilda Coble Carson...... $500 - $999 humanities and scholarship in Virginia. Barnes & Noble Booksellers Nancy Coble Damon Turner...... $100 - $499 Colette Brown Frances H. Bulger In honor of Sarah McConnell Stowe...... to $99 G. Lawson Drinkard III The Honorable L. Preston Bryant Jr. E. Ronald Feinman Andrew S. Chancey William W. Freehling In grateful remembrance of his 1990 fellowship Erasmus Society Ervin L. Jordan Jr. Commonwealth of Virginia Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitor’s Michael Jay Green Bureau In honor of Marion Rothman in celebration Barbara J. Fried Jerome S. Handler Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Church of her birthday National Endowment for the Arts Sheryl B. 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Binda William W. Freehling Katherine Neville and Karl Pribram Corporate and Foundation Gold Circle Mr. and Mrs. Macon F. Brock Jr. French American Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale The VFH Corporate and Foundation Gold Circle Michael Jay Green Mr. and Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield III recognizes the generous support of corporations Chrysler Museum of Art Rosenstiel Foundation Anonymous and foundations. The following corporations and Joseph G. Fiveash foundations have made a gift of $5,000 or more to the Wachovia Bank Helen and Taylor Reveley VFH this year. Mr. and Mrs. Guy R. Friddell III WINA AM 1070 Mary Ellen Stumpf Neal Goldberg Albemarle County Board of Supervisors WTJU 91.1 FM Gary W. Taylor City of Charlottesville Minerva Gorena University of Virginia, Alumni Association Commonwealth of Virginia The Maurice Jones Family – Maurice, Lisa Smith and Booker T. 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Leigh B. Middleditch Jr. Barbara P. Silcox n June 30, 2006 Jarrett D. Millard Mr. and Mrs. Nic Siler o Janet Miller Bruce C. Souders A s s e t s Albert H. Mitchell III Bronwen Souders Robert L. Montague III Mr. and Mrs. William Speidel Current assets: Judith A. Moody Mr. and Mrs. William H. Speiden Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,123,384 siti John C. Moore Ann White Spencer Contributions receivable 128,666 o G. Alan Morledge Lucia C. Stanton Investments 1,721,843 Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Mullin Arthur Frederick Stocker p Prepaid expenses 133,710 Lynda E. Myers Sara L. Stone Total current assets $ ,107,603 Al Neale Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Strickler Daryl B. Nemo Ellen Robert Susi

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c Leasehold Improvements: $ 26,137 Rachel Norment Letitia Swaine Equipment: Oakley’s Gently Used Books Dianne Swann-Wright Charles M. Oliver Tori Talbot Media equipment 195,651 Oliver & Co. Books Jean Taylor Furniture and office equipment 53,095 Gregory S. Orr Eleanore Terreson Computers and software 274,005

Emily Wheatley Pease Becky Thomas finan Other equipment 11,697

Marc Pessar Gisela Thomlinson Sub-total $ 560,585 Mr. and Mrs. John Pickering Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Tremaglio f Delegate and Mrs. Kenneth R. Plum Mr. and Mrs. Mark Troxell Jr. Less: accumulated depreciation ( 313,796 )

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Pogensky Patricia Trusselle o Total fixed assets $ 246,789 Mr.and Mrs. Percy E. Pollard Tom Trykowski Total assets $ ,354,392 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pollock Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tucker Potomac Service Corporation Denise D. Turcotte ent Maurita Y. Powell Danhof F. Van Dyke Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Raizen Mitchell Van Yahres m L i a b i l i t i e s a n d N e t A s s e t s Dwandalyn R. Reece John H. Verrill Mr. and Mrs. William E. Richardson Betty Brown Vigour Liabilities: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers C. Ritter Jorgen Vik and Laura Burkhardt Vik Accounts payable $ 232,853 John M. Roberts Peter Van Vliet Agency funds payable 54,921

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Rhoda Dreyfus Staff Judy Moody Charlottesville, Virginia David Bearinger Receptionist Director, Grants and Public Programs Johanna R. Drucker Lynda Myers University of Virginia Andrew Chancey Development Associate Charlottesville, Virginia Director, Planning and Management Jeannie Palin John P. Fishwick, Jr. Susan Coleman Receptionist Lichtenstein, Fishwick & Johnson Director, Virginia Center for the Book Roanoke, Virginia Gail Shirley-Warren Roberta Culbertson Business Manager Barbara J. Fried Director, Research and Education Fried Companies, Inc. Crozet, Virginia Jeanne Nicholson Siler Nancy Coble Damon Program Associate, Grants and Director, Virginia Festival of the Book Michael J. Galgano Public Programs James Madison University Pablo J. Davis Harrisonburg, Virginia Ann White Spencer Director, South Atlantic Program Associate, Research Humanities Center Charles M. Guthridge and Education Charles M. Guthridge Associates Christina Draper Richmond, Virginia Tori Talbot Director, Virginia African American Program Associate, Heritage Program Ronald L. Heinemann Encyclopedia Virginia Hampden-Sydney College Jesse Dukes Hampden-Sydney, Virginia Robert C. Vaughan, III Associate Producer, President With Good Reason Jo Ann M. Hofheimer Virginia Beach, Virginia Karen Wikander Matthew Gaventa Associate Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia Media Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia Maurice A. Jones Lydia Wilson The Virginian-Pilot Matthew Gibson Norfolk, Virginia Program Associate, Media Programs Managing Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia Anna L. Lawson Karenne Wood Daleville, Virginia Coordinator, Virginia Indian Katherine Greiner Heritage Trail Assistant Producer, James D. Lott The History Hotline Stuart Hall Andrew Wyndham Staunton, Virginia Jerry Handler Director, Media Programs Senior Scholar

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