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president’s letter ...... 2 programs and projects ...... 4 grants...... 14 vfh fellows ...... 20 donors and sponsors ...... 21

financial statement ...... 28 vfh board and staff ...... 29 “ Leonardo da Vinciinvented the parachute before anyone could that is creative thinking.” fly- — Michael Gelb, University of Virginia, Batten Fellow, “With Good Reason” Guest.

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When was the last time you fl ew a kite? This year’s cover reminds me of VFH also views its participation in marking Jamestown’s 2007 flying kites as a child with my father and later with my children. commemoration as an opportunity to tell Virginia stories My son would watch and talk for hours, inspired by flights of that capture Virginia’s entrepreneurial history. Both the imagination. Kite flying spans generations, and most of us have encyclopedia and the anniversary will encourage Virginians a memory of the first time we tangled one in a tree, or better, and the world to visit and experience Virginia, either in person successfully launched one into the wind. or through the web. Like kite flyers, we at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities As we approach the 2007 observance and the introduction sometimes run against the wind to explore new horizons. of the encyclopedia, VFH remains committed to the guiding In these days of diminishing resources, organizations must principle that Virginia’s history should include as many develop an entrepreneurial spirit to thrive. We encourage perspectives as possible. We will not ignore nor discount the innovative, visionary thinking and — occasionally — risk-taking painful stories of Virginia’s past, nor will we dismiss issues in to bring ideas to life. the present or concerns for the future. Using the humanities as a vehicle for community development is To create programs that bring the humanities more fully into one example of entrepreneurial spirit. In Martinsville, Virginia, Virginia’s public life, we will continue to focus on our strengths and communities along the Eastern Shore, VFH is helping areas in African American and Virginia Indian history and heritage, define themselves as unique places with valuable Virginia folklife and traditional culture, and books and literacy. The humanities qualities — qualities that draw people together and This is our commitment to the future. help us to study the attract new growth. In Martinsville, we are working past, prepare for the With wind, for the otherwise earthbound with local organizations to revitalize Fayette Street, fl ight is achievable future, and create components of a kite — wood, paper, and twine. Likewise, a once vibrant African American neighborhood an environment funding and encouragement from VFH give and business district. Vintage photographs are where new ideas ideas flight. That’s why we remain are encouraged and being collected and preserved, and extensive oral dedicated to bringing the spirit and new ways of thinking histories are being recorded and documented. diversity of Virginia culture to citizens are possible. The Along the Eastern Shore similar cooperation of the Commonwealth. humanities give between cultural groups and other institutions is wings to ideas. occurring. With VFH funding, the Chincoteague Island Library initiated a long-term effort to document, through research and the collection of oral histories, the disappearing cultural traditions Robert C. Vaughan, III of this wind-swept island. We look to extend President community development projects in and , while maintaining our close ties to , Northern, and Central Virginia. The Virginia Encyclopedia, a one-of-a-kind online resource about Virginia, is another example of an entrepreneurial effort by the VFH. Thanks to seed-funding provided by knowledge shared the Commonwealth of Virginia, a grant from the National is knowledge Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and a private donor, VFH will launch this online guide to coincide with the 400th preserved. anniversary of Jamestown.

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The VFH Grant Program spans reading and “Imagination literacy, science and technology, African American heritage, media and culture, student and teacher is the highest kite outreach, Virginia folklife and traditional one can grants culture, and historical preservation, to fly.” name only a few kinds of programs. VFH grants — Lauren Bacall fund lectures, websites, concerts, documentaries, museum displays, and much more. In Irvington, the Steamboat Era Museum is collecting oral histories “Our first VFH grant represents about steamboats in the Tidewater. With VFH funds, a seal of approval in jump- the Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum is creating starting our organization’s an exhibit on the history of apple production in the cross-cultural media exchange programs,” “Funding from VFH county and the changing character assures that teachers of Virginia’s rural life. This year, VFH — Rose Nan-Ping Chen, can teach Shakespeare also supported a traveling exhibit on Founder and President, in their classrooms,” the life and achievement of Mary Ellen The Rose Group for Cross- Cultural Understanding, a — Dan Layman, Henderson, an influential educator non-profit organization that Interim Development and advocate for civil rights in Fairfax promotes understanding Director, Shenandoah County; research and production costs and goodwill between the Shakespeare’s American for a pictorial history prepared by at- U.S. and China Shakespeare Center risk youth about 18 coal camps that once flourished in Wise County; and a documentary on the experiences of the Vietnamese American community in . Nine grants were also awarded in March to Virginia Indian tribes and inter-tribal organizations, including awards for the development of a documentary film on the history of the Commonwealth’s tribes and cultures, the establishment of a Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, and the creation of a brochure on the history and current status of the Chickahominy Indian Tribe. See page 14 for a complete listing of this year’s grants.

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2004-2005 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program Participants Celebrating traditional music, dance, and craft is pivotal Master Artist..Norman Amos Master Artist.. Clyde Jenkins to the mission of the Virginia Folklife Program at Apprentice .... John Buck Apprentice .... Sammy Cave the VFH. To nurture the next generation of folklife Pittsylvania County, Virginia Page County, Virginia Snake Cane Carving White Oak Basket Making artisans, this year the Folklife Apprentice folklifeProgram supported nine apprentices in Master Artist.. Broto Roy Master Artist.. such diverse skills as Tabla drumming, old-time banjo Apprentice .... Sunil Chugh Ofosuwa Abiola-Tamba playing, and old-order Mennonite quilting. Fairfax County, Virginia Apprentice .... Monica James Tabla Drumming Newport News, Virginia Master Irish flute maker Patrick Olwell of Nellysford, Traditional African Dance Virginia designs Irish wooden flutes which are coveted Master Artist.. Patrick Olwell by some of Ireland’s finest musicians. Apprentice .... Aaron Olwell Master Artist.. Gerald Anderson Nelson County, Virginia Apprentice .... Spencer Strickland Patrick works with numerous students Traditional Irish Flute Making Grayson County, Virginia to pass on his art, but none show the Mandolin Building dedication to the craft better than his Master Artist.. Mike Seeger son and apprentice, Aaron. (A com- Apprentice .... Seth Swingle plete listing of 2004-2005 Apprentice Rockingham County, Virginia Old-Time Banjo Program participants is on page 6). A goal of the Folklife Program is Master Artist.. Mary Beery Apprentice .... Joan Knight to increase public exposure and Apprentice .... Mollie Beery interpretation opportunities for Rockingham County, Virginia Above: Patrick Olwell, Virginia’s rich folk traditions. This Old-Order Mennonite Quilting Master Irish flute maker year, VFH funded the

Master Artist.. Brenda Joyce Traditional Music Preservation Project Apprentice .... Shannon Joyce By lifting up in Hiltons, Virginia, recognized as one Patrick County, Virginia history and stories, of the most important venues for the Flatfooting Virginians gain a performance of traditional acoustic better understanding music native to the Central Appalachian of the importance region. The Folklife Program produced Pictured: Norman Amos, of traditions and its first CD featuring traditional master carver and his the challenges of musicians from Southwest Virginia. apprentice, John Buck preserving them in The Folklife Program is also a partner our communities. The Virginia Folklife Apprentice- in Richmond’s three-year presentation ship Program showcases folklife of the National Folk Festival, a national multicultural artisans committed to preserving festival to be held on the banks of the James River in old and new Virginia traditions. October 2005, 2006, and 2007. Pittsylvania‘s Norman Amos never dreamed his childhood hobby of whittling would someday lead to a display of his hand-carved snake walking sticks at the Corcoran Museum of Art in , D.C. Patrick Olwell photo courtesy of Morgan Miller.

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Listening and responding to the words of others The VFH Resident Fellows Program supported 16 distinguished scholars this year. Their work, which is an important value includes conducting research and completing within the humanities. book projects, is scholarship in the public fellowsinterest. This year’s projects included Deborah A. Since 1999, VFH has built an African American Lee’s examination of opposition to slavery in Northern Heritage Program that raises the understanding Virginia, Tatiana van Riemsdijk’s focus on Chesapeake and interpretation of Virginia’s Evangelicals and their struggle between saving African American history through souls and solving slavery, and William W. Freehling’s heritageprograms such as the Fayette Area Historical Initia- book The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists tive in Martinsville, Virginia. With funding from the Triumphant 1854-1861, which examines Southern Harvest Foundation of Martinsville and the Public secession. William Kelso, archeologist and director Welfare Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., this of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, completed innovative partnership was formed to encourage local a manuscript interpreting the discoveries at the community development, drawing on local history in site of early 17th century Jamestown. The Fellows particular to help a community redefine itself. program will mark its 20th anniversary in 2006 with several special events, including Grants from VFH included Northhampton County is a reunion for the program’s more an interpretative bro- rapidly changing; grants than 250 former Fellows. chure and exhibit on from VFH allow us to See page 20 for a artifacts from the Jim identify historical sites complete listing of Crow era at Norfolk and record who we were this year’s distin- State University and — before it is too late,” guished Fellows and educational outreach in — Francis Latimer, their work. Roanoke by two sur- author, publisher, and viving members of the founding member of Tuskegee Airmen. By the VFH Eastern the end of 2005, Shore Regional VFH, in partnership Humanities Council with Hampton University, will publish an VFH is a special place to be updated catalog to accompany a Fellow. It offers not only the exhibit “Don’t Grieve After wonderful library privileges, but it also fosters an Me: The Black Experience in environment where Virginia, 1619-2001” that includes scholars and staff come representative images of the African together for one-of-a- American experience. See grants list kind conversations.” on page 14 for additional awards for — Deborah A. Lee, African American History. historian and VFH fellow, and daughter Ann Lee, University of Virginia student and Virginia Festival of the Book intern

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The South Atlantic Humanities Center, a partner- In 2004, VFH once again hosted a NEH-funded Teacher ship with Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia, Institute for 20 instructors seeking to add another characterizes the entrepreneurial vision that defines VFH dimension to their teaching. This programs. This collaborative effort teaching project brought together educators furthers the humanities in the South for scholarly discussions, tours of historic sites, and humanitiesAtlantic United States, which includes Virginia, Florida, independent research. Teachers from across the United Georgia, North Carolina, , Puerto Rico, States met in Charlottesville for one month to hone and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This year the Center held their studies of the transatlantic slave trade as part the inaugural meeting of its region-wide advisory board, of a seminar series, “Roots: African Dimensions of the hosted the national consortium of regional History and Cultures of the Americas.” Special Projects humanities centers, and offered its first stand- Ash Lawn Opera Festival alone public program, “The South Atlantic’s All VFH programs strive to reach the broadest possible Program – “Opera Connects Changing Places: An Exploration in Poetry, for Teachers” public audience. Virginia’s only statewide weekly public Story, and Song.” radio program, With Good Reason, illuminates and Shenandoah Shakespeare’s American Shakespeare — Ricardo Cerbin, entertains audiences with newsworthy and engaging Center The Institute on Violence and Survival is participant, VFH-Summer features and interviews which explore topical issues Development of new center dedicated to writing, researching, and teaching Teachers’ Institute and such as space travel, papal succession, and archeological Virginia Association about the long-term effects of violence and war. son, Matthew exploration, and religious tradition. By year end, the of Museums Survivor-centered show will have interviewed more than 1,000 Programs for Virginia’s research by Institute Southern Humanities faculty — representing every state-supported museums professionals Media Fund 2004-2005 Fellows explores the aftermathsurvival of genocide four-year college, university, and community Virginia Association of in Guatemala, the long shadows of postwar “A Man Ain’t Nothin’ But A college in the Teachers of English (VATE) Man: The Living Legacy of Distribution of posters in Peru and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and new John Henry” Commonwealth. featuring Virginia writers to broadcast Film/Video Arts, , NY VATE members refugee communities in the United States. Examples of future programming include $60,000 to produce a 75-minute Last November’s conference, Re-Imaging documentary to explore the story presidential history and creative business Virginia Quarterly Review of the American folk hero John (VQR) Peace After Massacres, focused on strategies. The Re-Imagining Ireland Henry and his enduring presence Publication of a set of essays, refugees and survivors from countries in our culture over the last conference, winner of the 2004 Helen and Martin distributed to Virginia schools, recently afflicted by massacres — East 130 years Schwartz Prize from the Federation of State on the issues and conflicts Humanities Councils, continues to attract new arising from the Brown vs. Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, and “Faubourg Tremé: Democracy Board Supreme Court decision. Guatemala. The two-week global conference Without Shackles” audiences. A documentary film featuring scholars, Video Veracity, Inc., New Orleans, LA Humanities Advocacy Day held at VFH centered on the effects of violence, artists, poets, musicians, journalists, politicians, $35,000 to produce a 60-minute Partnership with the National the difficulties of peace, and the rocky road video documentary about New and others, from the conference has been Humanities Alliance to cultural healing. In the coming year, the Orleans’ unique community of free televised across the United States and Ireland. people of color and its pivotal role Institute will continue fieldwork resulting from the in the all-but-forgotten Civil Rights In the fall of 2006 the University of Virginia Press conference and will publish the next edition of Tough movement of the 19th century will publish a book of essays resulting from the Times Companion, a compilation of short fiction, essays, “The Electricity Fairy” conference. In October 2005, VFH will debut the photography, and poetry on surviving in difficult times, Appalshop, Inc., Whitesburg, KY Humanities Feature Bureau, an exciting new distributed to hospitals, shelters, prisons, treatment $15,000 to produce a half-hour component of VFH Media Programs, available to documentary examining how centers, as well as to individuals throughout Virginia. public perceptions of electricity radio stations across the state, with a focus on have combined with government issues, programs, and personalities of interest to policy to shape the Southern Appalachian Mountains citizens of the Commonwealth.

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Imagine an online reference where anyone can go At VFH, written words form the foundation of the with a question regarding all aspects of Virginia — humanities. Giving Virginia’s citizens access to a rich single source on a wide range of topics related reading and literacy is a fundamental principle of to the Commonwealth. In 2005, the VFH Center for the Book. Through programs, reference just such a resource began to take events, and initiatives the Center encourages active, shape at VFH. Set to debut in 2007, the Virginia engaged reading throughout the Commonwealth. will chronicle the people, history, Encyclopedia a father reading a book like The Carrot government, economy, and culture of Virginia. Envision Seed to his son — a new experience for both child Designed to become the first point of reference for all and adult. In this story the carrot grows users interested in Virginia, the encyclopedia Hannah Danielle Pierce, an because the little boy takes care of it. After eleventh grade student from will be developed over a period of years, books In January, VFH moved completing the book, the father explores with Radford, Virginia, garnered coordinated by a staff at VFH, and supported the Virginia Arts of the Book the child the story’s deeper meaning — like one of only six national first- by more than a dozen section editors and Center to a spacious home the carrot, children need to be lovingly cared place honors in the annual hundreds of writers. just south of Charlottesville’s for by others. Books open a dialogue between writing competition Letters expanding Downtown About Literature, organized by adults and children about a wide range of Mall. This new home the VFH Center for the Book issues: bullying, establishing independence, provides space for three in cooperation with the Center sharing, cooperating, and expressing needs letter and etching presses. for the Book in the Library of and feelings, to name a few. This incredible The enlarged exhibit and Congress and Target Stores. interaction and countless others often occurs workshop space will allow Pierce’s winning personal because of programs like the 2005 VFH- staff to offer demonstrations letter to author ® ® and classes to interested sponsored Motheread and Fatheread Ellen Raskin was community groups, and training seminar in Doswell, Virginia. Here 18 selected from a pool provide a bright and better facilitators learned how to encourage parents of 46,000 entries. working environment for to develop and demonstrate good reading and artists, poets, designers, literacy skills, while sharing life lessons. and others interested in humanities and the art As a student in Charlottesville, novelist Tammar of printing. Laufer Stein regularly attended the Virginia Festival of the Book. This year she attended as a published author. She states, “Those early experiences helped to inspire a passion in me.” The Thank you, Ellen 11th annual Festival continued to inspire passion this Raskin, for trans- year as it drew more than 300 authors, writers, and forming my life and my publishing professionals, as well as 22,800 attendees reading habits. Thanks to from across the state, the nation, and the world. The Westing Game, I am a Headliners included Malcolm Gladwell, Alexander stronger, more confident McCall Smith, Linda Fairstein, and David Baldacci. human being. I also know now that tears shed over a good book are not wasted.” — Hannah Danielle Pierce

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Association for the Preservation of Chincoteague Island Library The Fairfield Foundation Virginia Antiquities Chincoteague, Virginia White Marsh, Virginia grants Richmond, Virginia “Chincoteague Island Community “Women and the Virginia Plantation” 2005 “Conviction of Duty” Heritage” Project $4,900 to support an exhibit, SOL-based $5,000 to support research and planning for $2,500 to support the first phase of a long- lesson plans, enhancements to an existing Adat Shalom Reconstructionist an interpretive performance and moderated term effort to document the disappearing website, and the creation and distribution Congregation Bethesda, Maryland panel discussion focusing on the close cultural tradition of Chincoteague Island of a CD-ROM — all focusing on the personal relationship between George leading to the creation of a permanent photo experiences and accomplishments of “Aprentesita” Washington and John Marshall. and oral history archive at the library. women on Virginia’s plantations in the $10,000 to support the creation of an eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. enhanced CD featuring the music of Flory Jagoda, a master artist in the Virginia Folklife Boat People SOS Christiansburg Institute Falls Church, Virginia Christiansburg, Virginia Ferrum College Apprenticeship Program, and Susan Gaeta, Ferrum, Virginia her aprentice. The CD features ballads sung “Rising from the Ashes: Thirty “Christiansburg Institute Virtual in Ladino, the language of the Jews of Spain. Years of the Vietnamese-American Campus Tour” “Car Crazy” Online Exhibit Project Experience” $10,500 to support research, planning, $5,000 to support the conversion of a $10,000 to support an exhibit, a documentary and the development of a design highly successful VFH-funded exhibit on African-American Heritage Festival television program, and a community prototype for a “Virtual Campus Tour” the car culture of Southwest Virginia and Foundation, Inc. Staunton, Virginia forum focusing on the experiences of of Christiansburg Institute. the folk traditions that surround it to digital, the Vietnamese American community in on-line format. “Uniontown History” Project Northern Virginia. of Virginia Beach $2,500 to support an oral history and Virginia Beach, Virginia community documentation project leading George Mason University Carter Family Memorial Music Center “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia” Fairfax, Virginia to an illustrated history of “Uniontown,” Hiltons, Virginia an African American community in $15,000 to support geneological research “Nervous Borders: Culture, Politics Augusta County. “The Carter Family Traditional Music and oral history interviews with descendants and People Flows Since 9/11” Preservation” Project of Virginia slaves interviewed as part of the $2,000 to support a two-day conference on $15,000 to support the first phase of a WPA Slave Narratives project, and to create the ways legal, political and cultural changes, Amelia County Historical Society Amelia County, Virginia multi-year project to preserve and create a DVD that presents these interviews in an particularly in the United States, have affected a permanent archive of traditional music accessible format. immigration policies and the experience “Amelia County Veterans’ History” recordings held at the Carter Family Fold in of individual immigrants and diasporic Project Hiltons, Virginia, one of the most important communities since 9/11. College of William and Mary $7,200 to support an oral history project to venues for the performance of traditional Williamsburg, Virginia capture the oral and written perspectives of acoustic music that is native to the Central “Frankenstein: Penetrating the George Mason University Amelia County veterans from World War II Appalachian region. Fairfax, Virginia through the first Gulf War. Secrets of Nature” $1,000 to support portions of a film festival Using Drama to Explore Ethical Center for Independent Documentary being presented in conjunction with a Issues in Alzheimer’s Disease Archipelago Publishers, Inc. Sharon, Charlottesville, Virginia traveling exhibit. $2,500 to support a dramatic production “Don’t Forget This Song” and panel discussion focusing on ethical Audio Documentary Development $10,000 to support a two-hour documentary issues in the care of persons living with College of William and Mary $2,500 to support development of an audio film on the the lives and musical legacy of the Williamsburg, Virginia Alzheimer’s Disease. documentary program focusing on the Carter family. targeted DNA Testing of young black males Werowocomoco Research George Mason University and the legal and social (4th Amendment) $10,000 to support a series of public outreach Fairfax, Virginia issues raised by this incident. Center for Multicultural Human and educational programs centered on Services Commemorating the 50th Falls Church, Virginia archaeological research at a Powhatan village site in Gloucester, which most experts believe Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Association for the Preservation of Cross Cultural Issues in to be the site of Werewocomoco, the capital Education Virginia Antiquities Family Violence Richmond, Virginia of the Powhatan chiefdom during the first two $3,000 to support a panel discussion on the $2,000 to support a one-day conference years of the Jamestown Colony. history of the Brown v. Board of Education “Slavery in John Marshall’s focusing on the ways specific cultural decision and its impact, particularly in Richmond” influences affect domestic violence. Northern Virginia. $2,000 to support a one-day curriculum development workshop for Richmond-area teachers on “Slavery in John Marshall’s Chickahominy Tribe George Mason University Providence Forge, Virginia Fairfax, Virginia Richmond.” 2007 Brochure “Beyond Separate and Unequal” $3,000 to support the creation of a brochure $10,000 to support an exhibit and symposium on the history and current status of the on the history of school desegregation in Chickahominy Indian tribe. Buckingham County.

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George Washington’s Fredericksburg The James A. Fields House, Inc. Lonesome Pine Office on Youth Mountain Empire Community College Foundation Newport News, Virginia Big Stone Gap, Virginia Big Stone Gap, Virginia Fredericksburg, Virginia “The James A. Fields House” “Appalachian Coal Camps “Movers and Makers” “’s Early Life” Brochure Pictorial” Project $2,250 to support the costs of bringing a Archaeology Workshops $3,000 to support the cost of printing an $11,000 to support research and other pre- VFH-funded exhibit on the Appalachian Craft $3,000 to support a series archaeology interpretive brochure on the history of the production costs leading to the publication of Revival Movement (“Movers and Makers”) to workshops for teachers and public participants James A. Fields House, site of the first black a pictorial history of the 18 coal camps — also Mountain Empire Community College during focusing on the use of archaeology as a tool hospital in Newport News and, later, the known as collieries — that flourished in Wise the annual “Home Craft Days” Festival. for understanding George Washington’s home of a prominent African American County between 1880 and 1960. early life. attorney and educator. National D-Day Memorial Foundation Lonesome Pine Office on Youth Bedford, Virginia Gunston Hall Plantation Legacy Museum of African Big Stone Gap, Virginia “Fighting on Two Fronts” Mason Neck, Virginia American History “Pictorial History of Lee County” Lynchburg, Virginia $1,500 to support a film discussion program Liberty Lecture Series – 2005 $12,000 to support the publication of a on the experiences of African $1,500 to support the 2005 Liberty Lecture “Mindin’ Our Own Business” Pictorial History of Lee County. during World War II. Series at Gunston Hall, focusing on “American Exhibit Catalog Democracy at Home and Abroad.” $3,000 to support production of a 24-page Longwood University Newport News Public Library System catalog to accompany an exhibit on the history Farmville, Virginia Newport News, Virginia of African American business in Central Hampton University LCVA Professional Development “Cultural Roots” Program Series Hampton, Virginia Virginia from the years 1820-1970. Workshops for Teachers $10,350 to support a year-long series of Literary Reading Series $3,100 to support six one-day workshops thirteen book and film discussion programs $3,000 to support reading-discussion Legacy Museum of African for teachers in an eleven-county region of celebrating the various cultures that make up American History programs on the African American experience Lynchburg, Virginia South-Central Virginia, focusing on arts and the community “mosaic” of Newport News. as contemporary African . humanities education in the classroom. “The Jim Crow and Civil Rights Eras in Central Virginia, 1865-1975, Part I” Norfolk State University Hampton University Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum Norfolk, Virginia Hampton, Virginia $10,000 to support the first phase of a two- Leesburg, Virginia part exhibit on the history of Jim Crow and the “Images of Jim Crow” Exhibit “Cultivating the Intellectual Civil Rights era in Central Virginia, covering “Apples and Orchards” $1,500 to support the costs of printing Landscape” the years 1865-1975. $10,000 to support design and production interpretive brochures and programs for an $10,750 to support research on community costs for an exhibit on the history of apple exhibit of images from the Jim Crow era. gardens created by students at Hampton production in Loudoun County. Library of Virginia Foundation Institute (now University) during the Richmond, Virginia first half of the 20th century, on the ways Old Dominion University “Traditional Blues in Virginia” Exhibit Louisa County Historical Society Norfolk, Virginia these gardens reflected prevailing aesthetic Louisa, Virginia values, and on their impact within African $2,000 to support the creation of a traveling “The Sacred and the Secular: American communities. exhibit on Traditional Blues in Virginia. “The History of African American Tolerance and Conflict in Education in Louisa County” Democratic Life” $3,000 to support research and oral history $3,000 to support planning for a three-day Hanover County Black Heritage Living the Dream, Inc. focusing on African American education conference on religious conflict as a cause of Society, Inc. Richmond, Virginia Ashland, Virginia in Louisa County through the period of European migration following the settlement “Honor Bound: The Story of Oliver Massive Resistance. of Jamestown; religion and democracy; “Madagascar in Virginia” White Hill, Sr.” and the challenges of living in a religiously $1,250 to support a lecture-discussion $9,000 to support a one-hour documentary heterogenous society. th Monacan Indian Nation, Inc. program on 19 century Malagasy film on the life and achievements of noted Madison Heights, Virginia immigration into Maryland and Virginia, Virginia civil rights attorney Oliver W. Hill, Sr. Monacan Museum Exhibit Storyline Pamunkey Indian Museum featuring Wendy Wilson Fall, the Director King William, Virginia of the West African Research Center in $3,000 to support the creation of an interpre- Dakar, Senegal. tive text to enhance the experience of visitors Planning for 2007 to the Monacan Tribal Museum in Amherst. $3,000 to support planning and development of interpretive materials on the changing Highland Historical Society culture of the Pamunkey people, to be used in McDowell, Virginia Monacan Indian Nation, Inc. Madison Heights, Virginia an intertribal “signature event” being produced “The Battle of McDowell” in connection with the 2007 anniversary. $10,000 to support the development of an Monacan Nation Pottery Project interpretive documentary film on the 1862 Civil $10,000 to support efforts to recover and War “Battle of McDowell.” re-establish the Monacan tradition of pottery- making in Virginia, through a series of training programs and consultations with academic and non-academic scholars.

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The Petersburg Museums Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation Virginia Civil Rights Movement Petersburg, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Falls Church, Virginia Video Initiative “Confederate Currency: The Color Brochure on the “History of the Sixth “Miss Nellie: A Teacher’s Journey” Richmond, Virginia of Money” Mount Zion Baptist Church” $3,000 to support production of a traveling “Virginia Civil Rights Movement” $2,500 to support rental costs for a traveling $3,000 to support development of a brochure exhibit on the life and achievement of Mary Video Project exhibit on representations of slavery in on the history of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Ellen Henderson, an influential educator $7,000 to support production and initial Confederate currency, as well as a public Church, a Richmond historic landmark, and and advocate for civil rights in Fairfax County distribution of a collection of 11 interviews lecture and production of an interpretive one of Virginia’s most prominent African and a co-founder of the first rural branch of with key figures in the “Civil Rights Movement” exhibit guide. American religious institutions. the NAACP. in Virginia.

Presence Center for Applied Steamboat Era Museum Total Action Against Poverty in Virginia Council of Churches Theatre Arts Irvington, Virginia Roanoke, Inc. (TAP) Richmond, Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia “Steamboats of Tidewater Virginia,” Roanoke, Virginia “The Virginia Council of Churches “Charlottesville Living History” Oral History, Part II “When You Get Your Wings” and the Civil Rights Movement” Initiative $9,750 to support the continuation of an oral $2,500 to support a visit to Roanoke by two $1,000 to support a public forum $3,000 to support a community history project history project focusing on the Steamboat Era surviving members of the Tuskeegee Airmen, commemorating the 50th anniversary of using theatre to explore current issues and in Virginia. to appear at public events during Black the Brown v. Board of Education decision important events in Charlottesville’s African History Month. as well as the 40th anniversary of the Civil American history. Rights Act, and the role of the Virginia Stone House Foundation Stephens City, Virginia Council of Churches in the Civil Rights Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe Movement generally. Rappahannock Tribe, Incorporated “Orrick Chapel: The Legacy of an King William County, Virginia Indian Neck, Virginia African American Church” “Tribal History” Brochure Website and Brochure Development Virginia Council on Indians $5,300 to support research leading to a $3,000 to support the creation of a brochure Richmond, Virginia $3,000 to support development of a website published report on Orrick Chapel, an historic on the history and current status of the Upper and printed brochure on the history of the African American church in Stephens City. Mattaponi Indian Tribe. “Virginia Indian Heritage Trail” Rappahannock Indian Tribe. $10,000 to support the first phase of a three-year project leading to the creation of a Tidewater Community College Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe Virginia Indian Heritage Trail. The Rose Group for Cultural Norfolk, Virginia King William County, Virginia Understanding “Living with the Pocahontas Legend” Virginia Indians Film Documentary Richmond, Virginia Virginia Tech $1,200 to support a panel discussion on the $14,000 to support planning and script Blacksburg, Virginia China-American Film Festival impact the Pocahontas legend continues to development for a documentary film on the $2,000 to support planning for a festival have on Virginia Indians. history of the Virginia Indian tribes and their “The Brush Mountain Oral of Chinese film and culture to be held in cultures in the present day. History” Project Richmond in October, 2005. $6,000 to support an oral history project Tidewater Community College Norfolk, Virginia focusing on three small rural communities University of Virginia adjacent to the former Kentland Plantation. Shenandoah County Parks Literary Festival Charlottesville, Virginia and Recreation $2,500 to support the Tidewater Community “The Circus in America: 1793-1940” Edinburg, Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University College Literary Festival. $9,850 to support development of a digital Richmond, Virginia “WWII Remembrance” Weekend archive on the history of the American $3,000 to support exhibits, lectures, living circus and its role in “forming, reflecting, and “Slippery Characters” Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation history, presentations, and other activities Falls Church, Virginia influencing” American society and culture $15,000 to support research and script designed to educate audiences about the during the period 1793-1940. development for a documentary film on “ethnic homefront experience and the war’s impact Tinner Hill Heritage Festival imposters”— people who assume racial and on American cultural life in the 1940s. $1,200 to support the twelfth annual Tinner ethnic identities other than their own. Venable Elementary School P.T.O. Hill Heritage Festival of African American Charlottesville, Virginia history and culture. Shenandoah University “The 80 Year History of William King Regional Arts Center Winchester, Virginia Venable School” Abingdon, Virginia “The World the War Made: The $1,450 to support a public lecture, film “Mountain Handiwork: The American French & Indian War in the Develop- screening, and interpretive exhibit on the Craft Revival in Virginia” ment of the American People” history of Venable School, which played $7,500 to support planning and research $4,000 to support a four-part lecture series an important role in the history of school leading to an exhibit and related programs on the French and Indian War (also called the desegregation in Virginia. on the history of the Craft Revival Movement Seven Years War) to coincide with the 250th in Virginia. anniversary of the end of this conflict.

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The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the VFH Fellows following benefactors whose gifts have helped 2004-2005 donorssupport statewide programs and services in the past year. Katharine L. Balfour Democracy’s Reconstruction: This list reflects donations made to the VFH from July 1, 2004 Essays on the Political Thought to June 30, 2005. We have made every attempt to correctly of W. E. B. Du Bois list the names of each of our donors and supporters. If we University of Virginia have omitted or incorrectly listed your name, please accept Casey Clabough our apology and know that your gift is appreciated. George Garrett: Public Man of Letters Susan M. McKinnon Lynchburg College Humanities Associates Cornerstone Society Kinship as Science & Culture: The Humanities Associates recognizes individual The VFH Cornerstone Society recognizes those Narratives of Social Evolution, donors of unrestricted gifts of $1000 or more friends who have remembered the VFH in their William W. Freehling Difference, & Inequality annually. The VFH appreciates the support of wills, who have planned gifts benefiting the University of Virginia these donors who provide flexible gifts which VFH, or who have established endowments Road to Disunion, Volume II: can be applied to areas of greatest need. for the benefit of the VFH. Because these Secessionists Triumphant are substantial, long-term, income-producing 1854-1861 gifts, they serve as the cornerstone for future Beatrice Pouligny Anonymous The Emilia Galli Struppa Fellow The Honorable Robert H. Brink growth and contribute to the expansion of public Re-Imagining Peace humanities and scholarship in Virginia. University of Kentucky Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Church After Massacres Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus Frances H. Bulger Center for International Research William W. Freehling Jerome S. Handler (France) Ron Feinman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Galgano William W. Freehling The Atlantic Slave Trade and Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode Jerome S. Handler Slave Life in the Americas: Victoria Sanford Jerome S. Handler Sheryl B. Hayes A Visual Record The Moral Imagination of Survival Walter A. Jackson Daniele C. Struppa VFH Senior Fellow U.S. Institute of Peace Fellow Anna and Tom Lawson Mary Ellen Stumpf Robert B. Livy Thad W. Tate Gordon Hylton George and Harmon Logan Robert and Ellen Vaughan Rachel Saury Dr. John L. and Mary Tyler F. Cheek The African American Lawyer Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik Intergenerational Haunting; McClenahan in the New South Era Richard T. and Martha Wilson, III Traumatic Memory and Archetypes Katherine Neville Elizabeth L. Young Marquette University of Peace Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nicholson University of Virginia Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale Mr. and Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield, III Honorary and Memorial Gifts William M. Kelso The following gifts were given in memory or in Jamestown Rediscovered Helen and Taylor Reveley honor of a friend or family member. Mary Lee Settle Dorothy Rouse-Bottom APVA Preservation Virginia at Shadwell Rosel and Elliot Schewel Nancy Coble Damon Writer Mary Ellen Stumpf In honor of Jane Bridgeforth Deborah A. Lee Robert and Ellen Vaughan Susan and Michael Coleman Opposition to Slavery in Henry Wiencek Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik In memory of Stan Coble Northern Virginia Peter Wallenstein Thomas Jefferson and Slavery Jessie Duff-McLaurin Independent Scholar William C. and Jeanne Wiley In memory of Carole Sa’ad VFH Senior Fellow Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, III The Honorable Ray Grubbs and Elizabeth Green Grubbs Alexander S. Leidholdt Tatiana van Riemsdijk In memory of Lon Savage Nell Battle Lewis Biography Saving Souls and Solving Slavery: Mr. and Mrs. George W. Logan University Reform Politics of Chesapeake In honor of Betsy Green Grubbs Evangelicals, 1790-1840 Sara D. Rothenberger Andrew B. Lewis Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) In memory of Jeanette Franklin Caines The Shadow of Youth: Consumer VFH Staff Society, Youth Culture, and the Civil In memory of Stan Coble Rights Movement Andrew Wyndham University of Richmond In memory of Stan Coble

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Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Hauser Construction Dr. and Mrs. Robert Chevalier Donors and Sponsors Robert C. Nusbaum Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hayes Justice and Mrs. George M. Cochran The following giving categories are named for The Hook Heartwood Books Ralph and Judy Cohen individuals who, through the humanities, have Virginia Film Office Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Heinemann Mr. Allan Comp and Ms. Selma Thomas changed the world in which we live. Whether historians, writers, or philosophers, each used Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Services Jefferson Heights at Pantops Mountain Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Cooper the humanities to reveal problems in society, to WMRA 90.7 FM Public Radio Mailing Services of Virginia Drs. Raymond and Patricia Cormier explore new ways of thinking, or to suggest how WUVA 92.7 FM Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Creatures ‘N Crooks Bookshoppe, LLC a better world might be created. WVTF Public Radio Norfolk Southern Corporation Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John R. Curtis, Jr. Peter S. Onuf Stephen B. Cushman Erasmus ...... $25,000 and over Zora Neale Hurston Society Emerson ...... $10,000 - $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Pearson Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Damon Anonymous Ellen Gilliam Perry Daryl Cumber Dance Washington ...... $5,000 - $9,999 The Honorable Robert H. Brink Steinbeck ...... $2,500 - $4,999 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pfau Rita B. Dandridge Charlottesville Regional Chamber The Book Broker Mr. John J.Davies, III and Ms. Marty Moon Hurston ...... $1,000 - $2,49 of Commerce The Charlottesville Chapter of The Links, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. J. David Deck Carson ...... $500 - $999 Chesapeake Corporation Foundation W. McIlwaine Thompson, Jr. John d’Entremont Turner ...... $100 - $499 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Church University of Virginia Bookstore Ms. Dahven White and Mr. Allan Doctor Stowe ...... to $99 Deborah J. Dillon Mr. Jorgen Vik and Mrs. Laura Burkhardt Vik Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Ducote Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus Erasmus Society Mr. and Mrs. Hays T. Watkins Emma Edmunds Mr. and Mrs. Michael Galgano Appalachian Regional Commission Dr. and Mrs. Bert Wellons Rozanne S. Epps W. Nelson Gilbert Commonwealth of Virginia Mr. Andrew Wyndham and Ms. Susan Bacik Sharon Esau Elizabeth and Ray Grubbs Barbara J. Fried Ms. Elizabeth L. Young and Mr. Robert Anna Fariello JoAnn and Robert Hofheimer Harvest Foundation R. Lovell Elizabeth C. Fine Anna and Tom Lawson National Endowment for the Arts Douglas W. Foard LexisNexis Frederick Jackson Turner Society National Endowment for the Humanities Franklin Gilliam Rare Books Dr. John L. McClenahan Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Abraham Public Welfare Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John W. Frick, Jr. Katherine Neville Mr. Kenneth S. Abraham and Ms. Susan Virginia Tourism Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Frierson, Jr. New Dominion Bookshop R. Stein Carl F. Frischkorn Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale Peter A. Agelasto, III Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Joanne V. Gabbin William W. Freehling Mr. and Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield, III William Alexander and Cassandra Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett Albemarle County Board of Supervisors R.R. Bowker LLC Newby-Alexander Struthers Gignoux The Daily Progress RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation John W. Andrews Atalissa S. Gilfoyle David G. Baldacci Helen and Taylor Reveley Beverly J. Bagan Robert E. Glenn City of Charlottesville Rouse-Bottom Foundation Ms. Arlene S. Balkansky and Mr. Mark Stein Clydenne R. Glenn Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Schewel Mary Evelyn Bane Susan Goodman Virginia Quarterly Review Marcy and Hunter Sims Clay H. Barr Mr. and Mrs. Luther Y. Gore Wachovia Foundation Mary Ellen Stumpf Garry Barrow Alice Gore and Wick Hunt The Wrightbridge Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Battestin Dr. and Mrs. John Guerrant Booker T. Washington Society University of Virginia Alumni Association David A. Bearinger Mr and Mrs. Bradley H. Gunter Ms. Carol Armstrong and Dr. Frank Robert Robert and Ellen Vaughan Robert and Faith Andrews Bedford Douglas Guynn Dominion Virginia Power Virginia Electronic Components Josef Beery David W. Haines The Rosenstiel Foundation Peter Wallenstein Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bell Brownie S. Hamilton University of Virginia William C. Wiley Beth Berne Fund, Charlottesville Area Susan Ford Hammaker WINA AM 1070 Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, III Community Foundation WTJU 91.1 FM Melanie J. Biermann Mr. and Mrs. Matthew R. Harrington WVPT-TV Virginia’s Public Television Rachel Carson Society Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Allen E. & Ellen P. Hench In & Out Fund of the Alltel Blue Whale Books Foundation for Enhancing Communities John Steinbeck Society Best Western Cavalier Inn Boar’s Head Inn and Sports Club Barbara Heritage Albemarle Family Magazine Mr. and Mrs. E. Cabell Brand Tommy L. Bogger Susan Tyler Hitchcock Crown Automotive BMW of Charlottesville Ms. Ellen L. Brock and Mr. Joseph F. Bookwrights Book Design and Publishing Lisa Hlavinka Boris Drucker Borzelleca, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Gray Broaddus Henry William Hoffman Johanna R. Drucker Kathleen K. Buchanan Mr. and Mrs. L. Preston Bryant, Jr. Ronald Hoffman FedEx Kinko’s, Charlottesville Branch Buford Family Fund, Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bunzl Angie R. Hogan and Kevin McFadden Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Elaine Dowe Carter Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Cable J. Shelton Horsley, III Regional Library Charlottesville Albemarle County Convention Martha B. Caldwell Peter Hunt Jerome S. Handler and Visitor’s Bureau Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. Laurence M. Hutner, Jr. Harris Teeter Corporate Headquarters Susan and Michael Coleman Franz L. Canon Gordon J. Hylton J and E Berkley Foundation Audrey Davis The Cerino Fund of the National INDOOR Biotechnologies Walter A. Jackson Mary Ann W. Elwood Philanthropic Trust Dianne P. Jordan Robert B. Livy Bradley Freeman Andrew S. Chancey Mr. and Mrs. George Kegley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nicholson Eric L. Gibson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chapel Helen Sue Keyser Norman and Edna Freehling Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode Janet Cheeseman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Keyser

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Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kirwan Mr. Joel Trugman and Ms. Razel Solow John D. Bonvillian Mr. and Mrs. C. Stanley Dees Lee C. Kitchin Randall Somerville Mr. and Mrs. John H. Borgard Connie DellaPietra Mr. John T. Kneebone and Sandra D. Speiden Eugenia H. Borum Mr. and Mrs. Avelande C. DeOliveira Ms. Elizabeth Roderick Anne L. Spence Mr. and Mrs. Scott R. Boyce Richard Dershimer Helen E. Kostel John A. Stokes Stacy Boyle S.E. Dickson Mr. and Mrs. Joel Kovarsky Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stroud Mr. and Mrs. H. David Boyter Sara Dillich Ludwig Kuttner Daniele C. Struppa Michael M. Bozarth Betty Ann Dillon L & T Respess Books H. Brady Surles Mr. and Mrs. Alden Bradford Mr. and Mrs. Thong H. Dinh The Honorable Elizabeth B. Lacy Cherie Swenson Ezekiel Bradley Mr. Michael B. Dowell and Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Landess Swift Air Delivery, Inc. Louis Brenner Ms. Patricia A. Gooch Forrest M. Landon Donor Advised Fund, Caroline B. Talbot Althea W. Brooks Christina Draper Foundation for Roanoke Valley Tori Talbot Sumner Brown Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Duffy Donald W. Lappley Sharon Talbot Amanda Brown Pie Dumas Suzanne Lebsock Thad W. Tate Mr. and Mrs. Kiern C. Brown, Jr. Mark Wright Edmundson Gail Leftwich Kitch The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books Mr. and Mrs. James M. Bryan Evelyn Edson Alexander S. Leidholdt Mr. and Mrs. Guy K. Tower Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bugg Julia L. Ellegood-Pfaff Jeffrey Levine Susan Tremblay Thomas H. Bull Misrak Endeshaw Mr. and Mrs. David Little Van Brimer Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Buisseret Dorothy S. Etchison Mr. and Mrs. James Lott Virginia Militaria Collectors & Historians Lisa J. Burbeck David G. Evelyn Faye W. Male Association, Inc. Carol E. Burkhardt Jeffrey A. and Sally Fager Carol S. Manning Virginia National Bank Henry L. and Maxine Burton Ann F. Farwell Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Martin George Michael Wildasin Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Butler Lionel Fernandez Eleanor May Dr. and Mrs. M.C. Wilhelm Cabell Insurance Associates Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Fetter Daniel John Meador Roger Williams Mr. and Mrs. Colin S. Caldwell Naomi E. Fields Richard and Elizabeth Merrill Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Williams Julie A. Campbell Stephen L. Fisher Timothy M. Michel Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Wyatt-Brown Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Carini Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flickinger Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mooney Nolan T. Yelich Sheila A. Carrico Suzanne Foley Hullihen and Nancy Delano Moore Mr. and Mrs. Burton Zisk Virginia E. Carter Bonnie S. Ford Dahne Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Leo J. Casey Vivian Fish Forman Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Elizabeth Seydel Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Caughron Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Foster Mr. and Mrs. William W. Abbot Nancy Murray Roxanne Chandler Mr. and Mrs. George R. Fox Allen Ahearn H. Carter Myers, III Kelly Cherry Doris Frantz Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Aikens Linda M. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Eric Chetwynd Lester A. Frye John Alewynse Christine Oakley Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Chisholm Mr. and Mrs. Gary T. Fudala Diane and Scott Oaks Archaeological Society of Virginia, Thomas Mr. and Mrs. J. Funderburk Jefferson Chapter Mr. Johnny C. Chiu and Ms. Lien-Rung Kao William A. Oliver, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brett M. Futrell Mr. and Mrs. Steve S. Arindaeng Oan Y. Choi and Young J. Choi Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Palin Mr. and Mrs. David S. Garlick Robert Ashcom D. Kent Chrisman Mr. and Mrs. John Pickering Gary Garrison Joan S. Atherton Dr. Leila Christenbury Larry Portzline Clifford Garstang Mr. and Mrs. James E. Atwood Linda R. Christenson Elizabeth A. Powell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilliam, Jr. Diana Bailey Harriet Cobb Reuben and Sue Rainey Marjory B. Giuliano Marie Coles Baker Barbara M. Collins Mr. and Mrs. Ruhi K. Ramazani Evelyn J. Glass Mr. Peter S. Baker and Ms. Rosemary Gould Haley D. Collums Frank Riccio Mr. and Mrs. James M. Glave Dennis and Nina Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Combs James D. Rice Gabriel Goldberg Barnes & Noble Booksellers Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Comess Barbara B. Rich Evelyn W. Gordon William I. Barton Julian Connolly Rich Productions, Inc. Elizabeth F. Gore Mr. Robert L. Baxter and Ms. Glenda F. Warner Josephine T. Conover Julie Richter Mr. George Green and Ms. Arlene E. Mary E. Becker George N. Constantin Lynda J. Robb Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Costa VanCleave Robert G. Rogers Donna F. Bergheim Kathryn L. Greenspan Ellen Berringer Elizabeth Coughter Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Rooker Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Crampton Peyton Gresham Marion Rothman William N. Bertsche Dennis M. Gronka Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Bertucci Patricia Crook Steven H. Rubin Esmeraldo B. Cruz Warren and Doris Groves Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bessette Carolyn W. Guertin Louise Randolph Bibb Daedalus Bookshop Glenn Allen Scott Mr. Michael I. Daily and Ms. Noriah Din-Daily Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gulley Nathan and Charlotte Scott Dennis Bigelow Doris H. Gwaltney Phyllis Binder Mr. Christopher Dalton and Ms. Laura Nelson Hasmukh Shah Grace E. Damon Megan Keleher Hack Shenandoah Spring Water Betty Black Leroy and Pat Hamlett Joy Blackburn Daryl Lynn Dance Gail Shirley-Warren Mr. Pablo J. Davis and Ms. Marcela Pettinaroli Linda L. Hanson Leonard V. Smith Robert C. Blicksilver William H. Harbaugh Elizabeth B. Bonvillian Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd T. Smith, Jr. Ruby Auten Davis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Harding

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Marilyn K. Harper Janice Litschert Mr. Ninh V. Pham and Ms. Huong N. Tran Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sweet Jill K. Harris David T. Llewellyn, III Margaret M. Pilaroscia Tastings Mr. and Mrs. David L. Hartman Marsha and Ivan Login Ken and Jane Plum Christopher C. Taylor Mary P. Hawley Jonathan Lohman Percy and Annie Pollard Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. R. Hayes Joan Losen Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pollock Mr. and Mrs. Porcher L. J. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Heinz Mr. and Mrs. Maurice P. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. K. Andrews Portelly Mr. Christopher Thaiss and Ms. Jean Shioji Anne F. Henderson Elliot Majerczyk Victoria Poulakis Brian K. Thomas Carol A. Hendrix Patrick F. Maloit Kelly Powers Mr. L. Thomas and Susan and Marshall Henry Mr. and Mrs. Herbert V. Manila, Sr. Patricia L. Pullen Ms. Alicia Hogges-Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Herlihy Mr. and Mrs. P. Manoukian Mr. and Mrs. Aaron L. Quinn Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Priscilla Hesford Gordon D. Marino Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Rabinowitz Economic Development Mr. Donald Hodgen and Ms. Maria Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Allan A. Marrazzo Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Raizen Anne Wilson Thompson Mr. and Mrs. James D. Hoffarth Mr. John F. Marshall and Ms. Cri Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rappole Joshua L. Thompson Carol J. Hogg Kars-Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ravenell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Thompson Katherine E. Hollifield Harriet A. Marx Mr. and Mrs. James D. Regan Mr. and Mrs. Kiertisak Toh Sarah Collins Honenberger Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. May Allen R. Remorenko Patricia Trusselle Ed and Edie Hoole Thomas Mayfield Kim Rendelson Kimberly A. Tryka Larry Hoover Sarah McConnell Nancy Rinker William O. Tucker Carter G. Houck Deborah E. McDowell Mr. and Mrs. Robin A. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. John H. Van Landingham, Jr. Nancy J. Howard Mr. and Mrs. John J. McFadden David B. Rogers The Honorable Mitchell Van Yahres Susan and William Hoyt Mary McKinley Patricia E. Rusk Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. Robert Huff Edward J. McLaughlin Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Russo Blake T. Velde Cynthia Hull Mr. John M. McMahon and Ms. Susan Linda C. Sadler John H. Verrill Martha Hunt J. Kalish Mr. and Mrs. David M. Sampson Betty Brown Vigour Mildred S. Hurt Erin P. McNamara Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Savage Margaret A. Vinskey Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Hydorn Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McSweeney Mr. Robert Schaefer and Ms. Deborah Peppino N. Vlannes M. Thomas Inge Matthew W. Meacham Ottinger Jenny Wade Susan M. Johnson G. Neil Means John T. Schlotterbeck Nancy Davila Waldman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Jordan John F. Meehan, Jr. Kent and Judy Schlussel Anne Waldner R. Louise Anderson Juergens Patricia H. Menk Mr. Zachary M. Schrag and Ms. Gloria Wallace Jennifer Kalletta Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Meredith Rebecca Tushnet Miriam Wann Madge Harrison Karickhoff Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Schulz Harry J. Warthen, III Lou Kassem Elizabeth G. Mikell Betty Cox Scott Mr. and Mrs. David F. Wayland Penny G. Keiter Derry Miller Hugh M. Scrogham, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Peyton E. Weary Diane Kellogg Pat Millman Seanchai Books Jeanne Weaver Mr. Ali Kianersi and Ms. Aekyung Lee Jeffrey S. Milstein Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Seidel Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Welles, Jr. Nancy King Mr. and Mrs. Kurt N. Molholm Sarah Sheffield Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. White Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Kirn Mr. and Mrs. John P. Moliere Margaret E. Shelton Patillo F. Whited Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kling Judy and Gary Moody Marjorie A. Shepard Henry G. Williams, Jr. Mr. Thomas Ko and Ms. Ellen A. Mathews Shelby L. Moses Binnet M. Shumburo Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Willis Lydia K. Koeller Eileen Moyer Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Siegel Kathleen Curtis Wilson Linda Kolodny Mr. and Mrs. Mark H. Mullin Christine Sleeper Peter Winants Rita G. Koman Mr. Paul J. Murphy and Ms. Katherine A. Drive Dell W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Wiser Mr. and Mrs. Dale L. Kostelny Lynda E. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Shawn B. Smith Nancy C. Witt Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kurin Mr. and Mrs. William E. Neale Elena and William Speidel James C. Wyre Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Lamb, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Nealon Mr. and Mrs. Glenn M. Spencer Barbara Yalden-Thomson Mr. and Mrs. George R. Larie Sally Nelson Brenda Gates Spielman Mr. and Mrs. John M. Young Page R. Laws Mr. David Neumeyer and Ms. Mary Barney Lucia C. Stanton Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Young Phuoc H. Le Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Newlon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David C. Stayrook, II Mr. Alfredo Yumping and Lai V. Le Mr. and Mrs. John S. Nicholls Mr. and Mrs. David B. Steger Ms. M. Maroma-Yumping Corinne LeBovit Michael L. Nicholls Eugene Sterud Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Zamperini Marc Leepson Anne Noznisky Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Stewart Frances Lee-Vandell Oakley’s Gently Used Books William R. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Barry J. Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. O’Brien Ms. Sarah Stewart and Mr. Robert C. West Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Lester Andrew D. O’Connor Arthur Frederick Stocker Helena C. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Oliver Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stofko Karen V. Lilleleht Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Olsen Debra Stone Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Lilley Mr. and Mrs. Marc G. Ortmayer Mr. and Mrs. John R. Strang Margaret Edds Lipper Catherine G. Peaslee Susquehanna International Group, LLP Elizabeth J. Lipscomb Mr. and Mrs. Remi J. Pelletier Dianne Swann-Wright

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Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Statement of Financial Position June 30, 2004

Assets Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,132,744 Contributions receivable 1,089,220 SHMF receivable 4,577 Investments 793,123 Prepaid expenses 24,886 Total current assets $ 3,044,550 Fixed assets: Equipment: $ 26,137 Media equipment 188,968 Furniture and offi ce equipment 45,405 Computers and software 45,708 Other Equipment 9,881 Sub-total $ 316,099 Less: accumulated depreciation ( 255,545 ) Total fi xed assets $ 60,554 Total assets $ 3,105,104

Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities: Accounts payable $ 45,614 Agency funds payable 77,000 Accrued expenses 165,920 Grants payable 240,060 Total current liabilities $ 528,594 Net assets: Unrestricted $ 882,707 Temporarily restricted 1,578,803 Permanently restricted 115,000 Total net assets $ 2,576,510 Total liabilities and net assets $ 3,105,104

Copies of the audited fi nancial statement are available upon request from the VFH.

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VFH Board of Directors VFH Staff 2004 – 2005 David Bearinger Director, Grants and Public Programs David Baldacci Anna L. Lawson Althea Brooks David Baldacci Enterprises Daleville, Virginia Assistant Director, Development Reston, Virginia Andrew Chancey Director, Planning and Management James D. Lott Susan Coleman Robert H. Brink Mary Baldwin College Director, Center for the Book EB&T Strategy Group Staunton, Virginia Roberta Culbertson General Assembly of Virginia Director, Research and Education Arlington, Virginia Lydia Peale Nancy Coble Damon Palmyra, Virginia Program Director, Virginia L. Preston Bryant, Jr. Festival of the Book Pablo Davis Hurt & Proffitt Inc. Bittle W. Porterfield, III Program Director, South Atlantic General Assembly of Virginia Rice Management Humanities Center Lynchburg, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia Christina Draper Program Director, African American Heritage Program Elaine Dowe Carter W. Taylor Reveley Sheryl Hayes Christiansburg Institute College of William & Mary Director, Development Blacksburg, Virginia Williamsburg, Virginia Nancy King Associate Producer, “With Good Reason” Audrey Davis Daniele Struppa Alexandria Black Jon Lohman George Mason University Program Director, Virginia History Museum Folklife Program Fairfax, Virginia Alexandria, Virginia Elliot Majerczyk Associate Producer, Mary Ellen Stumpf “With Good Reason” Rhoda Dreyfus Stumpf & Associates, Inc. Charlottesville, Virginia Sarah McConnell Richmond, Virginia Producer and Host, “With Good Reason” Johanna R. Drucker Kevin McFadden Robert C. Vaughan, III University of Virginia Associate Program Director, Virginia Foundation for the Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville, Virginia Humanities Judy Moody Charlottesville, Virginia Receptionist John P. Fishwick, Jr. Lynda Myers Program Associate, Development Lichtenstein, Fishwick William C. Wiley & Johnson Diane Oaks TransCommunity Financial Roanoke, Virginia Development Officer Corporation Jeannie Palin Glen Allen, Virginia Barbara J. Fried Receptionist Fried Companies Inc. Gail Shirley-Warren Richard T. Wilson, III Business Manager Crozet, Virginia RBC Dain Rauscher Ann Spencer Richmond, Virginia Program Associate, Research Michael J. Galgano and Education James Madison University Tori Talbot Karenne Wood Program Associate, Grants Harrisonburg, Virginia Virginia Council on Indians and Public Programs Charlottesville, Virginia Robert C. Vaughan Ronald L. Heinemann President Hampden-Sydney College Elizabeth L. Young Lydia Wilson Hampden-Sydney, Virginia Program Associate, Media Programs Hartfield, Virginia Andrew Wyndham Director, Media Programs Non-Profit Org. US Postage virginia foundation for the humanities P A I D Permit No. 170 145 Ednam Drive Charlottesville, VA Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629

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