Letter from the Executive Director The year 2020 brought us COVID-19 and around Confederate monuments and the pandemic. communities means there are more questions we Gismondi, Diana Williams, and Charlie Shelton- a nationwide racial reckoning we haven’t seen the And despite the challenges of working remotely, our must ask, issues we must examine, and stories we Ormond. We also said farewell to Lilia Fuquen, likes of since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. With Good Reason staff continued producing weekly must amplify. These include the disproportionate who led the Food & Community project for the last These events exposed divisions and inequities we radio shows addressing vital questions raised by harm the coronavirus has had on people of color, the two years. In August, we gathered in a virtual send- long knew were there. But our resilience in the antiracist demonstrations, the ways COVID-19 has gender inequality of caregiving labor and its impact off to celebrate Jon Lohman, our state folklorist face of the coronavirus and the more deep-seated affected schools, and how to combat burnout among on women, what it means to memorialize, and the who served as the director of the Virginia Folklife virus of racism have also revealed and underscored doctors and nurses caring for victims of the virus. importance of Indigenous voices as we reckon with Program for nineteen years. His work in building something that gives me a reason to hope: the the history of racism in the United States. Such that program, supporting artists and artisans, importance of community. With the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, explorations of the human experience are at the and documenting and preserving folk traditions, is and Economic Security (CARES) Act by Congress, heart of our work, and the work we support. without comparison. As the pandemic forced us to cancel public programs we received just over $600,000 from the National in the interest of safety, it was our commitment to Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that we were To do this work more effectively, in 2021 we will As ever, our vibrant and creative work depends on community and a desire to help us all feel less alone able to distribute as emergency operating grants to be moving to a new office closer to downtown state and federal funding, corporate and foundation that led us to adapt our programs to virtual platforms. 112 museums, historical societies, and other cultural Charlottesville. For the first time in decades—once gifts, and you. In this issue of Views I hope you see that Our Virginia Festival of the Book launched Shelf nonprofit organizations in Virginia to support the it is safe for us to be together—our staff will be in the humanities, especially in times of crisis, are not a Life, a series of virtual conversations with authors. work they’re doing in your communities. The CARES one building and on one floor. This new office space luxury good, but are critical in connecting us, building Scholars in our Fellowship program engaged you in Act funds, combined with our regular spring and fall and public humanities center will allow us to be heathy communities, and defining what matters. discussions and answered your questions about their grant awards, have played a vital role in restoring more collaborative, more accessible, and better research through online webinars. And our Virginia and preserving Virginia’s cultural economy and in able to engage our local and statewide partners. With gratitude, Folklife Program supported artists by connecting supporting the health of communities across the them with students, even when those students were commonwealth. This year has not been without its farewells. In Encyclopedia Virginia July, BackStory produced its last podcast and we many miles away. All the while, Matthew Gibson continued to provide context and history to the debates The impact of this moment on individuals and said goodbye to full-time staff members Melissa Executive Director

Cover: Luz Lopez makes traditional corn tortillas during a cooking demonstration at the 2016 Richmond Folk Festival. Lopez is one of the artists who offered online lessons in Virginia Humanities' TRAIN initiative, which was one of the ways we responded to COVID-19. To learn more, see "Luz Lopez and TRAIN" inside. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities. PIVOT POINT: VIRGINIA HUMANITIES RESPONDS TO COVID-19

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IMPACT STORY ECHOES OF PANDEMICS

By Patricia Miller In 2018, when Encyclopedia Virginia (EV) was where eighty-five cases were reported in a five-hour approached by Addeane Caelleigh, a lecturer period; however, public health officials declared at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, drastic measures unnecessary. Two days later, the about adding an entry on the 1918–1919 influenza Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that influenza was pandemic in Virginia, it wasn’t clear that the story afoot in forty-three states and had reached epidemic of a long-ago epidemic would be germane to the EV status in Tidewater Virginia. On October 6, with readership. But it sounded interesting, so the entry an estimated 10,000 cases in the city, and health was commissioned. As a result, readers today, living officials anticipating an approximate 1,500 deaths, through their own pandemic, can turn to EV to learn Richmond closed all churches, schools, theaters, how Virginians coped with a similar situation almost motion picture houses, poolrooms, and dance halls, exactly 100 years ago. The story of what happened and banned public indoor gatherings. then resonates with our own challenging times. And like all history, it grants us newfound appreciation As in the grimmest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the challenges of those who came before us. Virginia’s overwhelmed doctors and hospitals struggled to keep up with the disease. John Marshall Influenza first appeared in Virginia portentously, on High School in Richmond was hastily fitted out as an Friday, the thirteenth of September 1918, at Camp emergency 500-bed hospital. Meanwhile, students Lee outside of Petersburg, having hopscotched down from the Medical College of Virginia volunteered the East Coast from Camp Devens outside of Boston. their services. By the middle of October, with cases There had been reports since August of disease still surging, it was clear that the state would have outbreaks in the overcrowded training camps to go on a wartime footing to fight the epidemic. preparing recruits to fight in what was then known as With so many men away fighting the war, and most the Great War. The disease resembled influenza, but professional nurses requisitioned by the military, it attacked its victims with such sudden ferocity that was women—mostly housewives—who were called some doctors thought it must be cholera or typhus. on to mobilize on the home front, continuing their Patients displayed a startling range of symptoms: historic entry into the world outside of the home—a blood gushing from the nose and ears; headaches process already accelerated by the war. that seemed to cleave the skull in two; agonizing muscle pain; profuse vomiting. But most troubling of Isabel Anderson, the wife of diplomat Larz Anderson, all was the mortality rate: The worst cases inevitably recalled that there were “few things to be done by proceeded to a deadly pneumonia that could kill a women” during the Spanish-American War in 1898 healthy young man in a matter of days. but “so much more in the Great War.” Anderson and her society friends created a Red Cross canteen to On September 22, sixty-five cases were reported at feed the soldiers who poured through Washington, Camp A.A. Humphreys (known today as Fort Belvoir) D.C., on trains destined for camps around the in Fairfax County. By late September, there were country, sometimes feeding ten to fifteen thousand thirty cases of influenza at the College of William men a day jam sandwiches, pie, and steaming cups and Mary. Martha Barksdale, one of the first women of coffee brewed in wood-fired “trailer kitchens.” to attend the college in its first year of coeducation, wrote in her diary about excitedly arriving at school When the influenza pandemic hit, these same “after many controversies and much worry this women found themselves rushing to tend to sick summer,” only to have classes suspended after war workers in the overcrowded capital. One one day and the students quarantined, although, volunteer recalled finding “seven girls in a room… she noted, the enforced separation did make the three in bed, one with pneumonia, no attention.” male students even more eager to meet her and Around Virginia, the Red Cross mobilized women to her friends. (You can read excerpts from Martha’s nurse the sick and to cook and deliver food to those diary at the William and Mary Special Collections, at too weak to provide for themselves. “It was usually https://VirginiaHumanities.org/barksdale.) soup,” says Caelleigh. In Charlottesville, Nannie Cox Jackson, the domestic science teacher at the By October 1, the disease had spread to Richmond, Jefferson Colored/Graded Elementary School (later Red Cross Motor Corps nurses in St. Louis, Missouri, wear masks and carry stretchers during the 1918 Previous: A nurse takes a patient's pulse at the influenza ward influenza epidemic. Photo courtesy of the Library of

11 | ECHOES OF PANDEMICS PAST of Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., in November 1918. Congress Prints & Photographs Division Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division For a time, as the epidemic peaked, communication was almost completely cut off in some places—newspapers stopped publishing and operator-dependent phone service was severely curtailed. Afraid to sap morale in the midst of a war, President Woodrow Wilson refused to publicly acknowledge the epidemic. There was a shortage of coal—a shortage more serious than toilet paper—as flu ravaged the coalfields of Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Railroad service was affected, hampering the delivery of goods. Rich and poor alike shivered in the unusually cold fall as coal became scarce and prices skyrocketed.

Dr. George Ferguson sits with his two children. It wasn’t just in cities that the flu upended life. On November Photo courtesy University of Virginia Library, 20, the Big Stone Gap Post reported severe “suffering and Holsinger Studio Collection anguish” in the remote communities of Southwest Virginia, with “scores of sufferers in mountain cabins and shacks” as the flu spread through coal mines and lumber camps. There were reports of one family in which everyone was so sick that they “lived for several days on canned tomatoes alone,” the Jefferson School), organized a soup kitchen to were willing to treat Black patients who could afford as no one “had strength enough to go for food or assistance.” feed the sick and their families. to pay) but only two Black doctors, one of whom was Dr. George R. Ferguson, a prominent Charlottesville By late November the worst seemed to have passed, Even as the public health crisis brought together physician who treated many patients. only for the flu to flare up again in early December as life these volunteers and community members, racial returned to normal. Familiar-sounding debates raged PRESERVING THE inequalities were ultimately maintained and even By the third week of October, much of the nation about whether to keep local economies and schools closed MEMORY OF OTHER exacerbated by the disease. At first, Black influenza was in the grip of the pandemic. Few families were to prevent a reoccurrence—whether “precaution is better patients in Richmond were treated in the basement spared. “It’s hard for us to understand the scope than cure”—as the Clinch Valley News put it. Proponents EPIDEMICS IN VIRGINIA of the emergency hospital at John Marshall. When of the 1918 epidemic in every family and every of reopening the economy claimed that many cases of flu that space overflowed, the Baker School, located in village,” says Caelleigh. “The nation lost 700,000 were just “bad colds.” Through our grants program, we've the predominately Black neighborhood of Jackson people. That’s the equivalent of two million deaths supported work to preserve the memory of other epidemics in Virginia so that Ward, was turned into an emergency hospital under now. The numbers today horrify us, but they still Ultimately, the epidemic broke and trailed off in the spring their lessons, and their victims, will the leadership of Richmond banker Maggie Walker, haven’t reached the scale of 1918.” of 1919. The deadly influenza seemed to disappear almost not fade from the historical record. who raised the funds to equip the hospital in two as quickly as it came, taking with it public memory of the days. The hospital at the Baker School was staffed It wasn’t just the size of the epidemic, but also the whole affair, which largely disappeared from the historical by twelve volunteer physicians, including Walker’s speed with which it hit. The majority of illness and record until the publication of Barry’s book in 2004. To A 2003 grant to the Wytheville Museum friend Dr. Bessie Tharps, a Richmond native who death occurred in a terrifying twelve-week period Caelleigh, the reason for the collective forgetting is simple supported oral history interviews and an was the second Black woman to graduate from the between mid-September and early December 1918. enough. “We were in the middle of the war. There were exhibition on the devastating 1950 polio Boston University School of Medicine. As John M. Barry notes in his classic study The Great already hundreds of thousands of men overseas. Every day epidemic in Wythe County, which was the Influenza, ultimately the 1918 pandemic “would kill you picked up the newspaper and saw death and casualty worst in the county's history. Two grants Outside of Richmond, many Black patients struggled more people than any other outbreak of disease in counts,” she says. “People were frightened, and it was a to the Valentine Museum in Richmond in to receive adequate care, and, as with the COVID-19 human history”—an estimated fifty million globally crisis, but they already had another crisis.” And, she notes, 2019 and 2020 funded the Voices from epidemic, suffered disproportionately compared to on the low end, which in raw numbers outweighs people tended to be fatalistic in those days; loved ones Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic exhibit white patients. According to Caelleigh’s analysis of the the death tolls of both the Black Death and AIDS, died from disease all the time. In the end, she said, “It just featuring oral histories and photographs influenza death rates in Charlottesville, Albemarle respectively. Influenza disproportionately killed wasn’t that important to those who lived through it.” of survivors, caregivers, activists and County, and the counties immediately adjacent, young adults in their twenties and thirties and was others on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Richmond. African Americans accounted for forty percent of especially deadly to pregnant women, which took a Learn more about the history of the 1918 influenza influenza deaths while constituting thirty percent of wretched toll on society as adults in the prime of life epidemic in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia the population. There were fifty-three white doctors were snatched away, leaving behind a trail of orphans. by visiting VirginiaHumanities.org/1918-flu. in the region (a handful of whom, Caelleigh notes, You can learn more about these projects by Right: The "Voices From Richmond's Hidden Epidemic" exhibit visiting VirginiaHumanities.org/epidemics. offered a nuanced look at the HIV/AIDS crisis through the stories

13 | ECHOES OF PANDEMICS PAST of survivors, caregivers, activists, and health care workers. Photo by Steven Casanova, courtesy of the Valentine Museum MAKING THE CONNECTION: JON LOHMAN’S LEGACY TO THE VIRGINIA FOLKLIFE PROGRAM

By Sarah Lawson

“Jon Lohman is one of those people that you feel you’ve known your entire life,” reflects gospel musician Reverend Almeta Ingram-Miller. She met Lohman, who directed the Virginia Folklife Program for nineteen years before stepping down in August of 2020, while performing at one of the first Richmond Folk Festivals with her family gospel group, Maggie Ingram & The Ingramettes. The two formed a friendship as the group became beloved regulars on the Virginia Folklife stage at the Richmond Folk Festival. “Jon opened my world of music to include people that I never knew existed… and I came to know their life stories through their music,” says Ingram-Miller.

For Lohman, that’s exactly what folklife is all about. It’s not just about documenting traditions or memorializing vestiges of the past that have been passed down but about connecting people right now. “These are dynamic things. This is living and breathing stuff at the core of how folks see themselves in connection to others,” he explains.

“Folklife wasn't just a job for Jon, he lived and breathed the work. His passion, relationships, and creativity are the foundations of what is the current Virginia Folklife Program,” says Pat Jarrett, acting director of the program. “I know that whatever comes next will be different, mainly because there is only one Jon Lohman.”

When Lohman, a native New Yorker with a doctorate in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, first arrived at Virginia Humanities in 2001, “There was a huge learning curve in terms of geography, the culture, the genres of folklife,” he recalls.

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Many became treasured friends and family, ‘Today, you may only see the clouds of sorrow. But like Ingram-Miller, as well as Lohman’s wife and keep singing, keep climbing, keep honoring your partner in all things folklife, Tori Talbot. mom’s legacy; and never forget that even when you can’t see it, the sun is always shining.’ It was In 2015, Ingram-Miller invited Lohman to speak the defining moment of the entire service.” at the Homegoing Celebration Service for her mother, Maggie Ingram. She recalls, “It was a “I was so deeply honored to be asked to speak at spirited celebration, and each preacher that spoke Maggie’s funeral. I really consider my friendship took us higher and higher in the celebration. I could with the Ingramettes among the greatest blessings see that Jon was beginning to get a little nervous. of my life,” reflects Lohman. “People developing I gently patted him on the back, and said, ‘Just understanding and empathy and love for each speak from your heart.’ And that’s exactly what other... The traditional arts have a power in that he did. He stood behind the preacher’s podium, that is unique.” greeted us, and acknowledged our sorrow at the passing of the legendary icon that was our mom. Visit VirginiaFolklife.org to learn more about the He reminisced about the first time he met our mom Virginia Folklife Program. and the friendship that grew over the years. And how he watched as the years and Alzheimer’s took a toll on her physical body, but never took away her joyous spirit. He then lifted his head, looked at me and the Ingramettes, and quickly continued:

Left: Jon Lohman addresses a crowd of music fans during Above: Jon Lohman and Almeta Ingram-Miller at the Catholic a 2017 cultural exchange trip to Cabo Verde with Aimee Curl, Church Virgin Mary of Fatima in Pleven, Bulgaria, during a Jared Pool, Zerui Depina, and Danny Knicely. cultural exchange trip in 2019. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities IMPACT STORY

Luz Lopez and TRAIN

In the spring of 2020, with festivals cancelled recreating every recipe perfectly. Instead, she and workshops shuttered, local and traditional advises, “Try to make it your own. If it tastes good, artists numbered among those hit hardest by the trust your gut.” After all, cooking, she says, “is all state-mandated shutdowns intended to contain the about trying new things.” This mantra has served COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why Jon Lohman, then Lopez well throughout the pandemic, when certain director of the Virginia Folklife Program, decided ingredients have been hard to come by. Especially to get creative and debut a new way for traditional in the beginning, Lopez says, she “tried to think artists to find students. Launched in March 2020 of simple, basic recipes that didn’t need too many and accessible through the Virginia Folklife exotic ingredients.” website, the Teachers of Remote Arts Instruction Network, or TRAIN, is an online platform that Of course, virtual lessons make taste-testing connects Virginia artists with prospective students impossible, but Lopez still loves to see what her for virtual lessons. The artists on TRAIN make students create. They often send her photos of up a colorful collection of talents, including old- plated dishes and snapshots of family members time fiddle, tapdancing, ceramics—and, in the enjoying their meals. After wrapping up the case of Charlottesville chef Luz Lopez, traditional, session with Lohman and Miller, Lopez took on a Yucatan-region Mexican cuisine. new student: a ten-year-old Charlottesville boy who was just learning to cook. Those classes Lopez, who was born in Morocoy, Mexico, is a were especially fun, Lopez says, adding that the longtime master artist in the Folklife program. In individual lessons will continue on a regular basis. April 2020, she virtually instructed Lohman and Initially created as a response to the economic former Virginia Humanities photographer Morgan hardships resulting from the pandemic, the TRAIN Miller on how to make essential delicacies like initiative is an exciting new expansion of the Folklife homemade tortillas and salsa asada and then program, one that, as Lopez puts it, “opened up progressed to more complicated recipes, including another world of possibilities.” tamales and barbacoa. Find an instructor and sign up for online lessons at Lopez is known for her flexible approach to cooking. VirginiaFolklife.org/TRAIN. She tells her students not to worry too much about

Above Left: Luz Lopez demonstrates Yucatan-style cuisine at Below Left: Luz Lopez shows attendees at the 2017 the 2019 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase. Richmond Folk Festival how to make tortillas. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Photo by Peter Hedlund, Virginia Humanities Teaching History By Samantha Willis

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center equips educators with powerful community knowledge and the tools to teach it.

The Negro in Virginia (1940), published by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, was described by its editor, Professor Roscoe E. Lewis of Hampton Institute, as an attempt to tell the "story of the Negro" from an African American point of view. It depicts several places in Virginia where African Americans played a critical role in history and industry. Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Virginia In the past, Virginia's public schools taught a in the region or about how some African American to making sure historically marginalized voices version of the state's history that romanticized families built wealth through land and home are valued and amplified. After the JSAAHC- racist Confederate ideals and minimized the ownership after the Civil War. Teachers weren’t sponsored trip, “pilgrimage elders,” like Yates, enormous contributions Black people made to always aware of Black Charlottesville’s valiant “were especially inspired to share their stories the commonwealth and the nation. Even after this efforts against Massive Resistance in the Civil and expressed a desire to become more involved narrative was scrapped from schoolbooks, young Rights Era. Douglas and her colleagues realized in the local schools and serve as living educational people are still often taught history through an that they could help contextualize this history for resources. The Heritage Center is helping ensure exclusionary lens that doesn't adequately reflect area educators. that happens,” said Reid. the lives and experiences of Black Virginians. An innovative project by the Charlottesville-based “We decided to take a step out and say, what Both Douglas and Reid say they hope the project Jefferson School African American Heritage would it look like to teach through a lens of local can expand to other school districts. Douglas says Center (JSAAHC), supported with a Virginia Black history? What is inherently necessary for that feedback from participating teachers has Humanities grant, aims to remedy this—by teachers to teach Black students? Also, how can been excellent, with 100 percent reporting that teaching the teachers. we help them create a sense of empathy for these they’d been greatly informed by the program. students?” The project helps area teachers learn local Black “One of the main things descendants of the enslaved history from both academic professionals and The project was funded by a Virginia Humanities want,” explained Yates, “is the narrative changed. lifelong community members. Over the project’s grant awarded as part of the multi-year Changing Virginia history books did not present slavery and five-month curriculum, teachers hear accounts of the Narrative initiative. The purpose of Changing other aspects of our Black history in a true light. local Black history from the time of enslavement the Narrative, created by a Kellogg Foundation We're trying to correct that; we're trying to make through the integration of public spaces. The goal grant of nearly $900,000, was to “broaden and sure the truth gets told in Virginia.” is for the educators to share this knowledge with reframe narratives of Virginia’s past by engaging their students and use it to help students connect local communities and youth in addressing the To learn more about the Jefferson School past to present—learning how the lives and work present-day challenges of racism and bias,” African American Heritage Center visit of Charlottesville and Albemarle County's Black according to the project’s website. JeffSchoolHeritageCenter.org. residents helped create the community they live in.

Cauline Yates went on the 2018 pilgrimage "We'd already been working with Charlottesville and joined Virginia Humanities as a part-time s c h o o l s o n d e v e l o p i n g a l o c a l B l a c k h i s to r y r e s o u r c e receptionist in 2020. She is the seventh-generation guide for teachers," said Dr. Andrea Douglas, great niece of Sally Hemings, the Black woman JSAAHC’s founding executive director. In 2018, whom founding father Thomas Jefferson enslaved Douglas led a pilgrimage to Montgomery, Alabama, at his mountaintop plantation, Monticello, and who where a group of Charlottesville leaders honored gave birth to at least six of Jefferson’s children. The John Henry James at the National Memorial for trip to Montgomery inspired Yates to contribute her Peace and Justice. James, an ice cream seller, deep knowledge and experience as a member of was arrested in 1898 after being accused of Charlottesville’s Black community to the teachers’ assaulting a white woman. He never stood trial; institute. “I gave four lectures about growing up the day after his arrest, a mob of white men shot, in segregated Charlottesville to Charlottesville killed, and mutilated him a few miles outside of and Albemarle high schoolers,” says Yates. “We're Charlottesville’s city limits. Several teachers were trying to help them understand about history that part of the pilgrimage, and Douglas said that the happened in their own backyard.” experience helped her think bigger. “We came to realize that we needed to offer more than just Sharing that kind of “backyard” history is a critical a resource guide,” said Douglas. “If teachers component of JSAAHC’s teacher education didn't have a basic grounding in the material, they program, says Justin Reid, director of Virginia wouldn't know how to use it.” Humanities’ Community Initiatives, and is key

Douglas said that many local educators hadn’t been taught about the history of free Black people

Top Right: The Jefferson School, now home to the Jefferson Below Right: Local teachers participate in the Jefferson School School African American Heritage Center, was one of only ten African American Heritage Center's community history workshop 25 | TEACHING HISTORY African American high schools in Virginia when it opened in in June 2020 by video conference due to COVID-19 social 1926. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities distancing requirements. Photo courtesy of Andrea Douglas “We take pride in bringing people together— looking forward to having Virginia Humanities as right now, virtually, and one day, hopefully soon, a new neighbor. “We envision a partnership with in person again—to talk about issues facing all Virginia Humanities that could certainly include Virginians, building resources that highlight use of the physical space,” she says. “But more inclusive histories, and documenting and sharing importantly, we hope to work with them to promote Virginia’s rich cultural heritage,” says Executive learning and elevate community voices.” Director Matthew Gibson. “In this new location, A NEW HOME FOR we will be better able to engage all Virginians The move, originally planned for early fall 2020, was with this work.” postponed due to COVID-19-related delays. The newly remodeled and expanded, multi-use development The new center will be fully ADA compliant, is managed by Stony Point Development Group and accessible by public transit, and centrally located will also feature restaurants, retail, and residential closer to Charlottesville’s downtown. The public apartment housing. VIRGINIA will be able to more easily attend grant-writing workshops, talks by authors and visiting speakers, The move is made possible thanks to individual and more, once those activities resume. The new donors, the University of Virginia, and foundations location will also help us expand our paid internship including the Cabell Foundation, Perry Foundation, program, especially for local students of color Claude Moore Charitable Foundation, and the HUMANITIES interested in careers in cultural grantmaking, Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation. documentation, and preservation.

In early 2021 we’ll be moving our offices to Dairy Central, Mary Coleman, executive director of City of Promise, a nonprofit working in the adjacent 10th After our move is complete in early 2021, you Charlottesville’s historic former Monticello Dairy building at Grady & Page and Westhaven neighborhoods to increase can find us at 946 Grady Avenue, Suite 100, and Preston avenues. We’re designing the new Virginia Humanities access to community resources for local youth, is Charlottesville, VA 22903.

center and headquarters as a welcoming space for public discussions,

programs, exhibitions, and educational opportunities. Left: Virginia Humanities will relocate to Dairy Central, a multi-use Above: Virginia Humanities' executive director, Matthew Gibson, development located in Charlottesville’s historic former Monticello tours the Dairy Central building with members of the Board of Dairy building, in 2021. Photo courtesy of Stony Point Development Group Directors during construction in December of 2019. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities 29 | CLYDE JENKINS PHOTO ESSAY members, but he says in the past the whole whole the me. including people, eight ofjust crew a skeleton past the running they’re Today up. in show would community says he but members, family and apprentices his includes group Clyde’s scrapple. and cracklins for cauldrons and sausage chops, into roasts, processing further for the table on laid pieces the then gutted, cleaned, were hogs divided among the group of and The their workers families. were products, pork complicated fresh the the and labor, where event community a was the United States was a country—a hog built—before slaughtering was farm this time the around Back day.” bad very Today “one day. that is by punctuated life perfect absolutely an lead hogs his says Clyde farm. the on day important an document to 2020 February in him visited I in. lives currently and in born was Clyde home the build to land used trees the same grew that the from harvested wood today. used for They especially a table work Jenkins—built a and Sam platform and Hendershot, Thompson, Damien Logan Good, Tanner apprentices— Lonas, his Isaac before, Weeks culture. farm mountain and farming, crafts, mountain of an array on focuses apprenticeship His Sam. son James, and brother Debbie, wife his with cauldrons scalding the under fires the stoking hilltop, a on is upJenkins Clyde maker basket white-oak and grafter apple master homeplace, Jenkins the At ClydeJenkins VIRGINIA FOLKLIFE MASTERARTIST: PHOTO ESSAY By Pat Jarrett https://flic.kr/s/aHsmPqCH8W. visiting by apprenticeship Jenkins's Clyde from photos more View VirginiaFolklife.org. visiting by Program Apprenticeship Folklife Virginia the about more Learn oflabor. lifetime quarantine and I have a new appreciation for Clyde’s This sausage. the me meat coronavirus has throughout sustained some and scrapple famous his of bag a without leave me let wouldn’t he but refuse, to tried I day. the for payment products—my pork of full bag grocery a me handed he business, over talking After Bristol. in Folklife Museum Music Country of Virginia the Birthplace the at for exhibition Folk” “Real Program’s baskets oak some white up pick to Clyde with up met I later Weeks dark. get before done ofit most to able were we his apprentices, of help knowledgeable the and work, hard of lot a direction, far cry for me to helpa with wasn’t these It animals. chickens. Withprocessing his before, farms on my to and I’d all, worked listened down Clyde. After cameras put I done, be to work was there and short skin before slaughtering, the but when the crew was a man off hair hog coarse the torch or carcass hog a up string to how learn I’d expecting wasn’t I

Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Virginia Jarrett, Pat by Photo acarcass. with tank scalding the of edge the at stand Good Tanner and right, Lonas, Isaac Apprentices Clyde Jenkins, seen here with apprentice Isaac Lonas, remembers when hog slaughterings were a community event, with several families coming together to share the work and meat from pigs raised on the land. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities

James Jenkins harvests meat From left, Isaac Lonas, Logan Hendershot, from the head of the hog. Tanner Good, and James Jenkins work furiously Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities to scrape all the hair off the carcass. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Clyde Jenkins sits next to his wife, Debbie, surrounded by his apprentices, from right, Isaac Lonas, Tanner Good, Damien Thompson, Logan Hendershot, and his son Samuel at the dinner table. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities After twelve years, three hundred episodes, and "As the face of education changes all across the millions of global downloads, BackStory, Virginia nation due to COVID-19, we are proud that our Humanities’ American history podcast, recorded archives are there for students,” said Virginia its last episode in the summer of 2020. Humanities’ executive director, Matthew Gibson.

The project began in 2008 as a monthly radio show “No matter where they are, or how they are being created by executive producer Andrew Wyndham educated, it is important that they understand with hosts Peter Onuf, Ed Ayers, and Brian Balogh. the ways the past provides context to what is It quickly expanded to weekly production and in 2017 happening today.” transitioned to a digital-first podcast format. Also in 2017, Onuf retired and historians Joanne Freeman Classroom and homeschool teachers can continue and Nathan Connolly joined Ayers and Balogh. to access lesson plans and other educational Hundreds of guests joined the hosts over the years, resources by visiting the episode archive expanding the conversation and bringing fresh at BackStoryRadio.org and selecting the “has perspectives on what history can teach us about the resources” checkbox. Each of these episodes contemporary issues we’re grappling with today. include a multitude of resources for teachers and parents to explore topics from the origins of While no new episodes are being produced, we are citizenship to the Stonewall riots. committed to preserving the work of the BackStory hosts and staff so that fans and followers can If you are looking for something to fill the BackStory- continue listening to past shows and discover shaped hole in your podcast playlist, we encourage episodes they may have missed. You’ll find past you to explore one of the “guest podcasts” BackStory episodes from BackStory’s radio years (2008-2016) featured in its final months of production. You can in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at find them all in the episode archive. AmericanArchive.org. All episodes from 2008- 2020 are available at BackStoryRadio.org and Explore BackStory’s archive of episodes at will also be preserved by Ayers' "New American BackStoryRadio.org. Tanner Good moves a carcass to History Project." the butchering table. Photo by Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities Above: BackStory hosts Joanne Freeman, Nathan Connolly, Brian Balogh, and Ed Ayers at the Paramount Theater before “BackStory Live: Who Speaks for America?” in 2017. Photo by Sanjay Suchak SHIFTING THE LANDSCAPE: THE VIRGINIA AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL RESOURCES TASK FORCE

By Justin G. Reid

When Muriel Branch got word that the historic Pine Grove Elementary School in rural Cumberland County might be sold because of unpaid taxes, she galvanized her extended family to save the school, which educated generations of Black children in the Jim Crow era. That fight, however, was only the beginning. Branch soon learned that local officials were planning to host a mega-landfill on an adjacent property that served as a burial ground for the Pine Grove School community’s enslaved ancestors. “That’s when I went full force,” says Branch.

Branch is now part of an expanding historic preservation movement calling for racial, environmental, and economic justice in Virginia that’s receiving assistance from the Virginia African American Cultural Resources Task Force, a new Virginia Humanities-led coalition helping to identify, promote and conserve Virginia’s Black cultural resources, especially places connected to Virginians born into slavery.

Virginia is home to the nation's oldest Black communities and over 400 years of African diasporic history. Yet, according to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, only one percent of Virginia’s nearly 250,000 state-recorded historical sites focus on the experiences of Black Americans.

This deep inequity has many causes. Eurocentric policies narrowly define a site’s historic “significance” and “integrity,” while financial investments reflect and perpetuate the racial wealth gap. Discriminatory land-use practices leave Black and Brown communities especially vulnerable to environmental and economic threats. And structural barriers prevent the historic preservation profession from becoming truly inclusive and diverse. Muriel Branch galvanized her extended family to save the Pine Grove Elementary School and an adjacent burial site for the community's enslaved ancestors. Photo by Justin Reid, Virginia Humanities The current U.S. historic preservation system public discourse by spotlighting the efforts of largely began in the early nineteenth century as a talented changemakers, such as Andrea Roberts, privately financed, white women-led movement to PhD, who is challenging Eurocentric norms memorialize the American Revolution and assert in historic preservation through her work on white cultural norms and traditions. Twentieth “freedom colonies”—Black settlements that century segregationist policies in housing and emerged throughout the U.S. South following economic development further erased Black emancipation. According to Roberts, most of these communities and cultural resources. The most places have either been ignored or are unknown significant historic preservation legislation to by professional preservationists because place date—the 1966 National Historic Preservation names and locations are embedded in oral Act—failed to redress this past discrimination. tradition and ritual, which are often not considered Those Black historic sites that have survived, legitimate sources for historic preservation work. have done so despite unfair odds. “Many marginalized communities have had to “We have an obligation, as Virginians, as legislators, carry their stories solely in oral histories,” says historians, and educators, to bring relevancy to historic preservationist Niya Bates. “Preservation the lives of those who sacrificed blood, sweat, and architectural programs must aggressively and tears building the landscape of Virginia,” says diversify and restructure their classrooms and legislation sponsor and task force founding chair curricula by centering the expertise of Black and Delegate Delores McQuinn of Richmond. Brown communities,” says Bates. She also believes programs should include training in cultural PictureJustin Reid -- and Jobie Hill investigate a former slave house in Rockbridge competency, antiracism, and ethical community Photo by The Virginia African American Cultural Resources County. Photo by Peter Hedlund, Task Force publicly launched in August 2018 at the engagement. Virginia Humanities Fort Monroe National Monument, almost exactly 399 years to the day after the first captive Africans In 2019 the African American Cultural Heritage in English-occupied North America arrived at this Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Hampton, Virginia, site in 1619. Fort Monroe is also Preservation, with support from The Andrew W. where thousands of Black Virginians escaped to Mellon Foundation, awarded the task force a grant during the U.S. Civil War and helped compel the to develop a summer institute. Postponed until issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. 2021 due to COVID-19, the institute will provide capacity-building support to grassroots, Black The task force’s mission is to champion inclusive historic preservation efforts across the state, while learning, community development, and economic training the next generation of Black architects, opportunities through Black cultural landscape preservationists, and public historians in innovative preservation in Virginia. The group supports practice. Internationally acclaimed preservation community-driven efforts to protect and sustain architect and Saving Slave Houses founder Jobie Virginia’s Black cultural heritage places through Hill is the institute’s inaugural director. information and resource sharing, outreach, and education. The task force has also strengthened Hill and her students hope to support community communication and relationships among key efforts like that at Pine Grove. In February 2020, the statewide nonprofits and state agencies, including Pine Grove School was successfully listed on the Preservation Virginia, Virginia Africana Associates, National Register of Historic Places. Muriel Branch the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, now has her sights set on a Rural Historic District Virginia Outdoors Foundation, Virginia Tourism listing. “The enthusiasm has been lit. The fire has Corporation, Virginia’s historically Black colleges been lit,” says Branch. “We won’t be dismissed.” and universities (HBCUs), and the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia. To learn more about the Virginia African American Cultural Resources Task Force visit In the past three years, the task force has successfully AfroVirginia.org. advanced state-level reform and helped shift The historic Pine Grove Elementary School in rural Cumberland County and an adjacent burial site were threatened by the construction of a mega-landfill. Photo by Justin Reid, Virginia Humanities Making the Invisible Visible By Nora Pehrson

Book Arts Member Artist Veronica Jackson had over three decades of experience as an architect and exhibit designer when she decided it was time for a change. She closed up her Washington, D.C.-based design firm and moved to San Francisco to study visual studies at California College of the Arts. Once there, she says, “I had the tools to look at my life, my being as a Black woman, and take those materials and turn them into something.” Now based in Central Virginia, Jackson is a visual artist with a burgeoning printmaking practice and a reputation on the rise. She had her first solo show, "The Burden of Invisibility," in February 2019 at Riverviews Artspace in Lynchburg; the exhibit debuted for a second time in February 2020 at Chroma Projects Gallery in Charlottesville. Veronica Jackson works on her piece, That's Pops's Money at our Virginia Center for the Book's book arts studio. Photo by Kevin McFadden, Virginia Humanities In July 2020, Jackson and I spoke on the phone about VJ: My mother and my aunts are strong women who her letterpress work, from process to creation. grew up in a patriarchal family environment. They fought their battles wisely, and they set the examples that formed the framework of my feminism. Nora Pehrson: First, let’s talk about your letterpress practice at the Virginia Center for the Book and the In my professional career as a museum exhibit piece that came out of it, That’s Pops’s Money. You designer, I had my ideas dismissed and ignored, created 813 timecards, each one a quantification of and then used later with success by supervisors your grandmother’s unappreciated domestic labor. who failed to credit me. I was constantly developing How did you feel as you carried out the process of projects without the same level of support provided your own artistic labor? to my white colleagues. But I don’t negatively dwell on these slights; I use them as material for future work. It’s the catalyst that propels me forward. Veronica Jackson: Well, you hit the nail on the head in the aspect that I physically labored through that project. By physically hand-cranking the timecards NP: You describe art as primarily a form of through the press, I was literally emulating the communication. When you’re working on a piece daunting, repetitive work that my grandmother did like Homeless Tourist, for example, do you imagine for sixty-seven years. I wanted to pay homage to her yourself communicating with the people who have devalued labor. At first, I wanted to make the black mislabeled you or treated you as invisible in the past? paper, but black paper, it turns out, is very difficult to create. So, I said, “Fine. I will buy black paper.” VJ: I’m responding. I’m definitely responding to those It came in huge, 20 by 30 sheets, which I had to cut people. But my art is not for them. It’s a way for me down to 8 by 10 sheets. That was its own labor. to exorcise these feelings that I have in my being. It’s Just to back up for a moment, there’s also the labor of dedicated to Black women, but it’s also for anyone working out the project. As in, how do you physically who has felt oppressed or invisible. That’s part of that set this up so that you can execute it? That’s where social consciousness work that I am trying to do. my architecture training and my exhibit design training came in. Process is very important to me; it sparks the ideas. NP: What draws you to text-based practices?

NP: How did you first become involved with the VJ: Text is important because it’s a form of explaining. Virginia Center for the Book? “You didn’t see me, simply because you didn’t see me,” as I say in my Language of Invisibility piece, a series of black letterboards featuring quotes from VJ: I was introduced to the Center for the Book myself and other Black women. Now, I could try through a papermaking class that I took at the to use a plain, wordless black board, but how well University of Virginia in the summer of 2017. I had is that going to read? I don’t need to be obtuse or done printing before, but once I got to the the center, abstract. All of my art has an interpretive label or the whole discipline just blossomed in my life. And interpretative text because I want people to know that’s where I met [Book Arts Program Director] what I’m thinking. I want them to know how I want Garrett Queen and Kevin [McFadden]. this piece of art to live in the world. That’s where I got the spark to do That’s Pops’s Money—through making paper, trying to make black paper. The mental origin of the piece was a three- word phrase stated by my uncle. Representing that Learn more about Veronica Jackson’s work by physically—that’s where the letterpress work at the visiting JacksonDesignGroup.com. Center for the Book comes in. Discover classes, online discussions, and unique NP: How does your family history inform your work? works of art at VaBookCenter.org. PictureThat's Pops's -- Money featured 813 letterpress-printed timecards using blue ink on black paper. Photo by

41 | MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE The barely legible content represents Veronica Jackson's grandmother's devalued labor. Photo by Jean Wibbens Photography Veronica Jackson describes her art, including this piece called Homeless Tourist, as a form of communication. Photo courtesy of Veronica Jackson

Veronica Jackson poses with her Veronica Jackson says her work, including this piece piece That's Pops's Money. The Language of Invisibility on Display, was influenced by her mother Photo by Jean Wibbens Photography and aunts, strong women who grew up in a patriarchal family. Photo courtesy of Veronica Jackson 1882 FOUNDATION (Fairfax and Statewide) Asian Americans have been part of the fabric of life in the United States—and in Virginia— for centuries. Their experiences are as varied as their countries of origin: China, Japan, 39 44 32 the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, and others. The stories of Asian Americans touch on themes that run 31 throughout American and Virginia history: immigration, westward expansion, civil rights, the 22 35,43,54 labor movement, international relations, and the rights of women, to name just a few. As 37 important as the stories of Asian Americans and their contributions are to Virginia and the United States, they are not widely known or understood beyond the communities who have lived them. A project by the 1882 Foundation is designed to help change that. With support from Virginia Humanities, the 1882 Foundation is developing an educational toolkit for GrantsVirginia Humanities supported these humanities teaching Asian American history in Virginia’s classrooms. Working with scholars from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Virginia Department of Education, and other projects between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020. organizations, the Foundation is developing an innovative, nontraditional online resource that supports project-based learning within the framework of the current Standards of Learning. 8 To LEARN MORE about the Grants Program, 7 24,47 46 19 visit VirginiaHumanities.org/Grants. 30 CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL (Charlottesville) 25 1 12 10 5 6,13,26,45 The story of Jewish life in Charlottesville is in part a story of immigration and migration. It is also a story of adaptation and of individuals who were pioneers in business, law, 16 medicine, education, and many other fields. In 1993-1994, Virginia Humanities awarded 3,4,14,15,18,20, funds to support an oral history project and related exhibit documenting Jewish life in 2 23,40,53,55,56 Charlottesville. Events in the summer of 2017 (the “Unite the Right” rally and its stark 11 expressions of anti-Semitism) gave renewed urgency to this work, and a new phase of oral 57 36 21 history interviews was begun. Many of the newer interviews touch on the apprehension caused by the events of August 2017 and how individuals, families, and the local Jewish 38 community have responded. This grant supports transcription of more than forty-five 41 27 existing interviews, plus another thirty to be conducted during the grant period. Our 42 funds are also supporting development of a web interface that will make this resource 52 49 accessible worldwide. Congregation Beth Israel and project staff are working closely with 34 the University of Virginia’s Special Collections Department and the Institute for Advanced 33 51 9 17 Technology in the Humanities to create a permanent archive that is fully searchable and 29 50 accessible to a wide range of users locally and state and nationwide.

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We would like to thank the members of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities for making more than $600,000 in emergency operating funds available to museums, libraries, historical societies, and other cultural nonprofit organizations in Virginia through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) passed by Congress in March 2020. We distributed these funds to the following 112 organizations in May and June 2020.

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Each year Virginia Humanities recognizes in-kind contributions from those who have hosted events, contributed artwork to the Raucous Auction, provided goods and services for programs, and promoted our programming. Their contributions help us reduce expenses, secure additional funding, increase programmatic quality and exposure, and focus on our important work throughout the commonwealth.

2nd Act Books Lucas Czarnecki Garrett Queen Corporations American Shakespeare Center Dean Dass Quirk Hotel A Pimento Catering Dr. Eva Natural Skincare Phil Riese and Foundations Kristin Adolfson Janet Eden Robert Schultz Albemarle Baking Company Feast! Splendora’s Albemarle Magazine Matthew Gibson St. Anne’s-Belfield School Sandy Anderson Grit Coffee The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative GOLD CIRCLE HUMANITIES CABINET Clergy and Laity United Amy Arnold Lyall Harris The Center at Belvedere for Justice and Peace Barnes & Noble Harrison Institute and Small Special The Daily Progress Gifts of $5,000 or more Gifts of $4,999 - $2,500 Jewish Community Foundation Jon Barton Collections Library at UVa The Paramount Theater of Southern Arizona Bonnie Bernstein Angie Hogan The Pie Chest A&E Television Networks Battelle-Columbus Division Kemper Consulting, Inc. Josef Beery Ivy Creek Natural Area Katie Towson Bank of America Chesapeake Corporation Foundation Mind and Life Institute Jennifer Billingsly Ivy Life & Style Media Adriana Trigiani CFA Institute Friends of the Jefferson- R E Lee Companies Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Madison Regional Library Blue Mountain Brewery UVA Bookstore Charles Fund, Inc. The Van Brimer Jefferson School African American GlynnDevins Advertising & Marketing Blue Ridge Country Magazine UVA Law School Charlottesville Area Family Foundation Heritage Center Community Foundation Lara, May & Associates LLC Brasserie Saison Village School Donna Knoell Charlottesville Albemarle Airport LexisNexis Carolyn Cades Virginia Film Festival PATRONS Nancy Kober Richard Cappuccio Virginia Public Media Charlottesville Albemarle Marie G. Dennett Foundation Gifts of $499 - $250 Lana Lambert Convention and Visitors Bureau CharlottesvilleFamily Virginia Quarterly Review Miller School of Albemarle Lone Light Coffee City of Charlottesville Charlottesville Guide Williams Sonoma at Stonefield The Shops at Stonefield BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund Kevin McFadden Claude Moore Charitable Foundation City of Charlottesville WMRA / WEMC Public Radio Wells Fargo Foundation Hoffberger Foundation, Inc. Yolanda Merrill Community Foundation CitySpace WNRN 91.9FM Westminster-Canterbury of Greater Richmond Jefferson Legacy Foundation Todd Minnich of the Blueridge C-VILLE Weekly WTJU 91.1FM S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co., Inc. National Book Foundation County of Albemarle Ann Connell WVTF Radio IQ S.L. Nusbaum Insurance Agency, Inc. New Dominion Bookshop Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation HUMANITIES ASSOCIATES Common House Cauline Yates Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Virginia Cocktail Peanuts Paromi Tea Gifts of $2,499 - $1,000 Congregation Beth Israel Piedmont Virginia Community College Federation of State Humanities Councils County of Albemarle Heart Sing Foundation FRIENDS American Endowment Foundation Heiner Family Fund Gifts up to $249 Charlottesville Pride Community Network McGuire Woods Nathalie & James Andrews Foundation National Trust for Historic Preservation Benevity/American The J. & E. Berkley Foundation Endowment Foundation Mrs. Nancy B. Booker Robert G. & Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation Dayton Foundation Depository, Inc. Edward Chappell BENEFACTORS Robins Foundation Jazz And Acoustic Music, Inc. In Memoriam Randolph W. Church Jr. Gifts of $999 - $500 The Blum Family Foundation, Inc. Rockbridge Historical Society The Board and Staff of Virginia Humanities remember Ms. Emma C. Edmunds Roseland Cinema The Joseph and Robert with gratitude the following donors who passed away Mrs. Jean C. Fording Cornell Memorial Foundation Anonymous and Entertainment Center, Inc. Mr. John H. Hager Bank of the James during the year. Their heartfelt contributions helped to shape our organization, develop new programs, and Dr. Oliver Hill Jr. provide enthusiastic support for our work. Mrs. Joan S. Jones Mr. James L. Kelly Mr. George A. Latimer Sr. Honorary and Memorial Gifts Shanda Horner and Carl Horner Ms. Sally Powers Elizabeth Smiley Priscilla Little and David Little and Dr. Bob Powers and Andrew Chancey In Honor of Edward L. Ayers In Memory of Jean C. Fording In Honor of Gertrude O'Keefe Grace Nordhoff Ms. Shamim Sisson Raymond James Charitable and Dr. Jim Cooper Endowment Fund Pete Dignan Eleanor Hartless Ken White and Jane White James Overton Robert Troxell Camille Wells Gerri Gribi Kimberly Rehberg Dick Wilson and Marty Wilson In Honor of Joanne Barrie Freeman In Memory of Calvin P. Otto Chuck Rotgin and Whitley Rotgin In Honor of Ellen P. Vaughan In Memory of Elizabeth Stark Barton Anonymous Karen Dowd and Tom Dowd Nancy Rowsey and In Memory of Robert C. Vaughan III Jasper Adams Kathleen Sooy and William Sooy In Honor of Robert C. Vaughan IV Anonymous Bob Brink Jon Barton In Honor of Matthew S. Gibson In Honor of Garrett Queen Mort Thalhimer Chancey-Smiley Family Foundation Matthew Gibson Seyoum Berhe Shirley Gibson Margo Smith and Tom Cogill Clare Tilton and David Poole Lawrie Balfour and Chad Dodson and Jennifer Billingsly Lara Fergeson Shannon St. John Pat Cummings Rockbridge Historical Society Patricia Parrott and Raymond In Honor of Elizabeth Forsyth Harris In Memory of Barbara Raskin Carol Wills and Madison Cummings Eric Wilson Parrott Anonymous Ms. Erika Raskin-Littlewood Lara Fergeson Hunter Sims and Marcy Sims and Dr. Keith Littlewood In Memory of Patricia Norris Stewart Matthew Gibson and Jennifer In Memory of James E. Weatherford Candice Shelton In Memory of Frank Osborne Heintz John Thelin and Teresa Thelin Billingsly Mickey Weatherford Sandra Treadway Anonymous In Honor of Justin Reid Jerry Handler Bob Brink In Memory of Carol J. Troxell Cristine Nardi In Memory of Karenne G. Wood In Honor of David A. Bearinger In Memory of Maggie L. Ingram Marianne Cook Elizabeth Nissen Pat Cummings and Madison Anne Barnes and Miles Barnes Meta Ingram-Miller In Memory of Frank J. Riccio II Chris Dunne and Daniel Nissen Cummings Katharine Brown Carol Buckner and Murray Buckner Elizabeth Fuller Priscilla Ord Virginia Geoffrey In Memory of Joan S. Jones Angie Hogan and Kevin McFadden Cliff Garstang Jeannie Palin and Philip Palin and John Andelin In Memory of John Cephas Doni Guggenheimer Ms. Alice Gore and Dr. Wick Hunt Ms. Lydia Peale Mimi Hirsch Marc Pessar In Memory of Steven H. Rubin Antonia Massie and Michael Massie and Dr. John Peale Winifred Martin In Memory of James L. Kelly Nancy Damon and Fred Damon In Honor of Theodore DeLaney Aileen Kelly Maggie Guggenheimer In Memory of Rosel H. Schewel and Timothy Litzenburg In Honor of Jane B. Kulow and Elliot S. Schewel Jane Dittmar and Frank Squillace Anonymous In Memory of Emma C. Edmunds Cynthia Allen and Lawrence Bostian

Anonymous In Honor of Lester L. Lyles Mary Anderson and Edward Anderson Eleanor Agee Battelle-Columbus Division Anne Allen Pamela Belleman and Bruce Belleman Carolyn Bell and Alex Bell In Memory of Kirk Chapman Mariner Nicole Betts and Earle Betts T. Rowe Price Charitable Kellee Blake Becky Cottrell The Blum Family Foundation, Inc. Irving Blum Debbie Edmunds and Paul Edmunds In Honor of Sarah B. McConnell Jeff Blum Melissa Ferrell Betty Lou Middleditch Lois Blum Doni Guggenheimer and Leigh Middleditch Verva Houff and Charles Houff Austin Brockenbrough Jane Carlson Joseph Kovars In Memory of Helen Katz Mervis Nellie Pat Landrum and Jerome Mervis Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Katherine Milam Karen Zeno and Joseph Milam Sara Collier Betty Ann Dillon Byrd Murray In Memory of Joseph C. Miller Samantha El-Amin Sarah Peck Dr. Mary Wimer Robert Rohrer Andrew Fass and Alison Fass Heiner Family Fund

Formerly the Lee County Colored School in Pennington Gap, Virginia, this one-room schoolhouse in Virginia's westernmost county is now home to the Appalachian African-American Cultural Center. Photo by Justin Reid, Virginia Humanities Special Funds Endowed

In addition to donations to the Virginia Humanities Fund and our programs, Frank Riccio Fund was established in 2018 to Virginia Humanities receives contributions to giving circles, named funds, and honor Virginia Center for the Book member Funds endowments that have been established for special purposes and to sustain our artist and educator Frank Riccio; it supports programs over time. an annual visiting book artist: the Frank Riccio George A. and Frances Bibbins Latimer Fund was Artist-in-Residence. established by George Latimer in 2018 to honor his late wife, Eastern Shore native and prominent 2019-20 RICCIO FUND DONORS: community historian Frances Bibbins Latimer; it supports grant projects that document, preserve and The Author’s Fund was established in 2016 to 2019-20 LITERARY LEADERS: Anonymous celebrate African American life in Virginia. support the Virginia Festival of the Book’s continued Carol Buckner and Murray Buckner Anonymous excellence in recruiting high-caliber and diverse Addeane Caelleigh authors to speak at programs for broad public Antoinette Brewster and Benjamin Brewster Rosel Schewel Fund was established by an Nancy Damon and Fred Damon audiences. Candie Bruse and Chuck Bruse anonymous donation in 2019 to honor the Joe Erdman and Rosemary Hill-Erdman vision, leadership and achievements of Virginia CFA Institute Humanities’ longest-serving board member and 2019-20 AUTHORS FUND DONORS: Barbara Heritage Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Lynchburg-based educator, philanthropist and Anonymous Angie Hogan and Kevin McFadden Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport activist, Rosel Schewel; it aims to amplify the Dr. Susan Hitchcock Carla Massaro voices of, support the work of, and honor the City of Charlottesville Leatha Kendrick achievements of women in Virginia. Katherine McNamara County of Albemarle Laura Troy and Robert Troy Nina Riccio Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Edna & Norman Freehling Fellowship was The Joseph and Robert Cornell established by historian and Virginia Humanities Friends of Folklife is an annual giving circle Joe Erdman and Rosemary Hill-Erdman Memorial Foundation Senior Fellow William W. Freehling in memory of connecting Virginia Folklife Program donors of $1000 Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library his parents; it supports research and writing on the or more; it helps deepen and sustain the dynamic GlynnDevins Advertising & Marketing South Atlantic region, including the Caribbean South. cultural legacy created by the program. Carol Troxell Fund was established in 2017 in Betsy Greene and James Greene memory of former New Dominion Bookshop owner Carol Troxell; it celebrates voracious 2019-20 FRIENDS OF FOLKLIFE: Renee Grisham and John Grisham Emilia Galli Struppa Fellowship was created by reading and supports a solo featured author Chapman University Chancellor and former Virginia Ellen Climo and Marc Lipson Charles Heiner during the Virginia Festival of the Book. Humanities board member Daniele Struppa in Community Foundation Janet Stone Jones Foundation memory of his mother; it supports research and of Greater Richmond Lara, May & Associates LLC 2019-20 TROXELL FUND DONORS: writing in history and literary studies. Julia Kudravetz LexisNexis Marianne Cook Lissa Merrill Encyclopedia Virginia Endowment was established Antonia Massie and Michael Massie Chris Dunne to support the ongoing financial needs of The J. & E. Berkley Foundation Elizabeth Fuller Miller School of Albemarle Encyclopedia Virginia; it was established by then- Donna Treacy and Dennis Treacy The Oakwood Foundation Clifford Garstang Board chairman Barbara J. Fried. Venture Richmond Oct Stonefield Property Owner LLC Ms. Alice Gore and Dr. Wick Hunt Virginia Center for the Book Endowment supports The Joseph and Robert Cornell Ms. Sally Powers and Dr. Bob Powers Literary Leaders is an annual giving circle connecting the Center's book-related activities; it was Memorial Foundation Ms. Shamim Sisson and Dr. Jim Cooper Virginia Festival of the Book donors of $2500 or more; established by donor Michael Jay Green. it supports the vitality of Festival programming each Wells Fargo Foundation Robert Troxell year, including author visits to K-12 schools. Westminster-Canterbury Corp. Laura Troy and Robert Troy Virginia Humanities Endowment was established to support the ongoing financial needs of Virginia Humanities.

61 | SPECIAL FUNDS VIRGINIA HUMANITIES BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS THE STATE HUMANITIES COUNCIL. WE AIM TO TELL THE STORIES OF ALL Karen Cogar Abramson Dulce Carrillo William Mark Habeeb Clark Hoyt General Lester L. Lyles Alexandria, VA Falls Church, VA (Mark) Great Falls, VA Vienna, VA VIRGINIANS—OR, BETTER YET, Arlington, VA FIND WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO Chief Lynette Allston Jim Chapman Rishi Jaitly Kelly O’Keefe Drewryville, VA Charlottesville, VA Chris Head Charlottesville, VA Richmond, VA TELL THEIR OWN STORIES. Roanoke, VA Edward L. Ayers Marjorie Clark Sylvester Johnson Edward Scott Charlottesville, VA North Chesterfield, VA Lenneal J. Henderson Blacksburg, VA Staunton, VA Gubernatorial We want to connect Virginians with their Petersburg, VA history and culture and, in doing that, help Megan Beyer Susan Colpitts Lauranett L. Lee McIlwaine (Mac) Appointments bring us all a bit closer together. Alexandria, VA Norfolk, VA Steve Herman North Chesterfield, VA Thompson Jr. Bethesda, MD Charlottesville, VA Amid the 2020 whirlwind of non-stop breaking news, two Virginia Kellee Blake Howard (Hank) Dobin Dee H. Lester Humanities staff members quietly—and remotely—began their Virginia Humanities is headquartered in Parksley, VA Lexington, VA Iris E. Holliday Virginia Beach, VA Will Trinkle tenures as members of Governor Ralph Northam’s administration. Charlottesville at the University of Virginia, North Chesterfield, VA Charlottesville, VA The governor appointed Karice Luck-Brimmer (right), Virginia but our work covers the commonwealth. Humanities’ coordinator for the Danville-based History United Founded in 1974, we are one of fifty-six program, to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. And Virginia organizations created by the National Humanities’ director of Community Initiatives, Justin Reid (left), was Endowment for the Humanities to make the Staff added to the board of the Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC). humanities available to all Americans. To learn more visit VirginiaHumanities.org

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