v i r g i n i a f o u n d a t i o n f o r t h e h u m a n i t i e s ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006 v i r g i n i a f o u n d a t i o n f o r t h e h u m a n i t i e s www.virginiafoundation.org Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

— Robert F. Kennedy

President’s Letter...... 2

Programs and Projects...... 4

VFH Grants...... 14

VFH Fellows...... 20

VFH Donors...... 21

Statement of Financial Position...... 28

VFH Board and Staff...... 29

 Two years ago Encyclopedia was an idea; one year ago at it was a promise; today it is building the Virginia Foundation for the in energy. Now the currents flow in Humanities (VFH). A strong sense two directions. Some people are of mission and an excitement about researching, writing, and designing the future charge our work. It is an the database of knowledge about exciting mission to help individuals, Virginia culture and history, while organizations, and communities others are envisioning its structural harness their ideas and raw energy underpinnings. Our goal is to make to understand the past, confront this website fun and easy for all to important issues in the present, and use, no matter their age or their shape a promising future. In many computer savvy. ways, we see our role as that of catalyst, turning untapped power The VFH African American into ideas and actions that matter. Heritage program continues to pulse with activity, notably the An electric turbine not only collects Fayette Area Historical Initiative in the power; it amplifies it. So it is with Martinsville, Virginia, through which the VFH Grant program, which VFH has been working with local empowers museums, , residents to reclaim, display, and and civic groups celebrate all-but-forgotten details of Perhaps no kind to carry out the rich African American culture of energy is more the programs that animates Martinsville’s past important than needed by their and present. human energy — communities. VFH grantees Like the pistons of an engine, this that vital life force become part of a year the Virginia Folklife program that sustains statewide network converted the energy of many of and animates our of humanities Virginia’s traditional artists into CDs organizations and from “The Crooked Road: Virginia’s very being. scholars, finding Heritage Musical Trail.” Concerts resources that would not otherwise and recordings filled the air with be available. music and song from the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge to the Like a windmill which channels coalfields of Southwest Virginia. the boisterous power of wind and converts it to usable energy, the VFH State-of-the-art radio studios channels the energies of scholars have allowed us to use the medium through the VFH Fellowship of radio even more effectively to program, resulting in the creation of channel the ideas and energy of new and scholarly resources. Virginia and broadcast them to the

 larger world. Music and dialogue, our website, and talk with our staff special events, feature reporting and with the people near and far — from studios in Charlottesville, we working on the projects we help power research and ideas that reach fund or manage. New projects and far and wide. participants keep coming our way, while our steady successes — our In May, at the invitation of the China grants and fellowships, events Association for International Friendly and humanities projects — keep Contact, several VFH staff members the foundation moving, producing, embarked on a cultural mission reaching out to find that native to China. Visiting this ancient land energy, in Virginia and beyond, informed our ongoing conversation on which our work and our about the role and value of the successes depend. humanities in society. We returned with a much clearer idea of how to think cross-culturally, to appreciate the diversity in our cultures, and Robert C. Vaughan, III to understand our shared humanity President despite different languages, histories, and ethnicities. We hope to suggest ways to establish ongoing In many ways, we bilateral exchanges, to get a sense see our role as that of real people in real life situations, of catalyst, turning and to build friendships and possible future collaborations. untapped power into ideas and Perhaps no kind of energy is more actions that matter. important than human energy — that vital life force that sustains and animates our very being. Our donors and supporters supply the life-force for the VFH. Without the essential financial contributions they provide, none of this would be possible. To them we say a resounding, “Thank you!”

Such entrepreneurial energy is at work at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities — you can feel it in the air as you enter our building, attend our meetings, visit

 Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates. Paul Wagner, an Academy Award winning writer- — Samuel Johnson producer-director of documentary and dramatic films. A guest on VFH Humanities Feature Bureau.

The power of sound waves engages minds and enhances lives.

stations across the country are Broadcast now airing VFH-created feature Voices, stories, opinions, and ideas stories during national broadcasts stream through the airwaves from of “All Things Considered” and VFH’s studios in Charlottesville. “Morning .” “With Good Reason,” broadcast weekly by Virginia’s Public Radio But you don’t need a radio to tune stations, reaches more listeners in to “With Good Reason” or the than ever before. Weekly program Humanities Features. VFH Radio audience numbers are up, and has supercharged its website, so that’s just part of the power surge. computer-based listeners around As of last September, VFH Radio’s the world can download audio Humanities Feature Bureau has or transcript versions of past been up and running, with reporters broadcasts — a wealth of knowledge generating Virginia stories for free to anyone with computer access. drivetime broadcast. Public radio www.withgoodreasonradio.org

 SOUTHERN HUMANITIES MEDIA FUND AWARDS 2005-2006 “American Creole: Shades of Rhythm” Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Baton Rouge, LA $33,000 to produce a documentary about a southeastern Louisiana “Creoles of Color” family of musicians as they deal with questions of identity relating to their place in the family, their culture and contemporary society “Anne Braden” Appalshop, Inc., Whitesburg, KY $33,000 to produce a documentary about the life of social activist Anne Braden and the struggle for human rights in the South “Greensboro: A Study in Truth and Justice” Downtown Community TV Center, New York, NY $33,000 to produce a documentary exploring the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath

Encyclopedia Virginia will Encyclopedia provide students, teachers, It used to be that “encyclopedia” scholars, travelers, and business meant a shelf full of books, but this professionals quick and easy year at VFH, the word has taken access to information about on a new meaning: a vibrant and Virginia’s history and culture. dynamic electronic of knowledge about Virginia. That is Having hired the managing and what Encyclopedia Virginia is shaping associate editors, recruited the up to be, with VFH as the central first section editors and writers, node of a living knowledge system. and selected a technology design firm,Encyclopedia Virginia is Drawing upon multiple collections well on its way towards its debut of text, imagery, and media in 2007.

Turning raw energy into art may lead to solace and understanding.

This year VFH published the Violence and second of Tough Times Companion, a collection of works Survival by victims and survivors. With Raw fury or frightened energy can tear contents that are raw and real, through the lives of those living amid beautiful and compelling, Tough political chaos or personal trauma. Times is available free to shelters, VFH’s Institute on Violence and hospitals, prisons, and counseling Survival helps to gather up that energy centers — places where it will help and sculpt it into meaningful expression. others to find energy for renewal.

 for them, for the Europeans Heritage who came here and for the land As the 2007 Jamestown they claimed as their own. A Commemoration approaches, partnership between the Virginia VFH is directing energy and Council on Indians, the tribes of attention toward Virginia’s Native Virginia, and the VFH, the Virginia Americans, past and present. Indian Heritage Program is now gaining steam, its overarching goal The founding of the Virginia colony to amplify the voices of today’s sent a lightning charge through the Virginia Indians and to honor, lives and communities of people research, and chronicle the part already resident in this land, their ancestors played in the changing the course of history history of the state.

Researching community history can be a catalyst for building community.

The partnership between the VFH Barton and Fayette Streets, the part African American Heritage Program of the city considered the gateway and the Fayette Area Historical to Martinsville’s spirited Black Initiative of Martinsville has been community from the 1920s to the a catalyst for building community 1960s. Teachers’ institutes, a new as residents have contributed roadside historical marker, two vintage photographs and recaptured exhibitions, and a 120-page pictorial memories from times gone by. history publication — everything connects and raises awareness, Descendents of A bundle of projects spotlight pride, and curiosity. All converge in Dr. Dana O. Baldwin (1881-1972) Baldwin’s Block on the corner of lively synergy to tell the rich story of stand in front Martinsville past and present and to of the historical marker, which build a stronger future. was dedicated to the Martinsville community on June 16, 2006. This year also brought the publication of Don’t Grieve After Me: The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-2005, a collection of essays that complements an exhibit of the same name. Created in partnership with Hampton University Museum, the book further broadens our understanding of African American history in Virginia.

 You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. — Dylan Thomas

 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program 2005-2006

Master Artist . . . Master Artist . . . Laura Ortiz Jack and Nannie Branch Apprentice . . . Ariel Hobza-Ortiz Apprentice . . . John Maeder Mexican Folk Dancer Country Ham Curing Falls Church, VA Mendota, VA Master Artist . . . Thornton Spencer Master Artist . . . George Butler Apprentice . . . Martha Spencer Apprentice . . . Warner Rice Old Time Fiddle Boat Building Mouth of Wilson, VA Reedville, VA Master Artist . . . Bradley Sunkins Master Artist . . . John Cephas Apprentices . . . CJ McCauley, Apprentice . . . Marc Pessar Michael Thomas, Aaron Guy Piedmont Blues Guitar Madison Hummingbirds Virginia Beach, VA African American Shout Band Portsmouth, VA Master Artist . . . Olen Gardner Apprentice . . . Ross Matthews Master Artist . . . Elton Williams Banjo Making and Apprentice . . . Earl Sawyer Instrument Repair Steel Drum Making Christiansburg, VA Portsmouth, VA

Long before electricity and motors, energy came from the traditional expressions of Virginia culture. Thanks to VFH, it still does.

Shout and twirl, Folk sounds lure the listener back Folklife pick and hew, down the Crooked Road that runs fiddle and harmonize — Virginia from the Blue Ridge to Southwest folk ways are the rhythm that Virginia, past places where so beats at the heart of who we are. many American music styles began: VFH’s Folklife Program keeps old-time, bluegrass, mountain these ways alive, passed from gospel. This year VFH began older to younger generations. This recording the finest sounds from year’s apprenticeship program along Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. paired master artists with eager The first album produced by our apprentices in eight different fields, own Crooked Road CD label was from boat building to old-time fiddle No Speed Limit: Bluegrass Lullaby. playing, from Mexican folk dance to Four more have since followed, with Piedmont blues guitar. others soon to come.

 Families listened to storytellers at StoryFest during the 12th annual Virginia Festival of the Book.

Books and Reading inspires the mind and heart.

Enthusiasm for books and reading their worksites to teach adults basic charges the atmosphere of the reading and citizenship skills. Foundation all year long, and the energy level peaks each March Large letter presses, creativity and during the Virginia Festival of the imagination transform into beautiful Book. This year the 12th annual works at the Virginia Arts of the event drew a record number in Book Center (VABC), where the attendance, more than 26,000. humanities and the arts are magically Featured authors included Rita married in chapbooks, broadsides, Dove, John Hope Franklin, Barbara and books. In the past year, the Ehrenreich, Art Spiegelman, and VABC has expanded its course Judith Viorst. A special event offerings to young and old alike, hosted by the Virginia Foundation bringing to life this technology which Virginia poet laureate Rita Dove and author Center for the Book, featuring writer has transformed society since its John Hope Franklin held the audience Barbara Kingsolver and musician invention in the mid-fifteenth century. captivated at the John McCutcheon, raised funds for Virginia Festival of the Book literacy and reading projects around last March. the state.

Motheread® and Fatheread® took a new direction with “My United States!,” a program combining literacy and civics education. Staff and volunteers from adult education organizations attended the workshop and then returned to

 banjo player Charlie Poole; the Grants Chickahominy people of Virginia This year VFH grant funding will a brochure about the kept the wheels of thought and history and status of their tribe; productivity turning on projects, and oral history will be gathered plans, and events across the on Central Appalachian activist state. The American Frontier women — all propelled by grants Culture Foundation will soon add big and small from the Virginia a representative African village Foundation for the Humanities. to its museum site; a feature film Read a full list of grant recipients is underway about legendary on page 14.

research and writing and stimulated Fellowships by the camaraderie of fellow As grant support flows to inquirers. VFH fellowships this year communities, scholars move into supported ten scholars, whose the Virginia Foundation for the interests included, among others, Humanities as resident fellows, Lincoln’s growth from stumbling energized and eager to do important young president to visionary, the Nat Turner rebellion, slavery and gender in the writing of W. E. B. Dubois, and the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas. See page 20 for a complete list of fellows and their topics of research.

Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. — Abigail Adams

10 Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. — William James

11 VFH SPECIAL PROJECTS 2005-2006 Ash Lawn Opera Festival “Opera Connects for Teachers,” a program to introduce teachers to materials that connect each season’s shows with areas of study, such as English literature, history, geography, and to Virginia’s Standards of Learning. APVA Preservation Virginia “Jamestowne Rediscovered,” a book by William Kelso on the recently discovered and remarkably preserved sites and artifacts of historic Jamestowne and the experiment that became the genesis of the United States. Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) “Liberal Education and America’s Promise,” a statewide advocacy and action initiative in Virginia to expand public and student understanding of the humanities, arts, natural sciences, and social sciences in contemporary education. Harvard University “Transformations: The Atlantic World in the Late Seventeenth Century,” a conference to advance the scholarship to help create an international community of scholars, and ultimately to further international understanding of the Atlantic World. Martin Luther King Jr. Living History and Public Policy Center A seminar to expand plans for the Center’s programs and development. Rivanna Foundation “Jamestown and the Birth of America,” a book that traces the genesis of American society in Jamestown with the interactions between Native Americans, Colonials, and Africans.

In the fast-pace world of technology, the importance of geographic proximity fades. Humanities Around the Globe Connections may seem to shrink VFH, is a conduit through which the globe, making distant locations plans and ideas can flow among into a community, but sharing ideas humanities organizations in five enlarges the world, filling it with new states and two territories. SAHC knowledge and understanding. increases the possibilities for each and every one of them by hosting The South Atlantic Humanities regional conferences, offering Center (SAHC), headquartered at classes at partner institutions

12 and Virginia Tech, and serving as a clearing house for information.

Global connections will continue to energize VFH’s future. Learning from the success of Re-Imagining Ireland project, we are exploring potential collaborations with China. First glimpses came in the China- American Film Festival, held in Richmond in 2005 and planned Chinese musicians demonstrate traditional instruments for again for 2006, both events with VFH delegation on recent trip to China. the assistance of VFH funding. In May, VFH staff members undertook between China and the United a cultural mission to China to States, focusing specifically build relationships and exchanges on Virginia.

Ideas speed around the globe, almost as fast as electrons can travel.

The website is a catalyst, too, raising Website new possibilities for communicating At the hub of the whirling constellation and sharing ideas. This mode of of ideas, projects, initiatives, and electronic communication lets us connections is the Virginia Foundation share knowledge in many forms — for the Humanities Website, text, images, audio, video, www.virginiafoundation.org. The and multimedia combinations. web serves both as a means of Encyclopedia Virginia, with its disseminating information about treasure trove of information on the VFH programs and as a program Commonwealth, will live in this ever- in itself. VFH website contains a evolving medium. database of images of the Atlantic slave trade (http://hitchcock.itc.virginia. The world around us teems with edu/Slavery), an index of African energy — the energy of great American heritage sites in Virginia, a ideas, imagination, and hard blog detailing the experience of VFH work. Thanks to our friends and staff members on a cultural mission supporters, the Virginia Foundation to China, hundreds of hours of for the Humanities will continue illuminating radio programs, and many to help focus, channel, and amplify more rich resources of information for that energy for the benefit of students, scholars, and the public. all Virginians.

13 VFH Grants 2005-2006

Thoughts are the seed of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accokeek Foundation Arlington County Cultural Accokeek, MD Affairs Division Dinner Party with History Arlington, VA $1,200 to support planning to design an User’s Guide to Halls Hill/Highview educational complement (lesson plans and Community other classroom materials) to a new series of staged conversations on American history being $5,000 to support the publication of an developed for PBS. instructional guide for using and contributing materials to a community archive in Arlington’s Highview Park neighborhood. American Frontier Culture Foundation, Inc. Arlington County Cultural Staunton, VA Affairs Division* African Village Exhibit and Arlington, VA Program Planning Let’s Go! Community Expeditions and $10,000 to support planning for the addition of Explorations Summer Institute a representative African Village to the American Frontier Culture Museum site. $3,000 to support a summer teachers’ institute designed to identify and explore strategies for integrating folklife and field work into existing Anne Spencer House and Garden public school curricula. Museum, Inc. Lynchburg, VA Birthplace of Alliance Pierce Street Renaissance Historic Bristol, TN District First Anniversary Program Cultural Heritage Center $3,000 to support an interpretive brochure Interpretive Plan and exhibit marking the first anniversary of the $9,800 to support planning and development of an designation of Prince Street, a historically black interpretive master plan for the new Birthplace of neighborhood in Lynchburg, as a national Country Music Cultural Heritage Center in Bristol. historic district. Blue Cow Arts Appalachian Children’s Theater, Inc.* Floyd, VA Wise, VA Virginia Folklife Workshop Porch Exploring Our Roots through $7,000 to support a Virginia Folklife Workshop Traditional Arts Stage at the 2005 Floydfest Music Festival, $3,000 to support a series of workshops focusing focusing on Virginia’s musical traditions, their roots on traditional skills of the Appalachian Region and and influences. their historical and cultural context. Blue Cow Arts* Appalachian State University Floyd, VA Boone, NC Virginia Folklife Workshop Porch Rufus Kasey Video $9,000 to support a series of interpretive $4,500 to support the creation of a half-hour performances featuring traditional musicians video on Rufus Kasey, an African American banjo presented as part of the 2006 Floydfest player from Bedford County, and the traditions his Music Festival. music embodies.

* A “Virginia’s Traditions” grant, supported in whole or in part with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities “We The People” program.

14 Blue Ridge Center for Council for America’s First Freedom Environmental Stewardship Richmond, VA Purcellville, VA A Conference on America’s Between the Hills First Freedom $1,250 to support planning for a long-term project $2,500 to support a conference on religious to interpret the findings of an archaeological and freedom, focusing in particular on the roots of this historical research project that has uncovered ideal in Virginia. an intact 19th century historic landscape within the boundaries of the largest publicly accessible natural area in Loudoun County, the state’s Eastern Shore Center for Black History fastest-growing locality. and Culture, Inc. Eastville, VA Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre African American Historic Ferrum, VA Sites Publication $11,600 to support research and publication Summer Institute Pilot Program of a book on African American historic sites in $1,000 to support development of a series of Accomack and Northampton Counties. public discussion programs to complement the five theatrical productions in the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre’s summer 2006 season. Emory and Henry College Department of English Memorial Music Center* Emory, VA Hiltons, VA 25th Annual Appalachian Literary Carter Family Fold Songwriters Festival Showcase — “Down the Road” $5,000 to support the 25th Appalachian Literary $3,000 to support a monthly interpretive Festival, featuring writers and scholars from songwriters’ showcase at the Carter Family Fold, throughout the central Appalachian region. one the most important traditional music venues in Virginia. Fairfax County Park Authority, Colvin Run Mill Historic Site CITYCELEBRATIONS Great Falls, VA Richmond, VA Food for Thought Symposium National Folk Festival — Material $1,400 to support the second annual Food for Culture Exhibit Thought symposium, located at the site of one of $7,200 to support traditional instrument makers the two fully operational grain mills left in Virginia. from Virginia at the 2005 National Folklife Festival held in Richmond. Ferrum College Blue Ridge Institute and Museum Cityfolk Ferrum, VA Dayton, OH The Life and Music of Charlie Poole Moonshining in the Southern Virginia Blue Ridge $10,000 to support pre-production of a feature- length documentary film on Charlie Poole, a $7,500 to support field work and other research legendary banjo player whose style influenced leading to an exhibit on moonshining in Virginia’s the development of bluegrass music, with special southern Blue Ridge. focus on Poole’s collaboration with Virginian Posey Rorrer. Ferrum College Blue Ridge Institute and Museum College of William and Mary Department Ferrum, VA of History White Liquor, Blue Ridge Style Williamsburg, VA $9,000 to support production of an interpretive The Green Light: Fulfilling exhibit and accompanying publication on the the Promises of Brown v. Board history and folk culture of moonshining in of Education Virginia’s southern Blue Ridge mountains. $12,000 to support a documentary film on the history and impact of Green v. New Kent County, a little-known but important 1968 Supreme Court ruling that required school boards nationwide to eliminate racially segregated schools.

15 Firehouse Theatre Project Hampton University Richmond, VA Hampton, VA Defining Moments: An Exploration Literary Reading Series of Birth $3,000 to support a reading discussion series $2,000 to support the contributions of the focusing on how African American authors include humanities and humanities scholars to an the heritage of Black culture in their works. 11-day conference/lecture exploring the spiritual, emotional, and social impact of pregancy and birth. Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance Harrisonburg, VA * Court Days Festival Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. $4,000 to support research leading to a series of Salem, VA first-person portrayals and dramatic re-enactments Blue Ridge Traditions, Lifestyles, from local history presented as part of the annual Community and Family of the 1800s Court Days Festival in Harrisonburg in 2006. $7,350 to support a series of lectures, performances, workshops, and demonstrations of music and other traditions native to the Blue Ridge Historical Society of Western Virginia Mountains of Central Virginia. Roanoke, VA Museum Collections Online Catalog $1,500 to support the creation of an online catalog Friends of the , Floyd County of the Historical Society’s collections, focusing on Floyd, VA the history and culture of Western Virginia. Celebrate the Past, Look to the Future $4,000 to support a six-part book discussion * series exploring the ways people respond to Honaker Redbud Festival, Inc. historical events. Honaker, VA Honaker Redbud Festival 25th Anniversary George Mason University $3,000 to support an interpretive performance and Fairfax, VA publication, as part of the 25th annual Redbud Probing Virginia’s Past: Online Probate Festival in Russell County. Record Database, 1740-1810 $9,950 to support creation of an online database of probate records from Maryland and Virginia, for JazzReach Performing Arts and teachers, genealogists, and other researchers. Education Association Brooklyn, NY Halifax County Historical Society Gone to Texas: The Lives of South Boston, VA Forrest Carter $8,000 to support development of a documentary Architectural History of Halifax County film on the life of Asa Carter, a former Ku $2,500 to assist in the publication of a book on the Klux Klansman and speechwriter for George architectural history of Halifax County. Wallace, who reinvented himself as a Cherokee named Forrest Carter and wrote the best-selling Halifax County Historical Society autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. South Boston, VA The Crossing of the Dan Legacy Museum of African $2,500 to support portions of a two-day event American History commemorating General Nathanial Greene’s Lynchburg, VA crossing of the Dan River in 1781, a strategic maneuver that hastened the end of the Someday: The Fall of Jim Crow in Revolutionary War. Central Virginia, 1954-1979 $10,000 to support development of the second phase of a two-part exhibit on the history of Jim Hampton University Crow and the Civil Rights Era in Central Virginia. Hampton, VA Home and Hearth: Family, Traditions, Library of Virginia Foundation and Progress in African American Life Richmond, VA $9,850 to support an exhibit, lectures, and public workshops exploring the diversity of African “Down In The Old Belt” – Screening American culture and community life. $2,500 to support a lecture and portions of an event to celebrate the Richmond premiere of the VFH-funded documentary film “Down In the Old Belt.”

16 Lonesome Pine Office on Youth Northern Virginia Urban League Big Stone Gap, VA Alexandria, VA Music of Coal The Franklin and Armfield Office $10,000 to support development and production of $3,000 to support the development of a “Teaching an enhanced CD set on “The Music of Coal.” with Historic Places” lesson plan, focusing on the Franklin and Armfield Office in Alexandria, a Mt. Rogers Combined School* center of the slave trade in Virginia. Whitetop, VA Mt. Rogers Community Music program Old Dominion University, Department of $3,000 to support a series of interpretive Philosophy and Religious Studies performances and workshops featuring Norfolk, VA traditional musicians and luthiers of the The War on Terror: Rights and Whitetop Mountain area. Responsibilities $1,650 to support a panel discussion exploring Museum of Culpeper History issues related to the detention of suspected Culpeper, VA terrorists and American citizens who have been defined as “enemy combatants” by the This Land is Our Land U.S. government. $2,500 to support a documentary film on the large-scale conversion of rural land to residential use in Culpeper County and on the impact of this Pamplin Historical Park change on local culture and community life. Petersburg, VA Teaching Antebellum Slavery, the Civil National D-Day Memorial Foundation War, and Reconstruction Bedford, VA $10,000 to support a summer Institute for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade teachers, exploring the interrelated The 6888th Battalion themes of slavery, the Civil War, $1,350 to support a public lecture-discussion and Reconstruction. program on the role of African American women in the armed services during World War II. Peninsula Fine Arts Center Newport News Public Library System Newport News, VA Newport News, VA Living with Art $2,000 to support a series of three public lectures The Power of a Book on African American art, to be presented in $9,200 to support a 10-part series of book and conjunction with an exhibit on more than 70 film discussion programs designed to focus artworks in the Alitash Kebede collection. attention on the power of reading to affect individual readers, communities, and society as a whole. The Prism Coffeehouse, Inc. Charlottesville, VA Newsome House Museum & Cultural 40th Anniversary Blues $2,500 to support the contributions of the Center Foundation, Inc. humanities to a performance-lecture series on Newport News, VA The Blues. Ride with Rosa Parks $2,500 to support a commemorative event on the 50th anniversary of the refusal of Radford University, College of Education Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a bus in & Human Development Montgomery, Alabama. Radford, VA Reflecting Black Teachers: Shaping Newsome House Museum & Cultural the Future $1,500 to support two lectures on African Center Foundation, Inc. American education, a program created in Newport News, VA partnership with the Christiansburg Institute, Remembering Rosa Parks an historic school for African Americans in $600 to support a public lecture in connection Montgomery County. with a historical re-enactment and exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

17 Radford University Scrabble School Preservation Radford, VA Foundation Women of Change, Women of Scrabble, VA Courage: Appalachian Activists History of Scrabble School $10,000 to support an oral history project Community Mapping Project resulting in the development of a multi-media $3,000 to support a community mapping project presentation on women activists in the Central as the first step in a long-term effort to interpret Appalachian region. the history of Scrabble School, a Rosenwald School in Rappahannock County. Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center Shenandoah Shakespeare’s American Clintwood, VA Shakespeare Center Cultural Roots of Appalachian Staunton, VA Music Series The Language of Jamestown on $9,100 to support a four-part lecture and Shakespeare’s Stage performance series on “The Cultural Roots $12,000 to support a two-day intensive workshop of Appalachian Music” focusing on musical for teachers on the language of Jamestown and influences from Africa, the British Isles, and Shakespeare’s plays. Central Europe.

Rappahannock Tribe, Inc. Shenandoah University, History and Indian Neck, VA Tourism Center Facial Reconstruction Project Winchester, VA $10,000 to support facial reconstruction based Patsy Cline Symposium — Planning on a human skull unearthed from a $1,000 to support planning for a major academic Rappahannock tribal ossuary, and the and public symposium on the life and influence development of interpretive materials for an of country music singer Patsy Cline, a native of exhibit based on the facial reconstruction. Winchester and the .

The Rose Group for Cross-Cultural Shenandoah University Understanding Winchester, VA Washington, DC Wit, Will, and Walls China-America Festival of Film $11,850 to support pre-production costs for a documentary film based on an autobiographical and Culture account of Massive Resistance to school $10,000 to support a four-day China-American desegregation in Warren County, Virginia. Festival of Film and Culture held in Richmond in 2005. Steamboat Era Museum The Rose Group for Cross-Cultural Irvington, VA The Bay at War Understanding $10,000 to support development of an interpretive Washington, DC exhibit and related programs on the Chesapeake China-America Festival of Film Bay and the Civil War. and Culture $14,000 to support the second annual China- America Festival of Film and Culture in 2006. Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation Falls Church, VA Mary Ellen Henderson: A Teacher’s Rosenwald Reunion Committee Journey, A Traveling Exhibit Burgess, VA $9,000 to support production of a traveling Rosenwald Schools in the exhibit on the life and achievements of Mary Northern Neck Ellen Henderson, a well-known African American $1,400 to support a public event centered around educator and Civil Rights activist in Falls Church. the reunion of former students and teachers from the Rosenwald High School in Northumberland County, including a lecture focusing on the history of Rosenwald Schools in the Northern Neck region and Virginia as a whole.

18 The Prism* Virginia University of Lynchburg Bremo Bluff, VA Lynchburg, VA Elias Howe’s Complete Preceptor Historic Photographs Traveling for Banjo Exhibition and Programs $3,000 to support the re-publication of Elias $3,000 to support development of a traveling Howe’s 1850 manual, The Complete Preceptor exhibit and accompanying lecture series on the for Banjo, which is generally thought to be the history of Virginia University of Lynchburg, one seminal work on this subject. of the state’s historically Black colleges and universities. University of Virginia, Virginia Center for Digital History Virginia University of Lynchburg Charlottesville, VA Lynchburg, VA Slavery: A Worldwide Ota Benga $2,500 to support the costs of planning a $2,000 to support a series of public programs worldwide bibliography of slavery on the web. marking the 90th anniversary of the death, in Lynchburg, of Ota Benga, a Pygmy who was brought to the U.S. in 1904 and exhibited in University of Virginia, SAVANA museums and zoos before being rescued and Consortium, Department of brought to Virginia. Environmental Sciences* Charlottesville, VA Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Staunton, VA African Music in Virginia: Cultural Survey History and the Web: Virginia and the Jim Crow South $3,000 to support a cultural survey of African musicians currently living in Northern Virginia and $6,000 to support publication and distribution of the Shenandoah Valley. educational materials generated for and during a three-day teachers’ institute focusing on Virginia and the Jim Crow South. Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA World Affairs Council of Greater Teacher Workshop on China $6,000 to support a two-day workshop for teachers focusing on Chinese history and culture. Virginia Beach, VA Great Decisions 2006 $2,600 to support an eight-part lecture-discussion Virginia Historical Society series on current topics in the field of international Richmond, VA relations. African American Access Project Wytheville Training School Cultural $9,350 to support archival work leading to increased public awareness of and access to Center, Inc. African American manuscripts and collections at Wytheville, VA the Virginia Historical Society. African American Museum Strategic Planning Virginia Military Institute, Department $10,000 to support development of a strategic plan for the creation of an African American of History history museum in Wytheville. Lexington, VA The African American Community in 20th Century Lexington, Virginia $1,000 to support a series of public lectures and the creation of a traveling exhibit on the Knights of Pythias Hall, an African American historic site adjacent to the VMI campus in Lexington.

Virginia Union University Richmond, VA Museum Brochure Project $2,500 to support production of an interpretive brochure focusing on the history and collections of the Virginia Union University Art Museum, which has significant collections of African and African American art.

19 VFH Fellows 2005-2006 Julie Armstrong Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton Mary Turner and the Rhetoric Millenialism on the Margins: Islam of Lynching and Patterns of Religious Change in University of South Florida Colonial East Africa University of Virginia Katherine C. Bassard Race, Region, and Religion: Virginia Philip Levy History and Geography in Three African Between the Creeks: The Groundings American Narratives of Seventeenth-Century Middle Virginia Commonwealth University Plantation, Virginia University of South Florida James Bryant Spiritual Bonds: Gender, Religion, Kathleen Lynch Ritual, and Community in Bondage — The Uses of Religious Experience The Tidewater Chesapeake, 1760-1831 in the Seventeenth-Century Anglo- Edna and Norman Freehling Fellow Atlantic World College of the Holy Cross The Folger Institute Sharon Davie Susan McKinnon Voices on Violence Kinship as Science and Culture: University of Virginia Narratives of Social Evolution, Difference, and Equality William W. Freehling University of Virginia Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant 1854-1861 Katherine McNamara VFH Senior Fellow An Independent Voice: Archipelago in Public Life Jennifer Geddes Editor & Publisher, Archipelago The Rhetorics of Evil Emilia Galli Struppa Fellow Henry Wiencek University of Virginia and Slavery VFH Senior Fellow Jonathan Gross Favorite Poems of Thomas Jefferson DePaul University Jerome S. Handler The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery VFH Senior Fellow

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. — Denis Waitley

20 VFH Donors and Sponsors 2005-2006 And what is a man without energy? Nothing — nothing at all. . . . Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. — Mark Twain

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following benefactors whose gifts have helped support statewide programs and services in the past year. This list reflects donations made to the VFH from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. We have made every attempt to correctly list the names of each of our donors and supporters. If we have omitted or incorrectly listed your name, please accept our apology and know that your gift is appreciated. VFH Recognition Societies Humanities Associates Program Patrons The Humanities Associates recognizes individual The Program Patrons recognizes individual donors of unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more donors of restricted gifts of $1,000 or more to annually. The VFH appreciates the support of these specific VFH programs. The VFH appreciates donors who provide flexible gifts which are applied to the interest of these donors and their support areas of greatest need. of the VFH mission. Andrew Chancey Kristin Leigh Adolfson Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Church Mr. John Andelin and Ms. Virginia Geoffrey Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus John P. Fishwick Sr. Deborah J. Dillon William W. Freehling Johanna R. Drucker Mr. and Mrs. Michael Galgano William W. Freehling Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode Barbara J. Fried Charles Guthridge Elizabeth Green Grubbs Jerome S. Handler Robert W. Haigh Walter A. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Hofheimer Anna and Tom Lawson Anna L. Lawson Robert B. Livy Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale Richard and Elizabeth Merrill Marcy and Hunter Sims Katherine Neville and Karl Pribram The Bernard and Nita Trugman Robert C. Nusbaum Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale Anne Lee Ueltschi Mr. and Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield III Helen and Taylor Reveley Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Schewel Robert and Ellen Vaughan Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik Peter Wallenstein Mr. and Mrs. William C. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson III

21 Corporate and Foundation Gold Circle Honorary and Memorial Gifts The VFH Corporate & Foundation Gold Circle The following gifts were given in memory or in honor recognizes the generous support of corporations of a family member or friend. and foundations. The following corporations and foundations have made a gift of $5,000 or more to Anonymous In honor of Kevin McFadden the VFH this year. Kate Brinkley Albemarle County Board of Supervisors In memory of Mary Lee Settle City of Charlottesville Commonwealth of Virginia Mrs. Brian P. Damiani Daily Progress In memory of Dr. Brian P. Damiani Harper Perennial Rhoda Dreyfus The Harvest Foundation In memory of Mary Lee Settle LexisNexis National Endowment for the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Hofheimer National Endowment for the Humanities In memory of Mary Lee Settle Public Welfare Foundation Tim, Mary, and Donald Kirwan The Rosenstiel Foundation In memory of Larry Powell Virginia Quarterly Review W. W. Norton and Company Mrs. Marion Rothman Wachovia Bank In memory of Hilda Coble WINA AM 1070 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Staff WTJU 91.1 FM In memory of Hilda Coble WVPT Virginia’s Public Television University of Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Burton Zisk Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust In memory of Hilda Coble Cornerstone Society The VFH Cornerstone Society recognizes those friends who have remembered the VFH in their wills, who have planned gifts benefiting the VFH, or who have established endowments for the Music fills the air during an informal benefit of the VFH. Because these are substantial, jam session long-term, income-producing gifts, they serve as at the annual the cornerstone for future growth and contribute to Virginia Folklife the expansion of public humanities and scholarship Apprenticeship in Virginia. Showcase. Frances H. Bulger E. Ronald Feinman William W. Freehling Jerome S. Handler Sheryl B. Hayes Daniele C. Struppa Mary Ellen Stumpf Thad W. Tate Robert and Ellen Vaughan Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik William C. Wiley Richard T. and Martha Wilson Elizabeth L. Young

22 John Steinbeck Society Donors and Sponsors AlbemarleFamily The following giving categories are named for Crown Porsche of Charlottesville individuals who, through the humanities, have Dominion changed the world in which we live. Whether FedEx Kinko’s historian, writer, or philosopher, each individual Friends of the Jefferson-Madison used the humanities to reveal problems in society, Regional Library Harris Teeter to explore new ways of thinking, or to suggest how Walter A. Jackson to create a better world. Robert B. Livy Katherine Neville & Karl Pribram Erasmus...... $25,000 and over Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Emerson...... $10,000 - $24,999 University of Virginia, Batten Institute Von Holtzbrinck Services Washington...... $5,000 - $9,999 Steinbeck...... $2,500 - $4,999 Zora Neale Hurston Society Hurston...... $1,000 - $2,499 Kristin Leigh Adolfson Josef Beery Carson...... $500 - $999 Terry Belanger Turner...... $100 - $499 Andrew Chancey Stowe...... to $99 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Church Deborah J. Dillon Rhoda Dreyfus Erasmus Society Mr. and Mrs. John P. Fishwick Sr. Commonwealth of Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Michael Galgano Barbara J. Fried Elizabeth Green Grubbs The Harvest Foundation Charles Guthridge Public Welfare Foundation Chesapeake Corporation Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Robert W. Haigh National Endowment for the Humanities Jerome S. Handler University of Virginia-Alumni Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Hofheimer INDOOR Biotechnologies Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Richard and Elizabeth Merrill Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Norfolk Southern Corporation City of Charlottesville Robert C. Nusbaum Daily Progress Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peale Edna Wardlaw Charitable Trust Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia William W. Freehling Mr. and Mrs. Bittle W. Porterfield III The Rosenstiel Foundation Public Radio Exchange University of Virginia Helen and Taylor Reveley Virginia Quarterly Review Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Schewel Wachovia Bank Marcy and Hunter Sims

Target Booker T. Washington Society The Bernard and Nita Trugman Mr. John Andelin & Ms. Virginia Geoffrey Charitable Foundation Johanna R. Drucker Anne Lee Ueltschi Harper Perennial University of Virginia Community Credit Union Anna and Tom Lawson University of Virginia, Alumni Association LexisNexis Robert and Ellen Vaughan W. W. Norton and Company Peter Wallenstein WINA AM 1070 WCAV CBS 19/WVAW ABC 16/WAHU WTJU 91.1 FM FOX 27 WVPT-TV Virginia’s Public Television West*Group Properties LLC WVTF Public Radio William C. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson III WMRA 90.7 FM Public Radio Yellow Book USA

23 Rachel Carson Society Tommy L. Bogger Alltel The Book Broker Best Western Cavalier Inn Kate Brinkley Mr. and Mrs. E. Cabell Brand William Gray Broaddus Ms. Ellen L. Brock & Mr. Joseph Althea W. Brooks F. Borzelleca Jr. Suzanne Jessup Brooks Mr. and Mrs. L. Preston Bryant Jr. Amanda Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Buford Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Brown Elaine Dowe Carter Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bunzl Charlottesville Regional Chamber Jane Burns of Commerce Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Cable Suzanne Tanner Chitwood Martha B. Caldwell David Clinger Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. C. Campbell Jr. Susan and Michael Coleman Franz L. Canon Mr. and Mrs. David Crowe Sheila A. Carrico Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fisk Mr. and Mrs. Cary Carson Mr. and Mrs. David R. Goode Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Carstensen Luther Y. Gore Mr. and Mrs. Antony E. Champ Sheryl and James Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chapel Ronald L. Heinemann Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cheeseman Jefferson Heights at Pantops Mountain Dr. and Mrs. Robert Chevalier Maurice Jones Justice and Mrs. George M. Cochran Library of Congress-Center for the Book David Condon Peter W. Macuga II Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Cooper Mailing Services of Virginia Drs. Raymond and Patricia Cormier Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Costa Peter S. Onuf Thomas M. Costa Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Pearson Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Crampton Ellen Gilliam Perry Creative Framing / Art Box Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pfau Creatures ‘N Crooks Bookshoppe LLC Poetry Daily Roberta A. Culbertson Read It Again Sam Mr. and Mrs. John R. Curtis Jr. Frank J. Riccio Victoria B. Damiani The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books Nancy and Fred Damon W. McIlwaine and Elsie Thompson Daryl Cumber Dance Tupelo Press Dean Dass Jorgen and Laura Burkhardt Vik Mr. John J. Davies III & Ms. Marty Moon Mr. and Mrs. Hays T. Watkins Audrey Davis Dr. and Mrs. Bert Wellons Mr. and Mrs. J. David Deck George Michael Wildasin Mr. John d’Entremont & Ms. Kathleen Placidi Andrew Wyndham & Susan Bacik Emma Edmunds Elizabeth Louise Young Rozanne S. Epps Paul D. Erb Frederick Jackson Turner Society Mr. and Mrs. Philip Feltman Mr. Kenneth S. Abraham & Ms. Susan Elizabeth C. Fine R. Stein Brenda Fishel Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Abraham Dudley D. Flanders Peter A. Agelasto III Douglas W. Foard Beverly J. Bagan Mr. and Mrs. William L. Frank Mary Evelyn Bane Franklin Gilliam Rare Books Clay H. Barr Anne H. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Martin Battestin Marsha Van Benschoten Frick David A. Bearinger Mr. and Mrs. John W. Frick Jr Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bedford Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Frierson Jr. Dr. Melanie J. Biermann Michael S. Fuller Peter Blake Joanne V. Gabbin Susan D. Bland George P. Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Blickstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Glenn

24 Woody and Judy Greenberg Martin Powell Mr. and Mrs. Bradley H. Gunter Justin Powell Edythe C. Harrison Robert A. Pratt Barbara Heritage Mr. and Mrs. Ruhi K. Ramazani Deborah W. Heritage Jane W. Ransom Sally Herman Barbara B. Rich Mr. and Mrs. E. Donald Hirsch Jr. Chris Rich Ronald Hoffman Julie Richter Carol J. Hogg Thomas H. Roberts J. Shelton Horsley III Mr. and Mrs. Dudley F. Rochester Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Dick Howard Robert G. Rogers Susan L. Hoyt Marion Rothman Peter Hunt Steven H. Rubin J. Gordon Hylton Donna Sampson Hugh Jones Estate of Evelyn Schwaber Dr. and Mrs. James B. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Scott Jay L. Joslin Judith L. Sensibar Mr. and Mrs. George Kegley Shenandoah Spring Water Karen Kevorkian Shenanigans, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Keyser Gail Shirley-Warren Joan and Stephen Kindig Betty O. Smallwood Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kirwan Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd T. Smith Jr. Lee C. Kitchin Mr. and Mrs. Randall Somerville John T. Kneebone Barbara A. Spellman Emily Powell Koester Anne L. Spence Geraldine D. Kruger Robert M. Sprinkle David and McCrea Kudravetz Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Stroud Julia Kudravetz Maggie Sullivan The Honorable Elizabeth B. Lacy H. Brady Surles Forrest M. Landon Susquehanna International Group LLP Constance C. Laws Caroline B. Talbot Megan LeBoutillier Sharon Talbot Edmund W. and Gail Leftwich Kitch Tastings Alexander S. Leidholdt Thad W. Tate Diane M. Lenahan Jane and John Tate Jonathan Lohman Sandra G. Treadway Mr. and Mrs. James Lott Patricia Trusselle Regina Lutz Kimberly A. Tryka Lisa Lyne University of Virginia, Rare Book School Faye W. Male Milena VanSant Dr. and Mrs. Preston C. Manning Jr. Vinegar Hill Theatre Carol S. Manning Virginia Militaria Collectors & Historians Mr. and Mrs. David Martin Association, Inc. Sarah McConnell Dale Walden Kevin McFadden & Angie R. Hogan Bettye Walsh Patricia H. Menk Anne N. Walther Leigh B. Middleditch Jr. Sandra Ellis Warwick Derry Miller Aubrey V. Watts Elizabeth C. Millett Dr. and Mrs. Peyton E. Weary Albert H. Mitchell III Patillo F. Whited Hullihen and Nancy Delano Moore Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Wilhelm Lynda E. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Williams Scott and Diane Oaks Roger Williams Mr. and Mrs. L. Dennis Odinov Kathleen Curtis Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Palin John D. Wilson Joanna Pecore Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Wyatt-Brown Charles L. Perdue Jr. & Nancy J. Nolan T. Yelich Martin-Perdue

25 Harriet Beecher Stowe Society Jane DeBernardo Mr. and Mrs. William W. Abbot Connie DellaPietra Kenneth-Kojo Adomako Sara Dillich Daniela S. M. Alexander Betty Ann Dillon Ann Monroe Angle Mr. and Mrs. Thong H. Dinh Anonymous Dwan D. Dixon Archaeological Society of Virginia Susan Van D’Elden Donaldson Jean Maria Arrigo Emily Ann Donaldson P. M. H. Atwater Virginia Stuart Dopp Diana Bailey Mr. Michael B. Dowell & Ms. Patricia A. Gooch Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Balster Christina Draper Brooks Miles Barnes David Dussere Tanya Edwards Beauchamp Evelyn Edson Kenneth A. Bennett Jr. Sharon Ekstrand Boyd M. Berry Elizabeth Jones Evans John F. Berry Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Fager Betty Black Ann F. Farwell Joy Blackburn Lillie Finklea Ruth Blevins Stephen L. Fisher Boar’s Head Inn and Sports Club Mr. and Ms. Robert Forrest Catherine Bodkin Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Foster John D. Bonvillian Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. Frantz Mr. and Mrs. John H. Borgard Carolyn G. Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Bosher Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Funderburk Paddy Bowman Matthew Gibson Louis Brenner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilliam Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Brown Marjory B. Giuliano Katharine L. Brown Ms. Kim Rendelson & Mr. Gabriel Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Irving Brownfield Elizabeth F. Gore Robert F. Bruner Susan Goodman Dorothy T. Bryan Conny C. Graft Wayne and Bev Burgess Charles P. Green S. Kay Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Warren O. Groves Claudia L. Bushman Serena Gruia M. Caldwell Butler Leroy and Pat Hamlett Kathleen M. Buxton Sarah Boykin Hardy Mr. and Mrs. Colin S. Caldwell Robert M. Harman Julie A. Campbell Jean Haskell Lawrence P. Campbell Barbara Heath Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Carini Anne F. Henderson Bruce G. Carveth Carol A. Hendrix Kelly Cherry & Burke Davis Susan and Marshall Henry Linda R. Christenson Katherine E. Hollifield Casey H. Clabough David L. Holmes Linda M. Clineburg A. Linwood Holton Haley D. Collums Richard Holway Joyce Galbraith Colony Sarah Collins Honenberger Gerald L. Cooper Carter G. Houck John D. Copenhaver Sally Humphrey Philip D. Crigger Hilary Hyland Patricia Crook Lucy Ivey Roberta Churchill Crosby David L. Jackson Gene Crotty Arun V. Jalan Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Cushman Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Jones Daryl Lynn Dance Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Jordan Carla H. Danziger R. Louise Anderson Juergens Mr. and Mrs. F. Mallory Davis Herschel Kanter Pablo J. Davis & Marcela Pettinaroli Frank Kasper

26 Joan Kimball Melanie Roher Douglas W. Kincaid Mrs. Hubert C. Roop Jr. Nancy King Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rough Barbara B. Kling Patricia E. Rusk Rita G. Koman Donna Satterlee Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Kuntzelman Kent and Judy Schlussel Mr. James Shea & Ms. Brenda Lambert Gregory K. Schmidt Douglas and Rebecca Lane Philip J. Schwarz Veronica Lange Hugh M. Scrogham Jr. Gabrielle M. Lanier Seanchai Books Mr. and Mrs. George R. Larie Lynn Seuffert Thelma Z. Lavine Marjorie A. Shepard Corinne LeBovit Julia L. Shields Miles B. and Deborah A. Lee Alison M. Sinclair Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Leigh Jr. Christina P. Skees Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Lester Dell W. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Lembit U. Lilleleht Bruce C. Souders Elizabeth J. Lipscomb Mr. and Mrs. William Speidel Marsha Login Sandra D. Speiden Joan Losen Ann White Spencer Ms. S. Barbara MacCallum & Mr. Robert Lucia C. Stanton E. Johnson Arthur Frederick Stocker Zanne MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Strickler Peter L. MacLeod Carol A. Sussman Elliot Majerczyk Don Sutton Kelly K. Marchal Dianne Swann-Wright Mr. John F. Marshall & Ms. Cri Kars-Marshall Carey T. Sweeny Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. May Weston P. Swieringa Kenneth May Tori Talbot Thomas Mayfield Christopher C. Taylor Charlotte McDaniel Jean Taylor Mr. and Mrs. John T. McHenry Mr. Peter Thompson & Ms. Barbara Miller Edward J. McLaughlin Barbara Tobey Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McSweeney James L. Traweek Daniel John Meador Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Tremblay G. Neil Means Tom Trykowski Herman E. Melton M. Caroline Cabell Tucker Hugh S. Meredith William O. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meyer Shirley T. Van Landingham Janet Miller John H. Verrill Mary D. Miller Peter Van Vliet Mr. and Mrs. John P. Moliere Harry J. Warthen III Judy and Gary Moody J. Holley Watts Mr. and Mrs. Asadi Muhammad Brenda M. Welch Kate Neckerman William E. West Andrea Ness Thomas R. White Michael L. Nicholls Jan W. Whiteley Oakley’s Gently Used Books Karen Wikander Oliver and Company Books Lloyd Willis Catherine J. Ortiz Clay Witt Mr. and Mrs. Remi J. Pelletier Women’s National Book Association Mr. and Mrs. John Pickering Wayne W. Wray Mr.and Mrs. Percy E. Pollard James C. Wyre Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pollock L. Abbey Yates Barbara J. Reeves Mr. and Mrs. Burton Zisk Robert T. Rigler Mr. and Mrs. Rogers C. Ritter Mr. and Mrs. Robin A. Roberts

27 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Statement of Financial Position

June 30, 2005

A s s e t s Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,468,185 Contributions receivable 317,693 SHMF receivable 14,862 Investments 1,421,981 Prepaid expenses 25,485 Total current assets $ 3,248,206

Fixed assets: Equipment: $ 26,137 Media equipment 192,116 Furniture and office equipment 45,405 Computers and software 45,708 Other equipment 11,697 Sub-total $ 321,063 Less: accumulated depreciation ( 269,681 ) Total fixed assets $ 51,382 Total assets $ 3,299,588

L i a b i l i t i e s a n d N e t A s s e t s Liabilities: Accounts payable $ 69,784 Agency funds payable 79,500 Accrued expenses 224,831 Grants payable 324,429 Total current liabilities $ 698,544

Net assets: Unrestricted $ 378,832 Temporarily restricted 1,866,404 Permanently restricted 355,808 Total net assets $ 2,601,044 Total liabilities and net assets $ 3,299,588

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

28 VFH BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2005-2006 VFH STAFF

David Bearinger B. Miles Barnes Michael J. Galgano Director, Grants and Public Programs Eastern Shore Public Library Accomac, VA Harrisonburg, VA Althea Brooks Assistant Director, Development Andrew Chancey Director, Planning and Management David Baldacci Charles M. Guthridge David Baldacci Enterprises Charles M. Guthridge Susan Coleman Associates Director, Center for the Book Reston, VA Richmond, VA Roberta Culbertson Director, Research and Education

Peter Blake Nancy Coble Damon Virginia Community Ronald L. Heinemann Program Director, Virginia Festival of the Book College System Hampden-Sydney College Richmond, VA Hampden-Sydney, VA Pablo Davis Program Director, South Atlantic Humanities Center

Robert H. Brink Maurice A. Jones Christina Draper Program Director, African American EB&T Strategy Group The Virginian-Pilot Heritage Program VA General Assembly Norfolk, VA Matthew Gibson Arlington, VA Managing Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia

Sheryl Hayes Anna L. Lawson Director, Development L. Preston Bryant, Jr. Daleville, VA Natural Resources Nancy King Associate Producer, “With Good Reason” Commonwealth of Virginia Richmond, VA James D. Lott Jon Lohman Program Director, Stuart Hall Virginia Folklife Program Staunton, VA Elaine Dowe Carter Elliot Majerczyk Associate Producer, “With Good Reason” Christiansburg Institute Christiansburg, VA Sarah McConnell Lydia Peale Producer and Host, “With Good Reason” Palmyra, VA Kevin McFadden Associate Program Director, Audrey Davis Virginia Festival of the Book Alexandria Black Bittle W. Porterfield, III History Museum Trey Mitchell Rice Management Webmaster Alexandria, VA Roanoke, VA Judy Moody Receptionist Rhoda Dreyfus W. Taylor Reveley Lynda Myers Charlottesville, VA College of William & Mary Program Associate, Development Williamsburg, VA Jeannie Palin Receptionist Johanna R. Drucker Gail Shirley-Warren University of Virginia Robert C. Vaughan, III Business Manager Charlottesville, VA Virginia Foundation for Ann White Spencer the Humanities Program Associate, Research Charlottesville, VA and Education John P. Fishwick, Jr. Tori Talbot Lichtenstein, Fishwick Program Associate, Grants and & Johnson William C. Wiley Public Programs Roanoke, VA Ascential Equity Robert Vaughan President Richmond, VA Lydia Wilson Barbara J. Fried Program Associate, Media Programs Fried Companies, Inc. Karen Wikander Crozet, VA Associate Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia Andrew Wyndham Director, Media Programs Non-Profit Org. US Postage v i r g i n i a f o u n d a t i o n f o r t h e h u m a n i t i e s P A I D 145 Ednam Drive Permit No. 170 Charlottesville, VA Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 www.virginiafoundation.org 434.924.3296