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Current Grant Projects Supported by KHC

  • Center for Great Plains Studies, Emporia ($11,152) for Captured in Black and White: The Cowboys, Combines, and Small-Towns of Frontier Photographer F.M. Steele, presentations and a traveling exhibition on the work of pioneer Kansas photographer Francis Marion Steele. Presentations will take place in Topeka, Sublette, Ashland, and Garden City. Jim Hoy, project director.
  • Sociedad Hidalgo, Shawnee ($5,000) for XVII - Latin American Cinema Festival of Kansas City - September 6 to October 4, 2008. A festival of Latin American films followed by bilingual (English/Spanish) discussions led by Humanities scholars. Gloria A. Bessenbacher, project director.
  • Newman University, Wichita ($13,375) for The Triumph of the Spirit: The Founding of Sacred Heart Junior College, 1933, an exhibition, videos, and publicity for Newman University's 75th anniversary celebration, Deanna Zitterkopf, Ph.D., project director.
  • Lane County Historical Museum , Dighton ($3,125) for Lane County - From the Depression to the Present, oral history interviews with Lane County residents born in the 1920s and 1930s. Mary H. Waugh, project director.
  • Southeast Kansas Farm History Center, Parsons ($2,893) for Impact of the New Deal on Southeast Kansas Farm Life, oral history interviews with Labette County residents who have firsthand experience with New Deal agricultural programs. Pamela Cress, project director.
  • Lawrence Public Library & Lawrence-Douglas County African American Oral History Project, Lawrence ($1,375) for Reflections and Memories: Oral Histories of African Americans in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, a project to transcribe twenty-three oral history interviews from the 1970s and post them online. Leonard Monroe, project director.

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