2007 Completed Events
Start Date
Sponsor Project Project Director Title
1-Jan-07
YWCA of Asheville Large Grant Tami Ruckman 100 Years of Empowerment: The History of the YWCA of Asheville in the Struggle of Civil Rights (*through December 2007)
1-Jan-07
Neuse-Pamlico Sound Women’s Coalition Large Grant Thelma Lanier Preserving the Pamlico Co. African American Experience History Project (*through Aug 30 2007)
2-Jan-07
Pamlico County Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Julie Cox Mad Women in the Attic
4-Jan-07
Topsail Township Friends of the Lib.  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Beverly McKenzie Mysteries—Clues to Who We Are
7-Jan-07
Friends of the Lexington Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Ron Oakley How Folk life Crafts Our Literature, Lives, and Communities
8-Jan-07
Rocky Mount Kiwanis/Rocky Mount/ Nash Co Road Scholar Ben Casey Life Along the Waterways
8-Jan-07
First Presbyterian Church Greensboro/ Guilford Co Road Scholar Kevin Duffus Lost Light
9-Jan-07
Friends of the Perry Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Becky Daughety Tar Heel Fiction—Literary Perspectives on North Carolina
9-Jan-07
Wake County Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Wanda Cox-Bailey Twentieth-Century African American Literature
20-Jan-07
Corolla Friends of the Library/Corolla/Currituck  Co Road Scholar Billy Stevens American Popular Music
20-Jan-07
Currituck County Public Library/Barco Road Scholar Billy Stevens American Popular Music
21-Jan-07
Friends of the Person County Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Carolyn Johnson Journeys Across Time and Place
21-Jan-07
Iredell Friends of the Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Peggy Carter Tar Heel Fiction—A Second Look
25-Jan-07
Rowan Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Melody Moxley Tar Heel Fiction—A Second Look
25-Jan-07
Davie County Pub. Lib.  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Janie Neely A Reader’s Feast 
29-Jan-07
Carteret County Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Susan Simpson Working—Making a Living, Making a Life
1-Feb-07
Durham Literacy Center Large Grant Kirsten Mullen Connecting Communities through Literature (*through May 31 2007)
1-Feb-07
Cabarrus County Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Kris Benshoff The Journey Inward—Women’s Autobiography
6-Feb-07
Martin Memorial Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Ann Phelps Not for Children Only
12-Feb-07
First Presbyterian Church Greensboro/ Guilford Co Road Scholar Lynn Salsi NC Alive
12-Feb-07
Wayne County Public Library/Goldsboro Road Scholar Mary Ellis Gibson Still Cookin'
13-Feb-07
Durham Tech Community College/Durham Road Scholar Jaki Shelton Green Culture and Personal Experience Inform a Writer's Work
17-Feb-07
Pender County Historical Society/ Burgaw Road Scholar William McNeill Fannin' the Heat Away
20-Feb-07
UNC-CH Alumni Assoc/Chapel Hill/Orange Co Road Scholar Mary wayne Watson John Charles McNeill
20-Feb-07
Friends of McDowell Co. Pub. Lib.  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Jean Krause Not for Children Only
22-Feb-07
Louisburg College/Louisburg/Franklin Co Road Scholar Jaki Shelton Green Culture and Personal Experience Inform a Writer's Work
26-Feb-07
Southwest Branch Library/ Hickory/ Catawba Co Road Scholar Billy Stevens Sincere Forms of Flattery
5-Mar-07
Rocky Mount Power Squadron/Rocky Mount/Nash Co Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
6-Mar-07
Elon University/Elon/Alamance Co Road Scholar Umesh Gulati Democratic Reconstructions of Religions and World Peace
6-Mar-07
Senior Resources of Guilford Co/Greensboro Road Scholar Lynn Salsi Appalachian Story Quilt
6-Mar-07
Hillsville History Club/Trinity/Randolph Co Road Scholar Tom Magnuson Trading Paths and the Contact Era in NC
8-Mar-07
Blue Ridge C.C./Hendersonville/Henderson Cty. Road Scholar Anne Rogers Archaeology of the Southern Appalachians
10-Mar-07
Historic Bath/Bath/Beaufort Cty. Road Scholar Todd Savitt Entering a White Profession
13-Mar-07
Blue Ridge C.C./Hendersonville/Henderson Cty. Road Scholar Anne Rogers Cherokee Ceremonial Practices in the 1800s
15-Mar-07
Goldsboro Sail &Power Squadron/Wayne Co Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
20-Mar-07
Catawba Co. Public Library Southwest Branch/Hickory/Catawba Co Road Scholar Roxanne Newton Blood on the Cloth
20-Mar-07
Senior Resources of Guilford Co/Greensboro Road Scholar Lynn Salsi Appalachian Story Quilt
20-Mar-07
Sheppard Memorial Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Tammy Fulcher  Journey’s Across Time & Place
21-Mar-07
Davidson CCC/Davie campus/Mocksville/Davie Co Road Scholar Tom Magnuson Trading Paths and the Contact Era in NC
21-Mar-07
Research Club/Roxboro/Person Co Road Scholar Karen Kilcup American Women's Humor
22-Mar-07
Alamance Comm College/Graham/Alamance Co Road Scholar Roxanne Newton Fabric of Hope and Resistance
24-Mar-07
Corolla Friends of the Library/Corolla/Currituck  Co Road Scholar Jim Bunch Germany's U-85
24-Mar-07
Currituck County Public Library/Barco Road Scholar Jim Bunch Germany's U-85
27-Mar-07
Mitchell Comm College/Statesville/Iredell Co Road Scholar Sharon Raynor Breaking the Silence & Healing the Soul
28-Mar-07
Shepard-Pruden Public Library/Edenton/Chowan Co Road Scholar Billy Stevens Discovering Elvis
30-Mar-07
Eastern NC Assoc of Black Social Workers/Greenville/Pitt Co Road Scholar Booker Anthony African American Church in Works by Ernest Gaines
5-Apr-07
Museum of the Albemarle/Elizabeth City/Pasquotank Co Road Scholar Jim Bunch Germany's U-85
10-Apr-07
National League of American Pen Women/Hendersonville/Henderson Co Road Scholar Sherry Austin Rich & Fertile Mystery
11-Apr-07
UNC Curriculum in Folklore/Chapel Hill/Orange Co Road Scholar Tom McGowan Orville Hicks: Mule Egg Seller
12-Apr-07
East Carolina Univ Folklore Archive/Greenville/Pitt Co Road Scholar Tom McGowan Orville Hicks: Mule Egg Seller
12-Apr-07
Center for Judaic, Holocaust & Peace Studies/Boone/Watauga Co Road Scholar Vivan Jacobson Chagall Biblical Windows: St Stephans Church
16-Apr-07
Osher Lifelong Learning/Durham/Durham Road Scholar David LaVere Lost Colony
16-Apr-07
Osher Lifelong Learning/Durham/Durham Road Scholar Billy Stevens American Popular Music
21-Apr-07
Holly Springs Branch Library/Holly Springs/Wake Co Road Scholar Lenard Moore Cultural Writing Using Music & Visual Art in Poetry
21-Apr-07
Charlotte Folk Society/Charlotte/Mecklenberg Co Road Scholar Betty Smith Jane Hicks Gentry
22-Apr-07
Rockingham Co. Historical Society/Reidsville Road Scholar Tom Magnuson Trading Paths and the Contact Era in NC
24-Apr-07
Mitchell Comm College/Statesville/Iredell Co Road Scholar Jaki Shelton Green Building Community Through Writing
25-Apr-07
Sandhills Comm College/Pinehurst/Moore Co Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
28-Apr-07
Skyland/S. Buncombe Library/Asheville/Buncombe Co Road Scholar Sherry Austin Audacious and Fantastic
3-May-07
David County Senior Services/Mocksville Road Scholar Mary Ellis Gibson Still Cookin'
8-May-07
North Carolina Folklife Institute Large Grant Sally Peterson Community Folklife Documentation Institute
8-May-07
Holly Springs Branch Library/Holly Springs/Wake Co Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
10-May-07
Carol Woods Retre./Chapel Hill/Oragne Cty. Road Scholar Emily Seelbinder Sleeping Single in a Double Bed
13-May-07
Walnut Cove Senior Center/Walnut Cove/Stokes Co Road Scholar William McNeill Fannin' the Heat Away
14-May-07
Greensboro Power Squadron/Guilford Co Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
14-May-07
Patrick Beaver Mem Library/Hickory/Catawba Co Road Scholar William McNeill Fannin' the Heat Away
17-May-07
Catawba Co. Public Library/ Newton Road Scholar Anne Whisnant Creating the Blue Ridge Parkway
22-May-07
Norton/Cashiers Homemakers Club/ Cashiers/Jackson Co Road Scholar Charlotte Ross Role of the Chestnut in Appalachian Life
6-Jun-07
Winston Salem Writers/Forsyth Road Scholar Marjorie Hudson Virginia Dare in Fact and Fancy
10-Jun-07
Caswell Co. Historical Assn/Yanceyville Road Scholar Tom Magnuson Trading Paths and the Contact Era in NC
11-Jun-07
Union County Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Jill Peth One Vision, Many Voices: Latino Literature in the U.S.
21-Jun-07
Sampson Co Hall of Fame/ Clinton Road Scholar Sylvia Payne We Have Stories
23-Jun-07
Charlotte Museum of History Large Grant Pam Meister From Brooklyn to Biddleville 
24-Jun-07
Unitarian Universalist Congregation/Greenville/Pitt Co Road Scholar Jay Peacock Douglas Freeman & the Southern Intellectual Community
28-Jun-07
Levine sklut Judaic Library/Charlotte Road Scholar Mark Klempner The Heart Has Reasons
28-Jun-07
Gaston Co. Public Library/ Gastonia Road Scholar Mark Klempner The Heart Has Reasons
5-Jul-07
Student Action with Farmworkers Large Grant Melinda Wiggins Nuestras Historias/Nuestros Suenos: Our History/Our Dreams—Latino Immigrants in North Carolina  (*through Aug 8 2010)
11-Jul-07
Leland Libr./Leland/Brunswick Cty. Road Scholar Kevin Duffus Lost Light
11-Jul-07
Leland Libr./Leland/Brunswick Cty. Road Scholar Kevin Duffus Lost Light
14-Jul-07
Historic Bath/Bath/Beaufort Cty. Road Scholar Kevin Duffus War Zone
14-Jul-07
Historic Bath/Bath/Beaufort Cty. Road Scholar Kevin Duffus War Zone
15-Jul-07
Glad Tithings Foundation Large Grant Rob Neufeld Together We Read 2007 (*through Dec 31 2007)
15-Jul-07
Wake Forest University/Museum of Anthropolgy Large Grant Stephen Whittington Rosebud Sioux exhibit and humanities programs (*through Sept 30 2007)
24-Jul-07
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum/Hatteras/Dare Road Scholar Jim Bunch Germany's U-85
24-Jul-07
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum/Hatteras/Dare Road Scholar Jim Bunch U-85
25-Jul-07
FOtL/Ashe Cty./Jefferson Road Scholar Mary Ellis Gibson Still Cookin'
25-Jul-07
Friends of the Ashe County Public Library/West Jefferson/Ashe Road Scholar Mary Ellis Gibson Still Cookin'
29-Jul-07
Greensboro Teacher's Institute Planning/Evaluation Meeting with Teachers (*2 days)
1-Aug-07
International House of Metrolina Large Grant Adele Daniels African Identity in the 21st Century
2-Aug-07
Mayfield C.C Lifelong Learning./Spruce Pine/Mitchell Cty. Road Scholar William Adam Frederick Law Olmsted
2-Aug-07
Mayfield C.C Lifelong Learning./Spruce Pine/Mitchell Cty. Road Scholar William Adam Frederick Law Olmsted
2-Aug-07
Hidden Voices Large Grant Lynden Harris Because We are Still Here (and Moving) (*through June 2008)
9-Aug-07
Mayfield C.C Lifelong Learning./Spruce Pine/Mitchell Cty. Road Scholar Anne Whisnant Super Scenic Motorway
9-Aug-07
Mayfield C.C Lifelong Learning./Spruce Pine/Mitchell Cty. Road Scholar Anne Whisnant Super Scenic Motorway
14-Aug-07
Haywood Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Jennifer Pratt Desctrruction or Redemption
19-Aug-07
Unitarian Universalist Congregation/Greenville/Pitt Co Road Scholar Todd Savitt Entering a White Profession
22-Aug-07
Carol Woods Retre./Chapel Hill/Oragne Cty. Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
22-Aug-07
Carol Woods Retre./Chapel Hill/Oragne Cty. Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
24-Aug-07
New Bern/Craven Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Joanne Straight Not for Children Only
30-Aug-07
Appalachian State University/Dept. of English Large Grant C C Conway Go Back and Fetch It: African American Banjo Traditions
1-Sep-07
UNC Wilmington Large Grant Beth Kaylor One Book, One Community 2007 (*through Oct 2007)
2-Sep-07
Concerned Citizens of Tillery Large Grant Gary Grant We Shall Not Be Moved: A History of Tillery
4-Sep-07
Hickory/Catawba Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Jan Knotts How Folklife Crafts Our Literature
5-Sep-07
Watauga County Library/Boone/Watauga Road Scholar Charlotte Ross Long Legacies
6-Sep-07
Braswell Mem./ Rocky Mount  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Martha Lee What America Reads
9-Sep-07
Elizabethtown/Bladen Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Rhea Hebert Tar Heel Fiction
10-Sep-07
Sneads Ferry/Onslow Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Ruth Clifton Mysteries
10-Sep-07
Beaufort/Carteret Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Susan Simpson Journeys across Time and Space
10-Sep-07
Gunn Memorial/ Yanceyville/Caswell Cty.  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Lucindy Willis How Folklife Crafts Our Literature
10-Sep-07
Carolina Mountain Literary Festival Mini Grant Daniel Barron Roots and Wings: Carolina Mntns. Literary Children's Program (*through Sept 14 2007)
11-Sep-07
NC Wesleyan College/Rocky Mount/ Nash Road Scholar Umesh Gulati Democratic Reconstructions of Religions and World Peace
11-Sep-07
Granite Falls/Caldwell Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Betsy Humphreys Mysteries
11-Sep-07
Mount Airy/Surry Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Holly Busick/Pat Gwyn Not for Children Only
11-Sep-07
Tarboro/Edgecombe Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Ann Adams Faith Differences, Different Faiths
11-Sep-07
Baybor/Pamlico Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Julie Cox  Making a Living, Making a Life
12-Sep-07
NC Mus. History/Raleigh/Wake Cty. Road Scholar Billy Stevens Sincere Forms of Flattery
12-Sep-07
NC Mus. History/Raleigh/Wake Cty. Road Scholar Billy Stevens Sincere Forms of Flattery
13-Sep-07
Elizabeth City State University/ Elizabeth City/Pasquotank  Co Road Scholar Susan Schmidt Landfall Expedition
13-Sep-07
Walter Hines Page Book Club/ Southern Pines/ Moore Road Scholar Marjorie Hudson Virginia Dare in Fact and Fancy
14-Sep-07
Pembroke Teacher's Institute Lumbee Indian Seminar for Teachers (*2 days)
15-Sep-07
Cameron Village Library/Raleigh/Wake Road Scholar Marjorie Hudson Virginia Dare in Fact and Fancy
16-Sep-07
Southern Pines Public Library/Moore Road Scholar Charlotte Ross Long Legacies
16-Sep-07
Davie County Pub. Lib/Mocksville/Davie Road Scholar Richard Starnes Divided Mind of Civil War NC
18-Sep-07
Blue Ridge C.C./Hendersonville/Henderson Cty. Road Scholar William Adam Discover the Gilded Age
18-Sep-07
Mebane/Alamance Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Katherine Arends Tar Heel Fiction 2
19-Sep-07
Sandhills C.C./Pinehurst/Moore Cty. Road Scholar Mary wayne Watson John Charles McNeill
19-Sep-07
Sandhills Comm College/Pinehurst/Moore Co Road Scholar Mary wayne Watson John Charles McNeill
19-Sep-07
Center for Judaic, Holocaust & Peace Studies/Boone/Watauga Co Road Scholar Vivan Jacobson Chagall and the Bible
19-Sep-07
UNC Wilmington Mini Grant Christopher Dennis Transnational Music in a Global Scenario (*2 days)
22-Sep-07
Micajah Bullock Chapter NC DAR Road Scholar Tom Magnuson Trading Paths and the Contact Era in NC
24-Sep-07
Pack Memorial Library/Asheville/Buncombe Road Scholar Walter Ziffer Witness to the Holocaust
26-Sep-07
FOtL/Ashe Cty./Jefferson Road Scholar Sylvia Payne We Have Stories
26-Sep-07
Friends of the Ashe County Public Library/West Jefferson/Ashe Road Scholar Sylvia Payne We Have Stories
27-Sep-07
Alleghany Cty. Lib./Sparta Road Scholar Anne Whisnant Super Scenic Motorway
27-Sep-07
Alleghany Cty. Lib./Sparta/Alleghany Road Scholar Anne Whisnant Super Scenic Motorway
28-Sep-07
Appalachian State University Large Grant Neva Specht Flat Top Manor: The People and its History (*2 days)
30-Sep-07
Cameron Village/Wake Cty.  Let's Talk About It (10 weeks) Clare Bass Way We Were, Way We Are
1-Oct-07
Rocky Mount Power Squadron/Rocky Mount/Nash Co Road Scholar Kevin Duffus How Shipwrecks Shaped the Destiny of the Outer Banks
1-Oct-07
WUNC Radio Large Grant Emily Hanford North Carolina Voices: Diagnosing Health Care
1-Oct-07
Sandhills  Community College Large Grant Denise Baker Crossing the Atlantic: An Invitation to Communicate
2-Oct-07
Centenary United Methodist Church/Greensboro/Guilford Road Scholar Lynn Salsi NC Alive
2-Oct-07
UNC Chapel Hill Large Grant Connie Walker North Carolina Voices: Diagnosing Health Care
4-Oct-07
Harper Library/Southport/Brunswick Road Scholar Kevin Duffus How Shipwrecks Shaped the Destiny of the Outer Banks
5-Oct-07
The Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara Large Grant Janice Spicka Carl Sandburg: Contemporary Perspectives and Criticism 
9-Oct-07
Blue Ridge C.C./Hendersonville/Henderson Cty. Road Scholar Sherry Austin Audacious and Fantastic
9-Oct-07
Blue Ridge C.C./Hendersonville/Henderson Cty. Road Scholar Sherry Austin Audacious and Fantastic
10-Oct-07
Ctr. Creat. Retire. Sandhills C.C./Pinehurst/moore Cty. Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
10-Oct-07
Sandhills Comm College/Pinehurst/Moore Co Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
11-Oct-07
Historical Society of Topsail Island/ Topsail Beach Road Scholar Margaret Hoffman Blackbeard
11-Oct-07
Senior Resources of Guilford Co/Greensboro Road Scholar Lynn Salsi Appalachian Story Quilt
15-Oct-07
Chatauqua AVE Road Scholar William Anderson Cherokee Removal
16-Oct-07
20th Cent. Study Club/Rocky Mount/Nash Cty. Road Scholar Mary wayne Watson John Charles McNeill
16-Oct-07
20th Cent. Study Club/Rocky Mount/Nash Cty. Road Scholar Mary wayne Watson John Charles McNeill
17-Oct-07
Chatauqua AVE Road Scholar Charlotte Ross Long Legacies
18-Oct-07
Arts Counc. Moore Cty./Souther Pines/Moore Cty. Road Scholar Vivan Jacobson Literary Chagall
18-Oct-07
Arts Counc. Moore Cty./Souther Pines/Moore Cty. Road Scholar Vivan Jacobson Literary Chagall
19-Oct-07
NC Humanities Council Awards Ceremony Shelley Crisp

2007 Caldwell Award in the Humanities
Reynolda Museum of American Art

22-Oct-07
Osher Lifelong Learning/Durham/Durham Road Scholar Karl Campbell NC Way: Civil Rights and Wrongs in the 20th Century
23-Oct-07
Campbell University Dept of Government/Buies Creek Road Scholar Mary Ellis Gibson Southern Writing as Historical Perspective
23-Oct-07
Mitchell Comm College/Statesville/Iredell Co Road Scholar Walter Ziffer Witness to the Holocaust
24-Oct-07
Raleigh-Wake Reading Association/Raleigh/Wake Co Road Scholar Lynn Salsi Appalachian Story Quilt
24-Oct-07
Outer Banks History Center/Manteo/ Dare Co. Road Scholar Marjorie Hudson Virginia Dare in Fact and Fancy
27-Oct-07
NC Mus. History/Raleigh/Wake Cty. Road Scholar David LaVere What Happened to the Lost Colony
30-Oct-07
Gaston Co. Public Library/ Gastonia Road Scholar Marjorie Hudson Virginia Dare in Fact and Fancy
2007 Completed
The Yadkin County Historical Society Planning Grant Kim Quintal History of the Yadkin County Poorhouse
2007 Completed
N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources Mini Grant Fay Henderson Pirate Ships, Slave Ships and Colonial America Symposium
2007 Completed
Caldwell Community College Mini Grant Jessica Saxon Branches
2007 Completed
Wake Forest University Mini Grant Conor  O’ Callaghan Visit by Poet Adam Zagajewski
2007 Completed
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art Large Grant Mary Young Textile Monuments Exhibition
2007 Completed
Friends of the Cumberland Co. Pub. Lib. Mini Grant Sally Shutt Author Visit: David Clary, author of “Adopted Son”
2007 Completed
Cultural Heritage Museum Mini Grant Malcolm Beech US Colored Troops Workshops & Lectures
2007 Completed
Graham Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Jennifer Beach NC Reads NC: Our Poets Speak
2007 Completed
Wayne County Public Library  Let's Talk About It (8 weeks) Matt Bolen The Sixties: A Film History of America’s Decade of Crisis and Change
2007 Completed
St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation Mini Grant V. Dianne Pledger Black Authors on Tour
2007 Completed
Historic Wilmington Foundation Mini Grant George Edwards Saving Spaces: Progressive Designs for Infill Lots
2007 Completed
Mars Hill College Mini Grant Katharine Meacham Mockingbird through African-American Eyes
2007 Completed
Yadkin County Historical Society Mini Grant Kin Quintal Documentary on Yadkin County Poorhouse/County Home
2007 Completed
Folk Horizons, Inc. Mini Grant Peter Constrastano The Early Settlers of North Carolina: A Song & Story Journey
TBA
Cherokee Teacher's Institute Cherokee Indian Seminar for Teachers