The North Carolina Humanities Council is pleased to introduce the publication of its
bi-annual magazine, North Carolina Conversations.
The inaugural issue of North Carolina Conversations includes the winning entry from the 2007 Linda Flowers Literary Award competition and an abridged Fall 2007 Crossroads. Among its features are coverage of the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, including information about the Caldwell Laureate and the Caldwell Address, and news of the Council’s programs, from Let’s Talk About It and Road Scholars to project directors and grant participants.
Teachers Institute seminars and curriculum news are profiled. The Events and Deadlines section keeps you current on what is happening with the Council board. The Council is indebted to North Carolina’s Poet Laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer, for granting its request to include two of her poems.
"Conversations is a work born of great respect for the people of North Carolina," says Executive Director Shelley Crisp. |
2008 Teachers Institute
North Carolina Indians:
Keeping the Circle
In early March, the North Carolina Humanities Council sponsored North Carolina Indians: Keeping the Circle, a Teachers Institute seminar on the state’s American Indians. The event was the fifth and final seminar in a series debuting in 2005.
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Save America's Treasures Solicits Applications
The National Park Service in partnership with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services is seeking applicants for its Save America’s Treasures 2008 grant program.
Save America’s Treasures makes critical investments in the preservation of our nation’s most significant cultural treasures. Grants are awarded for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Grant amounts range from $25,000 to $700,000 to conserve collections and from $125,000 to $700,000 for historic property and sites projects. All the awards must be matched 1:1.
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Council Welcomes New Staff Members
Executive Director Shelley Crisp announces three new members to its talented staff. “This is an exciting time for the Humanities Council. In addition to our excellent, on-going programs, we have a wonderful new program—Museum on Main Street—on the horizon and a new magazine, North Carolina Conversations, just out," says Crisp. "North Carolinians across the state will benefit from the talents and experiences of these new staff members as they develop these and other new initiatives.” Darrell Stover is the new Program Associate and Statewide Coordinator for Museum on Main Street at the North Carolina Humanities Council.
> Read more. Donovan McKnight, is the Humanities Council's new Administrative Assistant.
> Read more. Jennifer McCollum joins the Council staff as Communications and Development Officer.
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