Kansans Tell Their Stories
Kansas Humanities Council Announces
Four New Grants in Support of Local Heritage
KHC announces four new grants in support of local heritage. Kansans
Tell Their Stories grants offer Kansans an opportunity
to preserve and share their unique story. Digital documentary shorts,
heritage tourism projects, podcast recordings, public forums, museum
exhibitions, and oral history projects are all eligible for funding.
Click here for more information.
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In the fall of 2004, the Kansas Humanities Council issued the first
Kansans Tell Their Stories initiative. This was
an opportunity to encourage our communities to examine the immigrant
and ethnic history of our state. The response was overwhelming.
With continued support from the National Endowment for the Humanities
and the State of Kansas, KHC has funded over 50 projects. The projects
funded mirror the make-up of our state and include oral histories
of Southeast Asians settling in Garden City, a Low German language
preservation project in Marshall and Washington counties, and an
exhibit on the Kickapoos in Kansas. With each of these projects,
we have the opportunity to have a clearer, more complete, picture
of what it means to be a Kansan.
More Kansans Tell Their Stories projects are planned
for the near future, including a chance for you to share your story
with us. Click here for a list of
projects.
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National Oral History Project in Kansas!
StoryCorps Door-to-Door came to Kansas as part of the Kansas Humanities
Council's ongoing statewide initiative called Kansans Tell
Their Stories. This initiative invites Kansas communities,
and their residents, to preserve and interpret their local stories.
In addition to providing grant opportunities to non-profits statewide,
KHC conducted a special Chautauqua featuring the Kansans
Tell Their Stories theme. For four days in Medicine Lodge
and Baldwin City, “Famous Kansans”
took the stage, telling of their life and times. Carry Nation, William
Allen White, Langston Hughes, and Dr. Brinkley shared with us stories
of famous Kansans, while everyday Kansans recorded their own oral
histories with the national StoryCorps project. Click
here to learn more.
 KHC
was pleased to partner with the Kansas Health Foundation, KHC's
statewide StoryCorps partner, and Kansas Public Radio, sponsor for
the StoryCorps stop in Baldwin City.
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Listen to the Kansas Humanities Council's StoryCorps
Stories on KPR
StoryCorps Door-to-Door,
a national oral history project, came to Kansas in June 2007 as
part of KHC's Kansans Tell Their Stories initiative and
the Famous Kansans Chautauqua. Kansas Public Radio sponsored
StoryCorps in Baldwin City and the stories are available on the
Kansas Public Radio website. Click here
to listen.
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