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Current Grant Projects Supported by KHC

  • Arts in Prison, Inc., Kansas City ($8,675) for Sentenced to Sing, a documentary film project featuring the Lansing Correctional Facility's "East Hill Singers," the only inmate chorus in the nation to perform outside prison walls. Margie Friedman, project director.
  • Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas, Overland Park ($7,150) for the 2009 Kansas City Chinese Film Festival. A film festival featuring classic and contemporary cinema from China. Bilingual discussions in English and Mandarin follow each film. Sheree Willis, project director.
  • Department of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, Emporia ($5,387) for The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium. Lincoln scholars examine Lincoln's legacy during the Lincoln Bicentennial. Brian Craig Miller, project director.
  • Kansas Center for the Book, Topeka ($5,000) for Kansas Reads...The Virgin of Small Plains, humanities programs offered in conjunction with the one-book/one-state reading and discussion of The Virgin of Small Plains by Kansas author Nancy Pickard. Carol Barta, project director.
  • KPTS, Wichita ($8,550) for Country School: One Room - One Nation, a documentary film exploring the history and lingering impact of Midwestern one-room schools. Kelly Rundle, project director.
  • Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee, North Newton ($3,485) for General Conference Mennonite Church Records Cataloging, a project to organize, catalog, and archive the records of the General Conference Mennonite Church from 1968 to 2002. John Thiesen, project director.
  • Nemaha County Historical Society, Inc., Seneca ($3,500) for Settling Nemaha County - Phase II, a project to inventory and preserve quilts, maps, clothing, hats, and military uniforms in the museum's textile collection. DarlAnn Rial, project director.
  • Porubsky Film Foundation, Topeka ($8,402) for C. W. Porubsky's Deli and Tavern Documentary Film, a documentary film exploring the history behind the grocery store in Topeka's Little Russia neighborhood. Matthew Porubsky, project director.
  • Richmond Community Museum Association, Richmond ($1,200) for Preserve and Share Historical Photograph Collection of the Richmond, Kansas Community Museum, a project to catalog, preserve, and provide public access to approximately 500 photographs of the rural Kansas community from the 1870s to the 1940s. Pat Vining, project director.
  • Votaw Colony Museum, Inc., Coffeyville ($6,860) for Reconnection III, a public history event in Manhattan reconnecting descendents from African American colonies, Exodusters, and Liberian emigrants. Seminars on African American history and Kansas history will be offered. Nat Fitz, project director.

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