Joint Elverhoj Arts and Crafts Colony Project
Ulster County Historical Society wishes to collaborate with other organizations and individuals in researching the Elverhoj Arts & Crafts Colony once active in Milton, New York. This
Urban Archive Newburgh
After the successful launch of Urban Archive Newburgh, the focus is now building organizational sustainability by strengthening our consortium’s full integration of the Urban Archive platform. This means we will envision, determine, and implement community and marketing strategies for wider dissemination, create templates for expanding new and existing partnerships, as well as invest in the […]
Increasing Productivity of the Archaeology Field School
HHS hires consultants to enhance its archaeology field school by establishing written protocols and oversight of the current program that is led by SUNY New Paltz, thereby maximizing the museum’s resources for educational programs and preservation purposes.
Women of Putnam County
In 2020, the Putnam History Museum presents community programming about influential women and local suffrage activists of Putnam County and surrounding Hudson Valley communities in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Plain Sight Project
Along with many northern communities, East Hampton is disconnected from its slave-owning past. By compiling a comprehensive, public list of enslaved persons from the Colonial period to the last recorded enslaved person in East Hampton in 1830, the Plain Sight Project is reconciling with this forgotten history while taking a step to place these people […]
Pilot Exhibit Audio Guide
The Whaling Museum completes phase two of its research using community input to produce an informative, engaging, and user-centered audio guide pilot for its exhibits to strengthen the visitor’s museum experience and increase engagement.
Community is Ageless: Embracing Our Feelings About Aging
The Glen Cove SAGE Foundation guides city-wide, intergenerational, roundtable conversations on perceptions of growing old in our community and how the humanities can be used to direct positive change on both an individual and institutional level.
Dialogue Training for the Jupiter Hammon Project
In August 2019, in preparation for the reinterpretation of Preservation Long Island’s Joseph Lloyd Manor, an 18th-century site of black enslavement, PLI staff and committees will participate in a facilitated dialogue training that will equip the team with the tools to navigate difficult and contested histories.
Centennial Search for Suffrage Lyricists of Color/Non-Christian Heritage
The ROS searches for lyricists of diverse races and creeds who are currently absent from suffragist histories. The restored songs will be featured in 10 public school performances in addition to concerts throughout the Finger Lakes region.
