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Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore to Speak at
2010 Mass History Conference |
Historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, authors of the joyful historical/fictional novel Blindspot, will deliver the keynote for the 2010 Massachusetts History conference, Imagining Lives: Preserving and Interpreting Personal Stories. Join colleagues on June 7th at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester to learn about teaching and presenting history using personal stories, exploring veterans’ lives through oral history, creating innovative public and online programming through letters, journals and daybooks, and discovering stories hidden within family photographs.
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| Upcoming Mass Humanities Funded Events: |
| Harriet Jacobs at Central Square Theater |
The Underground Railway Theater will produce the New England premiere of Lydia Diamond's play Harriet Jacobs, adapted from Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), about one of the most fascinating personae celebrated in the Cambridge African American Heritage Trail. Thursday, January 7 – Sunday, January 31, 2010. Performances will be held Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 2:00pm at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge.
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| Back to the Future Radio Series |
Back to the Future is a six-part radio series exploring what older ways of living and producing can teach us about adapting to a future less reliant on fossil fuels. Episode 4, Getting Around, airs Wednesday, January 27, and will cover non motor vehicle inter-urban transport. Episode 5, Cool Machines for Cooler Planet, airs Wednesday, February 17, and will examine non-electric machinery that once powered manufacturing. Tune into WMUA 91.1 FM Amherst, WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM Valley Free Radio Northampton, WMCB-LP 107.9 FM Greenfield, and WOMR 92.1 Cape Cod, or listen online.
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| Lois Lowry Conversations |
Lois Lowry is a prolific and wide-ranging author and considered a significant “voice” in young adult literature. This spring, the community is invited to explore the writings of Lois Lowry through literature circles and book reading clubs, a radio interview, a public discussion, and culminating in an evening conversation with the author on Tuesday, March 30th at Fitchburg State College.
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| The Most Dangerous Man in America Film Opening |
Directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, this film tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, who in 1971 concluded that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks top secret documents to The New York Times—an act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Opening Friday, February 12 at the Kendall Square Cinema, Boston.
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Multimedia Archive |
Visit our media archive for the latest audio, video, and web updates, such as episodes from the Sea Change radio series, Rachel Maddow at the November 2009 symposium, the 100 Faces of War project, and much more.
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| Mass Humanities Seeks Nominations for Board |
Mass Humanities is actively seeking nominations of qualified individuals to serve on its board of directors. Candidates must live or work in Massachusetts and believe in the importance of the humanities and their relevance to contemporary life. If you would like to nominate someone, or are interested yourself, please read the details.
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| Recent Grants |
Mass Humanities made sixteen grants this past quarter totaling $96,757 for public humanities projects across the state, including:
 $5,000 for an exhibition of the writing closet of Enlightenment author and early feminist Judith “Constantia” Sargent Murray.
$4,750 for The Places Poems Make, a workshop for Worcester high school teachers exploring connections between poetry and local history.
$9,982 to The Welcome Project to produce Exposed at Work, a play about the language-based health and safety struggles of immigrant day laborers in Somerville.
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