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Four Rivers: The Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town & South County Press Release
May 19, 2006
Arundel Center
44 Calvert Street •
Annapolis, MD 21401-1930
410-222-1805
Heritage_Area@aacounty.org • www.fourriversheritage.org
Contact: Donna Dudley, Executive Director
Heritage Area 2006 Mini-Grant Awards Announced
Annapolis, MD –Four Rivers: The Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town & South County is pleased to announce its 2006 mini grant awards to local heritage related nonprofit organizations. This matching mini grants program, made possible through financial support from the City of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, and the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, leverages other funding to assist local heritage related non-profit organizations create new programs, activities and events that build upon interpretive themes in the state, county and city-approved heritage area Management Plan, foster collaborative partnerships, and enhance local cultural historic resources and heritage tourism.
Organizations and projects approved for mini grant awards include:
- Shady Side Rural Heritage Society with partners Historic London Town & Gardens, Galesville Heritage Museum and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center for a series of public programs, “Fall Heritage Days in South County,” and for support of Civil War Weekend May 6-7, 2006, on the grounds of the Captain Salem Avery House in Shady Side
- Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation for support of “African-American History and Culture of the Parole Community: A Four Rivers Oral History and Community Education Program”
- Anne Arundel County Bar Foundation to support research for a public exhibit, “Courthouse on the Circle: Annapolis and the Law,” to be developed and installed in the Museum Room at the Courthouse.
- City of Annapolis for an interpretive sign template for Annapolis 300 historic markers
- Galesville Heritage Society to leverage other funding from the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network to develop outside exhibit panels
- U.S. Lighthouse Society to develop, write and print “A Field Guide to Thomas Point Lighthouse”
- Galesville Community Center Organization to develop a website that reflects the heritage of Galesville’s Rosenwald School
- Anne Arundel County Trust for Preservation for archaeological investigation on the 17th century Herring Creek house of Samuel Chew, in conjunction with the Deale Area Historical Society
- Annapolis Friends Meeting for informational and educational materials related to the regional history of Quakerism on its 350th anniversary
- Kneseth Israel Congregation for historical research and presentation on “The Jewish Experience in Anne Arundel County, Then and Now, 1906-2006”
Four Rivers is part of the Maryland Heritage Areas Program, recent recipient of Preserve America’s 2006 Presidential Award for heritage tourism. For more information on Four Rivers, please visit www.fourriversheritage.org.
