WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins today announced that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $45,726 in arts and humanities grants to entities throughout the state of Maine .
“Grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities support projects throughout Maine that are both informative and educational,” Snowe and Collins said in a joint statement. “Many of these projects preserve historical materials and allow the public to access them, a vital undertaking so that we do not lose the remnants of our past.”
$5,000 has been awarded to the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth for a conservation assessment of works of art on paper, photographs, maps and atlases, and books assembled in the 19th century by three generations of the Black family in eastern Maine .
$5,000 has been awarded to the L.C. Bates museum in Hinckley for a consultant’s preservation assessment of paper-based materials, such as photographs, documents, manuscripts, architectural plans and works of art, in the collections of the L.C. Bates Museum .
$2,920 has been awarded to the Shaker Library in New Gloucester for a preservation needs assessment of books, maps, osters, ephemera, photographs, slides, manuscripts, sound recordings and videotapes related to Shaker history and culture with an emphasis on the Shakers in Maine .
$5,000 has been awarded to the Maine Historical Society in Portland for consultation and the purchase of equipment to establish an environmental monitoring program for the 1786 Wadsworth-Longfellow House, a National Historic Landmark and the boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
$3,806 has been awarded to the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport to hire a conservation consultant to conduct an assessment of the exposure of textiles to light levels in two historic house museums and the purchase of materials.
$24,000 has been awarded to Bowdoin College in Brunswick for a fellowship that will support research on Theodore Roosevelt.
NEH grants are highly competitive and involve a rigorous review and selection process to ensure that the best of humanities research, education, preservation, and public programs is cultivated.