CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant: Pomfret Historical Society
- Organization Name:Pomfret Historical Society
- Organization City:Pomfret Center
- Amount Awarded:$5,400.00
- Fiscal Year:FY22
- Grant Summary:
CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants were designed to help the states museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public, connect K-12 teachers and students to strong humanities and arts content, and improve their information technology and digital infrastructure.
Waking the Dead – archaeology, genealogical and archival research about enslaved Africans in Windham County
- Organization Name:Pomfret Historical Society
- Organization City:Pomfret Center
- Amount Awarded:$4,890.00
- Fiscal Year:FY21
- Grant Summary:
Waking the Dead is a series of workshops from October 2021 to November 2021, centered around the enslaved Africans buried in the Randall/Higginbotham Cemetery in Pomfret, CT. The goal is to engage the public in the “understory” of local history while learning how to research and identify Native American, enslaved African, and free Black communities of the 18th & 19th centuries. Workshops will be filmed for the purpose of creating a documentary which will be completed by March 1, 2022.
