Libby Legacy Program receives $4,000 grant for its efforts
The Libby Legacy Project, an effort by Libby Public Schools, is among several throughout Montana to be granted funds.
The grants are awarded by Humanities Montana, and a total of $9,381 was granted to organizations engaged in humanities projects across the state.
The Libby Legacy Project received $4,000 in support for a teacher-education course about the history and ramifications of mining asbestos-contaminated vermiculite near Libby.
Other projects are:
“Dream Big — Read at the Whitehall Library,” Whitehall Community Library, Whitehall, $1,000.
Support for a summer reading program with weekly speakers for children and adults in addition to an early literacy program for toddlers from June 20 to Aug. 8.
“Poindexter Collection: A Legacy of Community,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, $2,500.
Support for speakers, a catalog writer, and some advertising during the exhibition of George and Elinor Poindexter’s collection of abstract expressionist and modernist art.
“Kalispell Encampment,” U.S. David Thompson Bicentennial Partnership, Thompson Falls, $1,000.
Support for a workshop hosted by the Kalispell tribe to learn hands-on traditional skills while discussing the meaning of cultures then and now.
“History of the Montana Archeology Project — Les Davis Interviews,” University of Montana Department of Anthropology, $881.
Support for conducting, digitizing and subscribing three interviews with Dr. Leslie Davis on the history of archeology in Montana.
Additional information about Humanities Montana programs and grants can be found at www.humanitiesmontana.org.
Humanities Montana is the state’s independent, nonprofit, state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Since 1972, Humanities Montana has provided services and grants to hundreds of Montana organizations in support of public programs in history, literature, values, and public issues.
Among its many programs are its grants, speakers bureau and speakers in the schools.