With these funds 42 organizations and agencies will act to conserve some of America's most significant cultural treasures, which illustrate, interpret, and embody the great events, ideas, and individuals that contribute to our nation's history and culture. Through the congressionally-appropriated SAT program, awards were made to 23 historic properties and sites and 19 nationally significant collections of artifacts, documents and artistic works.
Save America's Treasures competitive awards preserve the nation's most significant endangered intellectual and cultural artifacts, historic structures and historic sites. The range of this year's awards covers the breadth of American history and culture-- from preserving the Nellie L. Byrd, one of the Chesapeake Bay's few remaining skipjacks, to saving Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, a Civil Rights landmark. Other grants will restore the Gettysburg Cyclorama and the letters and journals of prominent leaders of the American Revolution.
"Save America's Treasures grants help address the very real threats to our nation's historic and cultural treasures, a legacy held in trust by all Americans,"Â said Mrs. Laura Bush, Honorary Chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. "Through this program President Bush and I want to encourage public and private efforts to carry forward the work of generations in keeping these vital pieces of the nation alive for our children and their children."Â -- www.imls.gov
Posted January 18th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
