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This fall The Last Green Valley, Inc. (TLGV) announced a new grant program specifically for the marketing and interpretation of historical and culture resources in the region. The program encouraged projects that use digital technology and social media. A total of seven completed applications were received and three were funded.
The Thompson Historical Society (THS) received a grant of $3,000 for the THS Museum Web Access Program. The working group will combine the historical society’s presentations, video documentaries, collections of photographs and documents onto an online library that will allow people literally from all over the world to visit and learn from the THS archives.
An innovative partnership among the Finnish American Heritage Society, the Town of Canterbury, the Canterbury Library and the Canterbury Historical Society will develop a movable, touch-screen information kiosk that will highlight the town’s history, the significant cultural resources of the Finnish American Heritage Society and other resources. TLGV awarded $4,600 for this project.
The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (CSSAR) was awarded a TLGV grant of $3,400 as part of a $30,105 project called “RevoluntionaryCT.com Letterboxing Trail & Website.” The CSSAR is working with 10 other partners to market the Revolutionary War history of the region through letterboxing, a fast-growing outdoor hobby that combines problem solving, art, history, nature and orienteering. The goal is for the visitor to find secreted boxes and develop a collection of unique stamps from the sites. Letterboxing can even make a small roadside marker part of a larger and more complex interpretation of the history of the region.
“This grant program has very specific timing,” stated Charlene Cutler, TLGV Executive Director & CEO. “We wanted to fund projects that would be completed over the winter and debuted in the spring at the beginning of the tourist season.”