Trust gives grants to 36 history projects
With the awarding of grants in a Fall round of funding, the W. E. Smith Family Charitable Trust this year has given grants to 36 history-related projects from libraries, museums, school programs, and other organizations across Southwestern Ohio.
The fall grants of nearly $33,200 brings the total of grants for the year to $97,200. Requests for support were submitted for display and storage materials for collections; computer equipment to manage collections; school and community outreach programs; publishing projects documenting historic events or early settlers in the area; materials for archival projects, technology-enhanced applications for virtual tours of facilities, and other events and programs.
The Smith Trust was established by the estate of Ophia Smith, longtime Oxford resident and wife of W. E. Smith, who chaired Miami University’s history department and was first Director of the William Holmes McGuffey Museum. Together, they collaborated on research and writing of a three-volume “History of Southwestern Ohio: The Miami Valleys,” and other published works, both together and separately.
Grants this Fall went to: Atrium Medical Center Foundation: In partial support continuing stories and photographs for a published series of Legends brochures chronicling the history of Atrium (formerly Middletown Regional
Butler County Historical Society - Heritage Hall McCloskey Museum: For signage, supplies and exhibit development and to conserve illustrations of Robert McCloskey works
Cincinnati Northern Model Rail Road Club: In support of fees for web site hosting of the club’s site depicting the history of the Cincinnati Northern Railroad
Cummins Local History Room, Lane Library: Continuing the library’s digitization of newspaper holdings including Hamilton Journal-News, Fairfield Echo and Pulse-Journal, plus some Oxford Press issues not previously completed
Friends of Chrisholm Historic Farmstead: For costs associated with two exhibits involving the Otelia Augspurger Compton Legacy and family tree, and the Oppenheimer/ Compton connection with the Manhatten Project
Friends of White Water Shaker Village: Program cost assistance; mounting stand for computer tablet for use by people unable to access interior, especially second floor, of Shaker building, and costs for promotional materials with Harrison Chamber