2002 - 2002

2002 Major Accomplishments

• Major bookfest grant from National Endowment for the Arts.
• Third Montana Festival of the Book.
• Bookfest mini-grants to Bozeman, Great Falls, and Helena.
• Development of 9-11 special edition of Speakers Bureau.
• Missoula high school student Ledah Wilcox wins national Letters About Literature contest.
• Grants include research fellowship on African Americans in territorial Montana.
• Documentary on the Montana Constitutional Convention (and support for its 30th anniversary conference).
• Home Ground radio series.
• Lecture series on the 225th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
• Billings residency for poet (and now National Endowment for the Arts Chairman-nominee) Dana Gioia.
• Kalispell lecture and discussion series on 9-11.
• Presentations on PBS’ Frontier House by its historian/ consultants.
• Lectures preceding Shakespeare in the Parks’ summer productions of Henry IV, Part I.
• Missoula series on public issues in healthcare.