A congresswoman from the Hudson Valley has announced two National Endowment for the Humanities grants.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey, the Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, says the grants total more than $69,000 for both the Jacob Burns Film Center and Historic Hudson Valley, both in Westchester County. Emily Keating, director of Education at the Jacob Burns Film Center says the funding will create a curriculum in collaboration with the Brooklyn Historical Society to help eighth-grade students connect the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to the current civil rights struggle and give the students an opportunity to create their own documentaries. The $30,000 grant for Historic Hudson Valley will support “Historic Hudson Valley: Washington Irving and the Art of Storytelling.”
