Essex National Heritage Area
2010 Essex Heritage
Partnership Grant Recipients Announced

On May 20, 2010, Essex Heritage announced the recipients of the 2010 Partnership Grant awards. Over the next year municipalities and nonprofit organizations will be working to implement a diverse range of educational, interpretive, and preservation projects.

Essex Heritage’s Partnership Grant Program is a matching grant program created to foster and support the stewardship activities of municipalities and organizations that share its mission to preserve and promote the historic, cultural and natural resources of the Essex National Heritage Area. Impacting many in the region, the 12-year old program has provided more that $1.5 million. Combined with grants to its network of visitor centers, Essex Heritage has awarded more that $1.8 million in support of the region’s nationally significant heritage.

Essex Heritage congratulates the following 2010 Partnership Grant recipients:      
(For a printable pdf version click here.)    

Danvers
Town of Danvers
The town will enhance the experiences of those using the emerging 4.3-mile Danvers Rail Trail through the design, fabrication, and installation of interpretive signs that tell the story of the corridor’s transition from railroad to recreational asset.

  Town of Danvers, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Ingrid Barry (Danvers Bi-Peds), Kate Day (Town of Danvers), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Gloucester
Cape Ann Museum
Utilizing the skills of preservation carpentry students from the North Bennet Street School the museum will continue the multi-phase restoration of the rare c.1740 barn adjacent to its White-Ellery House (1710), an important First Period house.
www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org

  Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Martha Oaks (Cape Ann Museum), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director, Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
Working in partnership, the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center and Essex Shipbuilding Museum will document (video) and interpret (tours and video) the entire construction of Tiger, a 54-foot, 49-passenger traditional pinky schooner being built by eleventh generation boat builder Harold Burnham of Essex.
www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org
www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org

  Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Gloucester, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Harold Burnham (H.A. Burnham Boat Building & Design), Harriet Webster (Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Haverhill
East Parish Meeting House Society
With the goal of sustaining use of the simple, 40’x 45’ wooden structure as community hall the society’s seven trustees will engage an experienced consultant to develop restoration and fundraising plans for the remarkably intact 1838 meeting house formally attended by Haverhill poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

  East Parish Meeting House, Haverhill, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Marion Bergman and Judy Leathe (East Parish Meeting House), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Ipswich
Ipswich Museum
The museum will implement Dig It!, a six-week after school program for middle school students who will learn about the discipline of archaeology by exploring the industries along the Ipswich River through hands-on activities and field trips.
www.ipswichmuseum.org

  Ipswich Museum, Ipswich, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Katherine Chaison and Wendy Evans (ipswich Museum), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Lawrence
City of Lawrence
Employing an innovative approach to immersing people in history the city will create a “walking cinema tour" of newly installed signs interpreting the horrific collapse of the huge Pemberton Mill in 1860, one of the worst industrial accidents in American history in which 145 workers were killed.

  City of Lawrence, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Maggie Rosinski (City of Lawrence), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Newburyport
St. Paul’s Church
As part of a comprehensive restoration and rehabilitation program the church will fabricate and install a replica Gothic Revival trefoil window in a highly visible façade of its charming St. Anna's Chapel (1862).
www.stpauls-nbpt.org/history/stannaschapel.html

  St. Paul's Church, Newburyport, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Bronson deStadler, William Hobbie (St. Paul's Church), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Salem
Salem Athenaeum
The Salem Athenaeum will celebrate its bicentennial with a seven-month series of educational and cultural programs focused on the 1629 Endecott Charter, the seminal document establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England’s first independent colony.
www.salemathenaeum.net
  Salem Athenaeum, Salem, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Susan Foster and Frances King ( Salem Anthenaeum), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Salisbury
Town of Salisbury
During this initial phase of preservation planning project the town will commission a survey and create base maps documenting boundaries and all significant landscape features (headstones, monuments, walls, paths and trees) in the Old Colonial Burial Ground, the town’s oldest.

  Town of Salisbury, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Jerry Klima, Bobbi Klima, Neil Harrington, Lisa Pearson, Isa Cann (Town of Salisbury), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)

Topsfield
Friends of Topsfield Trails
A broad spectrum of users will benefit from the continued development of the Topsfield Linear Common, a stone-dust recreational path linking schools, playgrounds, shops in the village center with neighborhoods and the Topsfield Fairgrounds.
www.friendsoftopsfieldtrails.org

  Friends of Topsfield Trails, Topsfield, MA  
Above from left to right: Thomas M. Leonard (Essex Heritage President Emeritus), Dave Read, Joe Geller (Friends of Topfield Trails), Annie Harris (Essex Heritage Executive Director), Kevin Tierney (CEO, Saugusbank and Essex Heritage President)