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Reminder! First CARES Act relief grants from the Wisconsin Humanities Counc
il - due this Friday.
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"It's very important for us as cultural organizations to help our communiti
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Wisconsin's Cultural Organizations Lead the Way
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s received grants for many of their amazing public programs from the Wiscon
sin Humanities Council.
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“My family has roots in Neenah that go back to the mid-1800s. I was born
and raised here, as was my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. My broth
er has always been the family historian, and he had written a book and came
to town to do a presentation on it for the Neenah Historical Society. He s
aid, ‘Why aren't you involved in the Historical Society?’ because I'm t
he only one of our seven siblings who still live in Neenah.
I was too busy with raising kids, and I just hadn't gotten involved with it
yet. But now I've made up for it. I started as a volunteer, then I was on
the board, and I’ve been the executive director for the past eight years.
What we strive to do is bring our history to life for the community. We try
to tell inspiring and interesting stories that help people get a better pe
rspective on today by looking at the past.
Right now, our exhibits are closed, and we had to cancel the history camp t
hat we do for kids in the community. It's heartbreaking, because those face
-to-face opportunities with visitors and students—you can't duplicate tha
t with a virtual experience.
We will try to make a short video of the current exhibit, which we're so pr
oud of. It's so timely: it's all about the 100th anniversary of women's rig
ht to vote. All of that has just disappeared, as far as what's on people's
radar. They're not thinking about it or celebrating it, which is a shame. W
e’re excited about our next exhibit, too, which is about the positive imp
act of immigration in our community. But now we’re trying to decide—do
we make it virtual or not?
We try to have a very active Facebook page, and I love that it really demon
strates how much the community craves connection. They crave connection to
the past, to the stories of the community, and to each other. We shared a s
tory recently about the history of the rocket ship slide that used to be he
re at Riverside Park. That story reached almost 33,000 people. That's more
than the population of our city! That's pretty cool. People really do crave
connection to their community, so I love that we can use social media to d
o that.
It's very important for us as cultural organizations to help our communitie
s move forward from this pandemic. It's great and wonderful and essential,
obviously, for people to get back to work and be in the workplace. But orga
nizations like ours provide something else. A community is not a good, stro
ng, vibrant community without cultural institutions.
We always have been focused on the inspirational stories of our community,
but I think it'll be even more important moving forward. We have to be opti
mistic. How we can inspire people to be unafraid, and to know that we will
get past this, and that we will learn from it? Maybe we'll have a better pe
rspective on how much our community means to us and how we can be better me
mbers of our community by helping each other and supporting each other.”
-Jane Lang, Executive Director, Neenah Historical Society
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