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((   an older release and a flyer for the Garden Project follows this one  ))
 
Delhi Historical Society News Release

December 14, 2002 Contact: Sue Ann Painter
241-5777, suepainter@aol.com 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

Delhi Historical Society Receives 
NEH Challenge Grant for Educational Programs

Cincinnati OH-The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has recommended the Delhi Historical Society (DHS) for a $75,000 challenge grant. The award, which is contingent upon the Society raising an equal amount in matching funds, is part of NEH's "Special Initiative for Local History" program. Only seven such awards were made in the nation for the December 2002 round of grants. 

"We are pleased and proud to receive this award," said Sue Ann Painter, the grant writer and project director. "NEH staff tell us our little organization is in prestigious company, having competed successfully with 93 other national applicants. The peer reviewers were impressed with the Society's record of accomplishment in producing award-winning education programs such as "The Greenhouses of Western Hills" video and the "Rise of the Urban Township" study and exhibit. If this fund drive is successful, the Society will continue to bring innovative local history materials to schoolchildren and adults for years to come." 

The combined public and private funds will be put in an endowment restricted to education purposes. Interest from the education endowment will be used to engage part-time professional staff to plan and direct education programs. 

Program priorities are changing exhibits in "urban township" history, a summer camp for grade-school children, featuring garden history, art, and hands-on gardening activities; professional assistance with college interns in management of the Society's collections, and development of a video and teacher's guide on the history of Ohio urban townships. 

Delhi Historical Society, which was founded in 1976, collects photographs, documents, and museum objects relating to the township and surrounding area. Its programs focus on topics of local and national interest in American history and horticulture. The Society operates the Farmhouse Museum and Greenhouse in two historic buildings located at 468 Anderson Ferry Road in Delhi Township. The township became known as the "Floral Paradise of Ohio" in the early twentieth century when the local economy was dominated by more than fifty independent greenhouse businesses. 

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Contacts:                  Tony Brunsman 513/382-4315                              May 15, 2004

 

                                Christina Schwaller 513/319-5678

 

                                Doris Zeiser 513/921-9095

 

 

 

For immediate release

 

DELHI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ‘s Bean Sprouts attend Summer Garden Camp.

 

The program is sponsored with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

 

Delhi Township , Ohio -- The Delhi Historical Society launched a new initiative that introduces elementary students (ages 6 to 10) to the greenhouse industry through a summer camp. The camp will allow young children to experience the society’s unique farm and greenhouse environment, and to learn about art and nature.

 

Dates                                      Title                       Ages                        Time                       Location                                 Fee

 

June 14 – June 18                     Bean Sprouts           (6 yrs. – 7 yrs.)       

 

 

June 21 – June 25                     Corn Stalks              (8 yrs. – 10 yrs.)     

 

The camp’s curriculum draws upon the Society’s award-winning Under Glass: The Greenhouses of Western Hills teachers’ manual. Children were instructed on the historical and scientific uses of native Ohio flowers and herbs, and principles of growing both within and outside the greenhouse. They learned something about their community history, the importance of the greenhouse industry, and the flowers favored by different Delhi growers in the past and present.

 

The concept of teaching children through gardening is not new. School gardens appeared in Austria and Sweden in 1869. The primary purpose was to “instill in children a love for outdoor work and such knowledge of natural forces and their laws as shall develop character and efficiency.”

 

Students were and will be introduced to the greenhouse, its operating principles, and its equipment. They will be given plants to pot and tend, which they may take home with them at the conclusion of the camp. They will learn to identify the herbs and perennials in the Society outdoor garden, and discover how pioneer gardeners used them for flavoring and remedies. The program will be lively and multi-disciplinary, with sessions devoted to botany, history, art, and horticulture. Time will be spent in the Farmhouse or on the wraparound porch drawing and painting plants and flowers, or designing projects based on archival materials, such as old photos and maps of their neighborhood. But we envision the joy of learning at the Farmhouse will be the variety of hands-on outdoor activities, such as digging, planting, weeding, and identifying specimens.

 

The DHS’s Summer Gardening Camp came about in large part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH grants typically go to cultural institutions, such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, and radio stations, and to individual scholars. In the case of the Delhi Historical Society, it received a one-to-one challenge grant for $75,000. The funds will be invested in an endowment so the DHS and NEH can bring humanities programs to our community.  Some things that the grant will do is:

 

         strengthen teaching and learning in the humanities in schools and colleges

 

         provide opportunities for lifelong learning

 

         preserve and provide access to cultural and educational resources

 

         strengthen the institutional base of the humanities

 

To learn more about the National Endowment for the Humanities go to www.neh.gov.

 

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DELHI HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

SUMMER GARDEN CAMP

 

National Endowment for the Humanities supported program

 

 

 


 

Dates                                 Title                Ages                        Time                       Location            Fee

 

June 14 – June 18                     Bean Sprouts            (6 yrs. – 7 yrs.)       

 

June 21 – June 25                     Corn Stalks              (8 yrs. – 10 yrs.)     

 

 The Delhi Historical Society launched a new initiative that introduces elementary students (ages 6 to 10) to the greenhouse industry through a summer camp. The camp will allow young children to experience the society’s unique farm and greenhouse environment, and to learn about art and nature.

 

The camp’s curriculum will be drawn from the Society’s award-winning Under Glass: The Greenhouses of Western Hills teachers’ manual. Children will be instructed on the historical and scientific uses of native Ohio flowers and herbs, and principles of growing both within and outside the greenhouse. They will learn something about their community history, the importance of the greenhouse industry, and the flowers favored by different Delhi growers in the past and present.

 

The concept of teaching children through gardening is not new. School gardens appeared in Austria and Sweden in 1869. The primary purpose was to “instill in children a love for outdoor work and such knowledge of natural forces and their laws as shall develop character and efficiency.”

 

Students will be introduced to the greenhouse, its operating principles, and its equipment. They will be given plants to pot and tend, which they may take home with them at the conclusion of the camp. They will learn to identify the herbs and perennials in the Society outdoor garden, and discover how pioneer gardeners used them for flavoring and remedies. The program will be lively and multi-disciplinary, with sessions devoted to botany, history, art, and horticulture. Time will be spent in the Farmhouse or on the wraparound porch drawing and painting plants and flowers, or designing projects based on archival materials, such as old photos and maps of their neighborhood. But we envision the joy of learning at the Farmhouse will be the variety of hands-on outdoor activities, such as digging, planting, weeding, and identifying specimens.