Finding A Place, Maintaing Ties: Greater Hartford’s West Indians; Credits

Finding A Place, Maintaing Ties: Greater Hartford’s West IndiansA new exhibition at The Connecticut Historical SocietyOpen through May 2, 2003

The project has been funded by generous grants and gifts from:
The Connecticut Humanities Council
State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
Connecticut Office of Tourism and the Connecticut Tourism Council
J. Walton Bissell Foundation, Inc.
The Pryor Foundation
BWIA West Indies Airways
The George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation
The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The Knox Foundation
Greif Bros. Corporation

Steering Committee
Veronica Airey-Wilson
Nora M. Brown
Keith L. Carr, Sr.
Desmond Collins
Marva Douglas
Hugh B. Freeney
Harold Harper
Fay Johnson
Simone Russell

Consulting Scholars
Planning and Implementation
Dr. Ronald J. Grele, former Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University
Dr. Winston James, Professor of History, Columbia University

Planning
Dr. Alex Dupuy, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Dr. Bruce Haynes, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University

CHS Staff pictured from left to right:
Fiona, Kate, Tracey, Amy, Andrea, James, and Becky (not pictured) >

CHS Staff
Fiona Vernal, project coordinator and oral historian
Kate Steinway, project director, script writer, and video and audio editor
Tracey Harris, project assistant and Finding a Place videotape co-director
Amy Sailor, exhibition team and Maintaining Ties video co-director
Andrea Rapacz, project manager and researcher
James Jensen, exhibition team
Becky DeVito, exhibition team (not pictured)

Exhibition Design
Whirlwind & Company

Video Production
Whirlwind & Company
ACME Video, video editing

Website Design
Literae Interactive Design

Special thanks to: Doreth Flowers for facilitating our trips to the West Indian Social Club, Steve Edwin for providing the music in the exhibition, Desmond Waithe for help with the steel drum interactive, and Marion Gibbs for providing the costumes from Carnival 2001 and other artifacts for photography. CHS: June Jones, Darian Sanders, Yvette Soto, Aaron Wartner, and Kheli Willets for reading portions of the script and watching drafts of the videotapes, and Susan Karpuk for help with the oral history transcripts.