With our ever-growing Hispanic community in Mississippi, I'm sure that
we can find fitting uses for this collection in our state. 

 

Thanks Carol,

Daveeeeeeeed

 

From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Harsh, Carol
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:55 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Bittersweet Harvest--a poster set from SITES

 

Greetings from SITES,

 

As a result of our nearly 20 years of working side by side with state
humanities councils, we stand amazed at the rich public humanities
programs that you produce and support throughout your states. Your reach
into remote and sometimes disenfranchised communities of people is very
important.  And, we know from our MoMS projects that wonderful
humanities programs are often sparked by exhibitions.  

 

SITES has just finished producing a set of 6 colorful bi-lingual posters
about the Mexican migrant labor story. Our distribution partners - the
state migrant education center directors - have not accounted for quite
as many sets as we projected. The next best recipient group from our
perspective was the state humanities councils, since they serve such a
vital role in terms of providing public programs.  So, we are sending to
each of your councils a set of these exhibition posters and hope that
you will be able to put them to good use.  You can keep them or pass
them on to another organization that works directly with the Mexican
community in your state.

 

Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Story, 1942 - 1964 was developed with
Smithsonian Latino Center funding as a result of overwhelmingly positive
feedback to the traveling exhibition of the same name. At each museum
location on the current tour, local communities are discovering family
connections and opportunities to explore both this little-known chapter
in American history and to discuss implications in today's world. We
hope that your council will be able to take advantage of the posters and
the related online resources to share with visitors. Here's a link to
the project page, for a quick preview: www.sites.si.edu/bracero.

 

So, please accept this gift from us to you as a token of appreciation
for the many years we have worked together.  If you think of a creative
way to put the posters to good use and to collect stories from
individuals who may have been bracer workers, we would love to know
about it.  The posters should be arriving within a week or so.

 

With warm regards,

 

Carol

 

 

 

Carol G. Harsh

Director, Museum on Main Street

Smithsonian Institution, SITES

202-633-5333

202-465-5267 (cell)

202-633-5344 (fax)