^ebruary'79

vol.4 no. 1

Qrantsmanship

^TOHN L. MARSH, ENGlish Department, and Karl Nordberg, Educational
^Foundations Department, are the co-recipients of a grant from The Pub­
lic Committee for the Humanities in Pennsylvania. Their project, "The
Rural Experience in Northwestern PennsylvaAii^ yesterday, today and to­
morrow," involves the detailed study of a late Victorian farm in the imme­
diate area. Once completed, their findings will be presented at a public
workshop featuring, as well, the look of the farms of today and of tomor­
row. Cosponsors of the project are the Borough of Edinboro, the Edinboro
Historical Society, and Edinboro State College.
. In a collaboration that produced Edinboro: a dirt street town. Profs.
/ Marsh and Nordberg were impressed by how little sense of the area's agricultural past existed among newer residents in the community. Yet that
rural heritage seemed not only worth exploring but preserving. To this end
Marsh and Nordberg have an opportunity for those present to hear an speak
with leading area farmers and to visit their farms. With land developers
and steel mill proponents urging their special interests, it seemed ap­
propriate to provide a forum for alternative voices.

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