College

^tltttboro

Edinboro, Pennsylvania 16444
Department of English
Telephone: (814) 732-2736

. SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

1 March 1978

Mr.Charles Heggestad
Division of Research
Mail Stop 350
National Endowment for the Humanities
806 15th St.,N.W.
Washington,D.C. 20506
Dear Mr.Heggestad:

I talked with you by phone several weeks ago about a
project that might fall within your area of interest.lt grows
out of my research into dirt-street town America and more
particularly the agricultural scene in our country’s golden
age of farming.
As it happens,our college is located in what was once a
dirt street community and adjacent to the college property is
the Todd Goodell farm.In the hands of the same family for over
a hundred years,it has been preserved much as it was at the
opening of the twentieth century.Its present owners have pre­
served not only artifacts out of the past but letters and
diaries that image the farm ojE the period as a ’’total enclosure”
perpetuated by successive generations of self sufficient,
family-oriented individuals.

I would like to propose a project^that would capture in
text and pictures the reality of the rual experience--the story
of ooe farm family that is in its essentials the story of many
families.Please note the enclosed materials.

Sincerely,

.—.—CQ
tiohn L.Marsh
Professor,English

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 2OSO6

5 May 1978

Professor John L. Marsh
School of Arts and Humanities
Edinboro State College
Edinboro, PA 16444

Dear Professor Marsh;
I write in response to your letter of March 1, 1978 concerning
possible NEH support of a study of the Goodell farm.

It would appear that such a project is eligible for considera­
tion in our program for State, Local and Regional History, and as
such I am enclosing our application materials. Our next deadline
is September 1, 1978.
From your proposed outline, it does not seem your project
embodies the interpretive framework that would be crucial to any
application to this program. Should you decide to apply, this
dimension of your work — given a particular theoretical approach —
must be developed.

If you have any questions, please let me know.
Sincerely yours

Charles R. Hegge»taa
Program Specialist
General Research Program
Division of Research Grants

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