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February 2021 OurWays:

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Beach to Bay Receives Grant from the Humphreys Foundation

We are so excited to join forces with the Humphreys Foundation to further build our library of virtual tours for our museums, historic sites, and our beautiful heritage area. Humphreys Foundation has awarded us $10,000 in funding to advance these efforts.

Mini-grant Spotlight:
Parsons Cemetery receives mini-grant funding.

Parsons Cemetery, located in Salisbury, is today both operational and historic. According to their website, it is an urban green space, an outdoor museum, and in the words of architectural historian, Keith Eggener, urban cemeteries "are where life meets death, nature meets city, and present meets past.” Preservation Maryland recently bestowed Parsons Cemetery with the 2020 Best of Maryland Community Choice Award.

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Mini-grant Spotlight:
Purnell Museum's new exhibit takes a local look at past medical epidemics

Each month we hope to bring you a feature on one of our successful mini-grant applicants. This month meet the Julia A. Purnell Museum and their new exhibit they will be introducing this spring: Epidemic: A Local History of Medical Crisis.