Smithsonian Exhibit Grant Award

Beverly,

I wanted you to know that I have been successful in gaining a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council for a traveling Smithsonian Exhibit in 2007. I had been rejected. I made two phone calls and followed up with a letter and received a call a week ago that they had found it necessary to pull a city and we had it if we still wanted it. Persistance did pay.

Shirley Pierson
General Manager
Mendota Museum & Historical Society

Attended the workshop in East Peoria, Illinois January 2006