Preserving Our Heritage
The CWDF/VDE uses the proceeds from its performances and
sales of its dance instruction videotape to support various historic
preservation and education programs.
Through 2011, the Ensemble has made
direct cash donations of $35,000 to:
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Antietam National Battlefield
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum – Roundhouse Restoration Fund
Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Home – Hurricane Restoration Fund
Camp Curtin Historical Society – Jenkins Monument Project
Center for Civil War Photography
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust
Civil War and Underground
Railroad Museum of Philadelphia
Civil War Preservation Trust – Adopt a Class Room Program
Civil War Preservation Trust
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Land Acquisition
Civil War Preservation Trust –Traveling Educational Trunk Program
Cooper's Battery Monument Project
Dauphin County Historical Society
Dr. Patri Pugliese
Scholarship Fund
Eckley Miners
Village - Breaker Project
Eli Slifer House
Ford's Theatre Society
George Meade Society – Scholarship Fund
Gettysburg Battlefield
Preservation Association
Gettysburg Foundation
Harpers Ferry National Park – Educational & Living History Programs
Hampton Mansion National Historic Site
Historic Yellow Springs
Jerusalem Mill Preservation Project
Joseph Junkin Homestead
Lincoln Fellowship
of Pennsylvania – Essay Contest
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Longstreet Society
Maryland Historical Society
Moores Memorial Library --
Christiana Riot Material Archive
Museum of the Confederacy
National Civil War Museum
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Patapsco Female Institute Historic Site
Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee – Civil War Flag Project
Pennsylvania Muster Rolls Restoration Project
Red Mill Museum
Save Historic Arlington House
Sons of Union Veterans Hartranft Camp No. 15
Star Spangled Banner House
Stonewall Jackson Headquarters in Winchester, Va.
U.S.S. Constellation
Wilderness Battlefield – Ellwood House Project
In addition to our direct donations, the CWDF’s balls and
dance demonstrations have helped other organizations raise over $125,000
for preservation and education.
Jim Lighthizer, President of the Civil War Preservation Trust, accepts a
donation
from Annette Keener-Farley, President of the Civil War Dance
Foundation.
In recent years, we have donated over $7,500 to the CWPT
in addition to presenting dance classes for its Teacher Institute and
providing entertaining dance demonstrations for its Annual Meetings.
Gettysburg Monuments Project
The Victorian Dance Ensemble has supported the Gettysburg Monuments Project
(popularly known as “Readshaw’s Raiders”) since its founding by conducting
fund-raising dance classes and balls. Over the years, these events have
raised over $50,000 for the restoration of monuments at the Gettysburg
National Military Park.
Beginning in 2004, the Victorian Dance Ensemble has sponsored a Civil War
Preservation Ball for the Gettysburg Monuments Project in the Rotunda of the
Pennsylvania Capitol. The members of the Ensemble serve as floor managers at
the event, demonstrating and teaching the dances. The 28th Pennsylvania
Regimental Brass Band provides the music. Since its inception, the ball has
become one of the premiere events of the vintage dance season. Typically,
about 120 guests come from six states to dance in the spectacular setting of
the Capitol Rotunda.
In February 2006, vandals damaged three monuments at Gettysburg. The income
from the Preservation Ball raised sufficient money to repair the 114th
Pennsylvania Infantry Monument ($5,800) and to make a donation to help
repair the two other monuments ($1,000 each).
Rep. Harry Readshaw and
Annette and Lawrence Keener-Farley presented a check for the monuments to
Dr. John Latschar, Superintendent of the Gettysburg National Military Park,
at a ceremony in front of the 114th Pennsylvania Monument.
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