{"id":796,"date":"2013-06-26T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/copa\/2013\/06\/26\/theatre-professors-war-letters-preservation-project-wins-cal-humanities-grant\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:15:09","slug":"theatre-professors-war-letters-preservation-project-wins-cal-humanities-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/copa\/2013\/06\/26\/theatre-professors-war-letters-preservation-project-wins-cal-humanities-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Professor&#039;s War Letters Preservation Project Wins Cal Humanities Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Benitz, associate professor of theatre,\u00a0has won a $10,000 Community Stories grant from Cal Humanities to travel throughout California with his production of <em>If All the Sky Were Paper<\/em> by Andrew Carroll.\u00a0 The grant will allow the California War Letters Preservation Project to identify, film, and\u00a0post on the web the stories of California veterans, in addition to\u00a0the staging of\u00a0several readings of <em>If All the Sky Were Paper<\/em> at high schools and vet centers.\u00a0 This grant\u00a0comes in addition to\u00a0a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts received earlier this year for the project.<\/p>\n<p>About the California War Letters Preservation Project:\u00a0\u00a0Letters written home during wartime provide a window into the diverse experiences of those who have fought and reveal the effects of war on warriors, their families, and communities. 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