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Learn about our diverse projects and see if you can help. In production HAM Slices - Tiny little video slices of Houston History. We'll be adding new slices every couple of weeks, so come hungry for history! What's Your HQ? - An educational game designed to test your knowledge of Houston history, business, sports, people, places, and arts. We have written 3000 questions and have designed the game board, and are looking for corporate underwriting for our manufacturing costs. Neighbor to Neighbor Oral History Project - The N2N project is citywide effort to gather stories of Houston's neighborhoods as remembered by their long-time residents. These stories will be used to enrich the history in the Houston Neighborhood Series of books including the Historic Schools of Harris County. Houston Neighborhood Series - This series of books will document Houston's history, up close and personally. Each volume will tell the story of one of the city’s historic neighborhoods including recollections of early residents and generous use of photographs. Rothko Chapel Documentary - HAM is pleased to be partnering with Rothko Chapel to record top quality video interviews with a wonderful variety of people who discuss their relationship with Jean and Domenique de Menil and the history of the Chapel itself as we head toward a complete documentary. Stand Up Story - This documentary film is a history of stand-up comedy in Houston with an emphasis on the heady years of the 1980s when The Comedy Workshop at San Felipe and Shepherd was one of the hottest clubs in the country, producing stars like Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks, Janeane Garafalo, Brett Butler and a host of memorable characters who reminisce in what might be one of the funniest true documentaries ever. Houston’s Historic Beer Joints and Saloons - From the watering holes of Sam Houston and Big Foot Wallace to the picnic tables and “church keys” on streets like West Alabama or Navigation, this documentary and its companion book preserve one of the most colorful yet under-reported slices of Houston’s history. In telling the story of where past generations of Houstonians gathered for libation and relaxation, this project brings a rich and much needed humanity to the fabric of our past. HAM is working with professors and students at both Rice and UofH to bring home the lesson that our forefathers were real people with lives not that different than our own. The
History of Frost Town - Houston Arts and Media is working
with Art
and Environmental Architecture to publish Louis Aulbach's history
of Frost Town, Houston's oldest settlement.
The Career
Library - A diverse and ever-growing collection of video presentations
designed to spark passion in high school students looking for career
direction and opportunities. These invaluable DVDs will be distributed
free of charge to libraries at high schools and colleges, as well as
to career and vocational centers. The Career Library’s own website
offers meaningful support for this project. In planning Project of your own? We can help. |
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have learned—too often through the hard lessons of neglect and waste—that
if man brutalizes the landscape, he wounds his own spirit; if he raises
buildings which are trivial or offensive, he admits the poverty of his
imagination; if he creates joyless cities, he imprisons himself. And we
have learned that an environment of order and beauty can delight, inspire
and liberate men. Lyndon B. Johnson
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