The application for the
Weeping Time Light Commemorative
Programming 2022 has been awarded a grant of $2500. The Georgia
Humanities Grant will support 6 tours in the fall and spring on
Butler Island, led by descendants Eunice Moore and Griffin Lotson, and also 2 additional programs, one with Joseph McGill
and the Slave Dwelling Project, which brings awareness and
advocacy to African American history on historic sites, and a
genealogy workshop to be held in the spring.
Also awarded is the MK Pentecost Grant, an ecology fund
established through the Savannah Presbytery for the application
of the Butler Island Ecological Sensitive Solar Light
Installation and Signage for the amount of $2250. For the 2021
March Weeping Time Commemorative, local volunteers Eunice Moore
and Missy Brandt Wilson originated the idea to place 436 solar
lights for each of the enslaved listed for sale during the
national event March 2-3, 1859, which would come to be known as
the Weeping Time. The MK Pentecost grant will enable a more
permanent ecologically friendly installation on Butler Island.