Pearl S. Buck International Awarded $33K State Grant

HILLTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — Pearl S. Buck International in Hilltown has been awarded a $33,400 grant by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).

The grant comes from the Cultural and Historical Support Grant Program run by the PHMC. The
purpose of the program is to provide general operating support to Pennsylvania museums and official county historical societies that are not directly supported by other state agency
operating support programs.

“I am so happy to see Pearl S. Buck International receive this grant from the PHMC,” said State Rep. Shelby Labs who announced the grant. “I have had multiple opportunities to visit the Pearl S. Buck House and museum, and they do an excellent job at providing the history of one of Bucks County’s most influential residents.”

Pearl S. Buck was a Nobel Prize-winning author for literature in 1938. She wrote about her experiences as a daughter of missionaries to China, growing up in Zhenjiang, as well as her time there as a teacher in Nanjing at the University of Nanking in the 1920s. In her later years, she established the first permanent foster home for U.S.-born, mixed-race children of Asian descent, which was located on the same area in Hilltown.