Politics & Government
Pearl S. Buck International Awarded State Program Grant
The grant will be used by the foundation to explore new marketing opportunities for the history museum and historical site.
BUCKS COUNTY, PA —Pearl S. Buck International, located in Hilltown, has been awarded a $54,429 grant from the Pennsylvania Arts and Culture Recovery Program.
“I am thrilled to see Pearl S. Buck International receive this well-deserved grant,” said Rep. Shelby Labs (R-Bucks) in announcing the grant. “This grant will allow new marketing opportunities for the history museum and the historical site, both of which I recently toured. The tour provided great insights on Pearl S. Buck as a human and the impact she had on the Hilltown area at the end of her life. This grant will allow more people to have the same experience I did at the historical site and museum.”
Pearl S. Buck was a Nobel Prize-winning author, winning the Nobel Prize 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 in the same area in Hilltown.Find out what's happening in Doylestownfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
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