From a podium in the Emancipation Room at President Lincoln’s Cottage, it was announced that 60 organizations from across the country would receive over $14 million in grant funding from Save America’s Treasures - a federal program that has saved places and artifacts as integral to the American story as the Star-Spangled Banner, yet which faces a future that can only be described as uncertain.

As you know, Save America’s Treasures was pummeled in last year’s budget proposal. And by pummeled, I mean slated for outright eliminated. While money was eventually found to fund the program through March of this year, the drafts of the FY 2012 budget that are now back-and-forthing their way through Washington show rather ominously that the fight to save our funding isn’t over.

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