 In 2005 the American Association of Museums named her to its Centennial Honor Roll, recognizing her as one of 100 American "museum champions" who had worked during the past century to innovate, improve and expand how museums in the United States serve the public.During the period 1978 to 1982 the Children's Museum conducted a public education project known as "An Appalachian Experience," funded by a $376,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.The project resulted in the development of teaching materials on Appalachia and the 1982 publication of "An Encyclopedia of East Tennessee", edited by James R. Stokely III and Jeff D. Johnson ().