| NEH Workshop The Most Southern Place on Earth 2010 | ||||||||
| revised 4 8 10 | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| June 20, 2010 | June 21, 2010 | June 22, 2010 | June 23, 2010 | June 24, 2010 | June 25, 2010 | June 26, 2010 | ||
| begin | end | July 11, 2010 | July 12, 2010 | July 13, 2010 | July 14, 2010 | July 15, 2010 | July 16, 2010 | July 17, 2010 |
| 7:30 | 8:00 | Arrival and check in | Dockery, The Crossroads, and Fannie Lou Hamer's Gravesite | Bus ride to Memphis with discussion onboard and stop at the Clarksdale Greyhound Station | ||||
| 8:00 | 8:30 | Registration | Bus to Greenville | Tour of Mound Bayou | Guest Scholar: The Delta in Diaspora | |||
| 8:30 | 9:00 | Introduction to the workshop and overview of the week and role of master teachers | ||||||
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Discussion of the Delta Chinese | ||||||
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Bus ride to Indianola | Emmett Till and To Kill a Mockingbird with Henry Outlaw | |||||
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Greenville's Black graveyard | B.B. King Museum, "Where the Southern crosses the Dog, " Charley Patton's gravesite. | Stax Museum of American Soul Music | ||||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Discussion of overview | Charles McLaurin | |||||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Curriculum discussion | Discussion of the Delta Jews | Cotton Museum | Discussion | |||
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Discussion | ||||||
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Lunch | Flood of 1927 Museum | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||
| 12:30 | 1:00 | bus | bus | |||||
| 1:00 | 1:30 | LaLee's Kin: the Legacy of Cotton | Lunch | bus to Sumner | National Civil Rights Museum | Curriculum/Lesson plans due | ||
| 1:30 | 2:00 | Lunch | ||||||
| 2:00 | 2:30 | Discussion led by Reggie Barns, former Superintendant, West Tallahatchie County Schools | Guest Scholar: the origin and evolution of the blues | Panel discussion of Till case | Comparing The Delta to your Place-a facilitated discussion. | |||
| 2:30 | 3:00 | |||||||
| 3:00 | 3:30 | Guest Scholar: Religious and Cultural History of the Delta | MAKE YOUR OWN MOJO and wrap up | |||||
| 3:30 | 4:00 | bus to important sites in the Till story | ||||||
| 4:00 | 4:30 | Reception at Martin and Sue King Railroad Museum, Cleveland | bus | Peabody Hotel | ||||
| 4:30 | 5:00 | Levee break site at Mounds Landing | Bus Ride home, with discussion | Please DO NOT plan departures earlier than 4pm. It's very bad juju to miss making your mojo! | ||||
| 5:00 | 5:30 | Dinner | Dinner | |||||
| 5:30 | 6:00 | bus | ||||||
| 6:00 | 6:30 | Great River Road State Park for Catfish Supper | Dinner | |||||
| 6:30 | 7:00 | free | free | |||||
| 7:00 | 7:30 | bus home | Curriculum Session | Dinner | ||||
| 7:30 | 8:00 | NOTE: computer lab is open Monday through Thursday night from 7 to 9pm | Curriculum Session | |||||
| 8:00 | 8:30 | Po' Monkey's Lounge- the last rural jook house in the Delta? | ||||||
| 9:00 | 9:30 | |||||||