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NEH Workshop The Most Southern Place on
Earth 2010 This itinerary is under revision for the 2012 workshops and will be modified slightly |
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| revised 10 21 11 | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| June 24, 2012 | June 25, 2012 | June 26, 2012 | June 27, 2012 | June 28, 2012 | June 29, 2012 | June 30, 2012 | ||
| begin | end | July 8, 2012 | July 9, 2012 | July 10, 2012 | July 11, 2012 | July 12, 2012 | July 13, 2012 | July 14, 2012 |
| 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! We recommend that you stay in the Delta Saturday night. Why not debrief at a blues club and listen to some great music? You'll wish you did... | ||||
| 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 | |||||||