Things you will learn during the workshop if you pay attention include......

Why hot tamales are a common snack food in the Delta.
Whether Robert Johnson really sold his soul to the devil, and who got the better deal.
How share cropping worked and why it opened the door to Chinese grocery stores.
Why it is easy to find the culture of the Delta in Chicago, Gary, Oakland and New York City.
How the great flood of 1927 was and was not similar to the destruction of New Orleans in 2005.
Why cotton was King and how he was dethroned.
Who the father of the Blues was (and who the father of rock 'n' roll was too).
How apartheid ended in America leaving Mississippi with more African American elected officials than any other state.
How a share cropper's wife with a sixth grade education helped pave the way for Barak Obama's Presidency.
How former slaves founded a prosperous "All Negro" town and why they were praised by white segregationists.
How the brutal murder of a young boy from Chicago in 1955 promotes racial reconciliation today.
What a "Rosenwald" school was and what happened to them all.
What the first distinctly American art form was and why it is so important.
What a "koolickle" is and whether you like them or not.
Why the Mississippi Delta is "The cradle of American culture." 
Why the topopoetics of place is as important as the topography of place.