The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided a heritage tour for 90 participants in the 20th Hypoxia Task Force which met in Tunica.
Participants came from all of the states that drain into the Mississippi River as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Task Force is co-chaired by the EPA’s Peter Silva, assistant administrator for water, and co-chaired by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s Jerry Cain, director of the Office of Pollution Control.
During the tour, farming operations run by Butch Sipper in Quitman County, Bowen Flowers in Coahoma County, and the Stovall Plantation in Coahoma County were highlighted.
Cultural highlights included discussion of Charley Pride’s music, the Poor People’s Mule Train, Tennessee Williams’s life in the Delta, and the Bluesmen of Clarksdale.
Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center lead the tour.
