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Delta Center provides alternate spring break activities

By March 7, 2012General

The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently introduced service learning classes from Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio) and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) to the Delta’s rich cultural heritage  Both classes visited the Delta for a week of “Alternative Spring Break” service activities.  

Alternative Spring Breaks are student organized and focus on service and leadership skills.  Students from Wittenberg lived at the Cary Christian Center and worked painting houses and doing carpentry in the south Delta.  The UNC  class worked as tutors at the Sunflower County Freedom Project.  The UNC class toured the central Delta, stopping in Cleveland, Ruleville, and Mound Bayou, accompanied by the Delta Center’s Lee Aylward.   

Following a lecture on the Delta’s heritage by the Delta Center’s Luther Brown, the Wittenberg class visited the farm of Ben Lamensdorf where they learned about the Steele Bayou Expedition, an important series of battles along Deer Creek during the Civil War.