The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University recently provided a heritage tour for six law students from Harvard and two from the University of Mississippi, as well as their director, a recent law school graduate from Harvard. The group is spending a week in the Delta to learn about its heritage and its future and to present a workshop that will help landowners with estate planning issues.
The workshop is a collaborative effort between Delta Fresh Foods (www.deltafreshfoods.org), Delta Directions (www.deltadirections.org) and the University of Mississippi Transactional Law Center (www.law.olemiss.edu/CLC/). The seminar will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Coahoma County Higher Education Center, 109 Clark Street, in Clarksdale, on March 17, and interested parties should contact Judy Belue, project coordinator of the Delta Fresh Foods Initiative, at (662) 404-5004 or jwbelue1@gmail.com to make reservations.
The group is pictured with Dr. Luther Brown, director of the Delta Center, in front of the collection of Blues performer’s life masks in Ewing Hall on the Delta State campus. The plaster casts were made directly from the performer’s faces by artist Sharon McConnell, who donated them to the University four years ago.
