{"id":1260,"date":"2009-04-24T13:15:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/04\/24\/delta-states-delta-center-host-tours\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:01","slug":"delta-states-delta-center-host-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/04\/delta-states-delta-center-host-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State&#8217;s Delta Center host tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"75%\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/TerryHunt.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/WDRTV.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/MDAFAM.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North West High School <\/td>\n<td>WDR-TV<\/td>\n<td>Travel Writers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Delta State University&rsquo;s Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently lead several groups on a heritage tour to various locations across the Delta.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Terry Hunt, a teacher&nbsp;from North West High School in Jackson, brought her class to visit Po&rsquo; Monkey&rsquo;s Lounge and Dockery Farms.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>German television company, WDR-TV, worked with the Mississippi Development Authority to film the Mississippi River, the Tunica River Park, Dockery Farms, and a performance at Po&rsquo; Monkey&rsquo;s by bluesman Louis &quot;Gearshifter&quot; Youngblood. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The Mississippi Development Authority sent a group of nine professional travel writers to write articles that promote the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail and other aspects of the Delta&rsquo;s cultural and artistic heritage once the tour was completed.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The writers group visited the David &ldquo;Honeyboy&rdquo; Edwards marker in Shaw, Dockery Farms, the W. C. Handy marker at the Cleveland Courthouse,&nbsp; the Peavine Railroad marker in&nbsp; Boyle, Po&rsquo; Monkey&rsquo;s Lounge, and the Crosstie Arts and Jazz Festival in Cleveland.&nbsp;The tour ended at the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>For more information about the Center or the Delta&rsquo;s heritage, call (662) 846-4311.&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; North West High School WDR-TV Travel Writers &nbsp; Delta State University&rsquo;s Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently lead several groups on a heritage tour to various locations across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41696,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/41696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}