{"id":1402,"date":"2009-07-16T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/07\/16\/delta-state-holds-second-national-summer-workshop\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:54:51","slug":"delta-state-holds-second-national-summer-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/07\/delta-state-holds-second-national-summer-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State holds second national summer workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Workshop participants at Mounds Landing near Scott where the levee broke on April 21, 1927, creating the great flood that destroyed much of the Delta.  <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently held its second national workshop of the summer entitled “The Most Southern Place on Earth:  Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta.”<\/font> <\/p>\n

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The workshop which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities attracted forty-one participants from across the country and beyond, with one participant coming from Lesotho and one from Saipan.  Another intended to come from Jordan but was delayed by visa problems.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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One hundred and fifty people applied for positions in the workshop, which lasted for six days.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Participants visited Greenville, Indianola, Sumner, Money, Scott, Ruleville and Memphis, among other places.<\/span><\/div>\n
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For more information about the Delta Center’s workshops, call (662) 846-4311.  <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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