{"id":2100,"date":"2010-07-01T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/07\/01\/teachers-decide-its-time-to-give-back\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:46","slug":"teachers-decide-its-time-to-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/07\/teachers-decide-its-time-to-give-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers decide it&#8217;s time to give back"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"800\" border=\"0\" id=\"table1\" style=\"padding: 3px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/univ_relations\/IMG_2025.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;color: black\"><font size=\"1\">From  \t\tleft to right, workshop participant Kim Bliss, who teaches in Portland  \t\tOregon; Luther Brown, director of the Delta State Delta Center, Lee  \t\tAylward, of the Delta Center; Bonnie Littleton, of the St. Gabriel Mercy  \t\tCenter Board of Directors; and workshop participant Edi Campbell a  \t\tteacher from Indianapolis.&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> \t\t&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana;color: black\">From  \t\tthe blues to cotton to catfish, the Mississippi Delta is famous for the  \t\tmany things it has given to America. This past week during the <\/span> \t\t<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Verdana\">National Endowment  \t\tfor the Humanities <span style=\"color: black\">Landmark Institute &ldquo;The  \t\tMost Southern Place on Earth: Music, Culture, and History in the  \t\tMississippi Delta&rdquo;&nbsp; 40 teachers from all over the United States were  \t\table to deepen their understanding of the Delta by seeing, tasting and  \t\ttouching the real land. One thing that could not be missed was how much  \t\tthe people of the Delta cherish their rich heritage and how willing they  \t\tare to share it. <\/p>\n<p>            After visiting places like Cleveland, Greenville, Indianola,  \t\tTallahatchie County, Dockery Farms, Mound Bayou and other sites, the  \t\tteachers in the group were able to better understand the past and to  \t\twant for a better tomorrow for all Americans. The teachers were so  \t\ttouched by the Delta and its people that they decided to make a donation  \t\tof $260 to the Saint Gabriel Mercy Center in Mound Bayou in the names of  \t\tLuther Brown and Lee Aylward and the Delta Center for Culture and  \t\tLearning at Delta State University. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left to right, workshop participant Kim Bliss, who teaches in Portland Oregon; Luther Brown, director of the Delta State Delta Center, Lee Aylward, of the Delta Center; Bonnie Littleton,&#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-2100","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\/2100","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=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38499,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/38499"}],"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=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}