{"id":2222,"date":"2010-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/10\/11\/delta-state-takes-hypoxia-taskforce-participants-on-heritage-tour\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:36","slug":"delta-state-takes-hypoxia-taskforce-participants-on-heritage-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/10\/delta-state-takes-hypoxia-taskforce-participants-on-heritage-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State takes Hypoxia Taskforce participants on heritage tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2010Releases\/Hypoxia.JPG\" alt=\"20th Hypoxia Task Force \" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided a heritage tour for 90 participants in the 20th Hypoxia Task Force which met in Tunica. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Participants came from all of the states that drain into the Mississippi River as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, D.C. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Task Force is co-chaired by the EPA&#8217;s Peter Silva, assistant administrator for water, and co-chaired by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality&#8217;s Jerry Cain, director of the Office of Pollution Control. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the tour, farming operations run by Butch Sipper in Quitman County, Bowen Flowers in Coahoma County, and the Stovall Plantation in Coahoma County were highlighted. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cultural highlights included discussion of Charley Pride&#8217;s music, the Poor People&#8217;s Mule Train, Tennessee Williams&#8217;s life in the Delta, and the Bluesmen of Clarksdale. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center lead the tour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided a heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","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\/2222","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=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41375,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/41375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}