{"id":3128,"date":"2012-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/06\/28\/delta-center-hosts-summer-workshop\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:14","slug":"delta-center-hosts-summer-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2012\/06\/delta-center-hosts-summer-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Center hosts summer workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"288\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2012 Releases\/SouthernPlace.jpg\" alt=\"Participants in The Delta Center for Culture and Learning workshop &ldquo;The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, History and Culture o the Mississippi Delta&rdquo; gather for a reception at the Martin and Sue King Railroad Museum.\" longdesc=\"Music, History and Culture o the Mississippi Delta&rdquo; gather for a reception at the Martin and Sue King Railroad Museum.\" class=\"caption\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University welcomed forty teachers to its first 2012 summer workshop titled &ldquo;The Most Southern Place on Earth:&nbsp; Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta.&rdquo;&nbsp; An opening reception was held Sunday, June 24, at the Martin and Sue King Railroad Museum in Cleveland, and was supported by the Nehi Bottling Company, Cecil&rsquo;s Liquor Store, and the Cleveland-Bolivar County Chamber of Commerce.&nbsp; The knitting club of the Calvary Episcopal Church, together with several local citizens, provided hors d&rsquo;oeuvres. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first of two workshops that the National Endowment for the Humanities is funding through the Delta Center.&nbsp; Applications came from 47 states this year, and four times as many people applied as could be accepted.&nbsp; Participants spend six days exploring the Delta&rsquo;s rich cultural heritage, listening to guest speakers, sampling the Delta&rsquo;s cuisine, and soaking up as much Blues music as they can find.&nbsp; For more information, contact the Center at 662-846-4311, lbrown@deltastate.edu. <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University welcomed forty teachers to its first 2012 summer workshop titled \u201cThe Most Southern Place on Earth:  Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","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\/3128","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=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40998,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/40998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}