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The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State is\u00a0once again offering its \u00a0summer program\u00a0\u201cThe Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State is\u00a0once again offering its \u00a0summer program\u00a0\u201cThe Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program is part of the annual Landmarks in American History and Culture series that is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Pending funding from the NEH, the center is hoping to offer the program again in 2015.<\/p>\n
This highly competitive workshop draws participants from all 50 states. Diana Brown, a special education teacher at Ruleville Middle School, recently reflected on her participation in 2012.<\/p>\n
“One learning experience which I am really grateful for having the opportunity to participate in was \u2018The Most Southern Place on Earth,\u2019 under the direction of Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Alyward,\u201d said Diana. \u201cThe opportunity changed my life in more ways than one. I am from the Delta, but the experience was far beyond what I ever imagined.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe institute gave me an overload of rich knowledge about the Delta I had no idea even existed. It not only gave me a dream, but provided knowledge on how to make these dreams become a reality.”<\/p>\n
Dr. Brown has fond\u00a0memories\u00a0of Diana as a\u00a0workshop\u00a0participant.<\/p>\n
“She was a wonderfully engaged scholar throughout the entire week, and surprised everyone the last day by bringing in delicious home made sweet potato pies for\u00a0everyone\u00a0to enjoy,\u201d said Brown. \u201cShe really welcomed everyone to the\u00a0Delta.”<\/p>\n
Diana has always loved learning but had to put her career on hold early in life when she started her family. Today she has two grown\u00a0daughters\u00a0and five grandchildren. She credits Delta State with helping her succeed.<\/p>\n
“I returned to Delta State University in 2002, and in 2005 received my bachelor\u2019s in child development,\u201d said Diana. \u201cI returned to Delta State in 2005, and in 2007 received my master\u2019s in special education. I returned to Delta State again in 2009, and in 2012 received my specialists in educational leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess you are wondering why Delta State University, and the answer is because it\u2019s a small university with a big heart. You are not just a number \u2014 the staff and personnel at Delta State genuinely care about the whole person.”<\/p>\n
Her workshop experience in 2012 stimulated her interest in subsequent seminar\u00a0opportunities. In 2013 she had the opportunity to participate in a learning experience in Lawrence, Kans. working on the pilot program for the alternate assessment for special needs children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love to learn and I am going to learn until I am not in existence,\u201d added Diana. \u201cThis year I applied for another teacher institute which is titled \u2018The Rochester Reform Trial\u2019 located in Rochester, New York.\u201d<\/p>\n
The workshop, from July 20-26, will examine the reform as expressed in landmarks such as Broad Street Aqueduct, Ernie Canal, Mount Hope Cemetery and several other landmarks.<\/p>\n
Another\u00a0participant\u00a0from the same workshop that started Diana on her path, Markette Pierce, lives in Rochester and is organizing their summer experience together. She wrote about Diana on Facebook.<\/p>\n
“She aced it as a local participant. She’s my role model as I prep for this workshop,\u201d said Pierce. \u201cI’m already thinking, where can I take her to get a taste of Rochester’s music and foodie culture? The closest thing we’ve got to Po’ Monkey’s is Lux Bar, which is certainly a juke joint in the \u2018wicked, disorderly, unsavory\u2019 etymological sense \u2014 though more filled with tatted up hipsters than sharecroppers.”<\/p>\n
Brown continues her passion for learning as she becomes an\u00a0ambassador\u00a0for the Mississippi Delta.<\/p>\n
For more information on The Most\u00a0Southern\u00a0Place workshop, contact the Delta Center For Culture and Learning at 662-846-4311.<\/p>\n
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