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The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area is pleased to announce over $155,000 in grants for nine projects focused on cultural and heritage development in the Mississippi Delta.<\/p>\n
The funded work celebrates the diversity of the Delta\u2019s rich cultural heritage including restoration of historical sites such as the Dockery Farms cotton gin, the establishment of a museum featuring the legacy of Dr. L.C. Dorsey at the Delta Health Center, and the influence of the Delta\u2019s Chinese culture in Delta cuisine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to support a broad range of work from communities and organizations dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of the Delta,\u201d said Dr. Myrtis Tabb, chair of the MDNHA board of directors. \u201cWe are encouraged by the number and scope of applicants in our second year of the Small Grants Program, and hope others will be motivated to participate in future rounds of funding.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do our best to fund work in all parts of the Delta, and in a variety of areas of interest that complement MDNHA\u2019s mission,\u201d said Meg Cooper, chair of the MDNHA grants committee. \u201cWe have now approved a total of over $300,000 in projects in our two years of grant making.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MDNHA is designed to engage and empower organizations and individuals to promote the cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta,\u201d said Dr. Rolando Herts, director of The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University, which serves as the management entity for the MDNHA. \u201cThis partnership between the people of the Mississippi Delta and the National Park Service is crucial to the preservation, perpetuation and celebration of the Delta\u2019s heritage that is at the core of our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant recipients and their funded projects include:<\/p>\n
-Delta Health Center, Inc. \u2013 establish the Dr. L. C. Dorsey Community Health Center Museum in Mound Bayou
\n-Dockery Farms Foundation \u2013 restore and preserve the historic Dockery Farms cotton gin, and develop historical exhibits within the gin building
\n-Bologna Performing Arts Center at Delta State University \u2013 development of a new track of classes for its CORE Arts Camp that showcases tales of origination in song and story
\n-Mississippi Valley State University \u2013 design and present symposium lectures, panel discussions, musical performances and other work in support of the B.B. King Day symposium
\n-Mississippi State University \u2013 generate knowledge about and provide estimates of the economic value of preserving sites of cultural significance in the Delta
\n-Greenville Arts Council \u2013 provide artist residencies to teachers and students that preserve the rich artistic traditions of the Mississippi Delta
\n-Mississippi Heritage Trust \u2013 conduct four Historic Preservation Toolkit workshops that teach local towns and organizations how to leverage funding to preserve historic places
\n-Delta State University, Department of Archives and History \u2013 preserving the historic Mississippi Delta Chinese foodways culture through stories of family, place and cuisine
\n-Cleveland\/Bolivar County Chamber of Commerce \u2013 restoration of the fa\u00e7ade and interior of the Cleveland Depot building<\/p>\n
The MDNHA includes 18 counties that contain land located in the alluvial floodplain of the Mississippi Delta: Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica, Warren, Washington and Yazoo. The MDNHA was designated by U.S. Congress in 2009 and is governed by a board of directors representing agencies and organizations defined in the congressional legislation. More information about the MDNHA, including the complete approved management plan, is available at www.msdeltaheritage.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The mission of The Delta Center is to promote greater understanding of Mississippi Delta culture and history and its significance to the world through education, partnerships and community engagement. The Delta Center serves as the management entity of the MDNHA and is the home of the International Delta Blues Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities \u201cMost Southern Place on Earth\u201d workshops. For more information, visit http:\/\/deltacenterdsu.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the second year, the MDNHA has awarded over $155,000 in grants to regional organizations. Projects range from arts and culture education to information signage and historic preservation. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":75744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,28],"tags":[412,362],"class_list":["post-75743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-3","category-delta-center","tag-delta-center-for-culture-and-learning","tag-mississippi-delta-national-heritage-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75743","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75747,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75743\/revisions\/75747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}