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Friday, October 24, 2008

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International Blues Challenge

 

Live from the birthplace of the Blues

 

Live from the birthplace of the Blues

 

CLEVELAND ―In 2007, The History Channel provided funding for the Heritage Lighthouse project at the D. M. Smith Middle School in Cleveland, Mississippi.   The funding allowed students to interview six Delta Bluesmen about their lives and their music.  It also allowed the Delta State University College of Education to develop five detailed lesson plans that focus on the Blues and African American history.

 

This project has now resulted in the publication of a magazine-style booklet titled "Live from the Birthplace of America's Music."  The booklet includes short segments of the interviews with Bluesmen, together with material about the Blues, including a map of important Blues sites in the Mississippi Delta.   It also includes an abbreviated lesson plan, and refers readers to the new web site www.birthplaceoftheblues.com.  This web site includes not only the complete transcriptions of all interviews, but also the five complete lesson plans, with their appendices.  It also has sound clips of the Blue performers singing and talking about their lives.  The booklet and web site are designed to help people understand the Blues, and especially to use the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail as a resource to learn about the State's history. 

 

Copies of the booklet can be obtained for the cost of mailing from the DSU Delta Center for Culture and Learning, or can be printed directly from the web site.

 

This project was funded by The History Channel as part of their Save Our History national grants program.  The original grant was for $10,000, but the program was awarded another $2,500 because it was judged to be especially successful.  Four students and two adults associated with the Heritage Lighthouse were also given a trip to Washington, D.C., where the toured historic sites as part of the project.

 

Save Our History is an Emmy^ Award-winning strategic philanthropic initiative of The History Channel that launched in 1998, designed to further historic preservation and history education.  The program supplements the teaching of history in America's classrooms, educates the public on the importance of historical preservation and motivates communities across the country to help save endangered local historic treasures.  The Save Our History campaign includes original documentaries, special teachers' materials, national promotion on The History Channel, broadband activities in schools, and has worked with The Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, National Trust for Historic Preservation, National World War II Memorial, American Rivers and The White House 200^th Anniversary. 

 

Additional information about the grassroots Save Our History program, including a comprehensive school manual containing suggested lesson plans for grades two through 12 and details about working with local preservation organizations can also be found at www.saveourhistory.com.  

 

For more information about the Heritage Lighthouse program or the DSU Delta Center for Culture and Learning contact the Center at (662)846-4311 or visit its web sites at www.blueshighway.org and www.birthplaceoftheblues.com.

 

 

 

 

New Blogspot!

Introducing a new site:

 

www.mississippibluestrail.blogspot.com

 

Thank you, Scott Barretta and Jim O’Neal….

Blues Websites to Always Check!

www.cathead.biz

www.highway61radio.com

 

 

 

European travel writers and radio show hosts tour the Delta

European travel writers and radio show hosts tour the Delta

 

CLEVELAND―Twenty eight travel writers and radio show hosts from Spain, England, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany recently toured the Delta for five days courtesy of Mississippi Tourism and our local Chambers of Commerce. 

 

They came for the grand opening of the B.B. King Museum in Indianola on Saturday, September 13.  The group was met in Tunica by Dr. Luther Brown and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University and escorted throughout the Delta on a heritage tour that concluded with the unveiling of the museum in Indianola. 

 

Among other things, the group explored the Tunica River Park Museum and followed Highway 61 to Clarksdale where they were met at the Crossroads by “Super Chikan” playing the blues, followed by barbecue at Hopson Commissary.  They rode  the Blues Highway as they came south with stops in Mound Bayou, Dockery, the Highway 61 Blues Museum in Leland, and a night of live Blues featuring Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Pat Thomas at Po Monkey’s Lounge. 

 

They visited several stops on the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail, and witnessed the dedication of the Trail marker at B.B. King’s birthplace in Berclair.  They spent two nights in Cleveland, and ate dinner at The Senator’s Place and Airport Grocery. 

 

These writers have a combined audience of over 15 million European readers and listeners.   The opening of the B.B. King Museum was also covered by the local and national press, including a writer from Rolling Stone Magazine. 

 

Photo:  Travel writers and radio show host pose in front Po Monkey’s Lounge. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloria Enriquez, Senior Secretary

Communications and Marketing

Delta State University

P.O. Box D-3
1003 West Sunflower Road

Cleveland, Miss. 38733

Office: 662.846.4675

Fax: 662.846.4679

E-mail: genriquz@deltastate.edu

 

MS Blues Trail License Plate will be made when 200 are purchased...

 The Mississippi Blues Foundation has recently taken on the project of getting this new “specialty” car tag into production and available.  Because the deadline is so soon (October 15), the internet and “word-of-mouth” is how this news is being spread.  An application can be printed from www.highway61radio.com .