Promote CCC Heritage Tourism in Arkansas
Funding will be used to create interpretive materials that tell the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) history in Arkansas. Materials developed will include a brochure, interpretive video, and a virtual CCC trail to be posted on the State of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism website.
Funding: $15,500
Partner: Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, Buffalo National River partners, Department of Arkansas Heritage
Buffalo River Heritage Festival
Funding will be used to support the third annual Buffalo River Heritage Festival in Jasper, AR. The one-day festival will highlight the tradition of music and story telling that is unique to the Ozark region, and will celebrate the artists and traditional artisans of the region. The festival will serve to promote heritage tourism in northwest Arkansas, and to cultivate partnerships with the Buffalo Theater Board, the local schools, and local businesses, and the Newton County Chamber of Commerce.
Funding: $16,500
Partner: Buffalo Theater Board
Cane River Heritage Festival Series
The three one-day festivals will each highlight and promote the unique Creole heritage of the Cane River Region and provide educational and recreational opportunities for visitors of all ages from both urban and rural areas. The festivals will promote heritage tourism in central Louisiana. This project supports the LMDI goal (1) of increasing heritage tourism within the Lower Mississippi Delta Region (LMDR) through development of festivals. This project also fulfills Section 1104 Delta Heritage Corridors and Cultural Centers and the Music Heritage Program of P.L. 103-433, Title XI, Lower Mississippi Delta Region Initiative.
Funding: $23,950
Partner: Cane River Heritage Area
Preservation Plan for the Badin-Roque House
This project will provide funds for a preservation plan and treatment recommendations for the Badin-Roque House (built circa 1770s) in Isle Brevelle, Louisiana. This project supports the LMDI goal (3) of preserving a cultural resource aimed at heritage tourism and open to the public within the Lower Mississippi Delta Region. This project also fulfills Section 1106 Historic Structures and Sites Survey and Section 1107 Historic and Archeological Resources Program of P.L. 103-433, Title XI, Lower Mississippi Delta Region Initiative.
Funding: $37,369.67
Partner: St. Augustine Historical Society
Cane River Visitor Orientation Video Project
The Cane River Visitor Orientation Video Project is an ideal interpretive method to illustrate 300-years of history in the Cane River Region and supports the LMDI goal (2) of increasing heritage tourism within the Lower Mississippi Delta Region (LMDR) through development of a product that enhances a visitor’s understanding of the LMDR heritage.
Funding: $12,500
Partner: Cane River National Heritage Area
Develop Public Events on the Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) on American Identity
This project brings together NPS staff with local and national partners to sponsor a series of community conversations revolving around screenings of the forthcoming Public Broadcasting Service documentary “1882.” The series will build on an award-winning pilot with documentary screenings in Memphis, Cleveland (MS), and New Orleans, as well as other possible locations. Screenings will include panel discussions at park sites and partner museums.
Funding: $24,991.96
Partner: Center for Asian American Media, National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis), Chinese Historical Society of Memphis, Mid-South and Rhodes College
Spirit of the Blues: Celebrating Roots of Delta Music Performances
‘Spirit of the Blues’ will build on other collaboration projects by sponsoring performances during conferences that bridge two interrelated African American musical traditions rooted in Southern slave and sharecropping plantation cultures: Negro Spirituals and the Blues.
Funding: $12,500
Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University
Educating the Public About Memphis's African American Slave Trade – Design and Production of Historic Marker
This project will design, produce, and install a historic metal marker in Memphis on the site of an antebellum slave pen owned by Nathan Bedford Forrest. (on Adams between Second and Third Streets). The marker would interpret the slave trade in Memphis and Bedford’s role in it as the owner of one of the two largest slave pens in Memphis.
Funding: $2,761.49
Partner: Rhodes College
Telling the Story of Lee Walker's Lynching with Marker
This project will establish a marker to identify the site of the lynching of Lee Walker on July 23, 1893, in downtown Memphis. His lynching is considered as the only mob lynching to take place in downtown Memphis. This marker will provide the story of Walker’s lynching and public reaction. This proposed marker is part of a larger effort to publicly recognize all identifiable lynchings that occurred in Shelby County, TN.
Funding: $1,000
Partner: Lynching Sites Projects of Memphis
Klipsch Heritage Museum-Conduct an Assessment of Water Infiltration and an Archeological Survey
Funding is to conduct an assessment of water infiltration into the basement of the Klipsch Heritage Museum building, and provide treatment recommendations for repairs which will also consist of an archaeological survey to search for particular archaeological sites or kinds of sites, to detect patterns in the distribution of material culture over regions, to make generalizations or test hypotheses about past cultures, and to assess the risks that development projects will have on archaeological heritage. This project supports the LMDI goal (3) preserving a natural, cultural, or recreational resource aimed at heritage tourism; e.g., preservation of a structure or an object that has public visitation.
Funding: $23,470
Partner: Klipsch Heritage Museum Association, Inc.
Last updated: February 4, 2022