Category: Lakeport Legacies

Sep032013September 3, 2013November 22, 2016by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies: A History of the Jews in the Delta

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Lakeport Legacies: A History of the Jews in the Delta

Dr. Stuart Rockoff, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life

Thursday, September 19
Refreshments @ 5:30 pm 
Program @ 6:00 pm

Space is limited. Please RSVP by phone:
870.265.6031

Join us for Dr. Rockoff’s overview of the history of the Jews in the Delta.



     Many people are shocked to find out that Jews have thrived in the “most southern place on earth.” Indeed, while Jews have always been a tiny minority of Arkansas and Mississippi’s population, they have forged communities and preserved their religious traditions for over 160 years. Jews flocked to the Delta as it emerged as the leading cotton producing region in the country in the late nineteenth century. Jewish merchants and their families opened stores in most every Delta market town.They have worked to assimilate into the culture of the Delta, but at the same time, they sought to preserve their religious traditions and formed cohesive social and religious communities that brought this dispersed population together. While recent decades have seen a steep decline in the Delta’s Jewish population. Jews still pray and socialize together, keeping the light of Judaism shining in the Mississippi River Delta in the 21st century.

This is a free event, but please RSVP. Space will be limited.

Lakeport Legacies is a monthly history talk held on the last (usually) Thursday at the Lakeport Plantation. Each month a topic from the Delta region is featured. The event is free and open to the public. Lakeport Legacies meets at Lakeport Plantation — 601 Hwy 142, Lake Village, Arkansas. 

Another proud presentation of the:
Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life
For more information on the ISJL – www.isjl.org

Aug082013August 8, 2013November 22, 2016by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies: Hernando de Soto’s Route through Arkansas: What’s the Evidence?

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Hernando de Soto’s Route through Arkansas: What’s the Evidence?

Thursday, August 22
Refreshments @ 5:30 pm 
Program @ 6:00 pm


Join us for a presentation by Dr. Jeff Mitchem on the archeological evidence for Hernando de Soto’s 16th Century Spanish expedition through Arkansas.

Layered glass chevron bead from Parkin Archeological State Park is evidence of the de Soto expedition.

Spanish explorer Hernando Soto and 600 men landed in Florida in May 1539 and entered what is now Arkansas on June 28, 1541. The expedition crossed the state and returned to the Mississippi River at Guachoya, near present day Lake Village, where de Soto died on May 31, 1542. The expedition’s archeological trail combined with four surviving narratives, provides an accurate reconstruction of de Soto’s route through Arkansas.

All are welcome to this Free Event.

Lakeport Legacies is a monthly history talk held on the last (usually) Thursday at the Lakeport Plantation. Each month a topic from the Delta region is featured. The event is free and open to the public. Lakeport Legacies meets at Lakeport Plantation — 601 Hwy 142, Lake Village, Arkansas. 


Jul152013July 15, 2013November 22, 2016by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies — Film: When You Make a Good Crop

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Sunnyside Company Bond, ca 1910
Join us for a showing of the film When You Make a Good Crop: Italians in the Delta. Filmed in 1986, the 28 minute feature traces Italian heritage and beginnings in the 1890s as tenants and sharecroppers on Sunnyside plantation and their legacy in the Delta in the 1980s.
July 25, 2013 

Refreshments @ 5:30 pm 
Film @ 6:00 pm 


Lakeport Legacies is a monthly history talk held on the last Thursday at the Lakeport Plantation. Each month a topic from the Delta region is featured. The event is free and open to the public. Lakeport Legacies meets at Lakeport Plantation — 601 Hwy 142, Lake Village, Arkansas. 


Jun072013June 7, 2013February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Plantation Hosts African American Legislators Exhibit in June; Lakeport Legacies to Host Presentation on African American Legislator Exhibit

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Arkansas African American Legislators, 1868-1893, a traveling exhibit produced by the Arkansas History Commission and Black History Commission of Arkansas, will be displayed at the Lakeport Plantation during the month of June.
Arkansas African American Legislators, 1868-1893 tells the story of the eighty-five African Americans who served in the Arkansas General Assembly in the 19th century. After the Civil War, the Arkansas adopted a new constitution in 1868 and its provisions included the right to vote and hold public office for black males. African American lawyers, merchants, ministers, educators, farmers, and other professionals served in the Arkansas General Assembly. Photographs of forty-six of the eighty-five legislators are an integral part of the display.  Also featured is a complete listing of the legislators and a short history of post-Civil War and election law “reforms” that effectively ended African Americans election to legislative positions until the 1970s.
Green Hill Jones, Courtesy
Arkansas History Commission

Over a dozen black men represented southeast Arkansas and Chicot County during this time.  The men included James Mason, the mulatto son of Chicot County planter and slaveholder Elisha Worthington; Edward A. Fulton, a noted abolitionist from Illinois; George W. Bell, a former slave who worked as a college president and physician; and men like, Nathan Edwards, John Webb, and Green Hill Jones, who eked out their living as farm laborers into the early 20th century.

For Lakeport Legacies, Lakeport’s monthly history talk, Dr. Blake Wintory, assistant director of the Lakeport Plantation, will present his research on Arkansas’s African American Legislators. Dr. Wintory’s presentation on June 27 at 5:30 pm will highlight what is known about the black men who represented Chicot County from 1868 to 1893.
Nathan Edwards, Courtesy
Arkansas History Commission


For more information about the exhibit at the Lakeport Plantation, call Blake Wintory, 870-265-6031.  To schedule the exhibit in your institution call the Arkansas History Commission at 501.682.6900 or e-mail state.archives@arkansas.gov.


Lakeport Legacies is a monthly history talk held on the last Thursday at the Lakeport Plantation. Each month a topic from the Delta region is featured. The event is free and open to the public. Lakeport Legacies meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house.

 


May102013May 10, 2013February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies with LaRhonda Mangrum Recording the Cemeteries of Southeast Arkansas

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Join us for our first Lakeport Legacies!


Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:30 pm

History Written in Stone: Recording the Cemeteries of Southeast Arkansas with LaRhonda Mangrum
Hill Cemetery, Chicot County.
Courtesy LaRhonda Mangrum

Cemeteries are important landmarks for families and communities and essential resources for historians and genealogists. Some cemeteries are visible and well maintained, while many others have been forgotten or lost. On Thursday, May 30, at 5:30 pm LaRhonda Mangrum will discuss her work documenting cemeteries in southeast Arkansas for the Arkansas Gravestones Project. Mrs. Mangrum, a Chicot County native, is the coordinator for southeast Arkansas and the coordinator for Ashley, Chicot and Drew counties. The gravestone project’s mission is to “capture and archive digital images of our ancestors’ gravestones.” She has been gravin’ since 2011 and has documented over 100 cemeteries for the Arkansas Gravestones Project. For more information about the project visit the http://www.arkansasgravestones.org/.

Lakeport Legacies is a new monthly history talk held on the last Thursday at the Lakeport Plantation. Each month we’ll have a topic from the Delta region (AR, LA & MS). The event is free and open to the public. Lakeport Legacies will meet in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. For more information, call or email Blake Wintory – 870.265.6031.

The Lakeport Plantation is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site. Constructed ca. 1859, it is Arkansas’s only remaining antebellum plantation home along the Mississippi River. The plantation was donated to Arkansas State University in 2001 by the Sam Epstein Angel family. After more than five years of restoration, the plantation opened as a museum and educational center in September 2007 and new permanent exhibits were unveiled in September 2012.

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