Summer Teacher Workshops at ASU Heritage Sites
This workshop will focus on the POW camps that were located in the Arkansas Delta, as well as the impact the war had on agricultural production in the state. http://stfm.astate.edu/
June 16, 2011: Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Education Center, “The Hemingway Connection.” This workshop will focus on Ernest Hemingway’s connection to the Pfeiffer Family of Piggott and his contribution to Arkansas’s literary legacy. http://hemingway.astate.edu/ Canceled
June 22, 2011: Lakeport Plantation, “The Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in Arkansas.”
Lakeport is one of 23 official stamping sites for the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Passport Program. This workshop will focus on Lakeport’s and the surrounding area’s connection to the Civil War. https://lakeport.astate.edu/
June 28, 2011: Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, “‘Roll the Union On’: The Music That Inspired a Movement.”
This workshop will focus on the protest songs written by John Handcox and how music was used to mobilize a labor movement of the mid-twentieth century.
