Labor Day Weekend 2017 • September 1-3, 2017 

 (updated July 20, 2017)

Registration Form  — Deadline August 15

Volunteer Form — Free admission for volunteers

The 2017 reunion and 10th Anniversary will have a flat fee of $100 for adults and $50 for kids 12 and under. (Includes all meals)

Schedule

• Friday, September 1
  5-7 p.m. Event registration and 10th anniversary reception on the grounds of Lakeport Plantation.
  House will be open for viewing.
• Saturday, September 2
  8-9 a.m. Breakfast at the Ed Center, Lakeport Plantation.
  9-Noon Presentations by authors who have written about Lakeport or the Johnsons.
  • Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University, author of  Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • Mike Jordan, Pepperdine University, author of The Freedom Song (2016)
  • Blake Wintory, Lakeport Plantation, author of Chicot County (Arcadia, Images of America Series, 2015)
  • Tom DeBlack, Arkansas Tech University, “‘A Model Man of Chicot County’: Lycurgus Johnson and Social Change,” in The Southern Elite and Social Change (University of Arkansas Press, 2002)
• Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch with speaker, Rex Nelson, author of Southern Fried: Going Whole Hog in a State of Wonder (Butler Center Books, 2016). Nelson is Senior Editor at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and former Presidential appointee to the Delta Regional Authority. He blogs about food and culture at Rex Nelson’s Southern Fried.
  1:30-2:30 p.m. Further events at Lakeport, including an official reunion
  photograph.
  3:00 p.m. House closes for the day.
  Travel to Lake Chicot State Park:
  4-6 p.m. Pontoon tours of Lake Chicot and social time. (Lake tours will have a small additional cost.)
  6 p.m. Dinner, Living History Presentation.

All day – Oral Histories/Professional duplication of family photographs and
documents, Ed Center

• Sunday, September 3
  8-9:30 a.m. “Last Look” Continental Breakfast, Ed Center, Lakeport Plantation.
  9:30 a.m. House closes for the weekend.
  10-noon Crossing the Mississippi River: Tour of Belmont Plantation, Wayside, MS

 

Sponsors:

Arkansas State University Heritage Sites

Belmont Plantation

Lake Chicot State Park

Suzie Worthington Walters

Beverly Mihalyka

Millar, Inc.

Joe Dan Yee

George & Marsha Baird

Maribeth Frazier

Patricia Pierini

Sam Epstein Angel Family

Simmons Bank

Vicki Patrick

 

Area Accommodations & Restaurants

Update Family Address (physical or email)

Lost Contacts (outdated addresses/emails)

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