Lakeport Legacies · August 31 · Grasping Shadows: Evolution of the MS Delta Chinese Heritage Museum · Emily Jones (Delta State University Archives & Museum)
Lakeport Legacies · August 31 · Grasping Shadows: Evolution of the MS Delta Chinese Heritage Museum · Emily Jones (Delta State University Archives & Museum)
Lakeport Plantation’s monthly history talk, Lakeport Legacies, will feature Delta State University Archivist, Emily Jones. Jones will present “Grasping Shadows: Evolution of the MS Delta Chinese Heritage Museum” on August 31 at 6 p.m.
Jones will discuss her work with the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum a museum dedicated to documenting and preserving Chinese history in the Delta.
Opened in 2012 on the campus of Delta State University, the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum, emerged from an oral history project in 1999. By 2010 a collaboration between Delta State Archives and Museum, the city of Cleveland, and the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum, Inc. began thoroughly document the Chinese community through artifacts, oral histories, and family records.
Jones, a native of Greenville, received her B.A. in History from Delta State and an M.A. in Public History from the State Universtiy of West Georgia. She has been the University Archivist at Delta State since 2003.
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Lakeport Legacies is a monthly history talk held on one of the last Thursdays at the Lakeport Plantation during the spring and summer. Each month a topic from the Delta region is featured. The event is free and open to the public. The Lakeport Plantation is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site. Constructed ca. 1859, Lakeport is one of Arkansas’s premier historic structures and still retains many of its original finishes and architectural details. Open to the public since 2007, Lakeport researches and interprets the people and cultures that shaped plantation life in the Mississippi River Delta, focusing on the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. Arkansas Heritage Sites at Arkansas State University develops and operates historic properties of regional and national significance in the Arkansas Delta. ASU’s Heritage Sites include the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, Lakeport Plantation, the Historic Dyess Colony: Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash, and the Arkansas State University Museum.