The SouthWay Foundation host The Small-Town Preservation Symposium in Eupora, Mississippi bringing local, state, and nation-wide leaders to evoke discussions on the preservation movement, cultural heritage, and the value of sharing an inclusive history. The goal of this symposium is to expose an intergenerational and multi-racial audience, from across Mississippi, to the rich history, resilience, and healing fraught in preservation work and its craft, especially in small towns. In addition, it wants to spark imagination, rooted in history, of the complexity to represent places of memory with integrity.
10:15 am Panel Conversation on How to Do Preservation: Nakita Reed- (Host of Tangible Remnants podcast); Panelist- Belinda Stewart (Belinda Stewart Architects), Dr. Kwesi Daniels (Tuskegee University)
11:00 am Community Conversation Engagement and Q & A
11:45 am Catered Lunch
12:45 pm Panel Conversation on Preservation Trades with Jonn Hankins (President of New Orleans Master Crafts Guild (NOMCG) Inc), Dewayne Orr and Madison Hawkins, Ramsey Brothers, Paul Orr (Eupora VoTech)
SouthWay’s Small Town Preservation Symposium
Saturday, July 12, 2025: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Eupora Civic Center, 2135 W Roane Ave, Eupora, MS 39744
