Povery Point Field Trip (Day 2, Oct. 6, 2001)

 Below are some images of the second day of our field trip. Today it was Poverty Point, Newellton Cotton Gin, and Vidalia. We ended up at Rosewood Plantation in Simmsport where we spent the night.

 

Rogues' Gallery II: Group photo at the Zion Pilgrim Baptist Church in Madison Parish, Louisiana.

Breakfast at Poverty Point: (L): Breakfast was pancakes with juice and coffee; (R): Bjorn served as cook and is seen making his special pancakes for Tyler (note the enthusiasm of the spectators)

Newellton Gin, Newellton, Louisiana: (L) Cotton being delivered to the gin for processing; (R): Billie Guthrie (in hat), plantation manger for Panola Plantation.

Views of the gin: (L): Cotton arriving for processing; (R): Scott Watson, Assistant Plantation Manager (second from left), talking to Scott Wall about the gin process.

(L) The cotton gin in operation; (R): Scott Watson discussing the ginning process with the students.

(L): Julie Nullman touring the gin; (R): Rebecca Daniels watches the finished cotton bale emerge from the press.

(L & R): Watching the cotton bales emerge from the cotton press

(L & R): Cotton "modules" waiting processing at the Newellton gin

(L): Highway 65 (revisited), Tensas Parish, Louisiana; (R): Rebecca at the edge of a cotton field

(L): The cotton was high; (R): Newellton, Louisiana, viewed across a cotton field.

(L): Chris, Courtney, Gabrielle, and Nate contemplating the "fabric of our lives."; (R): Scott Watson (on left) explains how a cotton harvester works. Julie, Carlos, and Jeff look on.

(L): Billie Guthrie and Scott Wall near Newellton, Louisiana; (R): We drove from Newellton to Vidalia to see the riverfront. Jessica Tippens with her home town, Natchez, Mississippi, in the background.

(L): A sunny day on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi at Vidalia: L to R, Jenny Lovell, Meredith Younghein, Brandon Sher; (R): Saturday night at Rosewood Plantation, Simmsport, Louisiana. After dinner it was time for socializing.

(L): Preparing the fire at Rosewood. Rebecca (kneeling in foreground) deserves credit for this idea; (R): An example of the value-added experience of the River Village: roasting marshmallows over an open fire!

Scott Wall never misses an educational opportunity; here he demonstrates the perfect marshmallow roasting technique.