{"id":7409,"date":"2018-01-31T16:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2019-05-18T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:52:42","slug":"trail-of-tears-nht-2017-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/trail-of-tears-nht-2017-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail of Tears NHT 2017 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Trail of Tears Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>OUTREACH<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Awards \u2014 Cherokee Trail of Tears trailhead and interpretive wayside in Rhodes Ferry Park in Decatur, AL won Award of Excellence in Historic Preservation by Main Street Alabama; Trail of Tears memorial showing removal story of the Five Civilized Tribes etched in stone on banks of Arkansas River in Ozark, AR named Best Downtown Cultural Project by Main Street Arkansas (pedestal display spearheaded by Association volunteer Dusty Helbling and created and maintained through grants and volunteer labor).<\/li>\n<li>Grants \u2014 Missouri Humanities Council funded a $24,000 grant to support research along the northern route, which will be used to create interpretive materials such as signage, digital media, and brochures to enhance cultural and historic tourism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>PROTECTION<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Cabin \u2014 Missouri Chapter is leading the effort to assess needs and develop plan for securing remains of the Snelson-Brinker Cabin, a certified site and former county courthouse along the northern route, which was destroyed by a fire in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>CAPACITY<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Communications \u2014 Association implemented communications tool to facilitate collaboration within and among different committees and created online training materials.<\/li>\n<li>Membership \u2014 New gift membership package focused on grandparents who wish to involve children early in life in the trail\u2019s preservation and interpretation efforts, with materials designed to change seasonally and be disseminated electronically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Unless otherwise indicated, all material in Pathways Across America is public domain. All views expressed herein are perspectives of individuals working on behalf of the National Trails System and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the Federal agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Trail of Tears Association OUTREACH Awards \u2014 Cherokee Trail of Tears trailhead and interpretive wayside in Rhodes Ferry Park in Decatur, AL won Award of Excellence in Historic Preservation by Main Street Alabama; Trail of Tears memorial showing removal story of the Five Civilized&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"button right\"><a class=\"button more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/trail-of-tears-nht-2017-highlights\/\">more &raquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[251,317,172,180],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnts.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}