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The program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Established as a headquarters for growing culturally significant Cherokee plants, the Center for Cherokee Plants also is projected to be the home of the Cherokee Traditional Crops Seed Bank. The center will include a nursery and garden area for the growing and propagating of traditional Cherokee vegetables, wild edible plants, plants significant as Cherokee artisan resources, and native plants for landscape projects.
McClellan, who holds a degree in agriculture from the University of Kentucky, is project director and cooperative extension educator at the Cherokee Reservation Cooperative Extension Center. Welch, a lifelong Cherokee farmer and master gardener, led one of the early feasibility studies focusing on the Cherokee seed bank.
The Mountain Heritage Center is presenting the folk life series in conjunction with WCU’s Office of the Provost, Philip Coyle of WCU’s ethnography laboratory, and Tom Hatley, the university’s Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies.
The museum is located on the ground floor of WCU’s H.F. Robinson Administration Building. For more information, call (828) 227-7129 or visit http://www.wcu.edu/mhc on the web.
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