# Presentation: 224429

## Using Cultural Tourism

- As a Tool For
- Economic Development

## FROM THE N.C.E. WORKPLAN AT SOMERSET COMMUNITY COLLEGE...

_**GOAL**_**  **
- To develop a cultural-tourism community development project around Harriette Simpson Arnow, a nationally recognized novelist.

_**OBJECTIVES**_
- The Somerset Community College District will create a historical character presentation of Harriette Simpson Arnow.  The district will contract with a local writer to create a three-act play based upon “The Dollmaker”, Arnow’s most famous work.  The district will seek additional grant funding to expand the Arnow project.  The district will present at least six local artistic performances related to creating new cultural-tourism opportunities with our service area.

## THE PROBLEM

**THE PROBLEM**

- Tourism in the Somerset Community College District depends solely upon summer boating on Lake Cumberland.

## WHY WE CURRENTLY HAVE TOURISTS

**WHY WE CURRENTLY HAVE TOURISTS**

- Water Skiing

- Fishing

- Boating

## OUR OPPORTUNITIES

- Get Visitors Off of the Lake and Into 	Our 	Communities

- Change the Current Perception that 	“*There Is Nothing to Do When It **	**Rains”*

- Utilize Our Rich Heritage and Under-	Appreciated Culture

- Educate Our Locals AND Our Visitors 	About Our Heritage and Culture

## STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS

**Identify Cultural Heritage Opportunities**

## IDENTIFYING CULTURAL HERITAGE OPPORTUNITIES

**HARRIETTE SIMPSON-ARNOW                       ****	****	****1908-1986**

- Born in Wayne County, Kentucky

- Attended School in Pulaski County,  	Kentucky

- Was Teacher and Principal at a small school 	in Pulaski County, Kentucky

- Wrote Novels About the Heritage and            	Culture of the Appalachian Area

## $10,000 NEA Challenge Grant

- Adapting “The Dollmaker” into a three-act 	play that is suitable for community, non-	equity performance.

- Establish the Harriette Arnow Summer Arts 	Series

- Create _HarrietteArnow.com_ to feature 	historical and critical information about 	the author and the project

## STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS

- Identify Cultural Heritage Opportunities

**Educate and Instill Pride in Local Culture**

## YOUNG ARTIST MENTORING PROGRAM

- Provides Instruction to Students in the Areas of:

**VISUAL ARTS**

**DANCE**

**ENSEMBLE ACTING**

## YOUNG ARTIST MENTORING PROGRAM

- Provides Instruction to Students in the Areas of:

**INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC**

**VOCAL          MUSIC**

**SOLO         ACTING**

## MUSICAL ARTS CAMP 

- Summer Program for Students with Music and Other Fine Arts Activities

## ARTS IN THE PARKS          Presented by the Harriette Simpson-Arnow Cultural Tourism Project

**Appalachian Folktales with                         Badeye and Wanda**

**Kentucky Folk Medicine with Ernest M. Tucker**

**Kentucky Ghostly Beings with Lynwood Montell**

**Progressive Bluegrass with The Kettleheads**

## ASSOCIATED PROJECTS

**ARNOW SERIES:**

**SCC Theater Production of “Spoon River Anthology” (by Edward Lee ****	****Masters)**

**Heritage Day at the SCC McCreary Center**
- Writing Workshops by Appalachian Writers
- Displays by local artists, crafts persons and musicians

**Public Readings of Arnow Works by Silas House (author of “Clay’s ****	****Quilt”) on the Main SCC Campus**

**Paulette Hansel, author of “Divining” held a reading of her works at ****	****Riverstone Art Gallery**

**WRITER’S WORKSHOP:**

**Hosted by the Community and Economic Development Department at ****	****Somerset Community College**

## STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS

- Identify Cultural Heritage Opportunities

- Educate and Instill Pride in Local Culture

**Develop Partnerships to Help Develop ****	****and Sustain Efforts**

## HIDDEN TREASURES

**HIDDEN TREASURES**

**HARRIETTE ARNOW’S HOMPLACE**

**HARRIETTE ARNOW’S GRAVESITE**

**HARRIETTE ARNOW’S SCHOOL**

## HIDDEN TREASURES

**WEBSTER HOUSE**
**Home of the “Baron of the Rockcastle River”**

**NATIVE AMERICAN REINTERNMENT SITE**

## HIDDEN TREASURES

- Baritone, Todd Duncan, a native of Somerset, Kentucky, was the first actor to portray “Porgy” in George Gershwin’s classic, “Porgy and Bess”

**Although not yet confirmed, we are in the initial planning stages for a 100****th**** Birthday Celebration of Todd Duncan and his works for February 2003.**

## NEW PARTNERSHIPS

**Summer Theater Project**
**“****And the Tide Shall Cover the Earth” (Norma Cole)**
**Public Performances to be held at the “Run-in Shed ****	****Theater” (Part of the Team Leadership Center)**
**Project in Partnership with the Cumberland heritage ****	****Society**
**Developing Interest in Building an Amphitheater at the ****	****TLC, which will be available for use in presenting ****	****“The Dollmaker”**

## NEW PARTNERSHIPS

**NEW PARTNERSHIPS**

**Statewide Art Scholarship Website**
- Art Teachers will have the ability to download their student art pieces to the 	site directly from their classrooms
- Teachers can place student art under their school’s search name

- Kentucky  Art  Teachers  Scholarship  Project

**Statewide Art Scholarship Competition**
- Judges will select the top 1000 students using the website.  These students will 	be invited to enter the competition
- 12 - $1,000 Art Scholarships are to be awarded annually

**Project Designed By Joseph Raines, Visual Arts Instructor at Wayne County Middle School – Monticello, Kentucky**

## PARTNERSHIPS DEVELOPED AND UTILIZED

**PARTNERSHIPS DEVELOPED AND UTILIZED**

- LAKE CUMBERLAND PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL

- WATERSHED
- ARTS ALLIANCE

## PARTNERSHIPS DEVELOPED AND UTILIZED

**PARTNERSHIPS DEVELOPED AND UTILIZED**

**KENTUCKY ART TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIP PROJECT**

## INTERNET SITES TO HELP                “GET YOU STARTED”

**INTERNET SITES TO HELP                “GET YOU STARTED”**

- Center for Rural Development
- _[www.Centertech.com](http://www.centertech.com/)_
- Kentucky Art Teacher’s Scholarship Project
- _[www.katsp.com](http://www.katsp.com/)_
- Kentucky Arts Council
- _[www.kyarts.org](http://www.kyarts.org/)_
- Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
- _[www.edc.state.ky.us](http://www.edc.state.ky.us/)_
- Kentucky State Parks
- www.state.ky.us/agencies/parks/parkhome.htm
- Kentucky Tourism Council
- www.tourky.com
- Master Musicians Festival
- www.mastermusiciansfestival.com
- National Endowment for the Arts
- www.arts.endow.gov

- National Endowment for the Humanities
- _www.neh.gov_
- National Park Service
- www.nps.gov
- Rural Community College Initiative
- www.mdcinc.org/rcci
- Team Leadership Center
- www.teamleadershipcenter.com
- United States Department of Agriculture
- www.usda.gov
- USDA – Office of Economic Development
- www.rurdev.usda.gov/ocd
- United States Forest Service
- www.fs.fed.us

## THE TIP TO REMEMBER IN DEVELOPING CULTURAL TOURISM:

**THE TIP TO REMEMBER IN DEVELOPING CULTURAL TOURISM:**

- THE SAME, OR SIMILAR,
- OPPORTUNITIES EXIST EVERYWHERE - ALL
- YOU HAVE TO DO IS EXPLORE AND
- BE CREATIVE!

## FOR MORE INFORMATION      and ASSISTANCE.....

**David Cazalet, NCE Director**
- Somerset Community College
- 808 Monticello Street
- Somerset, Kentucky 42501

**(606)679-8501, ext. 3202**
**david.cazalet@kctcs.edu**