She loves her job because she is “doing good, important work.” Almost every day she sees people “having difficult and heartfelt conversations about race, across racial lines.” She recently spoke about the Whitney Plantation for an American History TV program that aired on She sent a long email to the plantation and then traveled to New Orleans and met John Cummings, the museum’s founder. Ashley Rogers, Executive Director [email protected] Yvonne Holden, Director of Operations [email protected] Dr. Ibrahima Seck, Director of Research [email protected] Dr. Joy Banner, Director of Communications [email protected] Click here to Get Directions. Oak Alley Plantation’s tour in particular has seen major changes, she said.However, there are still visitors who expect plantation tours to focus solely on the house and the owners. Ashley has 2 jobs listed on their profile. The Whitney Plantation is a complex of buildings which includes at least twelve historic structures. I wanted to smile at the thought that this place finally exists at all. Occasionally Whitney does get emails and cold calls from people unfamiliar with the mission who ask about hosting weddings at the plantation. During her search for graduate schools, Rogers visited CSU and sat in on one of Dr. Ann Little’s classes. Rogers sent her resume to Cummings’s wife and was successful in a national search for the museum’s director. She started work on September 1, 2014.Rogers does almost everything at the Whitney Plantation, from giving tours to curating exhibits. The skills that she learned in her graduate classes – “to think truly critically, and to question things and poke and prod at them” – are essential to her field and are ones that she tries to pass along to her employees.A crucial turning point in her graduate career came during a break from classes. We never have,” Rogers said. But, over in Edgard, the ... “What’s happening is visitors who have gotten used to that type of interpretation are now encountering a more truthful narrative at sites like Whitney Plantation and McLeod Plantation in South Carolina. “I would have to say, from our point of view at Whitney Plantation, that they’re not. I wanted to cry knowing what enslaved folks went through.”Buddy Boe, executive director of the River Parishes Tourist Commission, said plantations as attractions are continuing to develop in telling all sides of a unique and complicated history.“These attractions have moved into telling a more well rounded history that includes the sugar bowl on the table inside but also the sugar pot on the field,” Boe said. Rogers learned a lot about running a museum, everything from “the curating, to the management, to the rat-extermination.” It was while she was at History Colorado that Rogers saw a story about the Whitney Plantation, one of the few museums in the United States that remembers slavery from the slaves’ perspective. WALLACE — Ashley Rogers, executive director at Whitney Plantation, wasn’t surprised to read the insensitive plantation tour reviews that went viral on Twitter last week and spurred a widely circulated analysis by The Washington Post.While most reviews referred to McLeod Plantation in South Carolina, the header image of the story featured a slave cabin at Whitney Plantation in Wallace and included a review from a Whitney visitor who wrote, “Would not recommend. Rogers visited slave cabins while returning to North Carolina and decided she wanted to move back South and work at a site that interprets slavery. https://www.c-span.org/video/?405212-1/whitney-plantation-slavery-museum
She met with Dr. Fred Knight for an independent study on African-American history. Published 6:16 am Saturday, August 17, 2019 WALLACE — Ashley Rogers, executive director at Whitney Plantation, wasn’t surprised to read the insensitive plantation tour reviews that went viral on Twitter last week and spurred a widely circulated analysis by The Washington Post. Ashley Rogers, Executive Director of Whitney Plantation Dr. Ibrahima Seck, Director of Research of Whitney Plantation Reginald Moore, Founder of the Sugar Land Convict Leasing and Labor Project Liz Peterson, Board Member of the Sugar Land Convict Leasing and Labor Project It’s easier to talk about atrocities in someone else’s backyard.”Historic sites are among the top attractions for Louisiana tourists, falling just behind culinary/dining experiences, shopping and gambling, according to 2018 data from the Louisiana Office of Tourism.Rogers said there are other River Road plantations interpreting slavery at the same time that they also interpret the owners of the house. During her search for graduate schools, Rogers visited CSU and sat in on one of Dr. Ann Little’s classes. View Ashley Rogers’ profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. In 1946, in the middle of one of the many shifts in ownership, the Big House on the plantation was described as “one of the most interesting in the entire South” by Charles E. Peterson, senior landscape architect of the United States Department of the Interior. Whitney Plantation located at 5099 Highway 18 in Wallace, Louisiana on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The museum is easily accessible from interstate 10 at the Gramercy exit, number 194. She was hooked, Rogers remembers, by “the intellectual stimulation.” Rogers said that her time at CSU taught her how to think like a historian. When using images please be sure to include the credit line anywhere the image is reproduced. Get Directions Whitney Plantation. It is located one hour’s drive between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Ashley Rogers (M.A., 2011), Director of Museum Operations for the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, recently spoke about how her education at CSU advanced her career.