The Alabama Humanities Alliance has awarded $7,500 for the period 12/1/21 to 9/15/22 to Klein Arts & Culture to conduct three public panels: the history of the historic Wallace Plantation, issues in the reparative interpretation of plantation houses, and the design of experiential exhibits based on reparative interpretation, using the Wallace House as an example.

A group of distinguished historians and creators has come together to discuss best practices in the interpretation of plantation houses and to understand the history of the Wallace Plantation from a full perspective that brings together black, white and indigenous narratives.

Writing our Stories students taught by Daniel DeVaughn in the Vincent Middle School completed the Land as Persona: Many Paths to the Present curriculum in May, 2021. Through the form of the persona poem, students were given the chance to learn and explore the many people and peoples who have called the Harpersville-Vincent area home.

The preliminary design of the visitor center is intended to be modern, evoking what might have been an original outbuilding. The visitor center is an important support facility for the historic Wallace-Klein House. It enables the house to serve as a venue for arts and education. We will begin fundraising for this building in 2021.

The Alabama Writers’ Forum views the Klein-Wallace house, and the land surrounding it, as a means to give students a direct and tangible link to this state's complex past—a literal doorway into history.