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Hidden Waterways: Bassett Creek
Open Rivers, 2021 Bassett Creek, a meandering waterway separating North Minneapolis from the rest of the city, was ignored, piped, and hidden from the landscape over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Trinity Ek
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Why Canoes? An Exhibit at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Gallery
Open Rivers, 2021 Minnesotans love boats, and canoes are a particular favorite. The state has the highest per capita rate of recreational boat ownership in the nation, according to the Department of Natural Resources.[1] Consequently, the current exhibit, Why Canoes ...
David Morrison
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The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain
Open Rivers, 2022 Endless hours writing and analyzing samples in the lab was not the most difficult part of graduate school, however. It was walking into a class and seeing that, yet again, no one else looks like me.
Ayooluwateso Coker
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Fields: The Transformation and Healing of the Whitewater Valley
Open Rivers, 2018 They say hindsight is 20/20. Farmers of the past didn’t have information about environmentally friendly agricultural techniques. The farming techniques used today to reduce erosion and other negative environmental effects were developed as we learned ...
Maria DeLaundreau
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Open Rivers, 2019 Water has long played an important role in my life. In fact, it played a role in my very beginning. Like all of you, I first lived in a water environment, then was born into this world. A few weeks later, I was baptized with water.
Linda Kingery
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We Are Water MN: Relationship-Based Water Engagement
Open Rivers, 2019 A project of the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), in collaboration with the Minnesota Departments of Health, Natural Resources, and Agriculture as well as the Minnesota Historical Society, We Are Water MN ...
Jennifer Tonko and Britt Gangeness
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Whitewater State Park: 100 Years in Paradise
Open Rivers, 2019 This year, 2019, marks the Centennial Anniversary of Whitewater State Park located in Winona County in the southeast Minnesota blufflands region. The story of how this place evolved into the popular tourist destination it is today is both fascinating and
Sara Holger
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The National Park Service’s Mississippi River Forum: Meals with Great Minds
Open Rivers, 2016 Imagine sharing conversation, learning, and ideas with politicians, researchers studying bald eagles and river otters, people who make your water drinkable and those who clean your used water (who are different people, at least for now…), and those ...
Lark Weller
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On Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard with Moira Villiard
Open Rivers, 2021 In February 2021, artist Moira Villiard debuted her installation, Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard as the fourth installment of the Illuminate the Lock series at the closed Upper St. Anthony Lock and Dam in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Moira Villiard and Laurie Moberg
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Toward a Pedagogy of Place: the Bdote field trip and absent narratives in the classroom
Open Rivers, 2016 At the Minnesota Humanities Center, we have long sought to empower educators to create lessons that recognize and amplify absent narratives, the stories that have been systematically marginalized or left out in classrooms and curricula for generations.
Kirk MacKinnon Morrow
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