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Prairie Chicken Booming Grounds & Maple Syrup Making | 1407 In this two-segment episode, first take a peek from an observation blind as male prairie chickens display their spring mating dance on designated booming grounds. Then follow Les Schwartz as he shows the Henning High School biology students how to make delicious maple syrup from tapping maple trees for sap at the Schwartz Sugar Shack near Sebeka, MN. New Downtown Mural in Park Rapids, MN | 1408 Watch artist Lili Payne Lennox and her team replace an aging loon mural that welcomed visitors to their picturesque downtown Park Rapids, Minnesota for decades, with an updated mural that not only depicts a street scene, but also transcends time. They use a vibrant palette to show downtown Park Rapids not only from morning to night, but throughout the seasons of the year as well.
Sebeka’s Finnish-Built Log Schoolhouse Restoration | 1401 A Finnish-built log schoolhouse on display in Sebeka’s community park served children 135 years ago in School District 26 in Red Eye Township, Minnesota. The log schoolhouse’s condition has deteriorated, and after it was learned it may be one of just two Finnish-built schoolhouses left in the United States, the Sebeka Historical Society moved forward in its effort to preserve this historic log schoolhouse. Croft Mine History Museum | 1402 Barb Grove, aka Mama Cuyuna, tours the long-closed Croft Mine Museum and Dry House. Members of the Croft Mine Community Committee share their volunteer work to reopen the site, hopes, and possibilities. Also local business Victual’s owner shares his insights into how Crosby’s State Recreation Area spurred economic development, and a daughter of a Croft miner shares her recollections of her father’s dedicated but dangerous work at this historic place. Birchbark Painter Sarah Bowman | 1403 Sarah Bowman of Nature’s Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. She takes us through her step-by-step process of creating one of her birch bark paintings. We see how a piece of fallen birch in the Pequot Lakes area can be used as a canvas and a piece of jewelry. Wool Yurt Mural Part 1 | 1404 Alethea Kenney, chairman of the board of the Sustainable Sheep and Fiber Community of Northern Minnesota and project director of the Tapestry Felted Traditional Mongolian Yurt Protect teams with fiber artist Linda Johnson-Morke to create a yurt with a wool “mural” serving as outer yurt walls. This art tells the story of traditional Mongolian yurt making with images “painted” in wool. Begin their journey as Alethea’s yurt, and the yurt destined to be the art project, arrives by semi-truck via Groovy Yurts from Canada. Continued in part 2.
Students work together to create barn quilt art.
Downtown Park Rapids getting a facelift.
The yurt getting assembled in Common Ground #1404.
Wool Yurt Mural Part 2 | 1405 Alethea Kenney and Linda Johnson-Morke of the Tapestry Felted Traditional Mongolian Yurt Protect continue their work to create a yurt with a wool mural that details the traditional Mongolian practices of building a yurt. They work with a dedicated team of artists to paint these images in wool and explain the processes necessary for working with natural animal fibers to complete their work. Johnson-Morke tells of touring our region with this meta tribute to yurts and the culture that created them. Central Minnesota Barn Quilt Trail | 1406 Barn quilts have a rich history throughout north-central Minnesota. They can be found on barns, buildings, fence posts, and other features of the rural landscape. This art form is created and displayed by residents and business owners throughout Morrison, Wadena, Todd, and Cass counties on the Central Minnesota Barn Quilt Trail, where visitors can enjoy barn quilts on self-guided tours.
Jesse Dermody Sculptures | 1409 Jesse Dermody of the musical group Brothers Burn Mountain welcomes us to his rural studio, not for music or poetry, but for his work with the visual medium of sculpture. Jesse invites us along as he searches rural roads for bones, wood, and other found objects from which he organizes and assembles intricate pieces of sculptural art, which evoke the pathos of the histories they contain. North Country National Scenic Trail | 1410 See the majestic and vernal landscapes of the North Country National Scenic Trail as we explore the 850 miles that make up the Minnesota section. Adventure across the prairies of western Minnesota, into the wilderness along the northeastern Canadian border, and then follow Lake Superior south, crossing into Wisconsin. The entire trail spans 4,800 miles from North Dakota to Vermont.
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