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Loring Park Art Festival – Minneapolis, MN

by doitinnorth | Jul 24, 2022 | evergreen, shop/share

Join, view during the Loring Park Art Festival Sketch Meet too!

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Loring Park Art Festival: Wildflowers and formal gardens make this an idyllic setting for art, music, food and entertainment. Circling the large pond in Loring Park, the work of 140 juried fine artists and fine craftspeople is showcased in a beautiful urban setting. Rated in ‘100 best fine art shows’ in Sunshine Artist magazine since 2004!

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Date

July 30th & July 31st

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Event Location

Loring Park

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Address

1382 Willow Street

Minneapolis, MN

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Admission

Free

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Twin Cities Kayaking: Two Rivers Tour – St. Paul, MN

The 83rd Aquatennial – Minneapolis, MN

by doitinnorth | Jul 17, 2022 | events/locations, evergreen

Minneapolis Aquatennial

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Mark your calendars! Organizers of Minneapolis’s official celebration of summer announced its 2022 lineup of events. The 83rd Aquatennial will take place Wednesday, July 20th through Saturday, July 23rd, 2022.

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The popular CenterPoint Energy Torchlight Parade will commence the four-day celebration on Wednesday, filling downtown Minneapolis with floats, displays, and marching bands in Minnesota’s largest nighttime event.

Closing out the event on Saturday at 10 pm is the famous Target Fireworks show, said to be one of the top five annual firework shows in the entire country. Set up camp with the family along the banks of the Mississippi River on West River Road near the Stone Arch Bridge and get ready for a spectacle of light and color,

There’s something for everyone to enjoy during the four-day event, including free, family fun options such as outdoor movies, musical performances, fitness activities, Twin Cities River Rats shows, pop-up markets, and even a salsa showdown. Most of the events will take place in the heart of downtown, from Peavey Plaza and the Commons and along Nicollet and West River Road.

Photos courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society (parade, skipper pin, Bloody Friday, Autry, Aqua Follies, canoe, parade); ClassicStock/Alamy (boys); Everett Collection Inc/Alamy (king and queen); Gino Santa Maria/Shutterstock (TV), Paolo Gallo/Shutterstock (sand castle); Alex Coan/Shutterstock (tie); Archive PL/Alamy Stock Photo (Jefferson Airplane); HomeArt/Shutterstock (skateboard); mike/Shutterstock (boat)

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9 x 12 METAL SIGN – 1975 Minneapolis Aquatennial – Vintage Look

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Read up on our timeline of what led to the formation of the Aquatennial. Get the full schedule at aquatennial.com/events and check out the highlights here:

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

Aquatennial Blood Drive with the American Red Cross – Peavey Plaza, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Go Outside with Hennepin County: lawn games, Government Center South Plaza, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
CenterPoint Energy Torchlight Parade – Nicollet from 12th to 4th Streets, 7:30 p.m.
Movies in the Park: “Black Panther” – The Commons (425 Portland Ave. So), 9:15 p.m.

THURSDAY, JULY 21

Aquatennial Blood Drive with the American Red Cross – Peavey Plaza, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Downtown Thursdays: Nicollet Market, music, performance and more – Nicollet between 6th to 8th, 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Go Outside with Hennepin County lawn games, Government Center South Plaza, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Music in the Park: JoJo Green – The Commons, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Learn to Roller Skate at Aquatennial – The Commons, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Outdoor Movie Night, Go Outside with Hennepin County: “Aquaman” – Target Field Station, 7 p.m.
Twin Cities River Rats Waterski Show – West River Road on Mississippi River between Broadway and Plymouth Avenues, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 22

Aquatennial Blood Drive with the American Red Cross – Peavey Plaza, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Alchemy 365 outdoor fitness class at Aquatennial, Mpls Sculpture Garden, 5:30 p.m.
Twin Cities River Rats Waterski Show – West River Road on Mississippi River between Broadway and Plymouth Avenues, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 23

Upper St. Anthony Lock and Dam Open House – St. Anthony Falls Lock & Dam, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Twin Cities Carifest – West River Road between Plymouth and Broadway Ave, 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Salsa Cookoff – Midtown Global Market (920 E. Lake Street), 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
AquaJam Skateboarding – Water Works, West River Parkway near Portland Avenue, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
City of Lakes Market – West River Parkway near Guthrie Theater, 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Mpls Craft Market – West River Parkway near Guthrie Theater, 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Pre-Fireworks Festivities – live music – West River Parkway near Stone Arch Bridge, 6 pm. – 10 p.m.
Target Fireworks – West River Parkway near Stone Arch Bridge, 10 p.m.

Sail on the Hjørdis – Grand Marais, MN

by doitinnorth | Jun 26, 2022 | evergreen, people/passions

North House Folk School

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Come sail Lake Superior on the Hjørdis! Our daily sail program has begun after a long winter, some excellent repairwork, and exciting new touches, we are very excited to get folks out on the water. Now taking bookings through June and look for July bookings to open. See Grand Marais from the best place in the County! ⁠

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The flagship of the Grand Marais Harbor, Hjørdis shares the name of the mythical Norse goddess of war. Take a trip on this 50’ traditionally-rigged steel schooner and gain access to both the largest lake in the world and experience Grand Marais as it was approached in the centuries before Highway 61 — from the water.

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The History of Hjørdis

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The story of Hjørdis starts in a backyard near Detroit, Michigan in the early 1970s. Kenneth Woodward, a General Motors machinist and general foreman, bought plans from naval architect Thomas Colvin to build his Gazelle design, a 42’ junk-rigged schooner. Seven years and over 6,000 hours later, Kenneth splashed the boat and named it after his mother: Hjørdis. He and his wife Katey spent the next decade living aboard and sailing Hjørdis off the Florida coast. Fast forward to 1997 when Hjørdis was sold and eventually ended up on Lake Superior on the docks of a fledgling folk school. Given the rich history of schooners on Lake Superior, the North House board saw the intriguing possibilities of having a “floating classroom,” and the Hjørdis became a part of North House.

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Details

DAILY SAILS: Sails will be approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. The rate is $60/passenger. The minimum number of passengers is 3; you will have the option to pay for an additional passenger if the minimum is not met.There are additional fees of approximately $3 per ticket built-in to our booking system.

SUNSET SAILS: Sunset sails are approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. The rate is $65/passenger. The minimum number of passengers is 3; you will have the option to pay for an additional passenger if the minimum is not met.There are additional fees of approximately $3 per ticket built-in to our booking system. Departure times vary based on date of reservation and sunset time.

Reservations

Reservations can be made online up to one hour before the scheduled sail. Beyond that, call North House for availability. Per Coast Guard regulations, we can accommodate up to 6 guests per sail. Regardless of age (2 months old to 102 years old), each passenger counts towards our 6 guest limit, and therefore must be registered.

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Steps From Lake Superior, The Charming PortLand Malt Shoppe – Duluth, MN

Minnesota Historical Society: Mill City Museum – Minneapolis, MN

by doitinnorth | Jun 19, 2022 | art/design, evergreen

The Minnesota Historical Society opened Mill City Museum in 2003.

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Mill City Museum was built within the ruins of the Washburn A Mill, the flagship mill of the Washburn-Crosby Co. (later General Mills). It was the largest and most technologically advanced flour mill in the world when it was completed in 1880.

Millers at the Washburn mills in the 1870s perfected a new process for milling, a revolution that made fine wheat flour available to the masses for the first time. Soon thereafter Minneapolis became the flour milling capital of the world, a title it held from 1880 to 1930.

Plan Your Visit

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Mill City Museum is an architectural showpiece, rising eight stories within the limestone ruins of the Washburn A Mill — a National Historic Landmark and once the largest flour mill in the world.

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Architecture

The Washburn A Mill was designed in the late 1800s by Austrian engineer William de la Barre. After its completion in 1880, it was declared the world’s largest flour mill. It operated for 85 years, expanding into a complex of over a dozen buildings and surviving a 1928 fire. The mill shut down in 1965, and the abandoned mill was gutted by another fire in 1991.

In the mid 1990s the city of Minneapolis cleaned up the rubble and stabilized the mill’s charred walls. Shortly thereafter the Minnesota Historical Society announced its intention to construct a milling museum and education center within the ruins.

Faced with how to preserve the ruins of this historically significant site while building a modern museum, MNHS turned to Thomas Meyer, principal of Minneapolis architectural firm Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. (MSR). Meyer developed a concept that melded the historic integrity of the mill structures with modern components. Construction began in March 2001, and the museum opened to the public in September 2003.

Meyer’s design left intact many features of the original mill, including flour bins, milling machinery, the engine house, rail corridor, and a wheat house. A glass curtain wall facing the Ruin Courtyard has etchings from an 1898 building cross section showing the location of the milling machinery. With multiple entries on two levels, the museum functions as a porous link between downtown Minneapolis and the Mississippi River.

Mill City Museum has won numerous awards, including the AIA Honor Award for Architecture, AIA Minnesota Honor Award.

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Art

Woven throughout Mill City Museum and its exhibits are unique works by the local and regional artists:

Two large colored glass art installations crossed with steel.

Between Now and Then, Minnesota

JoAnn Verburg, St. Paul, Minnesota

St. Anthony Falls, long considered a sacred place, is a the only waterfall on the Mississippi River. The Twin Cities were created here as the result of a great collage of forces: the spiritual regard for this location on the part of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, the power and energy of falling water, the strength and intelligence of immigrants, new possibilities of movement via the railroad, discoveries in the technology of milling, innovations in growing wheat, giant expanses of open fields, and long summer days of sunshine. This collage is made of glass, photographs, steel, and cement, and measures 14 feet tall by 25 feet wide. As you view this artwork, you stand where trains used to pass through the building. This artwork invites you to look out through images of wheat, water, tree, and sky, and from this sacred and historic location, contemplate the ever-changing present we are creating together.

Backdrop showing field of wheat and sky.

Panoramic image of a wheat field and sky

Tom Maakestad, Marine-on-St Croix, Minnesota

Landscape artist Tom Maakestad painted this image to serve as the backdrop for a late-19th-century traction engine, a major fixture in the Harvesting Wheat exhibit. Maakestad’s original artwork was reproduced on a larger scale (10 feet by 20 feet) to create a context for the traction engine and suggest the vastness of the wheat-growing fields in Minnesota.

A large-scale model of a Bisquick box with a stack of model pancakes.

Bisquick box and pancakes

Kim Lawler, St. Paul, Minnesota

For the Promoting Mill Products exhibit, scenic painter and muralist Kim Lawler produced a 15-foot, freestanding Bisquick Box with an image of the packaging as seen in 1931 on one side and 1981 on the opposite side. Visitors are invited to step inside the box to experience signature advertising campaigns from the past and present through TV and radio commercials. Lawler also produced a 6-foot-wide stack of pancakes for a hands-on activity area where children are encouraged to design their own mill product packaging.

Wheat Emporium

Kim Lawler, St. Paul, Minnesota

Lawler designed a three-columned, freestanding structure for the Wheat Emporium, an exhibit that explores how wheat imagery has been used as a potent symbol throughout the ages. Each column is actually a case that displays everyday objects, such as paintings, currency, clothing, and dishware that incorporate wheat as a decorative motif.

Wood sculptures

Paul Wrench and Becky Schurmann, Minneapolis

Husband-and-wife team Paul Wrench and Becky Schurmann brought characters introduced throughout Mill City Museum to life. The 13 figures were hand-carved from salvaged white pine from Humboldt Mill, a neighboring mill of the Washburn A Mill. Each sculpture has been stained and finished, and represents an individual who played a role in the flour milling story. The sculptures include William de la Barre, the Austrian engineer who designed Washburn A Mill; Jean Spielman, a labor organizer; Mary Dodge Woodward, a cook on a bonanza wheat farm; and boxcar loaders and female flour packers.

Soon after Minneapolis was born on the Mississippi’s west bank, the city’s flour milling industry skyrocketed. Powered by the mighty river and fed by boxcars of grain rolling in from the plains, the industry gave Minneapolis bragging rights as the “Flour Milling Capital of the World.”

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Summer Style: MartinPatrick 3 in Wonderland! – Minneapolis, MN

Steps From Lake Superior, The Charming PortLand Malt Shoppe – Duluth, MN

by doitinnorth | Jun 19, 2022 | eat/drink, evergreen

The Portland Malt Shoppe/Facebook

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Steps From Lake Superior, The Charming PortLand Malt Shoppe Has Been Serving Up Treats For 30 Years

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Minnesota may be known for its frigid winters, but anyone who’s spent time here knows that it can get hot! There are many ways to cool down, including one of our favorites: stopping in at one of the state’s many ice cream shops. If you’re on the North Shore, there’s no better place than the impossibly charming PortLand Malt Shoppe. It’s right on the edge of Lake Superior, and it makes for a picturesque – and delicious – place to cool down. Read on below to learn more about this ice cream shop that has been serving up treats for 30 years!

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The PortLand Malt Shoppe is housed in an old gas station that was built in 1921. In 1989, it became the PortLand Malt Shoppe, and it’s been serving up great treats ever since.

Jerica George/Google

…or a delicious waffle cone. Though there isn’t indoor dining at PortLand Malt Shoppe, you don’t really need it. Take some time to enjoy the view!

If an ice cream cone isn’t your thing, try a tasty sundae. You can get them topped with anything from hot fudge and caramel to butterscotch, marshmallow, or even fruits such as raspberry or blackberry.

And of course, you can’t go wrong with a malt at the PortLand Malt Shoppe. The flavors are the same as the sundae toppings but also include cherry, banana, peanut butter, and coffee.

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PortLand Malt Shoppe

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by Betsy Rathburn

Only In Your State

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The Judy Garland Museum’s 100th Anniversary – Grand Rapids, MN

10th Annual GrillFest – St. Paul, MN

by doitinnorth | May 15, 2022 | eat/drink, evergreen

Minnesota Monthly: Close your eyes and picture the perfect summer setting: the warm rays of the sun gently warming your face, a cool drink in your hand, the sizzling sounds of the grill, and searing mouth-watering creations. Welcome to the 10th Annual GrillFest— a weekend celebrating the very best parts of the spring and summer seasons.

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GrillFest will return to CHS Field on Saturday, May 21st & Sunday, May 22nd, from 1 to 5 pm each day.

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Test out the best grills, gather recipes, and learn how to barbecue like a pro while sampling the best burgers, beer, sweet treats, seltzers, Bloody Marys, margaritas, summer wines, and more. Play outdoor games, find Minnesota-made art and gifts, listen to music, and enjoy perfect weather. The best part? It’s all included with the purchase of your ticket.

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GrillFest Tickets

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Venue

CHS Field, Home of the St. Paul Saints

360 N Broadway St,

St. Paul, MN

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Benefiting:

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True North Basecamp: Cuyuna Lakes & Trails Connected Lodging – Crosby, MN

The 83rd Aquatennial – Minneapolis, MN

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Sail on the Hjørdis – Grand Marais, MN

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The History of Hjørdis

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Details

Reservations

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Minnesota Historical Society: Mill City Museum – Minneapolis, MN

Architecture and Art

Architecture

Art

Between Now and Then, Minnesota

Panoramic image of a wheat field and sky

Bisquick box and pancakes

Wheat Emporium

Wood sculptures

History

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Steps From Lake Superior, The Charming PortLand Malt Shoppe – Duluth, MN

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10th Annual GrillFest – St. Paul, MN

GrillFest will return to CHS Field on Saturday, May 21st & Sunday, May 22nd, from 1 to 5 pm each day.

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