ITASCA CONVERSATIONS - with Jonny Miner || Children's Discovery Museum, Itasca County, Minnesota
ITASCA CONVERSATIONS - with Jonny Miner || Children's Discovery Museum, Itasca County, Minnesota
Jonny Miner shares his love for inspirational educational experiences at the Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
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The Itasca Conversations series is proudly brought to you by our community partners: Itasca Economic Development Corporation, Children's Discovery Museum of Grand Rapids Minnesota, Grand Rapids State Bank, Land Department of Itasca County and Miner Cub Foods.
Itasca County, a few hours north of Minneapolis, is 75 miles west of Duluth and world-renowned Lake Superior and just an hour or so from Bemidji, Brainerd, and Walker.
The following towns comprise this vibrant forest community of Itasca:
Bigfork
Bovey
Calumet
Cohasset
Coleraine
Deer River
Effie
Grand Rapids
Keewatin
La Prairie
Marble
Nashwauk
Squaw Lake
Taconite
Warba
Zemple
Judy Garland Museum - Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Restored childhood home of Judy Garland where the star spent her first four years. Judy's home has been restored to look just as it did when the child star lived there with her parents and two older sisters.
Judy Garland Museum, Grand Rapids MN
Born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 1922, the world came to know her better as legendary entertainer Judy Garland. The Gumm family moved to California when Judy was just a child, but visitors can tour the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, especially during the exciting Wizard of Oz Festival each June. In addition, you can walk through the house Judy grew up in.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and by the members of Prairie Public.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
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ITASCA CONVERSATIONS - The Joyce Lumber Story: Part 1 || with Susan Hawkinson
ITASCA CONVERSATIONS - The Joyce Lumber Story: Part 1 || with Susan Hawkinson, Itasca County, Minnesota.
Author and historian Susan Hawkinson talks about the Joyce family legacy in Grand Rapids, Northern Minnesota in the first of her two-part presentation.
To learn more about the Joyce Estate, go to:
To watch a personal tour of the Joyce Estate and to learn first hand accounts of life there in the mid 1900's, watch the Family Resort Edition of our Gems of Itasca series:
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The Itasca Conversations series is proudly brought to you by our community partners: Itasca Economic Development Corporation, Children's Discovery Museum of Grand Rapids Minnesota, Grand Rapids State Bank, Land Department of Itasca County and Miner Cub Foods.
Itasca County, a few hours north of Minneapolis, is 75 miles west of Duluth and world-renowned Lake Superior and just an hour or so from Bemidji, Brainerd, and Walker.
The following towns comprise this vibrant forest community of Itasca:
Bigfork
Bovey
Calumet
Cohasset
Coleraine
Deer River
Effie
Grand Rapids
Keewatin
La Prairie
Marble
Nashwauk
Squaw Lake
Taconite
Warba
Zemple
SOUNDTRACK:
EVEN WHEN WE FALL
by Philipp Weigl
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Inexpensive family activities in downtown Grand Rapids
Downtown Grand Rapids is still all abuzz with ArtPrize. There's so much to do down there when you're seeing the art, so we wanted to find out what you could do, either free or cheaply, if you're taking your family downtown.
Flint Hills Resources and the Science Museum of Minnesota
As a premier sponsor of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Flint Hills Resources promotes science education and helps make science fun by sponsoring overnight camp-ins at the museum for children throughout Minnesota.
Aaron at Bay Area Discovery Museum - fish pond
Prairie Pulse 1313; Christopher Bollas, author; Judy Garland Museum, Grand Rapids MN
Interview with Pekin, North Dakota Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas, author of When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia. He recounts his theories on depression, anxiety and how best to treat Schizophrenia. Also included is a story on the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, including tour of the museum, the house she was born in, and an analysis of her career.
Grandson Logan and daughter Holly on the Fair slide
Itasca County fair 2016. Grandson Logan and daughter Holly on the Fair slide saigers.com
Summit 3rd & 4th Wizard of Oz Wax Museum
Dinosaur At MN Science Museum
Dinosaur terrorizes children
ITASCA CONVERSATIONS - History of Itasca: Part 1 || with Lilah Crowe, Itasca County, Minnesota
ITASCA CONVERSATIONS - History of Itasca: Part 1 || with Lilah Crowe, Itasca County, Minnesota
Lilah Crowe (Executive Director at Itasca County Historical Society) talks about the rich native history of Itasca County, Minnesota in the first of her 4-part presentation.
To learn more about the Itasca County Historical Society, go to:
To learn more about Itasca County, Minnesota, visit
Produced by A Plus B Productions, LLC | aplusbproductions.com
The Itasca Conversations series is proudly brought to you by our community partners: Itasca Economic Development Corporation, Children's Discovery Museum of Grand Rapids Minnesota, Grand Rapids State Bank, Land Department of Itasca County and Miner Cub Foods.
Itasca County, a few hours north of Minneapolis, is 75 miles west of Duluth and world-renowned Lake Superior and just an hour or so from Bemidji, Brainerd, and Walker.
The following towns comprise this vibrant forest community of Itasca:
Bigfork
Bovey
Calumet
Cohasset
Coleraine
Deer River
Effie
Grand Rapids
Keewatin
La Prairie
Marble
Nashwauk
Squaw Lake
Taconite
Warba
Zemple
Gems of Itasca Series - The Showboat Edition
THE SHOWBOAT EDITION: Debuting in 1956, Mississippi Melodie Showboat is a vaudeville-styled variety show that takes place every summer in Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minnesota on the only outdoor live theatre stage on the entire Mississippi River. The show begins with a steamboat rolling up the mighty river, carrying cast members to the open stage, just as the sun sets over the banks of the Mississippi. The steamboat then serves as a backdrop for the remainder of the show. We take the audience behind-the-scenes as we follow four Showboat members during the months of cast rehearsals, at the final dress rehearsal through to the big opening night, capturing the spirit of the community through their eyes.
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Itasca County, a few hours north of Minneapolis, is 75 miles west of Duluth and world-renowned Lake Superior and just an hour or so from Bemidji, Brainerd, and Walker.
The following towns comprise this vibrant forest community of Itasca:
Bigfork
Bovey
Calumet
Cohasset
Coleraine
Deer River
Effie
Grand Rapids
Keewatin
La Prairie
Marble
Nashwauk
Squaw Lake
Taconite
Warba
Zemple
Gems of Itasca Series - The Family Resort Edition
The Family Resort Edition: The Itasca County area became well known as a major resort area in the early 1900's and still remains to this day. We visit two resorts that have been family-owned for generations (Wa-Ga-Tha-Ka Resort & Sugar Lake Lodge - a Rutger's Resort); with one offering recreational amenities for its corporate and family clientele including a picturesque lake-side golf course, and the other that sits on Wabana Lake - equally as stunning with wondrous stories of yesteryear and counting Hollywood stars among their past guests. From there, we glide across Wabana & Trout Lakes and arrive at the historical Joyce Estate - one of Minnesota's unique & historical sites, operated by the Chippewa National Forest. The Joyce family helped pioneer the regional lumber trade in the early 1900's. As you stroll through the majestic grounds of the Joyce Estate, imagine the roaring twenties, the time of prohibition and women's suffrage. Heir to the family fortune, David Gage Joyce of Chicago built the estate with native logs and stone between 1917-1935. It consists of 4,500 acres of forest, eleven lakes, 26 miles of shoreline and 40 buildings. The estate boasted its own seaplane hangar, nine-hole golf course, clubhouse, tennis court, bathhouse/sauna, library and advanced amenities for its time like a hot water system, telephone line and electric lighting. The Joyce family was well known for hosting lavish parties with no expense spared, flying out-of-state guests in on the family's seaplanes for the week-long, lively gatherings.
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Itasca County, a few hours north of Minneapolis, is 75 miles west of Duluth and world-renowned Lake Superior and just an hour or so from Bemidji, Brainerd, Ely and Walker.
The following towns comprise this vibrant forest community of Itasca:
Bigfork
Bovey
Calumet
Cohasset
Coleraine
Deer River
Effie
Grand Rapids
Keewatin
La Prairie
Marble
Nashwauk
Squaw Lake
Taconite
Warba
Zemple
House Legacy Funding Finance Committee - part 1 3/13/17
HF1662 (Wills) Minnesota Zoological Gardens funding provided, and money appropriated.
17:11 - Motion picture presentation and fund request.
42:29 - HF694 (Layman) Grand Rapids; Children's Discovery Museum funding provided, and money appropriated.
50:01 - HF1648 (Olson) Lake Superior Zoo funding provided, and money appropriated.
57:43 - HF1312 (Olson) Duluth Children's Museum funding provided, and money appropriated.
1:05:56 - HF1852 (Christensen) Dan Patch statues funding provided, and money appropriated.
1;14:38 - HF1731 (Torkelson) Clean Water Fund and Parks and Trails Fund money appropriated.
The committee recessed.
Runs 1 hour, 46 minutes.
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Cincinnati Museum Center Volunteer Spotlight - Musicians in the Duke Energy Children's Museum
Two Cincinnati Museum Center volunteers treat some staff and visitors to an impromptu musical performance inside the Duke Energy Children's Museum.
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Prairie Mosaic 703
Tour the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN, visit Fort Ridgely State Park outside Fairfax, MN, listen to the NDSU brass quintet, and watch Lloyd Wiese create wooden trunks and chests.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and by the members of Prairie Public.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.
Itasca County Fair
The Natural Traveler heads out to the Itasca County Fair for an evening filled with fun times!
EP: 5 First Wizard of Oz book: The Judy Garland Museum Collection
See the first Wizard of Oz book published at the turn of the 20th century at the Judy Garland Museum in Judy's birth town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. How many languages was the Wizard of Oz book translated into? Discover this and more of the 3000+ pieces of Judy Garland and Wizard of Oz memorabilia here and at the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S. Visit us online at: || GUINNESS WORLD RECORD - Judy Garland Museum, Grand Rapids Minnesota USA (June 13th, 2014). On the 13th June, 2014, Ohio girl Reece Veatch (7 yrs. old) led the Judy Garland Museum in Judy's birthtown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota and more than 1000 people from non-profit organizations and the community in breaking the Guinness World Record for the most people dressed up as Wizard of Oz characters. All participants in the event gave a good will donation and all proceeds went to Habitat for Humanity which is a global organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the face of the earth. || WATCH THE GUINNESS VIDEO HERE:
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