EXPLORE WHAT'S NEW WITH :
Check out the Minnesota’s Greatest Generation web site for In Their Words, and What's In My Footlocker, new ways to share personal stories from the '30s, '40s and '50s. The web site also features treasures from the Society's collections and a special timeline for each era.
Catch a screening of five short films from the Moving Pictures initiative. The films will show at Oak Street Cinema on Monday, April 23 as part of the 25th Annual Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Is there a story you want to tell using film? 2007 submissions for Moving Pictures are now being accepted.
DO YOU HAVE BEATLEMANIA?
 Share your memories of the Beatles' 1965 visit to Minnesota. The Society is collecting first-hand accounts to share on the web site or in Minnesota History magazine. Read up on the famed group's visit in Steven Hoffbeck's article, "Instamatic Memories: The Beatles in Minnesota," in the Spring 2007 issue of Minnesota History.
 HEROINES EXHIBIT NOW ON DISPLAY
Explore a powerful exhibit, by Iranian-born artist Jila Nikpay, of 21 inspiring, expressive black-and-white photographs of women who have survived breast cancer. Heroines: Transformation in the Face of Breast Cancer is on display at the Minnesota History Center through May 20.
5 REASONS TO VISIT MILL CITY MUSEUM
IN APRIL:
1. Minnesota poets will read from the new MHS Press book Where One Voice Ends Another Begins on April 11 at 7 p.m.
2. Learn the ups and downs of bread-baking at Lorenzo's Bread Circus on April 14.
3. Soak up the sounds of two youth ensemble groups at the  Project Opera Spring Concert on April 22 at 4 p.m.
5. Be inspired by a dramatic Letters from the Avenue readers theatre program on April 26, at 7 and 8:30 p.m.
6. Meet new history player Hugh Ward Donaldson and participate in a planting activity at a special Family Day on April 28 from 1 to 4 p.m.
MAKE YOUR DONATION COUNT TWICE!
The challenge is on. Right now, qualifying new and increased gifts of $50 or more will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a special challenge grant. You can help secure $1.6 million to fund quality programs and services that will spark new connections to Minnesota's past. There are two easy ways to make your gift count twice as much:
1. Sign up as a new member or renew at these levels:
Associate ($125)
Contributing ($250)
Sustaining ($500)
North Star Circle ($1,000)
2. Donate a new or increased gift of $50 or more.
Call the membership office at 651-259-3131 for more information or to make a gift.
 PARTING SHOT
The St. Paul Tourist Cabins sign came down March 16 and is now in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Curators are hoping to return the 1945-era sign to working condition and incorporate it into the Society’s Minnesota's Greatest Generation exhibit, set to open at the History Center in 2008.
Tourist cabins served the growing number of automobile travelers through the 1940s and were located along major highways on the outskirts of town.
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