PLAY TICKET TO HISTORY AND WIN!

Visit a historic site or museum between now and Labor Day weekend, get your game card stamped and win a prize. Plus, you’ll be entered automatically in the Grand Prize drawing to win a two night stay at The Depot Minneapolis, including admission to their indoor water park, dinner for four at Charley's Grill, and a private tour of the Washburn A Mill at Mill City Museum.

Labor Day weekend events include helping the Oliver Kelley farmhands use a horse-powered threshing machine, learning about family life in the early 1800s at Historic Fort Snelling, exploring Historic Forestville by lamplight, and celebrating women workers at the turn of the century with a take-home art project at Mill City Museum.

Learn more about Ticket to History and print a game card.

The 2007 Ticket to History promotion is sponsored by Cub Foods.

FREE SUMMER CONCERTS

Spend a summer evening enjoying a FREE concert at Nine Nights of Music at the History Center through August, and Mill City Live at Mill City Museum through September. Molly Maher & Her Disbelievers (pictured) took the stage July 5. Tonight enjoy the folk and blues sounds of St. Paul native, JoAnna James at Mill City Museum.

CAMERA OJIBWE CLOSES AUG. 12

"Camera Ojibwe: Photos of Ojibwe Life" closes Aug. 12 at the Minnesota History Center. The exhibit is based on the book "We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People," by historian Bruce White.

Diane Adams-Graf, curator of the exhibit says "pairing these objects and historic photographs from the Society’s collection, provided new meaning and understanding for all of us."

Hurry in to see the exhibit and purchase the book in the Museum Store.

ART BECOMES HISTORY

Two groups of papers documenting Minnesota art projects have recently been added to the Society's collections.

1. The Art Shanty Projects collection includes print materials; photographs and project proposals that document the winter art exhibition founded by artists Peter Haakon Thompson and David Pitman in 2004. The exhibit is held each year on the frozen surface of Medicine Lake in Plymouth.
2. Rifle Sport was an artist-run alternative art gallery located in downtown Minneapolis from 1985-1988. The collection of gallery papers includes colorful posters, photographs, ephemera and reviews.

The Society collects materials like these to fulfill its mission to document Minnesota history, including the history of the arts and artists.

A SUMMER WITH:

Generations Camp

The History Center recently hosted Generations Camp, an innovative concept that brought Hmong students together with members of Minnesota’s Greatest Generation.

By exploring Minnesota history and sharing family traditions, the younger and older camp participants found points of common understanding about what it means to be Minnesotan.

Moving Pictures

Submit a short film for the 2007 Moving Pictures film festival by September 17. Get ideas and insights from Ken Burns, award winning documentary film maker, as he discusses his newest series "The War", at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 5, at Northrop Auditorium. Tickets are free by reservation. Contact the Northrop Ticket Office at (612) 624-2345 or online.

In Their Words

In Their Words showcases stories from Minnesota's Greatest Generation, including many about 4-H and county fairs, a timely topic. Read about Harold Seddy, and Mary Sjoberg and their stories about rural life in 1930s Minnesota.

PARTING SHOT

State Fair Poster, c. 1918

Come and get 'em! Send a State Fair Ecard to a friend, family member, or co-worker and invite them to the Great Minnesota Get-Together, Aug. 23 to Sept. 3.