VIEW THE WINNING FILMS:

On Oct. 21, five winning films were announced in the Minnesota’s Greatest Generation 2007 Moving Pictures Film Festival. View them below:

• Matt Ehling of St. Paul, Best Film ($5,000) for Coming Home
• Gayle Knutson of Marine on St. Croix, Best Depiction of “Coming of Age in the 1940s” ($2,500) for Prisoner 32,232
• Paul Creager of Minneapolis, Best Emerging Filmmaker ($1,000) for Resonance
• Rita Nagan and Jeremy Wilker of Golden Valley, Best Collaborative Effort ($1,000) for Skating the Pacific to Europe
• Kevin McKeever of St. Paul, the Legacy award ($1,000) for Marianne Hamilton: A Voice of Peace

Find out more about the Society's Minnesota's Greatest Generation project.

START A NEW HOLIDAY TRADITION

Make the Minnesota Historical Society museums and historic sites part of your holiday celebration. Step into a Victorian Christmas at a historic house, tour a voyageur fur post by candlelight or learn to make Christmas cookies in a landmark new museum:

• Victorian Holidays at the Alexander Ramsey House
• Winter on the Farm, at the Oliver Kelley Farm, Nov. 25 & Dec. 16
• Candlelight Tours, at the Northwest Company Fur Post, Dec. 8
• Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest Winners, at Mill City Museum, Dec. 1
• Other holiday programs at Society museums and sites

SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP

The biggest shopping discounts of the year happen during Member Double Discount Days. On Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and 2 members can meet authors and get great deals on holiday shopping with 20% off purchases at Society museums, historic sites and the online store.

Nonmembers can also shop for one-of-a-kind items, from MHS Press books, to jewelry and other handcrafted items, to gifts with regional flavor.

New or renewing members can save $5 on the cost of membership and gift memberships will be available at the discounted rate.

GET CONNECTED WITH COLLECTIONS

In July the Minnesota Historical Society took possession of the Richard Ferrell Flour Milling Industry History Collection. Assembled by retired miller Richard Ferrell, the collection contains some 5,000 items gathered over 40 years. Highlights include cookbooks, broadsides, trade journals, flour sacks, company letterheads and photographs documenting every era of the flour milling industry. This remarkable collection will appeal to researchers of industrial history, and will lend tremendous support to the interpretive goals of Mill City Museum.

PARTING SHOT

On Nov. 16, Martha Stewart will be giving her studio audience copies of Bundt Cake Bliss by Minnesota author Susanna Short in celebration of National Bundt Day. You can catch it on KARE 11 at 1 p.m. Do you have a bundt story to share? How about a recipe? Share your memory here .