Transcript for Mill City Museum Field Trip Video
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Male Narrator: Let's talk flour. Oh, not that kind. The kind you've probably already eaten today. The kind of flour that's in...
Girl 1: Cookies.
Boy 1: I ate pizza for breakfast. That has flour in the crust.
Girl 1: Pancakes.
Girl 1: Bread.
Narrator: Did you know Minneapolis used to be the flour milling capital of the world?
Girl 3: Wow! This is cool.
Narrator: This mill, once the largest on the planet, sat near a waterfall on the Mississippi River.
Man 1: Minneapolis! The Mill City!
Narrator: Now it's a place called Mill City Museum.
Boy 2: Oh this feels so weird.
Narrator: Where you'll get your hands wet.
Boy 3: Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Narrator: While learning how water powered the mill.
Man 1: Now loading for the 2 o'clock flour tower!
Narrator: You'll ride an elevator, filled with adventure.
Man 2: We are going to head up and down through all eight floors of the building.
Narrator: And surprises.
Bell:
Man 4: Fire over here!
Girl 4: There was a big bang.
Narrator: There really was an explosion here. And a big fire too.
Man 5: This building's lost. It's destroyed.
Man 6: And the museum is a new building, built inside the stone walls that were left.
Narrator: A cool place where you can explore what's left of the mill.
Boy 4: It all collapsed.
Narrator: Outside...
Boy 5: Oooh, those windows are broken.
Narrator: And in.
Boy 6: This one goes right here.
Boy 7: Yep, that goes right there.
Narrator: Learn the exciting things that happened here long ago. Like what could cause an entire building to explode?
Explosion:
Boy 8: 18 or 19 workers died here in the explosions.
Narrator: Think about it, talk about it, find out for yourself.
Boy 9: Thank goodness there's H2O.
Narrator: When you visit Mill City Museum!