Archive - Aug 2008

By now most of you know that on August 23, the Northfield Historical Society will be hosting our first  motorcycle run to raise money for our youth education programs.  If you want to know more about it, visit the Outlaw Run web site.  You can also listen to me on the 93X morning show on August 18 at 8:30 a.m.  I am going to talk about the Run and why a historical society is doing this type of event.

Updates for the Run:

• The lunch at Elysian is going to be a BBQ for $2.00
• After the rally at the Reub N' Stein there will be a drawing for a pair of Minnesota Twins tickets.
• Outlaw Run T-shirts are in!! When you register for the run you get a T-shirt or you can buy them at the Museum Store for $14.95.

For more information on the Run call the Northfield Historical Society at 507-645-9268.

Local author/historian John J. Koblas will give a slide presentation on his new trilogy of books entitled Let them Eat Grass, Thursday, August 14, at the Northfield Historical Society.  The three-part series is broken into different areas about the conflict.  "Smoke," the first book, published in 2006, details American Indian history from earliest times, carefully setting up the climate of inevitable confrontation with the arrival of white settlers in Minnesota. The second book, "Fire," chronicles early attacks on small settlements to the attacks on Fort Ridgely, New Ulm, and the Battles of Birch Coulee and Wood Lake, culminating in the surrender of the Sioux at Camp Release. The final book in the series, "Ashes" focuses on the trials of Dakota leaders, the mass hanging at Mankato, the death of Little Crow, the pursuit of the Sioux into the Dakota and Montana Territories, and the war on a bigger scale—Fetterman, Custer, Wounded Knee, Sugar Point. Whether genocide or accident, if there is a villain in the story it is not peevish old Sitting Bull, or the yellow-haired boy general, but the American people and their never-ending list of places which the Indians 'did not need.'
 

Mr. Koblas will be signing books before and after the presentation.  Refreshments will be served.  The book signing and presentation will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Northfield Historical Society; we are located at 408 Division Street, in downtown Northfield.

Well, Art Swirl is done and it was a great event.  Below are the pictures I took during the event.  You can also view photos from Griff Wigley on Locally Grown and take a look at the northfield.org photos.

There are 158 photos in the slide show!

Last night Art Swirl kicked off with a bang!  The wood sculpture subject was revealed and there was great music and dancing on Bridge Square.  See the slide show from last night.

Art Swirl Poster 2008