Folk Art: Junior Girl Scout Workshop

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN

Dates: Nov. 21, 2009, Jan. 16, 2010, Feb. 20, 2010

Time: 1 to 3:30 p.m

Fee: $12 girls, $5 adults

Reservations: required, call 651-259-3015

What do images and artifacts tell us about the past? In this workshop, explore the "Minnesota’s Greatest Generation" exhibit and examine historic photographs, objects and toys to discover what it was like to grow up during the Great Depression. Learn the art of storytelling and perform a short skit from the golden age of radio. Create and decorate a vintage style hat made from recycled materials. This workshop fulfills the requirements for the Folk Arts badge. Price includes admission to all History Center museum galleries.

Workshops must be booked at least two weeks in advance. Additions or group cancellations must be made at least two weeks prior to scheduled visit. Prepayment required.

A Radio Holiday: Songs, Stories, Singalong with Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN

Dates: Dec. 5, 2009

Time: 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Fee: $15, $10 MHS members

Reservations: required, call 651-259-3015 or register online

Enjoy a concert of classic holiday standards with local tunesmiths, Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard. In support of the History Center's new exhibit, Minnesota’s Greatest Generation: The Depression, The War & The Boom, Johnson and Chouinard share holiday interpretations of timeless standards of the 30s and 40s in voice and piano. Join in the fun and sing along.

Minnesota's Greatest Generation: The Depression, The War, The Boom

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN

Hours:

Museum and Stores:

Tuesday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission 5 to 8 p.m.); Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m.

Closed Mondays except Monday holidays year round (open Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day).

Library:

Tuesday noon to 8 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday noon to 4 p.m.

Closed Monday, Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends, and major holidays including the day after Thanksgiving.

Fee: $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.

This exhibit is the capstone of the Minnesota Historical Society’s Minnesota’s Greatest Generation project. It features more than 6,000 square feet of artifacts, interactive displays, and innovative multimedia experiences to reveal the lives and stories of the men and women who came of age during the Depression and World War II and who went on to create the phenomenal postwar boom. The exhibition relies substantially on first-person narratives drawn from oral history interviews, published memoirs, and reminiscences and letters in which a generation of Minnesotans narrates its own story, creating a fascinating collective autobiography in recorded interviews, images, film and audio. For more information visit http://www.mngreatestgeneration.org.

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