Interesting Minnesota project

[pegkerr]

I got an email from a friend about this today:

From the Communications Director of 1000 Friends of Minnesota:

1000 Friends of Minnesota and Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) are working together to create dozens of Legacy Letters — short videos about what people treasure most in Minnesota. These minute-long videos will air statewide on the Minnesota Channel numerous times over the course of the next year, with the potential for select Legacy Letters to air on TPT’s weekly public affairs show, Almanac. The videos will also be posted online on the 1000 Friends of Minnesota website.

The goal of Legacy Letters is to have articulate Minnesotans express our collective values and the future they envision for the state. Participants will describe their own "places of the heart," establishing a personal connection between themselves and an aspect of the state that makes Minnesota feel like home. They will choose an object to be included in their video that represents what they treasure in Minnesota. They might be describing a physical place, such as their favorite town, neighborhood, river, cabin or bike trail, or they might be capturing an intangible quality they hold dear, such as a feeling of community, a connection to the land, or strength in the face of adversity. The object they choose will help shape their story.

Do you know of someone who can tell a good story, is passionate about Minnesota and might want to share their thoughts with a public television audience? If so, please encourage them to check out our website.

There they will find more detail about Legacy Letters and how to propose one. The deadline for this first round is September 5. We will be filming between mid-September and mid-October, with the first ones airing in late November. We will continue to seek Legacy Letters in the winter and spring so we can film in all of Minnesota’s seasons.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

You should do the Stone Arch Bridge!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

That's a great suggestion! I will think about it . . .

Very first unedited draft......

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

"My grandfather and I drive down Snelling Ave in Minneapolis and I can see his childhood, his past, my roots come to life as he tells me about the first paved roads of wood, the street cars, The barrel of saurkraut on Mrs. (fill in ask grampa her name) porch filling the air, the house they lived in off of Dight with no indoor plumbing an outhouse out back and a giant barrel they would put in the kitchen on Saturday’s and fill with water for bath’s, I can see and hear the chickens and pigs in all the yards, and the house my gramma lived in down the block from my grampa after her parents divorced. I can see my great grampa John with my grandfather on his shoulder’s as they walk to the rail-yard where he works. And the kids sneaking into the Longfellow Zoo to ride the giant tortoises, or over to The Princess Depot after dark where they would drill holes in the bottom of cars and fill their bags with coal and wheat during the depression."

Needs a couple words shaved off...

Re: Very first unedited draft......

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Giving the year(s) earlier as well as mentioning the Depression later would make this more interesting to me.

K.