Women of the Mississippi River is a collection of stories on historical and contemporary women who contributed immensely to the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Read MoreEva McDonald Valesh was an investigative journalist and labor activist. She exposed unsafe conditions for women workers in the Twin Cities during the late nineteenth century and became a prominent labor writer and speaker.
Read MoreOne foot after the other, Sharon Day walks the waterways of North America, leaving ripples of positive change across the spiritual, political, environmental, and cultural landscapes.
Read MoreIn 2016, Mississippi Park Connection commissioned an artistic exhibition, River Relationships by Works Progress Studio, for the MNRRA visitor center.
Read MoreIn 2016, Mississippi Park Connection commissioned an artistic exhibition, River Relationships by Works Progress Studio, for the MNRRA visitor center.
Read MoreIn 1953, Reiko Umetani Weston moved from Japan to Minnesota with her husband, Norman Weston, and her parents. That move would eventually lead to the redevelopment of Minneapolis’s riverfront.
Read MoreIncidents of racism can go unnoticed in parks because they are farther from the eye of the media, but this community – you – can have an impact on making everyone feel at home in the outdoors.
Read MoreThis new online program for fourth grade teachers and students helps kids understand how organisms live within an ecosystem, through exciting videos and fun learning modules about floodplains, mussels, pike and the Mississippi River! The course explores different ways to look at the river to determine its vitality.
Read MoreMississippi Park Connection, in partnership with more than 30 land-managing agencies and a network of academic researchers from across the country, are creating a teaching forest at Crosby Farm Regional Park for researchers, land managers and the public to learn best practices for climate change adaptation.
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