Meet Mike, the new 2020-21 Minnesota GreenCorps member with Mississippi Park Connection!
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Sharon Sayles Belton has a spring in her step as she peers over the edge of the Saint Anthony Falls lock wall to view the cascading falls below. She looks up at to the Minneapolis skyline along the Mississippi Riverfront, a landscape that she shaped as mayor from 1994 – 2001.
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We invite you to join us in this continual process of making our programs more accessible, the river more equitable, and the stories we tell more diverse, to create a park that is truly inclusive for all.
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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.
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Eva 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.
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One 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.
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In 2016, Mississippi Park Connection commissioned an artistic exhibition, River Relationships by Works Progress Studio, for the MNRRA visitor center.
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In 2016, Mississippi Park Connection commissioned an artistic exhibition, River Relationships by Works Progress Studio, for the MNRRA visitor center.
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In 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.
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Incidents 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.
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