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National Team of Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Site-Specific Dance as an Art Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Our Specific Site: The Entire River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4History of this Local Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Local Site Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 This Evening’s Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

• Music and Dance Unique to Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7• All-Site Medley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8• All-Site Dancing to Original Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8• The Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Site map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Poem by P. Trainor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Call to Action & Stewardship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13Local Environmental Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15Environmental River Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17Itasca Site Performers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-20Local Thanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Poem - Untitled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22About the Local Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Acknowledgements: One River Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Donor Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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O N E R I V E R M I S S I S S I P P I – N AT I O N A L T E A M O F A R T I S T S

Artistic Director Marylee Hardenbergh has been creating large outdoor site-specific perform-ances for twenty-five years, in such sites as wastewater treatment plants, aerial lift bridges,library windows, and a clock tower on the Volga in Russia. She has been named Artist of theYear twice and received numerous grants and fellowship awards, including the NationalEndowment for the Arts, the McKnight and Soros Foundations. She has been creating site-specific dances on the Mississippi River at Minneapolis’ historic milling district for over 20years.

Project Director Jana Larson is an artist, filmmaker and independent producer who loves todance. She assisted Marylee in carrying out the vision of this project. Look for her documen-tary about the One River Mississippi project this fall.

Composer Lee Blaske is in continual demand as an arranger and composer for television/radiocommercials, industrial shows, and for recording projects of all kinds. He composed the musicthat is heard at all the sites.

Environmental Consultant Tracy Fredin is the Director of Hamline University’s Center forGlobal Environmental Education.

Web Designer Nicky Hardenbergh also designed the newsletters.

Sound Consultant Don Schraufnagel, at UMD’s Weber Music Hall, advised on The Chord.

Graphic Designer Corey Sevett designed the postcard and program.

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S I T E S P E C I F I C D A N C E A S A N A R T F O R M

Site-specific dance is created for one site only. The music, the costumes, and the moves flowtogether for a particular setting on the Earth. The dance cannot be put on stage, and it cannotbe performed at other places. When performed at the outdoor site, the dance offers the audi-ence a deeper connection with the place. The dance makes the site come alive and look new inthe viewers’ eyes. In its purest form, local artists and community members perform it free,open to the public.

History: The concept extends back to the origins of religion, when early humans performeddances outdoors at specific sites associated with specific deities. In this century, using specificsites to inform the dance itself has grown slowly. Rudolf Laban, in his writing and thinking onspace harmony, suggested that aligned harmonious sequences of movement might have meta-physical effects, physically and energetically shaping the space around it.

During the 1970s, well before the concept of site-specific dance came into the mind ofMarylee Hardenbergh, the artistic director of One River Mississippi, she studied with IrmgardBartenieff (a pupil of Laban), and learned about Space Harmony. Bartenieff created MovementChoirs in which Marylee danced. These sparked her thought of 5000 people dancing together,a thought realized in One River Mississippi.

The creation: Marylee describes how she choreographs a dance, first taking in the site. Shewill sit at that point on the Earth and allow the site to unfold itself to her. For thirty daysstraight, she visits at different times of the day, in all weathers, sitting and looking. The ele-ments she notes become the elements of the dance. For example, if roller-bladers come by, thedance includes roller-bladers. If Marylee sees kayakers, she will employ kayakers.

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T H E E N T I R E M I S S I S S I P P I R I V E R H O S T S

O U R S I T E - S P E C I F I C P E R F O R M A N C E

The Mississippi River is the arterial flow of this continent. Itruns for over 2,300 miles. Its width ranges from 20 feet at thebeginning to 4 miles at its widest expansion. Its depth varies fromthree feet to 200 feet. Sixty percent of all North American birds(326 species) use this basin as their flyway; 60 percent of all grainexported from the U.S. is shipped from its ports. The river carriesan average of 436,000 tons of sediment per day. A raindrop fromLake Itasca takes about 90 days to arrive at the Gulf of Mexico. Thearea of land that drains in to the river covers more than 35 states andtwo provinces.

Dating back thousands of years to the first American Indians inthe area, humans have always used the Mississippi River and its

tributaries as major transportation routes. From the Mississippi River a boat can access overhalf of the United States. Today, one river tow pulling fifteen barges of a commodity has thesame carrying capacity as two and a quarter freight trains or 900 trucks.

I am a living river. I am both the flowing current and the silentriverbed. I am ancient, yet always new. I deliver the endless forceof water. I move barges for your commerce; you harness me todrive your machines. I am willing to work for you and with you,yet I am powerless against your chemicals. I need friends to helpme, to cherish me, to take good care of me.

– THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER

A tent city set up on the leveeafter the 1927 flood.Courtesy U. S. Corps ofEngineers, Mississippi ValleyDivision

H I S T O R Y O F T H E L O C A L S I T E :M I S S I S S I P P I H E A D WAT E R S I TA S C A S TAT E PA R K

A trickle of clear and pristine water sparkles in the sunshine of the northern Minnesotawoods. This trickle that cascades over a single layer of rocks separating it from the Lakebeyond, is the beginning of the Mighty Mississippi. Located in the tall pine trees of Itasca StatePark, the river finds its source in Lake Itasca. For hundreds of years travelers were curiousabout the source of this huge river that divides a continent. Several early explorers claimed tohave found the source, but the search finally concluded with Henry Schoolcraft’s discovery in1832, led by a Native American named Ozawindib. Schoolcraft created the name Itasca by link-ing the Latin words for truth and head—the true head of the river.

Visitors often remove their shoes and walk from one side to the other, or walk across thesingle log foot bridge that connects the two sides. From here the river flows north and down-stream. A twig or leaf dropped in the water here will reach New Orleans in about 90 days.

Today a Visitor Center at the site celebrates Mary Gibbs, who in 1903 was the first femalepark commissioner in Minnesota. Gibbs was a gutsy woman, now famous for standing upagainst guns and threats from loggers in order to protect the parks growing trees.

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P E R F O R M A N C E O N E R I V E R M I S S I S S I P P I – I TA S C A

Choreographer: Elaine Hanson

Project Manager: Denise Gulbranson

Music: “Minnesota The Land” by Peter Ostroushko; Lee Blaske; “World Centering” fromGathering of Shaman flute music

Dance Therapist: Tracy Moroney

Reiki Practitioner: Jeanne Troge

T H I S E V E N I N G ’ S P R O G R A M

6:00 Visit the tables and learn about local environmental issues and how you can help.Melissa Hallaway Children’s Dance Leader

6:30 Bicycle Dance: Visitor Center Parking Lot

6:45 Art Contest Winners: Awards

6:55 Parade to the Headwaters Site led by the Spiral Peace Drummers

7:05 Earth Blessings

7:10 The Chord of Harmony: Audience Chorus led by Tracy Moroney

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In this section, each site dances to music from its own heritage.

Music and Dance are the right art forms to express our connection to the Mississippi and toother communities of people who live along this mighty river. Our moving bodies connectwith all the other moving, living things—the waters, the air, the animals and growing plants.Through the power of the intention of our thoughts and actions, we affirm our desire toacknowledge our connections and honor the Earth which gives us life. Our dance is about cele-brating and nourishing life.

Earth Dances: During the poem Earth Dances local children will wade across the Headwaters,as children and adults from around the world have been doing here for countless years.

Heavenly Blessing: In this opening piece we dance as stars at the beginning of creation.Looking down at planet Earth, on what we now know as northern Minnesota, we send out thedivine and creative energy needed to create life, raw and beautiful in the Lake Itasca region.Life is formed and it is holy.

Glaciers: In imitation of that mighty ice flow, we dance and slowly help carve out the earth.We shape the hills and valleys that will support a mighty river when the frozen waters melt.

Work and Play: In this dance we celebrate early European settlers who both worked theland and played here, as they lived out their lives in this pristine wilderness.

Dancin’ in the Mississippi Mud: Our youth dancers celebrate life and the joy that waterbrings to all our lives. Water sustains us physically and renews our spirits. The metaphor of‘living waters’ that we hear so frequently in religious language is a reality here, played out anddanced out in the Mississippi mud! Choreography: Denise Gulbranson 7

Paddle Dance: This dance celebrates the movement of human beings in boats on the water.Two men from our flotilla, in imaginative imitation of early Voyageurs, will disembark fromtheir canoes and dance a joyful celebration of this hardy life.

Untitled Poem: Here we segue back into a remembrance of the blessing that waters give tous all. Based on Itasca Park’s recently acquired sculpture of Women of the Water, our womendancers will pose as caretakers of the waters as we listen to an Untitled Poem that speaks to ourneed to be fluid and yielding in our interactions with one another.

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The Medley: Red is the color at the top of the rainbow, and the Itasca MississippiHeadwaters Dance Site represents the top of the rainbow in relationship to the other six dancesites along the river. Each of our sister cities/communities has their own color to flesh out thatrainbow. Here, all of the sites hear the same medley, comprised of music from the seven sites.Our music is first.

The red circle is passed along from dancer to dancer with a sampling of the music beingused at each site.

One River Mississippi: Next we move into our dance to the original composition createdfor this unique One River Mississippi performance. In this section, all of the seven sites arehearing the same music at the same moment. This dance is a celebration of color, sound andmovements the river inspires in us. We end this piece with our simultaneous unison dancemovement with the dancers at all the other sites. Please join us at the end when we all dance

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the final repetitious movement together. Choreography: Marylee Hardenbergh and all of theseven site choreographers.

The Chord: We all harmonize live along the river.

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Performers from White Earth will share with us their indigenous song and dance. Throughthis performance we celebrate with them the ancient and honorable relationship humans havehad with Mother Earth, specifically here in the region of northern Minnesota and theMississippi River.

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Parade back to the Visitor Center for music, food, speakers and more.

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Note that the Mississippi River flows north from where you are standing.Map courtesy of Itasca State Park

Mississippi RiverHeadwaters

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Earth Dances,Barefoot,to feel thelifewarming up into usspiritual,sensualas we recognizewe are born of theearthirrevocablylinkedin a woven bracelet of mutualbeginning.Creation,a faucet of textureandtime

pouring out itsricheswith abundant abandonin a total relianceonthe users wisdom andsubject tothe abusersignorance.Barefoot we,Grounded in Godyet stretching out,fingers spread,to touch every corner of theuniversewith the messagewe care.Earth Dances.

E A RT H DA N C E S by Peter Trainor

C A L L T O A C T I O N :H O W T O B E A G O O D S T E WA R D

PERSONAL: Taking care of Mother Earth is up to each and every one of us. As individualswe can make a commitment to maintaining clean water by not littering when we visit lakes andbeing very careful about what we allow in the water or on the land where we live or visit.Dispose of all motor oils, machinery, appliances, computers and other recyclable items in theproper locations.

COMMUNITY: In the community you can help clean up and keep clean a portion ofstream, river, ditch, lake or wetland. Groups can contact Adopt-A-River and receive free info,kits, clean-up bags, gloves and help with promotion by contacting dnrstate.mn.us/adoptriver.

NATIONAL: Katrina sent us a wake-up call about the issues facing coastal Louisiana andthe necessity to restore its vital but endangered ecosystem.

The Coastal wetlands of Louisiana act as a barrier protecting the coast from hurricanes andflooding. In addition, a quarter of the nation’s gas and oil and a third of domestic seafood isproduced here, requiring the protection afforded by the coastal wetlands.

Here’s what you can do:• Stop using pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers on your lawn. Buy organic.• Urge your legislators to support the WRDA bill and the LCA program within it• Sign the postcard to Senators Dominici and Bingham on the House Energy Committee

and urge them to support the revenue sharing bill that would fund the restoration of thecoastal wetlands through reallocation of off-shore oil royalties.

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L O C A L I N F O R M AT I O N A B O U T S T E WA R D S H I P

Be river friendly! Keep new construction away from the river. Keep a natural buffer ofplants between the shoreline and your house. Keep your landscape natural: don’t fill wetlands,remove ice ridges, or change to topography. Contact your soil and water conservation districtfor information and assistance.

Learn how people have used the river over time. Contact the Institute for MinnesotaArchaeology, Minnesota DNR state parks, Minnesota Historical Society of your county histori-cal society

Learn what fish, animals, birds, reptiles and amphibians live within your river. ContactDNR’s Natural Heritage Program, read Janine Benyus’ Northwoods Wildlife, or other guides towildlife.

Start a monitoring project on your river.

Get involved! Join local organizations who are working for a clean and healthy environ-ment. During the spring and summer the Headwaters Canoe Club conducts stewardshipactivities along the first 83 miles of the Mississippi River for river clean up and environmentaladvocacy. Contact Harvey Tjader: 218-444-5477.

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L O C A L E N V I R O N M E N TA L O R G A N I Z AT I O N S

The Hubbard County Coalition of Lake Associations (COLA) is actively involved in edu-cation, water quality improvement and lakeshore ordinance compliance initiatives. The spreadof exotic, non-native species of plants and animals threatens the area lakes. Public education,state laws, and prevention/eradication techniques are being used to control the spread.

Another issue lakes face is the loss of habitat and water quality due to increased develop-ment of lakeshore property. Water quality is muddied by loss of in-water vegetation, removalof shore land vegetation buffer zones, and clearing of trees from shore land property. Publicawareness and individual actions on good shore land management practices is the key to pre-serving the regions water resource heritage. Don’t use poisons on your shore land or water veg-etation and try to leave shore land as natural as possible to allow for animal habitat. COLA,may be contacted at PO Box 746, Park Rapids, MN 56470.

The Park Rapids League of Women Voters meets monthly and frequently addresses issuesconcerning the environment, land use and water quality. They believe that natural resourcesshould be managed as interrelated parts of life-supporting ecosystems. They support a staterole in preservation and management of Minnesota’s water resources through protection, allo-cation, conservation, pricing, and inter-basin transfer policies protective of Minnesota’s cur-rent and future needs. The League has supported state participation in interstate commissionsto provide comprehensive planning for the boundary waters since 1956. In recent years theLeague actively participated with the Wetlands Coalition to monitor changes in the WetlandsProtection Act. Contact Trudy Overmyer at 218-732-9226.

The Itasca Moraine Chapter of the North Country Trail Association is responsible for theconstruction and maintenance of the North County National Scenic Trail from the western14

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edge of the Chippewa National Forest to Lake Itasca State Park and west into ClearwaterCounty to the Old Headquarters Site. They are working with the National Trails System tocomplete a hiking trail that will be over 4600 miles in length and used for hiking, snowshoeing,hunting, and cross-country skiing. For more information about how to join in activities andhelp build a trail contact Jerry Trout at 218-675-5448 or on the web see northcountrytrail.org.

The Hubbard County Woodland Council is dedicated to environmentally sound and sus-tainable management of private non-industrial forest lands. They conduct field days and spon-sor tours and workshops regarding the wise use of our natural resources. It gathers and dis-seminates information on relevant topics such as tree planning, seedling care, thinning,harvesting, regeneration, wildlife habitat, wetland regulation and biodiversity. HCWC plays animportant role in helping private woodland owners exercise conscientious stewardship of acritical resource now and into the future. In August ’06 the group will sponsor a GPS course inPark Rapids and in September a mushrooming hike. Contact Carter Hedeen at 703 First StreetW, Park Rapids.

Other groups represented at One River Mississippi today also welcome your participation.You are invited to check out the tables for Minnesota Trailways, The Hubbard County Soiland Water Conservation District, the University of Minnesota Extension Office, and others,to learn more. Please visit these tables before and after the performance to find out how youcan become involved and be a better steward of our environment.

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A F F E C T I N G T H E L O U I S I A N A C O A S TA L W E T L A N D S

What can be done to help our watershed?The Mighty Mississippi River is a great resource for all Americans. It provides a means of

transportation, habitat for abundant wildlife, and it is a primary source of fresh drinking waterfor millions. The health and dynamics of this great system are valuable. As citizens, we ask youto stay informed about the vitality of this dynamic watershed.

The Mississippi River has also been the crafter of Louisiana wetlands. Unfortunately, cur-rently Louisiana is a state in great peril—losing on average a football field of coastal land every40 minutes of each day. But the sediments trapped in the Mississippi River can once again beharvested to create new coastal wetland, a great barrier to the devastating effect of hurricanestorm surge. Technology such as pipeline sediment delivery can now provide us with tech-niques to harvest the rich sediment of the Mississippi River to rebuild fragile marsh habitat.For more information on these issues, visit the Barataria-Terrebonne National EstuaryProgram Web site at www.BTNEP.org

We also encourage you to contact our congressional representatives and senators askingthem to allow the Army Corps of Engineers to be able to spend money to help increase the sedi-mentation build-up by using what they dredge out of the channel of the Mississippi beneficially.

D R I N K I N G WAT E R A N D T H E M I S S I S S I P P I R I V E R

Along the Mississippi River, residents are able to purchase clean water from the municipalities,who work hard to make the water as pure as possible, and to sell it at an affordable rate. Of the 7sites where performances will occur, 6 of them use the river as the main source for their tap water.

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Making clean water available for public consumption has become an important world-wideissue. On other continents, a handful of private companies have public water supplies, andthen sell the water at rates that are exorbitant. This is especially a hardship for the local poorpeople who often cannot afford to buy water at these increased rates.

The Mississippi River used to be a favorite place to go swimming. Now the river is consid-ered unfit to swim in, and there are warnings not to eat the fish. Why is this so? Our river waterhas been polluted by chemical run-off and also by companies discharging their industrialwastes into the river – for free! (Check out http://www.scorecard.org/ and see who is responsi-ble for the dumping.)

R U N - O F F P O L L U T I O N

Residential yards, construction sites, and parking lots — these everyday things may seemharmless but in fact might be causing problems for our water. When land is converted fromnatural areas to developed urban areas, pavement and rooftops replace grass and trees. Waterflows over driveways, streets and parking lots, taking with it everything that is in its path. This“runoff” is deposited, via storm sewers, into nearby lakes, creeks and rivers. This non-pointsource pollution can contain sediment, debris, fertilizers, pesticides, leaves, grass clippings,motor oil or pet waste. Small amounts of these materials entering a lake or river are not gener-ally considered harmful. But when these small amounts are multiplied by thousands or tens ofthousands they can cause serious water quality problems.

H E R E ’ S W H AT Y O U C A N D O :• Use permeable pavers • Wash your car on the lawn• Clean up after pets • Build rain gardens

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I TA S C A P E R F O M E R S

Core Dancers: Kelly Grossman, Denise Gulbranson, Elaine Hanson, Shelly James, TanyaMiller, Renee Wickman, Mara Howes.

Youth Dancers: Hannah Fischer, Abigale Grossman, Noah Grossman, Melissa Hallaway,Abby Hanson, Mara Howes, Hailey Lundin, Amanda Meyer, HilaryMorgan, Dara Nikolova, Kyja Penning, Lisa Pickett, Jesseca Pritchett,Mandy Schirmers, Shaylah Stomberg, Katie Zaczkowski

Children Wading: Emily Kjenaas, Krista Carpenter, Alyssa Day, Tori Campbell, SamGrossman, Drew & Tori Hilmanowski, Paige Hill, Cielo & FarrenMooney, Samantha Sabin, Kailee Ellenson, Kylie Higgins, Joelle Nagel,Kayla Branstrom, Skyler Kennelly, Hailey Craig, Amanda Girtz, HopeJohnson, Emily Eystad, Lydia Peterson, Heidi Lageson

Bicycle Dancers: Rod Helm, Neil King, Mike Perez, Sandy Perez, Thom Peterson, PhilSailer, Arlette Van Whyte, Irene Weis

Paddle Dancers: Terry Larson, Harvey Tjader

Canoeists: Mary Adams, Richard and Margaret Dutch, Flo and Carter Hedeen, Del& Alice Holz, Terry Larson, Harvey and Tyler Tjader, Jerry Trout

Spiral Peace Val Burkman, Karen Chabot, Robin Cunningham, Sherry Ellefson, SonjaDrummers: Kosler, Ann MacGregor, Melissa Star, Jeanne Troge

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Blessings: Spiral Peace Drummers, Mike Dahl, White Earth, Pastor Bill Meyer,Calvary Lutheran

Native Americans: The WE Boys Drummers Singers and Dancers from White Earth Tribe.

Musicians: Hickory Wind: Bill & Julie Kaiser, Rick Paulin

Speakers: Connie Cox: Itasca Park Naturalist; Terry Larson: Northern AdventureMississippi Canoe Trips and Rentals; Brita Sailer, Minnesota House ofRepresentatives, District 1-B.

Stage Manager: Jodi Hodgson

Dance Therapist: Tracy Moroney

Environmental & Early Childhood Initiative; Boy Scouts; Loon Lake Woodcarvers;Community Park Rapids Rotary Club; Hubbard County Woodland Council;Partners: Itasca Moraine Chapter North Country Trail Association; Minnesota

Trailways, Park Rapids League of Women Voters, COLA: Coalition ofLakes Association, Hubbard County Soil and Water Conservation; U ofM Extension Office, Itascatur Ski Bike & Run Club; Headwaters CanoeClub/Adopt-A-River; PRLAAC-Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council

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A B I G T H A N K YO U T O T H E F O L L O W I N G

P E O P L E A N D O R G A N I Z AT I O N S :

Region 2 Arts Council:Teri Widman, Beverlee OlsonItasca Park Personnel: Mike Kovacovich; Connie Cox; Jim Keller; Tim AndersonPark Rapids Rotary ClubCobornsColdwell-Banker Clack and Dennis Real EstateWells’ Blue BunnyTim Metz, Princess Harshman: First RespondersMike Kaufenberg: Kaufenberg SignsNorthland Studio of Dance: Jennifer GytrieCattail Creek FramingNeil King-PhotographerNorthern Adventures: Terry LarsonBrian Bedford: Mississippi River Songs CollectionKelly’s Cottage GardenPRLAAC: Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts CouncilMinnesota PowerJeanne Troge

ALL OUR WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS!

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U N T I T L E D P O E M

BeAs water isWithout friction

Flow around the edgesof those within your pathSurround within your ever-moving depthsthose who come to rest there-enfold themwhile never for a moment holding on

Accept whatever distanceothers are moved withinyour flowBe with them gentlyas far as they allow your strength to take themand fill your own being withthe remaining space when they are left behind

–Source unknown

B I O G R A P H I E S

Elaine Hanson, choreographer for One River Mississippi, holds a BFA in Dance and anEducation degree from the U of Arizona. She performed and choreographed in Tucson, inVirginia with The Moving Company: Dance Now!, and in Minnesota with a University DanceRepertory Company, musical theater groups, and light opera. She has taught dance to childrenand adults of all ages, and worked as an artist in residence in public schools for several years.She is presently involved with liturgical dance and available for performances and dance orcreative/play workshops.

Denise Gulbranson, project manager and choreographer, is the director and dance instruc-tor at the Northland Studio of Dance. She has lived in Park Rapids since 1989. She was born inChicago, Illinois where she received her training in dance and musical theatre and performedlocally with United Artists Dance Co., and taught classes. She is active in various communityorganizations and was enticed by the opportunity of using the performing arts as a catalyst topromote awareness of our environment through One River Mississippi.

Tracy Moroney is a dance therapist from California.

Jeanne Troge is a Reiki Master at Brigid’s House in Park Rapids. www.BrigidsHouse.com.218-732-5347.

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W E W I S H T O A C K N O W L E D G E O U R N AT I O N A L S U P P O R T E R S

To the Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE) at Hamline University whereMarylee Hardenbergh is the artist-in-residence in a program developed by CGEE to foster artisticwork that engages the examination of environmental issues. CGEE envisions environmental literacyand stewardship in people of all ages: Thank You!

Jenny Moore, Lucy DuBose, Michael Loden, Sage Cowles, Caroline Leibman, Kay Radlauer,Gretchen Bonfert, Cheryl Kartes, Kathleen Fluegel, Dan McGuiness, John Shepard, MinneapolisMayor RT Rybak, Pam Margules, Rosehawk, Larry Schmidt and the Trust for Public Land, AndyGrund, The Hardenbergh Family, Susan Testroet Bergeron, Kerry St. Pé, John McLachlan, DougMeffert, Doug Daigle, all governors of the 10 states along the river, all mayors of our sites, AngelaAnderson, James Falvey, Brenda Erickson, Camille LeFevre, Ellen Hufschmidt, Deanne Ekholm,Steve Lenhart, Rebecca Soileau, Laressa Dickey, Drew Flack, Sarah Bell Haberman, Katinka Galanos,Patrick Pierson, Mark Huelsbeck, Katrinka Somdahl, Carol Ryan, Cathy Mosher, Randy Hines, PaulRhode, Catherine McCalvin, Diane Benjamin, Gretchen Benjamin, Christopher Reyes, Aaron C.Walker, James Fields, Corey Sevett, Don Schraufnagel, Holly Lau, James Baker, Jean Watts, DinahMaygarden, Audrey Emmons, Karen Swenson, The Fireheart Women, Tracy Fredin, DanMcGuinness, John Shepard, Elaine Hanson, Denise Gulbranson, Bernadette Knaeble, JasonClusman, Joedy Cook, Johanne Jakhelln, Beckah Voigt, Sarah Anne Patz, Loryl Breitenbach,Kimberly Baker, Amy Salerno-Hale, Barbara Hayley, Monique Moss, Janet Spencer & Lyn Caliva,Donna Duhé, Angela Hammerli, Blue Bunny Ice Cream/Wells Dairy, Lesley Bartholomew, and tothe scores of others who helped anonymously.

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