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My son Ian, the artist

This week, my husband Erik, son Sebastian, Erik’s sister Jill, and I made a trip to North Dakota State University in Fargo to see my son Ian’s final senior art show. He exhibited his work along with several other students in what is known as the Baccalaureate exhibit. We got a sneak peek of Ian’s work some months ago during a smaller exhibit, so we knew that the project he was attempting was ambitious. The…

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We Mere Mortals Have Been Genrefying Our Books Forever

The Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange posted a link to a poll on Facebook. The poll was about genrefication of a fiction collection. I had to click over to learn more, like what the heck genrefication is. Genrefication is the arrangement of books in a large collection by genre … i.e. all the mysteries go together, all the romances go in another section, etc. … rather than using the Dewey Decimal System. Remember that arcane alpha-numerical…

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Artists and Economic Development

I ran across an interesting article the other day. It’s from Bloomberg Businessweek and is called Bohemian Today, High-Rent Tomorrow. It discusses the phenomenon of artists moving into low-rent districts, fixing them up and making them cool, which then leads to more economic development, which then makes the districts high-rent, forcing out the artists who brought them back to life. I’ve seen this written about many times and I’m not sure why more communities aren’t…

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Props for Ravine Article

My husband was reading the local news online the other day and surprised me by saying there was a Letter to the Editor thanking me for an article I wrote in the Morrison County Historical Society’s newsletter. I very much appreciate the kind note by Pat Richter Bumgarner. She also sent me one at work and each one brightened my day. đŸ™‚

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