I took these photos of the 5th Street and Water St. promenade construction yesterday morning. For an update, see the report from Katy Gehler Hess, City Engineer, in last week’s Friday Memo. And in last Wed. Nfld News: Fifth Street work gets behind schedule.
I had my niece visiting this weekend so I wasn’t able to take as many ArtSwirl photos as I’d hoped. But Hayes Scriven at the Northfield Historical Society took many ArtSwirl photos on Thursday night. And Northfield.org has an ArtSwirl album of photos taken by Doug Bratland, Susan Hvistendahl, and Bright Spencer.
See the album of two dozen photos or this slideshow:
ArtSwirl commissioned Curtis Ingvoldstad to create a wood sculpture of Jesse James during the four days of ArtSwirl, right on Bridge Square. Ingvoldstad took the nearly-finished sculpture back to his St. Paul studio today to work on the final touches. I’ve been told that it’ll soon return to Northfield, be put on rollers so that it can be moved around to different locations prior to it being auctioned at the Northfield Historical Society’s annual auction in November.
See Ingvoldstad’s woodscuplture.net website for more about his work. See the album of 20 photos (some of the photos are by Ross Currier) or this slideshow:
Meredith Fierke held her a release show at The Grand Event Center last night for her new CD, The Procession.
ArtSwirl 08 kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday. See the PDF poster, Jessica Paxton’s blog post on N.org, and the NAG’s ArtSwirl web page.
See the 2007 ArtSwirl beach party photo album or this slideshow:
See the 2004 ArtSwirl photo album or this slideshow:
The 25th National Night Out, sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), is tomorrow night. The Northfield PD, under the marginally-able direction of Sgt. Mark Murphy, will host this year’s event from 5 to 8 p.m in front of the Safety Center. Ames Park will be used for parking, since 5th St. and the Water St. parking lot are still under construction. Saturday’s Nfld News has more info.
See the 15 photos from the 2007 album or this slideshow:
See the 79 photos from the 2005 album or this slideshow:
See the 95 photos from the 2004 album or this slideshow:
Members of the James-Younger Gang ambushed the America in Bloom (AIB) judges while they were touring the Northfield Historical Society Bank Site and Museum yesterday. The Gang then hauled them off to their secret encampment along the Cannon River where they were force-fed beer and campfire-cooked grub while listening to geezers singing.
See the album of 26 photos or this slideshow:
The first annual Annie Get Your Girlfriends health fair (previous blog post here) was held on Friday aft/eve.
See the album of a dozen photos or this slideshow:
See the album of 3 dozen Crazy Daze 2008 photos or this slideshow:
Steamroller Dave Machacek has a photo album of the activities at ArtOrg’s steamroller printing tent at Crazy Daze.
See his ArtOrg 1000 print summer project blog post for more info.
The Northfield Garden Club held a lemonade and cookies party yesterday morning in Riverside Park for residents of Millstream Commons. In another sign of how the recession is hitting all aspects of life in Northfield, however, there were not enough cookies for all the residents who showed up. Club members quickly improvised and substituted cookie-like rocks on the plates of several residents. “We knew we might run short because of the skyrocketing cost of cookie dough but we thought that those residents with failing eyesight and marginal tastebuds might not notice the substitutions,” said club member Millie Whirlland.
Residents who got the rocks on their plates instead of the cookies saw through the scheme, however. “I’m used to eating cookies that taste like crap,” said Lynn Seebeck. “My children and grandchildren bring me their month-old cast-off cookies all the time. But these were over-the-top bad. Who do they take us for?”
See the album of a baker’s dozen photos or this slideshow:
Six guys + a linoleum mat on a concrete divider + a boombox = summertime entertainment on downtown Northfield’s west side tonight at about 9 pm.
See the photo album or this slideshow, then watch the video below:
Click play to watch. 1 min, 25 sec.
I took these photos of Malt-O-Meal’s Ames Mill and the Ames Mill dam, Froggy Bottoms, the offices of Hvistendahl, Moersch & Dorsey, Riverwalk, the 4th Street bridge last week… 6 at night and 8 in the early morning.
See the album or this slideshow:
Yesterday was a picture-perfect hometown 4th. See the photos of the kiddie parade, kids carnival, kids dance, criterium bike race, vintage baseball (thanks to Susan Hvistendahl), rock bands, and fireworks from the footbridge.
See the album of 100+ photos or this slideshow:
Last night was night #3 of the First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music.
The cold front came through earlier in the day, bringing some wet and dreary-looking skies in the afternoon. Weather radar showed a massive, spinning low pressure system over the entire states of Minnesota and Wisconsin that indicated the entire night would be wet.
A massive hunt for additional virgins to be sacrificed to the weather gods was conducted around 4 pm throughout downtown Northfield, packed with women shoppers at the time, but alas, none could be found. Crossed fingers, however, did the trick. The front spun the rain to our north and south and the event remained dry the entire night.
Performances in order of appearance: Fish Frye, Loafers, Matthew Bunch, Gospel Gossip, Jon Manners, The Zillionaires.
See the album of seven dozen photos from last night or this slideshow:
Last night was night #2 of the First Annual JuneBug Festival of Music. Very few virgins needed to be sacrificed to the weather gods to ward off approaching thunderstorms. The evening was warm and the stars shone all night long.
Performances: Occasional Jazz, Blue Moon, Meredith Fierke, and Last Known Whereabouts.
Performances today begin at 3 PM and include:
See the album of two dozen photos from last night or this slideshow:
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