Day 1 of the Taste of Northfield was pretty much a bust due to the severe weather in the area. Good thing there’s going to be Day 2 tomorrow. At…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
This is a new version of a familiar image in Northfield. What is it? And what does it remind you of?
I’ve nagged Ross for over a year to register a domain name and set up a webpage for the Taste of Northfield and he completely ignored me, hurting my feelings.…
While taking photos of the St. Olaf Memorial Chime Tower on Wednesday, I noticed the bumblebees going in and out of these roses. I was abble to get close…
St. Olaf’s Memorial Chime Tower was featured on MPR’s new Minnesota Today service this week in a Minnesota Sounds piece titled Northfield: Memorial wind chimes ring through St. Olaf.
A wooden tower on the quad at St. Olaf College houses 21 sets of wind chimes. Built in 2003, the tower and its chimes memorialize students who have died while attending the college.
The chimes are tuned to D, the key of the hymn "Beautiful Savior." On windy days, the sound of the chimes reaches almost every corner of campus. Pastor Bruce Benson tells the story of the college’s memorial wind chimes and what their sounds signify.
When the sun came out on Tuesday, I took some photos of the Memorial Chime Tower. I tried to capture the sounds but the noise of jets, trains and nearby construction machinery kept interfering.
There’s a poem on a placard attached to the tower, written by Mac Gimse, Professor Emeritus of Art. I found the text of it online in his speech for the Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at St. Olaf College on April 21, 2006:
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I took this video last week of Anna Balfany, daughter of NDDC board member Anastasia Balfany, performing her new song, ‘4pm to 10,’ during Jessica Paxton’s All Wheel Drive show on KYMN 1080 AM. She’ll be performing it live on Bridge Square, tomorrow and Friday for the 2010 Taste of Northfield.
Anna wrote and performed a song called ‘The Taste’ for last year’s Taste of Northfield. See the video and lyrics:
There’s an article on the front page of today’s Business Section in the StarTribune titled A new kind of speech features Northfield-based SpeechGear and their Auditory Sciences subsidiary. (The online headline “Northfield-based SpeechGear transcribes in real time for deaf” is misleading since their product is not only for the deaf.)
Back in January, I visited their offices and got a demonstration of their software from Sean Virnig, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Auditory Sciences and SpeechGear CEO Robert Palmquist.
See my video of a demonstration of the software’s English-to-Spanish translation, as well as the software transcript of another part of my interview:
Emily Northey, Minnesota Main Street Program Coordinator with Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, joined us this week for a chat about historic commercial districts like we have in downtown Northfield. She and the board were in town Monday afternoon for a long-range planning retreat at the Archer House.
Ross has written about the program here and here on the NDDC blog: