Big Stone Lake Stories

03/27/2025

Follow We Are Water MN for more updates about the We Are Water MN exhibit in Ortonville through Aprill 22, 2025.

03/27/2025

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Do you feel a connection to a specific waterbody? 🌊

Judy Beckman is a storyteller in the community of Ortonville. Judy has shared her gift for storytelling through various projects, striving to preserve stories that might otherwise be lost. In a recent episode of The Watershed podcast, together we discuss the history of Big Stone Lake.

🔉Listen in at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/30MxPMvjD8O2RVuDdSWbxA?si=XA1j0BGqTu-YujSe3lyGow

10/31/2024

Exciting news - the Big Stone Lake Stories project is the subject of a featured article in the latest issue of Open Rivers! Thanks to all the collaborators, participants, and funders! The story lives on...

We are excited to announce Issue 27 | Prospect!
https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/

This collection of articles invites us to view our environmental conditions from a new perspective, using art, language, experience, and a sense of hope. How can art, connection, and creativity influence our environmental prospects?

Witness Writers Owámniyomni Okhódayapi Jonee Brigham

10/05/2020

You are invited to an online poetry reading which will include the poem, "Big Stone Lake Stories," by Jonee Kulman Brigham, inspired by the environmental art camp of the same name in summer 2018, at Bonanza Education Center.

Margaret Hasse, Ronald j Palmer, Jonee Kulman Brigham, and Richard Terrill. Host: Roslye Ultan. Details are here:

09/17/2020

Thanks for your reflections on time spent with us on "The Bump," Jonee!

A place where words matter

05/06/2020

Still drawing inspiration from my time by Big Stone Lake and collaborations with Don Sherman, Jeanie Stube Kanten, Lee Kanten, John G. White, Cassy Olson and more.

A place where words matter

10/06/2018

Lee Kanten is here virtually by video showing him working with kids performing at Corn Fest.

10/06/2018

Big Stone Lake Stories camp images and artifacts on display at Meander site #38 at Bonanza Education Center...open throughout Sunday.

09/29/2018

Link to Facebook Event Page Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (SMAC) is hosting their annual celebration in Ortonville today. Members ...

09/07/2018

A nice article by Dillon Dwyer! (Correction on first photo caption: Ryan Bjerke is the hydrologist pictured.)

09/05/2018

At the junction of art and science...