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Please check out my blog at:http://marytreacy.wordpress.com One time librarian and former executive director of the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information I am currently a very happy independent consultant exploring untold options. My passion is to contribute the bit I am able to an informed and engaged community in which everyone's story can be told - and heard. This means using a dynamic array of media - newspapers, websites, television, radio, social media and whatever comes on line tomorrow. It means being willing to plumb the depths of a story - and it means having the courtesy, if not the intellectual curiosity, to learn from others. My sons are both enmeshed in the information maze. Rick Birmingham is the Manager of IT Services at MAP for Nonprofits. Steve Birmingham works his magic on the public access terminals in Hennepin County Library. Grandson Will Birmingham, 19 months, loves food, slides, puddles and books - in that order. A graduate of what was then the College of St. Catherine I went on to get a MS in Library Science. Truth to tell, I didn't work in real libraries that much, but I did work 18 years as Director of Metronet, a collaboration of nearly 600 public, academic, corporate, medical, school and other libraries and information services in the TC's. In recent years I've worked in a number of consulting positions, most notably the Sisters of St. Joseph Ministries Foundation. As a hapless volunteer I've worked with a host of nonprofits including the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, Learning in Style, the DFL Education Foundation, the Village Farmers Market among others. I've also written several pieces for TCDP. In recent weeks I've been joined the throngs of scribe wannabes by launching my own little blog called Poking Around With Mary - because poking around is what I do a good deal of the time.
Crime After Crime is a powerful documentary film that tells the dramatic legal battle to free Debbie Paegler, a domestic abuse victim imprisoned for over a quarter century because of her connection to the murder of the man who abused her.
Ask any Northeaster of a certain age and you’ll hear a story—a first date, the lush décor, the classic movie featuring the glamorous stars of another day. Ask a 21st century newcomer and you’ll hear a story of a rundown eyesore covered with tattered placards. Ask a preservationist and you’ll learn just why the Hollywood is an architectural treasure of historic import. There are clear differences of memory—and opinion—surrounding the Hollywood Theater, 2815 Johnson Northeast in Minneapolis.
Ask any Northeaster of an age and you’ll hear a story – a first date, the lush décor, the classic movie featuring glamorous stars and starling of another day. Ask a 21st Century newcomer and you’ll hear a story of a rundown eyesore covered with tattered placards. Ask a preservationist and you’ll learn just why the Hollywood is an architectural treasure of historic import. Continue Reading
Though passersby speeding up and down Stinson Parkway (the number and their speed seems to increase each day) may scarcely notice, the joggers, dog walkers and stroller pushers of Windom and Audubo
Not so long ago the heritage of Native Americans was passed on by oral tradition only. At some point, Native people began telling their stories to white newcomers who translated the oral into written forms. Today American Indian writers combine the two parallel, though very different forms of expression. Continue Reading
The Windom Park/Pillsbury Community Carnival and Johnstock just a few blocks away offer an irresistible invitation to visit these beautiful communities, lush with gardens, flowering trees and friendly neighbors.
Summer strollers through lovely Windom Park may catch a popcorn aroma on Friday evenings.
At first blush the thought of a stage adaptation of a 2nd Century novel might fail to stir the drama neophyte’s soul.
In recent days I’ve been bumbling around my brain looking for a way to think and then write about Children’s Book Week, May 7-13, 2012 I have plumbed the digital depths of new books for children, bookstores, publishers, writers, illustrators, library programs, awards, children’s book centers and more. Continue Reading
One of the joys of living in Northeast Minneapolis is the annual Windom Park Carnival. This year it’s Friday June 1, 5:00-8:00 PM at Windom Park, 2251 Hayes, at the corner of Johnson and Lowr