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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.
The Minnesota History Center’s blockbuster “1968″ exhibit has definitely got museum visitors talking – during and after the exhibit. Having made but one pilgrimage to the MHC for the exhibit I have been mulling it over in the aftermath of what I do hope is the first of several visits during the month to come.
As any follower of all things Polish knows, Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in Poland.
Minnesotans are eagerly awaiting the Nordic Skiing Paralympics scheduled for February 1-2 at Theodore Wirth Park, 1301 Theodore Wirth Parkway. The international event, organized by the US Olympic Committee, features teams from Argentina, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Switzerland the US.
It’s frigid outside, but it’s a hot night on Thomas Edison High School on Thursday, January 19. It’s the 4th annual Middle School Night with a full evening of fun and great basketball.
Every summer Minnesotans head Southwest for the hills, eager to visit the mountains or the Coast – and every trip means a stop at the Wall Drug or the Corn Palace in Mitchell, by legend the only places worthy of a pit stop in South Dakota. The good news – there is a treasure to be explored in Gregory, South Dakota. It’s a treasure well wor Continue Reading
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) will open soon open their new headquarters at 2522 Marshall Street Northeast in the Marshall T
Windom Park Citizens in Action (WPCiA) will meet Tuesday, January 17, 7 p.m. at the Pillsbury School park addition, 2251 Hayes Street NE (enter on the north side of the building)
For reasons too numerous and too vague to recall, Epiphany, the Feast of the Three Kings, has always been a special day for me. Continue Reading
One of the most perplexing challenges facing Northeasters, residents, commercial enterprises, land use, health and economic planners, is the future of Continue Reading
For many Minnesotans, the media, shopping centers, nonprofit fundraisers and tax collectors it’s common knowledge that January 1 marks the first day of the year – Sunday we will wake up in a world in which it’s 2012 – even in Samoa. Or is it?