Cast Category: Untold Stories of Central MN
Operation Baby New Year Seeks 100,000 Diapers for Families in Need in the St. Cloud Area
In this December 2015 installment of The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we find a little bit of light in the darkness as we hear about a volunteer driven community effort that is striving to achieve a lofty goal this holiday season. It’s called “Operation Baby New Year” and the twenty-five or so folks who […]
Moliere’s Tartuffe Performed by the St. Cloud State University Theater Department
In this episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack once again heads down to St. Cloud State University’s Theater Department to talk with Vladimir Rovinsky, Hunter Goldsmith, Abigail Oelke on the eve of the premier of their production of Moliere’s controversial play Tartuffe. Originally performed in 1664, […]
Fulbright Scholar Scott Miller Brings Ensemble U to St. Cloud State University’s Creative Art Series
In this edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Music Professor Scott Miller and members of Ensemble U about their performance in St. Cloud State’s Creative Art Series. Miller met Ensemble U while he was lecturing at Estonia’s Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholar, […]
The Ghosts of Hester Park Tell Their Stories of Murder, Tornadoes, and Immigration
Have you ever wondered how Lake George got its name? Or who predicted the tornado of April 1886? Or even why this area hosts so many German Catholics? Well, in this edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits Hester Park as the Northside-Hester Park Neighborhood Association […]
Teague Alexy’s Musical and Literary Innovation The New Folklore: Lyrical Tale for Dreamers and Thinkers
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with local musician Teague Alexy about his ambitious new musical and literary project The New Folklore: Lyrical Tales for Dreamers & Thinkers. Just released this week by North Star Press, The New Folklore is an illustrated book […]
Sartell Paper Mill Public Art Project Comes to Completion in Watab Park
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack revisits a group of artists and construction workers as they install the Sartell Paper Mill Public Art Project in Sartell’s Watab Park. Formerly known as the Verso Paper Mill, the Sartell Mill closed its doors after a major […]
Online Group #unitecloud Takes Up the Struggle Against Racism in St. Cloud
UniteCloud is an online forum for discussing and organizing community responses to the very real problem of racism in our area, and in today’s instalment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota co-founder Natalie Ringsmuth and SCSU Professor Catherine Verrilli are in the studio to discuss with Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack how […]
International Performance Artist Tim Miller Visits SCSU Creative Art Series
Using humor to address the complicated issues of the artistic, spiritual, and political nature of being gay, Tim Miller was in town for the SCSU Creative Art Series in late September 2015. In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with this internationally renowned performance […]
There Are Hundreds of Ghost Towns in Minnesota and Author Rhonda Fochs Discusses Them and How She Found Them
Did you know that there are around 1,000 ghost towns in Minnesota? Well, in this Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with author and ghost town expert Rhonda Fochs about these remnants of times long gone and what caused some towns to vanish while others survived. This program […]
The Search for Fort Holes, Dakota Conflict Era Settlers Fort, Begins on the SCSU Campus
Today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is about a critical St. Cloud building that hasn’t existed for over 100 years and the Minnesota Historical Society grant to find it. The project “Fortifying St. Cloud: Searching for Fort Holes, a Dakota Conflict Era Settlers Fort” got underway in September 2015 on the St. Cloud State University […]
