Minnehaha Park

And people should know, you're south of 94, basically, on the eastern side of Minneapolis.

So Minnehaha Falls, is Minnehaha Falls in your district? Yes.

Right on the border of my district, yeah.

Things that people would know, you know, we have a big chunk of the Mississippi.

We're right on the border of Minnehaha Falls, and we're also right on the border where Matt's bar is.

So usually those are good coordinates for people.

I went to school at Brown when it was down there in your district.

I also look at the way that some of the larger water system owners around us handle water mainlining projects.

If you drive through south Minneapolis right now in the area of Minnehaha Creek, I'm sorry, Minnehaha Falls, you'll drive by a whole bunch of 96 inch Pieces of 96-inch corrugated metal pipe that are about six feet long, and they're sitting on the sidewalk, and then some of them are already inserted into the street, and it's the Minneapolis water.

They use their own excavating crews.

They go out and they establish those accesses, and I don't have first-hand knowledge of this, but the benefits that I see are that now they only have a contract with one contractor, and that's the water mainlining contractor.

A popular spot to let your dog run free has an official date set for when your pet will need to be on a leash, starting December 21st.

All dogs will need to be leashed at Minnehaha Regional Park, according to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

That's because over the summer, the board determined an off-leash dog park is not compatible with the area.

It's due to the land's deep cultural, spiritual, historical, and archaeological significance to Dakota people and other tribal nations and indigenous communities.

He's not making it up.

No, it's called the Minnehaha Creek, flowed out of Lake Minnetonka to the Minnehaha Falls and ultimately...

It sounds like Hiawatha.

Okay.

It's just because it's bazonkers.

And there's a trail that goes down along past Minnehaha Falls down towards Fort Snelling, the actual old fort.

So you're going down into the river bottom where the Mississippi and the Minnesota rivers meet.

meet up and it's a beautiful trail really smooth and nice and so yeah we go down there and poodle around down in the in the flood plain near the rivers and we saw a bunch of egrets and great blue herons doing their thing we stopped and kind of checked them out and then we came back up so yeah great ride just wonderful

It's much nicer than on the other side of the river, in my opinion, for the bike path.

You can basically go down to, like, Minnehaha Falls area, or you can go the other way and you're in downtown pretty quickly.

This bridge, when they redid this, it was a nightmare when they were doing it because of all the cars backed up, but it is really, really nice, and it really does show you, like, the quality of life improvements that happen from transportation projects like this.

And these things last, you know, a very long time.

Here's artistic director Brian Dowdy introducing the piece.

much like the layers of rock that are beneath this building right now that we walk on every day, that we might see if we look over the Grand Canyon or at the walls around Minnehaha Falls, like those layers which Marcia Björnerud calls the rock record, a text on which you can read the autobiography of the earth, much like those layers in Niloufar's piece, Each section of the orchestra, the strings and the woodwinds and the brass and the percussion and piano, get their own material, very much distinct from the rest of the orchestra, but each of those sections plays at the same time, so that for you, listening to the piece, it's not unlike looking at the majestic layers of a canyon or, again, the walls around Minnehaha Falls.

The other thing that Nilo's piece does is invite us into an expansive sense of time, a very different time than we live in day to day, a very different time than what helped you show up here at 730.

And that is what Marsha Bjornrud calls geologic time.

A good example of this concept of like people don't understand infrastructure in general is I went to go visit my uncle a few years ago, who lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

And in the middle of Minneapolis, sort of almost between Minneapolis and St. Paul, is Minnehaha Falls-

Mm

... which is like this very naturalized park area, but in the middle of this urbanized [laughs]