PLAN IT February 3, 2022

‘GICHIGAMI HEARTS’ event
Birchbark Books in Minneapolis will host a virtual event for the new book “Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong” by Duluth author Linda LeGarde Grover on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. Grover will give a short talk and reading, as well as take questions from the audience. Long before there was a Duluth, Minn., the massive outcropping that divides the city emerged from the ridge of gabbro rock running along the westward shore of Lake Superior. A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place, the Point of Rocks. Against this backdrop – Misaabekong, the place of the giants – the lives chronicled in Linda LeGarde Grover’s book unfold, some in myth, some in long-ago times, some in an imagined present, and some in the author’s family history, all with a deep and tenacious bond to the land, one another, and the Ojibwe culture.
Within the larger history, Grover tells the story of her ancestors’ arrival at the American Fur Post in far western Duluth more than 200 years ago. Their fortunes and the family’s future are inextricably entwined with tales of marriages to voyageurs, relocations to reservation lands, encounters with the spirits of the lake and wood creatures, the renewal of life—in myth and in art, the search for meaning in the transformations of our day is always vital.

ECLECTIC ORGAN MUSIC MARCH 27
Mount Olive Music and Fine Arts presents Dr. David Hurd in an organ recital of eclectic music with improvisations. The recital takes place at 4 p.m., on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 3045 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the event if pandemic conditions allow.