Show 24 - Minnehaha Memories
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Minnehaha
The song, "Minnehaha," by Katy Wehr, inspired us to share our many good memories of times spent at the locations mentioned in her song.
Special thanks to Katy Wehr for sharing her song about Minnehaha!
About Katy:
People and Place. These things are invariable linked with music for singing along with her brother and sister to the pianola in the basement, church hymn-sings, the shared precision and joy of choirs and musical theatre or just making harmonies with mom in the kitchen. Growing up along the banks of the Minnehaha Creek near Minneapolis, Katy found lots to sing about and she was always unconsciously breaking the no-singing-at-the-dinner-table rule.
The Song of Hiawatha
The places mentioned in the song "Minnehaha" were made familiar worldwide by The Song of Hiawatha, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow was an American poet, famous for writing "Paul Revere's Ride."
A short extract of "The Song of Hiawatha" is anthologized under the title "Hiawatha's Childhood."
It is this short extract that begins with the famous lines:
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River
Saint Anthony Falls was named for Saint Anthony of Padua, his patron saint, by Father Louis Hennepin in 1680.
Saint Anthony is the patron saint of Padua, as well as Lisbon. He is also remembered as the namesake for the city of San Antonio, Texas; Spanish explorers in the area stopped there on Saint Anthony's feast day ( June 13) in 1691, and named the river and settlement after him.
St. Anthony was in the Franciscan Order, and wanted to follow in the steps of St. Francis of Assisi, whose story is told in the 1972 movie, "Brother Sun, Sister Moon".
The John H. Stevens house was moved, in 1896, with the help of ten thousand school children, to a location near Minnehaha Creek from downtown Minneapolis, near St. Anthony Falls.
Minnehaha Creek, Falls, and Lakes
When Joanna was a little girl, we lived in Orono on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
In the song, "Minnehaha," the creek begins at Lake Minnetonka and flows down to Minnehaha Falls, located in Minnehaha Park, near the Mississippi River.
Photo Links:
Minnehaha Creek, flows through the Minnehaha Parkway near Lake Harriet, later reaching Lake Nokomis and Lake Hiawatha. The creek next flows through Minnehaha Park and over Minnehaha Falls.
Additional photos of Minnehaha falls:
View of the Falls from below and Four Seasons of Minnehaha Falls.
Minnehaha creek finally flows into the Mississippi River, all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Saint Anthony Falls photos featuring the Minneapolis skyline.
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"Symmetry" by Edwin Derricott
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Music Credits
"Flow On Waterford River," by Jim Fidler
"Minnehaha," by Katy Wehr
"FLY FLY FLY," by Adrina Thorpe
"Symmetry," by Edwin Derricutt
"Bratislava," by Real Ones
"Hill Country Feeling," by Border Blasters
"Directo A Tu Corazon," by Jessica Smith-Wright
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