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Evaluating The Local Event Experience In Winona, Emma-Lee A. Ihrke, Mason R. Carnell, Nicholas J. Mcnally, Trent B. Steuernagel
Evaluating The Local Event Experience In Winona, Emma-Lee A. Ihrke, Mason R. Carnell, Nicholas J. Mcnally, Trent B. Steuernagel
Research & Creative Achievement Day
There are numerous local events and festivals in Winona. Event organizers in Winona need to understand the event/festival experience to enhance the event/festival experience and grow further. For destination marketers in Winona, this information is crucial to attracting more visitors from outside, as local events and festivals are effective destination attractions. Collaborating with Frozen River Film Festival, RTTR370 – Festival and special event planning class will conduct research investigating the local event/festival experience in Winona as a class project. A survey including a series of questions regarding event experience was developed to collect data and will be distributed in early …
Remembering Wenonah: Colonialism And The Power Of Representation, Adam Gaffey, Monica De Grazia, Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, Jill Ahlberg Yohe
Remembering Wenonah: Colonialism And The Power Of Representation, Adam Gaffey, Monica De Grazia, Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, Jill Ahlberg Yohe
CLASP Lecture Series
This panel explores how the lover’s leap narrative and its representation of Native American figures has been used to forge distinctive visions of public memory both in and beyond Winona, Minnesota. For most, details of the lover’s leap are reduced to Wenonah’s fatal action, specifically how she protested her family’s rigid customs of arranged marriage by jumping to her death from a bluff atop the Mississippi River. The goal of this panel is to offer a fuller account of the purposes this story has served in popular memory and the implications of its persistence for different audiences, past and present. …