What stories about life in Lanesboro do you have to share? If you could offer a tour to friends or visitors, what would you show and tell them about this place? Join Shanai Matteson from Be Here: Main Street, Sandy Webb from the Lanesboro Historical Museum, Michael Seiler and other neighbors for a storytelling circle and workshop in the meeting room at the Cottage House Inn. Together, we’ll share Lanesboro stories, and will begin to generate ideas for unique audio and video tours of Lanesboro and other cultural storytelling projects.
Shanai Matteson is a writer, artist, and arts organizer with Water Bar & Public Studio, a bar that serves free local tap water, and also functions as an art space and incubator of collaborative projects on water, place, and environment. She also serves as a state coordinator for participation in Minnesota with Be Here: Main Street, a pilot project developed through a partnership between the MuseWeb Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program. The project has led to the creation of an interactive Be Here: Main Street map, with audio stories from Lanesboro, and a Be Here: Lanesboro Soundcloud page.
Sandy Webb is director of the Lanesboro Historical Museum, a museum and cultural center dedicated to telling Lanesboro’s story by collecting, preserving, organizing, and displaying our historical and genealogical artifacts. Several of the stories featured in the Museum’s phone booth storytelling kiosk where collected through the Be Here: Main Street project.
Michael Seiler is a goldsmith and jewelry designer in Lanesboro, MN and is interested in helping use technology, tours and storytelling to promote Lanesboro and the Bluff Country region online. He has established a new YouTube channel focused on Lanesboro.