The Watershed19 Mar 2025

For the Love of Rivers: History of Big Stone Lake

The Watershed is a podcast of We Are Water MN. In this episode, we hear from community storyteller Judy Beckman.

The We Are Water MN exhibit will be hosted in Big Stone County from March 15 through April 21, 2025. The main exhibit will be at the Alley Cat, while additional indoor exhibits will be on view at Ortonville Public Schools. After Big Stone County, the exhibit will move to Ely (Ely Folk School), Minneapolis (Downtown Improvement District), Henderson (Ney Nature Center), and Bloomington (MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge).

You can learn more about We Are Water MN at www.mnhum.org/water.

Learn more about Big Stone County’s hosting of the exhibit, plus related events on the MPCA website.

You can find more on Big Stone County here.

Special thanks to Chandra Colvin, who conducted this interview, which was initially featured in Big Stone Arts Council’s hosting. Thank you to Judy Beckman, our interviewee for this episode.

You can find We Are Water MN on Facebook,and Instagram, follow along for the latest updates!

This episode of The Watershed was produced by Sienna Ecker, and by We Are Water MN, which is led by the Minnesota Humanities Center in partnership with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; the Minnesota Historical Society; the Board of Water and Soil Resources; the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources; and University of Minnesota Extension.

We are Water MN is funded in part with money from the Clean Water, Land, & Legacy Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Music credits: Gymnopedies 2, Jadie Grange, Gymnopedies 1 by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue ).

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