Issue One : Fall 2015

University of Minnesota campus and the Mississippi River. Image courtesy of University of Minnesota.

Teaching About Rivers

By Patrick Nunnally Teaching about rivers is complicated. Higher education has for the past century and a half, or longer, been divided into academic disciplines…

Engagement Planning / Policy Upper Mississippi River

University of Minnesota on the Mississippi River looking towards St. Anthony Falls. Image from the Metropolitan Design Center Image Bank. Copyright Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Introduction

Introduction to Issue One

By Patrick Nunnally, Editor Welcome to the Inaugural issue of Open Rivers: Rethinking the Mississippi! What is there to say about the Mississippi River…

Perspectives

The New Madrid Levee: A New Take on an Enduring Conflict

By Olivia Dorothy, Patrick Nunnally Open Rivers contacted Olivia Dorothy [OD], Associate Director for Mississippi River management at American Rivers. American Rivers is a…

Lower Mississippi River Planning / Policy Policy

"No Place Like Home": Remembering the Bohemian Flats, Panel One from "Bohemian Flats: One Place, Many Voices,” exhibited at Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, April 30 through November 1, 2015. Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society.

In Review

“Remembering the Bohemian Flats”: An Exhibit and a Practice of Public Memory

By Laurie Moberg “Remembering the Bohemian Flats: One Place, Many Voices,” exhibited at Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, April 30 through November 1, 2015. From…

Anthropology Engagement Upper Mississippi River

River Life's River Atlas showing the mussel collection.

Geographies

Mussels: A River Life Atlas Collection

By Joanne Richardson One of the key components of people’s sense of self is a sense of place, which becomes a meaningful precursor for knowing…

Science Upper Mississippi River

Primary Sources

An Enchanted Landscape: Remembering Historic Swede Hollow

By Stefanie Kowalczyk Tucked away in a glacially carved ravine along Phalen Creek, a tributary of the Mississippi River, just a stone’s throw from the…

Engagement History Upper Mississippi River

Aerial view of the Hernando de Soto Bridge across the Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee and West Memphis, Arkansas, USA. The bridge was opened in 1973 and carries six lanes of Interstate 40 across the river. View is from the Arkansas side to the east-southeast across the river to Memphis. Photographer Larry Donald, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Feature

We asked a diverse group of river people to respond to the prompt “How did you come to know the Mississippi River? What does it mean, to you, to know the Mississippi River?” We present below a few of the responses, in no particular order.

Arts History International Legal Literature Mississippi River Basin North America

Mississippi River from overlook on campground road, Great River Bluffs State Park, Minnesota, USA. Photographer McGhiever. Used under Creative Commons license CC BY-SA.

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

History Legal Lower Mississippi River North America Planning / Policy Upper Mississippi River

New Orleans: Mississippi River and Crescent City Connection. Photographer Wally Gobetz. Image used under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND.

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

Arts History North America Planning / Policy Upper Mississippi River

The Mississippi River north of Minneapolis, where the river has gentle shores, before it enters its only gorge in south Minneapolis.

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

Arts Geography History Lower Mississippi River North America Upper Mississippi River

Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue One

By Patrick Nunnally, Editor Welcome to the Inaugural issue of Open Rivers: Rethinking the Mississippi! What is there to say about the Mississippi River...

By Patrick Nunnally, Editor

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

We asked a diverse group of river people to respond to the prompt “How did you come to know the Mississippi River? What does...

By Sharon Day, Bernard Williams, Christopher Morris, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Craig Colten

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

We asked a diverse group of river people to respond to the prompt “How did you come to know the Mississippi River? What does...

By Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, Jennifer Browning, John O. Anfinson, Mark Davis

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

We asked a diverse group of river people to respond to the prompt “How did you come to know the Mississippi River? What does...

By Mona M. Smith, Mark Muller, Mark Gorman, Patrick Hamilton, Richard M. Mizelle, Jr.

Feature

Knowing the Mississippi

We asked a diverse group of river people to respond to the prompt “How did you come to know the Mississippi River? What does...

By Sandra B. Zellmer, Angela Miller, Thomas Ruys Smith, T.S. McMillin, Wes Modes

In Review

“Remembering the Bohemian Flats”: An Exhibit and a Practice of Public Memory

By Laurie Moberg “Remembering the Bohemian Flats: One Place, Many Voices,” exhibited at Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, April 30 through November 1, 2015. From...

By Laurie Moberg

Geographies

Mussels: A River Life Atlas Collection

By Joanne Richardson One of the key components of people’s sense of self is a sense of place, which becomes a meaningful precursor for knowing...

By Joanne Richardson

Perspectives

The New Madrid Levee: A New Take on an Enduring Conflict

By Olivia Dorothy, Patrick Nunnally Open Rivers contacted Olivia Dorothy [OD], Associate Director for Mississippi River management at American Rivers. American Rivers is a...

By Olivia Dorothy, Patrick Nunnally

Teaching and Practice

Teaching About Rivers

By Patrick Nunnally Teaching about rivers is complicated. Higher education has for the past century and a half, or longer, been divided into academic disciplines...

By Patrick Nunnally

Primary Sources

A Home Worth Fighting For: The Evictions at the Bohemian Flats

By Rachel Hines When University of Minnesota students walk across the Washington Avenue Bridge between the East Bank and West Bank campuses, they not...

By Rachel Hines

Primary Sources

An Enchanted Landscape: Remembering Historic Swede Hollow

By Stefanie Kowalczyk Tucked away in a glacially carved ravine along Phalen Creek, a tributary of the Mississippi River, just a stone’s throw from the...

By Stefanie Kowalczyk

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