The blockbuster exhibit “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” will make its final U.S. stop at the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown St. Paul June 13 through August 24, 2008.
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Where’s Babe? As in “Babe, the Blue Ox,” sidekick to the legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan. This summer, in the Brainerd Lakes area, it will seem like Babe is everywhere.
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Penumbra Theatre, a St. Paul company that focuses on the African American experience, will present August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” at the Guthrie Theater April 18 through May 11, 2008.
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With 34,000 campsites in almost 800 campgrounds, most of them lakeside, Minnesota is almost custom-made for camping and touring by RV. In fact, this July St. Paul will be hosting the Family Motor Coach Association’s convention. This gathering will draw about 5,000 motorhomes and 10,000-15,000 participants to the State Fairgrounds.
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One hundred years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the papers that established the first national forest east of the Mississippi River, the Minnesota National Forest in the heart of the state. In 1928, it was renamed the Chippewa National Forest. This vast area of lakes and woods is about 50 miles wide and 60 miles long.
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A ribbon of trail curls through the bucolic countryside in the heart of Minnesota, providing 127 smooth, paved miles of biking. It’s currently the longest continuous stretch of bike trail in the state, and certainly one of the longest in the country. But the folks in Lake Wobegon don’t brag about such things, so it’s still relatively undiscovered.
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This is a listing of most of Minnesota’s county fairs, though some fairs had not confirmed their dates when this issue of the Explorer went to press. Listings note the county name followed by the city where the fair is held.
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Duluth will welcome three tall ships into the harbor August 1-3, with on-board tours of these fascinating replicas of historic vessels. The ships will be in port as part of the Duluth Maritime Festival, celebrating the state’s Sesquicentennial. There will be a concert at Bayfront Festival Park Saturday evening, with other entertainment planned for the weekend, as well.
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Geocaching: A High-Tech Hunt for Minnesota HistoryGeocaching, a kind of high-tech treasure hunt, is at the center of a new program that Minnesota State Parks is rolling out for the summer of 2008 in celebration of the state’s 150th birthday. Geocaching, which has become very popular in the past few years, is a modern hide-and-seek game using GPS (global positioning system) devices to track down a stash hidden at a location that has been posted on a website by latitude and longitude. The GPS is a hand-held, computerized navigational tool used to track these global coordinates via satellite technology.
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