Shimmering blue line : the St. Croix River in pen, brush and music
Title:
Shimmering blue line : the St. Croix River in pen, brush and music
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ISBN:
9780615393766
Publication Information:
[Stillwater, MN : s.n.], 2010.
Physical Description:
120 p. : ill. ; 27 x 31 cm. + 1 sound disc.
Contents:
Confluence -- Origins -- Cutaway, Wisconsin -- Brute intelligence -- Fast freight -- Sandstone -- Tides of ice -- A turtle disaster -- Heavy metal -- Behind the picture -- Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) -- Nicks and cuts -- Moonlight ride -- Arteries -- Making a mussel -- Spiritual expectations -- Vultures (Cathartes aura) -- Winter night in the bottomlands -- Hillside fire (Rhus glabra and Rhus hirta) -- To the ridge -- The derelict -- Great blue neighbor (Ardea herodias) -- In the swim -- Lessons from a tree -- Rarity -- Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) -- River not taken -- High and mighty -- A partnership of 1,216 -- Mist -- Dam nation (Castor canadensis) -- Godot and the Skipjack herring (Elliptio crassidens) -- Lowell Park -- Syruping -- Lakefront Park -- On the big boats -- Streaks of white -- Voices of the river -- Extinction events -- Point Douglas -- Two bridges.
CD: Bracken -- Old town hall -- Namekegon -- Cutaway -- Lakeside Park -- Flood stage -- Jed's tune -- Prescott Island -- Slow water -- Norway Point -- Danbury waltz -- Pot hole grind -- Catfish bar -- Shimmering blue line -- Lady's slipper waltz.
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Summary:
The St. Croix River is a national treasure that traverses a forested landscape from northern Wisconsin to the Mississippi River at Prescott. The river is many things to many people--a recreational resource, a national park, a water highway, a fishery, a sanctuary for wildlife, and a masterpiece of visual beauty. Here is a book that celebrates the river in an enduring collection of paintings, essays, and a CD of original music. The paintings represent 40 years of artist James Wilcox Dimmers's work on the St. Croix. The essays and music are by Don Mitchell, a violinist and writer who has also lived and worked in the valley for 35 years--from Website.
