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Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories Women at the State Fair issue DEBRA FISHER GOLDSTEIN DEBRA CONTACTUS 651-646-3968 email: [email protected] www.womenspress.com Send a letter to the editor [email protected] Subscribe [email protected] Advertise [email protected] Suggest a story idea [email protected] Enter your online calendar listing at www.womenspress.com, click on Calendar, then “add event” 20 Join book activities [email protected] MWPSTAFF Publishers/Editors Kathy Magnuson, Norma Smith Olson AARON LINDBERG AARON CARRIE HARTMAN CARRIE Contributors Shannon Drury, Delma J. Francis, Betsy Gabler, Lori Hamilton, Carrie Hartman, Jessica Lourey, Nancy B. 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Condoms on a stick! 4 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 THISISSUE NORMASMITHOLSON Many faces of women at the fair KATHYMAGNUSON “It did take some courage to come, knowing that I might be the only lady delegate.” Jessie Walkup’s statement was recorded in the minutes of the Minnesota State Fair’s annual report. In 1912, she was the first woman delegate to serve on the Minnesota Agricultural Society’s board, representing Pipestone County. The first State Fair had been held in 1859, nearly 50 years earlier. In 1912, the Minnesota Women’s “Many Faces of Women.” A perform- Suffrage group had a booth at the fair. ing-arts festival was held in the evening Perhaps, not a surprise, there was also that featured women acting, singing, an anti-suffrage booth. reciting poetry and dancing. In this August issue, we share stories A highlight for Hawthorne was the and memories of women at the Great dedication of a large steel sculpture by September’s theme is “business- Minnesota Get-Together. When we Katherine Nash in honor of IWY. Nash women doing good.” How have you asked our readers to send their favorite was a professor of sculpture in what seen women in business be a force memories of the fair, Terri Berthiaume was then the University of Minnesota’s for good? Tell us a story in 150 words Hawthorne wrote recalling Women’s Studio Arts Department. “The plan- or less. Equality Day at the fair on Aug. 26, 1975, ning group decided we’d like to have Send to [email protected] which celebrated something that memorialized this in a Deadline: Aug. 10 women getting permanent way,” Hawthorne says. The September advertising sections: the right to vote sculpture stood on a pedestal outside of • Elder Guide and marked the fair’s administration building until • Grrrrls Go Green Guide International about six years ago, when it was moved • Spirituality Guide Women’s Year to the far northeast corner of the fair- • GoSeeDo Guide (IWY). grounds near the campground. Deadline: Aug. 10 “It was one of While there were conferences and the first times we other events happening around the Watch for the Minnesota Women’s came together in United States in 1975, to Hawthorne’s Directory with the September issue. a big group on knowledge, Minnesota was the only feminist issues,” state to choose this format. “I think it October’s theme is “politics as Hawthorne told says something about Minnesota and personal.” What issue caused you to the Women’s the fair — that it really is our great com- attend a political rally? What was Press of the ing together,” she says. your experience and what difference women’s efforts You can read Hawthorne’s prose poem did it make? Send up to 150 words to from nearly about the event on page 28, along with [email protected] 40 years ago. her 12-year-old granddaughter’s short The sculpture represents the Deadline: Sept. 10 fractured continents of the world. Hawthorne was poem about her State Fair memories. October advertising sections: The surface of the steel has been the co-chair of a Women at the fair are showcased in • Health Guide burnished to show scars and wars. planning group this issue — Brooke Blakey, the fair’s • Home Guide The pieces are joined together by for the day’s public information officer; Shirley • Voting Guide a pillar which is women coming events, working Barber, longtime food competition • Women and Pets Guide together to work for peace, with 32 women’s judge; Barb Schaller, top prizewinner • GoSeeDo Guide equality and development among organizations. of blue ribbons for her canned goods; Deadline: Sept. 10 people of the world. “It was a moment Teresa Anderson, radical crop artist, — words on the Katherine Nash of real coopera- and Mama Lou, Strong Woman. sculpture’s plaque tion and excite- When you go to the fair, bring along ment,” she says. Carrie Hartman’s illustrated map of Women bagpipers led the day’s women’s sites at the fair (see page 15). events. Mary Anderson, Gov. Wendell See if you can find Katherine Nash’s Anderson’s wife, presided over the “Year of the Woman” sculpture. opening ceremonies. Parade march- ers wore yellow sashes, honoring the and early suffragists. Banners with the IWY Co-Publishers symbol were carried in the parade and displayed throughout the day. The 4-H girls staged a presentation called the Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 5 YOURTHOUGHTS

Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For August we asked: What’s your amazing or amusing, unusual or unforgettable State Fair moment? See more on page 28 and online at www.womenspress.com.

A family tradition The fair’s cleanup fairies My first Minnesota State Fair was on a Sunday night I was a 4-Her who had stayed in the dorm at the fair in August of 1947. My mother went into labor during the several times. After graduation, I worked for the state fireworks. I was born 24 hours later. Extension Office and at fair time, our job was- to regis My husband and I attended the fair on a cool and misty ter all the animals. We again slept in the dorms, but our day 39 years later. After seeing Will Steger and his lead days were very long. Every night as we’d head back from sled dog at the grandstand, we rode the Ferris wheel. As the barn area to the 4-H building, the fairgrounds were we revolved over the fairgrounds, we talked about our a mess of paper — trash was all over from the 100,000 hopes for an adoptive daughter. Although we didn’t people who ate and drank there all day. However, just have a referral, I was certain that our future child would a few hours later, as we went back to work in the early be a State Fair baby just as I had been. morning, the fairgrounds were immaculate, thanks to an A few months later when the adoption agency gave us amazing night-time crew. I think of this every year when information about our daughter, we learned that she had, I attend the fair — all those who work at night to make in fact, been born during State Fair week. our day nicer. Barb Wilson, Bloomington Connie Anderson, Bloomington Stitches of honor My unforgettable State Fair was my first one, the Labor Day weekend before I began first grade. In later years, while teaching and reading the class “Charlotte’s Web,” I felt deja vu when seeing in print their family trip to the fair. I recalled a dizzying overstimulation for my 6-year- old self that day. When we got home that night, I was so tired I tripped on the step going into the house and somehow the door closed on my lower lip, cutting right through it. A trip to the ER ensued, and I began my first day of real school with three stitches inside and five out- side my chin, a testimony that my first State Fair had been exhaustingly exhilarating. Mary Brady, Minneapolis A mother pig’s ordeal My most unforgettable State Fair moment was observ- ing a sow (mother pig) being confined in a gestation crate for 21 days after giving birth. The purpose of this practice is purportedly to keep any piglets from being crushed or smothered by the mother pig. After 21 days, the sows are prodded to get up and walk to the truck for transport to slaughter while squealing loudly for their babies. Sharon Fortunak, Cottage Grove

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Barb Schaller and Shirley Barber have a symbiotic rela- tionship that finds them in the Creative Activities Build- ing of the Minnesota State Fair every year. Schaller, 69, has been winning blue ribbons for her canned goods since 1983. Barber, 75, has been judging those entries since 1997. Barb Schaller Both women have a mutual respect honor is given to the entrant who to somebody, but it sure as heck isn’t for one another, and both say they are earns the most points on their entries predictable to me.” involved for the fun of it. “It’s fun, in the canning categories in any given Schaller, who cans using the boil- and that’s it,” Schaller says. “It’s a year, and no one has won it as many ing water method, pays strict atten- hoot. It has presented me with oppor- times as Schaller has. tion to processing times. “I’m not tunities to have entirely too much fun Other proud moments have really interested in killing anybody,” for a woman my age — legally.” included a guest spot on Garrison she says. “I believe in safe canning The top canner Keillor’s “A Prairie Home practices.” Companion” show in 2008, where Schaller began canning only The judge Keillor proposed to her after she because her husband, Rob, threat- Barber appreciates Schaller’s com- gave him a jar of her corn relish. And ened to cut down the plum tree in mitment. “In canning, food safety is she had two of her jams featured in their back yard if she didn’t start critical,” she says. Gedney’s Blue Ribbon Line sold in doing something with the fruit that Judges accept only those items stores (now called Homestyle). Each dropped and impeded his lawn- that are processed according to safe jar sold netted Schaller a whopping mower. canning practices put forth by the half-cent royalty. “Famous I’ve got So she got some canning advice National Center for Home Food covered,” she jokes. “Rich I’m still from her Burnsville neighbor and Preservation. All entries are evalu- waiting for.” was told to simply follow the direc- ated, but the judges narrow the lot to Ask Schaller what her secret is, and tions on the back of a container of 25 that they will actually taste. Entries she is honest. “Heck if I know,” she Sure-Jell pectin. Schaller did as she that are not processed, labeled, sealed says. was told, entered some of her plum or filled properly don’t make the cut, She points to 2012 as a good exam- jelly in the fair competition — and the Barber says. ple, her best year ever. She entered rest is blue-ribbon history. For jellies, jams, butters, pickles the exhibitor maximum of 20 entries “There’s nothing like success to and relishes, judges award points and 17 of them placed, earning eight encourage a person, and I’ve never based on the following 100-point first-place awards. The following looked back,” Schaller says. scale: 35 points for food safety and year she won only three blue ribbons. One highlight for Schaller has been processing, 15 for general appear- “I mopped up” in 2012, Schaller winning the Prestigious Processor ance, 15 for product quality, and 35 says. The next year, she continues, “I of the Pantry award five times. The for flavor and texture. was the floor. … It may be predictable Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 9

Barber says she has seen great improve- ment in the quality of products since she started judging for Creative Activities. Trends she has noticed include using wine and herbs in jams and jellies, hot- ter salsas, and more men entering items, especially salsas and pickles. And she says she enjoys talking with ZIMMERN OF ANDREW SY entrants when they come to pick up their scorecards once the fair is over. “These COURTE [conversations] often become mini les- sons,” she says. For her part, Barber learned how to can as a teenager growing up in Aitkin County, where she was involved in 4-H, and she has served as a 4-H judge at vari- ous county fairs for the past 50 years. She says her training and experience qualify her to judge State Fair products. A trained home economist, Barber retired in 2000 after working for over 35 years for the University of Minnesota Extension Service in Ramsey and Wadena counties. She and her husband then trav- eled for two-and-a-half years in a jour- ney that covered all seven continents. Since her husband passed away in 2005, Barber’s travels have taken on a more local flavor with trips to her cabin in Aitkin, where she hosts visits from her four grandchildren . Barber cans herself using Dolgo crab apples from the tree in her Roseville back yard. “When it’s done right, there is a flavor there that is unlike anything else,” Barber says. She says she particularly enjoys judging wild berry spreads like choke cherry and elderberry. It’s those rare times when she allows herself an extra taste at the judg- Shirley Barber judges cakes as well as canned goods at the Minnesota State Fair’s Creative ing table. No doubt one of Schaller’s fruit Activities Building. “When it’s done right, there’s a flavor unlike anything else,” she says. spreads has ended up on Barber’s second spoonful. 10 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 PROFILE ‘Born‘Born andand raisedraised onon thethe fair’fair’

SARAH WHITING SARAH It’s in her blood: Brooke Blakey keeps us informed about public safety.

by Delma J. Francis Brooke Blakey loves the Minne- sota State Fair. It’s a good thing, because she’s there 12 to 16 hours a day during the 12-day run of the Great Minnesota Get-Together. “I was born and raised on the fair,” says Blakey, whose father, Art, is chief of the fair’s police force. Blakey is in her sec- ond year as public information officer for the fair and, like her dad, she is a sworn member of the 42-person police force. She’s from a crime-fighting family. In addition to her father, she has a brother, an uncle and two cousins who are in law enforcement. Blakey, 37, started working at the fair more than 20 years ago in a much more lowly position. “I first started working there when I was 14, picking up trash. Then I worked in grandstand and mid- way ticket sales. I even made french fries and Sweet Martha’s cookies,” she says. Although the fair has a staff that han- dles general questions from the media, she is the fair’s first public information officer. It’s her job to provide- informa tion on issues related to public safety. She works in conjunction with the media per- sonnel and the police. “Sometimes we tag Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 11

team to make sure the information we put out targets thing she loves. Although, she says, “being in front of all the groups at the fair,” Blakey says. a [television] camera was a little scary the first time.” Although she started at the fair doing simple jobs, Her daily stroll after graduating from the University of Minnesota On a typical day, Blakey checks in with the police with a bachelor’s degree in child psychology and watch commander at 8 a.m. roll call to familiarize her- criminology, Blakey has done “a plethora of things.” self with any advisories. She studies police reports and She was a social worker in child protection. “I thought I was going to save the world.” Then she was the youth achiever pro- — Brooke Blakey gram coordinator for the St. Paul I really do love the fair, everything about it. YWCA, and she taught at the “ ” Inter-District Downtown School in Minneapolis and worked for Minneapolis’ Civilian makes sure all is well with dispatch. Then she hits the Review Authority, inspecting police brutality reports. streets on foot doing what she enjoys most — peo- Today, in addition to her positions at the fair, Blakey ple-watching, talking and enjoying a little of her favor- is an officer for the Metro Transit Police Department. ite fair food — those french fries she used to fry up. From heat to guns On her strolls she runs into a lot of people she Last year, one of the most important messages knows — vendors, workers and even fairgoers. “The Blakey delivered to the public at the fair was to be same people come back year after year,” Blakey says. aware of the dangers presented by the extreme heat. And then there’s the craziness. “It’s not unusual to see She also had talks with gun-rights supporters who someone chasing a piglet,” she says. — contrary to fair policy — wanted to strap on their The public information job is part-time, running the sidearms and walk down the middle of Dan Patch 12 days of the fair and about two weeks before and Avenue. Most of them just wanted to make a state- after. Spending so much time away from home is hard ment, Blakey says. And what better place than at on single mom Blakey and her daughters Aaliyah, 13, the fair, where there could be 250,000 people on any and Braylyne, 5. Like mom, like daughters; the fair is given day? in their blood, too. When she’s off-duty, you’ll see the “I just explain that these are the rules that are in three of them walking the fairgrounds. place, that we’re not trying to keep you from your With fair time right around the corner, Blakey is constitutional rights, but it’s alarming to the public” revved up and ready to go. “I really do love the fair, to see an armed fairgoer, she says. everything about it,” she says. “It’s a family.” Fairgoers are generally well-behaved and few seri- The profile appears in every issue of the Minnesota ous incidents have occurred, Blakey says. “We had a Women’s Press. It reflects our founding principle and stabbing three years ago, but for the most part, prob- guiding philosophy that every woman has a story. lems don’t start [on the fairgrounds]. They’re brought Readers are welcome to submit suggestions for profile in. People have a disagreement somewhere else, then subjects. Email your ideas to [email protected] run into each other at the fair.” The public information position is tailor-made for Blakey. It gives her the opportunity to talk about some-

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JESSICA The ‘butterhead’ murder LOUREY I was invited to speak at a women’s book group in Battle Lake, Minn., a few years ago about my latest book, and the conversation turned to the State Fair.

One of the women claimed that Battle I encourage you to stop by the fair in Lake had produced more Princess Kays person, but if you can’t get there, do the of the Milky Way — State Fair royalty next best thing: Pick up one of the books — than any other town. Another person listed here, grab a tub of Nut Goodie ice told the story of her cousin, a past prin- cream and have yourself a grand time. cess, and how she disposed of her butter- Jessica Lourey is the author of the head — that is, her likeness that had been Murder-by-Month mysteries, all set in sculpted in butter, a State Fair tradition Minnesota. www.jesslourey.com or visit for nearly 60 years. her on Facebook. Soon, everyone was shar- ing a story of a Princess Kay What if I set a they knew and what she’d BOOKSHELF: done with her butterhead. locked-room Jessica Lourey is not the first woman author to set a book at the Minnesota One winner put hers out for State Fair. Check out these fiction titles: mystery at the the corn on the cob at her Steering Toward Normal by Rebecca Petruck is a novel for family reunion. Another Great Minnesota middle-grades. kept it in her freezer next to Get-Together? the hamburger. And a third Hot Dish by Connie Brockway is a comical romance. donated it to a homeless For nonfiction, try these: shelter. Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and the Amazing Lillian Colton At the time, I was working on a “locked- by Colleen Sheehy, with forward by Karal Ann Marling room” mystery, a deductive classic, where a person is discovered murdered State Fair: The Great Minnesota Get-Together, a fun coffee-table in a room, locked from the inside with no book, with photography by Susan Lambert Miller and forward by viable exits, yet there is no killer present. Lorna Landvik From this confluence of events, an idea Blue Ribbon: A Social and Pictorial History of the Minnesota State was born: What if I set a locked-room Fair by Karal Ann Marling mystery at the Great Minnesota Get- What’s on your bookshelf? Together? Specifically, what if Princess Kay of the Milky Way (renamed Milkfed Send us 450 words about your booklife, plus your list of five related Mary Queen of the Dairy for obvious rea- books by women authors: [email protected] sons) was murdered in front of hundreds while her head was being carved out of butter, but no one saw the killer? And so, my fifth mystery, “September Fair,” was born. The setting is spectacular and the peo- ple quirky, but even more than that, the State Fair is integral to our roots. There’s something both comforting and exhilarat- ing about visiting it.

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Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories 18 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 PROFILE LORI HAMILTON LORI ream of the crop Teresa Anderson’s seed-based political commentary is a fixture at State Fair by Judy Woodward It’s August and time for St. Anthony Park resident Teresa Anderson to go to seed again. It’s something she does quite well, regularly winning awards for her efforts.

Crop art is Anderson’s chosen Anderson can’t sell her work for entry in the seedy sweepstakes pursuit, and her wry sense of any sum that would begin to offer came a decade ago. humor and excellent fine motorappropriate compensation for the “That first year I did a cute lit- It’s a … skills (possibly honed by her pro- hours of labor involved, and she tle bird,” she says. That would be fessional background in dentistry) doesn’t even have the satisfaction the last time anyone referred to humorous“ way make her a formidable competitor of knowing that her work will last her work as cute. Nowadays, the adjectives are more likely to be to put your in one of the more esoteric events for the ages. Without distracting at the Minnesota State Fair. layers of heavy, shiny shellac, “ironic” or “cheeky.” And those thoughts Like butter sculpture, crop art her prize-winning creations can are from the people who agree — that curious blend of preci- quickly succumb to crop blight. with her. out there to sion technique, cartoon graphics Yet every year, months before Anderson has made her mark and horticultural boosterism — is the fair begins, Anderson and a by bringing political commentary half-a-million one of those distinctive State Fair small band of fellow enthusiasts to the world of crop art, and she attractions. Even devotees like begin visiting seed stores, assem- is not one to use a stiletto when a fairgoers. Anderson are unsure if it’s really bling their stock, and planning the garden shovel will do the job. an art form. finicky process of transforming In 2007, she portrayed then-Vice — Teresa” “It’s very tedious,” she admits. millet, lentils, wheat and other President Dick Cheney in tasteful Anderson “Not much fun to do. … Also, it’s kernels into recognizable portraits neutral tones of barley, rice and a hundred times harder to do it in of everyone from Abe Lincoln to millet with tendrils growing out seeds [than paint.]” Colonel Sanders. Anderson’s first of his head labeled “Corruption,” Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 19 “Torture” and “Repression.” The work Anderson’s “Wedding Cake” was con- — a three-dimensional bird cage covered was titled “Vice — The Root of Evil.” structed of fine white seeds painstakinglyin seeds, hanging from a branch. It was The political message of her win- glued to inverted cake pans. Conventional “quite an engineering project,” she says. ning 2008 entry — exhibited during the bride and groom figurines are perched on The inside scoop Republican National Convention based top under a banner that reads “Defending She credits her family and friends with that year in St. Paul — can be inferred Marriage Sanctity since Henry VIII,” while helping her think up the clever slogans from its caption: “Cleaning Up After the around the sides of the cake, Anderson that distinguish her entries. But that’s the Elephants Is the Dirtiest Job in the Circus.” has inscribed in flowing seed script extentthe of their involvement in what they Unapologetic liberal names of a rogue’s gallery of prominent consider her somewhat eccentric interest. The reaction to her work is not always abusers of their marital vows from Newt “I have two adult children who have positive. She reports with high glee that Gingrich to Donald Trump. tried seed art — once — and say ‘never one especially angry conservative blog- The witty “Wedding Cake” was singled again,’ ” she reports. ger wrote, “Teresa Anderson sounds out for favorable mention last year on the Asked what it takes to become a master like a sad, angry person. I’d hate to have online news site Huffington Post, and one crop artist, Anderson is characteristically Christmas dinner with her.” of Anderson’s entries in 2013 continued modest: “You need fine-motor skills, but For the record, Anderson wants it to be the theme. She celebrated the legalization basically it takes patience.” known that she is neither sad nor angry. of same-sex marriage by the Minnesota Given the small number of crop artists A health consultant who enjoys her family Legislature with a slice of wedding cake and the large number of sub-categories and a variety of outside interests, she says, rendered in rainbow-colored seeds. The in which they compete, she says, “Unless “I have plenty of more important and pos- caption reads “Let them eat cake.” you do something obscene, you’ll get your itive things in my life [than making pains- This year, she followed up the previ- piece [displayed]. It’s a … humorous way taking portraits of Republicans in seeds].” ous two years’ entries about marriage to put your thoughts out there to half-a- But she’s unapologetic about her politics. equality with a positive piece that is “less million fairgoers.” snarky than usual.” It’s based on a 1998 Always liberal. Editor’s note: This story was published quote from Maya Angelou, who died ear- Her 2012 crop art entry took dead aim first in the Park Bugle. Used with lier this year, including the line “all of us at the marriage amendment, the ballot permission. Additional reporting by are caged birds, have been and will be issue that would have outlawed gay mar- the Minnesota Women’s Press. riage had it passed in November 2012. again.” It’s also her most ambitious entry

The ‘Seed Queen’ Lillian Colton raised the bar on seed art in 1969 when she entered her por- trait of then-president Richard Nixon in the State Fair’s artistic crop art com- petition. The picture won her the first of a dozen blue ribbons. She retired from competition in 1984. For over 45 years her seed portraits of politicians and celebrities — from George Washington to Bill Clinton, Shirley Temple to Barbra Streisand — have been exhibited in the crop art gallery in the Ag-Hort Building. Colton died in 2007 at age 95 at her home in Owatonna. Read more: “Seed Queen: The Story of Crop Art and the Amazing Lillian Colton” by Colleen Sheehy (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Lillian Colton, left. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair. 20 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 COVERARTIST Big gig Photographer Debra Fisher Goldstein sees — and helps us see — the State Fair through a vivid lens. by Norma Smith Olson “My Summer Fling”

T A love affair he last fireworks explode. The Goldstein was a girl in Ohio when she grandstand concert empties. It’s time fell in love — with the county fair. Later, for the corn roasters’ nightly dance. living in California, her love was the Los The young food workers cover the Angeles County Fair. When she moved hot coals with metal sheets, climb to Minnesota in the 1980s, she fell for the Minnesota State Fair. onboard, and jump and dance as the You’ll find her there with her Nikon embers cool beneath them. camera. “Oh, yes, many times,” Goldstein Debra Fisher Goldstein calls them says. “Oh, yeah.” She goes as it’s built. She the “huskers gone wild.” She has returns again and again during the 12-day photographed this ritual for years. run. She goes back when it’s taken down. “Occasionally, I go in the winter as well.” She defaults to a wide-angle lens, Goldstein mostly hangs out, blends into a natural inclination to capture this the crowd and watches. The photo of the chorus line of kids dancing in their girl clutching the corncob, on this month’s yellow, white and green uniforms, cover, was one of those “special moments” covered with soot from working all she waits for. “ I admire how everyone day. Yet she is bored. finds ways to express their creativity — in “I’m all Butter Fingers” little and big ways — every day,” she says. Then she remembers what a Goldstein expresses her own creativity teacher once told her: Take a differ- with a camera. She credits the State Fair ent approach, look for a different with starting her love affair with photog- angle. So Goldstein begins to look. raphy. Twelve years ago, she brought her And there she is — the girl holding basic camera to the fair and started to see through a new lens. a roasted cob of corn, her fingernails “I saw relationships and patterns and painted like little yellow kernels. colors [in new ways],” she says. The red- Click! haired boy outside the cattle barn with Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 21 his red cow, a brown-haired girl with They immediately her brown cow. “I mean this in the nicest asked for direc- way — My God, the kids looked like their tions and off they cows!” went. “I was But Goldstein was disappointed that the scared of them.” photos did not capture what she saw or Goldstein’s eye felt. Thus began her exploration of the art is drawn to images of photography. She took community edu- vivid and big: cation classes, studied at the Minneapolis • Teens dancing Photo Center and Minneapolis Community on coals, nuns in and Technical College, joined local pho- habits. tographers’ forums, and traveled to • The cow barn workshops in Colorado, Maine and New when the late after- Mexico. noon sun filters “Summer is Here, Nun too Soon” She has loved her day job at Gold Fish in. “It’s the golden Communications, her own company, hour,” she says. where she has matched messages with • Sunset lighting the giant swing ride that visuals for more than 20 years. “I loved once marked the entrance to the midway. that work, I still do,” she says. But some- “It was the grande dame that greeted you.” where along the way, she says, “I started • Four women in matching green moo- to see and feel what touched me.” moos they bought at the International What touched her — through her cam- Bazaar. “They wear the same dresses so era lens — were human connections, joy, they can find each other.” A few years ago humor, colors, patterns and shapes. Goldstein saw them again, all wearing “I love the communities that we create blue dresses. and how we connect with each other,” she Her photos have been used by both the says. “Where else better to find that than at Minnesota State Fair organization and for the State Fair?” its funding arm, the Minnesota State Fair Larger than life Foundation. She also photographs big One of Goldstein’s early photos that dogs as the candid photographer for the Great Pyrenees Club of America’s national remains one of her followers’ favorites is I saw relationships and titled “Summer is Here, Nun too Soon.” dog show. She continually raises the bar for herself, She says it’s technically flawed — “not as patterns“ and colors [in new good as I am now” — but she takes com- and at times feels a sense of panic: Will she get any good shots this year? fort in what an instructor had told her ways]. … I mean this in the — a great moment trumps any technical “I need to remind myself to relax, to trust myself and let the fair come to me,” concerns. Seeing four nuns in full, white nicest way — My God, the habit eating something fried on a stick, Goldstein says. “You have to let it unfold Goldstein snapped their photo and asked in front of you, let life happen and always kids looked like their cows! them how they liked their corn dogs. keep your eyes open for it.” And, at the fair, it does. They scolded her: “This is not a corn — Debra Fisher Goldstein ” dog. This is deep-fried corn on the cob.” FFI: To see Debra Fisher Goldstein’s “I felt like I’d been slapped on the wrist,” Minnesota State Fair portfolio, go to Goldstein says. beyondthestick.com. Scrambling to recover, she timidly asked if they had tried the deep-fried ice cream. Find Your Fit

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Mama Lou: American Strong Woman This entertaining performer will visit the fair to twist steel with feminist ideals

by Betsy Gabler When you’re from the (rather boastful) mythical place called Lake Wobegon, “where all the women are strong,” you have to wonder what kind of pressure an act called “Mama Lou:

AARON LINDBERG AARON American Strong Woman” is under when performing at the very real 2014 Minnesota State Fair.

Mama Lou is the stage name for Linsey Lindberg, an intel- could see that being strong was doable, fun and achiev- ligent, inspiring, upbeat woman, strong in spirit and body. able because of the dialogue of encouragement Mama Lou Her “American Strong Woman” act grew out of a “failure,” weaves into her act. actually, which makes her story even stronger. She was Mama Lou realized that there is something very special rejected from a circus school that she wanted to attend. about what she has created. She’s using her body and rein- Although the rejection felt very personal, she used it to forcing a feminist ideal of strength challenge herself. “Why do I need permission to perform?” by perseverance, intelligence, and she asked herself. This led to the first of what turned out to breaking stereotypical boundaries IFYOUGO: be many enlightening moments in her decade-plus career. of gender and strength. See Mama Lou: Lindberg was already a trained clown and quite strong Proving it American Strong from being a trapeze artist. When you can hold yourself Woman perform at up in silks, spin yourself around and pull yourself up for When Mama Lou walks on stage, the Family Fair Stage 30 minutes at a time, you build up a little Popeye in you. she can see disbelief in some audi- at Baldwin Park on After the circus school rejection, she began street performing ence members’ eyes (yes, mostly Wed., Aug. 27, and in Seattle, and crafted her act, perfected her skills, built her guys) that as a woman she’s truly Thurs., Aug. 28, at physical and mental strength, and eventually began to make as tough and strong as she claims. 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. a living. She doesn’t want the show to and 3 p.m. “I learned a lot about freedom and shedding expecta- be a battle of the sexes, but in her tions,” she says. “Every day I’d get back up and try out new act she often does need to use men ideas and stunts. After a year, I had a show.” from the audience to “prove” that, say, ripping a phone book in half (and more!) is as tough as it seems. Role model At the fair, you’ll see her bend metal bars, tear decks of Although she was able to see her success build in a mon- cards, rip phone books, turn frying pans into “burritos” etary way, a heartfelt, personal pay-off came when parents and steal hearts of all ages. Her stage persona may exude of young fans would start giving her handshakes along a Rosie-the-Riveter vibe, but her personal strength is what with tips. Both young boys and girls were wanting to “be as she’s most proud to leave with her audiences. strong as Mama Lou.” FFI: www.strongwomanshow.com “She told me I can be and I will be!” was the message these “little Lous” were sharing with their parents. Children Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 23 Women onstage Women are performing at several of the fair’s free entertainment stages. Included with gate admission ticket. Check out these musicians: Chastity Brown Roxxy Hall Band Gospel, roots and soul, jazz, This crowd-pleasing, blues and country — her powerful all-women group has sound channels the confidence been playing together and desperation of the American since 1992. psyche. Sun., Aug. 31, 45-minute Thurs., Aug. 21, and Fri., Aug. 22, shows at 10 a.m., noon, 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. West End Market (formerly DNR Stage Heritage Square) www.roxxyhallband.com www.chastitybrownmusic.com

Ellis Marcia Ball Ellis’ large Minnesota following The New Orleans pianist/ will be pleased that she is making vocalist/songwriter ignites a her debut at this year’s fair. rhythm-and-blues party. Sun., Aug. 31, and Mon., Sept. 1, Sun., Aug. 31, and Mon., Sept. 1, 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 4:45 p.m. 12:30 p.m. Leinie Lodge Bandshell West End Market www.marciaball.com www.ellis-music.com/music For more info on free stages at the fair: www.mnstatefair.org/entertainment/FE_all_stages_2014.html

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GoSeeDo Guide 7/31 THURSDAY THROUGH 8/10 SUNDAY: WOMEN AT THE FRINGE! Selected highlights of the 2014 Minnesota Fringe Festival represent a woman’s point of view. Performance times vary. Tickets are $12/adults plus $4 Fringe button; discounts and multi-pass packages available. Tickets through www.fringefestival. org or at box offices 30 minutes before performances. FFI: 612-872-1212 or www.fringefestival.org

Don’t Let Them See You Cry: The Failures and Mini Apples to the Big Avocado Successes (But Mostly Failures) of Daisy Kay McChubbins Carmen Angelica and Emily Schmidt traveled from Amanda Kay Thomm, playwright and co-director, portrays Minneapolis to New York University to Los Angeles with the an exiled clown who looks to make it big as a professional exact same plan — do comedy — and the exact same issues. actress in the Twin Cities. Age 16-up. Aug. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9. Solo back-to-back shows. Age 16-up. Aug. 2, 3, 5, 8, 9. Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Mpls. The Playwrights’ Center, 2301 E. Franklin Ave., Mpls.

Becoming Inga Boxed Colleen Kruse and Karen Vieno Paurus combine Actress and playwright Sophia Naylor, a Minneapolis native stories of sensual intrigue and original song. based in Palo Alto, Calif., performs a solo show in which Suze con- Age 18-up. Aug. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9. HUGE Theater, cocts an extravagant system of boxes to keep her sane. Age 16-up. 3037 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. Aug. 2, 3, 5, 8, 10. HUGE Theater, 3037 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. Also noted: • “Playne Jayne”: Actors Jayne Deis (writer) and Sheila Regan • “Tatterhood”: Emilia Allen directs, and performers include (co-writer) find Playne Jayne time warping into her past where Lauren Asheim and Parker Genne, in this musical production memory exists as unsung song lyrics. Can she solve the of a Norwegian folk tale of a princess born riding a goat, puzzles of the past to unlock her future? Age 16-up. July 31, carrying a wooden spoon. Age 2-up. Aug. 1, 2, 5, 8, 10. Aug. 3, 5, 8, 9. HUGE Theater, 3037 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Mpls. Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 25 www.womenspress.com GoSeeDo Guide 8/12 TUESDAY Schummer reads Minneapolis author Darci Schummer will read from her first book, “Six Months in the Midwest.” Her 16 intercon- nected stories are snapshots of Minneapolis in winter. 7 p.m. Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul. FFI: 651-225-8989 or www.commongoodbooks.com 8/17 SUNDAY How to Be a Korean Woman One-woman show created “St. Paul Garden” 2014 and performed by acclaimed 8/21 THROUGH 9/20 Minnesota artist and adoptee Sun Mee Chomet about her Two Gardens search for her birth family. The New paintings by Joyce Lyon, University of Minnesota associate show had a sold-out run at the professor of art, juxtapose gardens inspired by Russian frescoes Guthrie. Age 15-up. $15/18. with the artist’s garden in St. Paul. Reception: Sat., 8/23, 6-9 p.m. 7 p.m. Sabes Jewish Community Gallery: Thurs.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. or by appointment. Form + Center, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Content Gallery, Whitney Square Building, 210 N. 2nd St., St. Louis Park. FFI: 952-381-3499 Suite 104, Mpls. FFI: 612-436-1151 or www.formandcontent.org or sabesjcc.org

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651.292.4323 • On the Green Line in downtown St. Paul 26 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 GoSeeDo Guide: THROUGH 8/23 Small Moments, Big Spaces Landscape paintings by Minneapolis artists Lisa Fratzke and Lindsy Halleckson. Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, 6666 East River Road, Fridley. FFI: 763-574-1850 or www.banfill-locke.org

“Tree Painting,” by “Silent Search 7” (left), and “Silent Search Santa Fe,” by Lindsy Halleckson Lisa Fratzke 8/26 TUESDAY Women’s Equality Day Celebrate women’s right to vote with Minnesota NOW at the Urban Growler Brewing Co., the state’s first - wom an-owned microbewery. $10 (through 8/23)/$20 door. 5-8 p.m. Urban Growler, 2325 Endicott St., St. Paul. FFI: 651-808-3600 or www.mnnow.org LISA VANG LISA

“Nobody Understands Me Like You Do,” by Nancy Robinson THROUGH 9/6 Self and Others Exhibit of portrait painting includes work by Nancy Robinson and Pamela Gaard. Gallery: Wed.-Fri., noon-6 p.m., and Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Instinct Art Gallery, 940 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. FFI: 612-208-0696 or www.instinctmpls.com

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Sometimes YOURTHOUGHTS Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For August a feminist we asked: What’s your amazing or amusing, unusual or unforget- woman table State Fair moment? See more on page 5. My fair morning needs to talk to Early morning, waking sky, a feminist man I peek through the window as we drive by. Into the parking lot, oh so big! Greg Seivert, MS, LP A yawn, a sigh, a great new day, Psychologist for 23 years at then quickly we’re on our way. Grove Psychotherapy The pig pens stink, but I don’t mind. Specializes in relationships, Michael Dunavant, CRPS®, CRPC® The cows are asleep, but that’s just fine. shame, conflict resolution We head for breakfast at the Pronto Pup stand & intimacy... and he knows Michael Dunavant, and then continue our day in the great fair land! how to talk to men, too! CRPS®, CRPC®, Margrethe Hawthorne, age 12, Edina 612-379-2640 Financial Advisor The Minnesota State Fair St. Anthony Main 3601 Minnesota Drive August 26, 1975 — Women’s Equality Day Suite 550 A Minnesota-wide celebration of the United Nations International Women’s Year. Bloomington, MN 55435 The beginning of International Women’s Decade 952-852-1293 Global women working together to achieve [email protected] equity, equal opportunities, education, www.michaeldunavant.wrfa.com a world free from violence and fear for girls and women. Waddell & Reed, Inc. (09/07) Foretelling UN Documents: Member SIPC Convention of the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW 1967 World Platform for Action — Mexico City 1975 National Plan of Action of the National Women’s Conference — Houston 1977 Convention of the Elimination of Violence against Women — Austria 1993 The Platform for Action — Beijing 1995 Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals Professional management services — 2000. Minnesota women celebrating together: for Condominiums, Townhomes, Department of Natural Resources women rangers Apartments, Retail Focus on 4-H girls and the Girl Scouts Marching yellow-bannered women in white — Our Clients talked, we listened: Over 21 years Re-enacting suffrage parades. •฀Our฀Managers฀work฀for฀you฀ of experience. •฀Accurate฀financial฀reports Women at the podium: Women-owned Secretary of State Joan Growe, State Sen. Nancy Brataas, •฀Follow฀up฀&฀Follow฀through฀ and operated. •฀Accessible,฀Responsive,฀Accountable Mary Anderson

•฀Customer฀Service,฀our฀#1฀priority! Women singers, musicians and artists Rev. Alla Bozarth Campbell reading her poetry The Many Faces of Women theater production Women marching, dancing, singing, speaking out Even a Women’s Demolition Derby. The donation of a steel Kathryn Nash sculpture Cindy Reiter A fractured globe — women coming together 952-465-3602 Minnesota women, rural and urban, cooperating, celebrating at the Great Minnesota Get-Together. [email protected] A collaboration by a Coalition of Minnesota women’s www.westport-mn.com organizations. Fireworks! An explosion of energy and ideas. Terri Berthiaume Hawthorne, St. Paul Editor’s note: The writer was co-chair of the 1975 International Women’s Year Celebration. Read more on page 4. Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 29

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