Multimedia Stories

Five people holding photo props stand on either side of a rainbow striped banner with the words "dam proud". The banner is hung on the side of a tall pavilion in a park.

Photo Essay | Lanesboro’s First-ever Pride in the Park

Upwards of 200 people gathered on a hot, steamy June day to support Lanesboro’s first annual Pride in the Park; Root River Current photographers share the story in a special photo essay.

Root River Restoration Project: Major Milestone Achieved

An amazing feat is making progress. Colleen Froehrenbacher has a video update on moving a stretch of the Root River’s main channel back to an earlier bed near the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center.

Lanesboro High School students learning to use their cell phone cameras in new ways. (Submitted photo)

Telling Stories Through Photos

Student photographers learning to see the world in a more artistic way.

2024 year in review: Root River Current photo essay

Take a photo tour of 2024 through the lens of Root River Current photographers.

Season’s Greetings from Root River Current

A reader-requested ‘favorite’ seasonal video bound to bring smiles.

Happy Holidays to you and yours from everyone at Root River Current!

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">A foggy morning at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Root River, captured by photographer Renee Bergstrom.</span>

Root River Song

Harmony couple create a musical elegy to the Root River.

Poetry | Emerging

‘Emerging’ by Lanesboro poet and musician Ann Lowe.

Drue Fergison is pictured in Parthenay, a stunning medieval walled city 30 minutes north of her new home in France. She was there in October, called "Octobre Rose" - Pink October - to participate in a walk in support of breast cancer research. On the occasion of Pink October, everyone who participated got a hot pink t-shirt. "Group walks are very popular," she says. "This one was 10 kilometers (six miles). Dogs are allowed to come on these group walks." Her dog Timmy, an Australian Shepherd, joined the walk. (Photo courtesy of Drue Fergison)

Moving to France

Observations from Drue Fergison on her move from southeast Minnesota to west-central France.

At Home In The Big Woods

Nancy Overcott and her husband Art moved to the Big Woods in the early 1970s. She documented her experiences in her book of essays: At Home in the Big Woods. Melissa Wray reads an essay from the book.

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