Join us on Friday, June 9th, from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm for the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust’s Annual Meeting! It will be held at Glover Station School at DeSanctis Park in River Falls! There will be a short program celebrating last year’s conservation efforts and the vision and goals for next year. Please click here to RSVP by June 2nd! Hope to see you there!
For over a decade, beginning in 2010, poet Susan Debora King and photographer Hal Watson engaged in a private, artistic, and creative jam session of sorts. Watson’s stunningly spiritual photographs of our natural world and King’s passionate poems interact and refract off of one another in ways that both challenge and heal at the same time. King’s poems unlock whole new stories, questions, and realms of meaning from Watson’s photographs and make us wonder what keys do we hold within us as well? All of this work is brought forth with an attitude of wonder and awe. Over the course of 23 poems and photographs, we are privy to intimate ruminations and breathtakingly expansive celebrations—and always left with a sense of gratitude for the beauty and wholeness of a world that quietly invites us to contemplation.
Proceeds from this partnership benefit the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy.
Hal Watson is a photographer who loves nothing more than to disappear into quiet and forgotten corners of the Kinnickinnic River watershed where he and his wife make a home in western Wisconsin. Over the years, he has served on the Board of the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust and the River Falls City Council. When not exploring with his camera, he manages geographic information systems for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Susan Deborah King, MDiv, is a poet and author of several full-length poetry collections including Bog Orchids, Coven, One-Breasted Woman and Moon Dance. She has lead retreats on creativity and spirituality, taught English and Creative Writing in a host of institutional settings, and, privately, has acted as mentor to emerging writers. She lives with her husband in two locations on the coast of Maine, mainland and an island.
Over 160 people turned out to enjoy an autumn hike at The Community Forest with friends and family on September 30, 2022, from 6-8pm. Thank you to the
Whole Earth Market Co-op for providing cider, cocoa, and popcorn and to Gathering Waters that helped with media and sent us Land Trust Days information.
LED luminaries lit the path for the self-guided hike. Participants’ trips began at either The Community Forest County Road Ff entrance (Google Maps link to The Community Forest) or at the Kinni River (down the hill on the path from city entrance point #12) where the Rocky Branch
meets the Kinnickinnic River.
We hope to do this again!
Thank you also to
Gathering Waters – Wisconsin Land Trust Days!
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