LOCAL BRIEFS
Gospel Night set Friday in Baxter
BAXTER - Gospel Night featuring The Harbingers Quartet and The Great Adventure Gospel Band will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Heritage Assembly of God Church in Baxter.
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Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. Tickets are available at the Brainerd Dispatch, Bethany Book Store in Baxter, KTIG radio in Pequot Lakes, Good Bookstore in Little Falls and Inspirations in Wadena.
The Great Adventure Gospel Band will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Heritage Assembly of God Church in Baxter as part of Gospel Night.
Pat Bluth at Brown Bag Lunch Series
Pat Bluth will speak in the Brown Bag Lunch Summer Speakers' Series from noon to 1 p.m. Monday at the Brainerd Public Library.
This series is sponsored by the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library and is free and open to the public.
Bluth will discuss her book, "From Pain to Peace: A Journey from Rage to Forgiveness." Bluth wrote the book after her daughter, Tammy, was killed by a drunk driver. The book traces Bluth's journey from rage to forgiveness and healing.
Bluth is a social worker, a chemical dependency counselor and a member of the Mother's Against Drunk Driving Brainerd chapter that she helped form.
The Harbingers Quartet will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at Heritage Assembly of God Church in Baxter as part of Gospel Night.
Mortensen to perform Wednesday
BAXTER - Gayle Mortensen will perform at noon Wednesday at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Baxter as part of the Summer Organ Series.
Admission is free; free-will offerings will be accepted.
Mortensen is the director of parish music at Prince of Peace and also teaches piano and organ at the church. She was director of parish music and Christian education at Zion Lutheran Church from 1985-2008. She received her bachelor's of science degree in music education from Mankato State University with a major in piano and trumpet and her certification as a director of Christian education from Concordia University in St. Paul.
Interlachen Music Jam scheduled
LAKE SHORE - The Interlachen Music Jam is scheduled from 2-6 p.m. July 12 at Matty's Saloon in Lake Shore.
The Music Jam will be hosted by Central Lakes College music instructor Steve Anderson. All musicians are welcome to attend and bring their own instrument and amplifier.
Invited musicians include Donny Vosen, Kevin Klimek, Pat Scrimshaw, Shannon Webster, Jody Stewart, Bruce Backberg, Arlen Britz, Chris Dobson, Dave Selisker, Beaner Wiese, Jim McFarland and John Laughlin.
The music jam was started by Bob and Jo Quam of Lake Shore in the early 1980s. In the last three years, musicians began organizing the music fest and moved it from the Quam home to area clubs.
Summer production set in Hackensack
HACKENSACK - The Northwoods Arts Council will feature "The Great Ice Cream Scheme" by Billy St. John for its 2009 summer production in Hackensack.
This black and white photograph of a Northern Pacific train derailment two miles east of New York Mills on April 15, 1913, will be one of many photographs displayed at the "Then and Now: Historical Photographs of New York Mills" exhibit that opens Thursday in the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center gallery.
The production, under the direction of Sue Wignall, will be performed at 7 p.m. July 11 and 13 and 3 p.m. July 12 at the Hackensack Community Building.
Performers are from Walker, Pine River, Longville and the Hackensack areas. The production will include a chorus of local singers accompanied by Mona Wolff.
Tickets are available at the following Hackensack merchants: Chamber of Commerce, Loons Unlimited, Southside, Sun and Fun and Swanson's. Advance tickets are $5 or $8 at the door, if available.
For additional information, call Shirley at (218) 675-6181 or Jean at (218) 675-6619.
New York Mills history highlighted
NEW YORK MILLS - "Then and Now: Historical Photographs of New York Mills" opens in the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center gallery Thursday.
The show will be open to the public at no charge through July 25.
More than 60 historical photographs from the late 1800s to the present make up the show. The photographs are contemporary reprints of photographs in the collections of the Ottertail County Historical Society and the East Ottertail History Museum.
The subjects represented include architecture, the lumber business, railroads, schools and teachers, businesses and historical figures such as Fred Pilakoff, the Finnish Lion. Two photographs show the Northern Pacific train wreck two miles west of New York Mills in April 1913. There also is a special collection of four photographs of the building in which the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center now owns from the earliest years after it was built by Oluf Pary.
The exhibit is one of the feature events at this weekend's Fourth of July celebration - and the 125th anniversary of New York Mills. The gallery will be open at 8 a.m. until just before the fireworks in New York Mills on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
Ranson, Travis and Jonny to perform
NEW YORK MILLS - Ben Ranson and Travis and Jonny will perform at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. July 10.
Cost is $5 and includes Ranson's newly released CD, "Eighteen Wheels of Pain." The young artists write and perform an eclectic style of original music.
Composing and recording "Eighteen Wheels of Pain" took Ranson two and a half years of trial and error. Ranson is now writing material for another album.
Travis and Jonny is a folk band, sharing lyrics about modern-day issues. It's folk music that does some soul-searching and exploration and doesn't just tell story after story of people who are hopelessly down on their luck or overcoming adversity with perseverance of the spirit.