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Name: Rescheduled: CSA Series: Humble Hands Harvest
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Open Build! Decorah Public Library Public Meeting Room

21sep3:15 pm4:15 pmOpen Build!3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Decorah Public Library Public Meeting RoomAge Range:All agesCost:Free/Small Donation

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Children of all ages are welcome to drop in the Public Program Room of the Library, between 3:15 pm- 4:15 pm, for unstructured play with a wide variety of building

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Children of all ages are welcome to drop in the Public Program Room of the Library, between 3:15 pm- 4:15 pm, for unstructured play with a wide variety of building toys including Gears, Legos, Brainflakes, TinkerToys, MAGniBlox, and more! This program is limited to 24 children on a first-come basis. Children under 6 must be accompanied by an adult.

For additional information, please contact Joan Roach, Children’s and Youth Librarian, at jroach@decorah.lib.ia.us or (563)382-3717.

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(Thursday) 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm

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Decorah Public Library Public Meeting Room

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Java John's Presents Justin Scardina Pop-Up Dinner Java John's Coffeehouse 400 West Water Street, Decorah, IA

21sep5:00 pm8:00 pmJava John's Presents Justin Scardina Pop-Up Dinner5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Java John's Coffeehouse, 400 West Water Street, Decorah, IAAge Range:All agesCost:Cost/Fee

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Back by popular demand!!Dinner served 5pm until we run out. If you haven't experienced our previous pop-up dinners with Justin Scardina, you will be delightfully surprised. And if you have

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Back by popular demand!!

Dinner served 5pm until we run out. If you haven’t experienced our previous pop-up dinners with Justin Scardina, you will be delightfully surprised. And if you have attended our previous dinners…. well I don’t even need to tell you why you will want to be here again.

Join us for an evening of exceptional food and wine with wonderful music.

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Java John's Coffeehouse

400 West Water Street, Decorah, IA

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Rescheduled: CSA Series: Humble Hands Harvest Oneota Co-op Kitchen Classroom 308 West Water St., Decorah, IA 52101

21sep5:30 pm7:30 pmRescheduled: CSA Series: Humble Hands Harvest5:30 pm - 7:30 pm CDT Oneota Co-op Kitchen Classroom, 308 West Water St., Decorah, IA 52101 Event Organized By: Oneota Co-op Age Range:All agesCost:Cost/Fee

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When we cook and eat seasonally, we get to partake in what the land around us is offering at that exact point in time. Emily and Hannah will invite participants

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When we cook and eat seasonally, we get to partake in what the land around us is offering at that exact point in time. Emily and Hannah will invite participants to try some techniques for using the vegetables in this week’s CSA box, to take best advantage of the seasonality of our place.

Taught by Emily Fagan and Hannah Breckbill, this is a hands-on class that is gluten-free and vegetarian with a limit of 16 participants. Cost is $12 for Co-op Members, $15 for community members, and is eligible for CSA voucher redemption. Call 563-382-4666, or register online at http://oneotacoop.com/education-events/ to reserve your seat.

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(Thursday) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm CDT

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Oneota Co-op Kitchen Classroom

308 West Water St., Decorah, IA 52101

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Oneota Co-op

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Art Exhibit: ‘Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard‘ St. Mane Theatre 206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN

21sep6:00 pm30(sep 30)6:00 pmArt Exhibit: ‘Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard‘6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (30) St. Mane Theatre, 206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MNAge Range:All agesCost:Free/Small Donation

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Lanesboro Arts is honored to present “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard,” an art exhibit featuring prints of pictures drawn by children who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb, as a thank-you

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Lanesboro Arts is honored to present “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard,” an art exhibit featuring prints of pictures drawn by children who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb, as a thank-you for school materials sent in 1947 from All Souls Church, Unitarian. The exhibit is part of the “In Peace, With Honor” program and will open with a reception in the St. Mane Theatre Lobby on Thursday, September 21, 2017, from 6-8 p.m. in conjunction with “Return of Sword.” The exhibit will conclude with a closing reception in the Lobby of the St. Mane Theatre on Saturday, September 30 from 6 – 9 p.m. in conjunction with a screening of a documentary film that tells the story of “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard.” The exhibit will also be available for viewing on select afternoons 9/21 – 9-30, tbd, in the St. Mane Theatre Lobby.

In 1995, a box is uncovered at the home of a parishioner of All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington D.C. In that box are 48 colorful drawings made by children as thanks for gifts received from the church fifty years earlier. The brightly colored pictures depict scenes of beauty and joy—self-portraits, a cityscape, festival flags and kites flying against a bright blue sky, children on a playground, cherry blossoms in bloom, city traffic on a bridge, a girl in a beautiful kimono—these were the subjects the children chose to draw. There are no pictures of sadness, no trauma, no fear. None of the pictures reflect the horror that these children had endured less than two years earlier when a bomb, like no other before it, was dropped and detonated above their homes in the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

Kenji Nakazawa remembers a clear blue sky on the morning of August 6th, 1945. While talking to the mother of a friend on his way to school, he noticed a B-29 bomber plane miles above the city. Kiyomi was late to school that morning. As she and a friend change into the gym shoes before joining their classmates in the yard, a second sun detonates above their city. All goes black. Kiyomis is the only student of Honakawa Elementary School to survive that day

On August 5, 1945 the Reverend A. Powell Davies, Pastor of All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington DC, was horrified to hear about the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. He knew that the bomb’s release had changed the world forever. Paul Pfeiffer, a parishioner at All Souls, was a Naval officer in the Pacific fleet in 1945. He remembers the feelings of elation and relief when the bomb was dropped. Judith Bauer, also a parishioner, remembers a somber reaction to the news. Though bitterness ran deep across America after such a brutal war, many recognized the horrible magnitude of the event.

One year later, near the anniversary of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Rev. Davies saw a picture in a newspaper that shocked and enraged him. Davies indignation over the image was reported nation wide and eventually reached a member of Gen,. MacArthur’s civilian staff in Japan, Howard Bell. Mr. Bell wrote to Rev. Davies and suggests a way to help.

Davies inspires his congregation to collect school supplies for the children of Honkawa Elementary School in Hiroshima, who had survived the bombing and were struggling to move on with their lives. In December of 1947, a ton of school supplies and other gifts are delivered to Hiroshima. In gratitude, those same children send a collection of drawings to the All Souls parishioners, beautiful drawings of cherry blossoms, festivals, children playing and picking flowers, kites in the sky. The drawings showed in brilliant color the children’s memories of better times and their hopes and dreams for the future.

The pictures were celebrated in 1948, but over the decades they disappeared from view and memory until they were serendipitously rediscovered in 1995. The pictures were moved to a vault in the church and for years members would pull them out exclusively for atomic bomb survivors or “Hibakusha,” the Japanese word meaning “explosion affected person.”

In 2010, the drawings are brought back to Hiroshima and reunited with the artists who drew them. Working together, members of All Souls Church and the surviving artists hang the pictures on the very walls of the building in which they were created, allowing them to radiate their message of peace and hope to the world.

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21 (Thursday) 6:00 pm - 30 (Saturday) 8:00 pm

Location

St. Mane Theatre

206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN

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"Return of the Sword" Discussion & Presentation St. Mane Theatre 206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN

21sep6:30 pm8:00 pm"Return of the Sword" Discussion & Presentation6:30 pm - 8:00 pm St. Mane Theatre, 206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MNAge Range:All agesCost:Free/Small Donation

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Join Caren Stelson, members of the Amdahl family, and Saint Paul-Nagasaki Sister City representatives for a discussion and presentation of a story attracted world-wide attention as a symbol of peace

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Join Caren Stelson, members of the Amdahl family, and Saint Paul-Nagasaki Sister City representatives for a discussion and presentation of a story attracted world-wide attention as a symbol of peace and reconciliation between two nations, peoples, and former enemies.

In 2013, lifelong Lanesboro resident & WWII veteran Orval Amdahl returned a handcrafted Japanese WWII sword, taken with U.S. permission as a war trophy, to the son of the Japanese soldier from Nagasaki who originally owned it. Amdahl showed the sword to author Caren Stelson, who was researching firsthand information about Nagasaki after the war for her book Sachiko. Orval told her, “I want to give this back in peace, with honor.”

For 67 years, Amdahl had carefully oiled the sword, wondering if it were possible to return it to its rightful owner. A small, wooden surrender tag with Japanese characters hung from the sword’s scabbard, revealing the name and address of the original owner. In partnership with the Saint Paul and Nagasaki Sister Cities Committees, the address on the tag was traced to the Motomura family, still living in the same house in Nagasaki as indicated on the tag. After 67 years of wondering and polishing, it took 24 hours and one phone call to connect the Amdahl family with the Motomura family.

On Saturday, September 21, 2013, Orval Amdahl presented the sword to Mr. Tadahiro Motomura, the son of the original owner, in a ceremony at Como Park in St Paul, with over three hundred people in attendance. Born just after the sword had been confiscated during the American Occupation, Mr. Motomura had never seen his father’s sword, but he immediately had recognized the Japanese characters on the surrender tag as his father’s handwriting. The sword now rests on the family altar in the Motomuras’ Nagasaki home, below a photo of Mr. Motomura’s father. For Orval Amdahl, returning the sword brought a finality to the end of the war for him and with it “more peace in this world instead of the mistrust and fighting all the time.”

Amdahl’s return of sword attracted world-wide attention as a story of peace between two nations, peoples, and former enemies. The “In Peace, With Honor” series of programs and this “Return of the Sword” event will be the first opportunity to more broadly & deeply tell veteran Orval Amdahl’s story to the Lanesboro area, with a public presentation and discussion panel, including members of the Amdahl family at the St. Mane Theatre, September 21, the International Day of Peace

Come early at 6pm as this event is also the opening reception for “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard” art exhibit and “From War to Reconciliation” from the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Exhibition.

Time

(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

St. Mane Theatre

206 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN

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Java john's Presents Michael McElrath Java John's Coffeehouse 400 West Water Street, Decorah, IA

21sep7:00 pm9:00 pmJava john's Presents Michael McElrath7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Java John's Coffeehouse, 400 West Water Street, Decorah, IAAge Range:All agesCost:Free/Small Donation

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"Michael McElrath, backing himself on acoustic guitar, has a basic, sort of fragile sound. His melodies are nicely simple and his lyrics are just the right side of lovely.”

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“Michael McElrath, backing himself on acoustic guitar, has a basic, sort of fragile sound. His melodies are nicely simple and his lyrics are just the right side of lovely.”

Time

(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

Java John's Coffeehouse

400 West Water Street, Decorah, IA

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