The 37th season of the MSUM Summer Cinema Series closes tonight. Closing the series on Monday, July 29, is a selection of silent comedy short films by Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy. After this showing, treats will be served in the hallway.
Mondays in July feature silent films Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Summer Cinema Series enters its 37th season Monday, July 8, with one of the original Rin Tin Tin movies. The particular film has not been selected yet, but will feature the original German shepherd dog rescued from a bombed-out dog kennel in France in 1918.
Dr. Kenyon Williams will present a Faculty Percussion Recital in Glasrud Auditorium, Weld Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. The event will feature two world premiere works commissioned by Williams: “Duo for Saxophone and Percussion” by local saxophonist/composer Russell Peterson and Cincinnati, OH based composer Carrie Magin’s “Capriccio for Violin and Marimba,” which will be performed with Ben […]
When the stonemason tapped the exterior of Weld Hall where it was connected to Lommen Hall in 1955, he didn’t hear the “chunk” of solid limestone, but a hollow sound. Something was inside. When the stone was pulled from the wall, it revealed a copper-plated zinc sheet metal box. Within minutes project manager Brenda Norris and vice president Dan Kirk […]
A 95-year-old time capsule opened Tuesday provides a link to a part of Minnesota State University Moorhead’s past that was destroyed in a 1930 fire. University archivist Terry Shoptaugh said there was no record of the time capsule in Weld Hall, likely because President Frank Weld’s papers were destroyed in the fire of Old Main. Shoptaugh opened it Tuesday in front of about 200 people and found well-preserved photographs, course catalogs, a diploma and other documents from 1915 and earlier. Click headline to read more.