Arts & Culture

MN Reads: "My Mighty Journey" by John Coy and illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published October 24, 2019 at 5:05 PM CDT

Author John Coy thinks it's pretty cool that there's only one waterfall on the Mississippi, and that it actually moved 15 miles upstream several thousand years ago.

So he set to work distilling 12,000 years into 619 words, with the help of an artist who seemed fated to take part in the project ... and the waterfall itself.

My Mighty Journey: A Waterfall's Story is published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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