Learning Club Program: “Minnesconsin: Dick Lano’s 1970s photography”

At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12, public historian Michael Wm. Doyle will current a Learning Club program on the not too long ago reopened exhibition “Minnesconsin: Dick Lano’s Photography of the Winona Area in the 1970s.” This program can be within the Winona County History Center’s Wanek Hall.

Co-curated with Robert Keiper, the exhibit was sponsored by the WCHS and funded by donations from Dick Lano’s buddies on each banks of the Mississippi River. Lano grew up “east of the hog line” (Mankato Avenue), graduated from Winona Senior High School in 1966, and developed his expertise for images whereas incomes a level in graphic arts at La Crosse’s Western Wisconsin Technical Institute.  After working as a graphic designer in a number of Winona industries, Lano operated a studio close to his Bluff Siding residence from 1987 to 2006.

Minnesconsin consists of over 70 of Lano’s images depicting quite a lot of topics. These embody his award-winning nature and wildlife prints, sections on “Lost Winona” (the railroad swing bridge, Latsch Island bathhouse, Chicago & North Western depot, the Julius C. Wilkie steamboat), “Winona Characters” (the North Country Band, artist Leo Smith, the Latsch Island boathouse neighborhood), and photojournalism (the 1970 protests towards the County Courthouse’s demolition, President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 marketing campaign look aboard the Delta Queen). There’s additionally a video set up depicting Walt Neumann in his venerable grocery and “bargain store” on East Second Street in 1972.

Learning Club packages are free and open to the general public. Please be a part of us in serving to to gather and protect the tales about what makes this distinctive area such a particular place!