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Park Notes A newsletter of the Friends of St. Paul and Ramsey County Parks 1621 Beechwood Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55116 698-4543 Volume 3, Number 3 August, 1989 Kellogg Dream Comes Mounds of dirt and generalized destruction on Kellogg Boulevard will gradually TrUe emerge as St. Paul's newest park. The rejuvenated park, to be opened by fall, will feature a pool, arbors, a grove of trees and a series of sculptures placed along the History Walk. The focal point at Minnesota Street is the site of the first chapel in St. Paul. Marking the spot will be a 40 foot circular pool. A bell in a small belfry, the first of four sculptures selected as metaphors for the founding of the city, reminds visitors of the role of the Catholic Church in the founding and early growth of the city. The next sculpture, a paddle wheel represents commerce and transportation followed by an ax, a symbol of labor and industry. The final sculpture is a structure representing St. Paul's early buildings. Each sculpture is bronze and about 3 feet tall. A historical text or quotation from early city records marks each sculpture. One, a quote by Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi , seems particularly fitting," ` St. Paul is a wonderful city. It is put together in solid blocks of honest brick and stone and has the air of intending to stay." "The redeveloped Kellogg Mall has all indications of living up to Twains praise," said Friends' Executive Director Peggy Lynch. Cliff Garten, Associate Professor of Art at Hamline University and Karen Sproles, textual consultant to the artist helped bring art and history together in a way not previously seen in St. Paul. A 1987-88 taskforce helped develop plans for the Kellogg Mall park. St. Paul Gets First Operating on a shoe string, and out of the truck of her car, St. Paul's first naturalist Naturalist plunged forward in creating a "full service" nature program at Crosby Lake Regional Park. Connie Dorn began as a student intern with a very special mission. Create a pro- gram where none had gone before. She quickly realized that with only herself as staff, that was going to be a very small program. She began recruiting volunteers and even convinced naturalists from other regional nature centers to assist. During their first summer, 1988, they sponsored numerous workshops and children's activities covering subjects from pond life to butterfly banding. (Yes, you can band a butterfly. It takes a very patient butterfly and a very small band.) With the coming of fall and school the program came to an end but Dorn developed