Film: A Living Tapestry by Paul Krause

Published May 16, 2022

Two historic Norwegian immigrant churches sit on a hill in the farm valley south of Northfield, Minnesota near Big Woods State Park in a panorama of prairie and oak savanna. The Valley Grove Preservation Society is a steward for the two Valley Grove churches, the 1862 stone church and the white clapboard church built in 1894 and also for the surrounding 50 acres of rolling prairie grasses and trees. The film combines several "threads" to form a "Living Tapestry" The threads include: The Historian's thread, The Geologist's thread, The Artists' threads, the Visitors' threads, the Volunteers' threads, the Naturalists' threads, the Weaver's thread, the Board Member's thread, the Preservationist threads, and the Community's threads. The film includes on-site interviews, still and aerial photography and several animated segments. Over fifty hours of film have been edited down to 57 minutes of beautiful, moving sequences.