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Big Thanks to Richard Tuttle for sending us this documentary

PART 2 OF 4: Flood Memorial Concert

Area Musicians come together to perform an original three movement piece for band and choir by Karl B. Swenson: Surging Waters, Community Cracked by Ice & The Aftermath
End Credit Music written by Richard Tuttle

The flood of 1997 was both tragic and inspiring. The tragedy of losing power, evacuating homes and leaving our community…the uncertainty of it all. Left on our own, we never would have been able to recover and rebuild.

Yet, our story is also inspiring. Ordinary people did extraordinary things. People from all different walks of life came together for a common cause and what emerged was a stronger sense of community than we ever knew before. It is by no means an exhaustive recount of the Flood of 1997, but is just enough to preserve our story for future generations

Over 145 different individuals, businesses, and organizations funded this documentary. The community came together donating their time, their memories, videos and photographs, to contribute to the documentary’s completion. In addition, many talented area musicians volunteered their time and talent, under the Direction of Richard Tuttle, for the performance of Karl Swenson’s moving musical composition for the flood memorial concert, also included on this DVD.

Psalm 124:1,4-5,8
If the Lord had not been on our side— the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us, the raging waters would have swept us away. Our help is in the Name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

Big Thanks to Richard Tuttle for sending us this documentary

PART 1 OF 4: Documentary by Video Arts Studios

Come Hell & High Water is the story of the Ada, Minnesota flood of 1997 as told through interviews and archival footage.
End Credit Music written by Richard Tuttle and arranged by Karl B. Swenson

The flood of 1997 was both tragic and inspiring. The tragedy of losing power, evacuating homes and leaving our community…the uncertainty of it all. Left on our own, we never would have been able to recover and rebuild.

Yet, our story is also inspiring. Ordinary people did extraordinary things. People from all different walks of life came together for a common cause and what emerged was a stronger sense of community than we ever knew before. It is by no means an exhaustive recount of the Flood of 1997, but is just enough to preserve our story for future generations

Over 145 different individuals, businesses, and organizations funded this documentary. The community came together donating their time, their memories, videos and photographs, to contribute to the documentary’s completion. In addition, many talented area musicians volunteered their time and talent, under the Direction of Richard Tuttle, for the performance of Karl Swenson’s moving musical composition for the flood memorial concert, also included on this DVD.

Psalm 124:1,4-5,8
If the Lord had not been on our side— the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us, the raging waters would have swept us away. Our help is in the Name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

A provocative exploration of math’s astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math’s signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?

For 21 years, Charles Darwin kept his theory of evolution secret from all but a few friends. He confided to one: “It is like confessing to a murder.” His torment resonates in society today—in the challenge his incredibly powerful idea poses to our understanding of our world and ourselves. This program interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin’s life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It also explores why Darwin’s “dangerous idea” matters perhaps, even more, today than it did in his own time, and how the idea conveys the power of science to explain the past and predict the future of life on Earth. Narrated by Liam Neeson

thanks for everyone who took part