{"id":6021,"date":"2015-08-25T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:55:59","slug":"river-semester-launch-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/25\/river-semester-launch-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: River Semester launch is Sept. 1 at St. Paul&#8217;s Harriet Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Media invited to paddle\u00a0in\u00a0flotilla of 24-foot voyageur canoes from Harriet Island to South St. Paul<\/h3>\n<p>(MINNEAPOLIS) \u2013 A group of nearly 100 students, parents, high school\u00a0students and members of the Augsburg College community will launch the nation&#8217;s first-ever River Semester on Sept. 1 at Kelley&#8217;s Landing\u00a0on Harriet Island in St. Paul by paddling a flotilla of 24-foot voyageur canoes from St. Paul to South St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the media are invited to participate in\u00a0the kickoff event and to paddle in one of 13 voyageur canoes with students and guests to South St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Guests and media will be transported back to Kelley&#8217;s Landing and Augsburg College.<\/p>\n<p>The 16 students in the Augsburg College River Semester will continue to travel nearly 2,000 of the 2,350-mile-long-Mississippi River from St. Paul to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The group will live and study on the river until mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the media can\u00a0reserve paddling spots by noon, Thursday, Aug. 27, by contacting Stephanie Weiss, director of news and media services for Augsburg College at <a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x77;e&#x69;s&#x73;s&#x40;a&#117;&#x67;&#115;&#x62;&#117;&#x72;&#103;&#x2e;&#101;&#x64;u\">&#x77;&#x65;&#105;s&#x73;&#x73;&#64;&#97;u&#x67;&#x73;&#98;&#117;r&#x67;&#x2e;&#101;du<\/a>.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Event Details and Photo Opportunities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 a.m.:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildernessinquiry.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilderness Inquiry<\/a> arrives with 13, 24-foot voyageur canoes<\/li>\n<li>5:30 a.m.: Boats arrive at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/2r7be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kelley&#8217;s Landing on Harriet Island<\/a>, St. Paul<\/li>\n<li>5:30 &#8211; 6:30 a.m.: Students carry boats to landing, start packing their gear into dry bags<\/li>\n<li>6:30 &#8211; 7:30 a.m.:\u00a0Students load River Semester gear loaded into canoes<\/li>\n<li>7:45 a.m.: River Troubadour Larry Long, Smithsonian\/Folkways Recording Artist<\/li>\n<li>7:50 a.m.:\u00a0 Shuttle of Augsburg attendees arrives from campus<\/li>\n<li>8 &#8211; 8:30 a.m.: Formal Program\n<ul>\n<li>Augsburg College President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul C. Pribbenow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman<\/li>\n<li>Explorer\u00a0Ann Bancroft (tentative)<\/li>\n<li>Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/underhil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Underhill<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>8:30 a.m.: Special Music\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Somos El Barco\u00a0by\u00a0River Troubadour Larry Long<\/li>\n<li>8:45 &#8211; 9:30 a.m.: Flotilla orientation and safety, distribution of personal flotation devices, load voyageur canoes<\/li>\n<li>9:30 a.m.:\u00a0Launch!<\/li>\n<li>9:30 a.m. &#8211; Noon: Paddle to Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Boat Launch in South St. Paul (D23 on list).\u00a0Directions: I-494\/Hardman Ave., N to Verderosa Ave., E and over tracks to site.<\/li>\n<li>1 p.m.: Shuttle back to Harriet Island<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m.: Shuttle back to Augsburg College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about the River Semester program in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D37q-1z0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back-to-school for 16 Augsburg students means traveling the length of Mississippi River as part of nation\u2019s first-ever River Semester<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media invited to paddle\u00a0in\u00a0flotilla of 24-foot voyageur canoes from Harriet Island to South St. Paul (MINNEAPOLIS) \u2013 A group of nearly 100 students, parents, high school\u00a0students and members of the Augsburg College community will launch the nation&#8217;s first-ever River Semester on Sept. 1 at Kelley&#8217;s Landing\u00a0on Harriet Island in St. Paul by paddling a flotilla &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231],"tags":[3676,3678,1969,2462,3677,2680],"class_list":["post-6021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-harriet-island","tag-kelleys-landing","tag-mississippi-river","tag-river-semester","tag-river-semester-launch","tag-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11588,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/11588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}