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Live Performance - A Visit From Will Dilg (by Steven Marking)

  • 02/07/2025
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • A-Mill Artist Lofts, 315 Southeast Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414

"A Visit From Will Dilg and Scenes from Our Mighty Mississippi"



Steven Marking plays Will Dilg, the singular driving force behind the formation of the Izaak Walton League and the formation of our Upper Mississippi National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.

Will Dilg sold our modern conservation movement to the American people. After founding the Izaak Walton League, Dilg gained support of the Federation of Women’s Clubs, and they won the battle against the reclamation menace that was stealing the Mississippi River’s precious backwater habitat from the Lower Mississippi on up. They passed unprecedented federal legislation in 1924 that formed our first National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. Ground zero for the battle was the Winneshiek Bottoms near Lansing, Iowa, which was already legally permitted to be drained, filled, and levied off to create farmlands.

Watch a trailer for this performance here.

The performance will be 50 minutes with 10 minutes at the end for questions and conversation. After intermission Steve will perform selections from Our Mighty Mississippi, A magical journey of song, storytelling and visual imagery celebrating America’s greatest river.

A-Mill Artist Lofts

315 Southeast Main Street Minneapolis MN 55414

$20 Eventbright, $25 at the door, Students free with ID

Friday, February 7 2:00 PM https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-visit-from-will-dilg-tickets-1113052533089?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Also:  Saturday, February 8 7:00 PM https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-visit-from-will-dilg-tickets-1113052533089?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

The movie A Visit From Will Dilg recently won an excellence award from the Nature Without Borders Film Festival. Steven Marking was recently featured on PBS This American Land Season 12 Episode 4, The Riverlorian. https://www.pbs.org/video/gray-wolves-the-riverlorian-dave-showalter-conservation-photographer-blue-ridge-parkway-ri3gwu/

He brings more than three decades of professional production and performance experience to his latest creation, A Visit From Will Dilg, and his ongoing masterpiece, Our Mighty Mississippi

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