Professor David Feinberg's May-term class "The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894" featured in the Hinckley News
The university May-term course, which has been offered for the past decade, asks learners to research history for the purpose of creating a visual image. Class hours are divided between field trips and studio time, with excursions to the Hinckley Fire Museum, the gravel pit, the Hinckley monument, the Brook Park historic marker and cemetery, Skunk Lake, Sandstone and the Kettle River. Students are asked to confront the past and be influenced by it. Through group discussions, sketches and observations, they will translate, personalize and interpret ideas and emotions, thereby making a heart connection which becomes transformed into a visual language...
Working from the heart is a reoccurring phrase in Feinberg's instruction. "When you work from your mind it hardly ever works out. When you work from your heart it nearly always works out." No doubt class participants will find many opportunities to make a heart connection to the stories of the Hinckley Fire. The community is invited to visit the museum to witness those heart connections in the final exhibit beginning June 11.
Feinberg and his class were also featured in the Pine City Courier:
