“A Memoir of Mammoths and Mastodons” – A complete prehistory of the elephants, which came in an astonishing array of forms in their tens of millions of years on Earth – small and immense, woolly and less so, with all sorts of different tusks, and more besides! Plus the remarkably bizarre history of human understanding of mammoths and their relatives; from the idea that they were giant moles, through mammoth-meat banquets, to Thomas Jefferson’s search for living woolly elephants!

Opening entertainment by Allison Witham!

“A Memoir of Mammoths and Mastodons” – A complete prehistory of the elephants, which came in an astonishing array of forms in their tens of millions of years on Earth – small and immense, woolly and less so, with all sorts of different tusks, and more besides! Plus the remarkably bizarre history of human understanding of mammoths and their relatives; from the idea that they were giant moles, through mammoth-meat banquets, to Thomas Jefferson’s search for living woolly elephants!

Liver-eating forest monsters and other Ojibwe creatures! Babe the Blue Ox and other beasts of Paul Bunyan’s lumber camp! And did you know that William Thomas Cox, Minnesota’s first State Forester, wrote a book called “Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods,” all about the outlandish animals that pioneers would make up to amuse themselves? Discover the North Country’s rich and diverse imaginary fauna.