Raining Cats and Manticores: Late Night Monster Science

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Cats! Nobody is very interested in them, but here nevertheless is a history of prehistoric ones (like sabertooths!), cryptozoological ones (like mngwas! You know, mngwas!), mythological ones (like manticores!) and fictional ones (like catbus!) Does the dreaded Chimera push things off of tables? Are all cats secretly flerkens? Come to this show and find out!

Opening entertainment by Sam Landman!

Posted by
Reverend Matt

May 14, 2019

A Minnesota Bestiary at Valley Library

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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.

Posted by
Reverend Matt

October 29, 2018