People learn history better when there is that tactile element of you can see the artifacts. You can see the history and you can be near it.

As you're searching through the collection and you find, oh my gosh, we have a gear from the Adina Mill. What was this gear used for? Where in the mill was it located? And then we go down a rabbit trail of learning about how on earth do mills work.

It came out better than I hoped. We had to make a lot of compromises. There were things we had to leave out. Um there was initial plans to do uh certain sections that we just decided were too broad. uh we wanted to be very specific on on certain aspects of the story.

Yeah, I think anybody who lives in Edina, it's kind of nice to know about the history. Um cuz it's really a relative recent history that that Edina has developed the way that it has.

When really it is a human experience that these are real people who were part of history, people who lived, people who breathed, people who ate. And when you see those objects that really solidifies for you that this is something that they built, that they used, that was part of their lives.