Revitalized Historic Fort Snelling reopens Memorial Day weekend

[@ponyrang]

Wow, I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.

[@peterhuber1702]

Makes you wonder how much these changes at the site were motivated by genuine public interest or the need to quiet down all the cultural drama that has surrounded the place for the past several years. HFS gone from a place designed to preserve MN state heritage to serve mainly as a playground for schools to visit each year so they can satisfy a social studies extra curricular activity. Beyond those visitors, how many regular tourists will be willing to pay $12 a head to hear about Native American history that goes back '10 thousand years' far away in the surrounding area and all the obscure 'alternate stories' of the post like Dred Scott and the internment camp of the 1860's, even though there's this enormous military fort that surrounds them and is pushed into the background? The MHS had it right in the beginning about the purpose of the restoration and has really lost their way about what they want it to be these days. There's quite a reversal of their approach that's very contradictory - themes of slavery and Native American conflict were obscured, not talked about and avoided, but now that's the main focus there. Also, compared to the original history center, the new one is sterile and dull, like an modern art museum without enough art. It looks like a old warehouse space converted into studio apartments downtown....as though the MHS is saying 'we couldn't generate enough $$ to replace the old history center with something appropriate so we made due with these old VA buildings'.....I think its really sad that the birthplace of the state and the rich history of it's development isn't more important than current cultural politics and that that doesn't drive the ENTIRE historic effort at HFS.