Film Festival at the History Center

Sunday, October 21, 2007. Minnesota’s Greatest Generation Moving Pictures Event, Minnesota History Center. (www.mnhs.org)

Films begin every hour on the hour in 3 auditoriums. Noon until 5:00 p.m. Jeremy and I submitted 2 films. We hope to see you there!!


My Name is McNamara
Matthew McNamara’s passion for speed skating began with an old pair of skates that carried him from the Minneapolis Arena to Powderhorn Park and on to the 1952 Olympics. Over the next decade, he set numerous records while remaining a happy, humble man who “was never really athletic at all.”



Skating the Pacific to Europe
Lacing up his first pair of skates at age five, Art Seaman began his skating career at Longfellow Park. Progressing to the Powderhorn Skating team, through hard work and chance luck, he literally skated and danced his way from Minnesota to the Pacific to the 1948 Olympics and back again.