LWV UMRR's Annual Meeting (via Zopm) will take place on Wednesday, May 29, beginning at 5:45 pm with delegate credentialing.  The Business Meeting will take place from 6-7 pm. At 7 pm, we will host Steven Marking - the Riverlorian - for an hour of entertainment with his recent film, A Visit from Will Dilg, and discussion. This is a special presentation to mark the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of the Upper Mississippi Wildlife Refuge. 

Steven Marking holds a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Bachelors Degree from Viterbo University in his hometown of La Crosse, Wisconsin.  He brings more than three decades of professional production and performance experience to his latest creation, A Visit From Will Dilg, and his ongoing masterpiece, Our Mighty Mississippi.  Marking is also  a guest speaker on cruise vessels on the Mississippi.

About Will Dilg: In the early 1920’s Will Dilg’s only son drowned in the Mississippi River, which led Will to  become a tireless, fanatic firebrand. In 1922 he became the founding president of the Izaak Walton League of America.  In this role, he lead an extraordinary national crusade to preserve a 261 mile stretch of Mississippi River Backwaters we now know - 100 years later - as the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.