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Lyn Lacy chairs a panel
of G‡g researchers
at the 2005 Minnesota Book
Awards
Lyn Lacy with Dolly and
Gary Harm,
executor of the G‡g
estate,
and Carol Sibley, chairperson
of the Wanda G‡g Book
Award
George Glotzbach of New
Ulm, MN,
editor & narrator of
ÒAnton G‡g: Immigrant ArtistÓ,
at The Media Workshop,
St. Paul, MN
Ruth Grim of the Bass
Museum of Art,
Miami Beach, FL, author
and narrator of
ÒAnton G‡g: Art
AppreciationÓ,
at The Media Workshop,
St. Paul, MN
George Phenix of Austin,
TX,
narrator of ÒThe Night
Before ChristmasÓ
in ÒThe Christmas
MedleyÓ,
at The Media Workshop,
St. Paul, MN
Lyn Lacy working on
audio with Michael Kelly,
President of The Media Workshop, St.
Paul, MN
Helen Stub and Lyn Lacy
on a research trip
about the G‡g family in
New Ulm, MN
--- back in 1982! Yikes!
Helen Stub at the
Heritage office in the Ô80s
Helen Ryberg and Lyn
Lacy at one of
many MEMO conferences in the Ô80s
Everything we do at
OxCart
is with fond memories of
Helen Ryberg
(1933-1999),
co-founder of Heritage
Productions
 Lyn
Lacy can be reached at:
lynlacy@mpls.k12.mn.us
Helen
Stub can be reached at:
Back4145@msn.com
for Lyn
LacyÕs publications
and
workshops:
www.lynlacy.com
Her
blog is:
www.snowbirds.typepad.com
Our friend and colleague
Michael
Kelly
can be
reached at:
www.mediaworkshopmn.com
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OxCart is a home-based production company
started in the spring of 2004 by Helen Stub and Lyn Lacy, retired Minneapolis
public school media specialists with over 60 years combined experience
working with classroom teachers, children and young people.
OxCart is committed to interdisciplinary, high-quality programs that
encourage life-long learning. Our productions use on-site original and
secondary sources. Each program has been field-tested successfully to meet
language arts and social studies standards for elementary, middle and
secondary students.
OxCart titles are featured also in programs at libraries, churches,
historical societies and senior citizen centers.
Helen and Lyn have been writers and producers
of educational audiovisual materials since the 1980s when Helen Ryberg and
Helen Stub founded Heritage Productions, Inc.
Heritage produced biographies and histories in
sound filmstrip and VHS video format. Also produced were narrated slide
presentations of anniversaries and special events based on family history research
and oral interviews. Lyn wrote scripts and recorded voice-overs for many of
the Heritage productions, two of which won awards from the Minnesota
Educational Media Organization (MEMO).
A chance conversation in the winter of 2004
led Lyn and Helen Stub to start-up the company again under the name OxCart
Productions. They realized they shared a dream to revisit the valuable
research they had gathered over the years, to add to that research, and to
enhance the programs by producing them in exciting new formats. They decided
to begin again in memory of their friend and co-worker, Helen Ryberg.
Lyn also creates new DVD programs to add
to OxCartÕs collection, such as an adaptation of Alma ScottÕs The Wily
Woodchucks,
illustrated by Flavia G‡g, which is a picture book about the G‡g family at
home in New Jersey.
Helen has a hand in the logistics of creating
the new company. She is also creating new projects, such as an educational
board game about the Santa Fe Trail Ð a trading route that was the precursor
to Oregon Trail Ð as well as DVD productions of historic American trails.
For OxCartÕs DVDs, Lyn uses a Mac G5 to digitally enhance pictures and
add color, new music and updated video footage to the filmstrips and videos
produced by Heritage in the 1980s. Software applications are Word X,
Photoshop Elements 2.0, Final Cut Express 2, Toast 6 Titanium, and Photo To
Movie 3.1. Note from Lyn: since many of the productions have line drawings,
it is necessary to put a Gaussian blur on the DVDs for viewing on televisions
rather than computer monitors or large-screen digital projectors.
New DVD biographies and
stories are in the making, as well as the history DVDs and kits -- so
bookmark our page! Thank you in advance for ordering our productions of
quality educational materials.
Lyn Lacy and Helen Stub
Partners in
OxCart Productions
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