🎪 For two decades, the Minnesota State Fair has chosen a local artist to create a work of art to represent the Great Minnesota Get-Together. The fair would sell posters and limited edition prints of the artworks each year, and the original artwork would go on view at the Fine Art Exhibition. That program is no more. MPR News arts reporter Alex V. Cipolle explains what happened.

🌺 Did you know that Minnesota’s state flower —  the lady's slipper — comes in six varieties? Flower chasers Kelly Povo and Phyllis Root take us on their journey, tromping through the bogs of Iron Springs, just northwest of Lake Itasca, in search of these elusive orchids.