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The University of Iowa Art Education Program, in partnership with communities, schools and trail conservancies surrounding the thirteen Iowa Millennium Legacy Trails that make up the American Discovery Trail :Iowa Route, created a DVD trails storytelling project, from March of 2001 to December of 2001.The storytelling project had five components emanating from community and adventure-based art learning experiences on the trails. We would compose with communities a storytelling portrait of the Millennium Legacy Trails. This project was centered on the idea of Iowans adding something known to something seen from being in the immense landscape of Iowa on the 504 miles of American Discovery Trail: Iowa Route-Iowa's Millennium Legacy Trails-and then composing a portrait of landscape and story in the form of a DVD to be distributed to Iowa schools and libraries.

Our work to produce the DVD, and with it explore each trail, with communities surrounding the trail, necessitated partnerships with organizations involved with each of Iowa's 13 Millennium Legacy Trails, including schools, local governments and county conservation boards. We worked initially through the mayors/ city councils of: Adel-Desoto-Minburn, Atlantic, Audubon, Bettendorf, Center Point-Urbana, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines Ind., Exira; Grundy Center, Iowa City, Malvern, Marshalltown, Newton, Panorama, Waterloo, Waukee, and West Branch. With mayors/ city councils we organized photographing people seated upon the cycles used for the project. Following this, the DVD has two components: audio storytelling and visual images of situated documentation of widely diverse audiences posed on the sculpture/cycle. The aesthetic purpose of setting stories and images, one within another, was to reveal a trail's meaning and to produce a work that documents a history of Iowans composing a legacy of particular landscapes.

On the American Discovery Trail: Iowa Route
Coin	The University of Iowa Art Education Program, in partnership with communities, schools and trail conservancies surrounding the thirteen Iowa Millennium Legacy Trails that make up the American Discovery Trail :Iowa Route, created a DVD trails storytelling project, from March of 2001 to December of 2001.The storytelling project had five components emanating from community and adventure-based art learning experiences on the trails. We would compose with communities a storytelling portrait of the Millennium Legacy Trails. This project was centered on the idea of Iowans adding something known to something seen from being in the immense landscape of Iowa on the 504 miles of American Discovery Trail: Iowa Route-Iowa's Millennium Legacy Trails-and then composing a portrait of landscape and story in the form of a DVD to be distributed to Iowa schools and libraries. Our work to produce the DVD, and with it explore each trail, with communities surrounding the trail, necessitated partnerships with organizations involved with each of Iowa's 13 Millennium Legacy Trails, including schools, local governments and county conservation boards. We worked initially through the mayors/ city councils of: Adel-Desoto-Minburn, Atlantic, Audubon, Bettendorf, Center Point-Urbana, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines Ind., Exira; Grundy Center, Iowa City, Malvern, Marshalltown, Newton, Panorama, Waterloo, Waukee, and West Branch. With mayors/ city councils we organized photographing people seated upon the cycles used for the project. Following this, the DVD has two components: audio storytelling and visual images of situated documentation of widely diverse audiences posed on the sculpture/cycle. The aesthetic purpose of setting stories and images, one within another, was to reveal a trail's meaning and to produce a work that documents a history of Iowans composing a legacy of particular landscapes.
Jim Leach, Riverfront Trail
Red Oak
Silver City
Cedar Falls	Jame Wabash Trace	La Porte	Malvern
Polk City	Shenandoah	Slater	Women Bikers, Wabash Trace
Raccoon River Valley