SPNN member Angela Andrist particpated in the MN History Center's Moving Pictures Film Project. Her project was called "Soap Box Derby Champion: Boy Makes Good". She won an award for Best Emerging Filmmaker. The film tells the story of Joe Garelick, the 1938 St. Paul Soap Box Derby Champion who went on to fight as a gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber during WWII and returned home with five air medals. Following the war, Garelick invented a boat ladder and launched a successful manufacturing company.
You can view the film on SPNN's channel 15 or here View the film.
Find out more about the project and view the entries here http://www.mnhs.org/people/mngg/film/index.htm.
