Skelly Video Productions

09/06/2024

Friday fun

09/03/2024

Wishing all of the kids, parents and teachers a wonderful first day of school!!

07/28/2024

Camp and presentation photos from the MS bike ride across Minnesota

Bike MS

07/26/2024

07/26/2024

MS bike ride across Minnesota day 4 competitions

07/25/2024

We're having a great time participating in and photographing the MS bike ride across Minnesota.

What events are you doing this summer?

05/17/2024

Always great to support these great people!!

04/19/2024

Pre game show Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul

02/29/2024

What events are you going to this spring?

Can we help with your video, livestream or photography?

02/25/2024

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02/24/2024

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02/24/2024

When I came onboard as the Loppet’s Executive Director in late 2020 – the organization was reeling from the Covid cancellation of the first attempt at a World Cup on US Soil in two decades. A weary and wary staff and volunteer core weighed whether trying again would be good financially or spiritually for this small nonprofit whose mission is connecting people to the outdoors through experiences that grow community. Could we grow community, stay in alignment with our mission AND execute an international sporting event that was world class? Could we muster the strength to try again? The answer was yes. And then the little nonprofit that can – did this weekend.

The indescribable collective experience that we all just had together was the result of the Loppet pouring love and joy into every aspect of organizing.

Volunteers spent years thinking through every detail. Staff worked around the clock on a beautiful and challenging course that weaves through a public park. Artists were employed, climate experts were engaged, our youth frolicked around us as we worked. The spirit of the Loppet was continually infused as we prepared the sacred woods of Wirth – and then you came – and it was utter magic.

From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of thousands of volunteers and my beloved staff – we thank you for coming. I don’t believe there has ever been a sporting event that spawned so many joyful tears and so many cheers.

Read the rest of Claire’s letter at loppet.org under News & Stories and donate at https://loppet.app.neoncrm.com/forms/loppetcup

📸 Credit: Steven Garcia

02/24/2024

We got to ski in the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation - Birkie race today and help with 360 video of the whole race for Trail Genius

02/23/2024

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02/03/2024

Great day for Next Gen Kids races at the 2024 The Loppet Foundation Loppet!

02/03/2024

We had a blast helping The Loppet Foundation today. Check out the snow!

02/03/2024

Canons are ready to photograph the The Loppet Foundation races this weekend!

Will you be there?

11/21/2023

Always amazing to sponsor Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul. Last week was Unlocking TikTok Success: with Steph Alles (Uponor North America), Emmaline Childs ( Emmaline Childs), Beth Leipholtz (Beth and coop ), & John O'Sullivan (One Minute Tours

11/17/2023

Pre Game show Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul

11/17/2023

SMBMSP pre game show Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul

10/31/2023

An original Jack O'Lantern c.1850 on display at the Museum of Country Life in Mayo.

History of the Jack O'Lantern.

According to Irish folklore, a man called Stingy Jack was sentenced to roam the earth for eternity by the devil. A ghostly figure of the night, Jack walks with a burning coal inside of a carved out turnip to light his way. Irish folklore began to refer to this spooky figure as 'Jack of the Lantern' which then became 'Jack O’Lantern.'

We all know that Halloween started with the Irish festival of Samhain or 'All Hallows Eve', which then became known as Halloween. This was a time of year when the veil between this world and the next was at its weakest and spirits roamed the world. This legend is why people in Ireland began to make their own versions of Jack’s lantern by carving grotesque faces into turnips, potatoes and beets, placing them by their homes to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits and travelers.

Irish migrants in the 19th century brought this legend across the Atlantic, where they discovered that Pumpkins were easier to carve than Turnips. So, it’s to an Irish character named Stingy Jack that we owe the origins of the modern Jack O'Lanterns.

10/24/2023

We love coving Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul will you be at the next one?

What fun events are you going to this fall that we could help cover?

10/15/2023

Tune in to Maureen Skelly live now on KFAI radio 90.3 FM

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10/13/2023

Ready to roll at Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul

09/22/2023

Pumped to support Social Media Breakfast - Minneapolis/St. Paul this morning