{"id":2,"date":"2018-02-10T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T08:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mn-story.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-01-22T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T00:00:43","slug":"the-producer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mn-story.com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Hickman is a writer and documentary film producer. Most recently, he edited Darby Nelson\u2019s book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darbynelson.com\/books\/for-love-of-a-river\/\">For Love of a River: The Minnesota<\/a><\/em> (Beaver\u2019s Pond Press, 2019) and produced a short promotional film about how it came to be published. In 1994, he wrote the recommendations in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mrbdc.mnsu.edu\/sites\/mrbdc.mnsu.edu\/files\/public\/reports\/basin\/MN%20River%20Citizen%20Advisory%20Report.pdf\">Working Together: A Plan to Restore the Minnesota River<\/a><\/em>, the final report of the influential Minnesota River Citizens\u2019 Advisory Committee. John was employed for 10 years at the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation, where he was lead writer for such programs as <em>The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary<\/em>, <em>Amazon Trail<\/em>, and MECC\u2019s last, best version of the iconic <em>Oregon Trail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>John made his film debut in 2011 as executive producer of <em>River Revival: Working Together to Save the Minnesota River<\/em> (filmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/mgepic.com\/\">MGEpic<\/a> master photographer-editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joncarlson.com\/\">Jonathan Carlson<\/a> and narrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/mnbound.com\/\">Ron Schara of <em>Minnesota Bound<\/em><\/a> fame). The 48-minute film premiered in prime time on NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/\">KARE11 TV<\/a> to an audience of 85,000+, and more than 700 copies were distributed to schools, libraries, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. John\u2019s film credits include productions for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center, Joseph R. Brown Minnesota River Center, and Sibley County Historical Society, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/mn-story.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Darby_Nelson.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mn-story.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Darby_Nelson.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/mn-story.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Darby_Nelson-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/mn-story.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Darby_Nelson-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether they knew him or knew of him, Minnesotans across the state&#8217;s vast conservation landscape are mourning and paying tribute to a man whose advocacy for state waters ran as deep as his interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darby Nelson, schooled in aquatic ecology and by a life outdoors, was a passionate mentor and teacher at Anoka-Ramsey Community College for 35 years. That career overlapped with his service as a DFL legislator from 1983-1988, where he carried on his environmentalism, writing bills that created the state&#8217;s Board of Water and Soils Resources, protected public lands, and even created a funding mechanism for cross- country ski trails. <a href=\"https:\/\/mn-story.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/A-Minnesotan-whose-love-of-rivers-and-lakes-ran-as-deep-as-his-advocacy-StarTribune.com_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hickman is a writer and documentary film producer. Most recently, he edited Darby Nelson\u2019s book For Love of a River: The Minnesota (Beaver\u2019s Pond Press, 2019) and produced a short promotional film about how it came to be published. 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