Get to Know Molly Langer

Molly Langer is boring. In trying to come up with something to say about her for this piece, there wasn’t much to go on.

As she puts it: “I don’t really have hobbies.”

She does like to read, but she isn’t in a band and she doesn’t climb mountains. Even with her interest in reading, she admits that the historical fiction she likes to read isn’t always the most exciting.

Part of her being boring, which many people can relate to, is that she is the parent of two young children. Understandably, and happily, she lets them take up a lot of her time.

“I feel like I had hobbies before I had kids,” she explains, “I just can’t remember what they were.”

So there it is. She’s boring.

But she wasn’t always boring. Prior to moving to Red Wing in 2016, Molly organized Polar Plunges with Special Olympics Minnesota, and most everyone would agree that a bunch of people jumping into a freezing lake is exciting, or at least not boring.

It’s time for her to rediscover that part of her life. She occasionally adds thrillers to her reading list, but that isn’t enough. “I want to be exciting again,” she states, “that’s why I started working with Downtown Main Street.”

Working as the Events & Outreach Coordinator at DTMS is invigorating. She started the job in May of 2024, and in her first few months she oversaw Fairy Fest and a lot of the Holiday Stroll.

Organizing events can be tedious, placing lots of phone calls and double checking that everything is confirmed, but that’s not her favorite part. “What I really love is the day-of chaos of everything,” she says.

So she isn’t totally boring after all! Now that she’s with Downtown Main Street, she gets to run around and put out the fires* that inevitably arise during even the best-organized events.

Molly sees her role as providing “new opportunities for people to enjoy downtown Red Wing,” which essentially means she’ll be doing her job when people aren’t bored. So far, according to the excitement levels at Fairy Fest and the Holiday Stroll, so good.

*Metaphorical fires. Her Husband puts out actual fires for the Red Wing Fire Department.