Materials created/edited/published by Archive team as an assigned project during remote work period in 2020
September 16, 2010 - St. Paul Poet Todd Boss sends us this look back at his summer road trip in his poem, "Luckenbach."
October 1, 2010 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on local band Roma di Luna’s CD "Then the Morning Came." Roberts interviews band members Channy and Alexi Casselle about album.
October 1, 2010 - MPR’s Tom Crann talks with NPR journalist Michele Norris, who speaks about her memoir “The Grace of Silence.” Norris describes finding out about her maternal grandmother’s Minneapolis job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima.
October 5, 2010 - Essayist Peter Smith reflects on a BWCA memory along the shore of Lake Agnes, and of an old robin he wish he had saved.
October 18, 2010 - MPR’s Chris Roberts looks back at the music career and influence of local rapper Eyedea, who died on October 16th, 2010. Segment includes various interviews and music clips.
October 22, 2010 - On this Midday call-in program, former Vice President Walter Mondale joins MPR’s Gary Eichten to take questions about his new political memoir, The Good Fight: A life in Liberal Politics. The book traces Mondale's career from a young Minnesota attorney general to Vice President. While personal, it's also the story of half a century of progressive politics.
November 8, 2010 - On this Midday program, MPR’s Cathy Wurzer speaks with Supreme Court Justice Alan Page.
December 23, 2010 - MPR’s Kate Smith interviews author Greg Breining and photographer Layne Kennedy about their book “Paddle North,” which explores the Quetico-Boundary Waters. The two discusse the method, madness and philosophy of paddling Minnesota's big lakes and small streams.
February 7, 2011 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Minneapolis rapper and emcee Carnage the Executioner, aka Terrell Woods. Roberts interviews Carnage the Executioner about his personal life and album “Worth the Wait." Roberts also talks with others in the music industry about Carnage the Executioner’s talents.
April 18, 2011 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews playwright Dominic Taylor, actor Dennis Spears, and director Lou Bellamy about the play "Black Pearl Sings." The "I Wish You Love" production at the Penumbra Theatre examines the significance of the Nat "King" Cole Show, one of the first network TV programs hosted by an African American, and the role it's star played in the modern civil rights era.