Voices from the Heartland was a segment series in the 1990s that highlighted essays from regional authors. Contributors included Barton Sutter, Carol Hauser, Carol Bly, Diane Glancy, and Robert Treuer, amongst others.
June 12, 1992 - Now lives Tyler, Minnesota.
June 19, 1992 -
June 26, 1992 -
July 3, 1992 - Barton Sutter reads his essay “Boundary Waters Canoe Park.” Sutter recalls the travails to get into Boundary Waters being far more trecherous than the wild.
July 31, 1992 - Essay on disappearing birch trees later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
August 7, 1992 - Essay on Aspen Parkland later collected in "Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent" by Laurie Allmann, published October 1996 by University of Minnesota Press.
September 4, 1992 - Essay later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press. Includes poem "In Isabella, Minnesota, I Have Found Crystals of Dirty Snow under a Log, Even in July" from "A Field Guide to Blueberries" by Jim Johnson, published June 1992 by North Star Press of Saint Cloud.
September 25, 1992 - Essay on watching migrating hawks later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
October 23, 1992 - When an English woman, inspired by Isabella Bird's travels in 19th-century America, asked me last year how she might see the full dimension of the country, I said to drive U.S. Highway 50 from ocean to ocean. If she begins in the East, I know the very mile where she will exclaim from behind her windshield that she has at last arrived in the American West. That spot is in Kansas in the Flint Hills in Chase County: if Highway 50 is a belt across the midriff of America, then the Flint Hills make a buckle cinching East to West.
October 30, 1992 - Essay on the peat bogs of the North later collected in "North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods - Postcards from Duluth" edited by John Henricksson, published April 1997 by University of Minnesota Press and" Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent by Laurie Allmann, published October 1996 by University of Minnesota Press.