MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
May 11, 1987 - MPR’s William Wilcoxen profiles the “Minnesota Celebrates Lindbergh” celebration, in honor of the 60th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s transcontinental flight. Features includes interviews from Little Falls.
May 13, 1987 - An interview with playwright Marisha Chamberlain's about her play, Angels of Warsaw. It revolves around travelers on a train ride between Paris and Warsaw. The play premieres at the Cricket Theater, in Minneapolis.
May 15, 1987 - Minneapolis writer Sheila B. Richter is winner of the 1987 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a prize where writers try to write the worst first sentence. MPR’s Loren Omoto reads the “honored” short composition.
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May 19, 1987 - MPR’s Beth Friend profiles Patricia Hampl and her work, Spillville. The book is a narrative and reflection on Hampl and a few of her friends rode-tripping to Iowa to visit the same small town Antonin Dvorak visited when he wrote his String Quartet No. 12 in F major (nicknamed American Quartet).
May 20, 1987 - A recording of Charles Lindbergh reading from his memoir, Spirit of St. Louis, an autobiographical account of his first flight across the Atlantic.
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