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.
September 9, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe interviews Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Heaney speaks about the importance of radio in his life. Heaney also reads numerous poems.
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September 10, 1996 - Staff at Milkweed Editions , the Minneapolis-based publishing house got quite a shock last year. They donated a thousand children's books to Twin Cities fourth and fifth graders, only to discover that the children couldn't read the books. Many were three grade levels behind in their reading. And so in what might be a natural for a publisher, Milkweed got into the business of promoting literacy. But as Mary Stucky reports, they've taken an approach that's unique in the nation.
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September 14, 1996 - The quest for spiritual renewal is the topic of the 12th Annual Faith, Reason and World Affairs Symposium at Corcordia College. Speakers will examine the future of churches, media coverage of religion and how Generation X'ers worship. "Soul Searching: The Unsettled Church and America's Spiritual Quest" is free and open to the public. This weekend's symposium is part of Concordia's on-going series of discussions on important social topics. Dr. Per Anderson is the Symposium Committee Chair. He says there are many signs that Americans are re-examing religion.
September 17, 1996 - Larry Millett, who writes for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, is best known as the author of Lost Twin Cities, a romantic and wrenching tribute to the architectural majesty of Minneapolis and Saint Paul eliminated by the wrecking ball. It's not surprising that Millett is a lifelong fan of Conan Doyle's adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which evoke long-gone times and morals. He saw all the movies and read all the stories, and has now written his own Holmes adventure: "Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon", which puts Holmes and Watson at the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894.
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