Weekend Edition (Regional Edition) is an MPR News segment series that runs as a companion to broadcasts of NPR’s Weekend Edition. As a regional version, the series highlights local news, commentary, profiles, and reports.
July 11, 1992 - Local writer Lawrence Sutin provides commentary on Minnesota lakes, from the many little lakes to the “big” one…and the varied haphazard naming structures.
July 18, 1992 - Local historian Karal Ann Marling reviews Truman, a biography by David McCullough.
July 25, 1992 - Local writer Lawrence Sutin shares a personal memory of a fight between him and his wife, an unexpected visitor, and the difference between public and private self.
August 1, 1992 - MPR’s Maja Beckstrom reports on a Clementine Hunter exhibition at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. Segment includes commentary from an anonymous Minnesota collector friend of Clementine Hunter, along with Todd Bockley of Bockley Gallery.
August 8, 1992 - Photographer and author Jim Hubbard talks about photography exhibit "Shooting Back, Little Earth Kids,” which presents a collection of images by young photographers at Little Earth.
August 15, 1992 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Anne Soukhanov, editor of American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Soukhanov details what words made it in…and what didn’t.
August 29, 1992 - Pop culture expert and historian Karal Ann Marling provides her positive impressions of Betty Fussell’s The Story of Corn.
September 5, 1992 - A reading of an unflattering essay on goldfish.
September 5, 1992 - American cartoonist and writer Lynda Barry performs reading of I Remember Mike, a story recalling childhood memory of fellow high school student.
September 11, 1992 - Local writer Carol Pine shares her love for sailing in this commentary.