Voices of Minnesota, a long-running MPR series, highlights the many interesting voices that make up the people and history of Minnesota. It has appeared on Mid-Morning, MPR, Midday, and News Feature broadcasts in short form, and part of Midday hour programming in long form. Over the years, MPR’s Dan Olson, Gary Eichten, and numerous others, produced hundreds of fascinating interviews from the land of 10,000 Lakes.
November 20, 1995 - Hour 2 of Midmorning featuring Voices of Minnesota with Justine Kerfoot, Gunflint stories. Also Andrew Jones, The Flying Wine Man.
November 20, 1995 - Part 1 of 2 of a Voices of Minnesota interview with Justine Kerfoot, author of "Gunflint Stories."
November 20, 1995 - Part 1 of 2 of a Voices of Minnesota interview with Justine Kerfoot, author of "Gunflint Stories."
December 4, 1995 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Joe Dowling, the Artistic Director for the Guthrie Theate, and Dr. Maxine Harris studies how a parent's death affects a child in "The Loss That Is Forever".
December 18, 1995 - A Voices of Minnesota interview with Lou Bellamy, director of the Penumbra Theatre. MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with Bellamy about family and growing up in St. Paul.
December 18, 1995 - A Voices of Minnesota interview with Lou Bellamy, director of the Penumbra Theatre. MPR’s Chris Roberts talks with Bellamy about race and the arts.
January 1, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning features Voices of Minnesota with Oscar Howard, founder of Meals on Wheels, and Lt. Colonel Donald Arnold, Salvation Army Commander for Minnesota and North Dakota on the season's donations. It also includes NPR's Susan Stamberg on New York City's 21 Club, and Odd Jobs: Dick Heibel, snow globe repair.
January 15, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Arvonne Fraser, a human and women's rights activist, and Marlene Kim Connor, author of "What Is Cool?: Understanding Black Manhood in America," on the roots of cool.
January 20, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Walter Breckenridge, an ecologist, ornithologist and artist, Jeanne Calvit and Howard Miller, founders of Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts and programs for the developmentally disabled, and Odd Jobs - piano tuner.
January 29, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Roger Erickson of WCCO Radio.