MPR captures the sounds a Minnesota Christmas. Some stories have song; some have shopping; some have snow…but all have some form of the holiday spirit.
December 22, 1993 - Minnesota poet and author Bill Holm comments on a number of winter topics, from the sense of poverty on the farm, to the meaning behind lutefisk.
December 23, 1993 - MPR’s Joe Follansbee reports from Rochester’s Federal Medical Center, where prisoners are preparing an annual production of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Follansbee interviews a few of the participants.
December 23, 1993 - Robert Warde, professor in the Macalester University English department, presents a historical lens into British author Charles Dickens and the book character Ebenezer Scrooge. Segment includes cuts from A Christmas Carol.
December 23, 1993 - Minnesota poet and author Bill Holm reflects on singing Christmas songs in his Lutheran childhood, with memories of the cold, tin ears, and a favorite carol.
December 24, 1993 - On this Christmas Eve Midday, listeners share Christmas stories and describe what the holiday means to them. Program also contains a reading and closes with holiday music.
December 24, 1993 - English translator and author Kevin Crossley-Holland reads an essay for the Christmas season.
December 24, 1993 - On this segment of Worldview, artist and author Neda Miranda Blažević reads a work centered on a Croatian Christmas.
December 25, 1993 - St. Paul writer and commentator Lawrence Sutin shares his thoughts on being a non-Christian Christmas celebrant.
January 14, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, northern Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads his essay on recycling Christmas trees.
November 24, 1994 - Minnesota author Susan Carol Hauser reads short essay on her family’s ritual Thanksgiving drive to see the Christmas lights in downtown Minneapolis.