This collection encompasses 50-plus years of interviews, readings, speeches, and reports on the vibrant literary scene in Minnesota. Not only home to giants F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, our state has an array of incredible contemporary poets, novelists and playwrights. Their words make up majority of this collection.
Repeatedly being named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. Many recordings of these are also included.
This project was funded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
January 29, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland, Laurie Allmann reads a version of her essay on the sub-boreal forest of Minnesota later collected in "Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent," published by University of Minnesota Press.
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February 4, 1993 - Abdul Salaam El Razzac as Cotton Pickit, a portrayal of Black film comedian Stepin Fetchit.
February 4, 1993 - Marianne Legato is co-author of the book The Female Heart : The Truth about Women and Heart Disease. Kevin Graham is a cardiologist with the Minneapolis Heart Institute.
February 5, 1993 - On this First Friday program, a collection of stories including Stepin Fetchet, trend-watching, can poetry matter?, barn poetry, stress of racism, who music serves, snowboarding terms, “Thank You, M’am,” and minor league baseball stadiums.
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February 5, 1993 - Brad Lowery, Anne Welsbacher, Jeff Reynolds
February 5, 1993 - Based on the Saint Paul Winter Carnival and the Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt.