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.
April 26, 1996 - Voices from the Heartland - Jim Latimer reads from his book "Going the Moose Way Home"
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April 30, 1996 - The Unabomber -- The Freemen- what do these people and their actions say about us? When people violently disagree with the policies of a nation, what is the right course of action. Is there room for violence in a disagreement with the government?
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May 10, 1996 - Duluth poet Barton Sutter provides commentary on the importance of poetry and it’s status in the United States.
May 13, 1996 - This weekend marked the unofficial beginning of summer for thousands of walleye anglers, who opened their season after what seemed to many the longest winter in memory. The winter, in fact, isn't completely over: ice still covers a number of lakes in northern Minnesota -- anyone wanting to fish walleye on Lake of the Woods will have to chop a hole to do it.
May 17, 1996 -
May 20, 1996 - These days, a computerized copy machine can spit out many thousands of printed pages an hour. But on Saint Paul's West Side, there's a fellow who still prints wedding invitations and other jobs the old-fashioned way...with drawers of metal type and a fleet of clattering, hand-fed presses.