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 22, 1994 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Duluth writer Barton Sutter reads his essay "God's Own Ice Rink." Sutter recounts his ice skating excursion onto a frozen Lake Superior, where he encounters black ice and an unlucky fisherman.
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April 30, 1994 - Local author Lawrence Sutin provides commentary on the Minnesota Twins. Despite the dismal start to 1994 Major League Baseball season, Sutin sees joy in what the future may hold in the years ahead and an appreciation of the game and a retiring veteran player.
May 6, 1994 - Midday, Hour 2
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