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.
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.
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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.
May 22, 1996 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Red Wing poet and teacher Robert Hedin, whose assembled a literary history of the train titled "The Great Machines: Poems and Songs of the American Railroad."
May 23, 1996 - Health insurance, it is assumed, is designed to help pay for the costs of medical treatment. According to commentator Ken Stewart, the health care system seems to treat some medical conditions differently than others.
May 24, 1996 - The Story of the Fairy Tale
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May 27, 1996 - Today, some people will spend time thinking about those who have given their lives in battle. Commentator Ann Daly Goodwin says she has come to realize that in any war, there are victims on both sides. On this Memorial Day, she will remember soldiers who have died, as well as a young girl.
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