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 2, 1992 - Roy Bauer, co-author of The Silverlake Project: Transformation at IBM, shares the inside story of one of the most successful computers in IBM history.
April 3, 1992 - Roger Sween, a library cooperation specialist at State Library Services-Minnesota Department of Education, talks with MPR’s Gary Eichten about the variety of choices involved in declaring a ‘State Book.’
April 3, 1992 - On this Voices of Minnesota segment, Native American storyteller Anne Dunn tells a tale of wood gathering.
April 6, 1992 - Minneapolis writer Gary Legwold talks about the variety of ways the prepare and eat lefse. Legwold is the author of Last Word on Lefse: Heartwarming Stories and Recipes Too!.
April 11, 1992 - Weekend’s Jim Wishner interviews curator Karen Nelson Hoyle about the Kerlan Collection, the cornerstone of the Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Minnesota's Archives and Special Collections. Nelson Hoyle highlights some of the collection, including Wanda Gag's papers.
April 17, 1992 - Author and instructor Jim Latimer and fiddle player Martin Hayes introduce the listening audience to the children’s book, The Irish Piper.
April 17, 1992 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, an essay from Laurie Allmann on her travels to Italy.
April 18, 1992 - As Ramadan concludes and the weekend marks Passover and Easter, Midday guest Clark Morphew, religious writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, answers listener questions about current issues in religion.
April 22, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews Duluth writer Ann Schimpf about building relationship between children and the Earth. Local efforts include Sense of Wonder workshops at Wolf Ridge Wildlife Area and a book publication, entitled Teaching Kids to Love the Earth.
April 23, 1992 - Quilter and writer Helen Kelley shares the joy and skill of quilting. She writes a column called “Loose Threads” in the Quilters Newsletter Magazine.