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.
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June 20, 1992 - Midday presents Minnesota writer Paul Gruchow giving a talk in Southwestern Minnesota as part of "The Fulda Project: Old Stories and New Meanings."
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June 22, 1992 - Today's Midday is a special broadcast from the newest Minnesota Public Radio news and information station, KCCD 90.3 FM in Moorhead, Minnesota. MPR has been originating its broadcast schedule from Moorhead, Minnesota, in celebration of the new station. Dan Olson and various guests were recorded earlier today during the lunch hour at Peggy's Pantry, a cafe in the heart of Moorhead. Olson later took his Midday audience for a tour of the beautifully restored Fargo Theater. The theater's original beauty has been carefully recreated, including the saving of the old Wurlitzer organ, which rises from the stage.H. Elaine Lindgren discusses her book "Land in Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders in North Dakota".