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.
January 26, 1991 - A Voices from the Heartland essay on the balance of nature and palindromes.
January 26, 1991 - The Children's Theatre Company presents "Lyle the Crocodile" which was adapted by Kevin Kling is reviewed.
January 30, 1991 - Elie Wiesel, a survivor of World War II concentration camps and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at Winona State University about the importance of remembering the past.
February 8, 1991 - Author Kevin Kling talks about slowly explaining how Minnesotans ice fish to people who don't understand.
February 9, 1991 - Patricia (Patty) Lynch is an affiliated writer with the Playwrights' Center and currently lives in Kittery Point, Maine. She was an executive and artistic director of Brass Tacks Theatre in Minneapolis and and an executive director of The O'Shaughnessy in St. Paul.
February 9, 1991 - Voices from the Heartland
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February 16, 1991 - Voices from the Heartland
February 16, 1991 - Issue 18 - Transformations, contributors Ruth Berman, Carol Masters, Sue Ann Martinson, Barbara T. Myman, Sing Heavenly Muse! (Minneapolis, MN)
February 18, 1991 - Contributions to literature