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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February 14, 1992 - Recollections by Cloquet Valley State Forest district ranger. Buzz Ryan was a writer from Duluth with first-hand recollections of the loggers, loaders, swampers, wood butchers, and bull cooks who ruled the woods in the heyday of the pioneer lumberjacks and Civilian Conservation Corps—with dozens of historical photographs.
February 14, 1992 - On this Voices in the Heartland episode, MPR’s Marlana Benzie-Lourey talks with central Minnesota poet Joe Paddock about nature, history of the land, and his poetry. Paddock also reads numerous poems.
February 15, 1992 - "Here she is. I recognize the short and precise way she rings the bell, the ring of well-bred company. "At last, Valentine! It's been such a long time..."
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