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 14, 1992 - Interviews with various people about race and religion.
April 14, 1992 - An interview with Studs Terkel on race and American history.
April 14, 1992 - A commentary on August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson.
April 15, 1992 -
April 15, 1992 - A review of "The Piano Lesson" which is being performed at the World Theater.
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April 16, 1992 -
April 17, 1992 - At a garage sale in Minnesota in 1989, a young American photographer, John Barnier, bought eight wooden crates containing over 130 glass plate negatives. Realizing that many of the negatives were of Jerusalem, he brought them to the Harvard Semitic Museum where they were eventually identified as the long-lost work of Mendel John Diness, who lived in Jerusalem in the 1850s and was the first photographer to learn--and practice--the art there.
April 17, 1992 -
April 17, 1992 -