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 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.
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April 21, 1992 - A keynote speech by playwright August Wilson called "Odyssey of an African in America" for the Minnesota Alumni Association annual meeting.His Pulitzer Prize winning "The Piano Lesson" is running at the World Theater in St. Paul.
April 22, 1992 - Co-author of the book "Teaching Kids to Love the Earth".
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April 24, 1992 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads his essay on the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth. It details the iconic structure that borders between Superior Bay and Lake Superior.