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.
June 20, 1992 -
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".
June 22, 1992 - Includes readings.
June 22, 1992 -
June 22, 1992 - "Land in Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders" in North Dakota by H. Elaine Lindgren
June 22, 1992 -
June 22, 1992 - A broadcast of MPR’s The Morning Show at The Centrum, located at Concordia College in Fargo-Moorhead. Program contains skits, interviews, performances and readings.
June 23, 1992 -
June 24, 1992 - Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides, Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles
June 24, 1992 -