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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March 25, 1996 - On this Voices of Minnesota segment, Catherine Winter interviews Justine Kerfoot, an author notable for her stories about the Boundary Waters. Kerfoot speaks to her experiences of wanting to be a doctor and not being able to pursue it because of the Great Depression, and her work as a hunter, fisher, and guide at her family's lodge in Gunflint, Minnesota.
March 25, 1996 - On this Voices of Minnesota segment, Catherine Winter continues interview with Justine Kerfoot, an author notable for her stories about the Boundary Waters. Kerfoot speaks to her experiences as a hunter, fisher, and guide at her family's lodge in Gunflint, Minnesota, and how the area and the lodge has changed over time.
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April 1, 1996 - This year's cross country ski season has been extraordinarily long. In northern Minnesota, people are still out on the trails and that suits commentator Gary Eustice just fine. Gary Eustice skis near his hometown of Hibbing. He recently made an unexpected discovery on the trail.