August 26, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews members of The Teddy Bear Band at the Minnesota Public Radio booth. Segment includes band performing to a State Fair audience.
August 26, 1993 - Author Steve Chapple shares his fascination with the land of Montana and writing Kayaking the Full Moon: A Journey Down the Yellowstone River to the Soul of Montana.
August 26, 1993 - A Midmorning interview from the Minnesota State Fair with Peg Meir, local author and writer for the Star Tribune newspaper. Meier talks about and reads from her book, Too Hot, Went to Lake.
August 26, 1993 - Midday’s Gary Eichten hosts U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone live from the Minnesota State Fair. Wellstone answers audience and listener questions on health care, the economy, NAFTA, etc.
August 27, 1993 - Worldview’s Mike Maus interviews Juanita Garciagodoy, professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, about current trends in Mexican culture and on the renewed interest of famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
August 27, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews playwright Rebecca Rice about Penumbra Theatre production of Waiting in Vain. Rice talks about Sudeka Linda Harrison and youth in the arts.
August 27, 1993 - Lester Collins, member of Council of Black Minnesotans, comments on Martin Luther King commemoration march. The event is titled "Jobs, Justice and Peace,” and held on the 30th anniversary of the March on Washington.
August 28, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles new Nay Ah Shing School on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation. Thanks in part to casino era revenue funding, the new school will provide K-12 classes, as well as enhanced cultural curriculum and Native American centric elements.
August 28, 1993 - U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger is Midday program’s guest at the Minnesota State Fair, answering audience and listener questions on health care, the economy, NAFTA, etc.
August 30, 1993 - Houston writer and educator P. K. McCary discusses the reasoning behind utilizing street slang for a bible translation in her book, Rappin' With Jesus: The Good News According to the Four Brothers (The Black Bible Chronicles).