December 1, 1992 - MPR’s Joe Kelly reports on a Duluth public reading of poetry about people’s experiences with AIDS, sponsoed by Group Poetry Harbour.
December 7, 1992 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on travelling educators who have created a musical road school in Northern Minnesota. Enger interviews both educator and student alike on this newfound access in learning how to play an instrument.
December 11, 1992 - MPR’s Liz Hannon interviews Ann Reed, Minnesota songwriter, singer, and guitarist. Reed shares her process of songwriting and performs songs “Hole in the Day” and “Too Much Trouble.”
December 12, 1992 - Lucia was sainted, and adopted by the fishermen of Sicily as their patron saint. No one knows exactly how she became the queen of light in a little country far up in the North. Perhaps the Vikings brought the legend back with them. It seems fitting the the tune the old Sicilian folk song was used in Sweden as a traditional song of Lucia.
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December 29, 1992 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Julie Englebrecht on women in sports journalism. They discuss the lack of women in the field, getting in to the locker room, and Englebrecht’s new position as a sports journalist at the Star Tribune.
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January 14, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Maus interviews Asian American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee. The Hibbing writer talks about her book “Finding My Voice.” Lee also discusses dealing with racism.
January 15, 1993 - MPR’s Catherine Winter interviews Anthony Signorelli and Paul Macadam, editors of “Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War,” published by Inroads Press (Minneapolis, MN). Poet Thomas R. Smith from River Falls, WI. also takes part in conversation.