March 18, 1993 - MPR’s Beth Friend profiles Abraham Rodriguez’s Spidertown: A Novel. Segment includes interview with Rodriguez and reading from book by the author.
March 19, 1993 - Playwright Lauren Nickisch reads from her one-woman production based on the life of Northern Minnesota pioneer woman Hephzibeth Merritt, Nickisch's great-great-great-grandmother.
March 19, 1993 - Playwright Mike Irwin and composer Joe Kimmell explain the source material for their traveling community play Rural Voices.
March 19, 1993 - Worldview’s Mike Maus talks with Susan Allen Toth about My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir. Toth begins segment with a reading from her book.
March 19, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads Vernal Equinox, an essay about her plant and gardening experience.
March 24, 1993 - American writer Natalie Goldberg shares another reading from her book, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America. This reading excerpt reflects on a childhood French teacher. Goldberg has deep roots in Minnesota, having studied for 12 years with Katagiri Roshi at the Minnesota Zen Center.
March 26, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Hibbing native and second-generation Korean American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee reads from her new book, Finding My Voice.
March 29, 1993 - Richard Moe, author of The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, talks with Midday’s Gary Eichten about his book and the Civil War participants. Moe also answers listener questions.
March 29, 1993 - Local theater critic Erin Hart reviews two plays…Lonely Planet by Steve Dietz at the Cricket Theater; and Detective Fiction by Patrick Coyle at the Theater Garage.
April 1, 1993 - Local theater critic and writer Erin Hart reviews James Graham Bronson’s Willie and Esther. The play is staged at Penumbra Theatre and focuses on the “forgotten half.”