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December 7, 2001 - Minnesota Musher Keith Aili (EYE-lee) is headed to Alaska tonight for a rookie orientation leading up to the 2002 Iditarod Sled Dog Marathon. The 27-year-old almost didn't sign-up for the race because he hadn't raised enough money to register. But last week the Minnesota Wild Hockey team kicked in the last $20-thousand to help him qualify. Aili has been mushing competively for about nine years. While he's won several events in the lower 48, he isn't trying to WIN the Iditerod...he just wants to get some experience on the course and hopefully finish the race. Aili says he's dreamed of being a musher since he was 13 years old.
December 7, 2001 - A Voices of Minnesota special, featuring an exclusive interview with Carl Pohlad, and on Pearl Harbor Day, an interview with World War II Army nurse Avis Schorer.
December 10, 2001 - Joseph Giannetti painted a mural in the Soudan Underground Iron Mine near Tower, Minnesota. It was in collaboration with the University of Minnesota.
December 12, 2001 - Barrie Osborne says he was inspired to get into movies when a fellow student at Carlton College in Northfield made a film as a class project. That was back in the 1960's. Now he's a film producer with a long list of movies to his name, including Dick Tracy, Face Off and The Matrix. Osborne is in the Twin Cities tonight for a special sneak preview of his latest film: the highly anticipated adaptation of "Lord of the Rings." It's been a huge project. The three-hour film is only the first of three movies that will tell the whole of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic story. Osborne told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr the project needed a two thousand member crew all paying close attention to detail.
December 12, 2001 - A Midmorning broadcast of Talking Volumes event with Minnesota poet Robert Bly and MPR’s Katherine Lanpher, held at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.
December 13, 2001 - All over Sweden, Norway, and parts of the United States people welcome the beginning of the holiday season with Santa Lucia Day. The celebration has become an important family tradition for commentator Nanci Olesen.
December 14, 2001 - Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts has a look at what's going on with arts around the state this week.
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December 17, 2001 - Stephen Sondheim, award-winning composer and lyricist, gives a speech at the Guthrie Theater's "Global Voices" series.