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 - MPR’s Mike Mulcahy reports on bill passage in both Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives that changes the state's human rights law to prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians in areas like housing, employment and education.
March 19, 1993 - State Senator Allen Spear speaks on the day gay rights bill was passed by Senate at the legislature.
March 19, 1993 - State Senator Linda Runbeck speaks on the floor, opposes gay rights bill.
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 22, 1993 - Midday presents an MPR documentary entitled School Days, followed by a discussion on education with Linda Powell, superintendent of the Robbinsdale School District; Vernae Hasbargen, president of the Rural Education Association; and Dale Lange, associate dean of the University of Minnesota College of Education.
March 22, 1993 - A collection of news reports and interviews on this hour of Midday.