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October 23, 1992 - When an English woman, inspired by Isabella Bird's travels in 19th-century America, asked me last year how she might see the full dimension of the country, I said to drive U.S. Highway 50 from ocean to ocean. If she begins in the East, I know the very mile where she will exclaim from behind her windshield that she has at last arrived in the American West. That spot is in Kansas in the Flint Hills in Chase County: if Highway 50 is a belt across the midriff of America, then the Flint Hills make a buckle cinching East to West.
October 30, 1992 - Essay on the peat bogs of the North later collected in "North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods - Postcards from Duluth" edited by John Henricksson, published April 1997 by University of Minnesota Press and" Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent by Laurie Allmann, published October 1996 by University of Minnesota Press.
October 30, 1992 - Master storyteller Duke Addicks tells the real ghost story of “Rex,” a long dead dog.
October 31, 1992 -
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November 6, 1992 - Essay on autumn and death later collected in "Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map" by Barton Sutter, published October 1998 by University of Minnesota Press.
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November 9, 1992 - Q&A period at "Democracy, Diversity and Disparity: The Growing Urban Poor" lecture held at Hamline University’s Justice for Everyone lecture series. Participants Mickey Kaus, editor of the New Republic; and Ronald Walters, professor of political science at Howard University, answered audience questions after their respective speeches.