February 5, 1993 - On this First Friday program, a collection of stories including Stepin Fetchet, trend-watching, can poetry matter?, barn poetry, stress of racism, who music serves, snowboarding terms, “Thank You, M’am,” and minor league baseball stadiums.
February 5, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Randy Sue Latimer, local playwright and co-founder of Sell the Cow Theatre, a new theater company in the Twin Cities. Others involved in the joint venture are Brad Lowery, Anne Welsbacher, Jeff Reynolds. The group’s first offering is Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker and Lyle Kessler’s The Orphan.
February 5, 1993 - St. Paul teacher and author Roger Barr talks about his book, The Treasure Hunt. The mystery follows characters as they hunt for a hidden medallion in Ramsey County. The story is based on the Saint Paul Winter Carnival and the Pioneer Press Medallion Hunt.
February 5, 1993 - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark talks about aspects of past U.S.-Middle East relations and on his book, The Fire This Time: U. S. War Crimes in the Gulf.
February 5, 1993 - In this segment from First Friday program, Anne Soukhanov, editor of American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, gives examples of snowboarding terms that were reviewed for latest edition…including ‘fakie’ and ‘phat.’
February 5, 1993 - On this segment from First Friday, American poet Dana Gioia discusses the history of poetry in a conversation about his book “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture,” published by Graywolf Press.
February 5, 1993 - On this segment of First Friday, MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles barn poetry. An inspiration of New York poet Mark Mendel back in 1982, the poetry resides on the side of Goodhue County Road 6, outside of Red Wing, Minnesota.
February 5, 1993 - In this segment from First Friday program, a conversation with Black playwright Michael Henry Brown about his play, King of Coons.
February 8, 1993 - Mary Mauler, director of Regional Affairs at Social Security Administration, explains when one needs to pay social security taxes for wages on work done.
February 9, 1993 - Television journalist Bill Moyers joins Midday’s Gary Eichten in the MPR studio to talk about his new book, Healing and the Mind. In developing the book, Moyers spoke with world experts and lay people about the science, philosophy and folklore of sickness and health.