June 5, 1992 - Midmorning live reporting from the DFL Convention in Duluth, which includes interviews and commentary from Duluthians. Segment ends with writer Barton Sutter reading his essay on Duluth, Dull and Out of It.
June 5, 1992 - Australian author Tim Winton talks about his book, Cloudstreet. The novel tells the story of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who are forced to live together in a large, haunted house in Perth, Western Australia, from 1943 to 1963.
June 6, 1992 - Karal Ann Marling recites Elvis Is Everywhere by Mojo Nixon.
June 12, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, storyteller Richard Siemers, who now lives in southern Minnesota, shares a tale from his youth in rural South Dakota.
June 19, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, storyteller Sarah Meybaum reads a childhood recollection from her South Dakota homestead.
June 20, 1992 - Midday presents Minnesota writer Paul Gruchow giving a talk in Southwestern Minnesota as part of “The Fulda Project: Old Stories and New Meanings" lecture series.
June 22, 1992 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder talks with rural poets Mark Vinz and Ron Block about how the regional landscape shapes their work. Both read poems during segment.
June 22, 1992 - A collection of MPR staff reading pieces from Land in Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders in North Dakota by H. Elaine Lindgren. The book recounts women's fascinating accounts from rural life…such as locating a claim, erecting a shelter, and living on the prairie in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
June 22, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, storyteller Sarah Meybaum, who now resides in Minnesota, shares an impactful childhood experience in rural South Dakota.
June 22, 1992 - A broadcast of MPR’s The Morning Show at The Centrum, located at Concordia College in Fargo-Moorhead. Program contains skits, interviews, performances, and readings.