October 30, 2004 - Tomorrow is Halloween--the perfect time to curl up with a new spooky story. A man being swallowed alive by an Irish bog is the first scene in Minnesota author Erin Hart's new novel "Lake of Sorrows."
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September 4, 2004 - MPR’s Greta Cunnnigham talks about "politicking on a stick" with Minnesota Public Radio's political reporter Michael Khoo, who has been at the Minnesota State Fair each and every time a big name politician has made a visit to the 2004 event.
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June 22, 2004 - Minnesota writer Judith Guest says the true story of the 1968 murder of a family at their Michigan lake home inspired her to write her latest book "The Tarnished Eye." Sheriff Hugh DeWitt is the central character in the novel. He's still grieving the sudden death of his baby son and dealing with the pressure to solve a high-profile murder. The mystery story is a departure for Guest, who is perhaps best known for books focusing on family dynamics. Robert Redford made her novel "Ordinary People" into an Academy award-winning movie starring Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland. Judith Guest told Minnesota Public Radio's Greta Cunningham that she's been thinking about writing a mystery book for a long time.
January 21, 2004 - Olivia Hunt is unemployed, living alone in Hollywood, and humorously working on the fourth draft of her pretend suicide note when she gets a phone call that her younger sister has been diagnosed with leukemia. That's the opening scene in Elisabeth Robinson's first novel, "The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters." The book is composed entirely of the letters Olivia writes as she struggles to help her sister re-gain her health and to become a successful movie producer. Elisabeth Robinson used her own experience as a movie producer and screenwriter in shaping the character of Olivia. Robinson told Minnesota Public Radio's Greta Cunningham that her sister's struggle with leukemia prompted her to quit the movie business and become a novelist.
December 31, 2003 - Many eyes will be trained on a clock tonight as midnight signals the change from 2003 to 2004. Humans have been marking time--well, since the beginning of time. Ancient civilizations relied on celestial bodies, other cultures developed the sun dial--today we count time on atomic clocks. Dr. Michael Kearl is a professor of sociology at Trinity University in Texas. He says humans developed a sense of time so they could begin to coordinate their activities.
December 30, 2003 - "Getting organized" is a top new year's resolution. You tell yourself it's finally time to put those pictures in a photo album and clear through the clutter in your closets and drawers. And as you attempt to make sense of the mess, you might just stumble across unusual objects that aren't yours--unidentified pictures from the previous owner of your home--a bundle of old love letters, birthday cards and ticket stubs. Once you discover these items--it's difficult to decide what to do with them. The creators of Found Magazine want you to contact them. The Magazine is a repository for old photos, kids' homework, to-do lists, poetry on napkins, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Found Magazine creator Davy Rothbart says you can learn a lot about people from these discarded scraps.
December 30, 2003 - Was it order--or disorder in Minnesota's Courts in 2003? Steven Kaplan is the editor of Minnesota Law & Politics Magazine. He took note of a number of Minnesota lawsuits that made the news this past year--including a lawsuit filed by a Forest Lake senior citizen. The woman felt she was being illegally forced out of her home.