January 1, 1993 - An MPR Special Coverage broadcast entitled “A Sense of Place,” which presents a collection of Voices from the Heartland essays by Barton Sutter and Laurie Allmann.
December 25, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads her Northwoods essay, ‘Twas the Week Before Solstice.
November 27, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads her essay about the landscapes of Minnesota in the areas she grew up in.
October 30, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads an essay on the peat bogs of the North, titled Sand Lake Peatland, October.
October 2, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota writer Laurie Allmann reads an essay about her close family friends from her childhood and the revelation of color televisions in rural Minnesota.
August 28, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota nature writer Laurie Allmann reads an essay on the North Shore islands.
August 7, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, an essay on Aspen Parkland by Minnesota naturalist writer Laurie Allmann. The essay was later collected in Far from Tame: Reflections from the Heart of a Continent, published by University of Minnesota Press in 1996.
June 26, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota naturalist writer Laurie Allmann reads her essay on Mississippi wildlife.
May 29, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, author Laurie Allmann reads her essay on a big woods walk.
April 17, 1992 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, an essay from writer Laurie Allmann on her travels to Italy.