Leif Enger

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• Heginbotham Literary Lecture: Leif Enger on importance of reading for pleasure

  MPR News Presents broadcasts St. Paul writer Leif Enger speaking at Heginbotham Literary Lecture series. Enger’s talk at Concordia University focused on the importance of READING for pleasure.

  Feb. 11, 201553 minSave
• Minnesota Novelist Leif Enger Channels the Old West in his New Novel "So Brave, Young and Handsome".

  Minnesota writer Leif Enger's new novel, "So Brave, Young and Handsome," is a tribute to the Western. An old cowboy seeks forgiveness from his estranged wife as he tries to shake a pursuing Pinkerton detective. And the book's narrator is a writer attempting to match the success of his first book. Enger's first novel, "Peace Like a River," was a best-seller.

  May. 2, 200860 minSave
• Remembering Minnesota author Jon Hassler

  Midday remembers Jon Hassler in his own words, rebroadcasting an interview he did with MPR in 1999. Midday host Mike Edgerly then talks with two of Hassler's longtime friends - Bill Holm, a fellow Minnesota literary figure and author of Windows of Brimnes: An American In Iceland;” and Nick Hayes, friend and colleague of Hassler, and a professor at St. John's University. The two remark on the impact of his work, both as a writer and a teacher.

  Mar. 25, 200860 minSave
• Very expensive recycled wood

  Intro: Old-growth timber is making a comeback. Not just as an environmental issue this time, but as wood - as polished floors and cathedral ceilings. The timber-salvage industry has taken off in Minnesota - saving old beams from condemned warehouses, pulling old logs from lake bottoms, and spicing new architecture with antique woods. Leif Enger of Mainstreet Radio reports.

  Jul. 6, 2000Save
• Brainerd and Baxter on territory conflict

  Intro: The neighboring cities of Brainerd and Baxter - joined at the hip in central Minnesota lake country - are wrestling over territory. Specifically, the commercially promising land along state highway 371 to the north. Each city says it needs the property to continue growing economically; each has submitted an annexation proposal to the state. Meantime, the people who live in the disputed area say they just want to be left alone. Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger reports.

  Jun. 27, 2000Save
• The Sturgeon Stalker - The young man and the big fish

  Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger reports that on the Rainy River, the border between Minnesota and Canada, lake sturgeon is rising. Surviving near obliteration by commercial fishing and polluting paper mills, the sturgeon has resurfaced as a gamefish of almost mythical power. With the coming of summer, anglers by the hundreds of thousands are stalking Minnesota's lakes and rivers. Their objective, almost always, are walleye, northern pike, panfish and trout. Yet for a few anglers, a walleye holds no attraction; a twenty-pound northern, no allure; a rainbow trout, no romance…but lake sturgeon is a different matter.

  May. 24, 2000Save
• Treaty Holiday - Mille Lacs celebrate victory

  MPR’s Leif Enger presents various commentary from tribal members during treaty holiday celebration.

  Mar. 24, 20003 minSave
• Innovative Alzheimer Facility Opens in Darwin

  As the population ages, short-term memory loss and dementia are becoming more common. Four million Americans now suffer from Alzheimers Disease. Most of those who can no longer live at home are in nursing homes; but many say there's a lack of facilities that understand how to care for dementia victims. In Meeker County, where 17 percent of the population is over 65, an entrepreneur has risked everything to start an innovative foster home for Alzheimer patients. The home, in rural Darwin, features aspects of farm life and could become a model for the future.

  Jan. 19, 2000Save
• DNR fees... DNR proposes fees to go up

  Intro: The cost of fishing and hunting may go up in 2000. The Department of Natural Resources wants to raise license fees, a crucial revenue source in its budget; the DNR says if the legislature doesn't do so, Minnesota's outdoors will suffer. Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger reports. In 1949, Minnesota had 147 game wardens. And says Brainerd enforcement supervisor Tom Provost -- that's actually what they were. Provost: "Ninety percent of what we did then we strictly game and fish enforcement. We were the game warden. We were checking fishermen and trappers, hunters, that was what we did."

  Jan. 5, 2000Save
• More floating...Last ship departs Duluth

  Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger shipped aboard a Bulgarian tramp freighter as it departed for Italy with a load of North Dakota wheat. As the last ship of the season departed Duluth early in the morning, the St. Lawrence Seaway's 40th season draws to a close.

  Dec. 20, 19999 minSave