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Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition (Regional Edition) is an MPR News segment series that runs as a companion to broadcasts of NPR’s Weekend Edition. As a regional version, the series highlights local news, commentary, profiles, and reports.
265 Collection Items
- Ask a Bookseller: "Dear Mothman"
In this episode of Ask a Bookseller, Emily Bright talks with Anna Hersh, of Wild Rumpus Books, on her book suggestion, Dear Mothman, by Robin Gow.
- Athlete Ric Jost at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games
MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Ric Jost, a disabled veteran who is competing in the 2005 National Veterans Wheelchair Games held in Minnesota. Jost shares how the games help build the self-confidence to cope with his disability. The event is the 25th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, but the first held in Minnesota.
- Dru Sjodin laid to rest
Mainstreet Radio's Tom Robertson reports that about 1500 people gathered at a resort near Nisswa Saturday for the funeral of Dru Sjodin. The 22-year-old University of North Dakota college student was found dead near Crookston last weekend, five months after she was abducted from a Grand Forks, North Dakota parking lot.
- Body of Dru Sjodin found
Mainstreet Radio’s Dan Gunderson reports that searchers found the body of Dru Sjodin in a ditch northwest of Crookston on Saturday, April 17th 2004. The 22-year-old University of North Dakota Student had been missing since November 2003. Police believe she was taken from a Grand Forks mall parking lot by a convicted sex offender.
- Ghost hunting with Dennis William Hauck
MPR’s Greta Cunningham takes a walking tour with Dennis William Hauck, author of Haunted Places. The two discuss Minnesota ghost hauntings at the Guthrie Theater, the State’s Capitol, and St. John’s University.
- Preserving the Prairie - Saving the grasslands and critters of Minnesota
Less than a century ago, millions of acres of North America were covered with prairie, vast grasslands that were home to bison, wolves, and prairie chickens. Today, less than one tenth of one per cent of that prairie remains. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on the Tallgrass Prairie Project, a plan to buy and protect some of what little prairie is left.
- An interview with Eleanor Lanahan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's granddaughter
MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews Eleanor Lanahan, F. Scott Fitzgerald's granddaughter about her famous grandfather, as well as Zelda, her grandmother. Lanahan also discusses how her mother somewhat protected children from the family history.
- BEETLEMANIA...Beetles eat great pines bark
MPR’s Catherine Winter reports on insect threat to state park trees in northern Minnesota. Winter talks with Becky Marty, resource manager at Itasca State Park, about efforts to save the woods.
- Leslie Ball on how to survive Valentine's Day
MPR’s Greta Cunningham talks with singer and writer Leslie Ball, who shares a survival tale of Valentine’s Day past and performs a song in the studio about the “love” holiday.
- Carol Shields discusses her books, the act of writing, and winning Pulitzer Prize
MPR’s Greta Cunningham interviews author Carol Shields about her award-winning works, research, and the business of writing.