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Candace Simar is a Pequot Lakes poet who with her sister Angela Foster, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently re...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 02:06
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:43
Paul Bizzaro and his brother James remember growing up on Liberty Island--home of the Statue of Liberty.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Jun 27, 2013
- Length: 02:47
Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 09:40
Lucinda Marker and her husband, John Tull, talk about being diagnosed with bubonic plague in 2002.
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 3
Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 02:07
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 29:10
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Oscar Forsman is a elementary school music teacher from DeKalb, Illinois. Oscar has strong ties to his Finnish American roots on Minnesota's Iron ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 17:27
- Purchases: 1
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 19:39
- Purchases: 2
Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 02:05
Jan (Yahn) Gadzo (God-zoh) left his home in Slovakia in 1969 and landed in the Iron Range town of Chisholm.
Every year Jan and his family observe ...
Bought by WGZS and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 20:53
- Purchases: 2
Head to the East Bay city of Hayward, and you’ll find a museum with a little bit of class. There, the city’s historical society puts on exhibits ab...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:05
To save his family and other Christian missionaries, Frans Larson led a caravan through the Gobi Desert and into Siberia. That explorer’s great-gra...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 28:59
This is the story of the underdog team that was always pushing the envelope when it came to fashion, to nicknames and to hairstyles … on their face...
Bought by North State Public Radio
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
A personal reflection on the stakes of becoming the godfather to my best friend's first child.
- Added: Dec 25, 2010
- Length: 09:59
- Added: Nov 20, 2005
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
The story of Sólheimar,a village in Iceland where mentally disabled persons live together with people without a handicap.
Bought by WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Nov 08, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
