(Episode 11) Today’s episode shines a light on Abraham Lincoln and his role in the war.
Pat, who is going on 107 years old, says she was surprised that her difficulty breathing was caused by a heart problem, not her lungs.
The 1920 lynching of three young black men in Duluth is a tragic part of Minnesota’s history. On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in the Atwood Memorial Center Theatre a preview of the docudrama and community discussion was held.
“Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings” is a first-time production of a Michael Fedo script, based on Fedo’s 2000 Minnesota Historical Society Press book “The Lynchings in Duluth.”
Michael Fedo, producer Jo McMullen-Boyer, docudrama director Carol Cooley, lead anti-racism educator at SCSU Debra Leigh and criminal justice professor Barry Schreiber previewed segments of the hour-long drama and shared their insights on making the docudrama as well as what can be learned today from this part of Minnesota’s history that is widely unknown.
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for money, too. He’s currently working as a contract consultant for Northern Community Radio. His home-base desk is adjacent to Scott Hall’s, where good ideas prosper with bad, and the skies are not cloudy all day.
