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Adventurer Eric Weicht paddles the Mississippi from Minnesota to Memphis

Eric Weicht is a former Cook County resident known for adventuring on bodies of water. He chats here with Will Moore about his most recent trip--canoeing down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to Memphis through the month of November.

Money and the Fine Arts in Minnesota!

Sarah Fossen is the Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA), based in the Twin Cities. She discusses funding from the legislative session in St. Paul and topics that affect the arts statewide. MCA is also holding Arts Action Week in March!


MN90: Concerts with Bernstein

2009 – Janet Horvath asked her musician dad an innocent question. Did he ever play with Leonard Bernstein? His answer would send her on a ten-year journey into the history of a small orchestra of Holocaust survivors and a series of concerts in post-war Germany. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: The Lion of Lutsen

1978 – John Lyght had been been sheriff of Cook County for six years. He’d seen a lot in that time. But a lion on the loose in Northern Minnesota? Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Tangled up in Dylan

December 1974 – Kevin Odegard grew up listening to Bob Dylan records on the basement record player. So it was incredible that the now 25-year-old guitarist should be playing on Dylan’s latest album, recording in a Minneapolis studio no less. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: A Waitress for Three Beatles

1965 – The Beatles were not granting interviews after their Minnesota concert. But intern reporter Holly Stocking needed a story—and she’d just gotten her hands on a waitress uniform for the Leamington, the hotel where the Beatles were staying. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

MN90: Lou Bellamy and Penumbra Theatre

1976 – Lou Bellamy had learned the power of theater at a young age. Now he was creating Penumbra, St. Paul’s first theater to give a stage to an all-black cast and black playwrights. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

To the Stars

Stay Human looks to the stars this week, with stories of a newly recruited astronaut, a look deep into space with James Webb, and the Apollo 11 landing as seen from Outing Minnesota – an hour of story song on Stay Human

Observations of the Morning in Bemidji Poet Mark Christensen’s New Collection of Poems

Mark Christensen is a recently retired professor of English at Bemidji State University, is active in local theater, and has just published a new collection of poems called A Quick Reveal: Random Poetry of the Early Morning. This collection highlights many observations and ruminations Mark captured on his many decades of morning walks to work. In this interview, Mark reads his poem “Landlocked in Minnesota.”

Javier Trejo and The Purdy Vibes

Javier Trejo joins us to discuss his approach to songwriting and the many hats he wears within the Twin Cities music scene.

Back From Break

For this episode of Real College Podcast, we expand on the exploration of winter break that we started with our audio diaries episode from last week.To get a view of break outside of our own. We ask others about how their break went, what break is like for teachers, what it’s like to go abroad after break, what makes a break restful, and what if break didn’t go well.

Time Stamps:
1:56 – Going Abroad – Quinn McClurg
9:00 – Airlines troubles – Yoshi Thao
13:30 – How’d your break go? – Matt Sullivan
19:08 – What makes a restful break?- Henry Ulrich
26:22 – Break from a small town – Emily Storm
29:39 – Break for teachers – Andrew Kicmol
36:42 – What if break didn’t go well? – Brandon Wetterlin

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