Minnesota Sounds and Voices

• Norm Teigan adopts a highway: Minnesota Sounds and Voices
  Every year, Adopt-a-Highway volunteers pick up an average of 26,000 tons of trash. One of those volunteers is 69-year-old Norm Teigan, who lives in Hopkins. He's been at it ever since retiring as an insurance claims adjuster.September 25, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ron Bowen profits from prairie preservation
  Every year around about this time, a Minnesota businessman brings in an unusual harvest: seeds from native prairie plants. He aims to help preserve those species -- at a profit -- as their habitat slowly shrinks.September 19, 2012
• Blowing the shofar, heralding the Jewish new year
  The two-day Rosh Hashana holiday, which began at sundown on Sunday, commemorates the creation of the world in the Jewish calendar. It's ushered in with prayers and the blowing of a shofar, a horn carved from a kosher animal. Minnesota Sounds and Vices reporter Dan Olson visited a school in St. Paul to learn how the tradition is being passed to a new generation.September 17, 2012
• Sheldon Wolfchild's view of the US-Dakota War: Minnesota Sounds and Voices
  Sheldon Wolfchild from the Lower Sioux Agency in southern Minnesota says few Americans understand what caused the US-Dakota War of 1862. And he said he recognizes that emotions run high on all sides. Still, he's firm on this: The Dakota people didn't cause the war.September 7, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Jef VanSyoc, blacksmith
  Minnesota Sounds and Voices reporter Dan Olson wondered, Who has the hottest job in the hot weather this summer?September 5, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: White settlers' voices in US-Dakota War exhibit
  Jan Klein, a descendant of white settlers killed in the US- Dakota War of 1862, wants to make sure her ancestors aren't forgotten, and she was one of 85 people who advised the Minnesota Historical Society on its exhibit about that war.August 24, 2012
• Historical accounts of U.S.-Dakota War change through years
  Historians agree that the U. S. - Dakota War of 1862 was one of Minnesota's most momentous events. That part of the state's history has been documented and shared by people who have a range of perspectives.August 17, 2012
• Yellowstone Park's first leader, from St. Paul to the Wild West
  If Yellowstone is part of your summer travel plans, you may be interested to hear that a Minnesotan played a key role in creation of the country's first national park. Nathaniel Pitt Langford of St. Paul was Yellowstone's first superintendent. But he was much more than that.August 6, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Mom has daughters singing from childhood to adulthood
  This quartet has been singing together nearly 20 years.July 30, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary
  Tucked away in Wirth Park on the western edge of Minneapolis, the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary's 15 acres is a small slice of woodland, bog and prairie respite from city life.July 16, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Floating the St. Croix River's history
  The St. Croix River has been in the news a lot of late, owing to the controversy over the new bridge that will link Highway 36 in Minnesota to Highway 64 in Wisconsin. But this summer, the river becomes something else.July 10, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: The medicine in Michael Charette's Indian flutes
  Michael Charette says he learned to play the flute in off hours from his day job as a baker. And he says smiles from people eating his baked goods give him the same good feeling he gets from making music.July 6, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Helina Leino Pakola's singing strings
  Helina Leino Pakola was a talented violinist headed for the concert stage in her native Finland. And then life threw her a curve ball. "My career was destroyed by falling in love with a man!" she laughs.June 22, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Salah Fattah and the Egyptian music of Amwaaj
  Salah Fattah can pinpoint the moment the music bug bit him. He was 12 years old; the family was living in Cairo. He and his older brother were at a theater watching Charlie Chaplin's movie, "Limelight."June 11, 2012
• Meteorites are valuable but hard to find in Minnesota
  Meteorites play a role in Minnesota's mineral wealth. And some meteorites are more valuable than gold. The problem is finding them, according to a leading expert on meteorites at the University of Minnesota.June 1, 2012

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