Minnesota Arrival

Spinning stories of Minnesota

University of Minnesota Climatologist Mark Seeley, professional football hall of famer Carl Eller, former Gov. Al Quie and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and more gathered to wax Minnesota during a story telling event put on by the 2008 Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission.

Guests

• Amy Klobuchar: Democratic U.S. Senator from Minnesota
• Tim Walz: Democratic Congressman from Minnesota
• Mark Seeley: University of Minnesota climatologist
• Margaret Anderson Kelliher: Speaker of the Minnesota House, DFL-Minneapolis
• Al Quie: former Republican Governor of Minnesota
• Paul Anderson: Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
• Carl Eller: player in the professional football hall of fame
• Warren Nelson: songwriter, story teller, historian

More from MPR

• Why does this man live in Minnesota?
  March 4, 2008
• Ann Reed and the Song for Minnesota, Part 5
  March 5, 2008
• Celebrating Minnesota's Sesquicentennial in song
  January 31, 2008
• A history of presidential hopefuls in Minnesota
  February 18, 2008
• People of Minnesota
  January 21, 2008
• State's sesquicentennial bash is on tight budget
  January 1, 2008
• Panel to discuss human rights from American Indian perspective
  October 14, 2007
• 150 years of Minnesota history
  August 28, 2007

Resources

• Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission