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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Minnesota artist Charles Beck celebrates 90 with strong artistic vision

Minnesota artist Charles Beck celebrates 90 with strong artistic vision

Nature is often the subject of Minnesotan Charles Beck's art. Beck, a master woodcut artist, draws on the natural environment in prints that capture his modern views of the surrounding landscape -- with its wooded hills and lakes, and nearby flat farm fields of the Red River valley. Beck is being honored this weekend as he celebrates his 90th birthday.
by Dan Olson

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Reading Corps guides immigrant children into mastery of English

Reading Corps guides immigrant children into mastery of English

When charter school principal Bondo Nyembwe sees a classroom filled with the children of immigrants, he feels a professional and personal commitment to help them learn to speak English.
by Dan Olson

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Kaivama: Lighting dark winters with Finnish folk music

Kaivama: Lighting dark winters with Finnish folk music

A Minnesota-based duo called Kaivama is dedicated to preserving and expanding the Finnish folk music tradition. And as we speak, its two members are tuning up for their midwinter tour.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Dean McFarlane, last in a line of stone carvers

Minnesota Sounds & Voices: Dean McFarlane, last in a line of stone carvers

Dean McFarlane is a 10th-generation master stone carver. His great-grandfather started the Minneapolis-based family stone carving company in 1916. But the line ends with McFarlane: There are no family members waiting in the wings to become master stone carvers.
by Dan Olson

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Jon Drew's 126-year-old letterpress: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Jon Drew's 126-year-old letterpress: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

There is an alternative to mass-produced holiday greeting cards: Those that are printed, one at a time, on a 126-year old letterpress. And this year, Jon Drew is making the cards as a labor of love, for the widow of the high school teacher who taught him the craft.
by Dan Olson

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'La Natividad' tells the nativity story as an immigrant's tale

'La Natividad' tells the nativity story as an immigrant's tale

The Spanish-English production by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater blends the "no room at the inn" Bible story with current events.
by Dan Olson

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Lutefisk and pickled herring: The Olsen Fish Company keeps tradition alive

Lutefisk and pickled herring: The Olsen Fish Company keeps tradition alive

It seems as though nearly every ethnic group has an exotic fish specialty, and Scandinavian Americans claim two: lutefisk and pickled herring. On assembly lines at the Olsen Fish Company in Minneapolis they cater to both, packing thousands of pounds of preserved fish into jars and boxes every year.
by Dan Olson

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Paul Severson finds his calling with Project Haiti: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Paul Severson finds his calling with Project Haiti: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

When Minnesota surgeon Paul Severson first visited Haiti more than 20 years ago, the health care needs of that Caribbean nation went beyond anything he had ever seen. Severson founded Minnesota-based Project Haiti in response.
by Dan Olson

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Carnatic music master Nirmala Rajasekar passes on love for music

Carnatic music master Nirmala Rajasekar passes on love for music

Nirmala Rajasekar's childhood was filled with the Carnatic music of her native southern India. As a toddler she remembers being a performer in search of a microphone.
by Dan Olson

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Balsam fir wreath making a sticky, rewarding business

Balsam fir wreath making a sticky, rewarding business

Sam and Jenny McFadden run Jen's Wreaths, a balsam fir wreath business in Deer River, Minn. It's hard, sticky work, but the McFaddens say it's worth it.
by Dan Olson

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