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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

One says pierogi, another says pyrohy: Comfort food at St. Constantine

One says pierogi, another says pyrohy: Comfort food at St. Constantine

Dumplings are a part of many ethnic food traditions. But in Minnesota Sounds and Voices this week, we're interested in potato-dumpling comfort food that can be traced back generations to the pierogi of Poland and the pyrohy in Ukrainian.
by Dan Olson

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Photos: The art of making pierogi

Photos: The art of making pierogi

Dumplings are a part of many ethnic food traditions. But in Minnesota Sounds and Voices this week, we're interested in potato-dumpling comfort food that can be traced back generations to the pierogi of Poland and the pyrohy in Ukrainian.
by Jeffrey Thompson

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Dick Kimmel on saving turkeys and traditional American music: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Dick Kimmel on saving turkeys and traditional American music: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Dick Kimmel spent more than 30 years helping restore Minnesota's wild turkey population. Now he's working on restoring the state's population of bluegrass pickers.
by Dan Olson

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Norm Teigan adopts a highway: 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.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Ron Bowen profits from prairie preservation

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.
by Dan Olson

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Blowing the shofar, heralding the Jewish new year

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.
by Dan Olson

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Sheldon Wolfchild's view of the US-Dakota War: Minnesota Sounds and Voices

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.
by Dan Olson

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