This oral history session with former Swede Hollow residents took place at Metropolitan State University on October 28, 1995, organized by the Friends of Swede Hollow.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sanchelli, Joseph; Sanchelli, Michael
Created:
1995-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bruce Cutler was an American poet who wrote narrative long poems on subjects ranging from the settling of the American frontier to gangs in Chicago. His first book, The Year of the Green Wave, was published in 1960 and was followed over the next 40 years by a dozen more. The Massacre at Sand Creek told the story of the massacre of hundreds of Ch...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cutler, Bruce
Created:
1996-06-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Now chaplain at Minnetonka Shores Presbyterian Home in Minnetonka, Mary Pauluk was for a long time chaplain at St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield, Minnesota. In this interview, she talks about why she chose to move back to small-town Minnesota after living in the big city.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pauluk, Mary
Created:
2002-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Eugene McCarthy, retired US senator from Minnesota, now deceased, talks to Peter Shea on Good Friday. He compares the temptations of characters in the Good Friday story to those of American leaders during the Vietnam War: money, power, pride, belonging. He considers the dual nature of responsibility, the pressures that compel otherwise good peop...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
McCarthy, Eugene
Created:
2003-06-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rosalie Wahl, the first woman elected to the Minnesota State Supreme Court, talks to Peter Shea about the invasion of Iraq, the limits of executive power, international law, civil liberties, the judicial system, and the threats posed to American democracy. Peter Shea says: "My old friend Rosalie Wahl, who died recently, had to keep lots of her o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wahl, Rosalie
Created:
2003-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Burnham Terrell, long-time U of M philosophy professor, talks to Peter Shea, beginning with his current philosophical and non-philosophical projects, such as translating works on Hume from the German and anti-war activism. He talks about his discovery of philosophy in college and the progression from his initial interest in social philosophy to ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Terrell, Dailey Burnham
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-06-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mary Vaughan, retired elementary school teacher and nun, talks to Peter Shea about her activities of protest and civil disobedience, shortly after her sentencing to 24 months of probation after crossing the property line at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. She recalls her first decision to cross the line and the six months she...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vaughan, Mary
Created:
2004-01-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ron Reed, now deceased, was a Professor of Philosophy and Education and Director of the Analytic Thinking for Children program at Texas Wesleyan University. Probably his best known book is Rebecca, a text named after his daughter and used around the world to stimulate philosophizing by children.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reed, Ron
Created:
2005-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cletus Wessels made his profession as a Dominican friar in 1951, followed by his ordination as a priest in 1957. He held a doctorate in systematic theology from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and his thesis was published as The Mother of God: Her Physical Maternity in 1964. During his concluding years of ministry, Cletus wrote two books: ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wessels, Cletus
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Huff is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, and a professionally produced playwright. His philosophical interests have focused on a variety of problems in virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, and issues raised by Wittgenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Huff, Douglas
Created:
2006-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juanita Garciagodoy was born and raised bilingual, binational, and bicultural in Mexico City by a father from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and a mother from farm country in southwestern Minnesota. After college at Macalester in St. Paul, and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard, she taught literature, philosophy, and civics at a bilingua...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Garciagodoy, Juanita
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
For over a decade, Kathy Kinzig was executive director of Eco Education, a Minnesota nonprofit offering an array of experiential, environmental education programs that inspire students to improve their academic performance, civic engagement and environmental stewardship. She passed away in 2008.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kinzig, Kathy
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Madelon Sprengnether talks to Peter Shea about two recent projects, a memoir and a book of prose poems, the process of choosing and developing a written form, and the power of films.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sprengnether, Madelon
Created:
2006-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
