Lynn Speaker's "gunpowder drawings" will be on view during Art-a-Whirl in May, when she opens her studio in the historic Grain Belt Bottling House in NE Minneapolis. ("Grassfire" by Lynn Speaker)

April 9, 2009
Featuring a secret history of Farm Accident, a writer's tale of moving from town to country, and a look inside the Guthrie's "Kushner Celebration"


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