This week on wordish, Minneapolis poet Barry Brent gives a Gaugin painting a thorough look over

Kent Scheer and his wife Vicki Chepulis live in a beautiful spot that they share with their community: “The Green Island is on the very north edge of the city of Wadena. The novelty of it is that it’s 60 acres of previous dairy farm actually within the city limits of our town. That’s the reason that it has the name Green Island—because at one point my wife and I said to ourselves, ‘We have all this space, we’re maintaining it carefully, we’re planting it abundantly, and it seems selfish to just

Program 24: Anselm Bossard A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In those early days the site that became the town

Marshall Helmberger joined us this morning to tell us about his friend Tom Rukavina and his lasting impact on the Iron Range. Rukavina died earlier this week from complications from leukemia. Marshall also continues reporting on Frontier Communications. This week's article in the Timberjay is "Report: ‘Staggering deficiencies’: Minnesota Commerce Department issues scathing assessment of Frontier’s service". He also tells us how the federal government shutdown is affecting people/workers in

Contemporary Native Artist Kent Estey grew up on the White Earth reservation. He's lived on the same land for 58 years, teaches art, technology and robotics at the charter school in Naytahwaush and is an accomplished abstract artist. His work is part of a collaborative show at the Miikanan Gallery inside the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. The exhibit will be on display now thru March 30. Estey will attend an artist reception tonight (January 11th) from 5-7pm. He'll return to the Watermark

Each week John and Heidi pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week’s caller, Jimmy Flintwhistle described his breakfast plans for the weekend for his Iraqi dish mahkla lamb and pita bread that he promised will knock your socks off. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For Breakfast . All it takes is

Longtime Iron Range leader - Legislator and Commissioner - Tom Rukavina died Monday. We'll be talking about his lasting impact on the Iron Range this week on the Morning Show, here's the thoughts of Scott Hall who interviewed him many times while he was KAXE's News Director. Aaron Brown also shares his memories. Tune in Friday at 7:20am, Marshall Helmberger from the Timberjay gives us an overview of his impact on the region.

A powerful traveling exhibit has made its way to the Bemidji State University campus. The interactive experience, Native Voices , will be hosted by select libraries across the country, one of those being the A.C. Clark Library at BSU . Exploring the relationships between health, individuals and community, the interactive experience educates through personal stories of native people that encourage understanding and awareness of native history, building cultural bridges in the process. Open to the

Program 23: The Paper Industry in the Early 1900s A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In those early days the site

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every Tuesday morning, our resident Phenologist John Latimer gathers his phenological data and reports his findings in the weekly Phenology Report. This week John shares insight on what's behind the "phoebe" call of the chickadee as well as why we'll be hearing all kinds of different woodpecker calls very soon. As always, we love to hear what our listeners are noticing out in nature. Give us a call at 218.999.9876 and let us