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- Novelist Amy Hassinger talks about her novel "Nina : adolescence," her story "La Llorona," and her current novel "The priest's Madonna." Hassinger reflects on how she approaches writing, what inspires her, and other projects on which she has worked. Hassinger is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-02-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Edward Rankin recalls his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, between 1947 and 1973. Rankin talks about his youth and being hired at REO, and speaks nostalgically about REO social life, worker sports teams and the beautiful Olds family pipe organ featured at the REO Clubhouse. He also describes sales trips to Iraq and Lebanon on behalf of REO, the intricacies of foreign markets and general market pressures in the truck business. Interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his monthly radio program Memories of the Past, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John recalls his early years growing up in Grand Haven where he was born in 1899. He reminisces about the many jobs he held during his life, including delivering newspapers and working in a bakery. He talks about his father and the family home at 222 Fulton Street in Grand Haven.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Journalists Sheila Schimpf, Kathleen Lavey, and John Schneider explain how they became authors, and discuss the literary forms and characteristics of their works, the role of Michigan in their writings, their reading habits, and works in progress. The trio is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-09-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Writer Michigan State University Professor Marcia Aldrich explains how Michigan influences her work, the "Fourth genre", being both a critic and a writer at the same time, and her current projects. Aldrich is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-02-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Clarage Fan Company is discussed in an installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar discusses various types of fans and their uses and explores the history the Clarage Fan Company from its founding in 1872 as an iron casting foundry to its shift into fan making in 1912. Dunbar interviews two of the company's longest serving employees, Bert Maas and Patrick Henry Sage, about their experiences on the job.
- Date Issued:
- 1947-07-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- The Little Brothers Company is featured on this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar gives a history of the Little family, from the time Henry Little moved to Michigan from New York in 1831 until Alvin and George R. Little took over the Little Brothers Company in the 1920'. He explains the operation of the grain elevators which are the primary component of the business and Ed Bauer, the company's farm service person, explains the company's efforts to work with farmers to solve problems and help keep their skills current.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-08-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "The lawmakers" Dr. Willis Dunbar interviews Congressmen Gerald Ford and Fred L. Crawford. Crawford provides a detailed history of labor legislation beginning in the 1890's with the Sherman Anti-trust Act and discusses how past law making has shaped current events. Following Crawford, Ford explains efforts to repeal or amend the Taft-Hartley Act and the failure of the Wood Bill in the House of Representatives.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Helen Piwkowski and Jeannette Oksa talk about their lives, families, and their work in a cigar factory in Detroit, Michigan. They also discuss being born in Poland and emigrating to the U.S., their education, their union activity, race relations in Detroit neighborhoods and in the workplace, and the Polish community in Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-02-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Acclaimed American editor and short story writer Kelly Link talks about her participation in the thirty-eighth Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop at Michigan State University. Link discusses her involvement with Clarion first as a student and now as an instructor, her writing style, her chosen genre, her writing process, and her current projects. Link is interviewed by Capital Area District Library Librarian Jessica Trotter.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-07-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection