Monday, June 7, 2021 -Today is author Louise Erdrich’s birthday. In honor of this, we re-air a conversation from December 2020 when her novel, The Plague of Doves, was the One Book one Minnesota selection. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay about North Dakota’s most popular game fish, the walleye.
Author Louise Erdrich ~ Chuck Lura on Walleye
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