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MN Reads
Join us Thursday mornings at 8:20 for Minnesota Reads on Northland Morning, featuring Minnesota authors talking about their work. Funding provided in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund

MN Reads: "The Big Marsh" by Cheri Register

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published April 21, 2016 at 10:14 AM CDT

Back in 1935, Cheri Register's great-grandfather wrote a scathing article headlined Connivings of Dishonest Men Cheat Nature as Well As Fellow Beings, Writer Avers. 

Over 80 years after Elbert Ostrander wrote that essay in protest of the commercial interests that had drained 18,000 acres of wetland in southeastern Minnesota's Freeborn County,  Minnesotans are still coming to grips with preservation v. development, locals v. "outsiders," and jobs and economic development v. environmental concerns.
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Arts & Culture The Big MarshCheri RegisterWetlandsFreeborn CountyNorthland MorningMN Reads
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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