AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

Peg Guilfoyle

Writer and speaker Peg Guilfoyle is the originator and writer of the wide-ranging Motley Peg small essay series. Her The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories won a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Award.  Other books cover regional history, genealogy and essays, and theater life.

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

My bookshelves are crowded, and I sometimes think about off-loading, purging, thinking in passing “well, I’ll never read that again.” Then I wake up, slap myself briskly, and realize that in a sense my books are the architecture of the house my mind lives in. Each one...

Landmark Trees in a Landmark Yard

Landmark Trees in a Landmark Yard

It’s May, and this northern city is finally greening.  The buildings, the built world, are the same, but the infrastructure of trees, dozing during the winter months, is rousing. Spring has moved northward on its own mysterious, rhythmic, and dependable calendar. It...

Downtown Living in the Capitol City

Downtown Living in the Capitol City

It’s almost axiomatic now to think unpleasantly about downtowns. They’re this, they’re that, they’re the other thing. Unappealing, worsening.  Here’s a contrary view, from my desk in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota on a regular old Tuesday morning, a cold spring day....

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.

–Robert Louis Stevenson