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.
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
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....
Incident of the Irish Music Box
This time of year, I can become a touch weary with the wearing o’ the green. The sweeping and wonderful Irish folkloric culture seems a bit, well, debased in March, with the fairy folk diminished to cartoonish leprechauns and powerful old tales reduced to green...
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
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