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10:00:00      1:00      Produced Open  DCART: SBOPE "after this news."

10:01:00      5:00      NPR/MPR News

10:06:00	-:--      MUSIC: Theme music vamp under first poet and Rabe

10:06:00      0:20      POEM: Mike Maupin/Snowman Subpoenaed
                             read by author
                             read without introduction
                             outcue: "and a muff?" 

DAN: OPENING MUSIC SHOULD VAMP UNDER THE POET, STARTING AS SOON AS HE
STARTS READING, AND YOU CAN GET INTO START THE THEME WHEN HE FINISHES WITH
"AND A MUFF?"

ALAN: POET MIKE MAUPIN READS HIS POEM WITHOUT ANY INTRODUCTION FROM ME. THE
BAND WILL START VAMPING THE THEME UNDER HIM AND WILL START THE THEME WHEN
HE WRAPS UP. I START TALKING AFTER THE THEME ESTABLISHES.

10:06:30      2:00      RABE: Introduction to the SB

Welcome to the Fourth Annual Minnesota Public Radio Snowman Burning and the
first day of spring. We're at the Saint Paul Fire Training Center, in the
shadow of the Saints Stadium. Behind me is the ugly concrete house the fire
department uses to train firefighters; there's a bleacher full of diehards
to my right, and behind me is a startled-looking eight-foot snowman made of
chickenwire stuffed with newspapers and wrapped in white paper.
 
Burning a snowman seemed especially appropriate last year, when winter was
brutal. But with the bad weather comes skiing and skating and snowball
fights ... and bragging rights to your relatives in other states. This
winter brought bad skiing, slushy skating, and only one snow with the right
consistency for snowballs. In other words, to quote Twin Cities native
Charles Schulz, this winter has been wishy-washy. Maybe this time we're
hungry not so much for winter to be over, but for a REAL season to begin.

We just heard Mike Maupin reading his poem "Snowman Subpoenaed." In the
next half-hour, we'll get more poetry and the music of the Cafe Accordion
Orchestra (RIMSHOT HERE, DAN?). Weather commentator Mark Seeley will read
the ruminations of a climatologist in verse, we'll hear from an actual
German about the tradition we stole, our poet laureate takes us to Vietnam,
and -- with the help of the Saint Paul Fire Department -- we'll burn this
snowman.

CROWD CHEERS BIG

DAN: END MUSIC HERE

We're also getting help today from Michael Dennis Browne, an English
professor at the University of Minnesota, who has selected a few poems
about winter and spring and the changing of the seasons. Michael, what'll
you start us off with? 

10:08:30      1:00      POEM: Philip Larkin/Coming 
                              read by MD Browne

10:09:30      3:00      SEELEY AND RABE: Including Wx Poem

JR: For six years, University of Minnesota Climatologist Mark Seeley has
waking up early to bring Morning Edition listeners his weather
observations. But even careful listeners might not know that Mark is a
poet, too.

-- Let's hear your poem.

-- Last year was a real winter, this winter has been wishy-washy. Can you
say yet whether we'll be back to normal NEXT year? 

10:12:30      0:15      MUSIC: Something Invoking Frogs

10:12:45      0:45	   POEM: Roethke/Vernal Sentiment
				  read by MD Browne
				
10:15:30      0:30      MUSIC: Something Germanic?
                       
10:17:00      4:00      HERITAGE MOMENT:	Rabe, Holmbeck, et alia

The Snowman Burning dates back centuries to Germany, which -- like most
cultures that live through a bitter cold and snowy season -- came up with a
bunch of ways to celebrate the coming of spring. Joining us now, Saint
Louis Park Senior High German teacher Greg Holmbeck and a few of his
students -- senior Mike Feldman (Easter Tradition), junior Christian
Aldenhoff (Dusseldorf), and senior Theresa Holl (POEM: Rainer Maria Rilke's
"A Spring Wind").

10:21:00      2:00      POEM: MD Browne/Lamb
				Read by the author. 

10:23:00	0:20	    MUSIC: Something pastoral

10:23:30	1:00      POEM: Paul Farseth of Stillwater/Promissory Notes
				read by the author 		

10:24:30      2:00      ARTIST INTERVIEW: 

JR: Joining us now in the shadow of this magnificent snowman is the artist
who created it, Reed Gunderson of Diamond Bluff. Hi Reed.

PETER: hello john it's interesting you say snowman ... snowman ... say it,
snowman. 
 
JR: Snowman...

PETER: absolutely! snowman ... snowman ... snow-----man ... snow-----man
... it's a contradiction of terms ... snow--man ... nature---mankind ...
can they co-exist or is the snowman another misguided attempt by man ...
snow-MAN, you see, to control, to corral, to dominate mother nature, to
mold nature into his own image ... to see himself reflected in nature like
the narcissist sees his reflection in the pond, which is why this snowMAN
has such a wretched aesthetic, which is why this snowMAN has such poor
posture, has no arms, has drawn on buttons because he's not worthy of
wearing real buttons, which is why this snowMAN is filled with scraps of
old newspaper weather forecasts which were completely inaccurate, as if man
can predict the weather, which is why this snowMAN has an old rotting two
by four I found in the alley as a spine which is why this snowMAN has a
tubular head almost like a dunce cap. snowMAN ... snowMAN ... say it ...
snowMAN ... say it.
 
JR: Snowman.

PETER: that's right. 
 
JR: Reed, we're going to burn it.

PETER: you're going to burn it oh that's perfect ... man molds snow into
his own image and then sets it ... no i should say sets himself on fire ...
remember snowMAN ... i love it, it's so pathological, snowman
self-immolation ... perfect 
 
JR: No,we're trying to say we've had enough of winter. It's time for
spring. It's a German custom. 

PETER: oh ... right ... spring ... german ... whatever you say ... let it
burn baby. 
 
JR: Well, I'm glad we had achance to meet you, Reed Gunderson of Diamond
Bluff.

PETER: let it burn.

10:26:30  	 0:20	   MUSIC: Can you do "Psycho" theme? 	

10:27:00      2:00      MUSIC up then under entire segment
                             BURNING THE SNOWMAN
                             Rabe with Chief Fuller or Asst Chief Carter

And it's finally time to burn the snowman! 

CHEERS

JR: We're at the fire training center ... how much training does it take to
become a fireman? How much deadweight do you have to be able to lift? Give
the signal!
				
                             On command, firemen set fire to Snowman
                             Lynn Warfel-Holt, play-by-play

10:29:00      2:00      POEM: Just Another Day
                              Poet Laureate Vijit Ramchandani
                             
10:31:00      1:00      MUSIC/AUDIENCE SINGS "FROSTY THE SNOWMAN"
                             Rabe reads credits over singing.

That's the Snowman Burning for another year. Thanks to Dan Newton's Cafe
Accordion Orchestra; U-of-M Poetry Czar Michael Dennis Browne; engineers
Alan Stricklin, Rick Hebzynski, and Cliff Bentley; snowman stuffer and
stapler John Forde, actor Peter Syvertsen, and writer Chris Roberts; and
the Saint Paul Fire Department. Thanks to our listener poets ... sorry we
couldn't use more of them. The executive producer of the Snowman Burning is
Mel Sommer. For Minnesota Public Radio, I'm John Rabe. Stay tuned for a
Midmorning call-in on gardening on this First Day of Spring.

10:32:00	0:30	   STUDIO PLAYS PROMO	

10:32:ish Rabe moves to table and begins call-in.

1032 - 1100 Gardening Talk. CONFIRMED: Beth Jarvis, right now a freelance
horticulturist, most recently with the U-M Hennepin County Extension Office,
five years with Dial-U gardening help line. W: 374-8400; H: 536-9561. 

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