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Profile: Kathleen Norris reads an excerpt adapted from her book "Dakota" about life in the Dakotas

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From: Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
Date: 20000910
Author:LIANE HANSEN

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Profile: Kathleen Norris reads an excerpt adapted from her book "Dakota" about life in the Dakotas

Host: LIANE HANSEN Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

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In 1974, two young poets, Kathleen Norris and David Dwyer, moved from New York City to Lemmon, South Dakota, a town of 1,300 residents hard on the border of North Dakota. Norris' grandparents had recently died, and she and Dwyer agreed to move into the ancestral home until the family sold it. They expected to stay just a few years, but they' ve remained for more than a quarter-century. Dwyer and ...

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