Tales of the Road
"Tales of the Road-Highway 61" is the first-of-its-kind documentary about one of the best known
roads in the country and in Minnesota. This film focuses on the Minnesota stretch of Highway 61,
a road made famous by native son Bob Dylan's ground breaking album, "Highway 61-Revisited."
The documentary is different in that it uses a little-known book, the "WPA Road Guide to Minnesota"
as a thread that follows the road from Grand Portage to La Crescent, Minnesota. The Road Guide
was published in 1938 by an eclectic band of unemployed reporters, teachers and preachers as part of
the federal government's Works Progress Administration. The WPA was a government effort to put
people back to work during the Great Depression.
Host Cathy Wurzer will drive down the road looking at what the Road Guide says used to be on the
route, what is still along Highway 61, and what has been lost.
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