GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — Pioneer PBS’s Postcards will feature children’s book author Teresa Peterson and Scandinavian artist Fred Livesay. This program will air on Thursday, April 27 at 7 p.m.
Teresa Peterson lives in Belview, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and a citizen of the Upper Sioux Community. “Grasshopper Girl” is a children’s book that Peterson wrote from her own family stories. It conveys a trickster story from Peterson's childhood that was told when someone was feeling sick. “I explore and creatively express thought, representation and intersections across storytelling, cultural identity, food, place, and of belonging through multi-genre literature,” Peterson says on her website.
Fred Livesay from St. Paul is a teacher and craftsman with a long career centered around traditional Scandinavian handcrafts. “I've just done so many different things and I never am bored. I don't even know how to be bored,” Livesay said. Livesay has a degree in history museum studies and has taught in the United States, Sweden and England. This segment helps viewers discover the healing art of craft and the meditative connection between head, hands and heart.
People in Pioneer PBS’s viewing area can livestream this episode at www.pioneer.org/live on Thursday, April 20 at 7 p.m. This episode will be repeated on Sunday, April 23 at 7 p.m. and Monday, April 24 at 1:30 p.m. The program will also be available to stream at www.pioneer.org/postcards and on Postcards’ YouTube page at www.youtube.com/@PostcardsOnPioneerPBS.
About Postcards
Postcards is an award-winning art, culture and history program, produced by Dana Conroy with videography and editing by Kristofor Gieske and Ben Dempcy. The program is made possible by contributions from the voters of Minnesota through a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. The 2023 season is made possible by funding from Shalom Hill Farm, Explore Alexandria Tourism, Lake Region Arts Council, KRAM 96.7, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies and members of Pioneer PBS.
About Pioneer PBS
Pioneer PBS is an award-winning, viewer-supported television station, dedicated to sharing local stories of the region with the world. For more information visit: www.pioneer.org.
