Friends and former colleagues of retired Central Lakes College instructor-author Joe Plut will want to read a new blog about the "mad hugger." It is by Bob Collins of Minnesota Public Radio. It was posted today in advance of the dedication of the Joe Plut Reading Room at Prairie Bay in Baxter. Collins interviewed Joe at Prairie Bay for about 3 hours last Saturday. Joe's book "Conservations with Jon Hassler," is inspiring fans of the late author (another former CLC instructor for whom the Brainerd campus library is named) to re-read the novels Jon wrote before he died in 2008. The blog:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/