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Randy Croce, who directs the Who Built Our Capitol? project, will be featured on Minnesota Public Radio Monday, Jan. 26. He also will speak Jan. 27 as part of the History Lounge series sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Croce is scheduled to be interviewed by MPR host Tom Weber between 11 a.m. and noon Monday. MPR broadcasts at 91.1 FM in the Twin Cities and has 45 stations across Minnesota. View the list here.
The Minnesota Historical Society program will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, at the Minnesota History Center, 345 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul. It is free and open to the public.
Minnesotans may know that Cass Gilbert designed the State Capitol, but until this project, very little was known about the men and women who actually built it. Croce will discuss how he and his team uncovered and recorded the lives of over 620 previously anonymous statehouse builders and will show clips from the documentary, Who Built Our Capitol? His talk will highlight the challenges and rewards of the research: sparse and sometimes conflicting information, exaggerated and humorous accounts, and the effort to create a coherent documentary narrative from fragmentary sources.