WTIP News Director visits Sigurd Olson's Listening Point for artist residency

WTIP News Director and Boundary Waters Podcast host Joe Friedrichs spent the final days of April and start of May in Ely. Friedrichs was selected for an 'artist residency' by the Listening Point Foundation.
 
This is property owned by Sigurd Olson that is now managed and owned by an organization in Ely known as the Listening Point Foundation. Olson was an author and a dedicated advocate for wilderness, including the Boundary Waters, but many areas across the country as well.
 
Joining Friedrichs later during the residency stay is podcast co-host Matthew Baxley. The podcast duo are going to record at Listening Point for the next episode of the podcast, available in mid-May. The theme of the episode is 'a rite of passage' about families sharing their love of the Boundary Waters with their children and the next generation of canoeists, and where Baxley and Friedrichs fit it in with that concept of people who share stories about the wilderness.
 
Friedrichs called in from the Olson home in Ely on the Daybreak program April 30 and spoke with CJ Heithoff. The audio below is their conversation that originally aired live on WTIP.
 
To learn more about the Listening Point Foundation, click here.