Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
September 3, 1977 - This regional public affairs program features taped speech of St. Paul Mayor George Latimer's State of the City address, titled “An Agenda for the Future of St. Paul”, followed by a live broadcast with the mayor answering listener questions.
September 5, 1977 - An excursion through the resort area in Northwestern Iowa known as the Iowa Great Lakes. On Labor Day, most of the tourists and vacationers who swell this area's population from eight to sixty thousand will be going home. But the atmosphere that surrounded the lakes in this and previous summers has been captured in the following sound portrait.
September 6, 1977 - Highlights from a National Convention of the VFW in Minneapolis. Includes speeches from Max Cleland, Director of the Veterans Administration, National Security Chief Phelps Jones, and Army Chief of Staff Bernard Rogers. The Panama Canal issue was prominent at convention. The veterans group drafted a resolution urging Congress not to ratify any renegotiation of the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty.
September 10, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a look at the impact of declining enrollment in the new school year. Dr. Raymond Arveson, Minneapolis School superintendent; and Dr. George Young, St. Paul School superintendent, discuss the matter.
September 13, 1977 - Senator Frank Knoll, of Minneapolis, and Dr. Charles Fairhurst, Chairman of the University of Minnesota Civil & Mineral Engineering Department, discuss earth sheltered housing in Minnesota. Both had spoken at an energy conference at Carlton College.
September 24, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a report on resource redemption and recycling as an economic viability. Neal St. Anthony interviews individuals at Metro Recycling Center and various government officials, who discuss the current issues and challenges of recycling.
September 24, 1977 - MPR’s Dan Olson presents “The Role Of the Courts In A Changing Society: Cedar-Riverside high-rise development suit,” a documentary that xamines lawsuit challenging the Cedar-Riverside high-rise development in Minneapolis. The court's decision provides insight into how a single suit can change the profile of a large urban area, into the National Environmental Policy Act, and into how tax laws and government funds are used to provide inner-city housing.
September 26, 1977 - MPR’s Dennis Rooney talks with The Delphi Quartet about their year-long tour of the state through the Minnesota String Quartet Residency Project.
September 28, 1977 - Psychologist Dr. Bruno Bettleheim speaking at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Bettleheim states that fairy tales are therapeutic. His most recent book is entitled "The Uses of Enchantment: the meaning & importance of fairy tales."
October 1, 1977 - Dr. Phyllis Fleming, assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, speaking at Annual Conference of the Minnesota Health Association. Speech was titled "Nutrition and Lifestyle: How to Change Behavior.”