Materials created/edited/published by Archive team as an assigned project during remote work period in 2020
August 28, 1974 - MER’s Connie Goldman interviews MER Classical host Dennis Rooney about his interest in covering the food at Minnesota State Fair. Rooney promotes the various traits of food fair.
September 7, 1974 - Sigurd Olson, environmentalist and author, speaking at the University of Minnesota-Duluth summer commencement. Topic of speech is on the ‘wilderness challenge.’
September 18, 1974 - MPR’s Greg Barron reports on an injunction halting lumbering in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Cannoe Area was granted by Minnesota District Court Judge Miles Lord.
September 19, 1974 - Poet Nikki Giovanni, one of the leading voices in the black artist movement, talks about current affairs on the third anniversary of the Attica uprising. She was in Moorhead for a poetry reading on the Concordia College campus.
September 19, 1974 - An Amnesty mother speaks out on President Ford's new policy for returning "draft dodgers."
September 19, 1974 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston interviews member of The Coalition of Labor Union Women, who states group wants childcare facilities, maternity benefits, equal pay and apprenticeship opportunities for its female members.
September 19, 1974 - The Council of American Witches hold their fourth convention in Minneapolis. Chairman Carl Weschcke says witches are socially conscious people, wanting to save mankind from self-destruction.
October 4, 1974 - Mulford Q. Sibley, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, speaks on the immense political, social, economic, religious, and physical toll of Vietnam war. Discussion not limited to South or North division, but all parties involved, including the United States.
October 5, 1974 - MPR’s Worthington reporter Steve Monroe talks to U.S. Senator Walter Mondale who discusses the issues that will face the nation in the upcoming election.
October 5, 1974 - Actor and anti-war activist Jane Fonda speaking at anti-war rally held at Augsburg University.