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 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 - On this Midday, a broadcast of psychologist Dr. Bruno Bettelheim speaking at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Bettelheim states that fairy tales are therapeutic.
October 14, 1977 - Socialist writer and critic Michael Harrington and Conservative columnist William F. Buckley debate the question "We Welcome the Growth of the Public Sector" at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
October 21, 1977 - A report providing excerpts from National Meeting of State Committees for the Humanities conference held in Minneapolis. Representatives from state councils gathered to discuss the task of defining what their studies involve.
November 10, 1977 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan reports on new theatre opening in St. Paul, called Penumbra. Fushan interviews Lou Bellamy, Penumbra’s company coordinator, about the theater and it’s focus on black talent.
November 14, 1977 - Capturing Minnesota history on tape is the subject of talks by Arthur L. Finnell, Assistant Director of the Southwest Minnesota Historical Center in Marshall; Kenneth Smemo, Director of the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center in Moorhead; and Ramedo J. Saucedo, Project Director of the Mexican-American History Project at the Minnesota Historical Society's annual convention. In 1975 the Minnesota Historical Society began a two-year Mexican-American History Project under the direction of Ramedo J. Saucedo to collect the historical resources of this ethnic group: personal papers, records of organizations, photographs, articles and other material, including 74 oral history interviews with people living throughout the state.
November 16, 1977 - Broadcaster and writer Eric Sevareid bids goodbye to the National Press Club on the eve of his retirement.
November 22, 1977 - Midday broadcast of writer Harrison Salisbury speaking at the Minnesota Press Club. Salisbury talks about controversial changes at The New York Times, changing competition among New York newspapers, and comments on China.
December 1, 1977 - Nancy Fushan interviews a Vietnamese playwright about his work and effectively translating eastern folk tales style for western theater.