August 24, 1981 - David Porter, professor and lecturer of classics and music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, runs down his summer project of preserving his house and ruminates on its connection to the classics.
August 26, 1981 - MPR’s Dale Connelly interviews neighbors of the Minnesota State Fair in the Como area. Not surprisingly, there are differing opinons about the human masses that appear in late August every year.
August 26, 1981 -
August 27, 1981 - MPR’s Dale Connelly visits the Minnesota State Fair horse barn. Connelly talks with Elmer Jones, who raises Belgian horses, and trainer-rider Simone Tremblay.
August 29, 1981 -
September 3, 1981 - Foxfire, a dramatization of a series of novels based on Appalachian folk tales, opens at the Guthrie Theater. MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy about the play and the Minneapolis stage itself.
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September 25, 1981 - Nancy Fushan presents an interview with playwright Paula Cizmar about her play Death of a Miner. The drama is about a female coal miner who dies in a mining accident.
September 25, 1981 -