December 30, 1987 -
December 30, 1987 -
December 31, 1987 -
January 8, 1988 - MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Minnesota poet and author Bill Holm about teacher exchange program. Holm also answers listener questions.
January 15, 1988 - Philip Johnson, famed architect, speaking at Minnesota Meeting. Johnson reminiscences about Minneapolis architecture and the IDS Center. Johnson is perhaps best known to area residents as the designer of the IDS Center in Minneapolis. To many of his colleagues he is the Dean of American Architecture and has to his credit the AT&T Headquarters in New York, where he is based, Pennzoil Plaza and Republic Bank Tower in Houston, and the IBM Atlantic Center project in Atlanta. With Atlanta real estate developer Blaine Kelley, he is currently involved in a project that will bring yet another Philip Johnson building to Minneapolis. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
February 4, 1988 - Midday presents the documentary “Liberty's Children: A Celebration of Citizenship," produced by KLSE’s Carol Gunderson. The half-hour documentary profiles a Mayo Clinic medical student from Mexico and his struggle to become an American citizen. It also includes commentary from others on their experience in becoming a U.S. citizen.
February 17, 1988 - Maya Angelou speaks at an observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday, addressing an audience at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. Angelou also reads her poetry and recounts her experiences.
February 20, 1988 - Charles Norman, director of the Learning Skills Center at Macalester College, discusses writing, the use of the English language, and origins of words. Norman also answers listener questions.
March 12, 1988 - On this Weekend program, Al Sicherman, food writer at the Star Tribune, discusses various food topics and his book “Caramel Knowledge.” Sicherman also answers listener questions.
March 31, 1988 - MPR’s Kate Moos interviews AIDS Jacqui Banaszynski about her work “Aids in the Heartland,” which won her the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Banaszynski and her photographer, Jean Pieri followed two gay Minnesota farmers - Dick Hanson and his partner, Bert Henningson - one of whom had contracted AIDS.