September 12, 1979 - NPR reporter talks to members of the Twin Oaks community in Louisa County, Virginia. The Twin Oaks commune was founded in the mid 1960s, as a model from psychologist B.F. Skinner's utopian novel, Walden Two.
September 22, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman examines the history of Minneapolis. Dietman interviews Tom Trow, archeologist for the Minnesota Historical Society; Larry Ingalls, genealogist at Church of Latter-Day Saints; Father Alan Moss, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes; and Marcella Trujillo, Chicano studies professor at University of Minnesota.
October 6, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman examines the history of St. Paul on the 125th birthday of the city. Dietman interviews Virginia Kunz, executive director of the Ramsey County Historical Society; and St. Paul architect Richard Faricy. Topics include “Pigs Eye” and architecture in the city.
October 9, 1979 - Documentary that explores the attempts by South Dakota Native Americans to win more complete sovereignty from state and federal governments. A collection of various interviews. Topics include Sun Dance ritual, treaties, and courts.
November 29, 1980 - Calvin Bradford, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs professor, speaks on the neighborhood movement, from its definition to the struggle between national and local control.
March 13, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 5 (Romance of the City). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's, where people of New York talk about friendships, romance, and the American Dream.
February 27, 1984 - On this Midday program, MPR’s Dan Olson interviews W. Harry Davis, chair of the Minneapolis School Board, discusses Black history in the Twin Cities and Minnesota. Davis also answers listener questions.
May 27, 1985 - WWII marks a watershed in the life of this nation and in the lives of all who lived through it. In the documentary “We Were the Lucky Ones,” MPR’s Mark Heistad examines the experience of the war and its legacy through the stories of residents of New Ulm, many of which were German-American.
May 31, 1986 - MPR’s Mark Steil presents "Chanarambie Township: Sections 17, 18, 19, and 20," a documentary that explores how farmers in a four-square mile area of Murray County view the farm crisis...where land prices dropped, interest rates went up, and farmers were caught in the middle.
June 26, 1986 - MPR’s Beth Friend looks at Dinkytown in the late 1950s-early 1960s. It was a musically and literary rich community, which included The Scholar coffee shop, McCosh bookstore…and a certain Hibbing musician.