June 6, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Dale Huffington, director of the Duluth Festival of the Arts, reviews The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill by Ronald Sanders.
June 7, 1980 - MPR’s LIVE coverage of the 1980 DFL Party State Convention, including Vice President Walter Mondale's speech, other addresses, debates, votes on party offices and platform positions, selection of delegates to the Democratic national convention, and other coverage of the proceedings.
June 12, 1980 - Discussion on camping, camping safety, and "minimum impact" - leaving the campsite in the same condition in which it was found. Outdoor survival expert Tim Kneeland talks about summer outdoor activities and answers listener questions.
June 17, 1980 - Writer, photographer, and artist Gordon Parks speaking at Our Creative Community Conference at the Spring Hill Center in Wayzata, Minnesota. Parks address was titled “Universality in Art.” Subjects of speech included his time in Minnesota, race issues, the Civil Rights movement, and education.
June 27, 1980 - MPR President Bill Kling, Membership Director Marilyn Heltzer, and reporter/producer Bob Potter answer live listener questions about the Minnesota Public Radio network.
June 28, 1980 - Dr. Frances Hill, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, speaking at the second annual Farm Women's Forum in Rochester, Minnesota. Hill’s address was about the changes in the roles and lives of farm women, based on her interviews with over one hundred Midwestern farm women. These changes include the demise of the family farm, and secondly, a change in women's personal rights.
July 2, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Bob Miller reviews Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind by Andrew Potok.
July 9, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, James Bohen, of Irish Books and Media, reviews Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller, by Dervla Murphy.
July 11, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, librarian Mary Alice Sell reviews three young adult novels: I Hate to Talk About Your Mother by Hettie Jones; Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees by Lensey Namioka; and Tangled Butterfly by Marion Dane Bauer, a Minnesotan.
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