May 24, 1986 - Jo Ann Shroyer reviews crime writer Dick Francis’s Break In.
May 27, 1986 - MPR’s Kate Moos talks with St. Paul’s Ann Bancroft about her expedition to the South Pole. Bancroft recounts the challenges of being in the Arctic.
May 29, 1986 - On this Midday program, Paul Gruchow is interviewed and answers listener questions about the Minnesota prairie and his book, Journal of a Prairie Year.
May 30, 1986 - As Minnesota Press Club prepares to host a publisher and writers conference, MPR’s Loren Omoto interviews local writer Will Shetterly about the conference and discusses the history of The Scribblies, a group of local fantasy and science fiction writers that came together in 1981 to develop their writing talents.
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.
May 31, 1986 -
May 31, 1986 -
June 2, 1986 - On this cover story of MPR Journal, a look at possible end of the nine month Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota. MPR reporter Mike Mulcahy provides details of Federal District Court Judge Edward Devitt’s injunction on United Food and Commercial Workers Union local P-9, effectively ending strike. Even with court decision, some strikers are determined to continue fight against Hormel officials.
June 3, 1986 -
June 3, 1986 - Tob Hubler and Stephen Swartz, partners in the organizational consulting firm Hubler/Swartz & Associates, talk to callers about family owned businesses.