George Donohue

4 Collection Items

• Mainstreet Radio: Rural Minnesota - The evolution from "outstate" to "greater"

  On this Midday program, a presentation of a Mainstreet Radio report on rural Minnesota and the debate on how it should be viewed and described. Following report, MPR’s Bob Potter has a conversation with Paul Gruchow, local author and reporter; and George Donohue, a rural sociologist at the University of Minnesota about the differences between rural and urban Minnesota and answer listener questions.

  Mar. 27, 199060 minSave
• Mainstreet Radio: Against the Grain

  MPR's Mainstreet Radio team presents a documentary entitled Against the Grain, which collects conversations with rural Minnesotans about how they are adapting to the forces of economic change.

  Jan. 2, 198857 minSave
• A Visit to Atwater

  MPR Journal presents the documentary “A Visit to Atwater.” The farm crisis of the early 1980s has taken a toll on small towns. MPR reporters Dan Olson and Stephen Smith spent some time in the West Central Minnesota farm town of Atwater to see how one small community is faring, and what the future may hold.

  Sep. 28, 198723 minSave
• Forum: A Sense of Place VII - More Than One Wilderness

  Part seven of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. This program, titled “More Than One Wilderness,” profiles living in Minnesota…from city to cabin.

  Jun. 17, 1973Save