July 8, 1973 - Part ten of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “Water: Words and Music”. A meeting on June 15, 1973 regarding asbestos fibers found in Lake Superior.
July 8, 1973 - A meeting on June 15, 1973 regarding asbestos fibers found in Lake Superior.
July 1, 1973 - Part nine of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “Just One Studded Tire”, and looks at the problems of people living on state borders. What do the boundaries prevent them from doing? Interviews with people about their lives, government officials trying to make things work, people providing goods or services across state borders with historical perspective and comments from governmental and academic regionalists.
July 1, 1973 - This week looks at the problems of people living on state borders. What do the boundaries prevent them from doing? Interviews with people about their lives, government officials trying to make things work, people providing goods or services across state borders with historical perspective and comments from governmental and academic regionalists.
June 24, 1973 - Part eight of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “The New Doctor on Old Main Street”, Discusses if physicians being adequately prepared to live in small communities and community reaction to them. Focus on a physician-associate from the University's Rural Physician Associate Program and his family. Also includes readings from Sinclair Lewis' "Mainstreet" and the Litchfield doctor who wrote "The Making of a Surgeon", as well as interviews with cooperating physicians, University of Minnesota instructors, and townspeople.
June 24, 1973 - Focusing on a physician-associate from the University's Rural Physician Associate Program and his family. Readings from Sinclair Lewis' "Mainstreet" and the Litchfield doctor who wrote "The Making of a Surgeon". Interviews with cooperating physicians, University of Minnesota instructors, townspeople. Are physicians being adequately prepared to live in small communities. Community reaction to them.
June 17, 1973 - Part seven of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “More Than One Wilderness”. The daily life of a real wilderness dweller, and the new young and not so young wilderness people. Sigurd Olson speaking about his life in the wilderness. This in contrast to the lives of people on the move, living in a Twin Cities apartment complex... a new kind of wilderness. Group discussions dealing with what its like living in Minnesota.
June 10, 1973 - Part six of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “All the News that's Fit”, and is a study of how journalism influenced regional feeling as the state grew. Program includes material from old newspapers, comment from humanists, a look at new radical journalism, how the coming of radio pulled regions together, the effects of television, and projections about cable potential. Also includes Interviews with people living in rural areas who are on the cable now and excerpts from Jane Swisshelm's book "Half a Century" talking about her radical journalism in Saint Cloud a hundred years ago.
June 3, 1973 - Part five of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “Mining, Music and Much Ado about Sports”, exploring the relationship between a miner and the giant corporation he works for. Includes questions of Iron Range work in the region, excerpts from early works of Margaret Culkin Banning, and examples of ethnic music.
May 27, 1973 - Part four of the MER documentary series, A Sense of Place. Program is titled “How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?”, and focuses on changes and challenges of farming in the region.