Paula Drake

5 Collection Items

• Don Boxmeyer shares his thoughts on construction of "tall" ice palace

  MPR’s Loren Omoto gets insights from Don Boxmeyer, St. Paul Pioneer Press and dispatch columnist, on the efforts in creating very tall ice palace on Lake Phalen for the 1986 Winter Carnival.

  Feb. 5, 19866 minSave
• MPR Special: Kenneth H. Keller inauguration as president of the University of Minnesota

  MPR Special broadcast of the inauguration of Kenneth H. Keller as the twelfth president of the University of Minnesota, live from the Northrop Auditorium.

  Nov. 15, 198533 minSave
• Former Split Rock Lighthouse resident reminisces

  Weekend’s Paula Drake interviews Clarence Young, who spent time at the Split Rock Lighthouse in the early 1900s. His father, Orren "Pete" Young, was the lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928. Clarence recalls the experience of travel to lighthouse, playing there as a child, and weather along Lake Superior.

  Jul. 27, 19854 minSave
• Minnesota Journal: Farm relief bill / Perpich's education plan / Missing children milk carton campaign / Minneapolis library / Taconite discharge

  Minnesota Journal host Gary Eichten presents a collection of day/evening reports and news items for Monday, March 5, 1985.

  Mar. 5, 198529 minSave
• No trucks on new part of I-35E

  Audio excerpt regarding ‘no trucks’ on new part of I-35E; being designated as a parkway.

  Oct. 27, 1984Save