Communication towers those blinking, guywired harbingers of car phones have sprouted at the rate of 5000 a year nationwide for the past decade. Industry watchers say another 100-thousand of the structures could go up by 2010. While digital phones mean improved service, the towers themselves -- often topped by flashing strobelights arewidely abhorred as a blight on the landscape. In the Brainerd lakes area, county officials are trying to bring them under control.
In 2008, Minnesota's voters passed the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution: to protect drinking water sources; to protect, enhance, and restore wetlands, prairies, forests, and fish, game, and wildlife habitat; to preserve arts and cultural heritage; to support parks and trails; and to protect, enhance, and restore lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater.
Efforts to digitize this initial assortment of thousands of historical audio material was made possible through the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. A wide range of Minnesota subject matter is represented within this collection.
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