Materials created/edited/published by Archive team as an assigned project during remote work period in 2020
December 14, 1975 - Hubert H Humphrey speaks at DFL feminist caucus, saying law calling for equal pay for equal work isn't enforced. He talks about how much women earn compared to men.
December 16, 1975 - MPR’s Kate Williams reports on Reverend Jeanette Piccard, who in an excerpted speech, defends her ordination and right as a woman to be a priest.
December 23, 1975 - MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews Ole Olson, who shares happy Christmas memories from the Minnesota and Dakota prairies in the 1880s. Decorations were tumbleweeds, an apple was a gift, and you did not go out and play in the snow.
December 31, 1975 - Garrison Keillor interviews author J. F. Powers about his book “Look How the Fish Live,” and time overseas.
February 6, 1976 - "Give Hubert Hell" - A roast for Hubert Humphrey from the Minnesota Press Club.
February 24, 1976 - A news feature with art historian Rena Coen about the early artist visitors to Minnesota, including Eastman Johnson and a connection to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Song of Hiawatha."
February 25, 1976 - A news feature with art historian Rena Coen on the history of religious art, especially the Norwegian immigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.
February 26, 1976 - A news feature with Rena Coen and Lynda King comment on the early Minnesota art scene and the foundation for the Minneapolis School of Art.
March 10, 1976 - An MPR New Feature where poet Robert Bly talks about reading poetry, and about how he doesn't consider himself a Minnesotan poet, and that he rejects the idea of "regional poetry." The feature also includes Bly reading, and a few fans of Bly speaking about the importance of his work.
March 12, 1976 - Interview with Stephen Sell, executive director of the Minnesota State Arts Board, about problems of state funding for the arts.