Materials created/edited/published by Archive team as an assigned project during remote work period in 2020
November 15, 1976 - An exploration of the American burial ritual, including conversations with writers, funeral directors, ministers, sociologists, and anthropologists. Topics include problematic dichotomy of funeral industry as a business vs. providing a social service and the ceremonial nature behind burial or cremation.
November 26, 1976 - On this Midday program, a presentation of a speech by author James Michener, followed by an interview with MPR’s Bill Siemering, where Michener talks about book "Centennial" and preserving local history.
December 24, 1976 - Truman Capote reading his autobiographical story "A Christmas Memory" at the 1976 7th Annual UND Writer's Conference last March in Grand Forks. The conference title was New Journalism and the Novel.
January 1, 1977 - A Home for the Weekend program of poetry and music with Nancy and Joe Paddock, writers and poets from Minnesota.
January 27, 1977 - KUOM’s Andy Marlow interviews psychologist Wayne Dyer, about his book "Your Erroneous Zones," a straight forward approach to mental health.
March 11, 1977 - A news feature of British economist E. F. Schumacher, author of the book "Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered." Schumacher talks about need for change in agriculture and energy practices.
April 12, 1977 - MPR’s Rachel Krantz talks with makers of ‘bone’ instruments for use in theater and dance. Segment includes examples of sounds created by the various instruments.
April 19, 1977 - This Midday program features highlights from a conference on space colonization held last fall sponsored by the Minnesota Humanities Commission, the Minnesota Futures Society, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. It was designed to explore the ethics of sending people to live and work in outer space.
April 22, 1977 - MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews Minnesota author and environmentalist Sigurd Olson, who shares his view of the importance and beauty of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
April 22, 1977 - MPR’s Janet Carter reports on forum sponsored by the Lake Superior Basin Study Center at UMD addressing the issue of whether logging should be allowed in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.