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"The American Town: A Self-Portrait" Program #3: "The Copper Country" ([R156B-r157B]), 1966 February 06
Audio Reel-to-Reel, 10.5 inch, 7 1/2 ips
Box 22
[Reel 1, Part 1-1]
(Part 1 of 2; Recorded February 16, 1966, Broadcast April 6, 1966. In Houghton and Keweenaw Counties: Mining and Mills in Upper Peninsula; Interviews with former miners and residents of mining towns in Calumet, Quincy Mine, Eagle Project and others; also discusses lumber industry in Upper Peninsula; concludes with a discussion of pastimes and faith in the Upper Peninsula.)
[Reel 1, Part 1-1]
(Part 2 of 2; Recorded February 16, 1966, Broadcast April 6, 1966. Life in the Keweenaw Peninsula (Hancock and Houghton Michigan); prohibition; music (Kantele); copper mining and labor unions; Italian Hall Disaster, Ku Klux Klan; food; schools in Keweenaw)
"The American Town: A Self-Portrait" Program #5: Durand, Michigan ([R158B]), 1964 December 16
Audio Reel-to-Reel, 10.5 inch, 7 1/2 ips
Box 22
[Part 1]
(Recorded December 16, 1964, Broadcast March 18, 1965. Locomotives in Durand; life in Durand; religious intolerance and the KKK; Circus Trainwreck of 1903; labor disputes; "tramps" and "hobos" riding the trains; lynching incidents in Durand; schools in Durand; decline of the railroad.)