MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds

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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society.

MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society.


621 Pieces

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MN90: Mary Gibbs: Defender of Itasca’s Pine Forests
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Mary Gibbs was the only female park superintendent in the nation when took over the position at Itasca State Park. She was also only 24 when she st...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: 75 Years after Pearl Harbor, Sailors Come Home
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Dec. 7, 1941, the USS Oklahoma capsized in Pearl Harbor. Two Minnesota sailors died on the ship. Their bodies were never identified until, says Bri...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Spring Peeper Frogs
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Minnesota has 14 species of frogs and toads. Britt Aamodt has a story about that amphibian harbinger of spring, the spring peeper.

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: Theodore Wirth and the Rise of the Gray Squirrel
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How did Minneapolis’ Loring Park get so many gray squirrels? Britt Aamodt follows the trail to former park superintendent Theodore Wirth.

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
MN90: Andrew Towne and the Quest of Seven Summits
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Andrew Towne was living and working in the Twin Cities when he decided to climb a mountain. Not just any mountain, Mt. Everest. With the climb, Tow...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19
MN90: Erwin Hensch: Minnesota Survivor of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
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Minnesotan Erwin Hensch was among the crew of the USS Indianapolis, which July 1945, would deliver the bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima to t...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 22
MN90: Cass Gilbert’s Minnesota Capitol
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Cass Gilbert wanted to make a name for himself in architecture. Britt Aamodt tells us how a St. Paul building project launched him into a career th...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 18
MN90: Al Franken: From Funny Man to Giant of the Senate
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When Al Franken took office at U.S. Senator for Minnesota in 2009, the former writer and performer for Saturday Night Live had to leave the comedy ...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
MN90: Anoka: Halloween Capital of the World
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How did Anoka, Minnesota get to be Halloween Capital of the World? Britt Aamodt seeks an answer back in 1920.

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Jessica Lange’s Feud with Joan Crawford
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Growing up in Cloquet, Minnesota, Jessica Lange used to watch old movies with her mom. Britt Aamodt looks at Lange’s career and the 2017 role that ...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
MN90: Frank Hansen & the Minnesota Iceman
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In the 1960s and ‘70s, Frank Hansen toured the country with his sideshow, the Minnesota Iceman. Britt Aamodt wonders, was the Iceman a Neanderthal,...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 18
MN90: Groucho Marx Offends Minneapolis Audience?
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Groucho Marx was known for his waggling eyebrows, penciled mustache, cigar and wicked sense of humor. On a war bond stop in Minneapolis, Britt Aamo...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 15
MN90: Amanda Hocking: How to Make a Million Self-Publishing
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Amanda Hocking got her first rejection slip when she 17. The Minnesota writer kept churning out novels but didn’t hit the big time, reveals Britt A...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
MN90: Paul Nelson: Everything Is an Afterthought
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Minnesotan Paul Nelson was one of the great journalists of the golden age of rock music criticism. But by his death in 2006, he had become a reclus...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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May 1915, the RMS Lusitania departed New York en route to Liverpool. Britt Aamodt relates the story of Duluth native Amelia “Millie” Ann Baker who ...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
MN90: Tom Nelson vs. the Ghost Bird
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Tom Nelson was an electrical engineer living in Minnesota who got involved in a birding controversy. Britt Aamodt reports how the engineer weighed ...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 18
MN90: The Val Johnson UFO in Warren, Minnesota
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August 27, 1979, deputy Val Johnson was on a regular night patrol in Warren, Minnesota, when a light came at him. Britt Aamodt gives the details on...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Pixar’s Minneapolis Debut
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Before Pixar was one of the top animation firms in the world, it was a subsidiary of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd. Britt Aamodt tells us how, in 19...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 17
MN90: Michael Koppelman and the 11-Billion-Year-Old Gamma Ray
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Michael Koppelman has a foot in two worlds. He was engineer and producer for Prince. But he was also an amateur astronomer who, says Britt Aamodt, ...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 21
MN90: Man in Black - Jesse Ventura on X-Files
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After he was a professional wrestler but before he was governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura made a cameo appearance on X-Files. Ventura may not hav...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 19

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