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.


788 Pieces

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MN90: Ann Sothern and the Whales of August
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Fall 1986 – Minneapolis actress Ann Sothern had been acting most of her 77 years, going back to her first film credit in 1927. But on her latest fi...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Deciphering Dolphins
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1966 – Dr. John C. Lilly’s life had taken him from his native St. Paul to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where the neurophysiologist conducted r...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Actor Was a Spy
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1940 – Minnesota’s Eddie Arnold had followed his dream to become a successful Hollywood actor. Now he was putting his career on hold to go treasure...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Afterlife of a Great Pitcher
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1933 – Charles Albert “Charley” Bender was a clerk at a downtown Philadelphia sporting goods store. But twenty years ago, the 49-year-old, original...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Minnesota’s Helen Keller
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1925 – Back when Vera Gammon was a student at Faribault’s school for the blind, the St. Paul girl, who’d lost sight and hearing age four, had been ...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Uncle Sam Wants LGBTQ Recruits
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2018 – When Stephen Rocheford was an Army officer, gays were not allowed in the military. Now the CEO of an LGBTQ magazine wanted to see if the Min...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Pizza and Kimchi
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2010 – When Ann Kim was a first grader, kids made fun of the Korean kimchi in her box lunches. But now as the new owner of Pizzeria Lola, she made ...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Martinez and His Maps
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1950 – Tony Martinez went into the Army for a fresh start and a chance at becoming a draftsman. The Army was full up on draftsman but it offered hi...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: The Getaway
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1945 – To the State Reformatory for Women in Shakopee, Beulah Brunelle and Edna Larabee were troublemakers, always trying to escape. But Beulah and...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Leon Belmont, Gentleman about Town
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October 1880 – Leon Belmont dressed for the brisk weather, slouch hat and men’s overcoat. But Minneapolis took exception to this young man, who it ...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: The Return of the Wolf
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1986 – National Geographic photographer from Minnesota, Jim Brandenburg wanted to see wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park. Farmers weren’t...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Sick of Sarah’s Free Album
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2011 – The all-girl Minneapolis punk band Sick of Sarah had a present for users of BitTorrent, the file-sharing site. Beginning that February, anyb...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: The First Hmong Story Adapted to Opera
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2019 –Author Kao Kalia Yang had only attended one opera in her life, and she had fallen asleep. Now the Minnesota Opera had reached out. It wanted ...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: James Hong Everywhere All at Once
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January 2020 – James Hong was a Minnesota-born actor who’d started acting in the 1950s. He had hundreds of film and TV credits. But this new film h...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: A 45-Yard Field Goal
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November 10 .1906 – Bobby Marshall felt the pressure. The Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was down two to nothing against Chicago with the c...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Concerts with Bernstein
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2009 – Janet Horvath asked her musician dad an innocent question. Did he ever play with Leonard Bernstein? His answer would send her on a ten-year ...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: The Lion of Lutsen
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1978 – John Lyght had been been sheriff of Cook County for six years. He’d seen a lot in that time. But a lion on the loose in Northern Minnesota? ...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Tangled up in Dylan
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December 1974 – Kevin Odegard grew up listening to Bob Dylan records on the basement record player. So it was incredible that the now 25-year-old g...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: A Waitress for Three Beatles
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1965 – The Beatles were not granting interviews after their Minnesota concert. But intern reporter Holly Stocking needed a story—and she’d just got...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Lou Bellamy and Penumbra Theatre
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1976 – Lou Bellamy had learned the power of theater at a young age. Now he was creating Penumbra, St. Paul’s first theater to give a stage to an al...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8

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