Let's Visit

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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KAXE/KBXE's monthly journey to a chosen community or region in the listening area.

Each month, Northern Community Radio pokes around a small town or a unique geographical area in our listening region and broadcasts stories and interviews from the specified locale of the month.


66 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Floyd Baird has managed campgrounds in the Chippewa National Forest for several years. We caught up with him in this segment of Let's Visit

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 09:18

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 10:35
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An archeologist explains the history of the Chippewa National Forest

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:51
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This month we travel to Hibbing for Let's Visit! In this segment, Hannah Forti discusses the 105 year history of the family-owned and operated Sun...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 09:26
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Leonard Hirsch moved to Hibbing in 1959. Always curious about history, after retiring from his job as a researcher for a mining company, he began ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 11:39
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Librarians and historians are full of knowledge. In this segment of Let's Visit, retired high school librarian Linda Siokkanen and historian Leona...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 11:01
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Barb Grove is known around the Crosby, MN area as Mama Cuyuna. Her tenacious work to repurpose Crosby into a recreation destination after mine com...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:39
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Northern Community Radio's Let's Visit features one area or community each month. We kicked off the series this summer by visiting Crosby, MN. C...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 11:51
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Northern Community Radio launched a new program called Let's Visit this summer. Each month we focus on one community or area in northern Minnesota...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 12:22
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Let's Visit is Northern Community Radio way of sharing various communities and places in our broadcast region with our listeners. This past month,...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 15:52
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Was that bigfoot?! Remer, MN is known for people having seen, smelled or heard bigfoot in their midst. This fall, the annual Bigfoot Music Festiv...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 15:50
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Scott and Kara Kesti moved to Remer several years ago. Leaving behing life in the big city, the Kestis opened opened a store on mainstreet in Reme...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 07:21
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Park Rapids, MN is becoming as well known for its arts scene as it is for its outdoor recreation opportunties. Paul and Pat Dove Paul are a big re...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 16:11
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Let's Visit features communities in our listening area. We recently visited Park Rapids, MN! Erin Cox is the Communications and Marketing Coordina...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 09:11
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Let's Visit features communities in our listening area. We recently visited Park Rapids, MN! Liz Stone returned to her hometown of Park Rapids af...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 08:16
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Nisswa, MN Historian Dick Carlson shares morsels of Nisswa history in this segment of Let's Visit.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 11:25
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Chris French grew up in the Nisswa and chose to raise his family in the area. He owns Big Axe Brewing in downtown Nisswa. In this segment of Let'...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 16:26
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This summer will be the 20th anniversay of a two-day Scandinavian cultural experience called the Nisswa Stamman. Paul Wilson and his wife Mary Abe...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 12:52
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The Ely Folk School has been up and running since 2015. It's quickly become a community gathering space that feels like it's simply always been th...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 16:14
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The Ely Winter Festival kicks off this weekend! It began in 1984 and has, over the years, morphed and changed into the nearly 2 week winter extrav...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 09:38