KRPR

- Call Letters: KRPR
- Frequency: 89.9 FM
- http://krpr.org/
- Networks: AMPERS
Classic Rock Without The Talk.
Series

15 Pieces
a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.
- From: KRPR
- Updated: Feb 10, 2020

48 Pieces
Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.
- From: KRPR
- Updated: Jun 24, 2019
Latest Pieces
Sara Bisel moved to Rochester with her husband and children in 1963. But it was what she did away from home at archaeological digs that would make ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
The rain started after 5 p.m. on July 5, 1978. Before it ended, the Zumbro River and Bear Creek would flood their banks, five people would die and ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
January 1962, a respected goose authority traveled from Illinois to the banks of Silver Lake in Rochester to investigate at its resident waterfowl....
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
November 30, 1960, Ernest Hemingway checked into the Mayo Clinic for electroconvulsive therapy to help with depression. Yet, within a year, the aut...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America’s most esteemed architects when he came to Rochester in the late 1940s to design a home for a Mayo doctor. Bu...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
During World War II, B-24 pilot Lester Fiegel of Rochester, Minnesota, and co-pilot Tom Watson, Jr., the son of IBM founder Tom Watson, Sr, ferried...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
In January 2001, George Gibbs’ widow found two travel journals, which had fallen behind an old chest in the Rochester house the couple had shared f...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in Rochester to honor the Mayo Clinic for its services to veterans of the Great War. But this was ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:29
He was Transparent Man, a life-size medical model cased in transparent plastic, designed to educate the public on human anatomy. And his public at ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30
In 1899, the Conley Brothers, Kerry and Frederick, organized Conley Camera Company in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Five years later, they had a contra...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 01:30