KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 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
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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Marlon Brando was born to break rules. And now he’d broken one to many at Faribault’s Shattuck Military Academy and the school was going to kick hi...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead was rarely upstaged. But how could she compete with the Armistice Day Blizzard?

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Faribault was the Peony capital of the world. So, of course, the town needed its own annual peony fest.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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Mabel Ulrich was new at the Minneapolis book trade. But a group of doctor’s wives asked her to please open a branch of Mabel Ulrich’s Book and Prin...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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DeWolf Hopper was at New Ulm’s Turner Hall to stage his operetta Wang. But, of course, he couldn’t leave town without reciting the baseball poem he...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1861, Charles Cornell bought land in Owatonna along the Straight River. He built a house. And he built a shop to create some of the town’s first...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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1941 – Emil Liers of Homer got a splashy double spread in the Saturday Evening Post. But the real stars of the feature were his otters.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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September 1939 – The Germans had invaded Poland. World War II had started in Europe. And here, Harry Hopkins, FDR’s most trusted presidential aide,...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30