Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

Series produced by KVSC

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The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is a Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Legacy funded program where your host Jeff Carmack brings listeners a series of features about the parts of our local central Minnesotan culture that may have been lost within the mist of history.

Did you know that the Mayor of St. Martin, MN, served on the USS Essex during the Bay of Pigs Invasion then went on to be a NYPD Detective for over 30 years?

Did you know that one of KVSC founding members from 1967 is actually Santa Claus?

Did you know that there are hundreds of ghost towns in Minnesota?

All these stories and more can be found right here!

The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is made possible through support from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is a Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Legacy funded program where your host Jeff Carmack brings listeners a series of features about the parts of our local central Minnesotan culture that may have been lost within the mist of history.

Did you know that the Mayor of St. Martin, MN, served on the USS Essex during the Bay of Pigs Invasion then went on to be a NYPD Detective for over 30 years?

Did you know that one of KVSC founding members from 1967 is actually Santa Claus?

Did you know that there are hundreds of ghost towns in Minnesota?

All these stories and more can be found right here!

The Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is made possible through support from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


300 Pieces

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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack travels out to Holdingford to visit with a number of y...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:50
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After a year of darkness, St. Cloud State University’s Theatre program lights the stage again for two public performances of "Clockwork" - an origi...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Prodcuder Jeff Carmack heads over to the University Archives once again to c...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:58
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we start off Black History Month with an innovative partnership that has come together around the Min...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:58
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Desiree Clark and Xakk Asphodel about this ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 1
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In today’s instalment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack checks back in with a new traditio...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:41
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer brings us a timely holiday story about how making a difference in t...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads into downtown St. Cloud to visit a business that...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:57
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With the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying restrictions not going anywhere any time soon, local non-profit organizations are doing their best to a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:52
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Dr. Amy Knopf and Graduate Assistant Kaitly...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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In todays’ Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack ventures in to “The COVID ZONE!” No, The COVID ZONE i...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:48
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Seth Kaempfer from SCSU’s LGBT Resource Cen...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:51
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Minnesota Housing Finance Agency Commission...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Would we know actual Fascism if we saw it? Unfortunately, the answer to that question appears to be “not until it is too late.” Created from act...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Ian Alexy makes up half of the Minnesota musical group Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank along with his brother Teague, and since the COVID-19 pandemic b...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Maureen Gaedy from the Homefront Resource C...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:35
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack heads over to the Promise Neighborhood in St. Cloud on...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:09
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us to the movies with a very unlikely journey. ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 01:14:22
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes a look at the life of an artist during the time ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:54
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In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:10:53