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.


718 Pieces

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MN90: The Return of the Wolf
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1986 – National Geographic photographer from Minnesota, Jim Brandenburg wanted to see wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park. Farmers weren’t...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
MN90: Sick of Sarah’s Free Album
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
MN90: The First Hmong Story Adapted to Opera
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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 ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
MN90: James Hong Everywhere All at Once
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
MN90: A 45-Yard Field Goal
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
MN90: Concerts with Bernstein
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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: 7
MN90: The Lion of Lutsen
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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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
MN90: Judy’s Ruby Slippers
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2005 – A thief stole into the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids and stole a pair of ruby slippers the actress wore in The Wizard of Oz. When they...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: The Panama Canal and the Engineer
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1905 – The French had failed to build the Panama Canal. Now it looked like the Americans would too. That’s when John Stevens, former chief engineer...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: The Pipa Popularizer
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1994 – On Gao Hong’s first tour of America, a radio listener, hearing of her concert, wondered how this Chinese musician could play a peapod? Hong ...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: A Kennedy Fundraiser
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1958 – The Minnesota democrats couldn’t wait to get the freshman senator for Massachusetts to Minnesota for their fundraiser. John F. Kennedy, rich...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Prince's Cloud Guitar
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1983 – Dave Rusan had never built a guitar. He only repaired them. But now he’d been given the job of a lifetime: to create the iconic cloud guitar...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: Hollywood Stunt Woman
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1919: Meridel LeSueur wanted to be a writer. But first she needed to make some cash. And stunt work in Hollywood paid 25 bucks a day. Here’s Britt ...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7
MN90: Hostage In Iran
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November 3, 1979: Bruce Laingen, a farmboy from Butterfield, Minnesota, was the highest ranking diplomat in Iran—until he became one of nearly 60 A...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7
MN90: Chuck Berry and the Escapades
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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New Year’s Eve 1964: The Escapades were debuting at the St Paul Armory, opening for music legend Chuck Berry, and playing for concert promoters who...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
MN90: American Indian Women’s Caucus in Houston
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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November 18, 1977: Bonnie Wallace travelled all the way to Houston, Texas, to attend the National Women’s Conference, only to find out her American...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7
MN90: Eric and Walter’s Excellent Adventure
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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June 1930: Eric Sevareid and Walter Port celebrated the graduation from high school, not with a party but with a canoe and a more than 2,000-mile r...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7

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