MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
Series produced by Ampers
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.
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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...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 12
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...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 11
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 ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 11
1958 – The Minnesota democrats couldn’t wait to get the freshman senator for Massachusetts to Minnesota for their fundraiser. John F. Kennedy, rich...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 9
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...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 10
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
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
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
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...
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 10
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
2008: The last time the Coen Brothers – Joel and Ethan – had filmed in Minnesota was for 1996’s Fargo. Now they were back, this time recreating the...
- Added: Nov 21, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 9
March 4, 1915: Isabel Davis Higbee’s doctor told her she needed to rest. But the philanthropist wasn’t about to give up an opportunity to convince ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 11
2019: Why would the New York Times comment on a Twin Cities theatre opening night? Because it was a production of Hair by senior actors who, accord...
- Added: Nov 21, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 10
January 27, 1973: They met in Bloomington, from different organizations, different walks of life. What united them was the Equal Rights Amendment a...
- Added: Nov 21, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 10
1901: Arthur Conan Doyle scribbled out his latest Sherlock Holmes story. Who knew that seventy years later, The Hound of the Baskervilles would be ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2022
- Length: 01:31
- Purchases: 9
2018: Meadow Muska had been holding onto photographs she’d taken of lesbian communes for decades. Now she felt the world was ready to see and appre...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 8
2007: Groth Music had been buying and selling musical instruments since 1939. But this was the first time the Minnesota company was asked to find a...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 8
August 1998: Monica Lewinsky was in the hot seat, giving grand jury testimony about her affair with President Clinton. So why was she bringing up M...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 8
October 1982: Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream had never seen a band like the Go-Go’s. No one had. An all-female group that played their own ins...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 9
1999: Amazon Bookstore in Minneapolis had been in business since the early 1970s. Now they were in a battle with online retailer Amazon for use of ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 8
