MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds

Series produced by Ampers

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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.


669 Pieces

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Two Versions of Nothing
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1984 – Prince jotted off the song “Nothing Compares 2 U” in the spare moments between promoting his new album Purple Rain and preparing for his big...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Three Nights, Three Marx Brothers, One Movie
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1936 – The Marx Brothers—Chico, Harpo and Groucho—arrived in Duluth. In overcoats. In July. The comedians heard it was cold up there. But they stuc...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: John Lennon's Country Girl
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In 1978, Brenda Spencer just wanted to meet John Lennon. She’d traveled from Minnesota to join the other fans that hung outside his New York apartm...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Marian Anderson in St. Cloud
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In 1942, one of the most recognizable women in America stepped off a train in St. Cloud. She was Marian Anderson, the opera singer called the Voice...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Widow’s Feast
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Mary Welsh was not only Ernest Hemingway’s fourth (and last) wife but also his literary executor. But critics sniffed at the idea of this lumberman...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: Can I Play With U?
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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By 1985, Miles Davis was five years out of a self-imposed retirement, when he didn’t even pick up his trumpet. Now the jazz legend, eager for new c...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Film Nights with Chaplin
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1941, the news from Europe was grim. The war was going badly for the good guys. That year, an insurance company employee decided to bring comedy...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: YES Yoko Ono
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By 2001, the world at large still thought of Yoko Ono as John Lennon’s widow. That year’s retrospective at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center, however...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: Last Stop Bloomington
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December 3, 2015, Scott Weiland, former front man of the Stone Temple Pilots, pulled into a parking lot in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was a day off...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Dress Rehearsal for World War
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1938, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn arrived in Minnesota as part of a 22-city lecture tour. She had a purpose: to sound the alert that the S...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Price of Murder
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November 28, 1914 – Frederick Price was the distraught husband when the ambulance collected his dead wife, the victim of a fall off a river bluff. ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
MN90: The Problem with Professor Sanford
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In the late 19th-century, Maria Louise Sanford was a star of the regional lecture circuit and one of the most charismatic professors at the Univers...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Fairbault WASP
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1943 – Elizabeth “Betty” Wall, a pilot from Faribault, Minnesota, arrived in Texas, to do her part in the war. But, unlike male recruits, she had ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Gorilla Picture
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January 1932 – Merian C. Cooper was in a fix. The man he’d hired to write the novelization of his gorilla picture, King Kong, had dropped dead. He ...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Myra and the Murderer
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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1894 – Myrta Belknap was a good woman from Minneapolis who’d married the wrong man. Dr. H. H. Holmes was a Chicago druggist—and, according to the p...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: Joe Huie’s Cafe
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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Politicians ate there. Celebrities too, apparently even a king—Elvis Presley. It was Joe Huie’s Café, open twenty-four hours, every day. And, for t...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: The Fur Trapper on Leech Lake
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In 1898, Charles Flandreau, now an old man, stood before a crowd at the Minnesota Historical Society. He had a story to tell, about the summer he c...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10
MN90: An Avenue Fit for a King
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Why does Minneapolis have an avenue named after the Persian king Xerxes I? It has to do with the alphabet. Here’s Britt Aamodt

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: Seven Days, Three Men, One Biplane
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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September 1920, three military officers took off in a biplane from a Minnesota airfield for a bumpy, seat-of-the-pants seven-day journey to Washing...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 9
MN90: The Resort Owner’s Son
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Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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In 1963, Darla Henrichsen, cleaning cabins at Stony Point Resort on Leech Lake, fell for the resort owner’s son. Robert Hansen was a troubled young...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 10

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