MN90: Mankato History FY22
Series produced by KMSU
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MN90: Mankato History in 90-seconds.
MN90: Mankato History in 90-seconds is a series of short, fun, and engaging stories exploring the history of Mankato and the surrounding area. The highly-produced 90-second segments covered a wide range of topics.
10 Pieces
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Oldest First
Fall 1952: They were women of a certain age, meeting at a Buffalo, New York, to reminisce about old times in Mankato. Old times that had been share...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1947. Forrest Guentzel was 19, handy at fixing timepieces and a recluse. At age two, a kerosene lamp had exploded in his face. Now a Mankato group ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
August 1945: Seaman Second Class Erwin Johns, a Navy Seabee from Milford Township, had brought a little something extra to his isolated outpost on ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
November 11, 1918: Private Alfred Mecklenburg had heard the rumors. World War I was over. A ceasefire would be called any minute. But for some reas...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
November 27, 1904: Alice Ryan was stationed at the switchboard for her nightshift at the Waseca Telephone Company when her brother-in-law staggered...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
August 1885: Readers of the New Ulm Review were catching up on plans for the burial of Ulysses S. Grant—and following the exploits of four local me...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
July 15, 1881: A little after 3:30pm, thunder rolled. Rain would be a relief from the furnace heat of the day. Yet less than an hour later, six wou...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
August 7, 1908: The people of Mankato had found the culprit for the recent and ghastly outbreak of typhoid fever. He was Milton Babbitt Haynes, cit...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
November 28, 1936: Mary Mocol, 77, just wanted to close up the grocery store and hurry home to her family and a nice bed. But the gunman had other ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
1937: Mutt and Jeff were a bit of good news for an American public brought low by the Great Depression. Their story appeared in papers around the c...
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 01:30
