Rochester Arts in 90 Seconds
Series produced by KRPR
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Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area
Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area
Made possible by the MN Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
32 Pieces
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November 1944 – Kindergarten teacher Nellie Gilberson told Rochester police she hadn’t done it. Still, they took her to the morgue to “cleanse her ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
In 1861, Charles Cornell bought land in Owatonna along the Straight River. He built a house. And he built a shop to create some of the town’s first...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
DeWolf Hopper was at New Ulm’s Turner Hall to stage his operetta Wang. But, of course, he couldn’t leave town without reciting the baseball poem he...
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- Length: 01:30
Mabel Ulrich was new at the Minneapolis book trade. But a group of doctor’s wives asked her to please open a branch of Mabel Ulrich’s Book and Prin...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Faribault was the Peony capital of the world. So, of course, the town needed its own annual peony fest.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead was rarely upstaged. But how could she compete with the Armistice Day Blizzard?
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- Length: 01:30
Marlon Brando was born to break rules. And now he’d broken one to many at Faribault’s Shattuck Military Academy and the school was going to kick hi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Teresa Lucero was in Winona to go to school. But the audience at her talk for the Who’s New Club had gathered to hear about how she’d survived the ...
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- Length: 01:30
Emil Liers had been living with otters in his house since the 1920s. So he had lots of stories to draw from when he published his first book, An Ot...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Rochester’s first TV station, KROC, had only been on the air for a few months. Now the state’s first ever TV station, KSTP, was accusing it of stea...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Dr. John Samuel Lucas was giving a talk on the history of jazz to Winona’s Portia Club. And it just so happened that he’d been a part of Minnesota’...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
It was August 1964 and the hottest band in the world, the Beatles, had yet to give a concert in Minnesota. But Rochester kids at least had the oppo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Luis Alvarez, 1928 graduate of Rochester High School, and his students at Berkeley had been given the task of using physics and the images from the...
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- Length: 01:30
The Minneapolis Institute of Art wanted to find out more about its mummy, Lady Tashat. So it brought her to Mayo for an NMR scan.
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- Length: 01:30
Gao Hong had gone to Carleton College to manage recitals and guest artists. But students were interested in the pipa, the Chinese instrument she’d ...
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- Length: 01:30
Before Red Wing was a byword for pottery, there was John Paul, a German immigrant who couldn’t help noticing the fine clay deposits on his farm.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Clarence Kinne had a little photography studio in Winona. But in the Great War, he was a soldier first and a photographer only when the Army said so.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Willa Cather was in Rochester to have her arthritis looked at by Mayo doctors. But it didn’t mean she didn’t have time for tea with a couple of the...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
