Rochester Arts in 90 Seconds
Series produced by KRPR
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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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
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
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 ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- 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
Film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead was rarely upstaged. But how could she compete with the Armistice Day Blizzard?
- 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
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: 03:00
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
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...
- 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
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