KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 Pieces

Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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The Rochester Armory was built in 1915. It was better known at the home of a Minnesota National Guard machine gun company—until January 1920, when,...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Harold Cooke was born in the late 19th century, into a Rochester that has just opened the Mayo Clinic and was on the brink of becoming one of Minne...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1906, when Adolph Bach opened the Bach Music Company in Rochester, the owner’s last name must’ve given pause. Bach? Any relation to…? Britt Aamo...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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After the Civil War, Rochester became a magnet for traveling performance troupes, thanks to the city’s location along a rail line. Britt Aamodt has...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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November 1951, Donald Buske was a cook in downtown Rochester when he enlisted to fight in the Korean War. He’d get to Korea but only after the war ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Wong’s Café was opened by two brothers, Neil and Ben Wong, in 1952. But this Rochester mainstay has origins that trace back to another Wong family ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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May 25, 1977, Star Wars opened in a measly 32 theaters nationwide that day. Unbelievably, kids in Rochester, Minnesota, would have to wait and wait...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Every November 22, a man in Lake City, Minnesota, thought about 1963. He was George “Bud” Barnum who, back then, was in Washington, D.C., with the ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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The cat was out of the bag. For a year already, since 2015, documentarian Ken Burns and his crew had been quietly filming in and around Rochester. ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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October 22, 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and current UN delegate, arrived in Rochester to kick off United Nations Week. At 77, she di...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30