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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December 1905, a crew set to work in the post-Christmas chill to hurriedly build a temporary tabernacle on an open space in Rochester. Why the fuss...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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For nine years, Phil Johnston stood in front of a map, offering the latest snow alert and heat advisory for Rochester and Olmsted County. But who c...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot is famous for the tension behind the camera. Marilyn Monroe couldn’t remember her lines. But in Minnesota...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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June 6, 1944, Chatfield native Walt Halloran was wading through the surf against a hail of German fire to Omaha Beach. His weapon? A Bell and Howel...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1940, Art Donahue, a St. Charles boy and a graduate of the flight school in Winona, drove to Canada to enlist in the British Royal Air Force. By...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1936, Dr. Erwin Strassmann didn’t plan to be in Rochester, Minnesota, on a stipend to the study at the Mayo. But going back to Berlin wasn’t an ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Blooming Prairie librarian Nancy Vaillancourt was stumped. A patron wanted to know about Steele County’s Ku Klux Klan history. Was there a history?...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Valentine’s Day 1900, Dr. Gertrude Booker Granger married her Rochester lawyer. Some assumed she’d give up the hospital whites for apron strings. T...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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April 1912, two William Mayos set sail on the Atlantic. One was a Minnesota doctor heading east on the SS Amerika. And one was a ship fireman headi...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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August 1899, Lieutenant Carl L. Stone was glad to leave the Philippines after a long, dangerous year fighting with the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Reg...

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