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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1911 – The superintendent of the School for the Feeble Minded in Faribault wanted to find out what had caused his charges to get so “defective.” In...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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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
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1868 – J. R. Watkins was headed to Ohio to marry his bride. But a stopover along the way gave him a new career as a muscle rub salesman.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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Zumbrota wanted to return its covered bridge to the Zumbro River. But it would take more money and many more years than anyone thought.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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An Illinois researcher wanted to track down the son of an indentured servant freed with the help of lawyer Abraham Lincoln in 1941. Could the son b...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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1980 – Nobel laureate and Rochester High School graduate Luis Alvarez had done money great things in his career. But now he wanted geologists to sw...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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She’s the Stone Lady, the stone cairn that has perched atop Black Hammer hill since the 19th-century. But where did she come from?

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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March 28, 1969 – Pat O’Connor, 18, had only gone pro 10 months ago. Now he was meeting the formidable middleweight Duane Horsman for a record crowd...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Philip S. Hench was a Nobel laureate with a research job at Mayo, and a passion for collecting anything having to do with the yellow fever expe...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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1966 – Jackie May and Barney Code savored the wilds near where they lived in the Cannon River Valley. They wanted to turn it into a park so it woul...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:30