Britt Aamodt
- Username: brittaamodt
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Britt Aamodt
Briana Scurry’s Gold Medals
(01:30)
From: Ampers
Briana Scurry was a legendary soccer player, a World Cup Champion and two-time Olympian. But what was she supposed to do after a concussion sidelined her career forever?
The Arsonist and the Bible
(01:30)
From: Ampers
There was an arsonist loose in Minneapolis. Luckily, he wrote his letter, threatening to burn the city, on a page torn from a book that could be traced.
The Northwestern National Life Insurance Architect
(01:30)
From: Ampers
Northwestern National Life Insurance had outgrown its building in Minneapolis. So it tapped Minoru Yamasaki, a Detroit architect and designer of the World Trade Center ...
Dan Patch Breaks the World Record
(01:30)
From: Ampers
Dan Patch was the greatest athlete in the country. Now the standardbred horse was going to make it official by breaking the world record for harness racing.
MN90: Mother Bootlegger
(01:30)
From: Ampers
Kate Champa just wanted to feed her ten kids and keep a roof over their heads. But the law had a problem with how she was doing it: making bootleg whiskey from a still buried ...
MN90: The Maidens and the Cult Leader
(01:30)
From: Ampers
Victor Barnard was not only a religious leader but Jesus in the flesh. That’s what he told his followers in rural Pine County. Now he wanted them to offer up their first-born ...
Mn90: Hey, Hey, He’s a Monkee
(01:30)
From: Ampers
1963 – Peter Thorkelson flunked out of Carleton College in Northfield for the second time. He’d been more interested in music and drama than his English Literature studies. ...
MN90: Jam and Lewis Scream
(01:30)
From: Ampers
1993 – Minneapolis producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had given Janet Jackson her first platinum albums. Now they were going back in the studio with Janet and her superstar ...
MN90: About a Cellist
(01:30)
From: Ampers
In 2001, Walker Art Center curator Joan Rothfuss had a light bulb moment. Not about a visual artist. But about an experimental cellist, Charlotte Moorman, now mostly ...
