MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
Daily dose of Minnesota history - MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds" is a history program airing on Ampers stations in Minnesota. It is a co-production of Ampers and the Minnesota Historical Society. Made possible by funding from the Minnesota Art's and Cultural Heritage fund.
What's That Smell?
3M is famous for inventing the Post-It note. But Britt Aamodt has uncovered a 3M that gave you a scratch you just had to sniff.
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Producer: Britt Aamodt
Editorial support: Emily Krumberger
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
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Spider, Snaker, and Little Sun
In 1962, Dave "Snaker" Ray, Tony "Little Sun" Glover and "Spider" John Koerner met in the Dinkytown neighborhood near the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. They formed a trio whose musical influences ran deep into America's history, and whose influence on future musicians still runs to this day. Autumn Haeg reports how their approach to country blues would take them to the Newport Folk Festival and the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame.
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Editor: Britt Aamodt
Producer: Autumn Haeg
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Coffee Pot Water Tower
The water tower in Lindstrom Minnesota is not your average tower… and it’s not built for water either!
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Producer: Autumn Haeg
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Back to the Digital Future
At a time when most popular music is available digitally, it’s taken for granted that analog recording is a thing of the past. But few people realize that it was at Sound 80 studio in Minneapolis that the historic transition to digital recording likely first took place. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel shares that story.
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Editor: Chris Harwood
Producer: Andi McDaniel
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Warhol’s Baggage
September 1975: Andy Warhol was in Minnesota to grace a film screening, attend a party and, unofficially, to lug around empty suitcases he was supposed to be promoting. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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The Nesmith Cave Hoax
In 1866, a man digging in St. Anthony Main uncovered a trapdoor leading to a subterranean labyrinth. Or did he? Autumn Haeg looks into the Nesmith Tunnel Hoax.
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From Kapok to Cattails
The cattails you'll find in roadside ditches might not look like anything special. But as MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel discovers, in the 1940s in northern Minnesota, those reed-like plants helped the war effort and represented a good source of income for local residents who would harvest and cash in on their fluff.
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Paul Nelson: Everything Is an Afterthought
Minnesotan Paul Nelson was one of the great journalists of the golden age of rock music criticism. But by his death in 2006, he had become a recluse. Britt Aamodt tells of the story of the fan who wanted to make sure Nelson’s writing was remembered.
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First Artificial Blood Transfusion
It was November 20th, 1979, at when a 67-year-old Jehovah's Witness patient was readmitted to the university of Minnesota’s hospital after suffering severe blood loss and infection from a vascular surgery on his leg. But Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe in blood transfusions…
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Producer: Autumn Haeg
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Ordinary Philosophers Next to the Cows: The Story of Youth Work at UMN
In the 1960s and ‘70’s, the University of Minnesota took the growing interest in and concern over youth and family social work into their classrooms and the local community.
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Editor: Britt Aamodt
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Audio credit: Soundly
Audio credit: Protesting at BCPD - Reporting by Georgia Fort for Racial Reckoning (April 14, 2021)
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Dan Patch Breaks the World Record
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.
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The Notorious Northfield Raid
By the time Jesse James and his gang showed up to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, they’d been at it for over a decade. But on that fateful September day, their efforts were thwarted. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel finds out why First National Bank in Northfield was that gang’s last stand.
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Editor: Chris Harwood
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Trouble Boys
Music journalist Bob Mehr wanted to write a biography of the Replacements, the Minneapolis punk/alt-rock group that formed in a basement in 1979, recorded great songs, influenced generations of songwriters and bands but then fizzled out in just over a decade. Britt Aamodt looks at Mehr’s eight-year journey to produce Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.
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Breakfast of Champions: The Invention of Wheaties
By 1921, Minneapolis’ reign as the Flour Milling Capital of the World was coming to an end. So one enterprising flour company threw in its lot with a tasty wheat flake and the booming breakfast cereal industry.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Midwest Pioneer
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867, in Pepin County, Wisconsin. Throughout Laura's childhood, her pioneer parents moved the family seeking a better life in different parts of the country– including Minnesota. She later went on to become the famous and loved author of the “Little House” book series.
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Editor: Britt Aamodt
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Minnesota Ballad
Bessie M. Stanchfield visited St. Cloud in 1936, where she heard "The Beauty of the West" performed by Mrs. Elma Snyder McDowell. The search for a Minnesota legacy revealed the ballad's variants and how it evolved significantly as it traveled through different regions.
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Skyride
The Skyride s still running strong after 60 years. It’s no surprise that this iconic ride and way of transportation attracts over 10% of all Minnesota State Fair goers.
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Tilt-A-Whirl
The Tilt-A-Whirl, one of the most iconic and gut spinning amusement park rides, was invented by Herbert W. Sellner, an entrepreneur from Minnesota.
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Producer: Autumn Haeg
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Minnesota’s Golden Girl
August 1984, NBC was tossing around ideas for a new sitcom with a cast of older women. The senior characters were Sophia, Dorothy, Blanche and Rose. For seven seasons on The Golden Girls, Rose, played by Betty White, delighted viewers with whimsical stories from hometown St. Olaf, Minnesota. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Getting a Handle on the Paper Bag
At his grocery store in St. Paul, Walter Deubner noticed that his customers were limited in their purchases by the capacity of paper grocery sacks. Join MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel as she discovers how that simple problem led to an invention that’s familiar to all.
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Mitropoulos and Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was one of the most dramatic conductors of the 20th century. And, according to Britt Aamodt, he found one of his earliest mentors at the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary
In 1907, Eloise Butler, along with other botanists, asked for and received a portion of Minneapolis' Glenwood Park to set aside for native wildflowers. The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary became the first public native wildflower park in the nation.
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Waiting on the Beatles
In 1965, the Beatles were not granting interviews after their Minnesota concert. But intern reporter Holly Stocking needed a story — and she’d just gotten her hands on a waitress uniform for the Leamington, the hotel where the Beatles were staying. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Magnetic Shakespeare
This small collection of random words glued to magnets and stuck to refrigerators and office cubicles world wide got their start right here in Minnesota. After suffering from writers block, creator Dave Kapell cut words out of his journal and spread them out on his desk. Leftover magnets from a local pizza joint and a party at his house made gift buying history. Allison Herrera tells us about Magnetic Poetry™
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The Devil's Kettle
Devil's Kettle Falls in Judge Magney State Park is notable for more than its name. Britt Aamodt describes the geological mystery that no one has yet been able to explain.
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Marquette National Bank vs. First National of Omaha
A little-known Supreme Court case in the 1970s had a massive effect on the credit card industry as we know it. It all started with a battle over interest rates led by a bank in Minnesota.
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"Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig
Canada produces hockey players. But Robbinsdale, Minnesota, says Britt Aamodt, has a line on wrestlers, including Verne Gagne and the subject of this MN90 segment.
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Tippi and the Birds
It didn’t get any bigger than this. Tippi Hedren, Minnesotan, model, single mother, had been cast in Alfred Hitchcock’s new film. But she soon discovered working with the Master of Suspense was for the birds. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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About a Cellist
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 forgotten. But Rothfuss would try to right that wrong with her sudden inspiration: She would write Moorman’s biography. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Supermodel of the 1960's
Cathee Dahmen became a successful international model, a career that lasted until the late 1970’s. She was the first Native American on the cover of Vogue and had a role in the “Youthquake” movement of youth liberation through music, fashion and social rebellion.
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The Art Of Migration
Cy Thao wanted to tell the story of the Hmong people. Britt Aamodt finds out that he did it not with words but with paint and canvas.
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Dayton's Department Store
Since its opening in 1902, Dayton’s was a Minneapolis destination for shopping, dining and making memories. Britt Aamodt gives a brief history of the department store’s hundred-plus years on Nicollet Avenue.
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Moonshiner's Dance
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music was the acoustic bible of the 1960s folk revival. This vinyl whiz-bang offered a musical tour of the South, all except for one track. Britt Aamodt traces its origins to a small café bar on St. Paul's University Avenue in the 1920s.
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The Minnesota Seaside Station
In 1900, Josephine Tilden, a 31-year-old botany professor from the University of Minnesota, purchased three acres of remote Vancouver coastline. For a brief time, the Minnesota Seaside Station became an outdoor classroom for Midwest college students to study the varied and bizarre flora and fauna living in the windswept tidepools.
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Actors with Minnesota Accents
Beginning with the 1996 film “Fargo” and continuing in 2014 with the spin-off TV series, actors have inhabited a fictional universe centered in small-town Minnesota. Britt Aamodt looks at one of the biggest challenges those actors face: learning the Minnesota accent.
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Robert Alexander’s Russian Trilogy
R.D. Zimmerman’s fascination with Russia took root with an introductory Russian language class at Macalester College in St. Paul. Britt Aamodt examines the transformation of Zimmerman into an author, under the pen name Robert Alexander, and his Russian trilogy, beginning with the 2003 novel The Kitchen Boy.
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Mick Jagger's Prescription
Less than a month before, in May 1964, the Rolling Stones’ first LP hit American record stores. So when they rolled into Excelsior, Minnesota, there weren’t any paparazzi or screaming girls. Not much fuss at all. Britt Aamodt looks at the June night when the Stones played Danceland.
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Captain Smith and the Steamer USS America
In the early morning hours of June 7, 1928, Captain Edward E. Smith left the steamer USS America in the hands of the first mate. But his hopes for a few hours’ sleep were dashed when the mate ran the America into a hidden reef, tearing a hole in its steel hull.
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The Rocks that Came from Ancient Sea Life
There are rocks in Northern Minnesota that are older than you think. MN90 producer Britt Aamodt finds out they weren’t always rocks either.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Goes Shopping
It had never been seen before, a fully-enclosed shopping mall that sprawled over 500 acres in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. Britt Aamodt tells the story of Southdale, the mall that when it opened in 1956 became the model for a thousand imitators but left famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright feeling, "blah."
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Image: Frank Lloyd Wright visits Southdale Mall in 1956. [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society]
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