MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds

In 1937, Helen Keller was a world-famous author and an inspiration to millions with her story of overcoming the odds after losing sight and hearing as a child. She didn’t let much slow her down. But now she had a bum gall bladder. Britt Aamodt has the story of Helen Keller’s visit to the Mayo.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Andrew Towne was living and working in the Twin Cities when he decided to climb a mountain. Not just any mountain, Mt. Everest. With the climb, Towne not only survived Everest but, says Britt Aamodt, but joined the Seven Summits club.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Kolacky Days in Montgomery, Minnesota, is a long-standing annual event that was established over 90 years ago. The festival stood to celebrate the kolacky, a Czech pastry with various fillings such as prune, poppyseed, and blueberry.-----Producer: Autumn HaegEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

On March 3, 1991, an oil pipeline near Grand Rapids burst, spilling 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River – that's roughly 2.5 Olympic swimming pools worth of oil. It remains the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history.-----Producer: Julie CensulloEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Mark Twain was born in Missouri, lived in Connecticut and traveled the world in 1895. One stop that year was Duluth, where the literary star's one-man show got less than stellar reviews.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

The first Minneapolis Aquatennial took place July 1940 with a goal of boosting the city's profile and gaining visitors by organizing a series of events, including parades, performances, and competitions.-----Producer: Autumn HaegEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

One day stands out amidst the general strike of 1934 filled with Police brutality and lives lost. -----Producer: Autumn HaegEditor: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Donaldson's, an iconic department store chain, was established by Scottish immigrant, William Donaldson in 1881 with a small store at 310 Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.-----Producer: Autumn HaegEditor: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage:  Donaldson's Glass Block, ca. 1920 [credit: Charles P. Gibson, Minnesota Historical Society Collection]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

If you wanted a piece of the good life in the 1950s, you moved your family to the suburbs. While development of the suburbs may not seem all that long ago, MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports that some historians are already documenting the history of suburban communities in Anoka and Hennepin counties. -----Producer: Marisa HelmsEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

It isn’t a Minnesota summer with the sound of a loon coming off the lake. Producer Britt Aamodt wonders what are all those sounds the loon makes and what do they mean?-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Loon Postcard, ca. 1980  [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Askov, Minnesota hosts their annual Rutabaga Festival on the fourth weekend of every August. Music, festivities, and weird foods are tradition in this small town. But why the turnip adjacent root vegetable? Autumn Haeg tells us about this historic and earthy event. -----Producer: Autumn HaegEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum, also known as "the icebox" or "the cribs," is an intriguing structure located just off the shoreline in Duluth's Canal Park. Constructed in 1919, it has sparked numerous theories about its purpose over the years.-----Producer: Autumn HaegEditor: Chris HarwoodEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Everybody knows that before First Ave was an iconic live music venue it was a Greyhound bus station. But fewer know the history of the in-between years. Britt Aamodt turns back to the early 1970s when First Ave was Uncle Sam’s and the dance beat was disco.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: A concert bill for Sam’s Danceteria (forerunner to the First Avenue concert venue), November 1, 1981. [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

The 1976 film Logan’s Run posited a utopian city under a dome. But that science fiction nearly became reality in Northern Minnesota. Producer Britt Aamodt tells the story of visionary Athelstan Spilhaus and his domed city.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

There have been many candy bars that have come and gone throughout the years, but one of the most intriguing was the seven up bar. What makes this candy bar so special? -----Producer: Autumn HaegEditor: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage:  Pearson's Candy Company, St. Paul, 1970. [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

For two weeks in July, 1936 Minnesotans baked, sweated and wilted. Nine hundred died.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: People sleeping outdoors during a heat wave, St. Paul, July 1936.  [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society] -----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Fall 1974, Eileen Hudon went to Women’s Advocates because she needed to escape an abusive husband. But her encounter with the domestic violence shelter, the first in the nation, also opened the door to her life’s calling as an advocate for survivors, particular Native women, of domestic violence and sexual assault.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

For decades, the Eveleth Clown Band has represented a vibrant tradition on the Minnesota iron range that promotes community spirit, generational connections, and joyful performances. -----Producer: Autumn HaegEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

In 1922, Ralph Samuelson steamed the ends of two 8-foot boards, strapped them to his feet, and water skiing was born. But it was 40 years until anyone noticed. Find out how the inventor of water skiing was discovered after a lifetime of anonymity.-----Producer: Andi McDanielEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund 

What's stronger: nature or nurture? Britt Aamodt sheds light on a Minnesota study that tried to answer that question.-----Producer: Britt Aamodt Editorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Twins at 1984 Democratic Convention. [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund   

October 1880 – Leon Belmont dressed for the brisk weather, slouch hat and men’s overcoat. But Minneapolis took exception to this young man, who it was claimed was a really a woman in men’s clothes. Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Leon Belmont [credit: Courtesy of Skaffaren och Minnesota Stats Tidning (19th-century Minneapolis Swedish newspaper)].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

For those in search of a unique hiking experience, Magnetic Rock Trail promises a journey off the beaten path, where the rewards are as extraordinary as the trail itself.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: A trail in Grand Marais, 1974 [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Ojibwe Chief Hole in the Day the Younger (1827-1868) signed almost every land cession treaty between the Minnesota Ojibwe and the U.S. government. MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports that while the Chief was a controversial figure, he was also a very smart and effective negotiator. Still, the Chief had many enemies. On June 27, 1868, as he was traveling to Washington, D.C. to fight the removal of his people to a reservation at White Earth. Hole in the Day was assassinated by Ojibwe men from Leech Lake just a few miles from his home in Crow Wing. -----Producer: Marisa HelmsEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Actor James Wong grew up in Minneapolis, braving snow drifts and subzero cold. But nothing could prepare him for the Los Angeles meat locker that stood in for his character Dr. Chew’s laboratory while filming Blade Runner in 1981. Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: -----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Summer 2018, Jared Yost just finished mowing a lawn when he heard the sounds of an animal in distress. A kitten, or so he thought. Britt Aamodt has the story of Yost’s encounter with one of Minnesota’s wild feline species, the bobcat.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwoodimage: A bobcat [credit: Public domain – found on Wikipedia].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Hope Jahren always felt at home in her father's science lab in southern Minnesota. Decades on, Britt Aamodt tells us, the geobotanist has distilled the lessons learned from a life in science in a celebrated memoir.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Chemistry laboratory, 1907 [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

On July 3, 1863, on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Private Marshall Sherman of St. Paul stole something from the Confederate enemy that they wanted back, badly—the battle flag of the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Marshall Sherman poses in front of the 28th Virginia battle flag [credit: Public domain. Found on Wikipedia].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Eliza Winston was supposed to be free. But her husband died before he could pay off Richard Christmas, her owner. Britt Aamodt looks at how a trip to St. Anthony, Minnesota, in 1860, helped Eliza Winston of Mississippi plan her escape from slavery.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: St. Anthony Falls, 1863 [Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

1996 – Hollywood director Tim Burton fell in love with Topps trading card images created by two Minnesota artists thirty years before. But would audiences fall in love with Burton’s new film, Mars Attacks!, based on those cards? Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Mars Attacks! Topps trading card [credit: In public domain: Mars Attacks! Topps trading card copyright not renewed].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

June 1930: Eric Sevareid and Walter Port celebrated the graduation from high school, not with a party but with a canoe and a more than 2,000-mile river trip through Canada. Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Canoe trip in Boundary Waters, 1916 [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund 

Learn about The Way Community Center, a historic non-for profit organization that fostered and incubated some of Minneapolis's influential organizers and artists.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Eemanna RiversEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: A photo of the 1966 original building off Plymouth Ave in North Minneapolis. [credit: Minnesota Historical Society]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Totten “Tot” Heffelfinger was an amateur golfer who worried that Minnesota’s golf courses were becoming too small and cramped for a new era of hard-hitting pro golfers. What was needed was a bigger, better course. Britt Aamodt investigates the origins of Hazeltine National Golf Club.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Minneapolis golf club fairway St. Louis Park, 1954 [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Mary Welsh was not only Ernest Hemingway’s fourth (and last) wife but also his literary executor. But critics sniffed at the idea of this lumberman’s daughter from Bemidji editing her great husband’s memoir A Moveable Feast.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Mary Welsh as war correspondent in World War II (1943) [credit: Public domain. Found on Wikipedia.]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

The William Marvy Company in St. Paul, Minnesota,is the last remaining manufacturer of commercial barber poles in North America. Here’s Autumn Haeg.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Autumn Haeg.Editorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: Barber shop interior, 1935 [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

In 1945, the crew of the USS Duluth were stationed outside Tokyo when they discovered the abandoned 17th-century temple bell later to be called the Ohara Peace Bell.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: The USS Duluth in 1944 [credit: Public Domain – found on Wikipedia]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund 

They have pink noses, small black ears and fleshy finger-like claws. What are they? Britt Aamodt introduces us to Minnesota’s only marsupial, the opossum.-----Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: An opossum [credit:  Public domain from Wikipedia]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

The radar equipment had been used in World War II to train pilots. But a University of Minnesota researcher discovered it could also be used to detect cancer. Britt Aamodt follows the story of Dr. John Wild, pioneer of ultrasound.

In 1972, Minnesota’s Westgate Theater hit on a novel idea to compete with the large multiplex theaters being built. Play the same film, and only that film: Harold and Maude, a dark comedy that had bombed in its initial theatrical release. Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Producer: Britt Aamodt Editorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood Image: Ruth Gordon acted in the film Harold and Maude [credit;  Public domain from Wikipedia]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

The 1863 and 1864 Old Crossing Treaty separated the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Ojibwe from their lands along the Red River Valley.-----Editor: Britt Aamodt Producer: Deanna StandingCloudEditorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood Image: Red Lake and Pembina lands included in Old Crossing Treaty [credit: public domain – found on Wikipedia]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

The one million acres of land and water bordering Minnesota and Canada called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, or BWCA, began to be set aside for preservation purposes in 1902. And since then, further regulations have brought more restrictions, drawing the ire of industrialists and others who advocate for development, motorized traffic, and other uses of the area. MN90 producer Marisa Helms tells us that each year, more than 200,000 people visit the Boundary Waters, and while controversy continues to this day, the BWCA has become one of the largest protected wilderness areas in the United States.-----Producer: Marisa Helms Editorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood Image: An early trip to what is now the Bondary Water Canoe Area, ca. 1916 [credit: Minnesota Historical Society (public domain)]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

A Minnesota construction crew was working on expanding US highway 59 through pelican rapids The crew was digging about 20 feet down when suddenly, they unearthed skeletal remains beneath layers of glacial and alluvial deposits.

Alonzo J. Whiteman, aka, AJ Whiteman, aka the Penman, was a Minnesota legislator from Duluth. By the time he died in 1922, he was wanted in 40 cities with 43 arrests and 11 convictions to his name. Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Producer: Britt Aamodt Editorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood Image: Grand Opera House in Duluth (1910) [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Mike Moh was a kid from Woodbury, Minnesota, who could act and do martial arts. And now, in 2018, Quentin Tarantino wanted to test him for his new film, in which Moh would portray a really famous dead guy who also did martial arts. Here’s Britt Aamodt.-----Editor: Britt Aamodt Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood -----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Elvira Coronado wanted to open a restaurant. But in 1946, St. Paul, let alone most of the United States outside the Southwest, was unfamiliar with Mexican cooking.-----Editor: Britt Aamodt Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood Image: Vera Coronado in 1965 [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society].-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Muslims in Minnesota come from diverse cultural backgrounds. The majority of the approximately 150,000 Muslims in the state are from African and Arab countries and the Indian subcontinent. MN90 producer Marisa Helms discovers that no matter where followers of Islam immigrated from, they are all united by their faith, and the celebration of the Islamic holiday Eid Al-Adha, the festival of Abraham.-----Producer: Marisa HelmsMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

In 1924, Minnesota entomologist Marshall Hertig and a colleague discovered a bacteria residing in mosquitoes. He called it Wolbachia. Britt Aamodt has the story on the bacteria that can change the sex of insects and may hold the key to stemming mosquito-borne viruses.-----Editor: Britt Aamodt Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood -----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Minnesotan Erwin Hensch was among the crew of the USS Indianapolis, which July 1945, would deliver the bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima to the island of Tinian. But Britt Aamodt tells us what came after, a disaster that placed Hensch in the center of the one of the most harrowing stories of WWII survival at sea.-----Editor: Britt Aamodt Producer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily Krumberger Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood -----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Lex Porter was Ojibwe. He enlisted in World War II. He had a secret, and his family only found out when he received a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris Harwood-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/  This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

In 1941, the U.S. Military had an assignment for Ancel Keys, University of Minnesota physiologist: Create a combat ration that packs a caloric punch yet fits in a pocket. Britt Aamodt has the story behind World War II’s K-ration.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Britt AamodtEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage:  90the Infantry Division during World War II receiving K-rations [credit:  Public domain via Wikipedia]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund

Learn about AIM and The Indigenous Protectors and other contributors to Minnesota’s long history of community-led protection efforts.-----Editor: Britt AamodtProducer: Eemanna RiversEditorial support: Emily KrumbergerMixing & mastering: Chris HarwoodImage: AIM news conference, 1971, with U.S. Senator Walter Mondale [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]-----For the latest episode drops and updates, follow us on social media. instagram.com/ampersradio/Facebook.com/MN90AmpersNever miss a beat. Sign up for our email list to receive news, updates and content releases from AMPERS. ampers.org/about-ampers/staytuned/ This show is made possible by community support. Due to cuts in federal funding, the community radio you love is at risk. Your support is needed now more than ever. Donate now to power the community programs you love: ampers.org/fund