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MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds a fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.
MN90 is fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.

MN90: Roy Wilkins, the Civil Rights Act and LBJ

Roy Wilkins earned his professional chops as a Twin Cities journalist. But it was as an activist and director of the NAACP, says producer Britt Aamodt, that Wilkins helped change history with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

MN90: The Time Robert Bly Rejected Charles Bukowski’s Poetry Submission

Robert Bly was a poet of the Minnesota prairie. Charles Bukowski was a poet of Los Angeles barrooms and hard luck despair. Britt Aamodt talks about the literary magazine and the letter that brought the poets together.

MN90: Johnny Cash: From a Minneapolis Hotel Room to an American Rebirth

In a Minneapolis hotel room in 1990, Johnny Cash lamented the decline of his career. Britt Aamodt looks at how the music legend rose from the ashes to produce one of the best albums of his career and, three years later, attract a young hip audience to Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theater.

MN90: Gregory Corso’s Last Reading

Gregory Corso was a beat poet. He’d been born in New York and made his literary reputation. But, says Britt Aamodt, Corso’s last reading was recorded in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, in January 2001, just days before his death.

MN90: Tony Glover Plays Harmonica with the Doors

Tony Glover played harmonica with the trio Koerner, Ray and Glover, formed in Minneapolis during the early ‘60s folk boom. But in the late ‘60s, LA rock band The Doors were one of the biggest acts in the world. Britt Aamodt tells the story of the harmonica player and the Lizard King came together on stage in Minneapolis.

MN90: The Carlton Celebrity Room

The Carlton Celebrity Room was featured in the film Fargo. But Britt Aamodt tells us this dinner club was more than a piece of Coen Brothers fiction.

MN90: Mary Gibbs: Defender of Itasca’s Pine Forests

Mary Gibbs was the only female park superintendent in the nation when took over the position at Itasca State Park. She was also only 24 when she stood up to one of the most powerful industries in Minnesota, Britt Aamodt tells us.

MN90: 75 Years after Pearl Harbor, Sailors Come Home

Dec. 7, 1941, the USS Oklahoma capsized in Pearl Harbor. Two Minnesota sailors died on the ship. Their bodies were never identified until, says Britt Aamodt, the Navy brought in a forensic genealogist over a half-century later.

MN90: Spring Peeper Frogs

Minnesota has 14 species of frogs and toads. Britt Aamodt has a story about that amphibian harbinger of spring, the spring peeper.

MN90: Theodore Wirth and the Rise of the Gray Squirrel

How did Minneapolis’ Loring Park get so many gray squirrels? Britt Aamodt follows the trail to former park superintendent Theodore Wirth.

MN90: Andrew Towne and the Quest of Seven Summits

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.

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