Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities

Leonard Nimoy created an iconic character for Star Trek in Spock. Britt Aamodt tells us about another of Nimoy’s iconic roles produced with the help of a Minnesota theater.

In Marshall, the Schwan family used their dairy farm to create a small ice cream business. But it was son Marvin who churned their signature ice cream, says Britt Aamodt, into one of the nation’s largest home delivery services.

America in the 1950s was preparing for the Soviets to drop the bomb any minutes. But less than two decades later, says Britt Aamodt, Minnesota was building the first rural nuclear plant in America.

Gretchen Carlson was brought up to believe she could do anything. In 2016, that was tested, says Britt Aamodt, when the former Miss America had to stand up against sexual harassment from one of the most powerful men in television.

In the 1970s, Minnesota farmers were shocked to find electrical crews in their fields putting up power lines. Britt Aamodt relates the story of the grassroots organizer who helped the farmers protest the construction, and along the way learned valuable lessons he later took to Washington, D.C.