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.
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.
Aaron Copland was one of the most successful composers to ever call himself an American. Yet in 1934, he had more than music on his mind, says producer Britt Aamodt, when he spent a summer in Red Minnesota.
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.
John Deutschendorf changed his last name to Denver after the capital of his favorite state. But Britt Aamodt tells us that the singer-songwriter found another kind of love in Minnesota.
Hard-hitting fiction writers and bars go hand-in-hand. Hemingway knew his way around a whiskey and soda. However, Britt Aamodt introduces us to a resident Minnesota writer who penned his hits behind bars.
The Huntleys were a vaudeville couple until they moved to southern Minnesota and bought a movie camera. Britt Aamodt plays out the brief history of Winona’s king and queen of silent film.
Every year around Christmas, Minnesotans tug on boots and gloves and rove the cold outdoors. Britt Aamodt says you won’t find them signing carols but tracking another kind of songster.
Today, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts in Fridley sees a lot of foot traffic: painters, poets, essayists and ceramists. But back in the late 19th-century, Britt Aamodt tells us, its floorboards rang with the heavy tread of fur traders and frontier merchants.
