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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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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. [Read Transcript...]
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. [Read Transcript...]
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. [Read Transcript...]
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. [Read Transcript...]
