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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…]
A little-known Supreme Court case in the 1970s had a massive effect on the credit card industry as we know it. It all started with a battle over interest rates led by a bank in Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
Cathee Dahmen became a successful international model, a career that lasted until the late 1970’s. She was the first Native American on the cover of Vogue and had a role in the “Youthquake” movement of youth liberation through music, fashion and social rebellion. [Read Transcript...]
In 1900, Josephine Tilden, a 31-year-old botany professor from the University of Minnesota, purchased three acres of remote Vancouver coastline. For a brief time, the Minnesota Seaside Station became an outdoor classroom for Midwest college students to study the varied and bizarre flora and fauna living in the windswept tidepools. [Read Transcript...]
In the early morning hours of June 7, 1928, Captain Edward E. Smith left the steamer USS America in the hands of the first mate. But his hopes for a few hours’ sleep were dashed when the mate ran the America into a hidden reef, tearing a hole in its steel hull. [Read Transcript...]
