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1963 – Peter Thorkelson flunked out of Carleton College in Northfield for the second time. He’d been more interested in music and drama than his English Literature studies. What was he going to do now? He changed his name to Peter Tork and, in 1966, won an audition to play the member of a fictional … [Read Transcript...]
1993 – Minneapolis producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had given Janet Jackson her first platinum albums. Now they were going back in the studio with Janet and her superstar brother Michael for the siblings’ first-ever duet, “Scream.” Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
In 2001, Walker Art Center curator Joan Rothfuss had a light bulb moment. Not about a visual artist. But about an experimental cellist, Charlotte Moorman, now mostly forgotten. But Rothfuss would try to right that wrong with her sudden inspiration: She would write Moorman’s biography. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
In 1922, Ralph Samuelson steamed the ends of two 8-foot boards, strapped them to his feet, and water skiing was born. But it was 40 years until anyone noticed. Find out how the inventor of water skiing was discovered after a lifetime of anonymity. [Read Transcript...]
