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The accordion was a gift that kept on giving for Leonard “Skeets” Langley, who as a young adult, was crowned champion at the 1963 World Accordion Championships in Germany. Producer Daniel Zamzow sheds light on how Skeets chose to give back to Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
In the mid-1960s, Minnesota was wrapped up in “Beatle Mania” just like the rest of the nation. As Daniel Zamzow explains, their 1965 show in Bloomington was not the last time The Beatles would make an impact on our state. [Read Transcript...]
Joan Kroc was playing the organ at a Twin Cities restaurant when she met her future husband, McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc. That chance meeting would eventually lead the West St. Paul native, says Britt Aamodt, to a life devoted to philanthropy. [Read Transcript...]
Three Minnesota guys wanted to find a fun way to teach history. Britt Aamodt tells us how they did it with Conestoga wagons and bouts of dysentery. [Read Transcript...]
