MN90: A Billion-Year-Old Drink of Water
Soudan is recognized as Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine. Britt Aamodt travels underground where something far, far older has collected in an abandoned drill hole. [Read Transcript...]
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MN90: Grand Master of Science Fiction
To readers of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Clifford D. Simak was a stellar science editor. But outside the office, he was a Grand Master of Science Fiction. Britt Aamodt remembers the author of the sci-fi classics “Way Station” and “City”. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: The Ancient Brines of Minnesota’s Oldest Mine
Soudan is recognized as Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine. Britt Aamodt travels underground where something far, far older has collected in an abandoned drill hole. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: Moonshiner’s Dance
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music was the acoustic bible of the 1960s folk revival. This vinyl whiz-bang offered a musical tour of the South, all except for one track. Britt Aamodt traces its origins to a small café bar on St. Paul's University Avenue in the 1920s. [Read Transcript...]