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You can still see the Blegen name around Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota's Blegen Hall was named after professor Theodore Blegen. But Britt Aamodt takes us to Asia Minor where another Blegen, Carl, carved his name on the legendary walls of Troy. [Read Transcript...]
Ignatius Donnelly was a lot of things—lieutenant governor of Minnesota, state senator, amateur scientist and gentleman farmer. But Britt Aamodt goes back to 1882 in search of the book—and its far-fetched premise—that made Donnelly an international star. [Read Transcript...]
Numbering only 31 issues, The Little Sandy Review influenced the voice and scope of music journalism. Britt Aamodt traces the folk music 'zine's roots to Dinkytown in 1961. [Read Transcript...]
He was one of the best-selling authors of the Jazz Age and a Minnesotan. Britt Aamodt goes back to 1930 when Sauk Centre native Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. [Read Transcript...]
