MN90: Sally Forth
What do you call a lawyer who quits his job? Britt Aamodt learns that Greg Howard called it an opportunity from which he developed one of the nation's most successful comic strips. [Read Transcript...]
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Dr. Demento in Dinkytown
In the late 1950s, Barry Hansen was just another Minnesota kid attending Dinkytown's U High School. But he was a kid with a passion for records, which, Britt Aamodt tells us, transformed the collector into the Demento of the Dr. Demento Radio Show. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: The Socialist Opera House
Finnish immigrants came to Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range to take jobs in the mines. Because working conditions were brutal, many went on strike 1916. The action cost them their jobs and the strikers were blacklisted. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about a special meeting place that elevated the community. [Read Transcript...]