MN90: Party Line Days
Back in 1950, three-quarters of American households had party line telephones. That was even more true in rural Minnesota. Britt Aamodt looks at life with a party line. [Read Transcript...]
Technology
MN90: The Dawn of the Telephone Age
Alexander Graham Bell rang in America’s centenary in 1876 with his new invention, the telephone. Britt Aamodt looks at how the telephone arrived in Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
Minnesota Native News: Ogichidaa Robotics Competes
This week on Minnesota Native News, the robotics team from White Earth’s Circle of Life Academy takes their robot to compete in the regional tournament in Minneapolis. Reporter Melissa Townsend brings us the story. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: Pixar’s Minneapolis Debut
Before Pixar was one of the top animation firms in the world, it was a subsidiary of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Ltd. Britt Aamodt tells us how, in 1984, the fledgling company made their animation short debut in Minneapolis. [Read Transcript...]