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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
Irish immigrants in Minnesota accounted for a significant portion of the work force employed by the booming logging industry of the late 19th century. Producer Daniel Zamzow explains how we came to have audio recordings of these workers singing their folk tunes. [Read Transcript...]
America in the 1950s was preparing for the Soviets to drop the bomb any minutes. But less than two decades later, says Britt Aamodt, Minnesota was building the first rural nuclear plant in America. [Read Transcript...]
3M invented Post-Its. And until the 1990s, says Britt Aamodt, it also produced some soothing Muzak. [Read Transcript...]
Once, Le Sueur County was covered by what was called the Big Woods. Britt Aamodt has found one of the mills that turned that forest into towns. [Read Transcript...]
