Rochester Arts in 90 Seconds
Series produced by KRPR
PRX default Series image
Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area
Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area
Made possible by the MN Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
32 Pieces
Order by:
Newest First |
Oldest First
Soojin Lee moved to Rochester for the same reason a lot of people do—because of the Mayo Clinic. Her husband got a job there. But she brought her K...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Hollywood stars had come through Rochester International Airport. But today, the airport itself was the star, or at least the setting, for the crew...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Virginia was a waitress. Gordon was a retired Rochester cop. Together, they collected old furniture—including 1,500 chairs—and ran Granny’s Antique...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Alistair Cooke was better known as the host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater. But he was in Rochester today with a film crew to tell the history of Ame...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
It was Bob Dylan’s last day in the recording studio for his second album. That’s when he pulled out a new song he’d been toying with, “Walls of Red...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Nell Mabey loved her Irish water spaniel Whimpie and life at her sister’s estate Bramble Haw. So she’d combined the two in her new book of poetry, ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Dr. Philiip Hench was a member of the Norwegian Explorers, Minnesota’s very own Sherlock Holmes club. And now his group wanted to commemorate the w...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
John Chuchik had two things he wanted to do: Walk all 896 stairs of the Washington Monument and win the National Spelling Bee.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
James FitzPatrick was a famous documentary filmmaker known as the Voice of the Globe. Now he was in Rochester with his film crew.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
The Red Cross needed money during World War II. That’s when Ft. Snelling sent its soldiers to Winona, to perform their skit, GI Joe, as a fundraiser.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Two hulking record players arrived at the Winona Library in 1936. They were special players with braille knobs that could be borrowed by blind or v...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Lucy Wilder had options. Did she want to start a sheep farm or a bookstore?
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Willa Cather was in Rochester to have her arthritis looked at by Mayo doctors. But it didn’t mean she didn’t have time for tea with a couple of the...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Clarence Kinne had a little photography studio in Winona. But in the Great War, he was a soldier first and a photographer only when the Army said so.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Before Red Wing was a byword for pottery, there was John Paul, a German immigrant who couldn’t help noticing the fine clay deposits on his farm.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Gao Hong had gone to Carleton College to manage recitals and guest artists. But students were interested in the pipa, the Chinese instrument she’d ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
The Minneapolis Institute of Art wanted to find out more about its mummy, Lady Tashat. So it brought her to Mayo for an NMR scan.
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Luis Alvarez, 1928 graduate of Rochester High School, and his students at Berkeley had been given the task of using physics and the images from the...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
It was August 1964 and the hottest band in the world, the Beatles, had yet to give a concert in Minnesota. But Rochester kids at least had the oppo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
Dr. John Samuel Lucas was giving a talk on the history of jazz to Winona’s Portia Club. And it just so happened that he’d been a part of Minnesota’...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 01:30
