KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 Pieces

Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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June 1939 – Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees first baseman, had come to Mayo because his body was failing. But in between a batter of tests, the Ir...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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November 16, 1936, was the day Eyota’s Farmers State Bank celebrated its 23rd anniversary. And the day its assistant casher Elizabeth Steichen foun...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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1934 – Loggers wanted to clear cut one of the last vestiges of the Big Woods that once covered a swath of Southern Minnesota. Opponents would organ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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1992 – Harvey Ronglien had spent his childhood at the State Public School in Owatonna. Now he was creating a museum to remember the 20,000 orphans ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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January 17, 1925 – Frank B. Kellogg’s former colleagues in the US Senate called him a nervous Nellie. But now the man who’d grown up on a farm in V...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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January 17, 1925 – Frank B. Kellogg’s former colleagues in the US Senate called him a nervous Nellie. But now the man who’d grown up on a farm in V...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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July 6, 1922 – Dr. Will Mayo loved boats. But now he was launching a true pleasure craft, the North Star, with mahogany, brass fitting and a French...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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1919 –Mazeppa raised a flagpole. It was to remember the first hometown boy lost to the Great War, Yale H. Squire.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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August 1917 – There were two Augusts—Ruther and Fisk—living on the farm outside Dundas. But one of them would be dead by the end of that long hot w...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
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August 29, 1914 – The Rochester Hustlers had lost game one. They had hopes to run away with game two. But then the visiting Providence Grays put in...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30