Kolacky Days in Montgomery, Minnesota, is a long-standing annual event that was established over 90 years ago. The festival stood to celebrate the kolacky, a Czech pastry with various fillings such as prune, poppyseed, and blueberry.

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Producer: Autumn Haeg
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On March 3, 1991, an oil pipeline near Grand Rapids burst, spilling 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River – that's roughly 2.5 Olympic swimming pools worth of oil. It remains the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history.

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Producer: Julie Censullo
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Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood

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Mark Twain was born in Missouri, lived in Connecticut and traveled the world in 1895. One stop that year was Duluth, where the literary star's one-man show got less than stellar reviews.

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Producer: Britt Aamodt
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The first Minneapolis Aquatennial took place July 1940 with a goal of boosting the city's profile and gaining visitors by organizing a series of events, including parades, performances, and competitions.

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Producer: Autumn Haeg

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One day stands out amidst the general strike of 1934 filled with Police brutality and lives lost. 

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Producer: Autumn Haeg

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Donaldson's, an iconic department store chain, was established by Scottish immigrant, William Donaldson in 1881 with a small store at 310 Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Producer: Autumn Haeg
Editor: Britt Aamodt
Editorial support: Emily Krumberger
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Image:  Donaldson's Glass Block, ca. 1920 [credit: Charles P. Gibson, Minnesota Historical Society Collection]

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If you wanted a piece of the good life in the 1950s, you moved your family to the suburbs. While development of the suburbs may not seem all that long ago, MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports that some historians are already documenting the history of suburban communities in Anoka and Hennepin counties. 

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Producer: Marisa Helms

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It isn’t a Minnesota summer with the sound of a loon coming off the lake. Producer Britt Aamodt wonders what are all those sounds the loon makes and what do they mean?

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Producer: Britt Aamodt

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Image: Loon Postcard, ca. 1980  [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]

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Askov, Minnesota hosts their annual Rutabaga Festival on the fourth weekend of every August. Music, festivities, and weird foods are tradition in this small town. But why the turnip adjacent root vegetable? Autumn Haeg tells us about this historic and earthy event.
 

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Producer: Autumn Haeg
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Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum, also known as "the icebox" or "the cribs," is an intriguing structure located just off the shoreline in Duluth's Canal Park. Constructed in 1919, it has sparked numerous theories about its purpose over the years.

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Producer: Autumn Haeg

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