Mary Welsh was not only Ernest Hemingway’s fourth (and last) wife but also his literary executor. But critics sniffed at the idea of this lumberman’s daughter from Bemidji editing her great husband’s memoir A Moveable Feast.

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Producer: Britt Aamodt

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Mary Welsh as war correspondent in World War II (1943) [credit: Public domain. Found on Wikipedia.]

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The William Marvy Company in St. Paul, Minnesota,is the last remaining manufacturer of commercial barber poles in North America. Here’s Autumn Haeg.

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Editor: Britt Aamodt
Producer: Autumn Haeg.
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Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Barber shop interior, 1935 [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society]

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In 1945, the crew of the USS Duluth were stationed outside Tokyo when they discovered the abandoned 17th-century temple bell later to be called the Ohara Peace Bell.

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Editor: Britt Aamodt

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Image: The USS Duluth in 1944 [credit: Public Domain – found on Wikipedia]

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They have pink noses, small black ears and fleshy finger-like claws. What are they? Britt Aamodt introduces us to Minnesota’s only marsupial, the opossum.

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Image: An opossum [credit:  Public domain from Wikipedia]
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The radar equipment had been used in World War II to train pilots. But a University of Minnesota researcher discovered it could also be used to detect cancer. Britt Aamodt follows the story of Dr. John Wild, pioneer of ultrasound.

In 1972, Minnesota’s Westgate Theater hit on a novel idea to compete with the large multiplex theaters being built. Play the same film, and only that film: Harold and Maude, a dark comedy that had bombed in its initial theatrical release. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

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Image: Ruth Gordon acted in the film Harold and Maude [credit;  Public domain from Wikipedia]

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The 1863 and 1864 Old Crossing Treaty separated the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Ojibwe from their lands along the Red River Valley.

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Editor: Britt Aamodt 

Producer: Deanna StandingCloud

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Image: Red Lake and Pembina lands included in Old Crossing Treaty [credit: public domain – found on Wikipedia]

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The one million acres of land and water bordering Minnesota and Canada called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, or BWCA, began to be set aside for preservation purposes in 1902. And since then, further regulations have brought more restrictions, drawing the ire of industrialists and others who advocate for development, motorized traffic, and other uses of the area. MN90 producer Marisa Helms tells us that each year, more than 200,000 people visit the Boundary Waters, and while controversy continues to this day, the BWCA has become one of the largest protected wilderness areas in the United States.
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Producer: Marisa Helms 

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Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood 
Image: An early trip to what is now the Bondary Water Canoe Area, ca. 1916 [credit: Minnesota Historical Society (public domain)]

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A Minnesota construction crew was working on expanding US highway 59 through pelican rapids The crew was digging about 20 feet down when suddenly, they unearthed skeletal remains beneath layers of glacial and alluvial deposits.

Alonzo J. Whiteman, aka, AJ Whiteman, aka the Penman, was a Minnesota legislator from Duluth. By the time he died in 1922, he was wanted in 40 cities with 43 arrests and 11 convictions to his name. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

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Image: Grand Opera House in Duluth (1910) [credit: Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society]
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