1975 – St. Paul composer and lyricist Dave Frishberg was known for hits like "I’m Hip" and "Peel Me a Grape." Now he was being asking to write a song for a cartoon music video series, Schoolhouse Rock. And could he make the lyrics about a bill becoming a law? Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Editor: Britt Aamodt 

Producer: Britt Aamodt

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger 

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood 
Image: Schoolhouse, ca 1913 [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society]

Audio credit: Dave Frishberg, "I'm Hip" from Dave Frishberg Classics

Bob Dorough and Friends, "Schoolhouse Rocky" (Schoolhouse Rock! Theme music), from Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks, by Bob Dorough 

Bob Dorough "Three Is a Magic Number" from Schoolhouse Rock: Multiplication Rock, by Bob Dorough

Blossom Dearie, "Figure Eight" from Schoolhouse Rock: Multiplication Rock, by Bob Dorough

Jack Shelson, "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock: America Rocks, by Dave Frishebrg

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Barbara Kopple won her first Oscar for a documentary about Kentucky coal workers. She won her second Oscar for a documentary about striking meat packers in Austin, Minnesota. Britt Aamodt takes a look at Kopple’s American Dream.  

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Image: Hormel strike solidarity button, 1985-86 [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]

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In 1962, Jay Ward, co-creator of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, leased an island on the Minnesota-Canada border. Britt Aamodt tells us how a nuclear standoff got in the way of Moosylvania, America’s 52nd state. (Ward never identified the 51st state.)

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In 1984, Minnesota became the first state to name an official mushroom, the morel.

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Image: Man at a table full of morel mushrooms. [credit: Photographer, Peter Leach. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society]

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In 1920, Sauk Centre native Sinclair Lewis became a sensation with the publication of his novel Main Street. Now the pressure was on for a follow-up. Britt Aamodt turns the page on Babbitt, Lewis’ searing indictment of smug middle-class complacency. 
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In the late 19th century, Minnesota farmers began planting sugar beets, a domestic alternative to cane sugar. That new crop brought families of migrant workers to the state, and those families established some of Minnesota’s earliest Latino neighborhoods. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
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Image:  Sugar beet worker near Fisher, Minnesota, 1937 [credit: Photographer: Russell Lee. Minnesota Historical Society Collections].

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The introduction of the “Safety Bike” changed society for the better. How did Minnesota change? 
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Image:  Two Women and a Girl with Bicycles, 1897  [credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections]
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Swans used to be a popular game of choice for Minnesota hunters. But by the 1900’s, the entire population of trumpeter swans was gone.
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Produced by Autumn Haeg

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Image: Loring Park swans in Minneapolis Park Board's winter house in Theodore Wirth Park, 1948 [credit: Philip Dittes, photographer. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society]

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Founded in the Minneapolis basement of Dotty and Dave Dalquist in 1946, Nordic Ware is historically significant to Minnesota, and to the nation’s baking community.

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Image: Nordic Ware (1987) [credit: Photographer Jet Lowe – collection MNHS]

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The origin of a popular dance style across Indian Country is said to have come from Minnesota. Deanna StandingCloud tells us the story.

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