Minnesota Experience Season 4 Broadcast Episodes Minnesota Experience’s weekly broadcast series on TPT features a curated programming strategy of original TPT documentaries as well as acquired Minnesota history documentaries from MPTA stations and independent filmmakers. This win-win content strategy celebrates and lifts up the work of our partners, as well as offers a broader collection of local Minnesota history stories for our viewers. CO-OP WARS | 10/4/21 In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the Vietnam War created a unique alternative economy featuring dozens of food cooperatives, but a shadowy revolutionary group used conflicts over class and race to try to seize the movement. The ensuing clash pitted friends and comrades in a sometimes violent conflict over the future of the counterculture. LOST DULUTH II | 10/11/21 – A production of PBS North We'll remember a World War I-era shipyard that once employed thousands in western Duluth's Riverside neighborhood. Along the way you'll learn what a carriage step is and why you can no longer find them in the city; delve in to Duluth's advertising legacy; and remember the grand pavilion that once served as the social center of the city.
THE BALDIES | 10/18/21 The Baldies were a Minneapolis skinhead crew that fought racists in the 1980s and beyond.
THE EXPERIMENTAL CITY| 10/25/21 The Experimental City is a documentary about a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full- size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota. STEAMSHIP AMERICA: A NORTH SHORE LEGEND | 11/1/21 - A production of PBS North Before high-speed internet, telephones and even Highway 61, Minnesota's North Shore was connected by water — specifically a fleet of sailing vessels and steamers that hauled mail, fish, freight and passengers to communities up and down the remote coastline. The Steamer America was a star in the early 1900s, with her speed and relative luxury she became a vital lifeline and a friend to many. ARMED WITH LANGUAGE | 11/8/21 Discover more about the brave Japanese American women and men who trained in a little-known Minnesota Military Intelligence School during World War II to be translators, interrogators and Japanese military specialists - all while their families and loved ones were being held in internment camps, now also referred to as concentration camps, on the West Coast. COMING TO MNI SOTA| 11/15/21 Coming to Mni Sota explores the conflicts, contradictions and solidarity among the millions who have moved through, and to, Minnesota. REMEMBERING PLACE: A CEMETERY STORY| 11/22/21 Cemeteries are hallowed places right in our midst. But they also reflect the community, and have evolved dramatically over time, constantly adapting to meet our ever-changing views and values. A cemetery is a mirror of the city: its remarkable origins, its rich history, its complex people, and its unwritten future. A TPT co-production with Lakewood Cemetery. ROBERT BLY: A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY| 11/26/21 Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy presents a moving portrait of one of America's most celebrated and revolutionary poets of the last half-century.
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