What is the myth of Minnesota? When people think of Minnesota, why are they thinking what they're thinking? In this blast from the past, producers for Twin Cities PBS (or Channel 2 or KTCA) search high and low to find out: what does it really mean to be Minnesotan?

From 1979 to 1980, Channel 2 ran what they considered a weekly digital magazine. It was called Electronicle and it was considered progressive digital media for its time.

00:00 What do you think of when you hear Minnesota?
01:54 What is the REAL myth of Minnesota?
02:43 The myths of the Mississippi and Paul Bunyan
03:46 A Dakota myth about Minnehaha Falls
04:51 An exhibit on the first white settlers to Minnesota
05:54 "You must know the myth of Minnesota!"
06:29 Which came first: the culture or the commercial?
06:57 The myth of Minnesota in print, television, and advertising
13:30 Minnesota winters and the cold, cold, cold
21:12 A prairie poet on the Minnesotan land

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