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Sod House on the Prairie Videos
Help needed to restore Minnesota's native prairie
Close to 1 percent of Minnesota's native prairie remains today, and a new program happening in St. Paul Thursday is focused on protecting our landscape.
Wet vs. Dry
From the days of early settlement in the late 1800s, the struggle between the Drys -- those who sought to ban alcohol -- and the Wets -- those who were in favor -- shaped the relationship between the Red River border communities of Fargo and Moorhead.
The drys had been able to ban alcohol sales in North Dakota from the state’s earliest days by including a prohibition clause in the original state constitution in 1889. The wets on the other hand, prospered on the Minnesota side of the Red River thanks to a pragmatic appreciation of its alcohol driven economy.
Colorful characters and rowdy tales of bootleggers, madams, and small town gangs pepper the story of the area’s moral and economic tug-of-war that took place over kegs of beer, bottles of whiskey and barrels of moonshine.
Production funding provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund and by the members of Prairie Public.
About the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund In 2008, Minnesota voters passed a landmark piece of legislation — the Minnesota Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment — which provided funding to public television stations serving audiences in Minnesota. Its mission is to help preserve and document the treasures of culture, history, and heritage that make Minnesota special, and to increase access to the natural and cultural resources we all share.