To close out the millennium, Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered presents a look back at Minnesota life in 1900 via a 12-part series, entitled “A Minnesota Century.” This segment is a profile of the Mayo brothers.
The Mayo clinic is Minnesota's most famous medical institution. But, just over 100 years ago, at a time when many people still called hospitals "death houses", Doctors Will and Charles Mayo were building a successful surgical practice out of a three-room office in an unlikely location…a frontier town called Rochester, Minnesota.
This is the seventh of twelve reports.
Click links below for other reports in series:
part 1: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/01/25/a-minnesota-century-sugar-point
part 2: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/02/23/a-minnesota-century-predictions
part 3: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/03/29/a-minnesota-century-lincoln-fey
part 4: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/04/26/a-minnesota-century-the-road-to-bagley
part 5: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/05/31/a-minnesota-century-mining-the-north
part 6: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/06/21/a-minnesota-century-eva-mcdonald
part 8: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/08/30/a-minnesota-century-rhoda-emery
part 9: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/09/27/a-minnesota-century-maud-hart-lovelace
part 10: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/10/28/a-minnesota-century-the-story-of-cole-younger
part 11: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/11/29/a-minnesota-century-fredrick-lamar-mcghee-an-early-leader
part 12: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/12/27/a-minnesota-century-news-100-years-ago
Awarded:
2000 The Gracie Allen Award, Radio - Outstanding News Story/Series category