Minnesota Experience — Season 1, Episode 27: Great American Railroad Journeys: Red Wing to Portage, WI

Episode synopsis

Michael Portillo continues his rail journey along the Upper Mississippi to Red Wing, Minnesota, and the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Picking up the Empire Builder rail service he travels to Winona, La Crosse, and Tomah, Wisconsin, where he wades in a bog to harvest the nation's most important berry from the marshes at a century old farm.

About Minnesota Experience

For decades, Twin Cities PBS (TPT) has dived into the whitewater of bygone eras and emerged with insight about our shared past and values as Minnesotans. Tapping into TPT’s rich archive of historical stories and adding new ones to the fold, Minnesota Experience holds the mirror of history up to the modern moment as a force that can forever change who we are and who we want to be.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Flour Power
• E2Lost Twin Cities III
• E3Cornerstones: A History of North Minneapolis
• E4Fires of 1918
• E5Lost Twin Cities 4
• E6Glensheen and the Congdon Legacy
• E7Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
• E8The People's Protectors
• E9MN in the 70's
• E10The Fabulous Ice Age
• E11Hmong Pioneers: Honoring the First Wave
• E12Restoring The People's House