What happened is winter. And that ol' bastard comes back every year.

I'll go out on a limb and predict that Duluth will become a boom town within 25 years for one reason: Proximity to large quantities of fresh water.

Well, it seems that if it had ended up being true, we'd be just that much closer to having that monstrosity of a NAFTA superhighway right where 53 goes now. I'm not sad we're a backwater, no siree-bob.

So who was the target audience for the "back door" and sphincter drawing combination?

There's a similar map that shows Duluth as the center of North America. It was originally published by the Gary Land Company that was attempting to attract investors. You can see it on page 60 of Alanen's Morgan Park book. 

JohnM, it seems like that sphincter has some serious anal fissures. We need a doctor!