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Minnesota Authors: Reading Like a Writer (Margaret D. Kennedy and Winnifred Elliott)

Jun 09, 2025 3 Comments

This Fall, I’m teaching Minnesota Authors: Reading Like a Writer (a subtitle I stole from my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Superior). The goal of the class is to read like a writer, which is to say to be less interested in “what a text means” (that’s reading like a reader), but instead “how a text works” (that’s reading like a writer).

We also look at the mechanics of writing and publishing. The works of Michael Fedo are a gift in this. He has written extensively about being a writer.

Random Literature, Queries

Literary History of Duluth: Helen Jenswold Dahle

Jun 06, 2025 3 Comments

Google tells me John “Jack” Dahle was “born in Duluth, Minnesota, to Minnesota State Senator Clarence Arthur and Helen Jenswold Dahle.” But I have no idea who Helen Jenswold Dahle is. Does anyone else have any ideas? As I build a literary history of Duluth, I am missing information about this author.

Art Literature, Queries

Duluth Deep Dive #3: Bob Dylan and the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub

Apr 06, 2025 2 Comments

Bob Dylan’s father leads a dance in Duluth, The Duluth Herald, October 28, 1931.

The free, open access, online Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub, supported by recently cut grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, lets you do your own deep dives into genealogy, the history of a home or business, or just about anything that has happened in Duluth or throughout Minnesota. This month’s deep dive shows you how the site works by using Bob Dylan’s Duluth family history as an example.

History, Random Bob Dylan, Duluth Deep Dive, Geoguessr Challenges

Fun with Google AI Overview

Apr 01, 2025 No Comments

Google search results are now summarized by an “AI Overview.” I tested it with three questions.

Random Bob Dylan, Hoaxes - Fake News - Satire - Folklore, Media

Duluth Book Releases in 2025

Feb 10, 2025 2 Comments

Presenting Perfect Duluth Day’s annual rundown of books by Duluth-area writers and/or about Duluth-area topics that are new to bookstores and e-commerce sites. It’s early in the year, so this list will grow as 2025 continues.

Random Books, Guides and Lists

Duluth Deep Dive #1: Sandbars

Feb 02, 2025 5 Comments

From top to bottom, freshwater sandbars in Lake Eerie, Lake Baikal and our own on Lake Superior. In each image, the red line represents 15 miles. (Images from Google Earth)

The 10-mile combined length of Minnesota and Wisconsin Point is often described as one of the world’s longest natural freshwater sandbars. But which sandbars is it being compared against? This post takes a closer look at the world’s longest sandbars (and includes a Geoguessr challenge of remarkable sandbars around the world).

Outdoors Duluth Deep Dive, Geoguessr Challenges, Minnesota Point and Park Point

PDD Geoguessr becomes Duluth Deep Dive (with a Geoguessr)

Feb 02, 2025 No Comments

PDD Geoguessr is getting a rebranding for 2025. Last year’s analytics showed that a lot more people were reading the context around the games than playing the games themselves. In recognition of this, the new monthly format will put more focus on the topic rather than just providing a link for the game. To keep the posts connected to cultural geography — and to show some appreciation to the dedicated PDD Geoguessr players — the posts will still conclude with a Geoguessr challenge. This announcement marks the transition with a Geoguessr challenge that fits the old format better than the new one.

Restaurants Geoguessr Challenges

PDD Geoguessr #34: Alan Sparhawk on Tour

Jan 19, 2025 No Comments

Alan Sparkhawk and son Cyrus at a performance in Amsterdam on March 3, 2025 (Photo by Matthew James)

Alan Sparhawk is on tour again this week, and this post briefly discusses his new album, including Geoguessr challenges looking at the five locations where he is scheduled to play over the next seven days and another looking at the upcoming European leg of his tour.

Music Geoguessr Challenges

PDD Geoguessr #33: Walking Shortcuts

Jan 05, 2025 No Comments

This Duluth avenue is unlikely to be open to car traffic any time soon. (Photo by Matthew James)

Over the past 100 years, the increase in car use has changed the Duluth landscape. Downtown has fewer shoppers walking the streets and traffic is heavy on the roads to the big box stores at the top of the hill. Whole neighborhoods have been torn down to make room for highways. But the particular geography of Duluth has resulted in a number of urban routes open only to people walking (and, for some, also biking). This post takes a closer look at a few of those locations and concludes with a Geoguessr game testing your knowledge of travel routes in Duluth closed to cars.

Outdoors Geoguessr Challenges

The Most Read Saturday Essays of 2024

Dec 28, 2024 No Comments

For the fourth year in a row, Jim Richardson has dominated the top of the charts. He has authored four of the five most read Saturday Essays of 2024.

Random Saturday Essay

New restaurants brought a fresh wave of flavors in 2024

Dec 23, 2024 No Comments

Colorful dish from Falastin

The Pali Platter from Falastin

If 2024 has a Twin Ports restaurant trend, it’s cultural cuisine. Two of the restaurants most anticipated by area foodies, Alto Pino and Falastin, brought unparalleled culinary options to Duluth this year.

News and Current Affairs, Restaurants

PDD Geoguessr #32: The 1984 Duluth City Directory

Dec 22, 2024 No Comments

The 1984 Duluth City Directory (Photo by Matthew James)

As 2024 comes to a close, this post takes a look at Duluth 40 years ago using the 1984 Polk Directory of Duluth as an example for examining the history and use of city directories. This post includes ads from the directory for five businesses that have since left Duluth and five that still remain. It then concludes with two Geogeussr challenges featuring the historical locations of these ten businesses.

History Geoguessr Challenges

Duluth deserves better than a mismanaged tourism marketing contract

Dec 02, 2024 1 Comment

The city of Duluth is at a crossroads with its tourism marketing. After years of underwhelming performance from an out-of-town marketing firm, city leaders promised a better process and outcome this time.

City mismanagement, however, undermined that commitment. A poorly-planned and hastily-executed request-for-proposal process, confusing guidance and unnecessary delays have left Duluth with a troubling outcome: A recommendation to hire another out-of-town agency with no knowledge of the city’s tourism industry and significant client conflicts to lead Duluth tourism marketing for the next two years.

News and Current Affairs, Politics Tourism

PDD Geoguessr #31: Gridlock

Dec 01, 2024 1 Comment

An intersection of grids along North Central Avenue near Denfeld (image from Google Earth)

Duluth formed from the merger of multiple smaller townships, with these townships themselves comprised of multiple different housing additions. These additions were almost always laid out on a grid, but the orientation of that grid was often effected by the often challenging elements of Duluth’s geography, such as rivers, streams, hills, and Lake Superior, as well as the existence of other grids. In the early days of Duluth, the different grid systems had gaps between them, but as the city grew, the gaps closed, resulting in some novel intersections and street patterns. This Geoguessr looks at the conflict between different grid systems in Duluth.

History Geoguessr Challenges

PDD Geoguessr #30: Minnesota and the Presidential Election

Nov 17, 2024 No Comments

Minnesota 2024 presidential election results by county.

Minnesota’s electoral college votes have gone to the Democrats since 1976, longer than any other state. But unlike Washington D.C., which went 90% for Harris and has given its three electoral votes to the Democrats since 1964 (but is not a state), Minnesota’s politics are a bit more complicated. In its most simplistic form, the strongly left-leaning Twin Cities metro area counters the right-leaning Greater Minnesota population, with a few urban areas creating pockets of blue. But that’s the simplistic version. This post looks at the Minnesota results at the precinct level and includes three Greater Minnesota Geoguessr challenges. One visiting the precincts where Trump had the highest margins of victory, another for the precincts that went most strongly to Harris, and a third for precincts split right down the middle.

Politics Geoguessr Challenges