Lady Aurora at Boulder Lake

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Airtime: Interview with Dale Klapmeier of Cirrus Aircraft

PDDTV Sep 28, 2019 No Comments

Business consulting company Elixirr produces a show where the interviews with entrepreneurs are conducted in an airplane. Episode Two features Dale Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Aircraft. From the Airtime website:

By flying them over the places that shaped who they are today, Airtime brings you the stories of inspirational entrepreneurs. Find out where they get their drive from, how they made it, and who shaped them along the way. These are the stories of the founders of some of the world’s most innovative and disruptive companies. All told at 3,000 feet.


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Charlie Parr back with new album and tour

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Music

Unnamed Minneapolis developer has purchase agreement for Duluth News Tribune building

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The News Tribune would lease back around 8,500 square feet in the building’s top floor.


News and Current Affairs

Minnesota North Shore Fall Colors Report 2019

Cory Fechner Sep 27, 2019 No Comments

North Shore Fall Colors Report

Fall colors in Duluth and the North Shore of Minnesota area are starting to pop. In most cases along the North Shore the Fall colors will peak sooner as you get away from Lake Superior a few miles. Great spots to check out away from the lake would be to drive up the Sawbill Trail near Tofte, Caribou Trail near Lutsen or the Temperance River Road near Schroeder. We have found some of the best maple patches with a lot of fiery red colors if you explore further up the North Shore north of Grand Marais.

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Outdoors

Selective Focus: Fall Colors 2019

Brian Barber Sep 27, 2019 No Comments

Fall in Minnesota is just the best. Here’s proof.

Track the progression of fall and peak color at the DNR Fall Color Finder website.

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Upset Duluth: Collapsing Driveway Edition

Paul Lundgren Sep 26, 2019 No Comments

Story link: “Duluth pastor tweets to appeal church matter”


Photos

The Day the Brother of John Wilkes Booth Came to the Grand Opera House of Duluth

Matthew James Sep 26, 2019 4 Comments

While John Wilkes Booth remains infamous as the actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, his older brother Edwin was actually the better known of the two prior to Lincoln’s assassination as he was considered one of the greatest Shakespearean performers of the 19th century. Edwin Booth feared that his brother’s crime would destroy his own reputation and career even though he was not only a supporter of Lincoln, but also once saved the life of Lincoln’s son by grabbing him as he fell from a train. Edwin Booth’s open expression of horror at what his brother had done led to continued public support after Lincoln’s assassination and he remained a successful actor until his death. To this day, no actor has performed the role of Hamlet more times than him.

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City Pages delves into those Arlington Avenue coffins

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News and Current Affairs

Maxxis Tires visits Duluth

PDDTV Sep 24, 2019 No Comments

Maxxis Tires, a manufacturer of a variety of tires, including bike tires, sent cyclist/videographer Brice Shirbach to Duluth to show off the world-class bike trails.

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Duluth Library Wildcats Women’s Hockey Team of 1929

Paul Lundgren Sep 24, 2019 3 Comments

Not much is known about the Duluth Library Wildcats. The photo above is from the Duluth Public Library’s Facebook page, and is from a slide titled “Library Wildcats,” found in the staff section of the library’s slides.

“There isn’t a lot more information than that, but a librarian is on the case and she’ll be looking for more on this story,” the library’s Facebook post noted.


History, Photos, Sports

Duluth Trivia Deck Sampler #21

David Beard Sep 24, 2019 4 Comments

Another Duluth Trivia card, from a board game found at Savers, below.

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History, Random

National Geographic’s Duluth of 1949

Paul Lundgren Sep 23, 2019 1 Comment

Roy and Edythe Halvorson of Duluth sit in their living room and look out at skiers. Kodachrome photo from National Geographic, September 1949.

National Geographic magazine published a feature story on Minnesota in its September 1949 issue. The article marked Minnesota’s 100th year in legal existence as a territory of the United States.

Duluth, the Iron Range and Superior National Forest were part of the story, titled “Minnesota Makes Ideas Pay,” which features numerous photos by B. Anthony Stewart and Jack E. Fletcher.

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History

Hudson wreck discovered off Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula

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News and Current Affairs

Hundred-year commemoration of Duluth lynching could see 10,000-person rally

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It’s been nearly 100 years since Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie were falsely accused, taken by force from the old Duluth jail, and lynched by an estimated 10,000 community members at the intersection where the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial now stands.

On June 15, 2020, the community will commemorate those three men and continue to work toward a mission of fostering peace, racial equity and growth. Organizers are asking for more than 10,000 community members and visitors to attend an event at the intersection of the memorial and in the surrounding streets to listen to keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Ala.


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