Duluth Deep Dive Posts

Duluth Deep Dive #4: A Rock on Fourth Street

A rock on a section of undeveloped land on Fourth Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues east. (Photo by Matthew James)

There are a lot of rocks, large and small, strewn about Duluth. This post uses the assistance of ChatGPT, backed-up by a moderate amount of fact checking, to figure out what can and cannot be known about this particular one.

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

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.

Duluth Deep Dive #2: Duluth’s Duluthiest Brands

Some of Duluth’s Duluthiest beanies. (Photo by Matthew James)

Perfect Duluth Day is indisputably Duluth’s Duluthiest website but what is Duluth’s Duluthiest brand? This post takes a look at some contenders for the brand that best conveys a sense of Duluthiness.

Duluth Deep Dive #1: Sandbars

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).