September in the Zenith City
Greetings and welcome to September in the Zenith City! With the seasons about to change, we thought we’d focus this month on a part of town particularly loaded with hardwood trees that turn red,...
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Welcome to October in the Zenith City. This month, as Major League baseballs’s boys of summer prepare for the fall classic, we introduce readers to a new contributor, Anthony Bush. Anthony has penned...
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Welcome to November in the Zenith City, the month in which one of Duluth’s most beloved citizens and civic leaders, Samuel Frisby Snively, was born and died. Snively expert Mark Ryan’s feature story...
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Allow me to begin by thanking all of you who took our reader survey. We are crunching the data, but so far we know a few things about those who enjoy the site: Most of you are very well educated, make...
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Welcome to January in the Zenith City! We have some fun stories for you during this dark and cold time of year. The month starts with the first of a two-part story on Jay Cooke, the man who financed...
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It doesn’t feel nearly as cold here in the past as it does outside today, but that will end soon enough. Meanwhile, you can hunker down and finish the two-part story about Duluth “founder” Jay Cook and...
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Welcome to March in the Zenith City. Followers of “This Day in Duluth” will become aware this month of just how many historic events concerning the city’s civic status and the aerial bridge occurred in...
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While spring has taken its sweet time getting here, Zenith City parks historian Nancy Nelson has been thinking about gardening. This month’s feature is an expansion of a story she wrote a few years ago...
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It’s May. In Duluth, spring seems to have finally arrived, and Zenith City celebrates its first birthday. On behalf of our writers I want to thank all of readers for not only reading and telling others...
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Summer time means tourist time in the Zenith City, so this month’s feature story walks us through the history of tourism in Duluth. Jim Heffernan introduces us to Roger Grimsby, who Hef argues is the...
View ArticleJuly in the Zenith City
Welcome to July in the Zenith City. This month Duluth features two events that harken back to days gone by: the 2013 Tall Ships® Duluth festival (July 25–28) and the first modern Lark o’ the Lake...
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Welcome to August in the Zenith City! We kick off the month with the history behind this summer’s media darling here at the head of the lakes: the Lark of Duluth, a replica of a “flying boat” that made...
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Welcome to September in the Zenith City! We start the month with a fascinating look back at Duluth’s first murder and the ensuing trial by Heidi Bakk-Hansen before Jim Heffernan remember the...
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Welcome to October in the Zenith City! We kick off the month with sportswriter Anthony Bush’s look back at the 1968 Detroit Tigers, who won the World Series with 12 former Duluth-Superior Dukes on the...
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Welcome to November in the Zenith City! This month we feature yet another talent of our webmeister, Dan Turner. Not only does Dan help Zenith City look and operate as it does but he also contributes a...
View ArticleWelcome to February in the Zenith City
It doesn’t feel nearly as cold here in the past as it does outside today, but that will end soon enough. Meanwhile, you can hunker down and finish the two-part story about Duluth “founder” Jay Cook and...
View ArticleMarch in the Zenith City
Welcome to March in the Zenith City. Followers of “This Day in Duluth” will become aware this month of just how many historic events concerning the city’s civic status and the aerial bridge occurred in...
View ArticleDecember in the Zenith City
Greetings from the Zenith City! Happy to see snow covering Duluth as November turns to December—it just seems warmer up here when we’re covered with a white blanket. As December 5 marks the 80th...
View ArticleJanuary in the Zenith City
It may be a bitterly cold start to the new year in Duluth, but here at the Zenith City we are feel warm and comfy. This past December was our best month yet, and December 29 was our busiest day ever...
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Welcome to February in the Zenith City! Hopefully for those of us here in Duluth we’re done with polar vortex spin-offs for a while and can enjoy more time playing in the snow while it lasts. We kick...
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