March in the Zenith City
Welcome to March in the Zenith City. The polar vortex is still lingering, and the Duluth News Tribune reported yesterday that this has been the coldest winter in Duluth since 1874–1875, when the...
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Welcome to April in the Zenith City. Since 2007 Zenith City sportswriter Anthony Bush has acted as the general manager (and a pitcher) for a local semi-pro baseball team known as the Padres—first the...
View ArticleMay in the Zenith City!
Welcome to May in the Zenith City—and our two-year anniversary! We’ve been working on some of those changes we mentioned in April and you will start to notice them this month, including a fresh look...
View ArticleWelcome to June in the Zenith City!
It’s June in the Zenith City, when the calendar turns to summer and the weather finally feels like spring. We start off this month’s travels back in time with a feature that traces the history and...
View ArticleJuly on Zenith City
It’s July in the Zenith City—and the temps outside are finally starting to feel like May! We have some fascinating stories coming up for the seventh month of the year. We start with the first of a...
View ArticleAugust in the Zenith City
Happy August, everybody! This month St. Louis County is renaming one of the buildings on its Public Safety Campus off Rice Lake Road in honor of A. P. Cook. Cook was also the namesake of the Cook Home,...
View ArticleSeptember in the Zenith City
Welcome to September in the Zenith City! In light of all the loss to Duluth’s heritage this past summer (the demolition of the Chester Ski Jumps, the 1894 West Duluth Village Hall, etc.), this month we...
View ArticleTunneling into the Past:Coming in October on Zenith City Online
Some people were born to swim, and we say of those people they were born with one foot in the water. Well, I guess that means that Dan Turner—author of this month’s feature story—was born with one foot...
View ArticleFrom Opium Dens to the Duluth Depot:November in the Zenith City
It’s November in the Zenith City, time to take in the hoses and lawn furniture and put up the storm windows, pull those jackets and boots out of storage, and make sure the snowblower is in working...
View ArticleGhost Towns and Free Shipping:December in the Zenith City
I hope everyone had a wonderful and long Thanksgiving weekend and is ready for December. We’re making your “cyber Monday” shopping easy by offering free shipping on all our books, which are already...
View ArticleJanuary 2015: A Month of Your Favorite Features
Welcome to 2015 in the Zenith City. We are kicking off the year with a while month of features stories from past issues. Many of our readers have just discovered us in the past year, but we’ve been at...
View ArticleFebruary on Zenith City Online
It’s February, and we’re back with fresh content for the month after taking January off. I was worried that rerunning our past features might cost us some readership, but instead the opposite has...
View ArticleWelcome back to 1899:March on Zenith City Online
It’s March in the Zenith City, and while there’s still snow on the ground and we’ve just come out of another blast of arctic cold, we have some images of summer time in Duluth back in 1899 that should...
View ArticleZenith City readers are a bright bunch of folks!:This Month on Zenith City...
Welcome to April in the Zenith City. Last month many of you were kind enough to take our reader poll, and we’ve been looking over the results. It turns out that we citizens of the Zenith City are a...
View ArticleA New Day in the Zenith City!
Well, if everything went well overnight, you are looking at a new Zenith City Online. Just in time for our anniversary (we launched three years ago today) e have redesigned the site to freshen up the...
View ArticleA new book and a fascinating feature story
It’s a busy month in the Zenith City. Our newest book has hit the shelves: Historic Glensheen 1905–1930 collects 115 never-before-published photographs of the historic Congdon estate. You can preview...
View ArticleJuly on Zenith City Online
Welcome to July at the Head of the Lakes, the month during which, 147 years ago, Dr. Thomas Foster first called what is now the city of Duluth the “Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas.” (details coming...
View ArticlePaintings, 20th-century breweries, Superior’s lost Central High, and more
Welcome to August at the Head of the Lakes. This month’s feature story by guest contributor Peter Spooner—which will post on Monday, August 3—is a real treat, a look at the life of noted Duluth painter...
View ArticleThe construction of Duluth’s most famous house—and much more
During the past year I have become much more familiar on the history of Glensheen, Duluth’s historic Congdon estate, while working on two books about the house: Historic Glensheen 1905-1930, released...
View ArticleLots and Lots about Liquor Laws
It may be October in the Zenith City, but we’ve been thinking about the upcoming November election. As Duluthians prepare to let city councilors know their opinion about whether to abolish the 1891...
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