Download or read book Zenith City written by Michael Fedo and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duluth may be the city of “untold delights” as lampooned in a Kentucky congressman’s speech in 1871. Or it may be portrayed by a joke in Woody Allen’s film Manhattan. Or then again, it may be the “Zenith City of the unsalted seas” celebrated by Dr. Thomas Preston Foster, founder of the city’s first newspaper. But whatever else it may be, this city of granite hills, foghorns, and gritty history, the last stop on the shipping lanes of the Great Lakes, is undeniably a city with character—and characters. Duluth native Michael Fedo captures these characters through the happy-go-melancholy lens nurtured by the people and landscape of his youth. In Zenith City Fedo brings it back home. Framed by his reflections on Duluth’s colorful—and occasionally very dark—history and its famous visitors, such as Sinclair Lewis, Joe DiMaggio, and Bob Dylan, his memories make the city as real as the boy next door but with a better story. Here, among the graceful, poignant, and often hilarious remembered moments—pranks played on a severe teacher, the family’s unlikely mob connections, a rare childhood affliction—are the coordinates of Duluth’s larger landscape: the diners and supper clubs, the baseball teams, radio days, and the smelt-fishing rites of spring. Woven through these tales of Duluth are Fedo’s curious, instructive, and ultimately deeply moving stories about becoming a writer, from the guidance of an English teacher to the fourteen-year-old reporter’s interview with Louis Armstrong to his absorption in the events that would culminate in his provocative and influential book The Lynchings in Duluth. These are the sorts of essays—personal, cultural, and historical, at once regional and far-reaching—that together create a picture of people in a place as rich in history and anecdote as Duluth and of the forces that forever bind them together.

Download or read book Picture Duluth written by Dennis O'Hara and published by Zenith City Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture Duluth through the lens of Dennis O'Hara and you'll discover the Zenith City offers a lot more than snowstorms and seagulls. Through over 200 stunning images, Duluth, Minnesota, native Dennis O'Hara takes you on a tour of his hometown from east to west--in all seasons, lighting, and weather--capturing both its natural and man-made beauty: its parks, landmarks, historic buildings and homes, and the working waterfront of the world's most inland seaport. "Denny O'Hara is committed to leading us on a pictorial journey through this glorious city. Within his photography is a love for Duluth and its all-encompassing, four-season beauty." -- Photographer Jay Steinke, from his introduction "Ice and light, waves and wildlife, bridges and boats.... With an artist's eye, Dennis O'Hara has captured the essence of Duluth. I look at these remarkable images and think, 'Yes. This is why I live here.'" -- Sam Cook, Duluth News-Tribune

Download or read book Zenith City written by Michael Fedo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of essays from Duluth, Minnesota writer Michael Fedo that relate stories about the city's personal and cultural history.

Download or read book Duluth s Historic Parks written by Nancy S. Nelson and published by Zenith City Press. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duluths remarkable park system consists of about 170 properties and roadways encompassing approximately 12,000 acresthats roughly 25 percent of the entire city dedicated to public parks.

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Download or read book Lost Duluth written by Tony Dierckins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what Duluth has lost. Through over 400 photographs and sketches of vanished homes, buildings, landmarks, industries, and residential neighborhoods, Lost Duluth takes readers on a journey through the city's past, introducing them to the people--from hard-scrabble pioneers to wealthy industrialists to impoverished immigrant laborers--whose ambitions and dreams built the Zenith City on a swamp and a rocky hillside at the head of the Great Lakes. A finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. "Duluth has always been a city like none other in the Midwest, with an architectural history as distinctive as its steep hills, rushing creeks and lakeside vistas. Lost Duluth offers a beautifully illustrated look at some of the city's most prominent vanished buildings, from grand Victorian mansions and row houses to monumental works of public and commercial architecture. This book will make you pine for the city of old while opening your eyes to unimagined wonders, and even life-long residents will be surprised to find how much has been lost on the destructive road to progress." -- Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities and Once There Were Castles

Download or read book Ordinances of the City of Duluth Minnesota written by Duluth (Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Duluth Minnesota written by Sheldon T. Aubut and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duluth's nineteenth and twentieth century history is presented through vintage photographs.

Download or read book Duluth written by Tony Dierckins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see the Zenith City.