Zenith City: Stories from Duluth

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ZENITH CITY ZENITH CITY Stories from Duluth Michael Fedo University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Frontispiece: John Vachon, “Entering Duluth, Minnesota,” August . Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection. In several chapters names of persons, living or deceased, have been altered. For information on previously published material in this book, see pages –. Copyright  by Michael Fedo All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press  Third Avenue South, Suite  Minneapolis, MN - http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fedo, Michael Zenith City: stories from Duluth / Michael Fedo. ISBN ---- (pb.) . Duluth (Minn.)—History—Anecdotes. . Duluth (Minn.)— Biography—Anecdotes. . Fedo, Michael W.—Childhood and youth— Anecdotes. I. Title. f.df  .´—dc  Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.                  If the immortal spirit of Homer could look down from another heaven than that created by his own celestial genius upon the long lines of pilgrims from every nation of the earth to the gushing fountain of poesy opened by the touch of his magic wand, if he could be permitted to behold the vast assemblage of grand and glorious productions of the lyric art called into being by his own inspired strains, he would weep tears of bitter anguish that instead of lavishing all the stores of his mighty genius upon the fall of Ilion it had not been his more blessed lot to crystallize in deathless song the rising glories of Duluth. —J. Proctor Knott,  This page intentionally left blank ...