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Tag: Duluth

Glensheen Mansion from the air

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 9, 2014, 2:47 PM Jun 9, 2014
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From Perfect Duluth Day and Cory Fechner comes this terrific quadcopter tour of Duluth’s Glensheen Mansion. It’s good living in Duluth. Read more →

Regional history

Duluth to vote on new status for lynching memorial

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 4, 2014, 8:44 AM Jun 4, 2014
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If there’s anything that can be called a slam-dunk decision, next week’s vote by the Duluth City Council to declare a monument in the city a ‘local landmark’ is it.

It’s the only monument in the country that memorializes a lynching. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Whatever happened to Patty Duke’s Duluth baby?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 29, 2014, 7:52 AM May 29, 2014
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The last time Patty Duke was in Duluth, she had a baby.

It was in a movie — You’ll Like My Mother — in 1972 in which a pregnant Francesca, played by Duke, arrives from Los Angeles to meet her late husband’s mother in Duluth. Eventually, someone gets stabbed.

Whatever happened to the baby in the movie?
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War

Peace group unwelcome at Duluth Memorial Day parade

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 22, 2014, 7:06 AM May 22, 2014
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Is there room for peace in a holiday that memorializes soldiers who died in war?
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War

The day a Duluth POW came home

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 13, 2014, 7:10 AM May 13, 2014
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The Northland Veterans Service Committee says it’s raised enough money to build a statue to David Wheat, a Duluth man held for more than seven years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp. Read more →

Five by 8

Whatever happened to the shutdown promises? (5×8 -2/28/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 28, 2014, 7:24 AM Feb 28, 2014
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Did lawmakers follow through on their promises to give up their shutdown pay, Herb Bergson’s battle, the ice houses that don’t want to leave Minnesota lakes, when we make things all about us, and Minnesota: The state of Daft Punk. Read more →

Weather

The snow swimmers of Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2014, 12:48 PM Feb 26, 2014
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Swimming in the snow? Read more →

Weather

Duluth TV audience demands to see its news anchors freeze like everyone else

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 26, 2013, 12:11 PM Nov 26, 2013
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If The Daily Show can do it, perhaps there’s no reason why a Duluth TV station can’t fake the news by standing in front of a “green screen” and pretending to be somewhere they’re not. Read more →

Did cash sully skydivers’ survival story?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2013, 12:52 PM Nov 8, 2013
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The skydiver plane crash reveals only one change is needed in air safety. Read more →

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