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Local View: Duluth's peace bell inspires new beer, enduring connections
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Nature Fest in Bloomington
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Bygones: Duluth's Pioneer Hall opened 50 years ago
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MN Shortlist Sept. 4-10: Grand Portage National Monument artist, Nina Simone at Pillsbury, Penumbra’s 50th and more
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Art Hounds: A 4-H State Fair musical, maximalist Latinx art, and landscape paintings to make you look up
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Montano legacy preserved in Brooklyn
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (808+ words) Machel at the Brooklyn Public Library. Selvon Smith, the vice president—Information Technology and the chief information officer of the Brooklyn Public Library, shares a light moment with Machel Montano and Machel’s mother Elizabeth “Lady” Montano at the launch of…...
Bygones: Duluth hero died penniless and forgotten in 1926
2+ week, 1+ day ago (245+ words) News-Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926 James Geary, who saved 1,400 lives in 1878 when he piloted a train through fire-ravaged forests to Duluth, died in Omaha, Nebraska, penniless and forgotten in a tarpaper-covered cottage. After the fire incident, he spent an entire year in the…...
Battle of Brooklyn marks 250 years with reenactments, tributes across the borough • Brooklyn Paper
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Before Brooklyn became Brooklyn, Red Hook helped save the Revolution • Brooklyn Paper
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50-year reunion of Duluth's 1976 Bicentennial Canoe Expedition
2+ week, 5+ day ago (149+ words) 50 years ago, a group retraced a voyageur fur trade route from Montreal to Duluth. On Monday, August 24th that group reunited at Park Point to celebrate their journey. The 1976 Bicentennial Canoe Expedition was sponsored by the city of Duluth to mark…...