As I entered the lobby of the Holiday Inn on February 18, 2010, en route to the monthly Spirit Mountain board meeting, I had a bit of trouble negotiating the doors, encumbered as I was with a Fujifilm FinePix S5100 digital camera, a Marantz PMD 201 portable cassette recorder with plug-in Radio Shack unidirectional dynamic [...]
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Spirit Mountain’s Secret Contracts
As I entered the national headquarters of the Zenith Management Company on January 21, 2010, the portraits of company founders Manley Goldfine, Erwin Goldfine and Fannie Goldfine Benton beamed at me from a nearby wall, liking what they saw: An enterprising young man, moving with purpose. Perhaps I reminded them a little of themselves.
Located on the [...]
Spirit Mountain Has New Chairs
Early in the afternoon of October 26, 2009, fifteen or twenty people milled about in the mud at the top of Spirit Mountain, waiting for the mayor to arrive. Spirit Mountain employees and board members made up two-thirds of the gathering; the rest were from the media. We were there to watch the mayor cut [...]
How to Control the Media: A Rant
On October 8, 2009, the Duluth News Tribune ran a front-page story entitled “Wild ride coming to Duluth.” Written by veteran reporter John Myers, the story was about the Alpine Coaster, a new ride being planned for Spirit Mountain.
“It’s the coolest thing ever,” Renee Mattson, executive director of Spirit Mountain, is quoted as saying. “This [...]