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 [...]
The Pillars of Duluth
By John Ramos
The idea of a Duluth aquarium first surfaced in 1982. Since then, the aquarium has come to the city for dozens of favors, many fiscal in nature, some quite enormous. Not one request has ever been turned down. For twenty-five years, the city council and administration—be it Fedo, Doty or Bergson—have, with perfect [...]