Zenith City press publisher Tony Dierckins will present on “Oliver Traphagen: Duluth’s Quintessential Architect” Thursday, October 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the Gold Room of the  Duluth Public Library’s main branch in downtown Duluth. The event is FREE and the first lecture in the library’s new Maryanne Norton Lecture Series. Norton co-authored Lost Duluth—a finalist…

Unfortunately, due to Wednesdayday’s snowstorm, this week’s Zenith City on Tap about Duluth’s 1889 City Hall was cancelled. But there’s still one more chance to catch a free night of live history at Glensheen. This year’s final Zenith City on Tap—on Wednesday, February 27—is titled Naturally Better: 150 Years of Brewing Beer with Lake Superior Water,…

Our next Zenith City on Tap—on Wednesday, February 20—is titled Duluth’s 1889 City Hall & the Mayor’s Who Served Inside It: Renowned Duluth architect Oliver Traphagen designed Duluth’s 1889 City Hall at the southwest corner of Superior Street and  Second Avenue East to serve the seat of Duluth’s municipal government, which it did until 1929. This…

Our next Zenith City on Tap—on Wednesday, February 13—is titled For the People, By the People: Duluth’s Park System, 1889–2019: Pioneers of the Zenith City first began platting small parks—or “public squares”—as early as 1856, but it wasn’t until the city’s first Board of Park Commissioners formed in 1889 that Duluth laid out a plan to…

This year’s first Zenith City on Tap—on Wednesday, February 6—is titled Becoming the Twin Ports: Duluth & Superior, 1855–1910: The region known today as “The Northland” was called the “Head of Lakes” for much of its early history. Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota, competed to see which community would emerge as the nation’s most important…

Zenith City Press publisher Tony Dierckins will present “We Made it Good…You Made It Famous: The History of Beer Brewing in Superior, Wisconsin” on Sunday, January 27 at 2 p.m. at the Douglas County Historical Society, 1101 John Ave., Superior. The event is part of the DCHS’s “History Sundays” series, and they’ll have plenty of…