Duluth’s Greatest Myths: Famous Fabulous Fibs and Fantastic Fictions

Was the Duluth Ship Canal really dug overnight by “100 stout men”? Was the Zenith City every home to “more millionaires per capita than any other city in America?” Did Mark Twain really say “the worst winter I ever spent was a summer in Duluth”? Was that America’s “Ace of Aces” Richard I. Bong flying that P-38 through the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge during World War II? Was a baby ever born – or conceived – on Duluth’s Aerial Transfer Bridge? And did Rose Brochi – the “grandma” of Grandma’s Restaurant – even exist? Adapted from Duluth: An Urban Biography

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