Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Monday, June 26, 2023. 

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On Saturday, June 24, 2023, the Duluth News Tribune released episode 17 of the Northlandia podcast, which is a weekly podcast that tells true stories of the unique and fascinating people and places you'll find exploring the Northland. 

To give you another opportunity to see the unique stories Northlandia has to offer, we're providing episode 5 here for you listen. This episode of Northlandia was first released on April 1, 2023. 

If you enjoy the episode, we encourage you to check out the other episodes of Northlandia by visiting duluthnewstribune.com/topics/northlandia or wherever you get your podcasts. The Duluth News Tribune Minute is a product of Forum Communications Company and is brought to you by reporters at the Duluth News Tribune, Superior Telegram and Cloquet Pine Journal. Find more news throughout the day at duluthnewstribune.com.

In this special weekend episode, Duluth News Tribune arts and entertainment reporter Jay Gabler shares his most recent article in his weekly column, "Front Row Seat." Today's topic is: Breaking a sweat at the William A. Irvin 5K.

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Friday, June 23, 2023. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Thursday, June 22, 2023. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Wednesday, June 21, 2023. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Tuesday, June 20, 2023. 

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Here’s a look at the top headlines from around the Northland for Monday, June 19, 2023. 

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This past week, the Superior Telegram released it’s 17th episode of Archive Dive, which is a monthly history podcast hosted by Telegram reporter Maria Lockwood. Each month, Maria and a local historian dive into the archives of historic events, people and places in Superior and Douglas County. 

For this month’s episode of Archive Dive, we focus on Antoine and Sarah Gordon, who founded the town of Gordon. The couple played a key role in growing the community following the end of the fur trade era. Their 1858 log cabin, which served as a home, hotel and trading post for the stage coach line, is listed on the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places.

Maria is joined by Antoine and Sarah’s great-great-grandson Doug MacDonald, as well as Brian Finstad — both of the Gordon-Wascott Historical Society — as MacDonald shares stories of Antoine and Sarah that were passed along in his family.

Antoine (pronounced An-twine) was born in 1812 in Sandy Lake, Minnesota and died in 1907. Sarah was born in 1827 in Burnett County, Wisconsin and died in 1911. They met on Madeline Island, married in 1843 and went on to have three daughters and two sons.

Antoine was community-minded and involved in many things, including as a storekeeper in Gordon. He founded a mission that became the Catholic Church. He also started the first school in Gordon. As MacDonald points out, this was despite the fact that Antoinie didn’t have much schooling of his own.

“He really only had not even a six-month education, but yet, he spoke five languages,” says MacDonald. “Latin, Sioux, Chippewa, English, French.”

So what brought Antoine and Sarah to the Gordon area?

“He was up and down the St. Croix River trading in years past,” says MacDonald. “He thought that it (Gordon area) was a choice spot apparently and apparently, it was.”

Finstad is among many who appreciate what Antoine and Sarah founded, joking that they founded the best town in Douglas County.

“I think they are some of the most interesting historical figures of the area,” says Finstad. “In their time, they had wide influence. They were so well-connected, if not related, to people in sort of fur-trade era society and the local native communities. Their story is just an interesting story. They moved around a lot and they were well-connected and had a lot of interesting events.”

You can find that episode at superiortelegram.com or whatever streaming service you listen to this podcast.  

In case you missed Archive Dive’s 16th episode, we are re-sharing it here. In May, Maria and local historian Teddie Meronek take a trip back to the heyday of Superior ship building and discuss when the famous Dionne quintuplets visited Superior to help launch 5 cargo ships during World War II. Thank you for listening!

In this special weekend episode, Duluth News Tribune arts and entertainment reporter Jay Gabler shares his most recent article in his weekly column, "Front Row Seat." Today's topic is: What I learned from my first Duluth sailing lesson.

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