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| IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 7, 2004 Port History on the Net Duluth, Minn., U.S.A.—Twenty stories that didn’t fit into the recently published “Pride of the Inland Seas: An Illustrated History of the Port of Duluth-Superior” have now been produced electronically via the Internet. The Duluth Seaway Port Authority, primary sponsor of the Port’s first comprehensive history book, said the 20 stories are online through a link on the Authority’s homepage at www.duluthport.com. “Our authors, Bill Beck and C. Patrick Labadie, produced far more material than could be accommodated in the 288 pages of the book,” said Davis Helberg, retired Duluth Port director and history project coordinator. “Cutting the manuscript—and eliminating 20 quality stories—were like removing body parts,” Helberg said, “but Beck had this great idea about using the Internet for the overflow. I don’t know if it’s been done before, but our publisher thought it was a unique concept.” The book, published by Afton Historical Society Press, went on sale in late August and is available through national and local booksellers. The companion stories, all written as “sidebars,” or short stories involving larger themes, are accompanied by photos or artwork. Helberg and the Duluth Shipping News developed the Website. The stories cover topics such as the role of Capt. George Meade (later the victorious general at the civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg) in the first Duluth-Superior Harbor survey, an attempt by an absentee landowner in 1889 to collect tolls at the Duluth Ship Canal, an imaginary trip aboard the SS South American in 1939, and the christening of five ships in one day by the famous Dionne Quintuplets in 1943.
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