Meet-and-Greet: Arnold R. Alanen for The Scenic Route

Name: Meet-and-Greet: Arnold R. Alanen for The Scenic Route
Start: 2025-09-20T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-20T14:45:00-05:00
Location: 318 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55807

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:45 pm

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Location

318 North Central Ave, Duluth, MN, United States, Minnesota 55807 | Duluth, MN

Join us as we welcome historical author Arnold R. Alanen for a meet and greet for his new book The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota’s North Shore (University of MN Press). Arnold will be with us on Saturday, September 20th, 11-12:45 pm. He will be available to sign and talk about this intriguing book one-to-one with readers.
Journey along Minnesota’s North Shore, the spectacular Lake Superior coastline between Duluth and the Canadian border, and travel through natural and cultural splendor. The North Shore Scenic Drive, the stretch of Minnesota Highway 61 that leads through tunnels and remarkable vistas, crosses rivers and streams and rocky divides as it makes its way through fishing villages, logging sites, tourist enclaves, and numerous national forests and state parks that have made the North Shore a beloved destination for generations.
The highway corridor and lakeshore offer evidence of human activities that began after the retreat of glacial ice, when the Anishinaabe people plied the waters of Lake Superior. Euro-American explorers and traders followed, and soon the footpaths established by the region’s first inhabitants were used by dogsleds, horse-drawn sleighs, and coaches—and then, in 1917, the rugged trails became the early motor road that would eventually be Minnesota Highway 61.
Arnold R. Alanen, born, raised, and educated in Minnesota, is professor emeritus of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town (Minnesota, 2007) and Finns in Minnesota; coauthor of Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin; and coeditor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America.