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Find something to do this week in the Northland.

Today, many people look forward to Memorial Day as the first day of summer, a day when families put on cook-outs, people break out boats after a winter of frozen lakes, and on Lake DeSmet, it is the weekend of the annual fishing derby. But, Memorial Day has a much more solemn meaning. To go back

From the column: "Minnesota played a major role in the Civil War, contributing the very first volunteers to heed President Abraham Lincoln’s call for a ... volunteer militia after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter ... in 1861."

Four Minnesota writers collaborated with a British author to pen a volume that dives into the details regarding Dylan's Duluth childhood, Hibbing youth and Minneapolis sojourn.

HIstory columnist M.L. “Mike” Marotte III looks at the life of George A. Minnich, who died in Chambersburg in 1923.

2020 Duluth East graduate, Megan Nygarrd, has been awarded the Mike Colalillo Medal of Honor scholarship.

Albert H. Woolson was the last Union Army veteran of the American Civil War who lived to see the Cold War—before passing away in 1956.

Some 53,000 veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg came together in 1913, 50 years after the battle ended.

"Man, Child & Gull" turns 30 this year. Sterling Rathsack's bronze was one of several pieces commissioned to enhance Duluth's tourist hub.

First Memorial Day observance in Faribault was May 30, 1869. Exact same date as Memorial Day 2022 falls on. 153 years ago to the day Faribault honors Veterans