The girls laughed from their bellies, now concave.
Included in the photograph was one D.T. Grussendorf, past President of the Minnesota State Fair Board, Duluth city council member, and Duluth-area forestry county agent. Grussendorf’s personal crown jewel was his 1959 execution of a “grand vision” he had of a twenty-six-foot-high gold-colored fiberglass and “weather proof plastic component” Neptune statue to celebrate Duluth’s recent designation as a Foreign Trade Zone, which would bring in thousands of ocean-going ships. The Roman god of the sea held a trident in one hand and a replica of the Ramon de Larrinaga in the other. The Ramon was the first modern ocean ship to pass through the canal in Duluth after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, which allowed ocean-going vessels to sail
