A Winter Downpour is very excited to be hosting some excellent bands from Minneapolis on Friday over at Beaner’s Central. Dave Mehling and The Fontanelles will be sharing the stage with us and the Duluth debut of Minneapolis favorites Communist Daughter. Hope to see you there.
Friday June 18th
Beaner’s Central
08pm | All Ages | $5
+ A Winter Downpour
+ Communist Daughter
+ The Fontanelles
In celebration of Bloomsday, June 16
Various Citizens and Others
will read their favorite pissages from James Joyce’s Ulysses
out loud to their Friends and Others
within the licensed primroses
of the beloved Carmody Irish Pub
Upon the holy day of June 16, that being the day of all events occurring between the covers of aforesaid book by our Jim
(and the event that happened outside the covers between our Jim and Nora his Barnacle)
Commencin around 8 pm and ending up a couple hours later or when we run out of the good stuff
All comers will have their chance to face off with that famous character James Joyce and read at will of their favorite bits.
Carmody is at 308 E Superior St. in Duluth, (218) 740-4747
Below is the complete text of a story from the June 7, 2000 issue of Duluth’s Ripsaw newspaper.
Duluth’s Lingering Shame
Eighty years ago Duluthians carried out one of the most horrific acts this region has ever seen. How did it happen? Have we changed?
By Heidi Bakk-Hansen
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
— From Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row”
On June 15, 1920, a mob of 10,000 lynched Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton and Elmer Jackson at the corner of First Street and Second Avenue East in Duluth. …
Duluth’s Lingering Shame: Clayton, Jackson, McGhie LynchingRead more
