Local lore in Kenwood, Duluth, Minnesota

• Kenwood is organized around a grocery store, not a park or a creek. The shopping center is the neighborhood's actual center of gravity, and residents give directions relative to it.
• The shopping center predates modern zoning and was controversial when it went in, precisely because it was built directly against a residential area. Fifty-plus years later, the same argument is still running at the Planning Commission.
• The College of St. Scholastica opened in 1912 with six students, twenty years after Mother Scholastica Kerst and 31 Sisters arrived from St. Joseph, Minnesota to found the motherhouse.
• Kenwood is one of the few genuinely level neighborhoods in a city famous for being vertical, which is why it turns up disproportionately in conversations about aging in place.
• The western blocks hear the airport. Locals can tell you which streets are under the approach and which are not.
• Hartley Park is five minutes away but not in the neighborhood, which is the practical difference between Kenwood and Woodland next door.

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