Lincoln Park

By Brooks Johnson bjohnson@duluthnews.com

Full disclosure: I live here. I write that first because like every neighborhood in Duluth, Lincoln Park inspires a great deal of pride. As a place, it is sprawling and diverse and beautiful. As an idea of a place, it is a blue-collar community united by human problems and heartfelt solutions. Young families like mine share the beat-up roads with longtime residents, our homes tightly packed and our resolve firm in the face of the damage wrought by opioids and meth. We dream of better lives for ourselves and our children, but not somewhere else. Right here.

I took my parents up to the shining Lincoln Park Middle School for a look out over the bay this summer. The crossroads of industry, the seemingly limitless sea beyond and all the quiet homes below — this is home.

To read more about Lincoln Park’s past, present and future see Page 26-27.