Local writer Chuck Frederick, will be doing a book signing, and slide presentation, at the Depot entitled: "Leather heads of the North; When Duluth Saved the NFL--and ended up in the Movies.
Raised a Packers fan in Greenfield , Wisconsin , on the south side of Milwaukee , ''Leatherheads of the North'' author Chuck Frederick is a veteran journalist of more than 20 years. A graduate of Winona State University in Winona , Minnesota , he has written for a number of Minnesota newspapers, including the Winona Daily News, the Daily Journal of International Falls and the Duluth News Tribune.
With a passion for local history, Frederick currently pens a Saturday column for the Duluth News Tribune and serves as the paper's Deputy Editorial Page Editor. Frederick also is the author of '' Duluth : The City and the People'' (1994) and contributed heavily to two News Tribune book-length publications: '' Aerial Lift Bridge : Spanning a Century'' (2005) and '' Duluth : Then and Now'' (2005). He also is a contributing author of ''Grandma's Marathon and Beyond'' (2006).
His writing has garnered numerous awards and honors, and – despite living in Duluth – in February 1995 he was named Citizen of the Month in neighboring Superior , Wisconsin , for a series of stories that helped a toddler receive a life-saving kidney transplant.
His brief but memorable silver-screen career consists of a featured role as a race official in the 1994 Walt Disney film, ''Iron Will.''
In addition to writing, Frederick can often be found with his family or on a softball field, in a fishing boat, leaning over a pool table, on a basketball court or on a golf course.
Still holding out hope of being discovered by a pro baseball or pro basketball scout while out playing in his yard, Frederick lives in Duluth 's western hillside with his wife and three daughters. And although he lives in Minnesota and wrote ''Leatherheads of the North'' about Duluth 's historic NFL team, he still bleeds Packers gr
