The 85-foot statue, depicting an ordinary miner standing atop steel girders, is an Iron Range landmark and a tribute to the tenaciousness of the late Veda Ponikvar.
Chisholm’s Iron Man Memorial graced the cover of the Hometown Focus Mining Edition on September 28, 2018. On this page is, at least in part, his story. The Iron Man Memorial in Chisholm stands at eighty-five feet tall as a monument to the miners of Minnesota’s Iron Range. The nearly thirty-year story of its creation
"Never Dry" takes a multifaceted look at how northern Minnesota bootlegged its way through the 1920s. An enthusiastic crowd turned out last week to take a first look at the new exhibit.