Echo Star Helstrom was Bob Dylan’s high-school girlfriend in Hibbing, Minnesota. She met Dylan (then Bob Zimmerman) in 11th grade, and they were romantically involved for about one year. Helstrom, a free-spirited blonde from a less-affluent section of town than the Zimmerman family, has been frequently cited as the inspiration for Dylan’s classic folk ballad Girl From The North Country. (This identification is far from certain, and other candidates for the girl from the north country are Bonnie Beecher, or perhaps no single person in particular.) Helstrom has also been seen as a possible inspiration for Dylan’s song Hazel, and perhaps for parts of his album Blonde on Blonde.