Outdoors
Around the Circle This Week: September 28, 2018
The New Kids in the Park: The National Park Service released two wolves – a 4-year-old female and 5-year-old male – on Wednesday as part of its project to...
10 for the Road Trip
Discover the Rare Features in These Scientific & Natural Areas FYI on SNAs: On Sugarloaf Point near Taconite Harbor, Minnesota, a rugged shoreline testifies to...
Matt Wahl – “Just Look at the Lake”
Local Songwriter Salutes Lake Superior [embedded content] Perfect Duluth Day’s series of posts featuring Duluth-related songs takes a turn for the corny this...
Cityscapes & Shorelines
The Photography of Jan Swart During her years as a North Shore expatriate in the Twin Cities, Jan Swart, a Two Harbors, Minnesota, native, loved using photos of...
Lightning and the Lake
A Striking Look at Our Summer Storms The most likely time to spot lightning on Lake Superior is between the third week of June and the second week of August, says Matt...
Welcome to the Big Lake
Summer Fun & Games A jug of wine, a jigsaw puzzle and thou. How different that familiar phrase – “a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou” – might have been...
Learning to See & Surprise Yourself
New Ways to View the Shore by Konnie LeMay Savvy photographers know that a camera can be your passport to exploring the world. And photo workshops or excursions can be...
Our Snowshoe Saint
As the story goes, in 1846, Father Frederic Baraga on Madeline Island heard word that the Ojibwe community at Grand Portage (in today’s Minnesota) was in the midst...
Rescuing The Rock
A Volunteer Movement to Save a Lighthouse Maybe it’s the isolation, the endless battle against wind and waves, or the tales sheltered within. Whatever the...
Fishing You Were Here, Let a Charter Be Your Guide
It was 5:15 a.m. on a June day, and Jon Dahl was commuting to his family business in downtown Duluth. His destination? Jon’s idea of the ideal office: a 32-foot,...
