Lake Superior Magazine
Around the Circle This Week: January 21, 2022
Konnie LeMayJanuary 21, 2022
Winter Lock Down: It was a three-for-one end to the shipping season at the Soo Locks on Jan. 16 (last Saturday) when three boats huddled up to go through the Poe Lock...
Around the Circle This Week: January 7, 2022
Konnie LeMayJanuary 7, 2022
Operation Taconite, Engage!: The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie has launched its Operation Taconite, one of two Great Lakes ice-breaking task groups for the...
You're Gonna Love Winter
Konnie LeMayJanuary 3, 2022
Keith Meyers, who grew up in Chicago, knew something about winter. But he didn’t know one important thing about himself until he moved to the Keweenaw Peninsula...
Around the Circle This Week: December 17 2021
Konnie LeMayDecember 17, 2021
Lake Effects: An unusual bank of storms this week spawned Minnesota’s first-ever December tornadoes to the south of us and generated gale-force gusts on Lake...
Children's Books 2021
Konnie LeMayDecember 17, 2021
Grandmother’s Pigeon by Louise Erdrich; illus. by Jim LaMarche • University of Minnesota Press ISBN: 978-1-5179-1147-8 • $17.95 Hardcover This book brings a story...
Around the Circle This Week: December 10, 2021
Konnie LeMayDecember 10, 2021
Logo Ideas: Lt. Cmdr. Joel Wright, who will be in charge of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar (WLB 206) when the 225-foot Juniper-class buoy tender comes to Duluth in the...
Around the Circle This Week: December 3, 2021
Konnie LeMayDecember 3, 2021
Lock Out: The MacArthur Lock (in photo) is closing down early this season for “critical maintenance,” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week....
Festival of Sail on Its Way for 2022
Konnie LeMayNovember 26, 2021
The tall-masted ships will be back on Lake Superior next year with an extended stop in Two Harbors. The 2022 edition of Festival of Sail Lake Superior from Aug. 4-7 will...
Around the Circle This Week: November 26, 2021
Konnie LeMayNovember 26, 2021
Orehenge: Sure England has its Stonehenge, but Marquette has its Orehenge, when the sun and the ore dock at Marquette’s lower harbor line up a few times each year....
Around the Circle This Week: November 19, 2021
Konnie LeMayNovember 18, 2021
Over the Top: Photographer Paul Sundberg up in Grand Marais, Minn., documented a storm on Minnesota’s North Shore on Nov. 11. Says Paul in his Photo of the Week...









