Was there really a 20th century nation called Republic of Nirivia on an island in northern Lake Superior? A country with its own flag, national anthem, postage stamp, national bird (blue heron), national flower (lady slipper), and offering Nirivian citizenship to visitors? Well, according to legends and lore of Lake......

One could drive down May Street and not notice the building, were it not for the line of cars entering the parking lot. Saturday mornings in Thunder Bay mean it’s Market time. Year around, vendors at Thunder Bay Country Market conform to the rule, “Make it, Bake it, Grow it.”......

Under a dusty shaft of sunlight in his rural Wisconsin forge, Cody Myers runs a calloused, sooted finger across the polished surface of his latest Damascus steel knife. Distinguished by banded lines and wavy mottling, the ancient welding technique fashioned weaponry for warriors throughout Asia and the Middle East for......

When I was a kid, Portage Creek, located east of Thunder Bay, on the Sibley Peninsula, was a well-known steelhead fishery. I caught one of my very first rainbows at Portage, drifting sponge in the pool located below the falls. This spot was a bottle neck for trout and many......