Head of the Lakes
Selected Short Stories By Anthony Bukoski 2018, Nodin Press, $19.95 Head of the Lakes is the sixth short-story collection by Anthony Bukoski. Most of the...
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No Horizon Is So Far
Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica By Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft with Cheryl Dahle 2019, University of Minnesota Press, $14.95 No Horizon...
Bushcraft Illustrated: A Visual Guide
By Dave Canterbury 2019, Adams Media, $26.99 The format of this book hearkens back to an earlier era when folks turned to books, rather than...
Thunder Bay’s Field Naturalists Conservation Club
Thunder Bay—On an unusually hot and humid June evening in Thunder Bay, four volunteers are hunched over dense greenery along the McVicar Creek Recreation Trail....
Nature comes to Ely
Ely—Ellie Emerson was intrigued by her father’s friend Henry. The two men talked long into the night as Ellie eavesdropped from a secluded corner of...
Amethyst: The purple rocks of Thunder Bay
In the increasingly popular world of healing crystals, amethyst is one of many semi-precious stones that is attracting attention from the alternative medicine resurgence. People...
Plastic-free July
While visiting my parents in Michigan, we had been enjoying watching a pair of Canada geese and their five goslings. Each day the family of...
Stars of the North Festival Returns to Grand Marais
For the past two summers, Grand Marais’ Harbor Park has been busier and louder than usual with a new weekend-long music festival. That tradition will...