Katie Bissell: Kat’s Tat’s
Katie Bissell is giving visitors and residents a chance to get new ink on the North Shore. Bissell, a Blooming Prairie, Minn. native, has always...
Arts
The Knutkorg: From the Poor Farm to the Trading Post in the 1940s
by northwilds
It’s a couple weeks before Memorial Day, the early 1940s, and the tourist season on the North Shore would soon be in full swing. Spring...
Giiwekiiwin: Returning Home
Niiyo-gikinoonowin (four years) ago, my niiji (friend) and I headed to Alaska for my birthday; it was a trip I had bawaazh (dreamed) about for years. We met amazingly miikawaadenim (beautiful) people....
Mood Indigo: Cool jazz in the heat
It’s a busy time at Thunder Bay’s Anchor and Ore restaurant in the waterfront Delta Hotel come Friday evening dinner hour. Wait staff and bar...
Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour
Art is always found in abundance along the North Shore. From Duluth to Thunder Bay following Highway 61, all genres are available for any interest...
The Way a Grandmother Holds Us
Ezhi-dakonaawasod gookomis This newest piece celebrates my nookomis (grandmother). I told my indede (dad) recently that I wasn’t sure if I baawaajige (dreamt) about my nookomis (grandmother) or if she visited me. I’ve...
Jo Wood: Painting with a Needle and Thread
by Eric Kaira
Jo Wood paints, but not with a brush. Instead, she prefers to use a needle and thread to bring to life the colorful northern landscapes...
The Beauty of Woodenware
by northwilds
As I sit down to dinner with my wife Jazmin each evening, I am surrounded by treasures. On my dining table, made of hundred-year-old Chestnut...