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All About the Arts The North Shore is known for many things—its pristine waters, breathtaking views, endless hiking and recreation possibilities, and of course, Lake Superior, just to name a few. Because of this, people are drawn here year-round to experience the beauty of this area. Tourists arrive in droves to marvel at the big lake and drive up the Gunflint Trail, and those of us who are lucky enough to call this place home try not to take it for granted. Artists of all kinds are also inspired by the North Shore, which is why we decided to focus on the arts this month.

Share Your Thoughts Do you have a question for one of our writers? Or an interesting photo, recipe, or story you’d like to share with Northern Wilds? Please send it to storyideas@ northernwilds.com.

Rae Poynter’s feature story “Creating in Community” focuses on artists that share their work through art cooperatives and galleries, bringing them a greater sense of community and expanding their creative paths. In the Along the Shore section, Poynter also writes about the new Tamarack Land Cooperative in Hovland, and a separate story on how state and local incentives are bringing more films to Northern Minnesota. Chris Pascone tells us all about the Duluth Folk School and their latest happenings.

Strange Tales columnist Elle Andra-Warner teaches us about traditional and contemporary Indigenous art, such as moose tufting and birch-bark biting.

Thunder Bay writer Peter Fergus-Moore interviews jazz trio Indigo Mood, performing every Friday through October at Anchor and Ore restaurant in the waterfront Delta Hotel. In our Creative Space column, Michelle Miller breaks down the upcoming Lake Superior 20/20 Studio & Art Tour, held Sept.

23-25 in Two Harbors. Other art events, including Art Along the Lake: Fall Studio Tour, held Sept. 23Oct. 2 in Cook County, are covered in the Spotlight section, as well as our events section.

Of course, art isn’t the only topic we cover this month. In his Points North column, Shawn Perich dwells on the days when grouse were called partridge and you’d hunt them on foot, not on an ATV. Northern Trails columnist Gord Ellis tells us why fishing for fall muskies is worth the time and patience. Joe Shead goes out of his way to visit an “old friend,” one that requires a fishing pole and hiking through thick growth to find. Chris Pascone cooks up some rusty crayfish for supper, while also teaching us a cool camping trick. Last but not least, Eric Chandler recalls his 65-mile thru-hike adventure on the Border Route Trail through the Boundary Waters with his dog Leo. At some point this month, the trees will start to change from their summer green to the vibrant yellows, oranges and reds of fall. During this time, North Shore Dish columnist Virginia George has a trip planned for eating your way up the shore, starting with breakfast at New London Café in Duluth and ending the day with dessert at Superior Creamery in Grand Marais.

There’s a lot more good stuff in this issue, but I don’t want to give it all away. So sit back, relax and enjoy at your leisure.—Breana Johnson

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Using a long lens means that you don’t need to get as physically close to a wild animal as you would otherwise, but understanding the subject and fieldcraft are more important than camera equipment. Wear rustlefree clothing that breaks up your shape, move very slowly, try not to make eye contact, make sure your outline doesn’t break the skyline, and approach mammals with the wind in your face so your scent isn’t carried towards them. If you’re in a vehicle, stay in it and shoot out the window.

Focus on the eyes, take lots of shots and have fun. —David R. Johnson

James Smedley’s wiry frame regularly labours under a heavy pack of camera gear in search of fish, photos and outdoor adventure. His contributions to U.S. and Canadian books, magazines and newspapers have earned him an arm load of National and International awards.

He currently resides in Wawa, Ontario with his wife Francine.

David R. Johnson is a photographer from Grand Marais. A fourthgeneration resident of the area, he grew up exploring the area’s vast forests, lakes, rivers and streams.

“I travel the back country all the time taking photos of anything that catches my eye; the northern lights are my favorite, followed by wildlife,” he says.

Paul Sundberg has done landscape and wildlife photography since the early 1970s. Paul and his wife Karla moved to the North Shore in 1976 managing several State Parks until his retirement in 2010. Paul and Karla currently reside near Grand Marais where Paul continues to pursue his passion for photographing Lake Superior and the Boundary Waters.

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The MN DNR allows individuals with valid resident or nonresident angling licenses to harvest up to 25 pounds of live crayfish. | CHRIS PASCONE

Trapper’s delight Rusty crayfish NORTH SHORE— Want to wash your camping dishes in the wilderness with zero effort?

Let me share a life hack made in the Northern Wilds.

I had fried up a big pan of bacon on my MSR stove one Friday evening at a campsite on Tofte Lake outside Ely, and was dreading washing the grease off. On a whim I threw the greasy pan in our crayfish trap overnight and plopped it in the lake.

The next morning, the pan with bacon bits burnt all over was now spotless! No exaggeration—it was cleaned to a shine by hundreds of crayfish. I’m not sure how Leave No Trace this method is, but I can say there was definitely no trace of the bacon...

I literally pulled the pan out of the trap and started cooking on it again—no soap, no sponge, nothing. It was like having one of those Japanese robots that does your housework for you—but wilderness style. When we bought our crayfish trap at Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely, we didn’t realize we were getting a free dishwasher to go with it.

Rusty crayfish are an invasive species that are overtaking some northern lakes. I personally don’t wrestle with any hard feelings about harvesting them. The MN DNR allows individuals with valid resident or nonresident angling licenses to harvest up to 25 pounds of live crayfish. Here’s how to become a crayfish trapper and get your next meal straight out of the lake.

First, you’ll need a trap, which weighs almost nothing. Ours, made by Promar, has nylon netting wrapped around a wire frame.

The collapsible trap folds up flat and is easy to take on your next camping trip. Steve Piragis, owner of the namesake store in Ely, says that he originally got the idea of carrying crayfish traps about 20 years ago.

“We had a friend from Sweden who told us that many people there use traps as a way to get some interesting wild food resources.

Rusty crayfish are an invasive species that are overtaking some northern lakes. | CHRIS PASCONE

Be sure to boil the crayfish until they turn red. | CHRIS PASCONE We found someone in Duluth who imported the traps, and put them in the catalog,” said Piragis.

Next, you’ll need to do your research to find lakes where “rusties” have become established. Ask around locally, inquire at your favorite bait shop, or just scan the lake bottom the next time you’re at your favorite lake for this invasive species.

Rusty crayfish are native to the Ohio River Basin, but were likely transported to Minnesota by fishermen as bait, then released into the water rather than being properly disposed.

According to Matt Weberg, assistant area supervisor in the Grand Marais office of the Minnesota DNR, crayfish are predators. Weberg explains that in a lot of lakes in

the Northern Wilds, the macroinvertebrate (bug) community is very important to the food chain, and rusty crayfish can eat those bugs before the fish species get them. This can disrupt the natural food chain. Furthermore, crayfish can reduce the amount of habitat for aquatic bugs by eating the aquatic plants that the bugs hide in. Crayfish can clean out a lake with their voracious eating habits and impact the ecosystem so that it’s not as productive as it should be.

Weberg also states that in lakes where rusty crayfish and native crayfish co-exist, the rusties are much more likely to push the native crayfish out.

“It’s not a mutualistic relationship between crayfish once the rusties get in the lake,” says Weberg.

Weberg refers to the Pike Lake Homeowners Association as a Grand Marais-area entity that has promoted crayfish trapping as a way of dealing with runaway rusty crayfish populations. Besides Pike Lake, Weberg names Caribou Lake in Lutsen, and Hungry Jack, West Bearskin and Duncan in the mid-Gunflint Trail as other area lakes with confirmed rusty crayfish populations.

So, what do you do when you catch enough rusty crayfish to make dinner? The first step is to boil them until they turn red.

Try seasoning the water with bay leaves, salt and Old Bay to make a broth. It took our family about 100 crayfish to make a meal (you’ll want corn, bread and other side dishes to round out the skimpy crayfish), since the only meat you get comes from the tails. According to Piragis, rusty crayfish are a “slow feast.” They’re not a lobster, that’s for sure.

Piragis says a lot of customers know that crayfish are a delicacy down south in Cajun country, and that piques their curiosity to net them in Minnesota.

Besides eating a free meal of crayfish, and preventing the ecosystem damage they do, one also gets the pleasure of playing with them. Our daughters spent hours on the beach handling the not-so-dangerous crayfish. When the crayfish pinched them, the girls whooped out loud—something kids are always looking to do anyway.

Make crayfish your next foraging target and do some environmental justice by removing this invasive species from northern waters. Have a fun, lean meal and enjoy playing with these pint-sized crustaceans that make kids squeal in delight.—Chris Pascone

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Organizations like Lost Forty Studios and the Upper Midwest Film Office are working to bring more films to the area. | SUBMITTED DULUTH— Northern Minnesota is a region of pristine and wild beauty, and soon the region’s forests and lakes could become the backdrop for movies and television shows.

As state and local incentives continue to intrigue film industry executives, organizations like Lost Forty Studios and the Upper Midwest Film Office are working to bring more films to the area, a move that could provide a boost to Northern Minnesota’s economy and more job opportunities for local residents.

Nick Swedlund is a co-founder and producer for Lost Forty Studios, a studio and production services provider based in Chisholm, Minn. Swedlund is a Minnesota native who spent 10 years studying and working in the film industry in Los Angeles before returning to Minneapolis. Over the years he’s had experience in many areas of film, including writing, direction and production, and he’s now putting those skills to work in Northern Minnesota.

“I’ve been doing my part to help build the Minnesota film community,” Swedlund said.

Lost Forty Studios had its beginnings at the 2019 Catalyst Story Institute & Content Festival, the nation’s only independent television festival that is now held in Duluth every fall. It was at the festival that Swedlund and business partner, Matt Roy of Headwaters Entertainment, met Karl Gajdusek, a producer who has written screenplays for films such as Oblivion and has worked as a showrunner on shows such as Stranger Things. Gajdusek, Swedlund and Roy began the plan to start Lost Forty Studios together, which started its first productions in January 2022.

“We’ve successfully produced three projects, two in Chisholm and one in Duluth,” Swedlund said. “The state, as well as St. Louis County and the Iron Range, have reimbursement incentives for films, and these incentives are the primary reason that films are happening here. When you combine them all, they’re the best incentives in North America, and they’re acting like a beacon to the film industry.”

The idea of film coming to Northern Minnesota could be good news for the local economy. Currently, Lost Forty Studios has been working with independent films and TV shows coming to Northern Minnesota, typically with budgets from $500,000 to $2 million. Half of those budgets are spent locally, which brings an opportunity to di-

versify local economies: many pockets of the Northern Wilds have economies that are heavily dependent on tourism, which can be challenging when tourism demand is concentrated during just a few months of the year. Film opportunities, by contrast, could provide more year-round income for local workers and businesses. For example, one of the films that Lost Forty Studios recently produced was filmed in Chisholm in January. This brought an injection of spending to the area during a time of year when local hotels, restaurants, and shops typically see lighter traffic. Not only that, but the film industry brings opportunities for locals to find non-tourism related work.

“Film is a great opportunity to change careers,” Swedlund said. “It’s a common misconception that you need some sort of degree to work in the film industry, but that’s not true. The majority of jobs are blue-collar skills, such as construction or transportation.

And one of the most amazing things about the film industry is the transferable skills.

Have a background in graphic design? We could use your skills in the art department.

Finance and accounting? We need those skills in production. Writing or more creative skills—it’s all transferable.”

Despite the promising incentives and opportunities, large-scale film productions still need large crews and the infrastructure to support those crews. To help with some of this, Lost Forty Studios partners with the Upper Midwest Film Office, which is headquartered in Duluth, to put on quarterly workforce training workshops. These workshops typically take place over a weekend, and train about 20 new people at a time to work on film sets. Swedlund said that funding for the Chisholm workshops comes through the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board, while the Upper Midwest Film Office is working with the City of Duluth and other partners to bring more workshops to Duluth.

(The goal is to alternate workshop locations between Duluth and Chisholm.) The next of these weekend workshops will take place October 21-23.

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HOVLAND— Lake Superior’s North Shore has long been a source of inspiration for artists. And now, a new artist cooperative in Hovland hopes to be a haven for artists looking to focus on their creative work and connect with other artists.

Ross Orenstein is a co-founder and full-time resident at the new Tamarack Land Cooperative (TLC). According to Orenstein, the idea for the TLC was born from a group of creative-minded friends at the University of Minnesota who graduated around 2012. Many in this group of friends continued to work together in the Minneapolis theater world, renting space in an artist collective together and working on similar projects throughout the years. However, an idea of building an artist collective outside of the city was starting to brew among the friends.

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“Being from Minnesota, a lot of us had a love for the northwoods, and the idea of doing something up here was always in the back of our minds,” Orenstein said.

In 2018, one of the friends was looking at properties on Zillow and found a unique property in Hovland: with several buildings on the site, including large gathering spaces, it was one that could potentially work for their dream of starting a northwoods artist collective. Some of the group members visited that November and decided to purchase the property, turning the idea of the TLC into a reality.

According to Orenstein, there was a lot of work to be done on the property to make it liveable year-round, including adding heat to the buildings. However, he said the bones of the property were good, and they knew it had the potential to be converted for their purposes. The first members were able to move to the property in March of 2020—just in time for the covid pandemic to start.

“It had always been the plan to move up in March, before we knew about covid,” Orenstein said. “We moved up here with three weeks worth of food, not sure what would be open. Even though it brought challenges, the silver lining was that it was also a beautiful time, and it forced us to really get to work on finishing up the property.”

Right now, the TLC has four full-time residents, with the housing cooperative being a large part of the operations.

Apart from long-term residents, the TLC also plans to offer short-term residencies throughout the year. Open to artists of all disciplines, the residencies will last about 10 days and give the artists full use of the property. Orenstein said that it’s been their goal to offer affordable programs that open pathways for artists who may be interested in a residency program but don’t have the means to participate in expensive residencies.

“A lot of artists benefit from coming here and not having to leave or have any other distractions for 10 days. You can focus on your work, meet other artists, and take time to explore the property and enjoy being surrounded by nature,” Orenstein said. “This is a very unique project, and there’s nothing else like it in the area, but we’ve had a lot of support from people in the county on this project.”

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Apart from long-term residents, the Tamarack Land Cooperative in Hovland also plans to offer short-term residences throughout the year for artists of all disciplines—residences will last about 10 days. | SUBMITTED Looking ahead, Orenstein said that they plan to start doing more performances for and with the community. TLC is partnering with Open Eye Theater in Minneapolis, which does The Driveway Tour. As the name suggests, The Driveway Tour takes shows out on the road to be performed in various outdoor locations in the Twin Cities Metro area. Open Eye and the TLC are planning to bring something similar to Cook County, with their first performance planned for late summer 2022. Orenstein said they are also working with neighbor Shannon Crossbear, who is planning to do a puppetry show.

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Mood Indigo

Cool jazz in the heat THUNDER BAY— 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 staff are rushing to take and fill orders, while nearby concierge staff register incoming guests.

Busy is a happy sound for a hotel, but around 6 p.m., it is about to get a lot happier, with the stylings of jazz combo Mood Indigo.

The trio set up in a small alcove in plain sight of the guests. Glenn Jennings, on keyboards and bass pedal, hits a chord, then launches into an upbeat jazz standard, while tenor saxophonist Mark Thibert gently riffs a soulful melody line. Anna Torontow, moving with the beat, belts out some opening vocalese before bringing her powerful voice seamlessly into the trio’s blend of cool jazz music for a hot summer evening.

“It’s a great atmosphere!” enthuses Jennings between numbers. “The Delta is pretty happy with us. Our music is suited to the crowd here.”

Torontow brings it down after some high energy tunes, with My Funny Valentine, so that the well-known standard rises above yet settles comfortably with the dining room ambience. That juxtaposition of blending with, yet standing out from, is just what Mood Indigo members are trying to achieve.

How the combo achieves that is a matter of paying attention—to their own feelings and the audience in front of them.

“We connect with the audience,” says Torontow, “We’re not just singing flatly words from a page or notes from a chart. We’re really putting ourselves into it and emoting it.”

“Our music has always been very personal between the three of us,” Thibert agrees.

“It’s always been an emotional experience where we have bonded with our audience.

We’ve come into various audiences where it’s different mixtures of people and we’ll change up our set list so that our music facilitates the moods and the emotion of the audience that we’re playing to.”

“We are very respectful of one another— we listen; be creative with one another,” Jennings chimes in. “When I play a song, I might change up the tempo, or add colouration to the melody. Every time we play a song, we play it differently.”

“Jazz is very improvisational,” Torontow agrees. “I hardly ever see Glenn or Mark play with a chart in front of them. They play solos in every song and I think you have to be really attuned to the people you play with, communicate with non-verbally in the middle of a song. They’ve made it so easy!”

Members of Mood Indigo are emphatic that they are playing as much as friends as musical colleagues. The present form of the combo, formed originally by Thibert in the 1990s, has been around since 2019, when Torontow joined as vocalist. Prior to that, each one came from another part of the

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Thunder Bay jazz trio Mood Indigo consists of [L TO R] Glenn Jennings, Mark Thibert and Anna Torontow. | PETER FERGUS-MOORE province, bringing their own experience and passions into the mix.

other bands, but we each do our own thing in a unique way.”

Parry Sound-born Jennings came to the Lakehead in 1978 as an elementary school teacher of instrumental music, while Torontow moved north in 2010. Windsor-born Thibert came as a plastic surgeon, a discipline he still practices, and which, despite his time management skills, occasionally impacts Mood Indigo.

Mood Indigo members have had a busy summer, having applied for as many festivals and gigs as they could possibly play, only to be accepted for all of them. The band has played Live on the Waterfront, the Waverly Park Monday night concert series, and Chippewa Park, to name but three, in a single month alone. The Delta Friday evenings will also continue though October.

“He’s had to leave for an emergency if he’s on call in the middle of a gig,” says Torontow. “But it’s hardly ever, thankfully.”

Each, especially Torontow, reflects that the Lakehead presents a unique opportunity for making music. “I think we’re very lucky to have found each other as a band,” she says. “We have a lot of drive to make ourselves better and it works really well. And also, there aren’t too many people saturating the market with jazz here. There are a few

As the applause dies down, Jennings brings the energy back up with the brisk-tempo Ellington number, Take the A Train, a somewhat gutsy move as the tune is normally associated with a full jazz orchestra. Heads bob and toes tap in time to the tune as Mood Indigo is on the job, doing work they love.

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Off the beaten path TWO HARBORS—The North Shore is an annual destination to see the changing leaves through the many trail systems the area has to offer. Visitors with limited time can enjoy the magic of the fall season on the Sonju Trail system that wanders along Lake Superior’s Agate and Burlington Bays in Two Harbors. The trails offer a variety of landscapes ranging from an almost sandy beach at Burlington Bay to rocky cliffs along the foot paths.

When entering the trail at Burlington Bay on 1st Street, it is a paved surface that meanders along the shore of Lake Superior, suitable for all levels of hikers and wheeled equipment. It then breaks into two different trails, giving walkers the option of following a foot path following the shoreline, not suitable for bikes, or veering off towards the historic lighthouse parking lot to remain on pavement. Both lead to the U.S. Coast Guard breakwall, which provides a grand view of the active ore docks in Agate Bay. A foot path then continues along the shore, ending the 1-mile trip near Van Hoven Park on Waterfront Drive behind the Lake County Historical Depot Museum.

Depot Museum employee Cheril Benvie has enjoyed 13 seasons of welcoming visitors using the Sonju Trail. Travelers have come from throughout the state, as well as abroad, including Finland, China, France and Germany. What sticks out to Benvie, when visiting with guests, is how surprised people are that Two Harbors has access to the majestic Lake Superior, gorgeous trails and such rich history. She is also proud of the local residents who enjoy the trails and their respectfulness in picking up trash and keeping it safe. New to the area, Two Harbors resident Hannah Weishaar says, “I pinch myself daily knowing I get to live here.”

Along the trails are memorial benches to relax on, sculptures and other signage explaining historical facts relevant to the area.

The section of trail near the water treatment plant, connecting a portion leading to Burlington Bay, welcomes sightseers with a Two Harbors American Legion Post 109 Veterans Forest memorial. A family from the St. Cloud area enjoys this section of trail every year when they stay at the Burlington Campground. “We just love it,” they all said in

unison. The trails are maintained primarily by volunteers and the City Park and Recreation Department and is not part of the Superior Hiking Trail system. Hikers wanting a longer experience, including the Superior Hiking Trail, can check out a map by the Depot Museum Train Display, which shows other trails connecting with the Sonju system.

The trails do pass by three historic sites along the route. The lighthouse, caretakers house museum and the aforementioned Depot Museum. The lighthouse, built in 1892 to accommodate the nearly 400 ships each season, is a year-round Bed and Breakfast, giving guests a breathtaking view of the harbor. The Depot is also open year-round with varying hours throughout the seasons.

More information can be found at: lakecounty-chamber.com.

The city of Two Harbors, which is the seat of Lake County, was a village since 1888 and then incorporated in 1907. Sonju Trail enthusiasts can also enjoy a walking tour of the Historic Waterfront District through downtown Two Harbors. This eight block tour highlights businesses and private homes that were key in developing the city and several are on the National Historic Register.

One of the stops is the Thomas Owens Residence—Owens was on the first train of ore brought down from the Iron Range. Other stops include the Scandinavian Co-operative Mercantile Store and the Two Harbors Carnegie Library. The Mercantile was established in 1893 and became the largest commercial building in the city; it is now housing for a local non-profit organization. The Two Harbors Public Library, built in 1909 with a gift from the Carnegie Foundation, is one of the only three original Carnegie buildings still operating as a library today throughout Minnesota.

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The premier destination to view fall colors in Minnesota. Find fall color maps at VisitCookCounty.com/Fall

Maps of the 27 sites to see on the walking tour are available at the Lake County Chamber’s visitor center on the north end of town off of Highway 61.

Although autumn is a poplar time of year to visit the area, the trails of Two Harbors offer amazing scenes unique to each season and worth more than one trip.

—Michelle Miller

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The Duluth Folk School Hands on in Lincoln Park museum and nature center

DULUTH— Have you ever wished you could do woodworking repairs around the house, or sew up a worn-out garment? As inflation continues to shoot through the roof, people are considering how to re-use and re-purpose existing items, instead of paying inflated prices for brand new ones. But how do you pick up these home economics skills in your adult years?

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Enter the Duluth Folk School, centrally located at 1917 Superior Street, in Duluth’s vibrant Lincoln Park Craft District. According to Bryan French, co-founder and Folk School executive director, the idea for the Duluth Folk School was born in May 2015. French’s idea was for Duluthians to get access to craft programming and abundant local educators without having to go to far-away folk schools.

The Folk School went on to hold its first classes in May 2016, but it wasn’t all easy.

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“At first we thought it would be a great idea if we were nomadic,” French explains.

“We didn’t want to have a home base. We wanted to serve the entire length of Duluth from Lester Park to Chambers Grove. But being nomadic turned out to be a terrible idea, because everybody wants to know ‘Where do I go to find you?’ And there was never a place to find us. My car was just full of tote bins all the time.”

French and his team eventually settled on a permanent home at their current location in Lincoln Park, “smack dab in the middle of town, and right on the bus lines.” But when they made an offer on the building, they knew there was a lot of reconstruction work ahead.

“There was water damage in the building,” said French. “A firefighter was here for an event once, and he said ‘Oh, I was here when the sprinklers went off.’ He said it was like swimming in the basement to get to the water shut off valve. The building was in terrible condition.”

That’s where the true values of a “folk” school came into play.

“We got the Folk School community together, and people volunteered to come down and help us,” French recounts. “Folks were scraping glue off the floor. The dovetail cabin (housed within the Folk School building) was a community project. We collected the wood, milled it, brought it here and hand

The Duluth Folk School offered a community rug felting project in 2019. The rug now hangs on the walls of the West Duluth branch of the Duluth Public Library. | SUBMITTED hewed everything, and cut the dovetails. We stacked the logs and built the whole cabin inside the school building.”

French takes pride in how the Folk School building itself is representative of the school’s purpose, saying “A lot of what we’ve done here is a demonstration of people learning how to build.” This community approach is alive and well to this day.

The Folk School has 108 teachers on its 2022 roster. One of them is educator and entrepreneur Cindy Hale, who is co-owner of Clover Valley Farms. Hale has taught vinegar-making, cooking, natural history, and orcharding classes through the Folk School.

One of her favorite Folk School experiences was the Community Rug Felting Project in 2019, led by Mary Sannerud of Otlak Felt Studio in Grand Marais. Hale highlights the creative energy at the community rug events that were housed at the Folk School.

“We held multiple workshops where we recruited individuals to come up with design elements for the community rug, then people made some of the prefelts and did a final three-day event at the Folk School, where we laid out the rug,” says Hale.

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Today the rug hangs on the walls of the West Duluth branch of the Duluth Public Library.

Another person who has been influenced by the Folk School in multiple ways is Kyle James, co-owner of Voyageur Tattoo. With a studio on the upstairs floor of the Folk School, James and his wife Charlie work in the Folk School space daily. James first got to know the Folk School when he took classes in how to use a circular saw, hand planing wood, and kayak rolling. James explains that having a personal teacher was key to the classes he took in the Folk School.

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“The actual felting of the rug involves literally dancing on it, rubbing it, and rolling it,” says Hale. “It was a three-day process and dozens of people of every age came and participated. Musicians played music. People were dancing on the rug. It was uber fun.

That to me really epitomizes the potential of the Folk School. Bringing community together to learn about and actively participate in something they may not have heard of before, like community rug felting.”

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The Duluth Folk School has 108 teachers on its roster this year, offering a wide variety of classes. | SUBMITTED “It’s so hard to ask a question, like a very specific question, to the Internet. A lot of the times you can’t find that answer without scouring and scouring. It’s just a lot easier to ask someone who has experience,” says James.

James, who is a tattoo artist, recalls that he was later checking out the Folk School newsletter (“because I’m always looking for that next thing that I can learn”), and saw a unique opportunity.

“They posted that they had a studio available for rent in the Folk School,” he says.

“The space is so cool that I couldn’t say no.

I spoke with Bryan French on the phone and met with him to lock down the space that night, because I didn’t want it to disappear.”

Today, Voyageur Tattoo has a five-star rating from 60 Google reviews, something James credits in part to the Folk School atmosphere.

“I’d say almost every customer has made some kind of comment about how cool the space is,” says James. “About how nice it is to be above the [Dovetail] Café here. It’s such a relaxed and intimate space, you can really get to know your clients, and they don’t have to worry about what getting a tattoo in front of an entire studio of people is going to be like.”

James and Hale both come back to the community feel of the space that French has worked so hard to cultivate. James defines it like this: “I’ve found that there’s a lot of openness in this space. There are so many like-minded people in Lincoln Park, and at the Folk School in particular.”

Today the Folk School is an open, collaborative space with a main classroom, a large café, and six studio spaces for rent. A listing of current class offerings can be found on the classes tab of the Duluth Folk School website (duluthfolkschool.com). French calls the Folk School’s range of courses as “generalist,” and says the school responds to local needs.

“We’re trying to contextualize what we do within our region. Folk schools are ‘putting their hand on the ground and feeling what the region needs,’” he says.

There is something to learn here for everyone with a desire to get back to hands on, “shoulder to shoulder” learning, as French calls it. Classes provide people the skills to build or re-purpose their own possessions, putting art and creativity into their lives, rather than just grabbing items off the Target shelves.—Chris Pascone

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Points North Partridge Were Worth the Walk By Shawn Perich

Grouse hunting likely started for me when I was 4 years old, but certainly by age 5. I trudged along behind Dad, not carrying a gun. A couple of years later, I was allowed to carry a Christmas present, a Daisy BB gun that never was used to kill a “partridge,” as we called the birds back then.

My first partridge was taken north of Two Harbors at age 8, when Dad handed me a single-shot 20-gauge shotgun he was carrying. Taking a bead, I shot the bird as it scurried away through the hazel brush. The following year, the 20-gauge became my hunting weapon. It is still in my cabinet and sees some use every year.

Since age 4, my enthusiasm for tromping through the autumn woods hasn’t wavered.

Nor has my enjoyment of canine companionship. The first dog was our family’s Lab-Weimaraner cross, Sooty. The current hunter is a reddish yellow Lab named Rainy.

All my dogs had attributes and flaws, like their human companion, but they’ve shared with me an enthusiasm for bird hunting.

That’s truly all that matters.

As a kid, most of my grouse hunts with Dad occurred within an hour’s drive of Duluth, from the Nemadji River country off Highway 23 south of Duluth, to the Cotton area south of the Iron Range and over to the headwaters of the Knife and Cloquet rivers.

We walked everywhere, nearly always along old logging roads or by long-abandoned farms. The farmsteads nearly always contained a few unkempt apple or plum trees where “partridge” fed on the ripening fruit.

The only time we drove or “road hunted” was when we went to the North Shore, usually starting out from Finland or Isabella.

Dad wasn’t much of a road-hunter, but he enjoyed exploring the backroads and said he had never had much luck hiking the old logging roads “up the Shore.” Some years we saw few partridges on our drive, but other times we would shoot several birds. Either way, I enjoyed road hunting, but never as much as hiking.

It was around this time that partridge hunting began to change. The 1970s was the era of monster four-wheel-drive pickups. Suddenly, many forest trails once the domain of hunters on foot were suddenly available to high-lift pickups with big tires.

While the hunters that piloted the pickups didn’t do much to dent bird numbers, they turned every wet spot in a logging trail into 14

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The North Shore was a better place when ruffed grouse were known as partridge and hunters pursued them on foot. | JEAN BRISLANCE a mudhole that was nearly impassable on foot. Once, as we slogged through a particularly sloppy trail, Dad and I were passed by a mud-covered pickup. Dad remarked to the driver that the trail was a mess, to which he replied “That’s what trucks are for.” Fortunately, Dad held his temper.

One year in college, I arranged my autumn class schedule so I could get out in late morning and then spend the afternoon in the partridge woods. Even now, I have vivid memories of some of those hunts, carrying a 12 gauge over and under that I purchased new for myself. I was proud of that shotgun, carrying it many miles through the grouse woods of Minnesota and Ontario, as well as on pheasant trips and duck trips to Iowa and the Dakotas. Eventually, I replaced it with other shotguns after breaking the wooded stack, but I still think about that gun now and then.

During my college years, everyone began referring to the birds as grouse, because they are formally known as ruffed grouse. But I still called them partridge, especially when around Dad or northern friends. It wasn’t until I began calling myself an outdoor writer that I fully switched to the fancy “grouse” title. Perhaps it was due to a fear that I might make a slip and use “partridge” in print.

After college I spent a few years in the Twin Cities, where I was hired by Fins and Feathers magazine. I remember telling the

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executive editor my goal was to shoot 25 grouse every autumn. To the best of my recollection, most years I managed to meet that goal despite a long drive to the northern grouse woods. From Minneapolis, Vikki and I moved to the southern extent of the ruffed grouse range in Georgia. I don’t recall seeing any in the northern mountains.

We didn’t stay there long enough to have a chance to sample the hunting.

We soon returned to the north with a new hunting companion, a pint-sized creamy yellow Lab appropriately named Rebel. He adapted well to the grouse forests and duck swamps rising from Lake Superior’s North Shore. Rebel also was the occasional subject of my columns written for Outdoor News, a weekly newspaper mailed all over Minnesota. Around this time, I wrote a column about a new development in the grouse woods, the explosion of ATVs being used to hunt grouse. I referred to their users as “fat bottomed low riders,” igniting a fire of letters to the editor lasting for months. Most were negative, including a few calling for my head. Out in the North Shore woods, busting brush and following moose trails, I never encountered any of my critics.

But it was a moment when hunting began to change and transform into a mechanized activity. Some traditionalists tried to stem the tide. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources commissioner Rod Sandor at-

tempted to encourage hunting on foot with efforts such as a regulation that required hunters to be at least 15 feet from a motorized vehicle before shooting at a bird. Some ATV hunters responded by shooting grouse without even dismounting from their mechanized beast.

These days, ATV hunting has become the norm. Some of the hunters who still walk and follow a hunting dog complain that grouse hunting isn’t as good anymore because it is difficult to find places to hunt on foot and grouse seem overharvested by mechanized hunters. Whether or not this seems to be true is a matter of opinion and perhaps the location of your hunting grounds. In the north, where there are vast public hunting lands, room enough for all hunters remains.

A greater concern is that bird hunters in general seem to be growing older. It is hard to say whether this is due to changing hunting methods or, more likely, social changes.

It is possible that traditions of shooting, dog breeding and comradery may fade away.

Unfortunately, the birds and the creatures with which they share the forests will dwindle, too. Those who do not hunt or see forests as nothing more than places to go hiking are unaware of the stewardship of wild places that hunters provide. If hunters are no longer on the landscape, who will take over their stewardship role?

Favorable grouse counts ST. PAUL— Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring population counts are up from last year, which was not expected during the current declining phase of the 10-year cycle—a pattern recorded for 72 years.

“While ruffed grouse drumming counts are up, they are not a reliable way to predict the fall hunting season,” said Charlotte Roy, grouse project leader with the Minnesota DNR. “We also recorded an increase in sharp-tailed grouse in east-central Minnesota, which is positive this year but could be short-lived.”

Unexpectedly high ruffed grouse counts this year may have resulted from the warm temperatures and dry conditions last year during May and June, which favors high nest success and chick survival. Snow conditions also were favorable during winter for roosting throughout much of the core of grouse range.

The DNR and its partners use spring drumming counts to help monitor the ruffed grouse breeding population through time.

Drumming is a low sound produced by males as they beat their wings rapidly and in increasing frequency to signal the location of their territory. Drumming displays also attract females that are ready to begin nesting.

Ruffed grouse populations are surveyed by counting the number of male ruffed grouse heard drumming on established routes throughout the state’s forested regions.

“In a typical year, we have 16 cooperating organizations providing folks to help us count grouse drumming,” Roy said. “We are

grateful to our federal and tribal partners for their assistance in completing routes.”

Historically, these spring counts were related to the fall population; however, in recent years, drumming counts have not reliably predicted the fall hunting season.

The number of birds present during the fall hunting season also depends upon nesting success and chick survival during the spring and summer. Nesting success and chick survival are influenced by many factors, including weather during May and June, which has been more extreme in recent years, and other factors, including disease and predators.

This year in May and June, heavy rainfall and flooding affected much of the core of ruffed grouse range.

The ruffed grouse survey report can be found on the grouse management page of the DNR website (mndnr.gov/wildlife/ grouse.html).

HUNTING SEASONS

The Minnesota ruffed grouse and spruce grouse hunting season will be from Saturday, Sept. 17 through Sunday, Jan. 1. The sharp-tailed grouse hunting season will remain closed in Minnesota’s east-central zone. There will be a 2022 hunting season in the northwest sharp-tailed grouse zone from Sept. 17 through Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Grouse hunting information can be found on the grouse hunting page of the DNR website (mndnr.gov/hunting/grouse).

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Creating in Community

Local Artists on Sharing Their Work Through the North Shore’s Cooperatives and Galleries

By Rae Poynter

Creating art is often a deeply personal journey; art can be used to express some of the most poignant moments of life and to share one’s unique perspective of the world. But just because art is personal doesn’t mean it has to be lonely. For many artists, getting involved in a local art collective, cooperative, or gallery is not only an avenue for getting exposure but also a chance to connect with other artists and even form lifelong friendships. Two local artists shared their experiences of sharing their work this way and how it has shaped and benefitted their creative paths.

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“Wide Awake,” by Marian Lansky, can be found at Sivertson Gallery. | SIVERTSON GALLERY

Sivertson Gallery owner Jan Sivertson. | SIVERTSON GALLERY

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n Highway 61 in Castle Danger is Northwoods Pioneer Gallery & Gifts, an art cooperative celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. Formerly known as Pioneer Crafts Co-op, the cooperative used to be located near the Silver Creek Cliff but moved to its current location in 1999 after the construction of the tunnel. It has members of all ages—a sign in the shop says their oldest member is 95—and continues to bring handmade gifts and unique art to the North Shore 50 years on.

Up the shore, another gallery has decades of history in bringing together artists: Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais. Started in 1980 by Jan and Howard Sivertson, Sivertson Gallery has a long history of collaborating with artists whose work exemplifies “Art of the North.” One of these artists is printmaker Rick Allen. Allen and his wife and business partner Marian Lansky are owners of the Kenspeckle Letterpress in Duluth, and it was working with Jan that helped Allen share his work more widely with others.

One member who has been with Northwoods Pioneer Gallery & Gifts for almost all of those 50 years is Barbara Hollinday. Hollinday’s involvement started in 1972: a friend of her mother was a member of the co-op, and upon learning that Hollinday made quilts and Barbie doll clothes, suggested she join. Hollinday did just that and she’s been a member ever since.

“Rick first met Jan Sivertson back in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 2004 that Janelle Miller, who then worked at Sivertson Gallery’s Duluth store, suggested that he try submitting some work on consignment,” Lansky said. “Rick’s work began to sell, and the Grand Marais store started carrying him as well.”

“I love being a part of Pioneer,” Hollinday said.

“It’s low-pressure and you don’t have to have huge quantities of inventory to sell. It’s an amazing opportunity to connect with like-minded people.”

At Northwoods Pioneer Gallery & Gifts, members are required to work at the shop five days a year, which gives members the opportunity to learn how the shop works and connect with each other and with shoppers. Hollinday noted how things at the shop have changed over the years, from starting at their original location next to Silver Creek Cliff and writing out all sales tickets by hand to moving to the new building and upgrading to new technologies like a computer system, a system she said was a learning curve for some members but a great example of how being involved helps members develop new skills.

One of the best parts about being involved in the co-op is getting to meet the shoppers who stop by; Hollinday said that some shoppers have been visiting the co-op for years as part of their annual vacation tradition, while others are new to the North Shore and have never visited the gallery before. In addition to the store, Northwoods Pioneer Gallery & Gifts also holds monthly outdoor craft sales in the summer months, which members get to participate in and which brings new visitors to the store.

Over the years, Hollinday has served on the cooperative’s board of directors and has made lasting

Northwoods Pioneer Gallery & Gifts, an art cooperative in Castle Danger, is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. | SUBMITTED connections with other members, connections which have influenced her own craft. While she started out with sewing, she now does weaving and painting, something she credits to the artists she’s met through the co-op.

“I like to be busy with my hands and Pioneer gives me the opportunity to try new things,” Hollinday said. “There are so many talented people involved, which is the reason I got into decorative painting. As I got involved, I met painters and rosemalers who were so giving of their time and eager to help me learn.”

For artists just starting out, Hollinday said that getting involved in a cooperative is one of the best ways to get started. Not only do they help you connect with other creators, but cooperatives have advantages over attending craft sales; you typically need less inventory, and there isn’t as much work involved as one would have when traveling to attend craft sales.

“We’re always looking for new members,” she said.

“It can be intimidating when you’re new—you’re putting yourself out there and potentially opening yourself up to criticism. But people are willing to help you grow as an artist and get better at your craft, and learning from others helps you get better.”

Lansky said that Jan’s friendship and promotion of Rick’s work have been invaluable to them. Their experience has been one of cooperation and respect, and that they’ve helped not only by having Allen’s work in the store, but also by promoting his art throughout the year through newsletters and social media.

“Sivertson Gallery does a fantastic job for us,” she said. “Speaking for ourselves, they have always bent over backwards to listen, to honor our preferences, and to respect our creativity. They are professional and committed to their artists. In general, every time we have a new print available, Sivertson will carry it on a trial basis to see if it sells.”

As for the community aspect, Lanksy said that they have participated in fireside chats, event openings, book signings and demonstrations with Sivertson Gallery, and that prior to the pandemic the gallery used to host many community events.

Lansky’s favorite part about being involved with Sivertson Gallery?

“Relationships and good will,” she said. “The staff at Sivertson is fantastic and we always feel that we’re in good hands. We’re quite devoted to working with Jan. She is incredibly generous and has created a world-class gallery. She’s totally professional but also a close friend. We have both a business and a personal relationship at this point and we cherish both.”

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Border Route Bliss

By Eric Chandler

Leo watches as the sun rises over Topper Lake. | ERIC CHANDLER

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he parking lot was full on the Wednesday after Labor Day in 2020. We unloaded gear at the west trailhead to start an eastbound thru-hike of the 65-mile Border Route Trail (BRT) through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). I was already anxious since it was just me and my dog Leo. I was surprised to discover I might have trouble social distancing on a week-long solo backpacking trip. I kissed my wife Shelley goodbye and she drove 160 miles back home to Duluth. Not many people would shuttle cars for six hours. She’s awesome.

Leo trotted ahead of me wearing his own Ruffwear backpack. This was the first time he’s used a pack on a long trip.

He trained with the pack so it wasn’t new. He carried his own food and a collapsible bowl for a total of 7 pounds. I was happy my trip backpack weighed only 48 pounds. I appreciated Leo’s help.

In the first hour, we saw 20 people. After a mile and a half, we arrived at the popular Magnetic Rock. It’s an impressive monolith that tweaks your compass, reminiscent of the object in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Leo and I were relieved to shake the crowds after that point.

Since we spent the morning shuttling cars, this was a short day. We skirted the cliffs near Gunflint Lodge and followed the north shore of Loon Lake to the campsite. I pumped water through my filter as the setting sun cast a rainbow to the east. Leo sat there like a pot of gold. We drifted to sleep while some barred owls asked us, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?”

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The sunrise was dreamlike. The green hills cradled the sun at the east end of the long, narrow lake. It was silent and the mist drifted off the water. We ate our breakfast on the shore of Loon Lake while two loons floated by, of course.

We looked north over Gunflint Lake from open ledges.

The trail got brushy for the next several hours. I used my Leki trekking poles like a snowplow and leaned into the head high bushes that filled the trail. During this stretch, we saw the sign for Bridal Falls. After a sharp descent, we found the unique waterfall. It’s a long rectangular ledge where water spills out intermittently over the slate-like rock.

The brush eased up and we crossed the border into the BWCAW. We called it a day at the scenic Topper Lake campsite. We napped in the sun on a flat ledge by the water. As we basked, my Biolite solar panel charged my mobile phone and my Garmin Forerunner 35 GPS watch. This system kept my devices fully charged all week.

The third day broke with another beautiful sunrise over the mirror of Topper Lake. We hiked east through majestic red pine stands near South Lake. Suddenly, there was a window of blue sky to the north. We stepped up and got our first look at the highlight of the week: the Rose Lake Cliffs.

After that teaser, we found the magnificent views from the top. The sea of green is split by the narrow river-like combination of Rose, Rat, and South Lake to the west.

We went downhill past more magnificent views as Rose Lake expanded to the east. Massive cliffs on Arrow Lake over in Canada stood out over four canoes that moved west over Rose Lake. Then down through another massive cedar stand to the shore. It was Friday during covid and the wilderness was busy. Both Rose Lake West and East campsites were occupied, so we took a spur off the BRT to a campsite on Daniels Lake. A great sunset capped the unexpectedly long day.

It poured nonstop for two hours before dawn on day four.

There were some drizzly showers during the day, and the brush along the trail stayed wet. I got soaked, even with a rain jacket on. We found one awesome overlook of Watap

Leo posed at the spur to 20 Degree Overlook. How can he look so good after a week? | ERIC CHANDLER

Leo at Bridal Falls near Gunflint Lake. | ERIC CHANDLER

Eric and Leo happy to find an empty campsite at Daniels Lake. | ERIC CHANDLER

Lake. Calm and quiet, even though overcast and misty. We set up at the Gogebic Lake campsite for the night.

We worked our way over and under several blowdowns on the way to John Lake on the fifth day. We exited the east end of the BWCAW to McFarland Lake. We soaked up sun at the dock there like lizards on a rock.

The next morning, Leo rebelled. I struggled to get the pack on him, even though it was basically empty. As I walked up the short path to leave the campground, I looked back and he wasn’t there. I hollered, “COME!” and he poked his head around some trees. We had a staredown. Finally, he very slowly moseyed up to me. After that bit of comedy, he was fine. It was a good thing that was the last day.

Leo looks west over Rose, Rat, and South Lake from the Rose Lake Cliffs. | ERIC CHANDLER

The sun was hazy because of smoke from fires in the western U.S. We had nice overlooks as the mist burned off over South Fowl Lake near the Pigeon River Cliffs. Finally, we found the river and Leo stopped for a drink. The Pigeon River is the international border and Canada was just 30 yards across the shallow rapids. It was fun to imagine the voyageurs passing by this very spot hundreds of years earlier on their way to the interior lakes.

The last eastern mile of the BRT was special. Leo and I ran the SHT in sections in 2014. But somehow, we missed the true northern terminus of the SHT at a spot called the 270 Degree Overlook. The northernmost mile of the SHT that we skipped back then perfectly overlaps the last eastern mile of the BRT. Our last mile of the BRT would also be our last mile of the SHT. What a weird convergence.

When Leo and I walked into the parking lot at the Otter Lake Road, three things would happen at the same time.

First, we’d finish six days of backpacking the BRT. Second, we’d complete our unfinished last mile of the SHT. Third, because we hiked the Kekekabic Trail in 2018, it would mean we linked all 415 miles of the North Country National Scenic Trail in the Arrowhead. I bet there aren’t many dogs

who’ve done all that. And it would all come together like a miracle on the last step. We looked over at the 270 Degree Overlook through some pines and relished the fact that this last day was the first time we hadn’t seen anybody.

We took the short spur to the 270 Degree Overlook and it got busy. Five people and several dogs occupied the small knob. Mindful of the pandemic, I stood over to the side and leashed Leo for the first time on the whole hike. After the folks left, we took some time to look over the Pigeon River as it wiggled toward Lake Superior.

We saw a dozen people on the mile to the truck. As we went downhill, I felt like an astronaut descending in a cap-

sule surrounded by a ball of flame as we reentered the atmosphere of society. Seven cars were parked where only three would normally fit.

Several days earlier, we were bashing through the wet brush. Sure, the vistas were world class, but you paid for them with long hours in the woods. In the crowded parking lot full of people, I realized those moments on the trail weren’t boredom. They were bliss. Just my friend Leo and I, socially distanced in remote places of peace and quiet. Our backpacking was like life. The hike seemed long, but now that it was over, it seemed far too short.

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Busy, Busy

Things are busy this month, starting with Ely’s Harvest Moon Festival Sept. 9-11. Next up is the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour in Two Harbors, held Sept. 23-25.

There will also be a Fall Art Fair in Two Harbors held the same days. This towel was created by fiber artist Julie Arthur of Wifman Weaving.

Don’t miss the annual Arthur will take part in Art Along the Art Along the Lake: Fall Lake. | JULIE ARTHUR Studio Tour, held Sept.

23-Oct. 2 throughout Cook County. Other events include a Plein Air Competition Sept. 9-16 in Cook County, and a Fall Street Market on Sept. 11 in Terrace Bay. See our events section for more details.

E.J. Klepinger will participate in the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour. This acrylic on canvas is titled “Raven Watch.” | E.J. KLEPINGER Shop handmade jewelry from Greg Souther at the 29th Annual Harvest Moon Festival in Ely. | GREG SOUTHER “Hold Your Heart” is an oil on canvas piece by Sarah Brokke. She will take part in the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour. | SARAH BROKKE

More than 25 artists will participate in Art Along the Lake, including pottery artist Jason Trebs. This piece is a pattern tray with a stoney blue matte glaze. | JASON TREBS 20

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“I’m Hooked” is a mixed media painting by Terry Williams. See more of Terry’s work at the Two Harbors Fall Art Fair, held Sept. 23-25. | TERRY WILLIAMS

“Hold On” by Joan Bellin and “Edna G” by Shelley Getten, both host artists. | SUBMITTED

Twenty Studios within Twenty Miles

Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour

“Rainbow,” by host artist Emily Christenson. | EMILY CHRISTENSON

CREATIVE SPACE: By Michelle Miller 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 or age. Enjoy live music at museums, resorts, pubs and breweries, or stop into a souvenir shop, café or State Park to view fine arts on display. And of course, several communities offer art shows and festivals throughout the year. Two Harbors is hosting the 11th Annual Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour, held Sept.

23-25. This event is a more “off the beaten path” art adventure, giving curious art fans an opportunity to explore the roads less traveled beyond the Two Harbors city limits.

The founding organizers of the event, all artists themselves, were inspired to create a unique art experience to highlight the many talented individuals along the North Shore.

During the planning process, it was discovered there were 20 studios within a 20-mile radius just in the Two Harbors area alone.

This revelation is how the event got its name.

The initial conversation began in 2009 and the first tour was launched in 2011, providing visitors the unique experience to meet with artists in their working studios and purchase their work right on site. Over the years, the tour has expanded and adjusted to include guest artists at the studio sites and “pop up” artists. This provides emerging artists, who may not have as much inventory as established artists, the exposure to the public on a smaller scale. Many have now joined the tour as a host site when they have developed their own studios along their art journey.

This year will feature 37 artists at 14 studios, five sponsor sites and four farms. Along with

This year’s tour will include pottery artist Paul Zoldahn. | PAUL ZOLDAHN colors driving through the backroads. Artist and former participant Nikki Johnson shares how this was a special day she spent with her mother.

47 Degrees Gallery and Gift Shop is one of five sponsor sites. | KRIS TREMBLEY a guest artist, the farm sites offer homemade cheeses, jams, bread and other tasty treats.

Sponsor sites are a variety of businesses such as 47 Degrees Art Gallery, Russ Kendall’s Smokehouse and Cedar Coffee Company, and will be open during the tour. All the tour stops are outlined on a comprehensive map on the event’s website.

The working studios are located in a variety of settings, with most being nestled in the woods on dirt roads. In addition to the map, signage clearly marks each site along the way. Whether the tour is broken into multiple day excursions or explored in one day, it is a wonderful way to view the fall

“The peaceful drive and amazing event made some great mother and daughter memories,” says Johnson.

When arriving at a studio, the entrance may be a nice stroll over a foot bridge, hearing the subtle sound of a small creek or greeted by a canopy of brightly colored oak trees. The majority of studios are in cabins, garages or a covered space and the event is held rain or shine.

Items available this year range from pottery and jewelry to weaving and textiles, mixed media and oil paintings. The tour loop spans from Ryan Road near Duluth, connecting at Two Harbors and Valley Roads, and reaches up to Gun Club Road. The tour can be accessed at a variety of entrance points, depending on what end of town you start.

A stop in Knife River, 10 miles out of Two Harbors on Scenic Drive, is home to one of the sponsor sites, 47 Degrees Gallery and Gift Shop, owned and operated by Michelle Gratton. She is a working artist as well and has been creating Beach Stone Jewelry for over 20 years. The gallery features several artists that are also studio stops on the tour, including potter Paul Zoldahn and oil painter David Gilsvik.

The Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour is open Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Parking varies at each location and because most are at private homes, parking may be limited to the road only. Visitors can expect some uneven terrain and should be prepared to walk short distances. Public restrooms are not available at the actual site, so stops for food and breaks at local businesses can be part of planning your adventure.

A list of participating artists, detailed maps, and more information can be found online at: lakesuperior2020.com.

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Signup for one of three races in Ely during the annual Ely Marathon, held Saturday, Sept. 24. | SUBMITTED

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NIPIGON FALL FISHING FESTIVAL

Sept. 2-5 Enjoy four days of family-fun and excitement with the 57th Annual Fall Fishing Festival in Nipigon. Kickoff the weekend with a 5km run/walk Friday evening, followed by the slo-pitch tournament at 6 p.m. and a dance party with DJ Luke Zechner at 8 p.m. On Saturday, take part in the one-day salmon derby, as well as a parade at noon and a classic car display at 1 p.m.

Other weekend activities include a giant penny auction, inflatables for the kids, family fun races, live entertainment, a beer garden, the fireman’s challenge, a movie night, the Huck Finn fishing derby for ages 12 and under, a loonie auction, food trucks and booths, a pancake breakfast, and more. nipigonfallfishingfestival.com

OLD-FASHIONED PIE & ICE CREAM SOCIAL

Sept. 4, Sunday Chik-Wauk and the Gunflint Trail Historical Society is inviting you to participate in the 1st Annual Blue Ribbon Pie-Making Competition as part of the Old-Fashioned Pie Social held Sunday, Sept. 4. There will be two categories, one for businesses

The Superior Fall Trail Races offers distances of 100, 50 and 26.2 miles. | DAVID MARKMAN and one for individuals (pre-registration required). Pies will be judged by appearance, texture, flavor and creativity—1st place winners will get a plaque to commemorate the victory. Held from noon to 4 p.m., slices of pie will also be offered for $5 ala mode and the North Shore Swing Band will perform on the front porch from 1-3 p.m. The event will take place at Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center up the Gunflint Trail. gunflinthistory.org

HYMERS FALL FAIR

Sept. 4-5 Every year, the village of Hymers, located near Thunder Bay, hosts a true classic country fair. There will be live entertainment, contests and prizes, horse and cattle shows, a farmer’s market, artisan vendors and exhibits, lots of good food, and locally grown pumpkins. The fair will be held from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sunday, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Monday. Admission is $10 adults, $5 se-

niors (age 65+), and $5 (or $1 with a sunflower or zucchini) for kids ages 6-12; ages 5 and under are free. hymersfair.com

SUPERIOR FALL TRAIL RACES

Sept. 9-10 This challenging footrace, held on the Superior Hiking Trail, offers distances of 100, 50 and 26.2 miles. If the distance isn’t challenging enough, the terrain is. It is a rugged, rooty and rocky trail with near constant climbs and descents. The 100-mile race will begin at Gooseberry Falls State Park at 8 a.m. on Friday; the 50-mile race starts at the Finland Community Center at 5:15 a.m. on Saturday; and the 26.2-mile race begins on Cramer Road in Schroeder at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Each race will contain aid stations and will finish at Caribou Highlands in Lutsen. Race registration required. superiorfalltrailrace.com

Sept. 9-10 The largest bike event in Northwestern Ontario is returning for 2022. The Shuniah Forty Miner, presented by Tbaytel, is a mountain bike marathon cross country race, held at Kinsmen Park in Thunder Bay. This twoday event starts Friday, Sept. 9 with guest speaker Jenn Jackson, current Canadian XC champion, giving a keynote address. The races start at 11 a.m. on Saturday with the 48km event, then the 24km, the 12km and last but not least, the mini miner race for the kids. After the races there will be live music by The Honest Heart Collective, food trucks, festival games and a beer garden.

Race registration required. shuniahfortyminer.com

HARVEST MOON FESTIVAL

Sept. 9-11 Enjoy autumn in Ely with the 29th Annual Harvest Moon Festival, filled with arts and crafts, food vendors, and fun for the whole family.

Held at Whiteside Park, there will be over 100 original juried artists and crafters showcasing their work in everything from paintings, turned bowls and rustic furniture, to pottery, photographs and jewelry. There will also be a scrumptious food court with everything from barbecue tenderloin to blueberry pie ala mode. The festival will be held 10 a.m.-

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Back For Our 20th Year!

Sept 9-16 Competition Week

Sept 15 Annual Birney Quick Paint @ Artist's Point

Sept 16 Competition Awards Ceremony and Reception, 5-7pm.

Sept 16-Oct 9 JHP Gallery Exhibition

This year’s Heck of the North gravel bike races will be held Saturday, Oct. 1. | TONE COUGHLIN

PLEIN AIR COMPETITION

5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free. ely.org/harvestmoon

RADIO WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL

Sept. 9-11 Area residents and visitors of all ages are invited to come together for three days of music at Sweetheart’s Bluff in the Grand Marais Rec Park, as part of the 15th Annual Radio Waves Music Festival.The music festival will start at 3 p.m. on Friday, with musical acts continuing all day Saturday and throughout the morning on Sunday. This year’s lineup will include some new performers, as well as a few Radio Waves’ favorites, such as Sky Blue with Horns, Adam Moe, Superior Siren, Rich Mattson & the Northstars, Echoes from Iron Ore, Gene Lafond and Amy Grillo, The Splints, Jim McGowan, Portage, New Salty Dog and more. Vendors will be on-site with food/beverages, but outside food and drinks are accepted on the grounds, too. This year, all kids under the age

of 12 will receive a prize at the gate.

Admission is available online or at the gate; $15 a day ($10 on Sunday), $30 for the weekend, and free to children 12 and under. wtip.org

Sept. 9-16 Plein Air Grand Marais is a 20-year tradition bringing outdoor painters to the North Shore of Lake Superior for a week of painting, competition, learning, and camaraderie.

Plein Air Grand Marais welcomes artists of all ages and abilities. The competition class consists of invitational and juried painters. The open class consists of registered artists who may exhibit their best original work created during the event in an exhibit and compete for the Art on the Rocks award in the Quick Paint. A public art activity at Joy & Co. will offer supervised plein air painting for children and adults and a clothesline art exhibit.

Daily paint-outs and mini-workshops with professional plein air competition artists are open to all artists. An opening reception for the competition class will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept.

16 at the Johnson Heritage Post and the exhibit will be on display until Oct. 9. pleinairgrandmarais.org

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Fall Studio Tour

Sept. 23-Oct. 2

Betsy Bowen Studio & Gallery

301 First Avenue West, Grand Marais, MN 218-387-1992 Open Daily 11 am-5 pm

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CROSS RIVER HERITAGE CENTER MUSEUM & GIFT SHOP Open thru October 14, 2022

COME SEE THIS EXHIBIT WHILE ENJOYING THE FALL COLORS!

Francis Lee Jaques Paintings

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Reprinted with permission of the Jaques Art Center.

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LAKE SUPERIOR HARVEST FESTIVAL

Sept. 10, Saturday For 28 years, the Lake Superior Chapter of SFA (Sustainable Farming Association) has put on the Harvest Festival, connecting producers and consumers. Located in Bayfront Festival Park in downtown Duluth, the festival features one of the largest farmers’ markets in the region, along with live music, over 20 local art and craft vendors, educational exhibits, a nonprofit expo, a food court, family activities, an energy fair, appliance recycling, demonstrations, and more. Practice weaving on a full-sized loom, try maypole dancing, enjoy blacksmithing demos, and pet some chickens. The festival will take place from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is free; $10 for parking. sfa-mn.org

FALL STREET MARKET

Sept. 11, Sunday The 41st Annual Terrace Bay Fall Street Market is one of the largest arts and crafts show on

event attracts local residents, individuals from surrounding communities, and tourists who are passing through Terrace Bay. Featuring unique vendors, community groups, artists and artisans from across the Lake Superior region, the Fall Street Market is the perfect opportunity to experience the many local flavors and cultures of the North Shore region. terracebay.ca

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NORTH SHORE INLINE MARATHON

Sept. 16-18 Be part of the largest inline marathon in North America by joining the 26th Annual NorthShore Inline Marathon in Duluth. No matter if you skate, run or rollerski, the NorthShore Inline has a race for you. This year’s races consist of kid’s sprints, half and full marathon skating, a 21k and 42k rollerski, a half marathon run and tunnel 10k run, inline sprints, and more. The full Inline Marathon is a 26.2mile point-to-point course that takes place along the scenic North Shore of Lake Superior, starting in Two Harbors and ending in downtown Duluth. Race registration is required. northshoreinline.com

DULUTH OKTOBER FESTIVAL

Sept. 16-18 The 3rd Annual Duluth Oktoberfest, held at Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth, will feature food, games, arts and craft vendors, and fun for the whole family. There will be authentic German bands and musicians performing, as well as local bands. Bring the kids to Der Kinderplatz for inflatables, arts and crafts, a petting zoo, cookie decorating, barrel rolling, kids tug of war, a kids stein holding contest, and more.

Other games include cornhole, stein holding contests, a pretzel toss, a barrel toss, a dachshund derby, and more. The main Bier

Wake the Giant Music Festival will return to Thunder Bay with a mashup of hits. | SUBMITTED

Hall will feature dancing, live music and various biers of Bavaria. You’ll also find a variety of authentic food including brats, sausages, schnitzel, strudel, funnel cakes and roasted almonds. Tickets can be purchased online. duluthoktoberfestival.com

Brothers. Other highlights include an online auction, a folk artisan marketplace, and the Flannel Formal dinner gathering to celebrate North House’s 25th anniversary. Tickets can be purchased online. northhouse.org

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WAKE THE GIANT MUSIC FESTIVAL

Sept. 17, Saturday Held in Thunder Bay, Wake the Giant is a cultural awareness project aimed at creating a more welcoming and inclusive city for Indigenous people, youth and their communities. The music festival brings cultures, music and festival fans together, while promoting Indigenous artists. Held from noon to 12 a.m. at the Thunder Bay Waterfront, the music festival will also include celebrity apearances, a live art installation, cultural performances, an Indigenous Craft Market, and local eats. This year’s headliners are Our Lady Peace, legendary DJ Steve Aoki, and the 90s hit group Aqua. Other performers include Neon Dreams, Digging Roots, Crown Lands, Aysanabee, and the Grammy-nominated drum group Young Spirit Singers.

Tickets can be purchased online. wakethegiant.ca

UNPLUGGED 2022

Sept. 22-24 Celebrate community, music, craft and storytelling at the annual Unplugged festival at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais. Thursday and Fri-

Over 40 artists will participate in the Lake Superior 20/20 Studio & Art Tour. | KRIS TREMBLEY day will feature two unforgettable nights of music under the big top with the talented Justin Vernon, Anaïs Mitchell, Phil Cook, Sean Carey, Mike Lewis, Jeremy Ylvisaker, JT Bates, Joe Rainey Sr., and Dylan Jennings, playing songs that span their impressive catalogs. On Saturday morning, enjoy a free family concert with the Grammy award-winning band the Okee Dokee

Sept. 23-25 As crisp, fall air fills the atmosphere, you know it’s time for the 11th Annual Lake Superior 20/20 Studio and Art Tour, located at various studios and galleries in the Two Harbors area. This year’s tour will feature over 40 returning and new artists at 14 host studios, including four host farms. New this year is host/ artist Todd White (letterpress). Other new artists are Craig Bruce (pottery), Jonathan Walburg (ceramics), Kristen Kaas (weaving/ textiles), Elizabeth McComb (pottery), and Ruby McCormick (jewelry). Returning artists after a brief hiatus are Saddle Rock Pottery and Michael Kapsos (jewelry). The tour will also feature pop-up artists at various stops. The tour runs from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday. A PDF printable map of the tour is available online. lakesuperior2020.com

ART ALONG THE LAKE: FALL STUDIO TOUR

Sept. 23-Oct. 2 Fall in Cook County is a time of tumultuous beauty, so take some time to explore the colors and meet artists during the Fall Studio Tour. Stops include

THE ARTISTS JANICE ANDREWS LYNN BROWN KAREN CALDWELL CHRIS CINQUE RITA BEYER CORRIGAN KAT CORRIGAN KARINA CUTLER-LAKE

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SUPPORTING ARTISTS THROUGH IMMERSIVE CLASSES, RESIDENCIES, AND SIGNATURE EVENTS. GRANDMARAISARTCOLONY.ORG

Join us for this fan favorite with artists Richard Gruchalla and Carrin Rosetti. Buy a bowl to glaze yourself, watch the dramatic raku firing, then go home with your own work of art!

Head to Ely for the annual Car Show and Burnout Competition. | SUBMITTED home studios, as well as galleries with guest artists. All locations will be open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. This year includes over 25 locations participating, such as Otlak Felt Studio, J. Sannerud Studios, Frykman Art Studio, Mueller Studio, Yellowbird Fine Art, Upstate MN, Studio 21, Betsy Bowen Studio, Sivertson Gallery, The Big Lake, Joy & Company, and North House Folk School.

A full list of participants and locations can be found online. visitcookcounty.com/fallstudiotour

ELY MARATHON

Sept. 24, Saturday Signup for one of three races in Ely during the annual Ely Marathon. Races include the 5k Glow Run at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 23 (open to all ages and abilities); the 26.2-mile Ely Marathon at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday; and the 13.1-mile Boundary Waters Bank Half Marathon at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Those wanting a bigger challenge can portage a canoe for the entire marathon or half marathon races.

There will also be a kids marathon, coined the Dorothy Molter Root Beer Run; kids are asked to run 25 miles prior to marathon day. Then, on race day, they will run the remaining 1.2 miles of the course. Other activities include an awards ceremony, food trucks, a beer tent, and more. Race registration required. elymarathon.com

State Trail parking lots (north of Two Harbors on Hwy 2). There will be three course options: a 100-mile course, a 55-mile course, and a 20-mile course (perfect for those new to gravel cycling). The races will take place in waves, starting at 8 a.m. with the 100-mile race. The 55-mile race will begin at 9 a.m., followed by the 20-mile race at 10 a.m. Race registration is required. This year, young riders are encouraged to join.

If a rider is age 18 or younger and is riding with a parent/guardian, the youth’s entry is free. heckofthenorth.com

JAKE FORSMAN MEMORIAL CAR SHOW & BURNOUT COMPETITION

Oct. 1, Saturday The 6th Annual Jake Forsman Memorial Car Show and Burnout Competition, held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in Ely, will feature a traditional car show with a unique mix of classic and modified cars, as well as an optional burnout contest.

Held on Chapman Street in front of City Hall, there will also be a silent auction, merchandise tent, and fun for the whole family.

Admission is free and all proceeds from the silent auction and merchandise go directly to the Jake Forsman Memorial Scholarship, helping local high school seniors move on to the tech school of their choice. elycarshow.org

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NORTHERN WILDS CALENDAR OF EVENTS Thru Sept. 5

Fest du Nord YMCA Camp du Nord,

Christopher Harrison: Contemporary Visions Duluth Art Institute, duluthartinstitute.org

Ely, ely.org

Thru Sept. 11

Sept. 2-5

Nipigon Fall Fishing Festival Nipigon, Ontario, nipigonfallfishingfestival.com

Alexa Carson Exhibit: Yearning Johnson Heritage Post, Grand Marais, cookcountyhistory.org

Thru Sept. 18

Wynn Davis: Salvaged Memories Duluth Art Institute, duluthartinstitute.org

Thru Sept. 25 Naomi Harris: I, Voyageur: In Search of Frances Anne Hopkins Exhibition Thunder Bay Art Gallery, theag.ca Woodland POP! Group Exhibition Thunder Bay Art Gallery, theag.ca

Thru Sept. 30

George Morrison: Connections Grand Portage National Monument Heritage Center, nps.gov/grpo Steven Lemke & Kelsie Ward: Dislocation Duluth Art Institute, duluthartinstitute.org

Thru Oct. 1

Sept. 2-30

Reid Thorpe Exhibit (Reception Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.) Tettegouche State Park Visitor Center, Silver Bay, friendsoftettegouche.org

Sept. 2-Oct. 8 YUGEN: 34th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition (Reception Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.) Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, definitelysuperior.com Canadian Contemporary 12: International Collection Dr. Bob Chaudhuri (Reception Sept.

2 at 7 p.m.) Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, definitelysuperior.com

Sept. 3, Saturday

Children’s Story Hour 11 a.m.

Drury Lane Books, Grand Marais, facebook.com/drurylanebooks

James Woodfill: Crossing Signals Joseph Nease Gallery, Duluth, josephneasegallery.com

Ojibwe Storytime 1 p.m.

St. Louis County Depot, facebook.com/stlouiscountyhistoricalsociety

Thru Oct. 15

Amsoil Arena, Duluth, decc.org

Francis Lee Jaques Paintings: Renowned Wildlife Artist 10 a.m. Cross River Heritage Center, Schroeder, crossriverheritage.org

Sept. 1, Thursday

Movie Nights in the Park After Sunset, Current River Park, Thunder Bay, thunderbay.ca/movienights

Sept. 1-2

Blithe Spirit 7 p.m. Arrowhead Center for the Arts, Grand Marais, grandmaraisplayhouse.com

Sept. 1-4

Monroe Crossing 7:30 p.m.

Arrowhead Center for the Arts, Grand Marais, grandmaraisplayhouse.com

Sept. 4, Sunday

North Shore Geology Walks 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, sugarloafnorthshore.org Old Fashioned Pie & Ice Cream Social Noon, Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Gunflint Trail, gunflinthistory.org

Honor the Earth: Water is Life Festival 1 p.m.

Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, decc.org

Duluth-Superior Pride Festival Throughout the Twin Ports, duluthsuperiorpride.com

Sept. 2, Friday

Duluth AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic Noon, Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, decc.org

Music in the Park: Dusty Heart 7:30 p.m.

City Center Park, Silver Bay, rockywallproductions.org

Sept. 2-3

REO Speedwagon & Styx 6:45 p.m.

Blithe Spirit 2 p.m. Arrowhead Center for the Arts, Grand Marais, grandmaraisplayhouse.com

Sept. 4-5

Hymers Fall Fair 9 a.m.

Kakabeka Falls, hymersfair.com

Sept. 5, Monday Labor Day Sept. 7, Wednesday

The Federalies 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern,

Ask a Naturalist: Drop-in Hour 2 p.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, sugarloafnorthshore.org

Sept. 2-4

Sept. 7-14

Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com

Great Northern Classic Rodeo Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, Superior, greatnorthernclassicrodeo.org

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Ely Arts and Heritage Center, Ely, ely.org

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Sept. 8, Thursday

Movie Showing: The Time Traveler’s Wife 2 p.m.

Ely Public Library, elylibrary.org North Country EV Show & Tell 4 p.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, lakecountrypower.coop

Sept. 8-11

Vox Popular Media Arts Festival Thunder Bay, facebook.com/voxpoptbay Business Harvest Days Throughout Ely, ely.org/events

Sept. 9, Friday

Culture Crawl 5 p.m.

Cook County Historical Museum, Grand Marais, cookcountyhistory.org St. Luke’s Foundation’s Circle of Light Gala 5:30 p.m. Duluth Decc, decc.org Minnesota Mile 6 p.m. Enger Park, Duluth, yaf.grandmasmarathon.com Roaring 20’s Party 6 p.m.

Greysolon Ballroom: The Moorish Room, Duluth, glitteratievents.com

Music in the Park: Paul Metsa & Sonny Earl 7:30 p.m. City Center Park, Silver Bay, rockywallproductions.org

Sept. 9-10

Superior Fall Trail Races Caribou Highlands, Lutsen, superiorfalltrailrace.com Shuniah Forty Miner Kinsmen Park, Thunder Bay, shuniahfortyminer.com Franco-Festival Francophone Centre, Thunder Bay, francofestival.com Rural Heritage Days & Slate River Plowing Match At the Corner of #130 & Piper Road, Oliver-Paipoonge Township, Ontario, slateriverplowingmatch.ca

Sept. 9-11

Harvest Moon Festival 10 a.m.

Ely, ely.org/harvestmoon

Radio Waves Music Festival 10 a.m.

(3 p.m. Friday) Grand Marais Rec Park: Sweetheart’s Bluff, wtip.org

Sept. 9-16

Nice Girls of the North Marketplace 10 a.m.

Spirit of the Lake Community School, Duluth, nicegirlsofthenorth.com Walk to End Alzheimer’s 1 p.m.

Duluth Decc, decc.org

Duluth Bethel: Concert for Recovery 1 p.m.

Duluth Decc, decc.org Hiking the Superior Hiking Trail 2 p.m. Enger Park Trailhead, Duluth, duluthmn.gov/parks

Sept. 11, Sunday

Fall Street Market Noon, Simcoe Plaza, Terrace Bay, terracebay.ca/visiting

Sept. 12, Monday

Daniel O’Donnell 7:30 p.m. Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, tbca.com

Sept. 12-17

Celebrate the Night Sky Throughout Duluth, starryskiesnorth.org/ourblog

Sept. 13, Tuesday

Fresh Air Trail Run 6 p.m. Kamview Nordic Centre, Thunder Bay, tbnordictrails.com

Sept. 14, Wednesday

Ask a Naturalist: Drop-in Hour 2 p.m. Sugarloaf Cove, Schroeder, sugarloafnorthshore.org

Sept. 15, Thursday

Feed the Giant 7:30 p.m. The Chanterelle, Thunder Bay, facebook.com/wakethegiant807

Sept. 16, Friday

Raag-Rung Music Circle Dinner & Concert Fundraiser 5 p.m. Italian Cultural Centre, Thunder Bay, raag-rungmusiccircle.com

Spirit of the Times Block Party Extravaganza 6 p.m. Superior Street, Duluth, bidpal.net/spirit22

Music in the Park: Robby Vee and His Rock & Roll Caravan 7:30 p.m. City Center Park, Silver Bay, rockywallproductions.org

Sept. 16-18 North Shore Inline Marathon & Skate Fest Duluth, northshoreinline.com

Plein Air Competition Cook County, pleinairgrandmarais.org

Duluth Oktober Festival 11 a.m. (4 p.m.

Friday) Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, duluthoktoberfestival.com

Sept. 10, Saturday

Sept. 16-Oct. 9

Ely Track Team Run/Walk Fundraiser 8 a.m. Trezona Trailhead, Ely, ely.org Virtual Writers Café 9:30 a.m. lakesuperiorwriters.org Lake Superior Harvest Festival 10 a.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, sfa-mn.org Doors Open Thunder Bay 10 a.m. Thunder Bay, thunderbay.ca/doorsopen

Plein Air Exhibition (Reception Sept. 16 at 5 p.m.) Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery, Grand Marais, pleinairgrandmarais.org

Sept. 17, Saturday

Cook County Airport Annual Fly-in/Drive-in Pancake Breakfast 7:30 a.m. Grand Marais Airport, 218-387-3024

Cruise for Cancer MN 8 a.m. Duluth, Facebook: Cruise for Cancer MN

Sept. 23-October 22

Oct. 2, Sunday

Chester Bowl Fall Fest 9:30 a.m. Chester Bowl Improvement Club, Duluth, chesterbowl.org Free Artist Talk: Writing with Light: From the Darkroom to Etching with the Sun 10 a.m. Grand Marais Art Colony, grandmaraisartcolony.org

Sept. 24, Saturday

Jesse Cook 7:30 p.m. Thunder Bay

Wake the Giant Music Festival Noon,

Thunder Bay Waterfront, wakethegiant.ca Broadway Square Vintage Market 2 p.m. On the Corner of Hammond & Broadway, Superior, twinportsnightlife.com

Sept. 17-18

ThunderCon 10 a.m. CLE Grounds, Thunder Bay, thundercon.org GameDay North 11 a.m. Duluth Decc, gamedaycompetitions.com

Sept. 18, Sunday

Duluth Wedding Show: Fall Showcase Duluth Decc, duluthfallweddingshow.com Terry Fox Run 1 p.m. Boulevard Lake Parking Lot, Thunder Bay, terryfox.org/run

Sept. 19, Monday

Road Ripping Writers: Lorna Landvik & Sarah Stonich 1 p.m. Two Harbors Public Library, twoharborspubliclibrary.com

Sept. 20-24

Muse: Alumni Exhibition Studio 21, Grand Marais, grandmaraisartcolony.org Ely Marathon & Half Marathon 7:30 a.m. Ely, elymarathon.com Dorothy’s Root Beer Run: Children’s Marathon 8:45 a.m. Ely, elymarathon.com Bienvenue: Coffee Fest 10 a.m. St. Louis County Depot, Duluth, experiencethedepot.org Lester River Rendezvous 10 a.m. Lester Park, Duluth, lesterriverrendezvous.com Hillside Makers’ Market 10 a.m.

Perception Coaching LLC, Duluth, facebook.com/hillsidemakersmarket Hiking the Superior Hiking Trail 2 p.m.

Rose Garden Trailhead, Duluth, duluthmn.gov/parks

Concert in the Park: Gene LaFond & Amy Grillo 6 p.m. Tettegouche State Park Amphitheater, Silver Bay, friendsoftettegouche.org Light Duluth Teal Gala 6 p.m.

Duluth Decc, mnovarian.org/events

DSSO: Korngold & Brahms 7 p.m.

Decc: Symphony Hall, Duluth, dsso.com

Sept. 26-28

Minnesota WebFest Duluth, mnwebfest.com

Mystery Mountain Trail Rehabilitation Volunteer Project 8:30 a.m. Superior Hiking Trail, Lutsen, superiorhiking.org/volunteer

Sept. 27, Tuesday

Sept. 21, Wednesday

Sept. 28, Wednesday

Alyssa Edwards 7:30 p.m. Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, tbca.com

Sept. 22-24

Unplugged 2022 North House Folk School, Grand Marais, northhouse.org

Sept. 22-25

Duluth Superior Film Festival Twin Ports, ds-ff.com Hawk Ridge 50th Anniversary Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, Duluth, hawkridge.org

Sept. 22-Oct. 1

North Star Story Summit Twin Ports, northstarstorysummit.org

Sept. 23, Friday

Annual Harvest Dinner 5 p.m. Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Grand Marais, 218-387-2227

Fresh Air Trail Run 6 p.m. Kamview Nordic Centre, Thunder Bay, tbnordictrails.com

Northwoods Partners Annual Oktoberfest Fundraising Dinner 5 p.m. Miners Dry House, Ely, ely.org Free In-Person Book Group: Firekeeper’s Daughter 5:30 p.m. Cook County Higher Education, Grand Marais, facebook.com/cookcountyhighereducation Northern Lights Foundation’s Children’s Charity Gala 6 p.m. Duluth Decc, northernlightsfoundation.org

North Shore Swing Band 6 p.m. North House

Sept. 23-24

The Runner Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay, magnustheatre.com

Sept. 23-25

Lake Superior 20/20 Studio & Art Tour 10 a.m.

Two Harbors, lakesuperior2020.com Two Harbors Fall Art Fair 10 a.m. (2 p.m. Friday) 731 7th Ave., Two Harbors, Facebook: Two Harbors Under the Spreading Walnut Tree Art Festival

Sept. 23-Oct. 2

Art Along the Lake: Fall Studio Tour 10 a.m.

Throughout Cook County, visitcookcounty. com/fallstudiotour

Decc: Symphony Hall, Duluth, decc.org

WEEKLY EVENTS

Sept. 29-Oct. 15 Sept. 30-Oct. 1

Golf for the Good 8 a.m. Superior National, Lutsen, northshorehealthcarefoundation.org

Oct. 1, Saturday

Heck of the North 8 a.m.

East Alger Grade Parking Lots, Two Harbors, heckofthenorth.com Do You Raku? We Do! 10 a.m. Sivertson Gallery, Grand Marais, sivertson.com Jake Forsman Memorial Car Show & Burnout Competition 10 a.m. Ely City Hall, elycarshow.org

New Riverside Ramblers 7 p.m. Arrowhead Center for the Arts, Grand Marais, northshoremusicassociation.com

10am - 5pm Thurs - Sat + 10 day Fall Studio Tour

Tuesdays

Ely Farmers Market 5 p.m.

Whiteside Park, Ely, ely.org

Locals Night with Live Music 5 p.m. North

Shore Winery, Lutsen, northshorewinery.us Zen Meditation Tuesdays 6:30 p.m. First Congregational Church UCC, Grand Marais, grandmaraisucc.org

Wednesdays Happy Hikers Wednesday Group Hikes 9 a.m. Meet at Grand Marais Tennis Courts, visitcookcounty.com/events

Sharon Frykman

Duluth Farmers Market 2 p.m. 1324 E. 3rd St., Duluth, duluthfarmersmarket.com Thunder Bay Country Market 3:30 p.m.

CLE Dove Building, Thunder Bay, tbcm.ca

Thursdays

Local Food Market 4:30 p.m. Cook County Community Center, Grand Marais, facebook.com/thursdaylocalfoodmarket

Date Night at the Winery 7 p.m. North Shore

Sept. 29, Thursday

Gallery

at Frykman Art Studio

Menopause the Musical 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 28-Oct. 1

Folk School, Grand Marais, northhouse.org

Bally Blacksmith & Metal Shop Tours 1 p.m.

Bally Blacksmith Shop, Grand Marais, cookcountyhistory.org

Oct. 4, Tuesday

Finland Farmer’s Market 5 p.m. Clair Nelson Center, Finland, finlandfarmersmarket.com

Catalyst Content Festival Duluth, catalystories.org

Art of the Elements

Community Auditorium, tbca.com

Tom Segura: I’m Coming Everywhere World Tour 7 p.m. Duluth Decc, decc.org

5K Color Glow Run 7 p.m. Whiteside Park, Ely, elymarathon.com Museum Fundraiser: Root Beer & Beer Garden Ely, rootbeerlady.com

Booya Harvest Festival 11 a.m. Clair Nelson Center, Finland, facebook.com/finlandbooya

Natalie Sobanja

Winery, Lutsen, northshorewinery.us

Fridays

Willow Springs Market 3 p.m.

Willow Springs Creative Centre, Kaministiquia, facebook.com/willowspringscc Indigenous: The Art of Shaun Chosa Exhibition (Thru Sept. 16) 4 p.m. AICHO Galleries: Robert Powless Cultural Center, Duluth, facebook.com/aichogalleries

Steve Frykman

Brittany Foster

Local Produce Stand 5:30 p.m.

Outside North Shore Area Partners, Silver Bay, facebook.com/finlandfoodchain

Saturdays

Thunder Bay Country Market 8 a.m.

CLE Dove Building, Thunder Bay, tbcm.ca Duluth Farmers Market 8 a.m. 1324 E. 3rd St., Duluth, duluthfarmersmarket.com Kakabeka Farmers’ Market 9:30 a.m.

Kakabeka Legion, Kakabeka Falls, kakabekafarmersmarket.ca

Maxene Linehan

Rooftop Yoga 9:30 a.m. Voyageur Brewing Co., Grand Marais, voyageurbrewing.com Cook County Market 10 a.m. Senior Center (The Hub) Parking Lot, Grand Marais, facebook.com/ccfarmandcraft Two Harbors Farmers Market 10 a.m.

320 7th Ave, Two Harbors, facebook.com/twoharborsfarmersmarket Harbor History Tours 1 p.m. Cook County Historical Museum, Grand Marais, cookcountyhistory.org Presentations 2 p.m. Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Gunflint Trail, gunflinthistory.org

Sundays

Weekend Wine Down 3:30 p.m. North Shore Winery, Lutsen, northshorewinery.us

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The North Shore Dish Eat Your Way Up the Shore By Virginia George

Every September the days shorten, the weather cools, the kids go back to school, and I find myself refusing to believe that the warm days of summer are over. Knowing that fall means winter is just around the corner, I resist embracing the cooler days as long as I can, and by the time I’m ready to admit that fall is really here, the trees are bare, the snow starts flying, and I’ve missed its beauty altogether.

I have vowed in recent years, to not only embrace the seasons, but find unique ways to appreciate them. Fall on the North Shore is a wonder, and people drive from all around to experience the cold breeze off the lake and find a picturesque view of the forest as the trees change their colors.

This time of year is beautiful, but brief.

So, leave your bug spray at home—the mosquitoes are probably gone, pack your sweatshirt—the temperatures can be unpredictable, and travel with me as we chase the fall colors and eat our way up the North Shore.

Breakfast at New London Café, Duluth When new owners took over New London Café in October 2021, they wasted no time in giving the New London Café a new look, inside and out. New logos grace the front windows, and rustic tables await you inside. Branding themselves as the “Gateway to the North,” this café is a local breakfast favorite.

New London Café offers a breakfast and lunch menu, with coffee roasted locally right next door. They have a full espresso bar, an assortment of teas grown along the nearby Amity Creek, and also offer Mike and Jen’s cocoa, and Northern Soda Company flavored sodas.

Breakfast choices include French toast, omelets, breakfast sandwiches, egg and sausage combos, and more. One of my favorites is the New London Scramble, which features their delicious New London potatoes scrambled with eggs, ham and green peppers. The lunch menu has burgers, sandwiches, salads and more. Both menus include choices for kids, and New London Café also serves homemade pastries. Even if you don’t make it in for breakfast, you’re sure to find something you like!

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If you don’t want to dine in you can order your Vanilla Bean Restaurant fare online for pickup, or they deliver to a surprising range of addresses. They also cater, offering box lunches or buffet services in and around the Duluth and Two Harbors area. The Vanilla Bean Restaurant boasts they serve “food prepared for the heart, with the soul in mind,” and is a great addition to any foodie’s road trip adventure.

Dinner at Insula Restaurant, Ely It’s important to give your palate a variety of experiences, and Insula Restaurant is just the ticket for something comfortable and just a little different. Insula strives to bring familiar menu items that are locally sourced, but with a twist. Truffle mac and cheese, wild rice chicken pot pie, and chicken and waffles featuring Minnesota maple syrup are just a few examples.

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Lunch at Vanilla Bean Restaurant, Two Harbors The Vanilla Bean Restaurant greets you unassumingly as you enter Two Harbors.

You’ll find a large wooden moose at the door and delicious eats inside, and if you missed breakfast, don’t worry because the Vanilla Bean serves brunch all day. It’s not too late to grab some pancakes, eggs, crepes or walleye cake benedict.

Of course, cinnamon sugar mini donuts are a valid option any time of day, but if you’re ready for lunch, one of their salads, burgers or sandwiches is sure to tickle your fancy. Vanilla Bean Restaurant offers gluten free options for all burgers and sandwiches, as well as a variety of choices for sides, including one of my favorites: sweet potato fries. Pair it with their signature bacon wrapped mini donut bloody mary, and you’ve got lunch, a drink and dessert.

Insula heavily favors Minnesota-made, and strives to be “locally sourced” and “responsibly consumed.” They do this by serving Minnesota brewed beer and hard cider, as well as regionally harvested wild rice and maple syrup. Insula Restaurant has a kids’ menu curated for adventurous and cautious eaters alike, and an inviting atmosphere located in the heart of Ely.

Dessert at Superior Creamery, Grand Marais

Ice cream and sorbet are made on site daily in small batches. Superior Creamery has perfected staple flavors like salted honey bee, superior vanilla, and lemon sorbet, as well as featured flavors like snickerdoodle and passionfruit sorbet, which change daily. Check their website or Facebook page for today’s current flavors.

You can get your ice cream in a cup or a cone, or a float with 1919 Root Beer or Uffda Kombucha. Superior Creamery also offers pints to go. The ice cream makers “by the saltless sea” are always innovating.

Since this has been a long road trip, you may have a hankering for some food with your ice cream, and Superior Creamery offers a small, but flavorful menu: sandwiches, salads, and fries. I, for one, can’t wait to try their parmesan pepper French fries with roasted garlic aioli.

What a lovely trip! The North Shore has much to offer, both in scenery and in food.

As September comes and the days get cooler while the night gets longer, I hope you’ll join me in embracing the seasons of life and of nature as they come. One of the best ways I have found to do this is to anticipate and embrace them: to find their beauty, learn their lessons…and to quickly seek shelter when necessary. And here in the northland, we have the privilege of experiencing those seasons with the most beautiful scenery and the most delicious food. Where should our adventures take us next?

Superior Creamery is a small creamery in Grand Marais serving small batch ice cream and sorbet, along with a light food menu.

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Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

By Hartley Newell-Acero More than 1-in-10 Americans have diabetes, and 1-in-3 adults in the U.S. have metabolic syndrome. While these conditions are common and related to each other, they’re not always well understood. Let’s break it down to the basics.

Blood Sugar As your body digests food, the carbohydrates you consume get converted into a type of fuel referred to as either blood glucose or blood sugar. Cells can only use this fuel when it’s brought inside them by a hormone called insulin. If there’s not enough insulin, or if the cells don’t respond to the insulin, the blood sugar builds up in the blood, damaging blood vessels. If blood sugar levels are high enough, this becomes diabetes.

Prediabetes Before someone develops Type 2 diabetes, they almost always go through a time when they have prediabetes.

Gestational Diabetes This is a form of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy, and about 1-in-10 pregnancies are affected. It can be caused by pregnancy hormones making the mother’s body resistant to insulin or if the mother’s body isn’t able to make/use the insulin it needs.

Type 1 Diabetes In this type of diabetes, the body doesn’t produce insulin. This type of diabetes can strike at any age, and unfortunately, there’s nothing proactive that can be done to prevent it.

Type 2 Diabetes

• High triglycerides • Low “good” cholesterol (HDL)

The most common form of diabetes, about 37 million people in the U.S. have this type, but 1-in-5 don’t realize it. Being undiagnosed or untreated puts someone at a greater risk of developing complications.

Common indicators are:

A waistline of 40 inches or more for men and 35 inches or more for women. Carrying adipose tissue (fat) around the waist is often the only visible sign of metabolic syndrome.

• Increased hunger, thirst, fatigue, urination, or infections

Why would it matter where body fat is deposited?

• Very dry skin • Tingling in hands or feet If have any of these symptoms, or if you...

• Are overweight • Are 45 years or older • Have a sibling or parent with diabetes • Are sedentary • Have had gestational diabetes ...it’s a good idea to get screened for diabetes. Your primary care provider can do that with a simple blood test. Diabetes is dangerous because it increases a person’s risk of developing heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, vision problems, erectile dysfunction, nerve issues, and wounds that won’t heal.

Metabolic Syndrome Diabetes isn’t the only troublemaker characterized by high blood sugar levels.

“Metabolic Syndrome” is a group of conditions that includes high blood sugar and other risky conditions. If these conditions aren’t addressed, the person that has them risks developing full-blown diabetes, heart disease, or having a stroke. Up to one-thirds of U.S. adults have Metabolic Syndrome.

Watch out for: • High blood glucose (sugar) • High blood pressure

Adipose tissue, or body fat, is found under the skin (subcutaneous fat) or in the abdomen around the internal organs (visceral fat). Fat cells (especially visceral fat) pump out substances that can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, decrease other cell’s sensitivity to insulin, increase blood pressure, harm blood clotting, and increase bad cholesterol while decreasing good cholesterol. More visceral fat equals more of what causes metabolic trouble in your body.

Is there a way to prevent or reverse prediabetes and metabolic syndrome? Yes! Because they are related, what works for one will work for another. The bonus—these

changes also protect you from Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Alzheimer’s, and a host of other conditions you don’t want to have to deal with.

• Eat and drink like someone that already has diabetes to put the brakes on actually developing diabetes. Visit diabetes.org to learn how.

• Move more! Exercise increases fitness levels, preserves muscle mass, and improves sleep and blood glucose control. Even light physical activity wakes your cells up and helps them to use insulin more effectively.

• Manage stress and get enough sleep.

This can help balance the hormones that increase both blood sugar and hunger.

This is a condensed version of the Sawtooth Mountain Clinic’s “Topic of the Month” newsletter. Check out the full article on our website (sawtoothmountainclinic.org) and learn about the different types of diabetes, less common signs of diabetes, the specific markers for Metabolic Syndrome, and how “Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis” can impact health.

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Northern Trails The Fun and Craziness of Fall Muskies By Gord Ellis

The muskie is famously known as the fish of 10,000 casts, which is enough to keep most sane people from even considering a trip for them. If you do decide to try fishing them, you quickly discover that muskie do this trick where they move in behind your lure looking all “bitey” then slink off at the last second. This frustrating move can happen many times in a day of casting, which is why the old line that a good day muskie fishing “is two swirls and a follow” has the painful ring to truth. Yet, when it all comes together, hooking a 4-foot-long fish that can fly out of the water like a torpedo, has a way of getting under your skin.

My first experience muskie fishing took place well over three decades ago, near Sioux Lookout, Ont. My dear departed friend— and muskie mentor—Russ Swerdlyk and I were fishing on Little Vermilion Lake, casting a lure called a Suick. The Suick is a lure that looks like an oversized popsicle stick and is fished in a choppy, downward motion. Swerdlyk and I had been out a couple of days with no success, save for a bunch of follows, when it finally happened. A muskie of about 36 inches rose out of the weeds and, instead of just following, inhaled the 6-inch lure on the end of my line. Bedlam ensued and a few minutes later, my first muskie was in hand. So began a decades long love/hate relationship with Esox masquinongy.

I’ve had the pleasure of chasing muskie across Ontario from the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing to Wabigoon to Lake of the Woods. Much of that fishing has been done in the fall when muskie are thought to be “easier” to catch. To be honest, muskie are not easy in any situation, but they do seem to lose some of that tendency towards lockjaw when the water cools.

Muskie fishing is primarily a trolling game in the fall, but you can cast during a warming trend or if trolling gets too boring. And, believe me, trolling can be boring.

You will sit for hours, waiting for a muskie to decide to grab your oversized lure that can measure a foot or more.

Yes, you read that right.

Muskie lures have gotten bigger and increasingly elaborate over the years. Some giant crankbaits measure 14 inches or more.

Oh, and these lures are not cheap. A typical muskie crankbait will cost anywhere from $25 to $100 or more, depending on the make, paint job and size. Even three de-

Author Gord Ellis with a gorgeous fall muskie. | GORD ELLIS the Musky Innovations Bull Dawg or Bondy Bait, which look like a whitefish or herring.

These over-sized lures require heavy rods and line, as the strikes are savage.

The very largest muskie I’ve ever laid eyes on was caught trolling during a full moon phase in October. My fishing partner was using a deep diving lure called an Ernie bait that gets down deeper than the Jake I was trolling. We were going through a deep hole when his rod bucked back, and he set. At first there was no movement on the rod, but then the tip dipped back and line started to peel out.

Muskie lures often top 10 inches in size. | GORD ELLIS cades ago, you could order custom lures that had sparkle paint jobs like those found on bass boats. Today, custom muskie lure makers can command $250 or more for one lure, and they will have a waiting list. The rods, reels and lines used for muskie fishing also tend to be on the pricey side.

Yet, muskie don’t care if you have expensive lures or not. In fact, my very best fall trolling lure the past few years has been a stock Muskie-Mania Jake lure in a white finish. I used the same one for several years and caught a bunch of big fish on it, including my personal best that measured 51.5 inches. It was a sad day when the lure finally

snagged bottom and could not be saved. As you might guess, I ordered another one that was the same. So far, the replacement lure is not as deadly.

Fall muskie fishermen often watch the moon phase. A full moon, and the days before and after, are known to be prime for catching larger fish. Why this is so has never fully been understood, but the spawning cycle of herring and whitefish are timed around a full moon. Muskie love to eat soft rayed fish such as herring, so when these fish begin to congregate, you can assume there will be a few predators around. Some anglers like to jig large, heavy lures such as

“This is a big one,” said my partner, who has caught a few. We killed the boat and I grabbed the giant-sized muskie net. You have not lived until you’ve picked up a net that is 4 feet across. The fish didn’t go too crazy, but getting it in the mesh the first time was going to be important. Big fish don’t give you many chances. When it finally appeared beside the boat, it looked like a green submarine. I dropped the net near the muskie’s massive head, and my partner lead it in. The fish just seemed to keep on coming. The tape read 54 inches, the fish of a lifetime. It’s fish like that that will keep some of us coming back for muskie every fall.

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Maybe it was a bit idiotic. It was a couple hours out of my way and I already had a nine-hour drive ahead of me before punching in for work at 8:00 the next morning, but I veered from my course anyway.

I was spending the weekend near Ely, but before I headed home, I decided to visit an old friend. She lives deep in the Superior National Forest near Grand Marais. At least, she used to. It had been years since my last visit.

I suppose there was a chance I’d show up at her lakeshore home, only to find the place vacant, but that thought never crossed my mind.

I drove through Ely, skirting the edge of the fabled Boundary Waters, making my way toward Grand Marais. The highway wound snakelike through the boreal forest. The last 15 miles of my drive was all gravel roads, but like a migrating Canada goose, I homed in on my destination like I’d driven there every day of my life, finally pulling over where a small stream trickled under the road.

“Here goes,” I thought as I gathered a paddle, life jacket and fishing gear, shrugged my shoulders and stepped off the road and into the forest.

Although unmarked and overgrown, a small trail meandered through the woods. It was wide enough to carry a canoe down—I’d found that out years earlier—but not much wider.

The trail led deep into a vast forest of spruce, birch, balsam, cedar and aspen. Sometimes I thought I recognized where I was; other times not. But all along, it seemed I was at least heading in the right direction.

After a good mile of hiking, I suddenly lost the trail. However, just then, even through the thick growth, I could see the lake ahead. I charged headlong through the dense coni-

fers like a bull moose, and there, leaning up against a cedar, was an old white canoe.

Never before or since have I seen a craft quite like this one.

It has to be old—a long-expired registration sticker bears the date 1974. It certainly pre-dates today’s Royalex and Kevlar materials. It is the most solidly built canoe I’ve ever seen... and hefted. It must weigh 75 pounds. It’s dinged up a bit and the white paint is flaking off in places, but it still floats like a cork and doesn’t take on a drop of water. I don’t know how long it’s been there or who put it there, but I doubt it’s leaving anytime soon. I can’t even imagine anyone could transport it the mile-plus hike required to reach the lake in the first place. It was likely driven in years ago on a long-overgrown logging road. No matter. It was there and I eagerly reunited myself with the old canoe.

I launched the stable boat and began pitching lures. Fishing was good and I brought in several pike and perch. For two glorious hours I watched goldeneyes, bald eagles, loons and a lone deer. I rediscovered a lake I hadn’t seen in years, marveling at the beauty of the high ridges surrounding this backwoods jewel. But too soon, the sun began sinking behind those ridges, and I decided it was best to get out of the woods before nightfall.

My paddle back to shore was a slow one. I dreaded the thought of leaving. My time at the lake was far too short.

How I wished I could camp there for a few days. But before I begrudgingly left, the lake held one last surprise for me.

Back near where I’d found the canoe, I saw splashes in the water. Then nothing. Then they reappeared. At first, I was puzzled. As I sculled nearer, I discerned a cow moose completely submerging, then coming back to the surface in the shadows of the lakeside trees. The sight was truly breathtaking and one I know I’ll never forget.

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Zebra mussels confirmed in Embarrass Mine Pit in St. Louis County AURORA—The Minnesota DNR has confirmed a report of zebra mussels in the Embarrass Mine Pit, also known as the Sabin Mine Pit, near Aurora in St. Louis County.

Mining in the Embarrass Mine Pit stopped in 1977.

A U.S. Forest Service employee contacted the DNR after finding several zebra mussels while swimming in a public area at the north end of the pit. A DNR invasive species specialist subsequently found adult zebra mussels in several locations in the 155-acre pit.

Embarrass Mine Pit is stocked with stream trout and other fish species, making it popular with anglers. It has a maximum depth of 465 feet.

Zebra mussels were confirmed in the nearby St. James Mine Pit in Aurora in July 2021, after an initial report from the same individual to the DNR. The DNR is working with the city of Biwabik, which draws water from the Embarrass Mine Pit for municipal and domestic use.

Zebra mussels can cause expensive damage to water intake pipes and can reduce or block water flow into intake pipes. Water containing zebra mussel larvae, called veligers, must be filtered and/or treated to eliminate veligers before it can be used for

drinking water or discharged to prevent the spread of invasive species in downstream receiving waters.

Whether or not a lake has any invasive species, Minnesota law requires people to: • Clean watercraft, trailers and equipment to remove aquatic plants and prohibited invasive species.

• Drain all water and leave drain plugs out during transport.

• Dispose of unwanted bait in the trash.

• Never release bait, plants or aquarium pets into Minnesota waters.

• Dry docks, lifts and rafts for 21 days before moving them from one water body to another.

These additional steps reduce the risk of spreading aquatic invasive species: • Decontaminate watercraft and equipment—find free stations on the courtesy decontamination page of the DNR website (mndnr.gov/decon).

• Spray with high-pressure water or rinse with very hot water (120 degrees for at least two minutes or 140 degrees for at least 10 seconds).

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LITTLE STONE LAKE

BY JOE SHEAD WHY GO: Little Stone Lake, located north of Two Harbors, provides a good largemouth bass fishery in an area where largemouths aren’t particularly common. Northern pike are also abundant and fish over 30 inches are possible. Little Stone is clear enough to provide good winter pike spearing.

ACCESS: From Two Harbors, travel north on County Highway 2 for about 13 miles.

Turn left on Wales Road (County Road 14) and proceed for 10 miles to Rollins. Turn left onto County Road 44 and proceed south for about three-quarters of a mile. Turn left onto Hopper Road for just under 1.5 miles, then turn left onto Stone Lake Bridge Road. Proceed 0.86 miles, then turn left onto Drummond Road. Proceed about a half-mile. The lake will be on your right and a small, gravel access—suitable for small boats—will be where the road leaves the lake. There is limited parking along the roadway. No amenities are available.

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GAME SPECIES PRESENT: Largemouth bass, northern pike, bluegill, black crappie, yellow perch and walleye.

LARGEMOUTH BASS: With its clear water, weedy bays, old stumps and lily pad fields, Stump Lake has good largemouth bass habitat. You’ll find lots of bass in the 12-inch range, with some nicer specimens in the 16- to 18-inch range. Plastic worms twitched along old stumps or weeds, chatterbaits fished across weed flats or weedless frogs hopped across lily pads will all take fish.

NORTHERN PIKE: Little Stone’s shallow, weedy waters provide excellent northern pike cover. You’ll find plenty of fish in the 18- to 22-inch range, and if you’re lucky, you might turn up a fish over 30 inches. Spinners, spoons, chatterbaits and crankbaits fished over the weeds are sure to get plenty of strikes. The lake is popular with local spearers in the winter.

BLUEGILLS: Bluegills thrive in the lake’s weedbeds and provide good action for anglers. They can often be caught from along the Drummond Road shoreline, which serves as an easy place to take kids to catch a few fish. Unfortunately, despite their abundance, ’gills generally run pretty small. You

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B L A C K CR APPIES: Black crappies are present in Stump, but their reproduction is somewhat sporadic and they aren’t as abundant as bluegills. Like bluegills, they tend to be on the small side, with an occasional fish measuring 10 inches.

YE LLOW PERCH: Perch are present in the shallow, weedy lake as well, but like the other panfish species, they’re usually on the small side.

glers’ lines, but when they do, they are usually large. It’s been several years now since walleyes were stocked here, but an angler reportedly caught a 29-incher earlier this year.

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September’s mild nights and darkening skies make for some of the year’s best star watching.

In the west, brilliant Arcturus is slowly sinking, dragging its kite-shaped constellation, Bootes, the herdsman, with it. Just east of Bootes hangs the semicircular Corona Borealis, or northern crown; its sole bright star is called Gemma or Alphecca. Moving east again, an hourglass of stars defines the torso of upside-down Hercules.

Next to Hercules shines Vega—the beacon of Lyra, the lyre, and the brightest of the large Summer Triangle of stars. This month, the Triangle will be high in the south at nightfall—that is, in prime viewing position at the prime viewing hour. Below Vega, a small parallelogram of stars outlines the lyre. Moving east again, somewhat dimmer Deneb, also a Triangle star, marks the tail of Cygnus, the swan, and the head of the Northern Cross. To the south, Altair, in Aquila, the eagle, forms the sharpest point in the Triangle. And slightly above and east of Altair, little Delphinus, the dolphin, leaps into a dark sea.

September’s full moon rises the evening of the 9th. It crosses the night sky between Saturn, to the west, and Jupiter, to the east.

On the morning of the 17th, Mars will be sandwiched between Aldebaran—the eye of Taurus, the bull—and a very high last quarter moon. Last quarter moons near the fall equinox always ride high, because at this time of year the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward their position.

The equinox arrives at 8:03 p.m. Thursday, the 22nd, when the sun passes over the equator into the southern sky and an observer from space would see Earth lighted from pole to pole.

Earth laps Jupiter in the orbital race on the 26th. That event places Jupiter opposite the sun in the sky, so it will be up all night.

The University of Minnesota’s public viewings of the night sky at its Duluth and Twin Cities campuses have been curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For more information, visit: d.umn.edu/planet.

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Documenting more than 25 years of research, Loon Lessons is a compendium of knowledge about the common loon and an engaging record of scientific sleuthing. Written in an entertaining style by one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it describes the common loon’s biology and behavior, and provides a deeper understanding of the bird’s natural history and annual life cycle. Loon Lessons provides a wealth of information that’s neatly broken up into short sections, making it an easy read.—Breana Johnson

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A Superior Murder

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River Place Press, 2022, $16.95

Written by the former Cook County News-Herald editor and WTIP news director, The Flayed Man is a gritty, fast paced procedural crime novel set on the North Shore.

It’s the summer of 2001 and police chief Paul Tharp’s usual routine is interrupted by the discovery of a dead body on an abandoned farm. The victim’s skin had been removed and his heart cut out and burned. A twisted who-done-it with ancient Aztec sacrificial roots, The Flayed Man is a heart-pounding, violent novel that will keep you guessing until the very end.—Breana Johnson

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It was the dodging potholes while driving home one evening that forever changed the life of Dug Greaves. A vicious police officer pulled him over, roughed him up and wrongly charged him with impaired driving. What followed was a chilling journey into the world of corrupt police, a world of law enforcement gone rogue, seemingly without consequences.

He was harassed, stalked, intimidated and betrayed, but what can he do? This is a fastpaced action-packed novel as Greaves struggles to get his life back, expose the corruption and get justice…or is it revenge? Jon Tory (a pseudonym) is a Thunder Bay-based author of seven non-fiction books and numerous published articles. Best Served Cold is the author’s first book of fiction.—E.J. Stone

Gidaanikeshkaagonaanig Gidaanikoobijiganinaan Following the Ancestor’s Steps

Ezhi-dakonaawasod gookomis The Way a Grandmother Holds Us By: Sam Zimmerman / Zhaawanoogiizhik 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 always felt her close when Gii-kwiinawi-inendam gii-pi-wiindamawind gichi-aakozinid ookomisan (I’m sick). When I had appendicitis in college and it burst, she visited me in a baawaajige (dream) in the hospital after surgery.

This newest piece celebrates that zaagi’idiwin (love) shared between a nookomis (grandmother) and her oozhisimaag (grandchild). There are naanimidana nishwaaswi (fifty-eight) anangoog (stars) in the giizhig (sky) for her age when she journeyed on. She had midaaswi ashi niiwin (fourteen) noozhisag (grandchildren) that are captured in the number of zhingwaakwag (pine trees) in the background. I may have gotten carried away with the beadwork on the dikinaagan (cradleboard).

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Strange Tales Indigenous Art: Traditional to Contemporary By Elle AndraWarner

Some Indigenous art—like rock art—has been created for thousands of years, while others, like unique styles of paintings, have evolved in the last hundred years.

Many of us have heard about the forms of rock art known as petroglyphs, where Indigenous artists created images thousands of years ago by removing, chiselling, and/ or pecking part of a rock surface (like at Minnesota’s Jeffers Petroglyphs) and pictographs where artists painted on rock surfaces with natural pigments (like Agawa Rock, Lake Superior Provincial Park). Also wellknown are the Indigenous artists who have created unique paintings, like the Woodlands School of Art which started in Northwestern Ontario and gained global recognition beginning in the 1960s with Ojibwe “Legend Painters”—artists like Norval Morrisseau, Jackson Beardy, Carl Ray and Roy Thomas, the influential Anishinaabe painter with a distinctive totemic style.

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One of the oldest and most complex, yet least known, Indigenous forms of art is the traditional birch-bark biting—known as mazinibaganjigan in Ojibwe—and a small number of artists in North America have been saving it from extinction.

The process for creating this art often starts with spring harvesting bark from white birch trees, carefully peeling thin pieces of the birch bark, and folding the fresh bark several times into a square, rectangle or triangle. The artist then creates an image in their mind for the art and uses eyeteeth (aka canines) to pierce the bark just enough to make indentations; to make symmetrical shapes, the artist rotates the bark in their mouth. The amazing thing about birch-bark biting is that the artist will not see the created work until the birch bark is unfolded and held to the light.

In addition to traditional birch-bark bitings as an art creation, the bitings are used in storytelling, making maps, documenting meetings, patterns for quill work, beading, basketry or hide clothing.

In North America, two Indigenous birchbark biting artists in particular have kept it from being a lost art. Saskatchewan-born Angelique Merasty (1924-1996) of the Woodland Cree Nation of Amisk (Beaver) Lake spent a lifetime practising and producing intricate and symmetrical birch-bark biting designs; her work has been displayed in museums and art galleries including Thunder 42

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Bay Art Gallery. Through her work “bark biting has achieved status and market of a fine art” (Online Canadian Encyclopedia).

Wanesia Misquadance, a Minnesota-born and award-winning contemporary traditional birch-bark biting artist and silversmith from Fond du Lac Band of the Ojibway tribe, has brought recognition of birch-bark biting to the contemporary art world. Her creations include melding her biting designs in new materials like silver and gold.

Another Indigenous art form that predates European contact is moose tufting, where moose (sometimes caribou) hair is used to produce three-dimensional images by stitching and trimming bundles of selected hair onto tanned hides or later on canvas-reinforced velvet. Hairs are sorted by size, length and colour, cleaned, and gathered in small bundles of 15-20 hairs.

Moose tufting requires precision, skill, steady hands and patience, as for example, each flower can take six to eight hours to create. Traditional dyes were roots, lichen, flowers, bark and wild berries to produce vibrant-coloured hair.

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nous clothing to decorate mittens, gloves and footwear. While moose tufting almost disappeared, it is making a comeback and being crafted again by artists.

Snowshoes as art? Resounding “yes!” Traditional wooden and hide snowshoes made

by Indigenous people are considered art and featured throughout North America in cultural centres and museums. Snowshoeing today is primarily a recreational winter activity, however, in the past snowshoes were used for winter travel by Indigenous people.

Making snowshoes the traditional way is a multi-day process. Frames were made of wood—white ash, birch, spruce and sometimes willow—that had been steamed or water-soaked to make more pliant; and filled in webbing of rawhide strips from moose or caribou (babiche). Snowshoe laces were made from deer, caribou and moose hide and leather, and rawhide straps secured the moccasins to the snowshoes. Modern snowshoes are mass-manufactured with lightweight metal, plastic and other synthetic materials.

Dreamcatchers (asabikeshiinh in Ojibwe, meaning “little net maker”) is an art form that originated in the Anishi-

The Indigenous art form of moose tufting predates European contact.

In addition to beautiful works of art, moose hair tufting is used to decorate mittens, gloves and footwear. | ELLE ANDRA-WARNER naabe culture. Traditionally, it is a handmade willow hoop on which is woven with string or sinew replicating a spider’s web, perhaps decorated with feathers or beads, and hung over an infant’s bed as a protective charm. Ethnographer Frances Densmore wrote in 1929 (Chippewa Customs, Minnesota Historical Society Press), the purpose of the dreamcatchers was “that they caught any harm that might be in the air as a spider’s web catches and holds whatever came in contact with it.” Dreamcatchers were not directly connected with dreams.

Dreamcatchers gained popularity among other Indigenous people in the 1960s and 1970s, and eventually became popular as First Nations crafted items.

There are many other Indigenous art forms that deserve equal recognition, like quill work (art using porcupine quills); beaded garments and the use of beads; dance, music and songs; symbolic artwork on drums; sacred birch bark records; and basketry.

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“I only recently started hunting, so I didn’t grow up hearing stories about “the way things were.” More than a trip back in time, the stories in this book help modern day hunters understand important pieces of Minnesota’s past. A great addition to any conservationists’ reading list!”

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I compiled the letters that John wrote to Madge to preserve a bit of family history. I consider this book to be an historical document, and as such have made no omissions to the letters’ text.

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The letters themselves cannot convey the danger John went through when the USS Kendall C. Campbell DE 443 was in combat. I would encourage you to read at least some of the books listed in the bibliography to more closely understand what John experienced.

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WWII Love Letters of John O. Redshaw

To the Family of John and Madge Redshaw:

Wartime censorship of mail while John was at sea limited what he was able to write about.

The fact that nothing he wrote was censored illustrates what a careful and conscientious man he was. In short, he always tried to do the right thing. He was a man with integrity.

This book has become a project of love and respect for John and Madge. In fact, over the past six months this project has become an obsession to which I am emotionally attached.

I have tried to be as accurate as possible, but any errors are mine alone.

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Driveway Width, Height & Grade For emergency vehicles to safely access your property, your driveway must have an all-weather surface that can support large, heavy vehicles. Vegetation must be cleared to the following standards:

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Hunting Adventures on the Minnesota Frontier

...when elk and bison roamed the prairies, when sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chickens were abundant across the land, and when hunters and adventurers travelled for days to experience the hunting Minnesota had to offer. Sit back, step back in time, and read how the places you hunt today looked like over 150 years ago. This book gives vivid descriptions of the places we know today as good hunting spots, but marvel at how abundant game species were, and what constituted a good day of hunting on the frontier. More than two dozen stories of hunting in the day accompanied by 30 photographs from the archives of the Minnesota Historical Society.

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LIVING THE BIG DREAM ON THE BIG LAKE! NEW! BEAUTIFUL LAKE SUPERIOR CONDO ON THE NORTH SHORE! Walk into this condo and curl up in front of the cozy wood fireplace while soaking in the views and sounds of the big lake. Located on the lower level of Chateau LeVeaux you have a great walk out patio, perfect spot to sit with your morning cup of coffee or enjoy the bonfire outside the unit in the evening. The kitchen is fully equipped, easily make all your meals in house before enjoying your adventures on the North Shore. The open floor plan even gives the cook a great view of the big lake! Enjoy the multiple hiking trails, cross-country ski trails or snowshoeing all close by, Not to mention the many State Parks. Your options of things to do are endless! Or stick around the resort and enjoy the amenities they have including a lakeside sun deck, pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, game room, fire pits and grills. Its time to Relax and Unwind on the shores of Lake Superior. Plan your visit today!

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MLS#6104524 $239,000

E L A S ING D N E P SUPERIOR’S CROWN JEWEL! Architectural Tofte Masterpiece! Dramatic, Gitche-Gumee Ledgerock, easily accessible. Including a protected pool for launching kayaks, or for the brave, a quick dip (be sure the sauna is fired up. 5 bedroom, 4 bath, to die for kitchen! Inside, the home is endless, room for everyone! Within all that space are: nooks with fireplaces, a recessed seating area for those important conversations that only the Big Lake can stir, a whole lower level that can function on its own with kitchenette, family room, a couple bedrooms, bathroom. Carleton Peak granite stone columns soar through the home. The Master bedroom has it all: private balcony, gas fireplace, spacious walk-in closet, large private bath with Jacuzzi tub. A sprawling deck overlooks the yard and shore. An awesome property in the Northwood’s!

MLS#6102646 $1,615,000

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NEWER CONSTRUCTION LAKE SUPERIOR CABIN IN LUTSEN! MLS#6102607 $699,000

D L O S SUPERIOR STUNNER! MLS#6101781 $1,300,000

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RELAX IN LUTSEN! This home has been lovingly cared for, Easy to just show up and start living a Northwoods life! Surrounded by 6+ acres with gorgeous boreal forest surrounding: cool and leafy in the summer, a pageant of colors in the fall. Just a ¼ mile or so up the Caribou Tr, conveniently located to all the fun of the Lutsen area and an easy 20 minutes to Grand Marais. Inside is an ideal layout of ease for family life, or friends or just make it your own with one of the two bedrooms becoming an office. The kitchen is the picture of utility with a plethora of original birch cabinets. Breakfast bar is handy, Laundry room with additional storage. The living room is spacious and spills onto the deck via a large sliding glass door. The deck is roomy and ready for BBQ, a hammock, reading or just zoning out. The best for last - charming guest cabin built way back in the day awaits your vision: studio, yoga/meditation retreat, she-shed, man cave? Come and get it!

MLS#6103902 $295,000

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NEW! RUSTIC CABIN ON THE GUNFLINT TRAIL! Calling all home project lovers- this Rustic Log Cabin is waiting for you! Hand hewn small log cabin needs love and care to bring it back to its glory.

There’s no electric to the cabin, but the large windows provide lots of natural light throughout the cabin. Two main floor bedrooms allows you plenty of bunkroom space, and a small loft could be another bunkroom or storage. Rustic kitchen with no plumbing, but if you improve the foundation, one could add well and plumbing with a new septic system. Two car detached garage gives you room to store all your seasonal toys. The property has 11+ acres with plenty of space to create your own trails or build your dream. Fabulous location close to many resorts, minutes to the BWCAW, summer hiking trails and winter snowshoe and snowmobile trails, not to mention all the inland lakes for fishing! No matter what your favorite outdoor activity is you can find it HERE on the Gunflint Trail

MLS#6104862 $139,000

CONTEMPORARY LUTSEN LIVING! MLS#6102458 $389,000

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BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED LUTSEN HOME! Nestled downtown Lutsen with seasonal Lake Superior views, a nice yard, and a cool raised garden. The main level has a flowing floor plan with a kitchen, dining area, and nice size living room with a cozy stove and new deck. Check out the sunroom – perfect for plants, morning yoga, or an amazing home office with a view! 3 bedrooms and a recently added bathroom upstairs! Super nice detached garage used as a workshop, resided, insulated, and heated.

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MLS#6102794 $289,900

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INLAND LAKESHORE OPPORTUNITIES! NEW! PEACE, PURE WATER AND ELEGANCE ON DEVIL TRACK LAKE! Here on a sprawling lot, on the shiny, big water of Devil Track Lake is a class-act home. The home has been well-loved and maintained, nothing to do but move in and enjoy. Two baths, Three bedrooms, Terrific kitchen, all high end and ready for gatherings, stories, memories, and frying up walleyes or Devil Track’s white fish.

The living room is spacious with vaulted wood-paneled ceilings, dramatic wood burning fireplace, and views to the lake and beckoning deck. Out on the deck the world is your oyster: grill it up, relax with a cold one, tell some tales, hear the loons, the owls, take it all in! Or wander the 3 acres and 300ft of shoreline. Attached two car garage gets you in and out of the rain or snow, but wait, detached garage has three more stalls and a workshop/kennel.

Fill it all up with the extras that bring this country to life: canoes, kayaks, ATVs, snowmobiles, fishing boat, store your pontoon. Visit today and create your life on the North Shore!

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MLS#6104817 $859,900

NEW! RELAX AT LOON LAKE! Looking for your own inland lake getaway? This is it! This cute year round cabin has a great location with easy access just off the Gunflint Trail. Overlooking Loon Lake you will have amazing views to soak in while enjoying your morning coffee on the deck or meander down to 140’ of shoreline on Loon Lake and spend the day fishing. Walk in and enjoy the vaulted ceilings with log beams and an open floor plan giving every space an amazing view of Loon Lake. With all the inland lakes nearby, the snowmobile trails and hiking trails you will never have to wander far to find the day’s adventure. All that is missing is you and your fishing pole to catch your limit!

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MLS#6104690 $399,900

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BEAUTIFUL LUTSEN LIVING WITH CARIBOU LAKE ACCESS! Are you disappointed with the high cost of lakeshore living in Lutsen? Tired of looking at your neighbors right next door on the lake…maybe a little seclusion while entertaining on the deck would be nice? Take a look at this Gorgeous Lutsen Caribou Lake home, featuring a trail to Caribou Lake where you can install your own dock, this is NOT shared access, but your own lake easement. The home affords you peace and quiet, surrounded by a maple forest with tons of space for year round living, an oversized two car detached garage for all the toys. Peninsula Point Trail location, minutes to Lutsen Mountains and Lake Superior!

MLS#6103652 $600,000

CARIBOU LAKE GETAWAY! Classic cabin home, lovingly maintained on a parcel of land with awesome shoreline, the kind a person could get back in the day. 240+ feet of it! A permanent crib dock is the site for all the lake action and there is even an old-school boat ramp, so handy for getting the watercraft in and out. Step inside to charm, spaciousness, comfort, oak floors, pine paneling, vaulted ceilings!

4 bedrooms, two full baths, living room that sits right behind a commanding pane of glass. The kitchen has the cutest cabinets!

1.5 stall garage is all you really need. Small shed to contain the garden tools, etc. Plenty of land here for a lake lot, 1.56 acres!

MLS# 6103720 $650,000

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CAMPN’, HUNTN’, FUN GETAWAY LAND, INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE! SILVER BAY TO SCHROEDER AREAS Enjoy the wilderness on 24+ acres!

Year round access with electricity at the street! Plenty of space to create your up north getaway! Only 6 miles up the Cramer road from Schroeder you have close access to many inland lakes and trails.

MLS#6101541 $60,000 PRICE REDUCED

TOFTE AREA Bring your dreams of a North Shore Getaway to life on this nice Tofte lot in Wildwood Acres!

Located just a little ways up the Sawbill Trail you will be close to all your favorite outdoor activities like Hiking the Superior Hiking Trails or Snowmobiling. Year round road access via a simple association, electric at the road and a driveway in place means you can start building as soon as you’re ready! Visit today and start making your dream of owning a North Shore getaway come to life! MLS#6102865 $30,000 SOLD Beautiful parcel at Birch Cliff, located between Lutsen and Tofte, you’ll enjoy the best of both worlds!

Dine at BlueFin and Ski the day away at Lutsen Mountains from this lovely corner build site with decent Lake Superior views and views of Carlton Peak in the distance. LeVeaux Mountain is to the North, wowser setting!

MLS#6099657 $75,000

LUTSEN AREA Looking for a great affordable lot with lake access? Look no further, this lot has that plus more.

With a driveway in to a cleared build site you can easily envision your getaway cabin or year round home on a backlot at Tait Lake. While the property isn’t waterfront you can launch your boat at one of the two association boat landings just down the road and enjoy the lake fishing or relaxing Year round access, electric at street, build ready!

MLS#6103719 $49,900 SOLD

LUTSEN AREA

LUTSEN AREA

Beautiful Old Pines and Views of Tait Lake, the surrounding forest, and all the way to Eagle Mountain!

This 5+ acre lot is a Northwoods gem. A diversity of tree species creates a lovely sylvan vibe with plenty of elbow room. The lot comes with deeded access to Tait Lake at two landings: one peaceful and just right for a canoe or kayak or a developed ramp for a bit of evening cruising in a motor boat. Select a building site along the south line of the lot to maximize the views. Not far from Lutsen, about a half hour to Grand Marais, yet a feeling of being deep in the woods.

Come have a look, do a walkabout and fall in love with your own acreage Up North!

MLS#6103685 $79,000

Lutsen Build sites with shared septic and well just waiting for your little cabin ideas! Looking for a site to build without spending an arm and a leg? These sites are it! Well and Septic in place, just Build and Enjoy!

MLS#2309328 $39,000 AND OTHERS, JUST ASK ABOUT MINK RANCH!

Lutsen Maple Forest bordering Superior National Forest!

Looking for a peaceful spot close to some beautiful inland lakes? This 6+ acres is it! Tucked away in the wilderness but still only 15 min from downtown Lutsen. Close to Christine Lake, White Pine Lake and Barker Lake, you will have plenty of options when you want to go fishing or canoeing. Take the Caribou Trail to the Honeymoon Trail, to Lund Road.

The Honeymoon Trail is on the Fall Leaf Tour, beautiful Maples, and this lot has plenty! A mature canopy of trees, including maples, birch trees and pines brings with it a wide arrangement of wildlife and will make a beautiful view to enjoy once you create your getaway. Check it out today!

MLS#6103934 $85,999 SALE PENDING 8+ acre parcel in the Heart of Lutsen with Lake Superior views!

Great place to build your dream cabin or permanent home, with plenty of space to enjoy the quiet woods atmosphere.

Close to all Lutsen has to offer and many inland lakes in the area which are a quick drive away. There is year round accessibility via association road. Visit today and start planning your dream getaway!

MLS#6102890 $164,900 PRICE REDUCED

GRAND MARAIS AREA

Enjoy all the North Shore has to offer from this property in the Heart of Lutsen.

This 2+ acres of Boreal Forest is just a minute from Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort and Lake Superior! Well buffered from Highway 61 on Turnagain Trail! Year Round Access!

MLS#6102750 $51,900 SOLD

Beautiful 15 acres near Grand Marais!

Bordering National Forest to the south you will have plenty of space to explore! Parcel has been surveyed and corners are flagged. Dreamy building spot near a group of pine trees, even a bubbly creek to create a magical setting!

MLS#6103293 $129,000 SOLD Enjoy big views of Lake Superior from this gorgeous parcel, just minutes west of Grand Marais!

5+ acres gives you room to build your dream getaway but close enough Grand Marais to enjoy everything town has to offer!

MLS#6103292 $129,000 SOLD

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218-387-2131 800-732-2131 101 West highway 61 grand marais, mn 55604

INLAND LAKE PROPERTIES

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21 Voyageur Bay

This sweet 2BR, 1BA cabin is surrounded by towering pine trees and located on Gunflint Lake. The cabin is situated on a USFS leased lot.

MLS 6102806

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4 6 Devils Point Rd. Get away to this delightful 3BR, 1BA cabin nestled on a wooded lot with 180+ feet on Devil Track Lake’s north shore. It is so peaceful and secluded.

MLS 6103495

1 726 G r eenwood L a ke R d Off-grid, remote, living at its best! This light and airy three bedroom home has a top-of-the-world view of majestic Greenwood Lake!

Designed to capture the views, this home is sure to impress. Shared lakeshore/boat harbor.

MLS 6104029

$325,000

$745,000

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Tom Lake

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345’ of gorgeous Saganaga lakeshore frontage. Well built and cared for main cabin with great lake views and historic log cabin.

Rare opportunity to find a lake lot to build your dream home on the shores of Caribou Lake. Lot abuts USFS, features 213’ of shoreline and 3.5 acres.

Listen to the loons and enjoy the waves gently swelling on the shore of this Tom Lake lot with over 200 feet of frontage! With an easy slope to the lake.

WOW! Beautiful Cedar Log Cabin on the shores of Tom Lake with a bunkhouse, sauna, and gorgeous piece of shoreline. Features 191 ft of shoreline & 3.31.

MLS 6103140

$449,900

MLS 6102146 •

$625,000

MLS 6103447

$399,900

MLS 6104147

$74,900

MLS 6104378

$269,900

LAKE SUPERIOR NEW 1534 Hwy 61 E Exceptional Lake Superior lot with 5.8A and 313’ of stunning ledge rock shoreline, located less than 2 miles from downtown Grand Marais, providing a premier location. The long winding driveway and ample acreage provides plenty of privacy that truly creates a park like setting. There is a sweet old family cottage used for many years, that could be updated or leveled to accommodate your dream home.

MLS 6104674

$769,999

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1 1 0 0 Ol d Sh ore Roa d A rare Lake Superior find, this exquisite 3+ bedroom home has beautiful beach, great privacy, and is conveniently located on the edge of the Grand Marais city limits. 194 feet of accessible private beach fronts this 1 acre property. A large garage with a heated shop space completes this golden opportunity. Call today!

MLS 6103709

$1,395,000 PE N D I N G

NEW 2 1 1 5 H wy 61 E

Custom built, 3 bedroom, 3 bath home, located on a premier lot, overlooking 5 Mile Rock and featuring 220’ of gorgeous gravel beach shoreline! This one level home, with attached 2 car garage, was thoughtfully designed to take advantage of the views while creating a warm atmosphere, with all the bells and whistles.

MLS 6104643

$649,900 PE N D I N G

7 1 1 0 E Hig h w a y 6 1 Amazingly beautiful Lake Superior shoreline is matched by this gorgeous 2 bedroom, 2 bath home. View the lake from every room!

Almost 600 feet of shore with a mix of rock and some gravel beach.

A second dwelling has a great studio space flanked by two separate apartments. The possibilities are endless!

MLS 6103676

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HOMES & CABINS

5038 E Highway 61

It’s time to dream big with this property--what an opportunity for you! Land is split zoning: commercial and residential! Main home, multiple cabins, garage, and a seasonal commercial building. You could live in the two-bedroom home and decide what type of business would benefit the Hovland area.

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51 Mort Meadows Amazing property with investment possibilities! 10-acres of mature forest, Lake Superior views, previous site of Gunflint Gardens.

Large 4BR home, fabulous studio apartment with its own entrance, detached sweet rental cabin, 3-stall garage, greenhouse, pond, gardens, and more! Plan to take your time when you visit this lovely home. Dead-end road for privacy.

MLS 6104233

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3 066 County Rd 7

Amazing cabin situated on 5 acres and abutting State land. Just minutes from town with all the privacy you desire. This well built and well maintained cabin offers 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom with a loft for sleeping quarters.

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2 5 Gustav Lane

9 89 Devil Track Road

Here is your chance for country living, minutes from Grand Marais.

2BR/2BA,1 1/2 story home is located at the end of a private road and has seasonal Lake Superior views.Attached and detached garage. This one-of-a-kind home has great potential!

3BR, 3BA fixer-upper on 4.5A has tons of potential. The house with walkout basement has been partially remodeled. Most of the materials, including all new appliances, are on-site. Large pole building will house all your vehicles and recreational gear. Whether you make it your home or an investment project.

MLS 6104341

$299,900

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MLS 6104536

$199,900

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XXX Reason Road

170+ acres of heavily forested land that has been replanted with many beautiful pine trees, poplar & cedar trees. Features gravel pit and pond and abutting State land. Seller is licensed real estate agent in MN.

If you’re looking for a remote property with access to recreation, this is the one for you!

120 acres of mature trees, varied topography, and wildlife. Make trails to explore the area and let your adventure begin.

MLS 6102798 $149,900 reduced

MLS 6103087

Two I sland Ri ver Road

49 X X N o rth Road 40 wooded acres on a well-maintained county road can be yours to build your dream house, your hunting cabin, or pitch your tent.

Here is a great base from which to explore the Arrowhead Region or just hike your acreage. Make it your own wildlife refuge.

6103079 $169,900 reduced

Beautiful lot just outside Grand Marais. Fall River runs through this property. Dramatic frontage!

$62,000

Large acreage! The lovely piece of land consists of 160 acres and is surrounded by the USFS. It is heavily wooded with some trails, gravel, wildlife pond - something for everyone!

MLS 6103734

NEW 4907 Hwy 61 E

Affordable commercial opportunity in Hovland! Or Lake Superior view building site! Or both!? There is room to have home and business. Create the quintessential North Shore home with that Lake Superior view, easy access from a paved road, and State-owned beach right across the road. Trails, lakes, streams, and parks await your outdoor adventures as well. Invent your future here!

MLS 6104724

$179,900

$199,900

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MLS 6095813

$119,900

Beautiful 3+ acres on a peaceful private road. Ideally located close to Superior Hiking Trail and CC Snowmobile Trail. Country living close to Grand Marais.

MLS 6104354

$64,900

Jonvick Creek Sites 5 lots from 1.5 - 4.8 acres In the heart of Lutsen, just off the Caribou Trail. Maples, Pines, and cedars in varied arrangements will make a great back-drop for your home or cabin. Sites adjoin public land.

$44,900 - $56,900

12XX Highway 61 W

RARE, I repeat, RARE opportunity to find almost 6 acres of Commercial acreage, located in the heart of Grand Marais, with city sewer and city water. This property has approximately 825 ft. of frontage on Highway 61 and also has access from 3 different points off of 1st Street.

MLS 6103253

$989,900

623X Little Marais Road Build your North Shore getaway on this large parcel! Located high above Little Marais with views of Lake Superior, perfect blend of peaceful forest and easy access to the area.

MLS 6102257

$159,900

X1 3 Murphy Mou ntai n Trail Nicely wooded 5 acre lot at the end of a cul-de-sac with views of Lake Superior! Great location--just minutes from Grand Marais MLS 6102645

$129,900

13 15 E Highway 61

Incredible commercial opportunity at City Limits! Current use includes a 3BR rental unit, professional office, and huge home!

Cathedral ceilings, partially finished second floor, beautiful custom designed kitchen, master bedroom with ensuite and private patio access. Bring your idea and make your dream come true!

MLS 6104280

$1,500,000

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PENINSULA POINT TRAIL - CARIBOU LAKE AREA

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Quality custom designed and built home located near Lutsen’s Caribou

Not too often does a private lake vacant lake shore parcel become

Lake on Peninsula Point Trail. This three bedroom two bath home is move-in

available for sale. Located just past Seagull Lake on the historic Gunflint

ready and features main level living consisting of an entertaining designed

Trail, this private parcel covets nearly 3 1/2 acres and over 400’ of

kitchen, open floor plan to living and dining area, wood burning fireplace,

shoreline. This is a perfect base camp location for BWCAW year-round

main level master bedroom and bath, and main level laundry. In other-

adventures notwithstanding serving as its own private destination. Vacant

words, no steps and easy year-round access. In addition, home orientation

parcel is adjacent to an award winning designed home by David Salmela.

and Anderson windows provides a unique abundance of natural light.

Parcel is surveyed with soil tests completed and several nice build sites.

MLS 6103715 // $599,900

MLS 6103686 // $199,900

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GEODESIC HOME ON LAKE SUPERIOR

B I R C H C L I F F PA R C E L S

Innovative geodesic dome home on Lake Superior with accessible

Stunning, breathtaking panoramic Lake Superior views! Perched

beach! Open concept kitchen, living & dining, all with spectacular

atop the cliff edge, you have a bird’s eye view of Grand Marais to

views of the lake. Windows recently updated with interior retro style

the northeast and Silver Bay and Carlton Peak to the southwest.

accents. Accommodates large gatherings with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,

Electricity and broadband run along the road below for future access

plus an upper loft with a walkout finished lower level that has T&G

directly to the parcels. The prime location near Tofte has direct access

wood ceiling & walls with big lake views. There is also an additional

to the Gitchi Gami bike trail and is a short drive to Lutsen Mountains.

deck on the home and oversized two-car detached garage.

MLS 6104220 // $797,900

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MLS 6103518 // $174,900

MLS 6103519 // $189,000

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3131 Sq. Ft. Senty Log Home 5+ Bedroom 2 Bath MLS# 6104892 Price: $499,900

728 CASPERS HILL RD. GRAND MARAIS, MN

New Listing

58.84 Acres with rustic 640 Sq. Ft. cabin.

ATV and Deer Camp getaway.

MLS #6104795 $189,900

7 W WISCONSIN ST, GRAND MARAIS, MN

New Price

3700+ sq. ft.

Commercial building on mainstreet.

Exposure to high volume pedestrian and vehicle traffic.

MLS# 6100518 Price: $449,900

X475 BIRCH DRIVE GRAND MARAIS, MN 4.75 acres.

Close to Grand Marais.

Awaiting your home.

MLS# 6103426 Price: $79,900

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X470 BIRCH DRIVE GRAND MARAIS, MN

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4.70 acres.

Birch and poplar with a small ravine meandering through.

MLS# 6103423 Price: $64,900

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LAKE SUPERIOR PROPERTIES

INLAND WATER PROPERTIES

SOLD GREENWOOD LAKE GEM

WATERFRONT COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

Beautiful waterfront commercial property in downtown district of Grand Marais, which includes 2 apartments overlooking Lake Superior, and a retail/rental business. MLS#6103262 $2,000,000

INLAND WATER PROPERTIES

GREENWOOD LAKE LUXURY HOME

Unique in appearance, rare in its lakeside setting, Scandinavian designed cottage of glass, steel and wood calls you to nature. Wilderness enters the living space and makes you part of the experience. Indoor galley-like kitchen spills outdoors to large cooking area and patio space. Knoll above cottage has amazing views. Build site waiting for a main home, overlooks lake. Pines, rocks and wilderness shoreline surround private point, 740' of meandering lakeshore w/ almost 4 acres, protected cove for your boat.

Outhouse with carry-in water make rough-it lake retreat, expand into whatever your dreams entail. MLS#6103446

WILSON LAKE HOME

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Beautiful home in the woods w/ high-speed internet, located on pristine Wilson Lake, known to be among the best walleye fishing in Lake County.

Watch the sunrise from the master bedroom & end your day watching the sunset by the fireplace. Custom beauty throughout: Hubbardton Forge lighting, Country Maple wood floors, slate & travertine flooring, hand-carved wood features inside & out. Kitchen features stainless steel appliances & granite countertops, opening to a great room overlooking the lake. MLS#6102669

MLS#6103823 $1,895,000 PRICE REDUCED

Luxury home on edge of BWCA on scenic McFarland Lake. Wall of windows brings stunning scenery into all 3 levels, 6 bdrms, 4 baths, full lower level kitchen. Custom built home, 2 fireplaces, sunroom, large loft, sauna & laundry room. Spend summer evenings on expansive deck or in the screen house. Floating dock system, garage w/ workshop & generator room, and a 4-stall garage. Fully furnished. MLS#6102693 $799,000

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MLS#6104980 $595,000 BIRCH LAKE GET-AWAY CABIN

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Here's a great getaway cabin located mid-Gunflint Trail on the north shore! Close to restaurants, plenty of hiking, XC Ski and snowmobile trails.

Birch Lake is a unique lake right on the Laurentine Divide, with great fishing and access to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. MLS#6104093 $299,000 PRICE REDUCED

HUGE PINES, PRISTINE VIEWS, GUNFLINT LAKE

This large, densely wooded lot has 171 feet of shoreline on big water Gunflint Lake.

Direct BWCA access, huge white pines, classic wilderness boulder shore and vast views of Canada across the lake. Nice building site with easy access to the water. Good year-round road access with power and Broadband at the parcel. Build your dream lake home on this outstanding lake lot.

Exquisite architectural masterpiece created on 4.8 acres on gorgeous Greenwood Lake. Artfully nestled in a white pine forest, meticulously maintained and professionally landscaped, with flagstone and rock walkways to the main home, carriage house, and log cabin. Open concept with durable White Oak wood flooring throughout the main floor. Living room features vaulted ceilings, stone surround fireplace with a custom mantle, and the view of the lake from this room is truly something special! Easily accessible lake shore for swimming and boating. Pristine lake is clear and cool. Greenwood lake holds the state record for lake trout, but you can catch small mouth bass and rainbow trout off the dock.

MILLION DOLLAR WILDERNESS VIEWS

NEW! ISLAND LIVING – WILDERNESS LAKE

Large island in Greenwood Lake offers isolation, wilderness views and wildlife. Comfortable small home is set up for your retreat lifestyle, large shop building has upstairs guest quarters. Owners lived on the island for over 15 years. Off grid solar and generator power, new peat-moss septic system, lake water and satellite provide the comforts you desire. Air boat, pontoon and fishing boats included, and provide access with a protective cove and docks for easy landing and loading. One-of-a-kind property.

Over 2000 feet of shoreline with 6.82 acres.

MLS#6099440 $294,900 EAST BEARSKIN LAKE CABIN

SUNSETS, PINES AND WILDERNESS

Enjoy amazing sunsets from your private cove, on 2.6 acres with 330+ feet of Wilson Lake shoreline. Wheelchair accessible lake home with gig-speed fiber optic internet. One level, all accessible living offers a large great room, 3 bedrooms with skylights, two accessible bathrooms with roll-in showers, in floor heat, knotty pine, slate and wood flooring, attached heated garage, with a large wood deck and boardwalk down to the lake and fire pit. Whatever your stage of life or physical ability, you can still enjoy living in nature. Enjoy all of your favorite outdoor activities: fishing, swimming, hiking, birdwatching, snowmobiling, snow shoeing, star gazing or skiing - an adventure in every season.

MLS#6104282 $679,900

This spot is about as close to being in the Boundary Waters as you can get, land right across the lake is in the BWCAW. Home needs work. Renovate existing structure or build new.

Septic installed in 1999. Lake draw water system. Gravel driveway in place & access down to the lakeshore for easy boat access. One room cabin w/ bunk area, kitchen, dining & living areas. All personal property stays except for vintage outboard motors.

MLS#6104096 $225,000

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INLAND WATER PROPERTIES PREMIER LOT GREENWOOD LAKE

This is a premier lot on stunning Greenwood Lake with 4.24 acres. The lot was selected for the peninsula lake front with 300 feet of lakeshore. There are excellent build sites with lovely views of the big lake There is a stubbed in driveway to park and a brushed walking corridor to the lake. There is a sign at the drive.

MLS#6102583 $225,000

WALK OR PADDLE INTO THE BWCA

35 acre property abuts Federal land & the BWCAW. It has 314 feet of shoreline on McFarland Lake w/ direct canoe access into the wilderness.

Border Route Trail is a short walk away.

Arrowhead Trail splits property w/ potential to have a small structure on the lake side, and a full cabin in a beautiful cedar, spruce and pine forest w/ high overlooks to the wilderness. There are not many opportunities like this still available! MLS#6103514 $152,900

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Unique Northwoods escape off the "road" less traveled.

The Boundary Waters is your backyard as the western property boundary abuts the BWCA. Accessed by plane, boat, canoe, or a Canadian boat landing. North Fowl is a Border Lake on the 200 mile water border route. Comfortable off-grid seasonal cabin has open floor plan & sleeping loft w/ unique diamond willow rails. Wood heat & appliances run off of propane w/ solar electric.

Over 200’ of sandy shoreline w/ beautiful views & gradual slope to lake.

MLS#6104291 $150,000

HOMES & CABINS

HOMES & CABINS LARGE 4 BEDROOM HOME NEAR GRAND MARAIS

Original custom built Octagon home located just 4 miles from Grand Marais on the Gunflint Trail. The totally renovated home has bright sunny spaces, and cozy warm areas for separating a large family or guests. Quality is evident throughout, with beamed ceilings, gas fireplace, gas "wood stove", new hardwood floors, plus new mechanicals/appliances. 2-car detached garage w/ one side used as heated shop space. 8 acres of woods provides privacy & room to roam.

Potential to split home into 2 units. MLS#6102705 $459,900

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MAJESTIC 4 BEDROOM HOME

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SILVER BAY HOME

Here's your chance to own a home on the North Shore and create your space with this fixer upper. Silver Bay is located an hour north of Duluth. Includes 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and a detached garage. Close to Split Rock State Park, Gooseberry Falls and plenty of activities along the North Shore.

NEW! CHARMING TIMBER FRAME HOME

Enjoy seasonal lake views from this charming, timber-frame, 2+ bedroom home that exhibits excellence! Save money with energy efficient, 8 inch insulated panels and off peak electric in floor heat. 10 acres with a brand new 26 by 30 garage and an extra 24 by 30 bunkhouse. MLS#6105002 $435,000

CONTEMPORARY 3 BEDROOM HOME

Eco-friendly home with dual fuel, off peak electric & in floor heat. Open concept design in the living area lets the Southern light shine in.

Efficient kitchen w/ a propane stove & island area. Highly rated Marmoleum flooring w/ cork backing makes for a quiet & durable floor. Enjoy eating out on the spacious deck. Large great room upstairs. Lower-level walkout basement has a living room, bedroom & full bath. 9-acre parcel 2 miles from Grand Marais, w/ 2-car garage & paved driveway. Winter views of Lake Superior.

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MLS#6104490 $420,000 LAKE SUPERIOR VIEW HOME

This is the home you have been dreaming about, only 1 mile from Grand Marais. As you walk in on the wrap around deck, you will notice Lake Superior to the South, with unbelievable landscaping. 5 acres of privacy with National Forest out your back door. Large open design dining and living room area with abundant widows facing the Lake. Enjoy your meals at the informal granite island or on the spacious deck. Custom black ash cabinetry and separate pantry with abundant storage. Main floor master suite/bath is very private. Downstairs area could be a separate living area with walk out patio area. Great room is spacious for guests and family. Dual fuel, in floor heat. 3-car attached garage with drain and a separate 2-car garage. MLS#6103486 $765,000 PRICE

BARN ON 18+ ACRES

18+ acres adjoining federal land close to Grand Marais & Cascade River State Park, includes a creek running through backside of property, a rolling field & a pond. Bring your vision to the 40'x30' barn w/ a poured concrete floor, 16'x10' bunkhouse, hoop garage & multiple sheds.

Property sold as is, includes everything on site, some building materials, tools, mower etc. Power & water to the property, broadband internet at the road. MLS#6103548 $325,000

MLS#6102239 $99,900

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES CARIBOU HIGHLANDS TOWNHOME

Unique opportunity - 1/4 Share Ownership at Caribou Highlands, a well-established ski-in/ski-out resort property in Lutsen. Minutes to golfing, hiking, biking, swimming & snowmobiling. Updated kitchen, newer appliances & granite countertop, as well as modern neutral decor and a cozy gas fireplace. Enjoy the deck for grilling or just taking in the views.

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MLS#6104912 $48,000

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Comfortable house conveniently located 3 miles east of Grand Marais. Home is accented w/ aspen paneling & hardwood floors. Ample deck space between house & garage to enjoy the outdoors, grilling or picnicking. Lots to explore w/ hundreds of public acres abutting north side of property and the Devil Track River nearby. Garage has plenty of room for vehicles & tools, includes a workshop area and unfinished studio apt. upstairs for guest room/rental space. MLS#6102062 $399,999

COMMERCIAL

GRAND MARAIS HOME

Well maintained 3 bedroom home with a huge 3 car garage.

House is on 2 lots & has a quiet, woodsy feel even though it is in the city limits. Enjoy spacious great room, with cozy fireplace & large pantry.

Open design in kitchen/dining room is a wonderful place for those who like to entertain. Current owners remodeled w/ new wood accents, composite flooring & a fully remodeled master bath. MLS#6103932 $333,500

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MULTI-USE PROPERTY HOVLAND

This 2.3 acre property has a great home site with lake views, great well and septic, and an existing structure used as a local store and food business. Building had a new patio in 2008 and new addition in 2010.

Many options exist here from residential, rental, cottage industry, retail shop or continue its present use. Perfect set up for a move-to-the-Shore life change. Live and run a business in this peaceful location. Bring your idea and start the dream from here. MLS#6103739 $339,000

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Nice 3.60 acre commercial lot with potential for multi family housing subject to city approval. Good location on the west end of Grand Marais just off Hwy 61. Easy access to the bike trail.

MLS#6089284 $159,500 PRIME COMMERCIAL LOTS – LUTSEN

Highway 61 frontage-road access, nice forested lots (.95 acres & 1.05 acres).

Great visibility in downtown Lutsen. Would make a great location for a small gallery, retail or restaurant. Another commercial 1.3 acre lot is available adjoining to the north, making potential for a large site.

MLS#6099360, 9361 $97,900 each

RIVER/CREEK FRONTAGE NEW! REMOTE PRIVACY, LAKE SUPERIOR VIEWS

This "80" acre property has high ridge views of the big lake. The property adjoins Judge C.R. Magney State Park. Easements in place for road access on old logging trails. Ultimate privacy! Mixed, mature forest of evergreens and maples, creeks and pond. Walking distance to Brule River. There are many unique aspects to this beautiful and recreational property.

MLS#6104623 $99,000

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RIVER/CREEK FRONTAGE DEEP WOODS, MONS CREEK.

Nice “40” with good tree cover and creek frontage, where you could launch your canoe. There's a great building site overlooking Mons Creek from a high point.

Good road access, but private and secluded. The property has private deeded access to Lost Lake, which is a short walk away. Wilderness feel. New trail cut into the property so you can see the potential! MLS#6089091 $52,900

ROLLING TERRAIN & POND

MONS CREEK WILDLIFE

40 acres w/ easy road access, good building sites, mature trees & open water views of Mons Creek. Lots of moose & waterfowl inhabit this 600 ft section of Mons Creek! You can canoe for some distance in the creek.

Includes deeded access to Lost Lake, private wilderness lake, only a short walk away. Homeowners association stocks lake w/ brook trout.

Walk-in landing provides easy access for canoe or small boat. Gated roads for security & privacy. Lost Lake Retreats is a truly secluded & private wilderness escape. MLS#6089089 $60,000

MONS CREEK AND VIEWS

1000 ft of Mons Creek frontage & a great view from a high build site. Easy road access, but lots of privacy. 40 acre property w/ private deeded access to Lost Lake, a short drive away. Private lake w/ limited use, a true wilderness feel. Perfect cabin retreat location w/ added bonus of private wilderness lake access. Homeowners association stocks lake w/ brook trout. Walk-in landing provides easy access for canoe or small boat. Roads are gated for security & privacy. Lost Lake Retreats is a truly secluded & private wilderness escape.

MLS#6089090 $60,000

Deep woods and private access to Lost Lake. Good road access and many building site options.

Beautiful beaver pond and creek split the 20 acre property.

Lost Lake is a tucked-away gem with limited private property and no public access.

Good trout fishing and moose sightings. This is a remote retreat property with the added bonus of lake access on a pristine wilderness lake. MLS#6098652 $41,900

LAND/BUILDING SITES

LAND/BUILDING SITES LARGE, REMOTE ACREAGE – PRIVATE LAKE RIGHTS

This over 80-acre tract has some high ground with views of the hills to the south.

Good road access. Some young planted pine trees. It adjoins a Private Conservation Easement area. The property is part of a private association with lake rights to Lost Lake, a limited access lake with shared carry-in landing from which you can launch your canoe or kayak. A unique opportunity. MLS#6103975 $74,900

WOODED SECLUSION IN GRAND MARAIS.

Great wooded lot on west end of Grand Marais. Build your home within a short distance of the bike trail & a mile walk/ drive into town, with privacy on a dead end shared road.

Mature evergreen forest, nice building sites & good lake effect, only a quarter mile off of Lake Superior. Small creek adds charm when it's running. Really secluded feeling location. Private sewer & water, city power. MLS#6087228 $69,500

LARGE PARCEL ADJOINING PINCUSHION TRAILS

This 14 acre parcel of mixed tree cover and rolling topography has all the great location aspects you desire.

Just minutes from Grand Marais, close to the ski trails, hiking trail and wilderness access. Some lake view possible. Great location for your home or North Shore retreat. MLS#6103099

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LUTSEN MAPLE FOREST LOT

Beautiful 5.24 acre wooded lot, covered in Maple Forest. In the fall this beauty will be ablaze with stunning colors. Caribou Lake Public Access nearby, hiking trails, Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort, Gitche Gumee bike trail and all the things the North Shore has to offer.

MLS#6101916 $68,500 PRICE REDUCED

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WOODED 64 ACRES – ACCESS TO PRIVATE LAKE

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These remote, off-grid parcels with deeded access to the Brule River could be your own This large wooded retreat seasonal retreat; whether you're property is within walking (218) 387-9599 • Faxon (218) 387-9598 • info@RedPineRealty.com looking for a place to pitch a distance to a shared landing tent for a few nights, or if you Lost LakeBox - a private access14 lake.S. Broadway, Grand Marais, MN PO 938, 55604 want to build your dream cabin, Good road access and many nice there is a good canvas here for places to build a cabin. Privacy your creation! on top of restricted private road access makes this a unique Lot B (40ac) MLS#6102969 $43,000; opportunity for wilderness seclusion. MLS#6103974 $59,900 Lot C (42.82ac) MLS#6102971 $46,000; Lot D (43.82ac) MLS#6102970 $44,000

CARIBOU HILLSIDE LOT

GREAT LOCATION HOME SITE.

Beautiful 5+ acre wooded lot, covered in Maple Forest. In the fall this beauty will be ablaze with stunning colors. Caribou Lake Public Access nearby, hiking trails, Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort, Gitche Gumee bike trail and all the things the North Shore has to offer.

Just minutes from Grand Marais on black top County Rd 7, a 5+ acre lot with easy access to power and Broadband. Good building sites. MLS#6094099

MLS#6101915 $67,500 PRICE REDUCED COYOTE RIDGE LOT

This 5-acre wooded lot is conveniently located close to Grand Marais but out of town just enough to have that woodsy feel. A quiet setting, close to biking and hiking trails.

Enjoy all the North Shore has to offer! MLS#6102976

$65,000 PRICE REDUCED

$45,900

WOODS, VIEWS AND PRIVACY

Nice lot only 4 miles from Grand Marais on county road. Potential Lake Superior views from a high lot with dense forest. Great location for your home or cabin. Close to trails and all the recreational opportunities in the area. MLS#6096711 $58,900

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MLS#6103451

GRAND MARAIS VACANT LOT

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Nicely wooded parcel on quiet street in the west end of town. Three full city lots facing south with city street, curb and gutter, utilities nearby.

Build your home here and enjoy a quiet location within short walking distance to the harbor.

MLS#6102018

LARGE ACREAGE NEAR TOM LAKE

40 acres near year round road access and power. An easy walk to the Tom Lake boat landing.

Shared easement granted to build driveway into property.

Many great building sites.

Great recreational area. Easy access to trails and other lakes.

MLS#6095113 $60,000 40 ACRES – STONES THROW TO TOM LAKE

40 acres with an easy walk to the Tom Lake boat landing.

Year-round road to within 1000 feet, power is possible here. Driveway easement granted to build shared access.

Many great building sites.

Easy access to trails and other lakes. MLS#6095114

$60,000

Just minutes west of Grand Marais on a black-top county road with power at the site, Broadband nearby. Five acre parcel with southern exposure. Potential Lake Superior views. Very affordable building site! MLS#6096700

HOME SITE NEAR GRAND MARAIS

Nice 5 acre property close to town on black-top county road. power and phone at the lot.

Broadband available. Dense woods and potential Lake Superior Views. Close to hiking, bike trails and all the wilderness adventures you desire.

PRIVATE WOODED HOVLAND PARCEL

Northwoods seclusion with electricity & broadband.

Driveway leads to a secluded build site w/ poplar, spruce and birch. Site is walking distance (250 yds) from a rural school bus stop! Flute Reed Road is a private drive maintained by residents who live further up.

Current owners have used it as a summer camp, complete with a cute shower house (bring your own water) & a county compliant outhouse.

GREAT LOCATION FOR HOME OR CABIN

MLS#6096706 $56,900

TAIT LAKE PINE LOT

Welcome to Tait Lake Pines! You'll appreciate the private & peaceful location in Lutsen, MN, complete with its own hiking trails, outstanding views/settings, finely maintained roads, year-round accessibility, access to power, a calm and serene overall vibe AND deeded lake access to Tait Lake!!

It'll keep you close to the Superior Hiking Trail, many more inland lakes and trails, Lutsen Ski Resort, Superior National Golf Course & access to food/beverage. MLS#6098276 $55,900

REMOTE ACREAGE, ADJOINING FOREST LANDS-PRIVATE LAKE RIGHTS

This 43 acre tract has adjoining federal land and state park within walking distance. Good road access, with an old "logging road" into the property. The property is part of a private association with lake rights to Lost Lake, a limited access lake with shared carry-in landing from which you can launch your canoe or kayak. A unique opportunity.

MLS#6103979 $46,900

REMOTE 43 ACRES – LOST LAKE ACCESS

This secluded 43 acres adjoins federal land and is located on a private gated road. There's a seasonal pond, existing "logging" road into the property for immediate use of the land.

The property comes with shared private access to Lost Lake, a lake with no public access.

Plenty of privacy! MLS#6103978 $46,900

$45,900

REMOTE PEACE & QUIET

Hide away in this beautiful dense forest, with remote trails and private lake access to Lost Lake, a limited private property lake with no public access, and trout! Twenty acres of rolling topography and nice building sites for your cabin retreat. MLS#6098653 $39,900

REMOTE WOODED HIDE-A-WAY

This 20 acre parcel is remote and has nice southerly exposure. Deeded access to Lost Lake gives you a place to fish and listen to the loons.

It’s a lake with limited private property and no public access.

Great area for ATV’s and miles of roads to explore. Lot C.

MLS#6098654 $38,900 HUNTER’S PARADISE

Hunter’s paradise or remote solitude? 24 acres situated currently off grid (electrical hook up at Devil Fish Overlook). Mix of deciduous and pine trees with mature pines in the SW corner of the property, clearing areas for camper or possible build.

The southern border neighbors State land. Additional acreage available.

MLS#6103981 $36,780

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20 PEACEFUL ACRES

Peace and tranquility or base camp for hunting and recreation. 20 acres of moderately wooded land with areas suitable for clearing (currently off grid, closest electrical hook up Devil Fish Overlook). The parcel features a mix of Mountain Ash, White Cedar and other deciduous trees.

Road access on two sides of the property. Additional acreage available.

MLS#6103983 $32,780

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CATCHLIGHT

raccoon On a cool late af ternoon in September, I a w s attemptg in to photograph deer in northern Minesota. I a w s set up near a stand of bur oak trees that e w re droppg in acorns, much to the d e lg i ht of deer. Acorns are a fao v rite food to a a v riety of wild life; soon a raccoon strolled into photography range and began consumg in the ma ss. At the sound of ym camera’s shutter, the raccoon raised it s head to snif the air in an attempt to identif y the intruder— me.

—Bill Marchel

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