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The Lake County Historical Society plans to light the new beacon on Friday as part of a celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the organization, just before the Independence Day fireworks show.
Black Beach on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior is a must-visit destination. With its stunning views, black sand, and clear waters, it’s a hidden treasure that’s worth exploring.
But another natural resource is also drawing tourists — only revealing itself when the sun goes down. Todd Burlet who is an International Dark-Sky delegate, and avid night photographer, told us ...
Environmentalists say that a proposed mine – slated to extract copper as close as 100 feet from the lake – is putting all that at risk. If it goes as planned, the Copperwood Mine will become ...
We need long, cold and still nights for enough ice to form on Lake Superior—the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area—in order for it to be huntable. Preferably, strong east winds pack ice ...
For 133 years, the cold, dark waters of Lake Superior held onto one of its most haunting secrets - the final resting place of the Western Reserve, a massive steel steamer of the Gilded Age that ...
The lake was dark and flat. It was a blackboard to the end of sight, and any story might be written on its surface.” Lark owns a shabby bookstore in this time when physical and social ...
At 350 miles long and up to 160 miles wide, Lake Superior is not just the largest of the Great Lakes, but also the third-biggest body of freshwater on the planet, by volume.
132 years after Lake Superior shipwreck that left single survivor, vessel found ... The GLSHS says they were in the lifeboat, in the gale, in the dark, for 10 hours.
It is never a good idea to pause between a 194-degree sauna and the mind-bending frigidity of Lake Superior in February. As sweat cools on skin, the rational mind kicks in.
In his luminous new novel, Peter Geye gives us love and lust, God and science, heavens and deep water, light and dark and a cast of characters so vividly drawn you are in their minds, hearts, souls… ...