The Grand Marais Art Colony and Spirit of the Wilderness Episcopal church are collaborating on an exhibit of the Stations of the Cross to open at the Art Colony March 21 through April 4, 2010. Artists are invited to sign up to express one of the fourteen Stations of the Cross in some artistic medium: paint, clay, sculpture, collage, print, […]
Attention students: Bake and paint after school
Some fun events are on the agenda through a pair of after-school programs cooked up by Community Education. Thefirst, Make It & Bake It, is designed for fifth- through eighth-graders, who will learn how to work with dough and make such tasty treats as apple dumplings and calzones. The class will be held Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27 and Feb. […]
First Baptist Church announces Two Harbors father-daughter ball
The First Baptist Church in Two Harbors invites North Shore community members to the Two Harbors Father- Daughter Ball, explaining that it will be a memorable evening for fathers and daughters to spend time together. The ball is scheduled for Saturday February 20, 2010 beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Lakeview Castle Restaurant. Tickets are $30 per couple and $10 for […]
Unorganized Territory
Back on my feetAt least a couple of times a week, I have someone pointedly ask me, “And how is your health?” Although it’s been two years since I was stricken with Guillain- Barre Syndrome (GBS), an autoimmune disorder that affected my nervous system, people have not forgotten that incredibly frightening time in my life. I am constantly amazed at how much people […]
Undoing Racism–
Will it make a difference?A little girl, back in the ‘30s, sent to Sunday School from age three, advised by her beloved father to “always think for yourself,” yet surrounded by virulent racism and anti-Semitism, finally speaks up to her father, who yet again has spouted something noxious about “the Jews. Thelittle girl says, “But Daddy, Jesus was a Jew.” The reply is an […]
Spiritual reflections
Another side of Christmas“After they (the Wise Men) had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and escape with them to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So Joseph got up, took mother and […]
Historical Reflections
Building the main lodgeFourteen miles up the Caribou Trail is Tait Lake. The roads around the lake, Cap’s Trail and Billie’s Trail, were named for my aunt and uncle Mathilde “Billie” Petersen and Martin “Cap” Petersen. They once owned the land upon which today’s Tait Lake residents have built their homes. The original Tait Lake Lodge, which Cap and Billie built, was their […]
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · Dec. 27, 1999 • On a clear night with 20-below temperatures, the last thing citizens of Cook County want is a power outage. But a power outage is what they got, countywide, on the night of Dec. 21. A spokesperson for the Arrowhead Electric Cooperative said the power went out in Cook County in the late […]
OVER THE HILL
Graham crackers and miraclesThey are so tiny, two little bundles of human life, swaddled and snuggling next to each other, sleeping peacefully in the silent winter night. They are my newest grandchildren, a boy and a girl, born a week before Thanksgiving. My oldest granddaughter, Natalie, age 4 1/2, tugs at my sleeve. “Can you play Barbies with me, Grandma?” I am the […]