Hayes Scriven has a priceless view of perhaps’s America’s greatest lake — Superior. It’s a view that captivated Scriven as a student at the University of Minnesota – Duluth, where he majored in history. After working in a museum in southern Minnesota for 12 years, he moved his young family back to the North Shore, …
Drawn to the fury, majesty, and history of Lake Superior Read More »
Bell’s “Two-Hearted Ale,” named after the river in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that inspired Ernest Hemingway’s tale, is the finest craft beer in America. Bell’s “Third Coast Beer,” brewed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is second best, in my book. But more appropriate for this blog, drinking the beer for the first time several years ago got me …
This ‘Freshwater Coast’ is the third coast of America Read More »
What lies below the surface is intriguing: in literature, in psychoanalysis, and in archeology. In spirituality one might look beyond the surface. What lies below the surface of Straits of Mackinac, and the lakes that the Straits connect, is space that interests university archeologists and Native American tribal citizen scientists. Why are large rocks seemingly …
Looking through the surface of the Straits deep into the past Read More »
During the past four years, politicization of the word “swamp” gave that natural environment a bad name. It’s bad enough that the first thing many of us think about when the word “swamp” comes up is hungry alligators. In this case, the swamp is a murky place of procedural and rhetorical bog that presumably honorable …
Reflecting on wetlands that we don’t necessarily want to drain Read More »