Duluth, Minnesota, June 29, 1997 - 

Tales of the Old North Shore by Howard Sivertson has received another national award to add to its growing list of accomplishments. Published by Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., publishers of Lake Superior Magazine, the book was honored as winner of the "History/Political" category in the 1997 Benjamin Franklin Awards, sponsored by the Publishers Marketing Association. The Franklin award is judged by book reviewers, publishers, librarians, bookstore buyers, writers, designers and artists. Out of 1,100 entries, the Sivertson book was one of only 46 to receive top honors.

Tales of the Old North Shore had previously won a number of awards, including a 1997 Midwest Book Achievement Award as Best History Book from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, plus two merit awards for Art and History from the same organization, a 1997 Minnesota Book Award in the Minnesota Places category from the Minnesota Center for the Book and its Partners, and a 1996 First Place award for Cover Design from the Mid-America Publishers Association.

Howard Sivertson is a painter with a gift for storytelling, which are combined in the collection of yarns that continue the tradition started with his first two books, Once Upon An Isle and The Illustrated Voyageur, also a Franklin Award winner. He paints landscape narratives of Lake Superior, the North Shore and the wilderness canoe areas of the Minnesota/Canadian border. He's been called the Norman Rockwell of the North Shore.

At 104 pages, Tales of the Old North Shore is loaded with 44 illustrative paintings, plus detailed stories of North Shore life. Tales of the Old North Shore is available at better booksellers for $24.95 ($29.95 Canadian) or from the publisher's office at 325 Lake Avenue South, Suite 600, Duluth, Minnesota 55802. Add $3.95 postage and handling. For more information, call 1-888-BIG LAKE (244-5253).