Duluth, Minnesota - March 19, 2001

After 16 years at the helm of Lake Superior Magazine’s editorial department (that’s 91 issues and 14 Lake Superior Travel Guides for those who are counting), Paul L. Hayden turns over his job as editor to Konnie LeMay, who has been the magazine’s managing editor for the past three years. Hayden becomes associate publisher.

Under LeMay’s watch, the same high standards set by the magazine for its past 22 years will continue, Hayden and LeMay agree.

“Magazines tend to adopt some of the personality of their editors,” LeMay says, “but we have a talented group of staff and contributors who all put their mark on Lake Superior Magazine, from the art direction and photography in our expansive lake scenery shots to the writing of personal stories by those who love the lake.”

Hayden bid his editorial duties fare-thee-well in his last Editor’s Note in the recently released April/May issue of the magazine.

“I’m not really going anywhere, but only kicking myself upstairs a bit to Associate Publisher and shifting focus to concentrate more on our other productions, like books and ancillary products,” Hayden writes. “While Konnie takes over the day-to-day duties of editing the magazine, I’ll simply sit back, occasionally cast my eyes over the office staff, drink more coffee and search for the refill to my red pen.”

Actually, Hayden won’t get to do much sitting back. Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., publisher of Lake Superior Magazine, is releasing three new book titles this year. By summer, the publisher will produce a cookbook, Betty’s Pies Favorite Recipes, by Betty Lessard, famous for creation of Betty’s Pies restaurant in Two Harbors, Minn., and will release Superior Way, Third Edition, an update to Bonnie Dahl’s essential cruising guide to Lake Superior. Schooners, Skiffs and Steamships: Stories along Lake Superior’s Water Trails, to be released this fall, will add a fourth in the series of illustrated lake books by Minnesota artist/author Howard Sivertson.

Lake Superior Magazine is a full-color publication issued six times a year. The magazine, which also publishes the annual Lake Superior Travel Guide, is available by subscription, at newsstands and from the publisher's office at 325 Lake Avenue South, Suite 600, Duluth, Minnesota 55802. For more information, call 888-BIG LAKE (244-5253) or visit the web at www.lakesuperior.com/ Lake Superior Port Cities Inc., which publishes the magazine and travel guide, also publishes books and offers a clothing and product line that includes the company’s lake-and-lighthouse logo.