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FEBRUARY/MARCH 1998 Volume 20 Issue 1

Lake Superior Education
Two Harbors Re-visioning
Rooms with a View

OUR COVER STORY

With a total of more than 650 images from 115 amateur photographers, our third annual Photo Contest truly garnered an outstanding group of entries. Topping our list of winners, which are featured in the photo feature for this issue, is the image of Silver Falls near Wawa, Ontario, taken by Joel Cooper of that city. Our feature starts on page 28.

FEATURES

14 Special Report: The State of Lake Superior Education
Students looking for an education in environmental studies or issues relating to the ecology will find ample opportunity at Lake Superior's colleges and universities.

 14 Education Within the Basin
 19 Becoming What You Study
 20 Research Gives Them Life
 23 Biennial Reference Guide

28 Simply the Best: Third Annual LSM Photo Contest Winners
Our panel of distinguished judges have selected the best examples of photographers who capture Lake Superior's charms on film. 
Contest and rules.

34 Throwing Steam by John Ramos
A native northlander takes issue with those who would mispronounce and misuse the sacred sauna.

36 Re-Visioning: Two Harbors and the Future
by Brenda Maas
Hit with boom and bust followed by unregulated growth, this north shore city has scurried to take command of its future.

SPECIAL SECTION: Rooms with a View

49 A Permanent Vacation by Hugh Bishop
A Twin Cities family built their dream home high atop a Lake Superior cliff near Silver Bay.

54 JP Call Home by Annette O'Brien D'Angelo
This Thunder Bay homeowner controls virtually everything that happens at his "smart home" from wherever he is at the moment.

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COLUMNS/DEPARTMENTS
  2 Editor's Note
  2 Masthead (Who We Are)
  3 Letters to the Editor
  5 Around the Circle
  9 Lake Superior Journal
   A Glistening Gem in the Crown
   James R. Marshall
36  Great Lakes Books and Things
39  Humor
   Beware the Ides of March: 
   The Death of Iago
   Michael Fedo
45  Lake Superior Gift Guide
58  Regional Calendar of Events
62  Lake Superior Marketplace
63 Advertiser Index
64  View•Point
   Building Duluth's Ore Dock

Copyright 1998 Lake Superior Magazine


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