Lake Superior Magazine

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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1998 Volume 20 Issue 5

Roughin' It
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center
Rooms With a View

OUR COVER STORY

Photographer Dan Urbanski captures an autumn stroll along the shores of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. His portfolio begins on page 34.

FEATURES

10 Lake Superior Magazine 1998 Achievement Award
Special recognition for a job done in a Superior way.
18 Roughin’ It by John Manikowski
Can it really be called “roughing it” when you’re casting for fish with a bottle of fine red wine tucked into your coat?
24 The Lighthouse by Frederick Stonehouse
A quiet cove, a lovely abandoned island - the perfect overnight stop. Unless, of course, the island hasn’t yet been abandoned …
28 Admirable Conduct by Konnie LeMay
Keeping a boat afloat is sometimes easier than keeping classical music floating in the air around the Lake Superior shores.
34 The Nature of Things a portfolio of Dan Urbanski
The chance to be outside drew photographer Dan Urbanski to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and captured him there.
39 Center of Attention by Konnie LeMay
Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center offers the south shore’s history and a vision for how to raise roofs … as high as 70 feet.
SPECIAL SECTION: Rooms With a View

45 From Truck to Site by Annette D’Angelo O’Brien
50 Pick and Choose by Hugh Bishop

SPECIAL SECTION: Snowshoeing and Winter Travel Planner

71 On Webbed Feet by Steve Tomasko
73 So You Want to Don Big Feet … by Rhonda Lake

Lake Superior Map ©Lake Superior Magazine

COLUMNS/DEPARTMENTS

     2 Editor's Note
     2 Masthead (Who We Are)
     4 Letters to the Editor
     5 Around the Circle
     11 Lake Superior Journal
     What? Me on a Bicycle?
     James R. Marshall
     14 Lake Superior Forum
     54  Life Lines
     Keeping Customers on a Roll
     Jim Allen
     57 Lake Superior Gift Guide
     61 My Lake Superior
     Moonlight on the Lake
     Catherine Nyberg
     62 Holiday Gift Ideas
     69 Superior Science
     A Friend by Any Other Name
     David D. Lonsdale
     76 Regional Calendar of Events
     82 Lake Superior Marketplace 
     83 Advertiser Index
     84 View•Point
     And the walls come a tumblin’


Copyright 1998 Lake Superior Magazine


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