13 Lake Superior Magazine 1999 Achievement Award 
Recognition of one man’s gifts back to the Lake community.

16 Minnesota Ballet by Amy Radil
Lake Superior’s only professional dance company has found a home and is growing by leaps and pirouettes.

22 Breakfast at the Hoito by Charles Wilkins
This Finnish restaurant sprang from a past time and political place, but thrives in the here and now.

28 Michigan Gold a Photo Feature
Just before entering a world of white, the Upper Peninsula puts on its most colorful finery for a spectacular season finale.

33 Elegance Unveiled by Hugh Bishop
Fairlawn Museum and Mansion enters its fourth incarnation after a $1.6 million renovation.

49 Tales from the L-Files by Konnie LeMay
Twenty weird, wacky and wonderful Lake Superior occurrences.

Special Section: Rooms With a View
53 Scoring Better Than Par by Claire Duquette

Special Section: Winter Planner
70 A Cozy Cottage in Winter
Cottage hosts can - and do - tell you what’s doing in winter.

  4 Editor's Note

  4 Masthead (Who We Are)

  5 Letters to the Editor

  6 Around the Circle

 11 Lake Superior Journal
     A Supercharged Lake
     James R. Marshall

 60 My Lake Superior 
     Goodbye Grandpa
        Lenny
     Thomas Allen Nauha

 62 Holiday Gift Guide 

 68 Superior Science
     Nature’s Oldest 
        Storytellers
     David D. Lonsdale

 70 Regional Calendar of
        Events

 82 Advertiser Index

 83 Lake Superior
         Marketplace 

 84 View•Point
     Great Impressions

Fairlawn, one of Lake Superior’s castles, recently underwent a stunning makeover. Get the interior scoop page 33. Cover photo by Jeff Frey & Associates.