11 Lake Superior Magazine 2005 Achievement Award
Honoring a recipient whose Lake Superior legacy will live on.

16 For Those in Peril on the Sea by Konnie LeMay
100 years ago, the Mataafa Blow whipped the waters of Lake Superior into a destroyer of ships and a killer of men.

24 Superior Secrets a photographic essay
Photographer Bruce Montagne spent years tracking and absorbing the beauty of the Lake Superior less traveled.

29 Almost an Island, More Than a Park
by Aaron Peterson
Creation of Presque Isle park was the passion of an early Marquette resident. Now it is the green soul of the city itself for all to enjoy.

34 Growing with the Generations by Julie Buckles
For four generations, the Hauser family has tended the flowers and fruits of Superior View Farm high above Lake Superior.

Lake Superior Living
40 Batten Down the Home Hatches by Angela Nebel
One family shares its game plan to ready a home for winter.
   48 Superior Tastes recipes by Arlene Coco

Winter Recreation Guide
49 Snowmobiling Gets Hot by Hugh Bishop
Plus a winter recreation roundup and ski charts.

OUR COVER During a November 28, 1905, storm, nine men died on the Mataafa, stranded near enough to Duluth for thousands to watch, yet too far to rescue. This commemorative cigar box cover was created for Duluth Cigar Co. by the Calvert Lith Co. of Detroit & Chicago. UWS Lake Superior Maritime Collection.

  3 Letters to the Editor

  3 Masthead (Meet Us)

  4 Editor's Note

  6 Around the Circle

  8 On the Shelf

12 Lake Superior Journal
    Gales to Remember
    James R. Marshall

    LSM Gift Guide

65 Travel
    A Haunting You Can Go
    Bob Berg
     Events Calendar &
     Regional Tidbits
        Michigan - 68     
        Minnesota - 70
        Ontario - 72
        Wisconsin - 74

76 Lake Superior
     Marketplace 

79 Advertiser Index

80 View•Point
     Socrates Aground
     Capt. Tom Mackay