Reader Responses to “Why Do You Love or Care about the Lake?”
August 9 - Susan Bethel, Blaine, Minnesota: How great
it makes me feel. How beautiful it is. Relaxing!
August 6 -
Reader from Dluth, Minnesota: I missed it so much when I moved away
from Duluth - it was a loss - like a nagging depression. I couldn't put
my finger on it … until I finally realized I missed the lake. Like it
was part of my psyche and I was cut off from it.
July 23 - Cece Snook, Crosby, Minnesota: That it is right here in our
state. We
visit Duluth at least 4 times a year.
June 13 - Joseph Whanlen, Channing, Michigan: My folks had a cottage in
LaPointe
when I was a kid and it got in my blood. Plus my grandmother's family
lived on Madeline Island for 3 generations before her, so I have a
blood tie to the area.
June 1 - Billie Ann Wagner-Ocic, Iron Mountain,
Michigan: Because I care about our waterways and all the pollutions we
have in our waterways. Because I hate seeing our nation getting
distroyed by global warming and I want peace in our world.
May 28 - Reader from Brooklyn Center, Minnesota: It is a beautiful
wilderness area that needs to be protecvted. It is a gift to us. My mom
was from the East Coast and she said Lake Superior reminded her of the
Atlantic Ocean.
May 28 - Reader from Oakland, California: My sister has lived in Duluth
for 40 years. The magazine helps me connect to and learn even more
about a place I love and visit often. When I leaf through a magazine, I
feel I am there, enjoying the peace and beauty it offers.
May 16 - Reader from Lamy, New Mexico: It is beautiful, unique, has
different
moods, offers serenity when staring out at it. It defines life, etc.
May 12 - Reader from Lamy, New Mexico: It is beautiful, unique, has
different moods, offers serenity when
staring out at it. It defines life, etc.
April 2 - Darla H., Mason City, Iowa: It’s a very peaceful place to go
to, it
seems like commercialism hasn’t gotten too far out of hand at Lake
Superior and we can actually relax and not be bothered by huge crowds.
The people are especially nice everywhere we go. The beauty of it is
what we love the most … peacefulness and beauty in one body of water.
It’s very calming to sit by the edge of it and ponder life’s questions.
March 26 - Cynthia D. Robbins, Wausau, Wisconsin: The enigma Lake
Superior is etched in my soul. It must be felt, the
awestruck feeling will stay with you forever.
March 8 - Kay Braun, Fargo, North Dakota: The
beautiful, peaceful area!
March 2 - Reader from Hayward, Wisconsin: I drink the water every day.
There is
no other body of water like it in America.
February 24 - Gerry and Pat Johnson, Tomahawk, Wisconsin: It gives me a
calmness in a very otherwise rushed time. To be able to
check the webcams you have around the lake is wonderful and I share
them with all my friends who haven’t experienced “the Lake.”
February 24 - Mike Symons, Brooklyn Center, Minnesta:
Memories, waking up to the fog horn, 60 degrees downtown, 80 degrees at
Pike Lake. When driving up from the Cities and seeing the breathtaking
view at Thompson Hill. The fresh smell of the air at Canal Park. The
view from Brighton Beach, Two Harbors, Grand Marais and on and on. Real America!
February 18 - SD, Duluth, Minnesota: Lake Superior holds a special
place in my heart because of the life it
adds to Duluth. Not only does it bring tourists to enliven the area,
but it re-invigorates Duluthians. What’s not to love?
February 18 - Dale W. Holm, New Philadelphia, Ohio: The super pristine
atmosphere that for the most part still can be found
most anywhere near it.
February 16 - Reader from Plymouth, Minnesota: The
Great Lakes are awesome and Lake Superior is the best of all - the
cleanest, biggest and greatest of the Great Lakes. We need to keep it
clean. We mustn’t abuse. We are so fortunate as citizens of Minnesota,
Ontario, Wisconsin and Michigan to have such a GREAT LAKE in our back
yards. As the Sahara is to a Great Desert and Yellowstone is to a Great
National Park, Lake Superior is a place shared by many - an Inland
Ocean used by many interests - be it commercial or recreation. We all
have a common goal and that is to keep the water clean, the shorelines
unspoiled and to preserve this asset for future generations. Year after
year I am drawn to this magnificent geologic wonder. From the basaltic
outcrops in Minnesota to the wonderful beaches in Wisconsin, Michigan
and Ontario, Gitche Gumme is a site to behold and to remain Forever
Wild.
January 25 - Reader from Vergas, Minnesota: The
mystery of the body of water - the beauty and our great source of fresh
water in Minnesota as well as Canada and surrounding states. It is such
a relaxing place to share with the world. Keep up the good work. When
we get up that way, it is another world and truly enjoyable.
January 21 - Ben Bohnsack, Marquette, Michigan: In the rhythm of the
waves and the sound of the surf, it seems connected with the rhythms
and sounds of the whole universe. When I watch it, I become part of all
that is, small but significant and put right. It's right at our front
door. We see it and hear it constantly.
January 17 - Reader from Superior, Wisconsin: There is no view greater
on earth than the view
out of Duluth into Lake Superior. (I envy those that work the Aerial
Lift Bridge!!)
January 10 - Wayne Wetzel, Grand Forks, North Dakota: I live in North
Dakota and I was in the Navy, so I love the water.
January 1 - Lori R., Duluth, Minnesota. It came
directly from creation. When you look from the hillside, about a mile
up, you get just the right view of water almost as far as you can see
(the south shore visible on sunny afternoons). It just looks as though
it was put there by a wild creative force, also it is the nourishing
fresh water that the Arabs, etc, envy. I love the fresh, the cold, the
climate of it.
December 21 - Wayne Nuernberg, Aurora, Illinois: It
is a national treasure - ecologically, economically and scenic. I
vacation there every year. It is a welcome respite from the Chicago
metro area.
December 21 - Herb Kenz, Kalamazoo, Michigan: It brings back fond
memories of my youth. I worked on two iron ore carriers - 1945-1949.
The Benjamin F. Fairless and A.H. Ferbert, USS. I grew
up in St. Ignace, Michigan, graduated from Sault Ste. Marie High
School. All my family history evolved around the Straits of Mackinac -
and the Great Lakes shipping industry. Also, I get concerned when I
read or hear about “out sourcing” the water via Lake Michigan -
westward. We are most fortunate - as are our fellow Midwestern states -
to have such wonderful “gifts of Mother Nature” - and I feel we
appreciate more than others!
December 11 - Eli L. Rantanes, Clinton, Ohio: I
sailed the Great Lakes for 29 years. I retired as Chief Engineer of
Bethlehem’s Lewis Wilson Foy. Also sailed in the Merchant
Marine in World War II and Korea.
December 3 - Reader from Kansas City, Missouri: I have never lived on a
Great Lake, but like to vacation there, and like to read stories about
the area.
December 2 - Steve Wittenberg, Wausau, Wisconsin. It’s just an
incredible God-made beauty
November 30 - Carol Brodbeck, Ypsilanti, Michigan: Lake Superior is an
awesome,, majestic beauty surrounded by some of the most beautiful
scenery that rivals that found in some of our national parks. It’s a
lake that simply projects POWER, and has an incredible geologic past.
It’s a winner in my book!
November 19 - Reader from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan: It's like oxygen -
you must have it, can’t live without it. I am under its powerful spell!
November 19 - Graham Smith, Wheaton, Illinois. The natural rugged
beauty of the whole region.
November 16 - Karen Rusch, Rib Lake, Wisconsin: I have always loved
driving along the lake and stopping to see many of the sites. I am
fascinated by the waves and scenery. It is one of the best natural
wonders of this part of the world. Your magazine causes me to want to
jump in my car and drive north.
November 13 - Jack Briggs, Dowling Park, Florida: I like traveling in
my van.
November 4 - Reader from Oak Park Heights, Minnesota:
Its immense size and beauty. It feeds the soul. It signifies life - its
moods and changes. Its role in helping us survive - shipping, fishing,
recreation. It’s an invaluable resource to enjoy and depend upon.
November 4 - John & Lauren Vary, Sudbury, Ontario: I was born in
Marquette. Raised on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Even though I live 3-1/2
hours from Lake Superior, I still see it at least once a year.
November 3 - Dave Comfort, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Majestic.
November 2 - Ron Keotz, Roseville, Minnesota: All the natural beauty.
The wildlife and flowers. I also enjoy the shipping. I take lots of
pictures of ships.
November 2 - Zack Jguski, Minneapolis, Minnesota: When you were born
and raise on it, wouldn’t you?
October 30 - Reader from Torrance, California: It is beautiful - it is
breathtaking - it is the largest fresh water lake - it has a beautiful
history and a future yet to be told. It draws me in - it almost calls
to me.
October 29 - Mary Jane Ulrich, Petoskey, Michigan: I
have seen the finest land in the United States from coast to coast. I
grew up on the Monterey Peninsula of California, now live on Little
Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. I care about Lake Superior because
Minnesota’s north shore is the MOST beautiful land I have ever seen! I
love the lake’s constant changes and I think Duluth is a great city. I
feel like it is home when I am there.
October 27 - J. Kneer, Plymouth, Minnesota: No matter where I go in the
world. I always feel at home on the shore of Lake Superior. The calm
that settles over me is priceless. I will spend the rest of my life
waiting until the next time I go up there, no matter how many times I
go.
October 26 - Stephen Collins, Laughlin, Nevada: I’m from Duluth. My
father taught me the love of the lake, watching the “smokes” from Holy
Rosary (WWII), going to the “bridge,” today the business of coal and
taconite shipments. The whole area. The way you show off our area with
your photos and writing, plus the quality of publishing. Keep up the
good work. It impresses all that view your magazine. Lake Superior Magazine is the best.
October 22 - John Shibley, Port Charlotte, Florida:
The region is fantastic! The area is immense. Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan - good area. My son and daughter-in-law live in and work at
Lake Superior State University. He has had photos and articles in Lake Superior Magazine. His work is
writing and photography. I am very proud of his skills!
October 21 - John Parsinen, Minneapolis, Minnesota: I live on Madeline
Island 6 months of the year from May 1st through October and love the
lake’s history and people. Born in Duluth, raised in Baraboo,
Wisconsin, Duluth and Minneapolis all the rest of my life. Started
visiting Madeline Island in 1967-68 and bought property in 1976. Love
boating, fishing, log cabins and the isolation!
October 21 - Mary Wright, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin: I was born and
raised in Duluth, Minnesota. Look many canoe trips in the Boundary
Waters. Even honeymooned in the Boundary Waters.
October 19 - Justin Hyde, U.S. Services, Iraq: The great family that
lives near it!
October 15 - Bill Goatz, Stevens Point, Wisconsin: It’s up North. Its
remoteness. Its aesthetics. It would be a good place to live!
October 14 - Jayne Russell, Eau Claire, Wisconsin: It’s my husband’s
favorite place to go, too! We bring our children there every year to be
together. The relaxing, breathless beauty and parks are priceless!
October 14 - Bonnie Brady, Crestwood, Kentucky: I am a MTU alumni and
live in the Copper Country for 10 years. Lake Superior is my very
favorite place in the world. I would love to return and live up there
again. It is truly God’s country. Also, my mother-in-law was from
Duluth and I loved to visit there.
October 14 - Dot Goeppinger, Duluth, Minnesota: Been in our hearts
always. Was born in Hermantown on a farm. Parents have passed on. Came
to the farm after a large fire was there. Went to a 2-room school. High
school was in the city of Proctor. Graduation was in July. The school
was torn down a few years ago. Now a new school will be build a few
years from now.
October 10 - It's utterly beautiful, it calms our souls, gives us
limitless enjoyment - both physically and mentally. A true oasis. It is
a precious natural resource and so beautiful.
October 8 - Richard Wolfe, Two Harbors, Minnesota: I live here. The
entire area needs to be protected.
October 8 - Louise McLennan, New Hope, Minnesota: It is magnificent and
mysterious. When I graduated high school my mom took me on the Noronic,
which
we
boarded
at
the
Duluth
port,
and
went
through
most
of
the
Great
Lakes.
A
trip
I
will
never forget. It was just fabulous. I read in one
of my books about Duluth and the Great Lakes that the Noronic
burned in port, but I don’t know where [editor note: Toronto in
September 1949, loss of life 122].
Octoberr 5 - Naomi Holt, Gladstone, Michigan: I live on Lake Michigan,
but what’s not to like about Lake Superior! It’s awesome.
October 2 - Reader from Naperville Illinois: The beauty! The quiet! The
storms! The FOG! The watershed!
October 2 - Reader from Green Bay, Wisconsin: I love Lake Superior’s
blue waters. No matter how many times I go back to my childhood home, I
still find myself catching my breath at its beauty and power. Our whole
way of life is/was determined by Lake Superior and her mood,
particularly with snow. I love kayaking on it.
September
28 - Ruth Ann Miller, Decatur, Indiana: Ever since I was 6 months old
my parents have taken me and my brother to Michigan and the Wellston
area to stay at my aunt and uncle's cabin. We would go to different
places to sightsee. And we even saw the Bridge being built - I was
about 8 then. I’ve been in love with Michigan all my life! I always say
I was conceived in Michigan, so it’s in my blood! I wish I could live
there. When I was married 18 years ago, we went to the Bridge on our
honeymoon. I have two close friends who also love Michigan and
sometimes I share the magazine with them. That’s why I care about Lake
Superior. It’s Heaven on Earth!
September
26 - Reader from Atlanta, Georgia: I love lakes, and Lake Superior is
special because it has so many areas where the public can access the
lake and enjoy it (parks, etc.). Many lakes are hard to access because
private landowners control much of the shore. One can walk along the
shore of Lake Superior and not have to fight big crowds. That is hard
to find in the U.S.
September 25 - Arlene Eger, Plainfield, Wisconsin: It’s so beautiful!
Anywhere you go around it.
September 24 - Reader from Eau Claire, Wisconsin: It’s a beautiful,
cold lake. We visit it most with our sailboat and go to places not many
people see.
September 24 - Tim and Barb Lemke, Mendota Heights, Minnesota: The
beauty of such a powerful lake.
September 21 - Reader from Oakdale, Minnesota: Beauty of nature, the
people who live on and near the lake, clean water.
September 21 - Reader from Arlington, Virginia: Nature rules!
September 21 - John Strzalka, Wadsworth, Illinois: It’s a beautiful and
fantastic lake. We now live close to Lake Michigan, but Lake Superior
outshines it.
September 18 - Linda Zikewich, Metamore, Michigan: It is a very
important resource and needs to be taken care of and protected.
September 18 - George Spence, Hollywood, California: I was born
at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth and lived the first nine years of my
life in the city. We returned every year for a two-week vacation the
next nine years until moving to California. I went back in 1994 for a
nostalgic two weeks, but so much had changed. In fact, the building Lake
Superior
Magazine is in was once a movie theatre.
September
17 - Sharon Juntunen, Bergland, Michigan: My husband and I grew up on
the shores of Lake Superior - me in Hancock, him in the Baraga area. We
love to fish on Keweenaw Bay for wonderful lake trout. We love all
aspects of the lake - the ever-changing scene from calm to windy
conditions, the sky, the gulls, eagles and other birds, boaters, shore
scenery - all of it. We made the Circle Tour on our honeymoon three
years ago, after a September 23rd wedding.
September 16 - Reader from Minneapolis, Minnesota: It’s my home on the
north shore, but I’ve lived in Minneapolis for the past 15 years. I
look forward to returning to live in the area, so I care about the lake
staying clean and facilities along the shore to get out and enjoy it.
September 16 - Dale Stohre, Franklin, Wisconsin: It is a defining
reference point in my life. I've lived near and sailed other Great
Lakes … it’s just not the same. Lake Superior is the gold standard by
which other waters are measured for me.
September 16 - Debbie Jones, Huntly, Illinois: It helps me remember my
mother.
September
14 - Julie Kelemen, Rick Lake, Wisconsin: It’s one of the few major
bodies of fresh water in the world that is still pristine, clean and
not
overdeveloped. This is mostly due to the harsh winters and lack of
marketable natural resources/jobs as well as its isolation from major
metro centers - not because of things people do to keep it pristine. We
must keep an eye on this treasure and help keep it this way should
things change in the future. “The Lady” is BIG and POWERFUL and we
mustn’t mess with her too much.
September 14 - Rob Fisher, Fort Wayne, Indiana: My grandfather started
a business in Duluth back in the early 1900s. My mother and uncle were
raised there and graduated from Duluth High School. My grandfather
built a cabin on an island (Zollver Island) up by International Falls.
I spent a lot of my younger years up there. My mother always called
other lakes by their name, but Lake Superior was always simply called
“THE Lake.”
September
11 - Reader from Minneapolis, Minnesota: The beauty, the solitude, the
greatness, health benefits, the history, the hiking trails, the
spiritual effect, weather watch.
September
9 - Darlene Rhy, River Falls, Wisconsin: The beauty and the mystery of
the lake. I like to watch the freighters come in. I, like everyone
else, have a strange fascination for the lake and its shores. If I had
the money, I would like to live by the shores. I sat by the lake in
Herbster and read the Great Lakes Triangle book. A true account of ship
and plane wrecks. It was really spooky. I loved it.
September 9 - Mrs. John Budd Jr., Colorado Springs, Colorado: We have
been coming to our cabin (built by my mother-in-law) for 55 years - two
months in the summer and one month (over Christmas) in the winter. All
our friends from the Cities and relatives meet here for New Year’s and
at the Millennium we topped 75! We treasure the area.
September 9 - Floyd Mattin, Duluth, Minnesota: I care about Lake
Superior because I spend half of my life on the Great Lakes. I am a
retired chef from U.S. Steel’s Great Lakes Fleet and started my sailing
career in 1939. that is a long time ago! But, I’m still clear of mind
and remember virtually all the stories - the night the Fitz
went down, the Great Lakes Naval Station flyers practicing landing and
taking off from the old converted D&C passenger ships. The second
year I sailed how the captain had a heart attach and died on the ship -
how we lost our rudder on the A.F. Ferbert and had to be towed
all the way to South Chicago Ship Yard. On that trip, I put on the
wiener roast on the deck for the crew - I remember a full moon was
shining and all we missed was the Hula Dancers from Hawaii. Great
memories - great crew members. I loved them all. Now, I’m busy with
volunteer work at Benedictine Health Center. And enjoying my
retirement. Yes, I’m old (90), but what the heck!
September 8 - George Brasch, Waukesha, Wisconsin: It’s God’s country!!
September 8 - P. Sundrvck, Two Harbors, Minnesota: Posters, pictures
and log cabins, pines, trees, shoreline peace and ladies.
September 8 - Reader from Elma, New York: We have a cabin on the
eastern shores (since 1957). Built our own cabin. It’s a family
conclave. Sister and husband have a cabin next to ours. Their progeny
love it as we do. Many summers have been spent at our cabin.
September 6 - Betty Artlip, Cornucopia, Wisconsin: We appreciate the
big lake and care about it being clean and clear.
September
4 - C. Polena, Zeeland, Michigan: Its beauty, its wild nature, its
seclusion, its peacefulness and its ruggedness. Its quiet power and its
mystical presence. Its importance to wildlife, us and the environment.
September 4 - Kathleen Watler, Novi, Michigan: The beauty, remoteness,
importance to the climate.
September
2 - Lloyd Flynn, Edina, Minnesota: A very deep love of the outdoors;
camping, hiking, Superior Hiking Trail, hunting, fishing, bird
watching, biking, staying at resorts of the lake, shopping at places on
the lake, in Duluth, Two Harbors, Tofte, Lutsen, Grand Marais. All
mentioned contribute to an overall love of the lake and the shore, our
favorite vacation place in Minnesota.
September
1 - Kray Paul, Maple Grove, Minnesota: All the beauty that is contained
on the Northshore and the Apostle Islands. Split Rock Lighthouse -
ROCKS!
August
31 - Mr. & Mrs. L.M. DuBois, Highland, Maryland: We have visited,
in our trailer starting in 1998, the Lake Superior region four times -
2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 2000, we went around the northern shore,
and then down into Minnesota. Visited the Lake Superior Magazine
offices with our sheltie “Angus,” who is now with your “Huck.” So many
wonderful memories.
August 31 - Bruce Pritchard, Thunder Bay, Ontario: Its beauty,
communities, people, vastness and ever-changing moods. I have enjoyed
Lake Superior from childhood to my senior years. I have been involved
with the development of marinas in Nipigon and Red Rock, charter
chairperson of the North of Superior Marina Marketing Association and
the Nipigon Bay Remedial Action Plan Committee. Happy 30th anniversary
to management and staff.
August 31 - Leigh Coffey, Portland, Oregon: I live in Marquette with my
mother and grandmother during World War II. Though I was born in Iowa,
Marquette is were my memories began - so I’m imprinted for lakeshore,
blueberries and fog horns. My maternal French Canadian grandparents
emigrated to Michigan from Quebec. My mother’s ashes are on the Big
Lake.
August 31 - John Olson, Deer River, Minnesota: I grew up in Duluth and
live near the lake several years, including working on an ore freighter
one season. The lake has always attracted and intrigued me.
August 31 - Reader from Hamden, Connecticut: The spirit of the lake.
August 31 - Grant and Lola Bristol, Richland Center, Wisconsin: For
many years that was our favorite vacation destination from the time our
kids (five of them) were small and after they were grown. We would take
the North Shore Drive, camping along the way. They all still love the
area as we do. We would like to do the trip one more time. Maybe we can.
August 28 - Judith Erickson, Burnsville, Minnesota: It’s God’s country
and we are very, very blessed!
August
27 - Reader from Kingsford, Michigan: I live on it. Keeping water
clean. Fishing - hunting. Swimming. Sunsets. Picnics - wild berries,
wild animals. It isn’t just the lake, it’s what’s on land around the
lake.
August 27 - Beryl Singleton Bissell, Schroeder, Minnesota: Lake
Superior speaks to me, teaches me, nourishes me. I have learned more
from living on the lake - about the sacredness, power and fragility of
the natural environment - than in any other place I’ve lived. Lake
Superior is the spiritual and natural home I’ve searched for most of my
life.
August
26 - Jeff Taylor, Crystal, Minnesota: The beauty and the tranquility
and the wildness. Whenever we feel we need to get away from the
busyness of the city and suburbs and all its inhabitants, we always
head to the Lake Superior region.
August 26 - Lynn Beck, Covington, Indiana: I love Lake Superior and all
the surrounding region.
August 26 - Reader from Eau Claire, Wisconsin: At times it’s like being
at the end of the world - the solitude.
August 25 - Dustin Waugh, Terrebonne, Oregon: Lake Superior is so
important. Not only to me personally because of the feeling I get
standing on its shores and watching its different moods. But also
because the lake is so special in its rareness. One of the largest
bodies of fresh water on this planet. It reminds us of our place in the
grand scheme of nature. How small we are. But we are taking our toll on
all the Great Lakes. Big cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo and
Chicago turned their backs on the lakes in the mid-1900s, dumping
chemicals, human waste and PCBs into the water and left it to Mother
Nature to clean up. It took its toll and the southern Great Lakes paid
dearly … especially Lake Erie. Things are better now, but many
obstacles still remain … invasive species like zebra mussels being just
one example. People can do so much good and so much harm. I worry about
people loving the lakes too much. Everyone wants a lakeshore view, but
sprawl is bad for the lake. I care about Lake Superior because the lake
needs me to care … because if enough people don’t care,
the lake won’t be the wild, diverse plate I fell in love with.
August 25 - Reader from Duluth, Minnesota: I have lived on it most of
my life, both Michigan and Minnesota.
August 25 - Olga Leeman, Duluth, Minnesota: It is my home. My family
has moved away, but they come back to enjoy the best. We need to keep
it as it is or improve the environment even more.
August 25 - Reader from St. Paul, Minnesota: I have sailed on Lake
Superior with my family for 36 years. We have a sailboat on Madeline
Island. It is the most amazing body of water in the world.
August 24 - Irma Nowosad, Thunder Bay, Ontario: Our source of drinking
water in Thunder Bay. Keep it clean.
August 24 - Scott Weber, Neenah, Wisconsin: I think the lake has such
beauty and so many great stories and great history. It deserves
recognition!
August 24 - Mary Dykes, Wausau, Wisconsin: Friends and I have been
sailing in the Apostle Islands for more than 20 years. The lake is
beautiful and a wonderful resource for the Midwest. It is critical that
it be protected and utilized with great care to preserve it for future
generations. It is a part of the whole of our planet.
August 24 - Bill Kacanowski, Ray Township, Michigan: The remoteness
from big cities, the cooler summers, more snow in the winter (south
shore). The biggest supply of fresh water in the world.
August 24 - Bradley Parlato, Kalamazoo, Michigan: I was born and raised
in the Upper Peninsula and grew up appreciating Lake Superior’s affects
on the region. The lake really did govern the lifestyle in the U.P. and
I miss it dearly now that I no longer live near it!
August 24 - Reader from Prior Lake, Minnesota: Its vastness, its beauty
and its ever-changing nature. I never get bored watching the waters of
Lake Superior, it’s rarely the same from day to day!
August
21 - William Christo, Chula Vista, California: Beautiful nature,
history, many scenes look like the 1950s, smell, air, spell of the
lake, waves, large ships and getting away from the city. Hiking trails,
creeks and waterfalls.
August 21 - Sheila Coy, Golden Valley, Minnesota: My love for Lake
Superior started years ago when we wound up in Grand Marais trying to
escape the head of Minneapolis. Where else can you walk out on rocks
into Lake Superior? I just love the “feeling” one gets when sitting by
the lake - even when it is foggy and you can hardly see it.
August 21 - A. & R. Trudell, Calumet, Michigan: It’s an awesome
lake and needs to be respected and protected for future generations.
August 21 - Ronald and Garlene Glanz, Midland, Michigan: When the
magazine we subscribed to in Traverse City, Michigan, quit publishing,
they gave us a choice of finishing our subscription with a magazine in
Carolina or yours. Since we love the north country, the choice was
easy. And after receiving two issues of Lake Superior Magazine,
we knew we would be subscribers for life. We love the Lake Superior
shoreline and all the wild places. We drove the Circle Tour once, and
hope to do it again soon, stopping at more places. Our favorite was
Minnesota’s north shore. We would like to thank all of you for one of
our favorite magazines.
August
20 - Reader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin: It is a precious natural
resource and having grown up around it, I have experienced the
tremendous affect the lake has on those who live and work there. Being
such a precious but fragile system, we must be vigilant in protecting
the lake from any serious threat to its natural and pure nature.
August 20 - Chic Vaughn, Hubbard, Texas: Having lived in Ashland, the
lake grew on me. Many years ago, I worked for Montgomery Wards and
could walk down to the bay during lunch. Also still make it up once a
year and visit relatives. My aunt lives on Highway 2. You can watch the
big boats from her living room.
August
19 - Steven Krause, Wausau, Wisconsin: After a century in which the
world’s population has grown from 1 billion to 6 billion, the region
continues to have a small enough population, so that, from my
experience, strangers continue to greet each other, wave to each other
and, when opportunity allows, talk each other’s ears off!
August 19 - Heather Morningstar, Apple Valley, Minnesota: It’s an
international treasure enjoyed by generations - we need to protect and
care for the lake so 100-plus years from now, my great, great
grandchildren can enjoy climbing on the rocks and listening to the lake
as much as I did when I was a child!
August 19 - Bob Ditsch, Luck, Wisconsin: It’s a valuable source of
fresh water for the future. Its history as a traveling highway is all
about how this area came to be. It’s so beautiful from any side, yet so
dangerous in bad weather. Why go to the ocean when we have this in our
back yard?
August
18 - Bonnie Dealing, Barnes, Wisconsin: The lake has a huge impact on
the area where I live. It is a tremendous resource to be treasured. I
would hate of its magnificence to be diminished in any way.
August
17 - Aaron from Duluth, Minnesota: I love Lake Superior because it
teaches us about beauty, magnitude, power and creativity. It is wild
and beautiful - a thing that demands respect, but invites you in to
enjoy its treasures. It is a mirror reflecting and revealing the nature
of our Maker.
August 17 - Bruce Kopnick, Chaska, Minnesota: It’s difficult to care
about or love a lake as big - and dangerous - as Lake Superior. What’s
exciting - and reassuring - is that the care is almost universal among
visitors and residents alike. Lake Superior’s greatest challenges come
from forces beyond its borders: global warming, acid rain, invasive
species, water pollution, water extraction/export from the basin. The
universal care and attention by visitors, residents (home industry,
recreation and government) is not only encouraging but an inspiration
for cooperation - people with nature - in so many other areas
of our planet well beyond the Lake Superior region. I salute Lake
Superior Magazine for being the forum for the long-time/veteran
(and newcomer) lovers of all things Lake Superior.
August 17 - Kim Roberts & Mike Wagner, Montrose, Minnesota: The
natural wonder and beauty of the region. It has the most cliffs, rocks
and more of all five Great Lakes (to our knowledge) and is spectacular
every day of the year - and every season. National Geographic
just aired a story on the Great Lakes - how they were formed.
August 17 - Paul Rimpela, Madison Heights, Michigan: Father/mother from
the Keweenaw. Family homes still there on Lake Superior. We vacation
there. Father, uncles, grandpa were commercial fishermen on Lake
Superior. Love the lake and beauty. We are Finlanders.
August 17 - Sharon Kirby, Harrision, Michigan: I can sit on the beach
at Rock River in September and not see anyone for a mile in either
direction - just me and the sky and the most beautiful lake in the
world. I love the sound of the surf, the storms, the ore boats going
by, the Northern Lights. I love looking for agates on the beaches,
fishing for salmon and whitefish where Rock River empties into the lake
and drilling them over an open fire on the beach. The stores - when I
was 13, I was in a boat out Lake Superior when a storm came up and I
will never forget seeing the huge waves towering over the boat and the
one thing I remember most of all - I wasn’t afraid.
August 17 - Tom Holtman, Waterville, Minnesota: Beautiful scenery.
Wonderful people making a living from attractions along the lake. Clean
- safe water - some of the last on the planet. Desire to keep it that
way.
August 14 - Anne Vollmerhausen, St. Louis Park, Minnesota: This is a
natural wonder that supports people, animals and the environment. If we
don’t take care of this lake, we’ll never get it back.
August 14 - Shirley Basch, Atwater, Minnesota: Environmental issues,
water quality, population density, i.e. Bluefin Bay, hundreds of people
with inadequate septic systems. More “mom and pop” resorts being made
into condos - density again. We have a home next to the water near
Schreoder and for years camped by the lake. Our family (son and family)
also built a guest house near Tofe and daughter and family sail out of
Bayfield. We love her and want to protect her!
August
13 - Sally Standefer, Duluth, Minnesota: Because it’s a treasure, and
as such deserves respect from all who live on, near or visit its
beautiful shores and communities. I was born in Duluth, lived in Texas
for 46 years. The day I retired I was on the home to come home
to family and the Big Lake.
August 13 - Howard Lahti, Alpena, Michigan: Born on the Iron Range and
graduated from U.M.D. Beauty and wonders of the lake.
August 13 - Reader from Seattle, Washington: Grew up in Michigan and
like the U.P. - scenery and history.
August 12 - Lena Stenrose, Plymouth, Michigan: It was always a part of
my life until I moved down here. And I miss the lake a lot. I did get
to see it this summer and what a gift that was.
August 12 - Reader from Duluth, Minnesota: Nature’s power. Man’s
endurance.
August 12 - Judy Asel, Essexville, Michigan: Largest freshwater sources
in the world, that should tell us something - it’s up to us to protect
her from diversion, pollution. I feel so blessed to live so near to
her. When my husband and I leave after our two-week vacation on her
shores, we leave parts of our souls.
August 12 - Rob Eibert, Mendota Heights, Minnesota: I love the lake.
Always have. I want it to stay as is. Slow down the building.
August 12 - Tom Vogel, Ionia, Michigan: It is a tremendous natural
resource, and people live and work in it. It is not a place set aside
to prevent people from using it. But the resources do need to be
managed to protect them and ensure future generals can experience the
same.
August 12 - Jeff Berndt, Litchfield, Minnesota: Keeping the lake clean
of any diseases that may come from foreign ships. Keep the beauty of
the lake for years to come.
August 11 - Edward L. Mecl, Danbury, Wisconsin: The fresh water supply.
Beautiful scenery.
August 11 - Reader form Northfield, Minnesota: We started camping along
the north shore about 1970 and now my son has a cabin on the south
shore. Both are wonderful areas. We’ve seen many changes, watched ships
from all over the world go in and out, but the lake and the people
remain wonderful assets for us to visit.
August 11 - Randy Sundvick, Two Harbors, Minnesota: Fresh water,
animals, cool weather, birds, trees.
August
10 - Pat Kranz, Excelsior, Minnesota: Great and mighty lake - it takes
your breath away so many times with all the wonderful sights.
August 10 - Reader from Ashland, Wisconsin: Lake Superior is important
to me because it directly effects my personal health, my community’s
health and my surrounding ecosystem’s health. Without the lake, the
Upper Midwest would be completely different, which would probably
motivate me to live somewhere else.
August 10 - Charlene Peterson, South Range, Wisconsin: The lake and
everything it gives to us.
August 10 - Rose O’Korn, Eveleth, Minnesota: It’s a beautiful lake. I
lived in Duluth only a short time years ago and I loved the sound of
the fog horn.
August 10 - M. Morichette, Hurley, Wisconsin: Everything.
August 10 - Holly Collar, Seymour, Wisconsin: Well, that big lake has
always “centered” me. It’s energizing, humbling, renewing, the whole
gamut. Since I was a kid camping with my folks on Big Bay/Madeline
Island, it’s the lake I return to for replenishment. Ahh ~
August 10 - Franie Jezek, Ontonagon, Michigan: The clean air, pure
water, ever-changing views. Always a pleasure.
August 10 - Richard Ubl, Allen, Texas: I was born and raised in
Minnesota. My first trip to Lake Superior was in 1948. While we
currently live in Texas, seeing Lake Superior is like coming home. We
visit Duluth and Ely, Minnesota, at least two or three times a year. I
took my grandson to Lake Superior several years ago. I wanted him to
see and appreciate this great area.
August 10 - Wendy Tschudy, Monroe, Wisconsin: The beauty and magic of
the lake and the
land surrounding it. Lake Superior is a very special place to visit,
and because I’m unable to visit as often as I’d like, I rely on Lake
Superior
Magazine to “transport” me there with each issue.
August 9 - Gerard Peterson, Farmington, New Hampshire: Swimming off
Park Point, sailing round the Point, flying from Sky Harbor, sliding
down the icebergs, or simply standing on a dune and gazing across the
expanse of it all! Our family had the best times around Lake Superior.
Being a “pointer,” well, it just doesn't get any better!
August 9 - Marilyn Schmidt, Bel Aire, Kansas: Its beauty, power and
mystery. I love to see and hear the waves hit the shore. Its many
moods. I’d really love to see it in winter but can’t get my husband up
there at that time of the year.
August
7 - Curt MacKenzie, Minneapolis, Minnesota: It is very good that you
write about the things affecting the lake. Good to keep us informed -
maybe motivates us to be active. Things like the stories about zebra
mussels, water issues. I think you do an excellent job. And getting the
subscription from my Aunt Katie makes it even better. Her family (my
grandparents) had an Isle Royale home.
August 7 - Reader from Cedarburg, Wisconsin: My history with the lake.
August 6 - Reader from Mayer, Minnesota: Born in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula, live in Minnesota. It is part of my life.
August 6 - Pearl Harvey, Cable, Wisconsin: We live 40 miles from the
lake. We go to the shore anytime we can and take friends. We’ve done on
the Circle Tour many times. The first time the road wasn’t “finished”
and we crossed the St. Marys River from the Canadian Sault to Michigan
Soo on a ferry boat! Our three girls drew up going on the Circle Tour
many times. We want the lake to be there for generations to come, to
enjoy it as we have.
August 6 - Donn Custard, Cheboygan, Michigan: It just touches something
deep inside. The area is never overcrowded. It is very beautiful in
fall and winter and every time we come up, we have a great time. I
watched the 1984 Detroit Tigers win the World Series from my cabin at
the Keweenaw Mountain Lodges.
August 6 - Reader from Bloomington, Minnesota: The awesomeness of it.
The peaceful waves, the rocks, the clear water.
August 6 - Mary Johnston, Carmel, Indiana: I am originally from the
Duluth area. It is “home.” I visit frequently. I am also an artist. I
get a great deal of inspiration from the lake. About one half of the
paintings I produce are Great Lakes based. The “Big” Lake is a treasure
for me!
August 6 - Joe Burgoyne, St. Paul, Minnesota: I love large bodies of
water. For whatever reason, when I look out upon Lake Superior, it
helps keep things in perspective.
August
5 - Mary Fitzgerald, Brooksville, Florida: My family moved from a
beautiful spot on Lake Huron to Ironwood, Michigan, in 1970, when I was
15. Ironwood sits about 15 miles from Lake Superior on the border of
Wisconsin and Michigan. Within a year my Dad had nabbed a cabin right
on the lake. The cabin sits about 100 feet above the lake and the
stairs down to the lake cut through virgin timber to a rocky beach that
is as isolated as anyone needs to be. With nine brothers and sisters,
the combined moments of pleasure and adventure on the lake amount in
the millions. We spent time alone, with friends, with family and with
pets at that sot. But we also adventured out around the lake and
included the entire shoreline and its massive body as ours. I certainly
love and cherish all the Great Lakes, since I have relatives sprinkled
along all of them, but Lake Superior is my aesthetic home. I think
almost anyone has a place on earth where they are the most at home as a
spiritual being, where the aesthetics of the location, whether it be
mountains, desert or prairie, soothe the soul or complete you. When I
make it back there, I may arrive with a crowd and noise and action, but
at some moment it is just me and the lake, and I am compelled to say
out loud, “Hello, Lake Superior,” and the lake says, “Hello” back. It
is so much like greeting and being greeted by God.
August 5 - J. Kuntemeier, West St. Paul, Minnesota: A place to escape
to.
August 5 - Angela-Marie Willis, St. Cloud, Minnesota: It’s a beautiful
place to run away to and it’s only a couple hour’s drive. Every time I
go up there, which is at least three times a year, I find something new
to do or see. It never gets boring and it doesn’t matter what season
you visit, it’s always beautiful and amazing. I would recommend it to
anyone who comes to Minnesota to vacation.
August 5 - Ron Willow, Ft. Myers Beach, Florida: Live on our boat at
Cornucopia, Wisconsin, in summer. Loved it as a kid growing up in
Minneapolis. Our first trip by boat to Split Rock was 10 years ago.
Sand our boat at Corny two years ago and survived, thanks to the
Bayfield Coast Guard.
August 4 - Bob Woodbury, Winslow, Maine: It’s grandeur and sentiment. I
first saw the lake from the deck of the USS Forest B. Royal
DD-832 50 years ago. I’ve been married to a Duluth girl for 49 years in
October.
August 4 - Lynda Kolzow, Cumberland, Wisconsin: We need to make sure
these waters are maintained properly for generations to come, as the
lakes are our lifeline.
August
3 - Georjean Bailey, Sioux City, Iowa: I was introduced to the area as
a teen. My mother was born and raised in Ashland. We were then in
Omaha. When I married I told my husband that I knew the best place to
vacation. We make two trips a year, mostly the south shore (because the
north shore is too commercial). When you are in PR, you want the peace
of the south shore. We have been coming up for 20-plus years and look
forward to many more! In college, I wrote papers on the lake, its
people and the rich history of the area.
August 3 - Rob Bier, Redway, California: It remains. The things I
encountered as a child are still there: the pebbled beaches, the rocky
cliffs, the clarity of the water. Its chill. No other place has so
firmly captured my heart.
August 3 - Jim Huss, Ironwood, Michigan: It’s not hard to get hooked on
this area, with its summer green, winter white desert, fall color and
real spring (when we get one!). But the real feeling is seeing this
overlooking the lake, and witnessing its moods.
August 3 - Polly Friend, Marquette, Michigan: When I hear about
invasive species, both plants and aquatics. Lack of funding for the
Great Lakes Commission. Receding of shoreline. Other states wanting our
water.
August 3 - Joe Turner, Bradford, Ohio: It seems that whatever man
touches, he destroys. It hasn’t happened to Lake Superior yet. By your
keeping people aware of the lake and what is going on, that destruction
will be delayed.
August 3 - K. Geljack, Bristol, Indiana: Northern Wisconsin and Lake
Superior will always be home. Such fond memories of church, camping,
fishing, swimming days and days of fun all summer long as a kid. It is
a place to be cherished and will always be home. Oh! Always looking for
agates!
August 3 - Lucille Dirks, Mesa, Arizona: Having been born and raised in
Duluth and now living in Arizona for health reasons, I just felt by
subscribing to your magazine, it would keep me in touch with my roots.
I have traveled the Circle Tour and am familiar with many areas. I have
kept most issues and look forward to each issue. I also have subscribed
a gift issue to my son.
August 3 - Joe Hartray, Mt. Prospect, Illinois: It’s such a beautiful
and awe-inspiring place, it’s good to know that it is still there,
still relatively clean - pure and still wild. I would like to spend
more time there and hoe future generations will still have the same
Great Lake to experience and enjoy. Viewing its awesome scenery and
wildlife, boating on it, its great towns, there is nothing else
anywhere like it. You can feel how spiritual it is in various locations.
August 3 - Richard Vilendrer, Faribault, Minnesota: My parents used to
vacation in Duluth, so my family has also enjoyed many trips there. I
like Northern Minnesota a whole lot more than here, in Faribault,
which is mostly corn country. I’d like to live in the Duluth area, but
first I would like to live for one year there, to experience the four
seasons, and then decide if I’d really like it.
August 3 - Reader from Little Falls, Minnesota: The vastness. The wild
beauty and the calm beauty. The north shore. The Twin Ports. Hawk Ridge.
August 3 - K.C. Lazzari, Greencastle, Pennsylvania [also from
Ontonagon, Michigan]: It’s my home! (Well, next door neighbor.)
August 3 - Jerilyn Wieler, Cottage Grove, Minnesota: Its beauty -
calming effect, cheaper than seeing an MD! Strong - interesting
history. The power of nature - calm lake and suddenly powerful, lashing
waves, intriguing. It’s a Minnesota treasure - icon, world renown,
provides so much to so many.
August 3 - Priscilla Knighton, Duluth, Minnesota: Color, purity,
storms, sunrises, ship, rocky shores, waves cracking over cliffs, sandy
beaches, driftwood.
August
1 - Michele Jarosch, Woodville, Wisconsin. I have camped at campgrounds
along the north shore and I love the memories that we have had there.
July
31 - Tim Bailey, Maple Grove, Minnesota: I grew up in Minnesota and I
live here and use this great body of water. I feel an obligation to
help continue the preservation of the lake for future generations to
enjoy.
July 31 - Pam Haas, Oakdale, Minnesota: You couldn’t ask for a more
beautiful lake!! Again, being born and raised in Duluth, I love to go
back. I could sit for hours (days) and watch the lake change. The
sailboats, ore boat, etc., are beautiful with the lake as a background.
The rocky shores, to the sand dunes, to caves make it so interesting.
July 31 - Susan Simonson, Bayfield, Wisconsin: It’s clean! As we drive
along the coastal regions it always appears to be clean … few if any
billboards, little if any littler. I think people of the area want to
keep it “Green and Clean.” It‘s a beautiful treasure to behold and we
must see to it that everyone respects and maintains that we should all
keep our pristine princess just that. It‘s important that we all look
after this treasure.
July 31 - Sue Welch, San Dimas, California: The absolute exquisite
beauty of the lake. I brought my children to Lake Superior Park in the
’70s and ’80s. We also have hiked in Pukaskwa before/after it became a
national park.
July 31 - Reader from North Port, Florida: It is the best lake in the
world and it’s a privilege to have access to its natural beauty.
July 31 - Brenda Averbeck, Cochrane, Wisconsin: So many people take for
granted what a beautiful wonder that it is, especially when it is in
their “back yard.”
July 31 - A. Kapusta Jr., Clinton Township, Michigan: When you see the
lake for the first time, you become mesmerized by its size and beauty.
You wonder why you are drawn into its beauty; and only hope that we can
protect Mother Nature for future generations to enjoy. Every time I see
the lake, it’s like the first time and I pray that I can continue to
visit it.
July 31 - Anna Johnson, Ocala, Florida: Because it mentions so many
people I know like Ingelborg Holte and Sam Johnson, who was my
grandfather’s first cousin, Edward Johnson. I spent the first 4 years
(summers) on Isle Royale. My father, Fritz Johnson, was one of the
fishermen there. I went to Beaver Bay Grade School and high school in
Two Harbors. I still miss Lake Superior (I married a Johnson).
July 31 - Karen Wolslegel, Washburn, Wisconsin: Its awesome beauty no
matter what the weather conditions are! The beautiful and unexpected
changes in its color and “temperament” from day to day and season to
season.
July
30 - Carl Anthes, Daleville, Indiana: I enjoy all of Lake Superior’s
environment and Lake Living and all the books. I think I have all your
books and puzzles. I like the story of Lake Superior out of water. To
see all the shipwrecks - it would look like a junkyard. But I hope it
never goes dry. I think I would like to live in the Keweenaw Peninsula
- Houghton, Hancock. I like the books on shipwrecks. I had a short stay
in Duluth. It was a very nice and clean town. I have enjoyed watching
all of the Great Lake ships all my life. I was born in Detroit,
Michigan. I had a house trailer in Port Hope, Michigan, by Lake Huron.
We lived in Sterling Heights, a two-hour drive up there. My wife is
from Indiana and she wanted to move back home. So, here I am away from
the Great Lakes and all the water and ships, waiting for my Lake
Superior Magazine
and watching field corn and soybeans grow. Oh, how I hate it down here
in the country in Indiana, far from the lakes and ship. We did go to
Harbor Beach - Lake Huron - and saw two ships to help charge my
battery. Like heaven.
July 30 - Carol Lundquist, Albertville, Minnesota: Love sitting and
watching the lake. It seems to change all the time. Love seeing the
ships come and go. Used to love looking for agates, but don’t know
where to look anymore. We used to go to Flood Bay just above Two
Harbors.
July 30 - Pam Smith, Gilbert, Minnesota: I can’t put it into words -
there is just something. When things aren’t right, a trip to Lake
Superior makes everything better. It (the lake) has a calming effect on
me.
July 30 - Fritz Dreger, Quinnesec, Michigan: Because it is only one of
a kind in the world.
July 30 - Reader from Marshfield, Wisconsin: Lake Superior is OUR
inland sea. It is history.
July 30 - Pat Apold, Maple Grove, Minnesota - It’s all about an area we
love to visit now and do so three to four times a year.
July 30 - Sonja Vincent, Ozark Missouri: Many happy memories of
childhood experience at “the lake” - especially vacationing at cabins
at Knife River, Minnesota. The shoreline has changed, but not the
memories!
July 30 - Reader from Findlay, Ohio: The area allows me to take a
vacation where I can relax and get away from large groups of people -
and visit interesting and beautiful places in the process, picking up
stones and watching waves roll into shore.
July 30 - Kent Ramsey, South Bend, Indiana - I am a longtime scuba
diver and am interested in shipwrecks. I like the non-developed areas.
July 30 - Gloria Smith, Penrose, Colorado: Growing up in Marquette, our
family spent time on the beaches and taking scenic rides. I moved from
the area at age 19, but my husband and family have learned to love the
lake as well as me. We travel there almost every summer. My brother has
a camp near Munising, so we usually stay there. We’ve circled the lake
and love all of it, its beauty and history.
July 30 - Dave Lathrop, Grand Rapids, Minnesota: The water!
July
29 - Mark Cash, Arlington Heights, Illinois: Gene Walroos of Superior
says it best - Respect for it. Its vastness and powerful waters. It has
always amazed me that a body of water like that could roar up and tear
in half a huge iron ore ship like the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Respect for it. Take care of it. Keep it clean and pure.
July 29 - Ken Nicholls, Hurley, Wisconsin: It is a jewel we have in our
back yard.
July 29 - Pat Stejskal, Mundelein, Illinois: Gorgeous country - one of
my favorite places to vacation.
July 29 - Shirley Harkness, Mc Millan, Michigan: It’s beautiful. Let’s
keep it that way.
July 29 - Kay Whitmore, Davenport, Iowa: We have had many wonderful
trips to the north shore with family and friends. We have also traveled
in the U.P. and hope to go all the way around the lake next year. It is
a truly beautiful place and one of our favorites in the U.S. We will
return as long as we are able.
July 29 - Marilyn Hurst, Au Train, Michigan: As the largest -
relatively clean - body of fresh water in the world, it is unique! And
protection of it should be foremost in the minds of people who live by
it, as well as cities, industries, mines, etc. In the Marquette area,
we are disturbed by the impending development of a copper mine situated
at the headwaters of three rivers on the Yellow Dog plain. Why isn’t it
a forgone conclusion on the part of all parties involve that this is wrong!
Also,
it
should
be
made
loud
and
clear
the
salt water from home
water systems should not be discharged into the lake. If
everyone around the lake did that, we’d have a saltwater sea!
July 29 - Bill Engen, Minneapolis, Minnesota: The lake itself. Duluth
was my father’s favorite destination. Our car? A model A Ford from the
early 1930s. My bride and I get up there as often as possible. Our #1
son has home on the lake just beyond Two Harbors.
July 29 - Sally, Duluth, Minnesota: I never tire of seeing it or
reading or hearing about it! Don’t ever give any or sell any of it.
Keep it for future generations. Where ever I go, I never see anything I
enjoy more!
July 28 - Charles
Touton, Fresno, California: My family owns about 1,000 acres on the
lake north of Marquette. Family tradition spends summers there - no
electricity, no fancy modern things. Just things as they were decades
ago.
July 28 - Ruth Johnson, Northfield, Minnesota: For your beauty, depth
and majesty, we adore you. For you, men risk lives and fortunes to
conquer your many moods. Of you are woven stories of power, wealth and
history. Let no man destroy your purity by selfishness or slothfulness.
May you remain a sentinel of God’s creation for all generations to
come. You are Superior! (I wrote this years ago when we lived by the
lake. I miss it!)
July 28 - Gordon Bauman, North Oaks, Minnesota: The beauty and history.
The coastline is relatively undeveloped.
July 28 - Jim Hansen, New Brighton, Minnesota: I know the
environmental, recreational, tourist and human affect of the lake. It
should be the primary focus of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Canada’s governments. We have spent 30-plus years in view of the lake
(lived in Duluth, have a cabin on Madeline Island) and can’t stay away.
July
27 - Patricia & Niron Virch, Marquette, Michigan: The big lake
really scares me. I do not want to be out on it. I'm too old, but the
beauty of it - how it gives us our climate - warm - cold - snow,
whatever - is still the best place to live. Here in the U.P. of
Michigan, we have so many miles of its shoreline. What’s not to care
about?
July 27 - David North, Newport, Minnesota: Beautiful place. Beautiful
photos. Beautiful stories.
July 27 - Tom Stemm, St. Cloud, Minnesota: When I was a child I
remember coming to the north shore with my mother. I remember the
lights of ships from our cabin window and the Aerial Lift Bridge and
ships up close. When my wife, Linda, and I met, she was living in
Duluth and we camped on the north shore. We are both somehow drawn to
the lake - magnetism? When we decided to buy a cruiser, there was no
discussion about where we would keep it. Now we have our second cruiser
and what a feeling to have the bridge lift for us. I could go on and on
and on.
July 27 - Patricia Anderson, Brainerd, Minnesota: Its beauty, history
of its ships and shipwrecks, history of the towns and cities around the
lake.
July 27 - Reader from St. Charles, Illinois: Its status as the largest
fresh water body. It’s a wonderful place - health preserving.
July 27 - Kenneth W. Clark, Council Bluffs, Iowa: The beauty of the
whole region. We will be staying in Duluth the first week in October
and Grand Marais for two days later. Looking forward to seeing the fall
colors. We visited Upper Michigan for seven days in October last year.
Beautiful fall colors.
July 27 - Lisa Withron, Delaware, Ohio: Fresh water and environmental
concerns. Global water shortage is upon us.
July 27 - Steven P. Schultz, Independence, Missouri: The beauty and
water - life is a “trust” from our Heavenly Father.
July 27 - Donald Nelson, Phoenix, Arizona: I lived in Grand Marais,
Minnesota, for 13 years. Fished all the border lakes. snowmobiled all
over. It was the best place to raise a family. Now that I live in
Arizona, this magazine is my lifeline.
July 27 - Larry Austin, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan: The biggest and
most beautiful lake I’ve ever seen. The emerald-blue color of the
water. The dunes by the log run of Au Sable Lighthouse near Grand
Marais, Michigan. McClain State Park’s beach with driftwood.
Muskallonge State Park’s shore of rocks and stones.
July 27 - Reader from Castle Danger, Minnesota: Lake Superior never
changes and is always changing - reflecting the weather mood of the
day. Since I have lived here all my life, I have a lifelong experience
of its presence, its power, beauty and breezes. It’s the heart and soul
of the region and I love that it is.
July 27 - Kent Shamblin, Beaver Bay, Minnesota: Its magnificence.
July 27 - Al Krause, Harvest, Alabama: The beauty of the lake and that
it can still be preserved.
July 27 - Pat Mullenger, Exira, Iowa: Seeing the Aerial Lift Bridge in
Duluth always takes my breath away with its view of the Lake. And a
visit to Grandma’s Saloon & Deli is always a must do! I love Duluth
and I live in southwestern Iowa. Love your magazine!
July 27 - Lanny Scearcy, Brainerd, Minnesota: My
brother, my son and I
rode our motorcycles around Lake Superior about 7-8 years ago. We did
the “Circle Tour” in 6 days. The rugged beauty, the sheer size, the
people we met along the way, the fun of “exploration” were what made it
a wonderful trip. We are going to do it again some day, my wife and I,
and take 9-10 days so we can really see everything.
July
27 - Jill Johnson, Greeley, Colorado: My husband was born and raised in
Duluth as were his parents. His mom still lives in Hunter’s Park. I
have now been coming “home” to Duluth for 29 years now. We plan to move
back after our daughter is out of college. Lake Superior is in my heart
and I care very much about it and the surrounding area.
July 27 - Pam Petersen, Kellogg, Minnesota: Every year it’s the only
place I go for vacation. I’ve been in this state for 32 years and the
lake calls to my deep longing for natural experiences. It’s true beauty
at its finest. I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, nothing this beautiful
down there BELIEVE ME!
July 27 - Reader from Lake Forest, Illinois: My grandparents owned a
summer home near Hayward, Wisconsin, which I inherited and I also owned
two homes in Door County. I love the entire area. I am currently very
interested in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, especially the area near
Manistique.
July 27 - Craig Scherf, Minneapolis, Minnesota: The beauty of the wild
areas as well as the history all the way back to the French era. Also
have had an almost lifelong love affair with Duluth/Superior - lots of
cultural activities including Tweed, DSSO [Duluth Superior Symphony
Orchestra], but primarily: it’s our only real coast - in the middle of
the continent. We’re at the gateway to the world. There is a strong
sense of place about the lake all around the shores and the natural
beauty is still there.
July 27 - Elwood L. Loh, Bowie, Maryland: Born in Lutsen on the
lakeshore (site of Sea and Ski Villas). Bluefin ad on back cover is
where my mother’s family arrived in Tofte (about 1903). Years ago I
knew (almost) all the commercial fishermen from Grand Portage to Two
Harbors. The unhurried beauty of the lake is awe-inspiring.
July 27 - Nancy Gordon, Traverse City, Michigan: I was born in
Marquette and lived there for 16 years, and only a couple blocks from
the lake. It’s awesome. We still have a cabin in Big Bay - very rustic!
Now we live in Traverse City, so we have the best of two worlds!
July 27 - Barbara Whiteside, Clarksville, Indiana: It’s what I call “my
safe place.” Even though born and raised in Southern Indiana, I also
consider myself a Yooper. It was our first home after we got married,
and we always feel like we’re “home” soon as we cross into the U.P.,
whether at St. Ignace, Iron Mountain or Escanaba.
July 27 - Jolynn Brehm, Woodruff, Wisconsin: The poster reminds me that
the mystery, awe and beauty of the “faces” of the lake are to be
treasured! I care that it will not be polluted, exploited, diminished
by commercial ventures, etc., etc. For me it is a healing, inspiring,
comforting Grand Lady!
July 27 - Kathy Englebretson, West Allis, Wisconsin:
Lovely scenery
Awesome beauty
Keeps me happy
Energizing
Sand and water
Upper Michigan
Precious resource
Ever changing
Rolling waves
Its unreal colors
Optimized my delight
Relaxing vistas
July 27 - Warren J. Brule, Kingsford, Michigan: As you can see from my
name, my ancestor’s connection goes back a long way with the lake area,
also Brule Rivers in Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota, Brule Lake
and Brule Mountain in Wisconsin and the town of Brule in Wisconsin. I
feel a very spiritual connection to the lake.
July 27 - Tom Johnson, Alton, Illinois: It is huge and pristine. It’s
fun to watch shipping and railroading and see geography unlike we find
elsewhere. And we’re on vacation while doing all that.
July 27 - Reader: We love the lake mostly because it is so amazing
- large, fresh water, so unique and the closest thing to an ocean in
Minnesota! We also have a vacation home on the shore due to the above.
July 25 - John Kleinedler, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Its size, power and
overall mystique.
July 25 - William Campbell, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin: The beauty of
the lake. Also I understand the importance of the lake to the economy
and to the enviroment.
July
25 - Reader from Lake Zurich, Illinois: How beautiful, wild and huge it
is - each day of looking at it reveals a different mood, different
colors, creates a different ambiance.
July 24 - Jim Haney, Madison, Wisconsin: Have a second home on the
lake. Vacationed around the lake all my life. Lake Superior is a
national treasure. Late wife founded Breast Cancer Recovery Fund that
holds retreats on Madeline Island and other locales. One at Naniboujou.
Touts “healing” nature of the lake.
July 24 - Chaslotte DeBroka, Mishiwaka, Indiana: Lake Superior is the
most beautiful area I’ve ever seen. Keeping the water staying pure and
clear means that the area can remain healthy. Not only is this good for
Lake Superior, but the other four Great Lakes and the surrounding areas.
July 24 - Connie Simpson, Mahtomedi, Minnesota: It is so wonderful to
visit to just sit by the over all environment. For the way it makes me
feel. In awe at peace. All in all, “God does Great Work!”
July 24 - Terry Hukriede, Minneapolis, Minnesota: This area is unique
in the world. It is deep, clean, magical. It has a soothing quality to
it that must be experienced, as it cannot be described or explained. I
think it is that inner need to touch something that is wild and
uncontrollable in our ever more controlled lives. It has the power to
heal things that are broken in our lives. It is hard to dwell on
problems sitting on the shore of this beautiful place.
July 24 - B.J. and Jay Hilton, Tofte, Minnesota: Preserving the
pristine natural wonder of the Big Lake and her ever-changing
appearance is important to us in a world that has lost touch with
Nature.
July 24 - Reader from Minneapolis, Minnesota: It’s as close to an ocean
as we Minnesotans get. It’s clean and a great summer refresher!
July 24 - Dale W. Holm, New Philadelphia, Ohio: The grandeur of it all.
Raised near Ashland, Wisconsin, graduate of Northland college and
interested in the preservation of our natural resources everywhere.
July 24 - Cynthia Robbins, Wausau, Wisconsin: We must all take an
interest in our natural resources. Without interest, concern and
respect of our water and land surrounding Lake Superior, we may not
have a place to call home. thanks you for all the information that is
shared.
July 24 - Susan Newman, Marthasville, Missouri: When I'm there I feel
connected to the earth and also to a creator. I feel at home, at peace
and healed. I feel like I should live there - it just feels “true.” No
mater where I am when I need to remember my place of things, I see me
at Lake Superior.
July 24 - Nancy Landis, Oskaluosa, Kansas: The loveliest of the area’s
history; the sounds, the smells; the romance, the colors and how they
change during the day; the trees, the wonderful people; the snow, the
ice, the boats; the fog horns; the ghosts!
July
23 - Sharon Mitchell, Walker, Minnesota: The beauty, serenity and
majesty of the lake's total environment from Two Harbors, Minnesota,
north to Thunder Bay, Ontario, draws me back time and time again. The
value of a fresh water inland sea cannot be measured. Its preservation
as a point of contact between humans and nature is of utmost
importance, both for the body of water itself and for the soul of man
and woman.
July 23 - Gina Pockrandt, Champlin, Minnesota: Lake Superior is my
“second home.” I didn’t live here and I wasn’t raised here, but I grew
up camping on the shores, doing 4-H photography projects, lived at a
Youth Conservation Corps camp in Tettegouche [State Park] one summer,
helped build the George Crosby Manitou Trail, honeymooned at Lutsen,
spent many anniversaries (September 22) in many different places and
vacationed here. I’ve traveled to many places outside of Minnesota and
the U.S.A., but coming back to Lake Superior feels like coming home.
July 23 - Marc Faber, Byron Center, Michigan: Only distinct and
historical body of fresh water that acts like an inland ocean.
July 23 - Bonnie Klassy, Monticello, Wisconsin: It is a life constant.
A historical treasure.
July 23 - Liz Smith, Mellen, Wisconsin: Because it’s awesome. Because
it’s one of earth’s treasures. Because it is so clear and beautiful and
hasn’t been ruined yet. Because there is something spiritual and
eternal about it and it’s never far from consciousness.
July 23 - Cathryn Winberg, Grand Rapids, Michigan: I grew up in Duluth
and the U.P. of Michigan. We need that huge body of fresh water.
July 23 - Reader from Chisholm, Minnesota: Our lakes and lands are
important. We only have one planet. We need to use and enjoy it while
keeping it safe and healthy for seven more generations.
July 23 - Chris R. Powell, Altoona, Wisconsin: Its rarity as a natural
resource, particularly in the face of enormous pressures all around the
lake to develop and consume more of its resources. Its power and
presence as a force of Nature - still never to be tamed and deserving
of much respect. Its primacy as a spiritual center in so many people’s
lives.
July 23 - John and Peg Gancy, Mankato, Minnesota: Beauty. Climate.
Geography. People.
July 23 - Leonard Korpi, Ironwood, Michigan: Lived here all my life.
July 23 - Judith Phillips, Stanberry, Missouri: It is peaceful and
lovely. A great getaway.
July 23 - Ken Guenther, Oslo, Minnesota: The scenic beauty and rich
history.
July 23 - Elizabeth Clausen, Minneapolis, Minnesota: I think it’s a
wonderful lake and I hope all of us can take care of it.
July 22 - Jason Stresemann, Mankato, Minnesota: The
same reason I care about everything. It won’t be here forever - unless
we take care of it. My dad took me to Lake Superior over 20 years ago
for smelt fishing. We’ve gone every year since. The garbage that people
left always bothered me. The littering has gotten much better over the
years. I like to see people clean up their crap - so we can keep this
lake clean - with healthy wildlife and fish.
July 22 - Kenneth Jensen, Austin, Minnesota: A wonderful area to visit
and sight see. What a vacation destination.
July 22 - Carl D. Stenderson, Wayzata, Minnesota: It's one of the only
wild and majestic things left to cherish and enjoy anywhere and it must
be kept that way.
July 22 - Dorothy A. Sanders, Sioux Falls, South Dakota: It is the
awesomeness of beauty, immenseness in size of fresh water, wonderment
of ice breaking up in the spring in the crystal beauty and tinkling
sound, the colorful rocks from various slab shapes to the small smooth
pebbles, the natural conditions along the lake with fresh-smelling
breezes, the local flowers, plants, trees, fish and animals of the lake
area and the peacefulness and quiet time that can be had sitting in the
presence of Lake Superior - My Lake. Yes, I love Lake Superior!!
July 22 - Frank Chenard, Newberry, Michigan: Its beauty, the
awesomeness of it, the relative cleanliness of it, its unpredictability.
July 22 - Yvonne Way, Escanaba, Michigan: I grew up in the Pacific
Northwest and frequented the Coast. In 1955, marriage and family took
me away and in ’76, retirement brought me here, Upper Peninsula of
Michigan. Later years brought me to the shores of Lake Superior. Au
Train area, then Munising and onto the Pictured Rocks odyssey and then
to Grand Marais, Michigan. Love - Love, Love it! Can't get enough of
it. Lake Superior is my childhood Pacific Ocean. But I miss the salt
and fresh air that the Pacific brings.
July 22 - Kathleen Townsend, DeWitt, Michigan: It has been a mainstay
in our family’s heritage. From vacations to times of quiet reflection,
Lake Superior never lets us down. Its beauty, breathless majesty and
incredible smells never fail to energize and instill love for this
inland sea.
July 22 - Ernest E. Anger, Mancelona, Michigan: Keep it clean and as
natural as possible.
July 22 - Jill & Bill Hodges, Calumet, Michigan: We need to keep
the 7th generation in mind. This great lake needs to be cared for so
that our children’s chidden can learn valuable lessons from her (the
lake). She gives us daily lessons about how to make our way in the
world. The wildlife that live along her shores are also our teachers -
especially in this chaotic world.
July 22 - Helen Wills, Mohawk, Michigan: Lake Superior is a treasure
because it is the largest fresh water lake. We need to preserve its
“freshness” so future generations can enjoy its beauty as we do now. We
need to instill the need, for all who live by the lake, to appreciate
this beauty!
July 22 - Charles Dalquist, La Pointe, Wisconsin: It is variety, size,
challenging, one-of-a-kind, history, beauty including rugged beauty. It
is all in the name - Lake SUPERIOR! There are four great lakes and one
Superior!
July 21 - Sheila Davidson, Hermantown, Minnesota: I have lived all of
my
life on Lake Superior, being born/raised in Thunder Bay (Port Arthur)
and then moving to Duluth. I can’t imagine living anywhere else without
the lake nearby. Many great family memories, great storm watching and
the best scenery in the world! There isn't anything that compares to
the view I have going to work everyday at the Coppertop Church corner.
Wow!!
July 21 - Reader from Duluth, Minnesota: A native born - moved away for
18-plus years. Missed the lake. The changes in the lake as the seasons
change. Ask young people what they like, too, not just the old timers.
We are all proud to show off the area and we thank you for your hard
work!
July 21 - Ellen Kronschnabel, Duluth, Minnesota: Constantly changing
beauty. Energy of the waves cresting ashore in a storm. It is a source
of food and water for all surrounding the Lake.
July 20 - Reader from Virginia, Minnesota: It is unique and exquisite
in its beauty. I’ve been around it all, and the variety is amazing. I
find it relaxing on clam days, exciting when it storms. It is a
treasure we need to care for. It is surrounded by small towns and
friendly people. I was born in Duluth before I wandered off to work and
at times to travel - and when I return it welcomes me home.
July 20 - Steve Hill, Duluth, Minnesota: Good fish,
clear fresh water, boating and shipping. Parks and recreation.
July 20 - Reader from Duluth, Minnesota: It’s one of
a kind and still unaffected in many places by overbuilding and abuse.
Every day it is different and beautiful, every hour actually. As much a
part of my life as the lake is, I still take it for granted, though I
try not to. I can't think of living anywhere else but here on Lake
Superior.
July 20 - Reader from L’Anse, Michigan: I was born,
raised and have lived most of my life close to Lake Superior. The
climate change and shorelines are what I like best.
July 20 - Susan Olin, Baudette, Minnesota: It is a reliable place to go
for beauty, comfort and stability in a changing world, while also being
different every single time I go to the shore. So long as I can stick
my fingers in and wade on Park Point, other things will be ok!
July 20 - Mary D. Hudson, Washburn, Wisconsin: I have spent nearly my
entire life living on the shores of this grand lake and it is integral
to my being. I absolutely NEED my daily view of that water, so I know
what the day holds in store, weather wise. We need to continue to care
for this special gift from God.
July 20 - Dennis Thieling, Stacy, Minnesota: The need to protect the
entire lake basin, both environmentally and fiscally. The different
areas of geography around the lake. The history of the area. The people.
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