Duluth Mayor Don Ness this week proposed a radical change to the Canal Park waterfront. In the Duluth News Tribune, Peter Passi writes:
The core of Ness’ proposal involves filling in Minnesota Slip, home to one of Duluth’s most iconic attractions, the William A. Irvin.
Tall Ships Challenge
Pride of Baltimore II won last week’s Tall Ships Challenge race across Lake Superior, the fourth in the series of races across the Great Lakes. It was the Pride’s third victory of the summer. The U.S. Brig Niagara took second and the Sørlandet third.
Gathering for the Table
Mary Dougherty, the Cookery Maven:
The world looks different when we realize we are surrounded by purpose and energy cloaked in green leaves, flowers, berries, bark and roots. With our Gathering for the Table class, Ellen and I hoped to bring a mindfulness back to the seemingly ordinary act of preparing a meal. There is life, humming and vibrating, in everything we eat and the simple of acts of recognition and gratitude change the way we look at what surrounds us— celebrating the sacred in the garden, the forest and the farm.
+ Lake Superior Magazine Editor Konnie LeMay was on Wisconsin Public Radio this morning, chatting with John Munson for an hour about our Best of the Lake Awards and things to do in northwestern Wisconsin.
+ The New York Times features Rabbit Island, a remote artists’ colony off Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.
+ During the winter in northern Wisconsin, an ice road across the Lake links Madeline Island to the Bayfield Peninsula. But the ice season has shrunk by an average of 45 days over the last 150 years, reports the Journal Sentinel.
+ With the economy recovering, enrollment is down at area colleges, reports the Duluth News Tribune.
+ Canada Steamship Lines’ newest vessel on the Great Lakes is the Thunder Bay. CSL says the ship will visit its namesake city for the first time in the fall, according to the CBC.
+ After an online poll, the Great Lakes Aquarium’s new Caribbean Reef octopus has a name: Cousteau.
Upcoming Events
Friday, August 9 – Sunday, August 11: 25th annual Bayfront Blues Festival in Duluth, Minnesota.
Friday, August 9 – Sunday, August 11: Live from the Rock Folk Festival in Red Rock, Ontario.
Saturday, August 10 – Sunday, August 11: War of 1812 Bicentennial Salute at Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario.