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KONNIE LeMAY / LAKE SUPERIOR MAGAZINE
Healing All Wounds Modern Techniques & New Spaces Provide Relief
Turns out your mother was wrong – picking the scab from a wound can encourage healing. But you should let the professionals do it. more
Reviews: Local Authors
Local Authors, Linda LeGarde Grover, William Durbin & Barbara Durbin, Cyndi Perkins. more
TODD MARSEE
Recipe Box: Surf Over Turf, Tapping the Lake Superior Terroir
The French use a term, “terroir,” to define how a region’s terrain, soil and sunlight influence the favor of a wine or cheese. more
Jack Rendulich
Rebirth of History
On February 1, 2018, Duluth’s NorShor Theatre began a new life of indie arts and Broadway shows when the Duluth Playhouse opened its production of “Mamma Mia!” on a stage that has been silent for decades. more
Lake Superior Lies Behind Those Better Homes
It seems a little cheeky for a photographer to rearrange the home of the editor in chief of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. After all, some 35 million people take their cues to better living each month from the world’s largest-circulation family m more
JACK RENDULICH
Out of the Ashes, After a Fire, Teamwork Recreates a Dream Home
“I want this house back.” It was as simple as that for Mike Luhrsen as he stared into the ashes of his beloved Lake Superior-view dream home. He instantly knew he wanted to recreate it and his wife, Chrysa, signed on immediately. more
Bob Berg / Lake Superior Magazine
Building Community, A Blend of Wooded Seclusion & Friendly Neighbors
On a lovely Sunday afternoon in August, we strolled along the wooded driving lanes and hiking trails within the Brickyard Creek Community between Red Cliff and Bayfield in Wisconsin, joined by a somewhat impromptu neighborhood gathering. more
PICTURE THIS OF BRIMLEY, MICHIGAN
Community of Caring, Local Volunteers & Donors Give Life to a U.P. Hospice
In September 2016, Marion Eavou came to live – and to die – in the Robert and Helen Ball Hospice House in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Every minute of her eight months there, someone in her large family stayed with her. more
COURTESY SUNRISE BAKERY
Delivering a Taste of Home, Local Comfort Foods Can Make the Greatest Gifts
The package arrives days before Christmas (or the start of Hanukkah, your birthday or wedding). It’s labeled perishable, so no use waiting … you open it right away. more
Skyward, A Focus Above the Waters
It’s called “astrophotography,” the photographic capturing of the night sky, and the Lake Superior region often offers up the most rarified views imaginable. more
METTE NIELSEN
Recipe Box: Bring It Home, A New Crop of Cookbooks to Harvest for the Holidays
Thanks to the internet, you can find recipes aplenty online, but I want to sing praises here to the joy of a good cookbook, one that offers much more than a sets of ingredients and the instructions for assembling a meal. more
COURTESY COLLEGE OF ST. SCHOLASTICA
Heads Up (or Down) Local Doctors, Coaches & Others Focus on Concussions
With the start of the football and hockey seasons – pro and amateur – concussions are much on the minds of many doctors, coaches, athletic trainers, players, teachers and health professionals nationally and regionally. more
Super Snack Challenge
Three Duluth students made the final 52 cut in the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee’s “Super Snack Challenge” for children to suggest healthy game day snacks. more
Used by special permission, ® DAWN LaPOINTE
Radiant, Together in the Outdoor Spirit
For photographers Gary Fiedler and Dawn LaPointe, life by Lake Superior, well, it’s like a box of chocolates. more
Mette Nielsen
Recipe Box: Trail Mix, You Don’t Need a Hike to Savor Healthy Snacks
Trail mixes date back to the pre-colonial era when indigenous people created portable, nutritious, lightweight foods that didn’t need to be cooked, could handle any weather and stored well for a long time. more
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