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Book South of Superior

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Airgood
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-06-09
  • ISBN : 1101535237
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book South of Superior written by Ellen Airgood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. When Madeline Stone walks away from Chicago and moves five hundred miles north to the coast of Lake Superior, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, she isn't prepared for how much her life will change. Charged with caring for an aging family friend, Madeline finds herself in the middle of beautiful nowhere with Gladys and Arbutus, two octogenarian sisters-one sharp and stubborn, the other sweeter than sunshine. As Madeline begins to experience the ways of the small, tight-knit town, she is drawn into the lives and dramas of its residents. It's a place where times are tough and debts run deep, but friendship, community, and compassion run deeper. As the story hurtles along-featuring a lost child, a dashed love, a car accident, a wedding, a fire, and a romantic reunion-Gladys, Arbutus, and the rest of the town teach Madeline more about life, love, and goodwill than she's learned in a lifetime. A heartwarming novel, South of Superior explores the deep reward in caring for others, and shows how one who is poor in pocket can be rich in so many other ways, and how little it often takes to make someone happy.

Book The Grand Portage Story

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  • Author : Carolyn Gilman
  • Publisher : St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780873512701
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Grand Portage Story written by Carolyn Gilman and published by St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of 300 years of trade and tradition on Lake Superior's North Shore, with special interest in Grand Portage where the Grand Portage National Monument was established.

Book Sled Dogs to Saint Paul

Download or read book Sled Dogs to Saint Paul written by Frank Moe and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 March 2012 Frank Moe completed a week-long 362-mile trek on a dogsled pulled by a team of ten dogs from Grand Marais, Minnesota, to the State Capitol in Saint Paul. He delivered to Governor Dayton over 12,000 petitions from Minnesotans opposed to sulfide mining in the Lake Superior watershed and very close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. His successful trip-through challenging weather, trail and road conditions-brought to the attention of many Minnesotans the real risks that both Lake Superior and the Boundary Waters face from the proposed copper/nickel sulfide mines. Getting his sled dog team to the Capitol was so much more than that epic eight-day trip. It was in fact the culminating adventure of a much longer journey for Frank and his incredible dog team. The book 'Sled Dogs to Saint Paul' is the story of Frank's discovery of dog sledding, and how the dogs came to be the focus of his life. Beginning with his first dogsled adventures on the lakes and trails near Bemidji, Minnesota, it continues to tell of Frank's rise in world of sled-dog racing and what led to the mission that now drives his kennel. The story is sometimes funny, and at other times quite serious yet always epic in some way. Excerpts from this manuscript were first published in Flyway, Journal of Writing and Environment, in the Winter of 2011/2012.

Book Walking the Old Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Staci Lola Drouillard
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2019-12-10
  • ISBN : 1452960240
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Walking the Old Road written by Staci Lola Drouillard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore “We do this because telling where you are from is just as important as your name. It helps tie us together and gives us a strong and solid place to speak from. It is my hope that the stories of Chippewa City will be heard, shared, and remembered, and that the story of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Chippewa will continue to grow. By being a part of the living narrative, Bimaadizi Aadizookaan, together we can create a new story about what was, what is, and, ultimately, what will be.” —from the Prologue At the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61, private lakeshore property, and the one remaining village building: St. Francis Xavier Church. In Walking the Old Road, Staci Lola Drouillard guides readers through the story of that lost community, reclaiming for history the Ojibwe voices that have for so long, and so unceremoniously, been silenced. Blending memoir, oral history, and narrative, Walking the Old Road reaches back to a time when Chippewa City, then called Nishkwakwansing (at the edge of the forest), was home to generations of Ojibwe ancestors. Drouillard, whose own family once lived in Chippewa City, draws on memories, family history, historical analysis, and testimony passed from one generation to the next to conduct us through the ages of early European contact, government land allotment, family relocation, and assimilation. Documenting a story too often told by non-Natives, whether historians or travelers, archaeologists or settlers, Walking the Old Road gives an authentic voice to the Native American history of the North Shore. This history, infused with a powerful sense of place, connects the Ojibwe of today with the traditions of their ancestors and their descendants, recreating the narrative of Chippewa City as it was—and is and forever will be—lived.

Book Minnesota Place Names

Download or read book Minnesota Place Names written by Warren Upham and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories behind more than 20,000 names of towns and cities, townships and counties, lakes and rivers, of the North Star state of Minnesota.

Book Twelve Owls

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  • Author : Laura Erickson
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452933235
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Twelve Owls written by Laura Erickson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous guide to the owls native to Minnesota, with descriptions and portraits by two of the state’s most beloved authors

Book Virgil Wander

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  • Author : Leif Enger
  • Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Release : 2018-10-02
  • ISBN : 0802146686
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Virgil Wander written by Leif Enger and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man seeks to rediscover his broken Midwestern community in a novel that “brims with grace and quirky charm” by the author of Peace Like a River (Bookpage). Movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Though Virgil survives, his language and memory are altered. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together the past. He is helped by a cast of curious locals—from a stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son, to the vanished man’s enchanting wife, to a local journalist who is Virgil’s oldest friend. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a journey into the heart of America’s Upper Midwest.

Book Annual Report   Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota

Download or read book Annual Report Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota written by Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : Michigan. Dept. of Labor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Report written by Michigan. Dept. of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics

Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics written by Michigan. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1897-1908 include the Report of inspection of factories, 5th-16th.

Book Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for

Download or read book Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 3358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : Michigan Department of Labor (1883-1921).
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Report written by Michigan Department of Labor (1883-1921). and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1898-1908 include the Report of state inspection of factories, 6th-16th.

Book Annual Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michigan. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by Michigan. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Around the Shores of Lake Superior

Download or read book Around the Shores of Lake Superior written by Margaret Beattie Bogue and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rugged shoreline and deep, cold waters, Lake Superior offers exciting opportunities for travel, exploration, and enjoyment. From the Grand Sable Dunes and Apostle Islands of the south shore to mountain-studded St. Ignace Island and majestic Thunder Cape on the north, the lake is deeply ingrained in North America’s cultural and environmental heritage. Around the Shores of Lake Superioris an ideal trip planner and a unique guide to the region. As author Margaret Beattie Bogue follows the Lake Superior shoreline clockwise through Minnesota, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin, she evokes the richness of local history and highlights hundreds of landmarks and points of interest that surround the lake. Grand Portage, Fort William Historical Park, the Agawa Canyon Pictographs, Isle Royale, the Pictured Rocks, and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshores are just a few of the many sites featured, each with a short descriptive history, directions, and contact information. In keeping with the guide’s easy-to-follow organization, all sites are keyed to a foldout map pocketed in the book’s back cover. This book also includes illuminating essays that give context to the natural and human history of the region—the Ojibwe presence, French exploration, industry on and around the lake, and the impact of this history on the natural environment. With more than 200 color and black-and-white images, this updated and greatly expanded Second Edition will enrich the appreciation of the region for both visitors and residents of the upper Great Lakes. Winner, Best Midwest Regional Interest Book, Midwest Book Awards Winner, Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association for State and Local History Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Regional Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association

Book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota to the Governor for the Fiscal Year Ending

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota to the Governor for the Fiscal Year Ending written by University of Minnesota. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: