Surfing Superior

A short snippet produced by the Superior Surf Club from an up-coming “no-budget” surf movie.

Lake Superior Surfers Haven’t Caught a Break

By BEN JORGENSON Correspondent

The average person watching the weather on the evening news pays attention to see if they’ll be waking up a half hour early to warm up their car and shovel the driveway.

Some watch the blue and green radar blob surging through the Midwest for a different reason. They watch the weather in anticipation of their prize wave; the best our humble lake front shores can offer the surfers of the Midwest.

Maintaining Chester Creek Trails As a Labor of Love

The 2.0 mile Chester Creek Trail is challenging and can take up to two hours to hike.

By RYAN HANSON Correspondent

Walking the steep trails along the banks of Chester Creek, Dan Proctor navigates the path like he’s been here before.

“I’ve been doing work here since 1985,” says Proctor, of the city owned park. “If you wait for permission, you’re never going to get it.”His house backs up directly to Chester Creek, and a steep path winds its way from his back yard down to the creek. He’s essentially the sole caretaker of the 2.5 mile trail.

Memory of Park Point Legend Outlasts Sands of Time

 

Photo by Mira Southworth

By ABEL GUSTAFSON Correspondent

 

Planting her feet deep in the Park Point sand, Mira Southworth knew she would settle down in a house near the end of the Point. It was the year 1934.

She named her post “Outermost House,” since it was the closest house on the Point to the shore of Lake Superior. From there, she devoted her life to teaching and photography, touching thousands of lives along the way.

Southworth spent much of her childhood in Minneapolis, after moving from Massachusetts when she was about 9 years old.

After receiving her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1909, Southworth took a job teaching English at Duluth Central High School.

After 17 years, she took a hiatus, returning to the East Coast to earn her Master’s of Education degree at Harvard University. It was not long before Southworth was back at the front of a Central classroom.