March 2023

Introduction by Morris Manning, editor Friends of the Tettegouche State Park newsletter: As much as many of us enjoy, or even revel in, in winter, the urge to once again experience the warm breezes of spring, the smell of fresh rain, aroma of flowers and greening of the landscape grows increasingly insistent. Before we leave winter behind mentally, let’s take a look at one of nature’s marvelous adaptations to winter, the Snow Bunting, as well as its vulnerability to a warming climate.

Expanding the tiny but mighty community radio station in Two Harbors into a more robust version of itself is well under way. With approval by the FCC to pursue building out from a low-power to a full-power noncommercial station the three-year plan has moved through a new phase with the work of a consultant hired to map out the steps toward that goal.

With the return of the Lake Superior Community Theater after a long COVID hiatus, the opportunity has arisen to immerse oneself into the 1940s in the Netherlands with “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Performances continue through April 2 at the William Kelley Auditorium in Silver Bay. Ticket prices are a pittance when lined up with the stunningly rich performance that will assure everyone that Director Paul Deaner has not lost his touch in the years since “Fences,” “Greece,” and “Fiddler on the Roof,” to name a few past productions.