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Sue Brown Chapin has been teaching watercolor classes in Carlton County for more than 10 years. This week she brought her lessons to the shores of Lac La Belle at the Historic Scott House for a series of one-day classes on the basics of watercolor process. Chapin grew up in an artistic household. Her mother, Betty Brown, was a beloved artist in Carlton County. In 2006 she started painting and fell in love with the watercolor medium. She is very active in the arts and is a member of the Arrowhead...
The Wrenshall graduating class of 2019 was honored last Friday with a ceremony at the school. (There they all are, below.) Twenty-five students received their diplomas. Representatives from the class spoke, as well as retiring teacher David Blinn. A recurring theme in the student presentations was how the Wrenshall school community felt like a family and how the nurturing relationships they have with peers, teachers, and administration can set them on a path for professional and personal...
Anyone who has driven through our neck of the woods lately will know that the Wrenshall General Store has been continually improving and expanding its business. “We have a lot going on here” said owner Jeff Bloom. He and his wife Elizabeth have been operating the general store since the fall of 2016. They have a storage facility, online auction site and live bait for sale. The latest addition also left them a bit of topsoil to sell. The couple has been building an above-ground facility to sel...
Wrenshall filmmaker - and a driving force behind the Free Range Film Festival - Mike Scholtz is making the rounds on the film festival circuit with his new documentary, "Riplist." On Wednesday, May 29, it will take the coveted 7 p.m. opening spot for the Duluth Superior Film Festival screening at the NorShor theater. The movie premiered at the Fargo Film Festival and recently played in Boston where the Boston Globe called it "morbidly whimsical." After screening at the Duluth festival it will...
There is a lovely smell in the air these days – manure. I used to turn up my nose at it when I first came to Wrenshall but I've come to enjoy the smell because it means the work of farming has moved from indoor planning to outdoor planting. The Laveaus got out and turned up some acreage, Northern Harvest got their first planting in on Saturday, the Food Farm put broccoli into the ground, and Spectrum Farm has strawberry plants safely tucked into the fields. We cut our second crop of salad mix f...
There is exciting news in both the fine and industrial arts this past week. Wrenshall High School senior Jared Kelley was awarded the opportunity to sign on with the Carpenter’s Training Institute in Hermantown. Ray Riihiluoma Construction will be sponsoring Jared for a four-year program with no tuition costs. The Carpenters Union Local 361 under the direction of Adam Johnson and Matt Camparaio offered the program to Wrenshall students, and Kelley is the first to sign on upon the r...
It's been a busy week for the Wrenshall school district. On Monday, Ellie Swanson's photojournalism class walked through Jay Cooke State Park with Glenn Swanson from the Oldenburg House as part of the countywide project, "Document Spring." This citizen science "bioblitz" brings together students, individuals, and organizations interested in capturing the emergence of spring by artistic and scientific observations. For more information on how you can get involved, see "Earth Day safari" starting...
President Harry S. Truman called Eleanor Roosevelt the First Lady of the World because of her commitment to global human rights. She was outspoken on civil rights and was a pioneer in media communications. Her life and legacy was the center of discussions at the Historic Scott House Tuesday evening with the Cloquet Library Reading Club. Instead of reading a single biography on the historical figure, the group decided to each select a book to present to the assembled participants. Scott House...
While most of us are excited just to see brown outside instead of white, there is a lot of green poking up in our farm’s potting shed this week. My husband and I own and operate the Food Farm and we have onions an inch high and the tomatoes are showing their cotyledons (a wonderful-sounding word that means the first two leaves of a plant). Our family took lawn chairs out to the greenhouse last week just to bask in the sun and pretend we were on one of the tropical vacations we keep seeing in peo...
