It takes more than two men to move a clawfoot tub up a stairway. Unfortunately, the NickMoore Hotel bathroom remodeling crew didn’t know this rule. Last week our contractor sent two hammer-swingers, a shoulder strap and a World’s Strongest Man highlight tape to move a 400-pound cast iron tub to the second floor bathroom. It … More Climbing the stairs with a clawfoot tub
Cows like to ride the rails too. I snapped this picture at the Hammond Avenue railroad crossing in Superior, Wis. last Monday. My truck was the second vehicle in line heading north back to Duluth when a freight train passed through town. The automatic stop arms halted traffic. I saw this image coming down the … More A Canadian cow hops freight to Superior
Perhaps you didn’t know there was a third Wright brother who decided not to experiment with flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Instead of testing his inventions on the Atlantic Coast, he moved to the shores of Lake Superior and developed his own futuristic transportation ideas. Utilizing the strong lake winds, eight months of frozen … More Minnesota or Wisconsin or Kitty Hawk?
35 Years in the Big Sky Country
This blog documents the photo-gathering roadtrips for RoadsideArchitecture.com (aka roadarch.com). That gigantic website covers buildings, signs & statues from the 1920s-1970s. The posts here offer about a dozen photos from each day of shooting. In winter, there are "news" posts about demolitions, removals, remodeling, restorations, etc.
Featuring student work from the University of Minnesota Duluth Journalism program.
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Exploring the North Woods
Duluth, Minnesota based birder. Sax-Zim Bog naturalist.
What happens when a Twin Cities townie follows his wife into the woods?
He farms! He writes! He paints!
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
Dispatches from the shores of Lake Superior
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