
Spiritual Experiences with Doug Wallace
Doug Wallace is eighty-four years old going on fifty-five. He’s up by 5:30 am and if his wife, Peggy Hunter, isn’t up by six, he’s going to wake her because it’s time to get in the canoe. They canoe every day (weather permitting) from ice out in May to closing up the cabin in late September on Lake Vermilion. You’re Gonna Canoe How Many Miles of Shoreline? Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota is big. In fact, it’s the 5th biggest lake in the state known as the land of 10,00

Loon Runways and the Need to Be Outside with Mark Hennessy
Loons Need Long Runways Not many people in this world know that a loon is one of the few birds with solid bones, which makes them heavier than most birds of similar size. Still fewer would know what to do when a loon can’t take off from a lake that’s just beginning to freeze over entirely. Enter Mark Hennessy, loon-runway-builder. Adult loon and baby loon. Photo by Mark Hennessy Or perhaps ice-breaker for loons should be his title. Clearly, this particular loon had decided