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“Hush Hush, Forest” is a picture book by Mary Casanova with woodcuts by Nick Wroblewski. The book is published by the University of Minnesota …
National Library Week is April 8-12. Get out and enjoy your local and area libraries as we welcome spring to the Iron Range! One of the week’s…
Touring area libraries this month is Mary Casanova with her free, 55-minute program “One-Dog Canoe and More!”
“Laurentian Divide” is a novel by Sarah Stonich. The book is published by the University of Minnesota Press, has a retail price of $22.95 for …
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“Hybrid Child” is a novel by Mariko Ohara and translated from Japanese to English by Jodie Beck. The book is published by the University of Mi…
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Slow news days are always a challenge. Finding images of interest can involve hours of driving around, keeping your fingers crossed that someo…
I’m on a few photographer message boards but I almost never take part in the discussions. They are usually post after post of landscapes, flow…
Over the years I’ve had more than a few people ask me about my job. We will talk for awhile and more often than not they will end the conversa…
When you shoot high school sports for a living you see a lot of athletes come and go. Every year a few talented players seem to get into the p…
I was out shooting a golf tournament a few days ago and even though golf really isn’t my sport of choice I have to admit it was a really nice …
Cooking on the Oxcart Trails- Marie shares from the journal she wrote along the trail, which ran from Fort Riley, Kansas, up to Fort Abercromb…
One of the really wonderful things about being a photojournalist in a small market area is that the job gives you an excuse to simply walk up …
The book “Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe year” was written by Linda LeGarde Grover and published by the University of Minnesota Press in O…
I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to comments on the Mesabi Daily News Facebook page but last week one readers comment caught my attentio…
I’m not a huge fan of winter. I don’t really like the cold, shoveling snow I can do without and I absolutely hate driving on icy roads. That’s…
“Vera” is a memoir written by the title subject’s son, Michael Socha, Jr., from Vera Socha’s perspective. Vera was the firstborn child to Vasi…
Over the past couple weeks I had the honor/burden of judging photo categories for the Colorado Press Association. I say honor because it is ve…
I’m not really a big fan of politics, I cover politicians all the time so I know them and understand how the system works but I’m not one of t…
A couple weeks ago I ran into three photographer friends at a hockey game and we were talking about some of the bigger events that took place …
As the holiday season winds down it is a great time to wind up in you favorite reading spot with a good book. Hot Reads for Cold Nights is the…
“Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement” is a biography of environmentalist George Fell written by Arthur Melvill…
Tuesday was a tough day to be a photojournalist. It always is when your assignment sheet includes covering a tragedy and it’s compounded when …
Over the course of a year I get to cover a lot of exciting things but on slow days I really enjoy the opportunity to find just little slices o…
“Seven Ways to Trick a Troll” offers both stories and practical advice for dealing with trolls. The book tells seven stories of trolls and off…
My nice easy day Tuesday shooting plenty of snow related activities didn’t happen. Not that I’m really complaining I’d rather wake up to not n…
Some people love Independence Day fireworks. A warm summer evening in July, gentle breeze ruffling the leaves, laying back on a blanket lookin…