FOOD & DRINK
Fishing for more than fish
No way could this day in May be only about fishing. The afternoon is too embracing, spring’s arrival too encompassing. It comes from all directions, this season of greening and reawakening. It surrounds and saturates as I walk along a wooded trail, to where the peninsula juts into a bay, to where the southeast breeze cowers behind me. I’ve come for crappies. I will leave with images and sounds of turtles and herons, songbirds and wildflowers, shores of pine and peace of mind. And one...
Author to speak on Lumber Barons of the Chippewa and Red Cedar Valleys
Ron Arthur, author of the book "White Pine & Red Cedar," will appear at the Rice Lake Public Library on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to give a talk titled Lumber Barons of the Chippewa and Red Cedar Valleys. He will also do a book signing after the presentation. The book details the backstory of Stout’s Island Lodge on Red Cedar Lake, including the story of Knapp, Stout & Co., which, during the 1800s, owned almost all the land surrounding the lake. ...
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