Vivid water, sleepy Duluth

Duluth Does Dormancy

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February 11th 2010
Here in Maine, winter is slowly slipping away. While the rest of New England is getting peppered with the most snow EVER RECORDED, I spend my 35-degree days (or warmer!) eyeing the ugly mud/grass underfoot. And so I think back to my time in snowy Minnesota over a month ago. Snowshoeing in the not-very-big woods of Nerstrand State Park, snowshoeing in Jay Cooke State Park near Carlton, snowshoeing ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more