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Madeline Jarvis Is Creating the Friendliest Library in the World.

…do for a living, and why? I work at the Marion Public Library, specifically managing the Adult and Outreach services. Meaning I order, coordinate, supervise staff, and manage the creation of new recreational services for our patrons. I’ve always wanted to work in a library. I majored in sustainable community…

SONWA Winners 2017

Honeybees and a trailblazing scientist top the 2017 SONWA book awards

…honeybees and humanity’s complex relationship with them, Heather Swan unites tales of scientists, brewers, gardeners, manufacturers, and of course beekeepers with the astounding works of intrepid honeybee-inspired artists. Her book is at once a celebration and a caution: what we have come to rely on so heavily, we stand poised…

Immerse Yourselves

…along. You will need to wade in to your assignments, read the words on the page, work the equations, fill the beakers, speak up and give voice to your ideas. Sometimes you’ll struggle, you’ll slip and have to pour water out of your shoes, but you’ll also come to know…

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Gifts You Bring the World

…like this is reversed. It is the honored one, who gives the gifts, to celebrate his or her good fortune and to symbolically thank the community for the gifts of education, or achievement or honor that one has received. In this spirit I have here gifts of gratitude for the…

Sigurd Olson Articles

Some of these articles were published in 1951 in North Country Magazine. Sigurd also wrote a couple of hundred short sketches for newspapers; he wrote a few between 1937 and 1939, but most were from 1940 to 1943, and were syndicated to a number of newspapers, mostly in the Midwest….

Wheeler Hall 2016

Message to the Community: budget updates

…generosity of a few individuals who have provided vital gifts to the College. I support these immediate moves to substantially reduce our vulnerability to the unexpected and to help secure what I believe is a bright future for our College. These actions will close the projected budget shortfall for the…

Northland College students in garden

The Campus Garden Crew

The Mino Aki garden crew of two—Danny Simpson and Sam Phelps—have been working to expand and improve the campus gardens this summer. Their experience in agriculture combined with leadership from the Food Systems Center director Todd Rothe and gifts from donors, have the gardens looking and producing at their best….