By Scott Stowell, Special to the Star Tribune ELY, MINN. – When he was 7, Scott Bush fell out the passenger door of a moving car and its rear tire ran over his hand. Surgeons attempted to reattach the hand, but to no avail. It was amputated 11 days later….
By Peter Annin, Codirector of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation and author of The Great Lakes Water Wars. 1. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner (1993) The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in…
Ida Meyer of cabbie’s Tap generous to the end By Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A former bar owner’s $200,000 gift to Northland College was secured one ten-cent beer at a time by students who met, mingled, and mated at the watering hole. “I might as well give it back…
By Paul Spitzer, PhD | Reprinted from the Atlantic Journal New regulations clamping down on the commercial menhaden harvest are working—last fall’s Chesapeake Bay loon count offers proof. Autumn brings all manner of migratory waterfowl to the Bay, loons among them, and they are partial to the Bay’s annual crop…
With one trio, two duets, two solos and pages of dialogue, the Captain in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore is considered one of the largest roles ever written for an actor. And one Saturday afternoon in 1954, twenty-something Henry Fitzgibbon ’51, found out with no time to prepare, that he…
BY Michael A. Miller, Northland College President My phone started buzzing moments after Sweet Briar College, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, announced closing its doors, closing with 700 students and an $85 million endowment. Northland College, where I am president, is a small liberal…
After a seven-year tenure at the North Lakeland Discovery Center in Manitowish Waters, Wis., the Timber Wolf Alliance is in the process of returning north to Northland College. “We birthed this program and handed it off during a period when we couldn’t sustain it, but now it makes sense to…
Northland College awarded Campus Minister David Saetre yesterday with the degree, Doctor of Human Letters, honoris causa, “for his abiding concern for others, the search for meaning in an unjust world, and his remarkable grace.” The following is taken from the citation presented to Saetre at awards ceremony. David Saetre,…
By Susan Bence, WUWM The story begins with a St. Paul, Minnesota-based family named the Griggs. In the 19th century, the family made a fortune in the lumber industry, allowing the Griggs to acquire a 872-acre estate in Northern Wisconsin, called Forest Lodge. The Griggs’s enjoyment of their oasis on…
We are living at an unprecedented crossroads in history, says Paul Fleischman, who is the author of Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines. “We’ve recently learned a lot about the effect we’re having on climate and the environment as a whole,” he says “Suddenly everything needs rethinking: cars,…
