…Gulf of Mexico in “hops” of 600 to 700 miles, at 60 to 70 miles an hour. They tend to time their travel to catch strong tailwinds out of the north. That is, the “gales of November” that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald help speed the loons on their way. Nesting…
In her undergrad days, Stephanie (Krohn) Schneider ‘03 studied natural resources but had little time for “frivolous electives” like Storytelling. Today, she realizes that organic chemistry is doing little to help sell the organically raised and pastured beef, pork, and lamb she and her husband, Andy Schneider, produce on their…
One Hundred Years of Learning By Bill Route, National Park Service In 2016 we celebrate one hundred years of the National Park Service (NPS), an agency born in 1916 and charged with managing select areas to preserve and commemorate nationally significant natural and cultural resources. National parks play an increasingly…
…Lakes were normal. The Moses-Saunders dam was allowing 7,300 cubic metres per second through – just slightly more than the usual flow in recent years. Over the next 60 days, rain all around Lake Ontario would wash out records. Water rose rapidly on the Great Lakes and also the Ottawa…
Alums Remember Cabbie’s Tap owners Jean Anne (O’Brien) Case 1958 I grew up in Ashland but attended Northland and did stay in the dorm one year. I mostly remember spending a lot of time in Cabbie’s because the age to get into a beer bar was eighteen and they…
By Danielle Kaeding, WPR News Colleges and community groups in Northwestern Wisconsin are exploring new ways to create a more-sustainable economy and build the region’s wealth. About 14 percent of residents in Ashland and Bayfield counties are living in poverty, according to most recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau….
By Thomas Glen ’67 Thomas Dean ’66 is one of six Northlanders who were killed in Vietnam and who have been memorialized on a plaque in the lobby of Wheeler Hall. Tom Dean first seized my attention when I watched him race about the athletic field—he having joined our intramural…
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…
2018-2019 Northland Catalog
2019-2020 Northland Catalog
