CONTENTS
FEATURES
HISTORY
The Assassination of Hole-In-The-Day The Younger
By Jeremy Jackson
Bagone-Giizhig, also known as Hole-In-The-Day the Younger, chief of the Mississippi Ojibwe in Minnesota, was assassinated 150 years ago in southern Cass County.
EDUCATION
32 Central Lakes College turns 80
By Julie Jo Larson
What started in 1940 with sixteen students on the third floor of the former Washington High School building in Brainerd has evolved into Central Lakes College
OUTDOORS
36 Cryptic Critters
By Bill Marchel
A photo essay by outdoor photographer Bill Marchel shares the ingenious evolution for concealment by critters in Lake Country.
HOME
40 Coming Home
By Jodie Tweed
An Aitkin couple builds their dream home along the shores of Leech Lake.
DEPARTMENTS
IN EVERY ISSUE
4 Editor’s Journal
6 Contributors
8 Lake Country Online
ECHOES OFF THE LAKE
10 Front Porch | Up and Down the River Poem, Fruit Pastries Recipe, Late Summer Reads
16 Environment | Green Fair Folk Festival
22 Lake Country Lore | Pine River’s 1830s Rendezvous
24 Hobby | Anna’s Alterations
44 Arts | Northwoods Arts & Book Festival
46 Poetry | Verse Like Water
48 Business | Arrow Mapping
50 Community | Second Harvest North Central Food Bank
52 Essay | My Old Reloader
56 Cooking | Venison Backstrap
58 Lake of the Month | Perch Lake
60 Food | Peppy Pete’s Gourmet Salsa
64 Health | Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease
67 Calendar of Events
70 Advertising Directory/Find It
72 Before You Go
