What It Really Means to Eat a Big Mac at the Arctic Circle
That world looked nothing like what I saw in Fort Yukon: log cabins with dog teams tied out front, trails through the scrubby black spruce, the big river flowing steadily by. But if I in just walking through the swinging doors, tilting my head up ...
Whimsical welder welcomes visitors to UP sculpture park
So the lifelong ironworker tried his hand at art, making whimsical metal sculptures out of scrap metal he'd find at his job sites. “It was nothing to drink until 2 o'clock in the morning, then go home and 6 o'clock in the morning you're gone to ...
CL Fiction Contest Top 10: "Sun God" by Brooks Peters
He was built like a wrestler, wiry and taut, with abs of steel. Sometimes He approached the library wall and hopped onto a blue water pipe, then scrambled onto the limestone ledge that lined the facade. . I know this guy there with a cabin in ...
headline/deck for TR1Ferry22
I claimed my land in true Alaska state ferry fashion, slapping a piece of duct tape on the steel deck. The ferry system is the First Frontier On the cabin deck, I slipped into the dark movie theater (several screenings a day) and the pocket gift ...
Disaster At Thrift Store Develops Into A Blessing
#Taking out drywall to enlarge a hall, the contractors discovered a rock wall — the back of the 70-year-old school. #The men of Pine and Strawberry used the hand-quarried materials to construct #“The Randalls had a Koehler plant in their garage ...
Tyneside cyclists are Coppi cats
On the wall there's a blown-up image of Coppi and Bartali sharing a bottle of wine during a race – they even argued over who'd offered it to whom – on another wall a sort of topographical cross-section of some fearsome Italian pass. North Tyneside ...
Metal artist welcomes visitors to Mich. park
“It was nothing to drink until 2 o'clock in the morning, then go home and 6 o'clock in the morning you're gone to work again.” About 20 years ago, his wife told him to knock it He added a band shell for concerts on one end of the park and a tiny ...