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New murals by Don Kakaygeesick
Warroad High School students, staff, and faculty returning to classes on the first of September this year noticed the beautiful new murals painted by Don Kakaygeesick on their hallway walls. The artist is the great-grandson of Kakaygeesick...
The last big peat fire
It was mid-morning on the second Sunday in October when neighbor Everett Helmstetter, his brother, George, and their friend Chester Peterson headed out to hunt bear. They stopped at the Hessler homestead, across the gravel road to the south...
The CCC Built Norris Camp
Since 1935, Norris Camp has headquartered wildlife conservation work on more than 300,000 acres inside the Beltrami Island State Forest in northern Minnesota.
Gretchen Mehmel1 spent more than thirty years as the manager of the Red Lake Wil...
Beltrami Island Resettlement Project 1934-1942
When Red Lake Reservation land between Upper Red Lake and Lake of the Woods opened up to homestead claims in 1902, settlers arrived in the Beltrami Island forest.
First they harvested the timber.
Roosevelt, timber mill, 1926. Image cred...
Penturen Church and the Beltrami Island Resettlement Project
Deep in the Beltrami Island State Forest there is a small, simple chapel. Built a century ago, it is open year round. To get there involves miles and miles of unpaved roads and there is no cell reception. It is 27 miles due south of Warroad...
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Author of THE LAND OF EVERLASTING SKY: A MEMOIR OF LOSS AND LEGACY ON LAKE OF THE WOODS (June 2026 from She Writes Press)
I'm a historian, writer, and researcher with a knack (and passion) for finding and telling interesting stories.
Australian family historian and passionate amateur genealogist, researching for over 40 years and sharing stories from my family’s past.
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