Jan/Feb 2007

Features

RETROSPECTIVE

34A Look Back
Ten Years of LCJM

GALLERY

38Still a Shining Light
By Sheila Helmberger
Lake Country artist creates the fragile and the intricate.

RETROSPECTIVE

42Got Change?
By Fran Farris, Laura Hansen, Tim King, and Britta Reque-Dragicevic
Four Lake Country writers go to town.

OUR TOWNS

46Brainerd/Baxter
By Jim Mans
Getting to know Lake Country's "twin cities."

FICTION

48Fishermen Never Have Much to Say
By Bill Meissner
What are they thinking, sitting out there on the ice?

NATURE

50Sleeping Away Minnesota Winters
By Mike Link
Where do the animals go when it snows?

522006 Photo Contest Winners

Departments

20Your Thoughts
Lake Country Journal memories
22Lake Country
Good Neighbor Award
24Seasonings
Red Flannel Hash
26Through the Garden Gate
Pressed Flowers, Preserving Time
28Out-of-Doors
The Cardinal
30Memory Lane
My Time in Lake Country
62History
A Homecoming for Scorpion Snowmobiles
64Business
The Free Voice
66Profile
Too Busy to Quit
68Essay
Ice-House Maintenance
70Profile
Voice of the Extravaganza
72Go Fish
Pro Talk‹The Fishing Industry
is A-Changing
74Discoveries
The Making of a Loghead
76Essay
Silence
78Northern Niche
Something Old, Something New
80Safety
Diary of an Ice Storm Power Outage
82Recreation
Snow Golfing for a Good Cause
84By the Numbers
Guard Against Identity Theft
86Nature
Skis and Snow

poem

92To the Frozen River

reviews

88Restaurant
The New Iven's
90Book
Everyone's Hometown
92Book
Loving Winter Lore
106Book
Resurrecting a Familiar Path