As Split Rock Lighthouse's first head keeper from 1910 to 1928, Orren "Pete" Young cautioned countless sailors from his cliff-top perch overlooking Lake Superior, 50 miles up the shore from Duluth.
Split Rock Lighthouse was spun from a dark day. “Split Rock was born out of a – really, actually a horrific storm in 1905,” Keeper Hayes Scriven said. “It was a really bad November gale, and it caught ...
Indian Rock has always had a big crack. But did Friday morning's 4.8-magnitude earthquake make it worse? People's opinions are, um, split. No, say Rockland County officials. Ramapo police agree.
When Lee Radzak started to write a book about the job he held for 36 years, his wife, Jane, wasn’t sure how important or necessary their family’s experiences were to the narrative. “To me, we just ...
LAKE COUNTY, Minn. — A full-sized replica of Split Rock Lighthouse's third-order Fresnel lens — like the one that occasionally casts its beam out over Lake Superior — is among the highlights of the ...
TWO HARBORS — If you're going to replicate a lens comprising 252 prisms, you want to avoid half-measures. "It was a big expense," said Hayes Scriven, standing next to a replica of the lens that ...
BEAVER BAY — Mountain bike riders either love or hate the new Split Rock Wilds trail system between Split Rock Lighthouse State Park and Beaver Bay. "As you might expect with a trail that's very ...
BEAVER BAY, Minn. — Mountain bike riders either love or hate the new Split Rock Wilds trail system between Split Rock Lighthouse State Park and Beaver Bay in Minnesota. "As you might expect with a ...