How We Did It
Our Method: We researched our stories by conducting outdoor primary source interviews with community members Gordon and Joyce Lindquist, and by visiting the Cook County History Museum. Thank you!
Special thanks to our primary sources who graciously consented to multiple oral history interviews so we could learn from people who really lived the early days of Grand Marais.
Outdoor Book Camp maintained conoravirus safety standards by staying outside most of the time; wearing masks at all times; spacing out at all times; keeping sanitizing stations well stocked, as seen in the red cart on the porch, and reminding people to use them. To help us estimate a safe distance, we made 6-foot long “space noodles” from plumbing foam wrap we got at Buck’s Hardware Store, and decorated. Good for limbo and jump rope, too!
In Outdoor Book Camp, we got back to Cook County’s Norwegian roots and the Norwegian concept of friluftsliv. Pronounced FREE-loof-sliv, the word translates to “free air life”, and as lived in Norway, friluftsliv prizes a culture of getting outdoors however and whenever possible. We did just that.
As entrepreneurial writers, Story Scouts raise money to fund civic betterment projects and to print their books. Lemonade stands are one way to do it!
Special thanks to our primary sources who graciously consented to multiple oral history interviews so we could learn from people who really lived the early days of Grand Marais.
Outdoor Book Camp maintained conoravirus safety standards by staying outside most of the time; wearing masks at all times; spacing out at all times; keeping sanitizing stations well stocked, as seen in the red cart on the porch, and reminding people to use them. To help us estimate a safe distance, we made 6-foot long “space noodles” from plumbing foam wrap we got at Buck’s Hardware Store, and decorated. Good for limbo and jump rope, too!
In Outdoor Book Camp, we got back to Cook County’s Norwegian roots and the Norwegian concept of friluftsliv. Pronounced FREE-loof-sliv, the word translates to “free air life”, and as lived in Norway, friluftsliv prizes a culture of getting outdoors however and whenever possible. We did just that.
As entrepreneurial writers, Story Scouts raise money to fund civic betterment projects and to print their books. Lemonade stands are one way to do it!
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