Layne Kennedy donated a poster of photos from his book, "47º North" to Scott Pollock at the Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Festival last weekend. The poster is available at Sivertson Gallery. (If you click on a photo in the poster, it gets larger.)
The Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Pageant was a great success this year — lots of people, lots of fun, lots of laughter. Bob Pranis took a lot of photos of the pageant which you can look at on his Web site by clicking here. Below are a few from his series. There are lots more to look at on his site.
There's only one Lake Superior.
The story this year was entitled “Everything Under the Sun,” and was a clever take-off on the census and counting everything in our world.
Mike Schelmeske plays Uncle Sam and the Census at the Summer Solstice Pageant..
Border Patrol vignettes.
One Queen of the Siskowets, two Sun Kings (one a junior), one Lake Superior and one Buddy.
The Solstice pageant was put on by the Good Harbor Hill Players and a CD of the presentation will be available later this summer. The Players have a new Web site these days. Check it out here to find out more.
A sword-fighting scene from "Treasure Island."
This week, Treasure Island will be remounted by the Grand Marais Playhouse at the Arrowhead Center of the Arts for a two-week run this week. The first performance is Thursday, June 24. Show times are at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 27 and July 4.
This is a wonderful production with totally amazing sword-fighting scenes as well as excellent acting. If you haven’t seen it yet, put it on your list of “must” things to do.
Also on Thursday, an international wood engravers group, which is holding its annual meeting at the Grand Marais Art Colony this week, will give a free presentation on the history of wood engraving and the processes to produce them. The presentation is from 5-6 p.m. Thursday. The public is invited.
Also this weekend:
• Fabulous ’50s and ’60s Weekend at Grand Portage Lodge & Casin0, 5-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday night. Bands included the Hot Rod Sensationals, the Thunder Bay Legends and The Shirelles featuring Beverly Lee. There will also be an antique car display, and Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar–B–Que will be serving Friday and Saturday.
• Woodland Faculty Concert at Surfside on Lake Superior in Tofte, 7 p.m. Friday. The Woodland Chamber Music Workshop Gala Concert is set for Sunday evening at Surfside, too. Check out Woodland’s Web site here.
• Cook County Farm & Craft Market in the Senior Center Parking Lot from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Steve Dahl will read at the Full Moon Reading Saturday.
• Author Steve Dahl, who wrote Knife Island, discusses his book and life as a Lake Superior fisherman at the Full Moon Reading at Drury Lane Books on Saturday, June 26, at 5 p.m. Free.
There’s lots of live music this weekend, too.
Bicycle Army with guest Max Bichel plays the GunFlint Tavern on Friday and Saturday nights. Bichel also plays for diners at The Pie Place on Saturday from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Cook County’s Most Wanted (Rod N Real) play the deck at Birch Terrace on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is the annual Oyster Shuck at the Terrace. The band then plays at Devil Track Resort on Sunday from 5-8 p.m.
The Portage Band plays the GunFlint Tavern on Sunday starting at 8 
p.m., too, so there’s lots of opportunities to listen to a great variety of music this weekend.
In other art news, Last Chance Studio and Gallery has a new Web site. Check it out here. The gallery, which is in Lutsen, is planning a special event July 2-3 entitled “Fun in Functional Art.” Featured artists include Beth Blank, Tom Christiansen, Joan Farnam, Anna Hess, and Judy Johnson.
The Hovland Arts Festival is July 3-4.
And to give you another heads-up about next weekend, the Hovland Arts Festival will be July 3-4. This should be a fun event, with lots of live music planned. Check out their Web site here. They’ve got a great Facebook page. Check it out here.
If you’re going to Duluth in the next month or so, you
A Huichol yarn painting on exhibit at the Tweed.
might want to stop by the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. They just opened a rather fascinating exhibit of Huichol Yarn Paintings that can be seen here.
And Tim Young has an exhibit of his paintings at Chez Jude this summer. He sent along a photo from the dining room. He has a variety of paintings, including his popular abstracts as well as pine tree paintings.
And not to forget all the exhibits in the county.
Marie Sweeney's watercolor exhibit at the Johnson Heritage Post opens at 5 p.m. Friday.
Watercolorist Marie Sweeney opens at show at the Johnson Heritage Post this Friday from 5-7 p.m. and the Cross River Heritage Center has an exhibit of paintings of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
So take your pick this weekend. There are lots of great choices of things to do and see!
And, for those of you who are coming up to spend the weekend here, the Grand Marais Tourism Bureau has developed a map of a wonderful scenic route to take from the Twin Cities which avoids most of the construction. Here’s the link.
Let’s end with some music. A Van Morrison …
