Lake Superior Podcast
We are made stronger by story and there’s no better source than the continent's largest body of freshwater, Lake Superior. Join hosts Walt Lindala and Frida Waara as they highlight the five National Parks that ring this Greatest of the Great Lakes - meeting the people, touring the places and learning about the projects that make these parks and body of water so remarkable.
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Theme song: King Whirl by David Huckfelt (www.davidhuckfelt.com).
Photo Credit: David Guttenfelder.
Podcast sponsored by Café Imports, a Minneapolis-based importers of fine, specialty green coffees.
Lake Superior Podcast
S7 E8: Big Lake, Small World: Three Decades Of Lake Superior Stories — With Konnie LeMay
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There’s nothing like sitting around a camp fire telling Lake Superior stories. Imagine the tales you could collect spending almost three decades gathering the news, features and photographs for the region’s most popular magazine. In this episode of the Lake Superior Podcast, Walt Lindala and Frida Waara talk with Konnie LeMay, long time editor of Lake Superior Magazine, published in her home town of Duluth, MInnesota, to find out more about her career-long favorites.
5 Episode Quotes
“Lake Superior has always been part of my horizon.”
“It has given me one of my frequently noted phrases, which is big lake, small world.”
“There isn't one place that I've been around the lake that I wouldn't want to visit again.”
“Our bodies are more than 50% water, and my body happens to be probably about all Lake Superior water, so I carry Lake Superior with me wherever I go.”
“It is a resource not just of the moment, but a resource of the future.”
Helpful links:
- Learn more about Lake Superior Magazine:
https://lakesuperior.com/ - Learn more about Lake Superior Writers:
https://lakesuperiorwriters.org/
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- Cafe Imports – Minneapolis-based importers of specialty green coffees since 1993, focused on sustainability. Learn more: cafeimports.com
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