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Winter Times Supplement 2024-2025

Times SupplementBy RavenWordsPress November 25, 2024

All About Tracking Wildlife Online Resources: Trackercertification.com Website for CyberTracker North America. Find out about track and sign certification events happening around the country. Locate certified trackers in your area. Attend Tracker Tuesdays – free monthly online presentations. Join Certified Wildlife Trackers Association and more. The Minnesota Tracking Club Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/minnesotatrackingclub Readers submit photos…

Snacks From the Archives

Food & DrinkBy RavenWordsPress April 8, 2023

The Ely Summer Times began with a 28-page booklet in 1996. To quote the first issue, “There’s no place like Ely, MN for creating summertime memories. Whether you’re here for the fishing and paddling, swimming and picnics, blueberries and northern lights, or shopping, dining, and special events, these are the days you’ll remember next winter,…

Books for Blizzards

Books for Blizzards, Ely Commerce, Northwoods EcologyBy RavenWordsPress January 30, 2022

This content was originally published in the 2021-2022 Ely Winter Times. We like to claim author Sarah Stonich as our own, partly because she lived in the area for many years, but even more because she creates scenarios and characters that feel local in the best sense of the word. Readers from other parts…

Gingerbread Cake Recipe

Food & DrinkBy RavenWordsPress January 24, 2022

This gingerbread cake is simple to make, and pairs well with any good book in the coziest snuggery in your house. Cake Ingredients: Whipped Cream Ingredients: Method:

I wish for all of you a wild place

BWCAW, Calendar Sidebar, Community, From the ArchivesBy RavenWordsPress December 13, 2021

Resonant words from the archives: Dear Calendar Owners, As I write this it is Memorial Weekend, 2007. I have just returned from working at the Ham Lake Fire on the Gunflint Trail, where sadly we lost homes and witnessed the destruction of wild places that were special to many people. It was perhaps all the…

Let It Snow!

BWCAW, From the Archives, Northwoods EcologyBy RavenWordsPress December 6, 2021

Let It Snow! was first published in the 1998-1999 Ely Winter Times: Snow is pretty amazing stuff. Did you know that a light powder snow cover is 92% air? It has a higher R-value than fiberglass insulation. Just nine inches is enough to keep the soil from freezing even in sub-zero temperatures. In fact, snow…

Pulla (known to some as Finnish biscuit) recipe

Community, Food & DrinkBy RavenWordsPress December 3, 2021

This recipe was submitted to an Ethnic Eats of Ely cookbook that was compiled and published by the Slovenian Union of America Branch No. 23 in Ely, Minnesota. Makes 3 braids Ingredients: 2 cups scalded milk 10-12 whole cardamom seeds, shelled and pounded with a hammer) 3½ tsp yeast 8½ cups flour, divided into 3…

Get Warm, Get Clean, Sauna!

Community, From the ArchivesBy RavenWordsPress December 3, 2021

This article was first published in the 2019 Ely Winter Times. The first thing you need to know about a sauna is how to pronounce the word. It’s Finnish, a language in which each vowel is pronounced independently. So instead of an “aw” sound like “autumn” the “au” makes an “ow” sound like “now.” So…

The Winter Sauna

Community, From the ArchivesBy RavenWordsPress December 3, 2021

From the archives: The Winter Sauna by Becca Brin Manlove, 1999-2000 Ely Winter Times We scurried quickly over the path of ice, clad in nothing but soggy wool socks and the steam roiling from our skin. “Hurry, Dayna! My socks are sticking!” “Well, mine are stuck!” Laughing hysterically, she bent over and grasped the top…

Tanning a Deer Hide: October 2011 Sidebar

BWCAW, Calendar Sidebar, Food & Drink, From the ArchivesBy RavenWordsPress November 16, 2021

From Cache Lake Country by John Rowlands, a 1947 book full of poetic descriptions and practical directions: The Chief and I have been dressing the skin of his first buck which will make fine moccasins later on, although he wants to get a moose, too, for its hide will stand more wear…. A lot of…

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