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Seven March Snowfall Forecasters Perfect At 32"
Our Champs: Bob Wilson, Daniel Rainbow, Jeff Weymouth, Perry Jansen, Kathy Hoatson, Barb Chapman, Mark Anderson
OK, Not Many Pasties Awarded This Winter, Sooo, To Celebrate A Big Snow Year, We'll Bend The Rules A Bit And Award Some Delicious Pasty Central Pasties To The First Five March Champs Who Send In Their Shipping Address and Day Phone Number Three In!
(Just a test to see if you are awake on National Nap Day.)
Yesterday's Beautiful Lake Waves On A Sparkling Sunny Day

The Birth of Ava Marie MacKenzie
Fred Kellow Is A Great-Grandpa!
A Note From The Saunders Family
March Snowfall: 31.9" 2005-2006 Snowfall 290.2" (04/01)

Messages From Readers
Something New Almost Every Day
Messages Updated
Please Check Your "Eagle Mail" Address!
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Peregrine's Summer 2005 Lake Superior Cruise Map
About 2,000 Miles - 70 Sailing Days
Township News.
Check Out The Township's Great New Web Site
March 27th Board Meeting Minutes Posted
Community Event Calendar
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Jackson's
Harbor Cam April 4, 2006
George Hite - Editor
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ghite@pasty.net
277 E. North Street
Eagle Harbor, MI 49950

"Harbor Web" via the good folks at pasty.net Outside My Window
April 4th

As they say, it ain't over until the fat lady sings!
She's coming on stage.

The Harbor Journal Periodic Harbor Web Editor Observations, Accounts and Musings About Harbor Weather, Happenings, and Odysseys.

A Harbor Journal

Dog Days (3/13/06)
I intended this Harbor Journal entry to be a muse on the “dog days” of a late winter in the Keweenaw. I know, dog days are normally those days in late summer when hot sultry air stagnates over the land - driving, I presume, panting pooches under the shade of porches (thus dog days) while the rest of us languish about in a state of low activity. Well, thanks to the cooling affect of the big lake we have few such dog days, but our late winter dog days can be as trying. These are the double score or more days between Alberta clippers and spring’s early storms when the handful of folks unable or unwilling to escape to warmer and more populated Mecca’s endure, or embrace, isolation as cool air hovers and hugs, low-lying clouds linger forever atop the gray ridgeline, aging ice drifts aimlessly about in calm slate hued Harbor waters, and the winter’s harvest of pristine, but now blemished, snow slowly withers. This is also a time for pooches to curl up, now on warm hearths, and the area’s winter residents to seek escape from the tedium of place and inactive weather by indoor pursuit, often solitary, of their hobbies or other means of self-entertainment – in my case by revisiting my now often read and somewhat tattered library. This is a testing time – the Keweenaw days that test our steadfastness as winter residents – the days I caution Harbor wannabes they must be able to embrace to enjoy a life up here.
To continue see Dog Days
Earlier Journal Entries:
Winter 2005-2006 Journals
October 2004 - January 2005 Journals
January & February, 2004 Journals
December, 2003 Journals
November, 2003 Journals
April & May, 2003 Journals
February & March, 2003 Journals
December 2002 - January 2003 Journals
Fall-Winter 2002 Journals
Recent Journals
Earlier Journals
Much Earlier Journals
Journals From The Last Millennium
Editor Musings
2005 - 2006 Keweenaw Snowfall Forecast Contest: The only game in town! Fearless forecasters vie for bragging rights and fabulous prizes.
Yes, once again snow junkies are participating in what passes for entertainment at Eagle Harbor. It's our opportunity for fame and fortune. Despite suggestions that this is just a game of chance, past winners have almost all attributed their success to skillful analysis of such things as global weather patterns (for sure the El Nino phenomena), solar wind forecasts. and even the historical correlation between the state of the economy and snowfall.
Dont forget, there is more than fame to be gained. Monthly winners in November through February, the big snow months, will feast on the scrumptious pasties from our friends at Pasty Central , and our total season champ earning the choice of either a Copper Harbor dinner cruise in PEREGRINE, or a weeks use of the Harbor Web's guest cottage.

This winter's forecasts, actual results and identification of winners can be viewed at: 2005 - 2006 Forecasts
For more information, including some Keweenaw snowfall historical data, please go to: 2004 - 2005 Keweenaw Snowfall Forecast Contest.
Want to know where and how the snowfall is measured? Go to In Quest Of The Measuring Stick
Winter Scenes: Some winter pictures for those who aren't fortunate enough to be here!
More Winter!See Folio Two
A January 2003 Walk To The Lighthouse
The Snow Report: A record of this and past years' Keweenaw snowfalls.
Ann Johnson's "Note From A Cabin In The Woods": "A Look Back At 2004 - A Year Of Change" Ann's Winter, 2005 News Letter.
A Place To Stay: Not everybody is lucky enough to have a cottage, camp, or accomodating relative waiting for them at Eagle Harbor. Here are some folks who share our love of the Harbor, but need a place to stay. If you can help them, or know someone who might be able to, please send them an email.
Our listing also includes a few "place to stay" possibilities. If you want to list, please send an email with particulars.
Recent listings:
Dave and Peg Carlson - Cedar Point Cabins .
Township News: Township email address is office@eagleharbortwp.orgTownship Office.; Township Web Site is Eagle Harbor Township; Township Completes Purchase Of Nearly 1,000 Acres For Recreation Area and Wildlife Preserve. See Park Plan and Map
Potluck Check out and add your contribution to this growing collection of reader submitted Eagle Harbor related stories, poems, whatever. Some recent contributions.: Lost Lake, by Paul Freshwater
An irresistible urge meets an impregnable morass.; The Art of Rink Building, by Ross Freshwater
Youthful exuberance, good deeds, and other Harbor holiday shenanigans.
Good Neighbors A pat-on-the-back to some neighbors for doing something "really nice".(Here's your chance to say thanks. If you observed a good deed, tell us about it.): US Coast Guard Helps To Keep A Harbor Holiday Tradition Alive; The Willoughby Good Neighbors; Harbor Woodchoppers Aid Koops; Volunteer Firemen and Neighbors of Ivan Fisher; Pine Grove Cemetery entry sign repairers Doug and Ginny Schubert and installer Fritz Kesanan.
2005 Eagle Harbor Halloween Pumpkin Art Festival!: Once again the pumpkins have gone to pumpkin heaven (locally known as Boggio's Deer Blind.) They were probably glad to get out of the Festival pumpkin patch. It was COLD and wet out there! But a good time was had by all, and the pumpkin creations were, as usual, a glorious sight to behold.
For a report about this year's event and a picture of the pumpkins, see 2003 Eagle Harbor Pumpkin Art Festival; For earlier Eagle Harbor Pumpkin Art Festival wrap-ups, awards and pictures, go to:
2002 Pumpkin Festival
2001 Pumpkin Festival
2000 Pumpkin Festival
1999 Pumpkin Festival
1998 Pumpkin Festival.
Keweenaw Development.: Township and County planning committees recently prepared an updated comprehensive plan for our area. The County Planning Committee is now updating the County Zoning Ordinance. Visit the Eagle Harbor Township Web Site for status reports of the zoning ordinance review and links to the ordinance draft.
Click .Keweenaw Development.for reports and comment on current development issues.
Keweenaw Development OpinionHere's an archive collection of your Harbor Web Editor's musings and letters to public officials and neighbors on Keweenaw development issues.
Harbor Q & A: A forum for posing and answering questions about Eagle Harbor.; The Latest: What Happended to the Eagle Harbor Life Saving Station?
Built In 1910-1912, It Disappeared in The 1950s. What happened To It?

The Ah-Wa-Nesha? Who knows the history of one of Eagle Harbor's most beautiful boats?

Where Is the "Arch Rock"
Are there mountain lions in the Keweenaw?
Why are five Mile and Seven Mile Points so named?
How much does one of Keweenaw's giant snow plows cost?
How Long Does It Take To Swim Across The Harbor? Who Claims The Record?
What's it take to get the lake effect snow machine going?
Where's the "Old Military Road"?
"Where are the "stamp sands"?
"Is the story of a load of automobiles being driven off a ship wreck true?"
"What's the scoop about a big float copper find in Great Sand Bay?".
Favorites The place to post a Favorite Harbor memory, thing to do, place to go, food to eat, etc.: Latest Posting: "Memories from 1976"
Deer Story
Don & Barb Nelson's saga of deer feeding and bucks shedding antlers.
Harbor Walkabout: Some digital camera shots while walking about the Harbor.

Abby Goes To Fire Drill

November 1, 1999 Storm Photos

Star Raising

Readers pick their Favorite Walkabout Pictures

A Collection Of Abby Photos
Harbor School Millennium Project: The Eagle Harbor community commemorated the advent of a new millennium by paying homage to the good works of the community's founders. Not the least of the tangible evidence of their contribution is the Eagle Harbor School House, a handsome example of early American school building that sits alongside the harbor's south shore. It served as the place of learning for hundreds of Eagle Harbor kids from 1872 until its closing in 1956. After two years of restoration funded by the generous donations of many Harbor families, the structure reopened in the millennium summer as a place of community gathering. A July 2nd celebration and rededication, complete with hours of joyus school bell ringing, was attended by almost 200.
For a few photos of the festivities, go to Walkabout
Lake News: What's our noisy neighbor up to now?
Check NOAA Daily Lake Superior Level Report
See today's Surface Temperatures
How about the Wind and Wave Forecast
Yes, there are Surface Currents
Early November Lake Level 5.9" Below Normal And 3.5" Inches Below This Time Last Year
Read the latest report from Environmental Canada's Level News .
Summer Scenes: Jim Simak's terrific Eagle Harbor sunset photo inaugurates another new page for our Eagle Harbor Web. Summer Scenes is a photo gallery for the many very talented photographers who capture the beauty of Keweenaw and Harbor summers on their film. If you have photos you would like to add to our collection, email them to George or snail mail them to me. (HC-1 Box 265H, 49950).
Something Special!A Collection Of Melanie Ehrenreich's Great Harbor Photos!
Favorite Keweenaw Links: Internet connections to other web pages for people who enjoy the Keweenaw, especially Eagle Harbor, and the things we do here.
Recent Additions
Terry and Sue Pepper's Seeing The Light. Without a doubt your best resource for information on ligthouses on the western Great Lakes. Includes a very thorough history of the old Eagle Harbor range lights.
Keweenaw County Historical Society
We are fortunate to be in an area with such a rich and interesting history. Mine sites, old schools, lighthouses, and historic churches are visable reminders of the toil, tribulation and triumphs of the peoples of Keweenaw. Our very active Historical Society is doing a great job of preserving, restoring and interpretaing this history - sharing the stories of these people and their times. Many Harborites are supporting the Society and are actively involved in the Society's work. How about you?
Old Pics A place to share old pictures of Eagle Harbor, Harbor events, and Harbor people. Pictures that abound in old family albums, scrapbooks, and dusty files that might help us better understand and appreciate the Harbor that is now ours to enjoy. Mail or email any you might have to George and I'll add them to what I hope will be a growing collection.
Musings: George, your editor, muses about life and the changing Eagle Harbor community.; Latest Musing. What Makes Eagle Harbor So Special?
Eagle-Mail We have collected more than 250 e-mail (Eagle-Mail) addresses of Harbor area friends and neighbors. Look here for the current whereabouts of someone you would like to send a friendly "Hello!". You will also find links to the web sites of Harborites. If you are not listed and would like to be, or your address changes, please "Eagle-Mail" to George today! Recent Additions:Mike Radigan, Barb Radigan, Lou Royston, Sue Kaat, John Gunnari, Jay Spreitzer, Angela Smith, James LeNeve, Melissa Polkinghorne, Jaime Lishinski, Brandy Boutwell, Paul MarshallRecent Changes & Corrections.Shirley Flood, Gayle McKenney, Dave & JoAnne Stefanac, Barb & Don Koop, Bob & Kerri Saunders, Jack Hartmenn, Susan Adams, Chuck Rowe, Mary Ann Carlton Anttila, Linda Segler, Neil Harri, Susan Harri, Nancy(Masnado) Bloch, Ann Johnson, Rodney & Amy Westlake, Linden & Ellie Dahlstrom, and Marlin & Patty Wingard.. Eagle Mail A thru G Eagle Mail H thru O Eagle Mail P thru Z More Pages Below.

Harbor Moose Population Drops To 500!. (Click Moose for the Big Picture.) Bet that headline got your attention. OK, so the moose in mind are all on Isle Royale, but it is Eagle Harbor Township...at least the west half of the island.(East half is Houghton Township...not sure why since on the peninsula Eagle Harbor Township is east of Houghton Township.) Anyway, the big news from the winter '96-'97 annual census of Isle Royale moose and wolf population was the decimation of the moose. The '97-'98 census disclosed a gain in the moose population, but a dramatic drop in the wolf population after years of steady growth. However, in the '98-'99 survey the wolf count increased dramatically, from 14 to 25, the biggest increase ever! The moose continued to struggle. The latest survey, '04-'05, shows a further increase in the wolf count, now up to 30, with the moose count having dwindled to 540.. For complete article, go to Moose

Lake Superior: Does Water In = Water Out?.
We all know it's a big lake. With a surface area of about 31,700 square miles, it exceeds the combined size of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut. There is enough water in the lake, over 3200 billion gallons, to supply the freshwater needs of the 30 million residents in the lake's adjacent states and province for over three years. But how much new water does all the snow and rain add to the lake each year, and if over a period of several years the lake level is stable, as it is, where does all the new water go? Is all this new water flowing through the lake why the lake is so nice and clean? A Web search provided some surprises. For complete article, go to Lake Superior

A Message To New Eagle Harbor Web Viewers.

Welcome! Remember the small town newspaper? The Eagle Harbor Web is the same idea gone high tech. Just as corny,as unpredictable,as untimely, but, hopefully, as friendly as the Chillicothe Constitution Gazette,or your town paper of choice. (At least those are my editorial standards.) Perhaps you'll find a few nuggets of stuff you didn't know, will meet some new friends, and enjoy a chuckle or two. It's for anyone with a browser, but if you don't know where the Popeye Rock is, you'll be bored to death. So help yourself to the inside pages by clicking the "picture thumbnails" (the little pictures) and learn what your township has done for you lately, meet some old and new neighbors, say thanks to some special people, find ways to do your part to keep Eagle Harbor special, share a memory, and catch the flavor of the place in AJ's Letter and The Harbor Journal. And please, Sign The Guestbookand send me your comments, your questions, your news, and any ideas you have to make the Eagle Harbor Web more useful and interesting (keeping in mind the editorial standards.) Thanks for checking in. George, web site editor.

Old Friends: An opportunity to better know some of our "old" neighbors. Most of us live or visit here because we like "to get away", but we also like "to get together". Neighbors are important, and "old friends" are especially valued.
New Friends: The arrival of new friends and neighbors is cause to rejoice. Some are long time Eagle Harbor vacationers, often members of Copper Country families. Others return and sometimes move here after only a few vsits. All attracted by the rugged beauty of Keweenaw, the ever changing moods of the Lake, and the advantages of life in a small close-knit community. Each bring a wealth of experiences and personal interests, adding to the richness of all our lives. All are welcomed. (If you know someone others would enjoy knowing, or someone with a new home, be "neighborly"; introduce them.)
Helping Out: "It's so great to part of a town where everyone gets into the act and helps."(If your project or organization needs some help, here's the place to let us know.)
Who's George?: More than you want to know about this web site's editor. Why would anyone do this?
Sign The Guestbook: Please send your comments, suggestions, questions, news, Good Neighbor nominees, Potluck contributions, Harbor Q & A questions/answers, new neighbor introductions, and anything else that suits your fancy. Internet is interactive, so jump in.

Thanks to these folks for their generous recognition of the Eagle Harbor Web

Site of the Year

Golden Pasty Award