Our Duluth Minnesota bed and breakfast benefits from a fantastic location (if we do say so ourselves). Actually, the location is what first attracted us to this home, so many years ago. We loved that seven miles of sandy beach was steps away, and that we could walk to all the amenities of Canal Park. I guess that’s why we’re still here. (more…)
Shouldn't you be here this week?
There are many benefits to traveling mid week. Everything is less crowded: museums, parks, roads, and our Duluth bed and breakfast. Be spontaneous, drop everything, and hit the road. You deserve a break.
The Tweed Museum of Art, at the University of Minnesota, has a new exhibit: You and Yours: Images of Family. The exhibit was created by historian and curator Laura Briggs, who delved into the museum archives to find pieces that deal with family. In addition, she brought in new pieces by artists whose work has not yet been displayed in Duluth.
The inspiration for the exhibit stems from the changing definition of family. Briggs has written that “as cultural definitions of marriage, childhood, motherhood, and paternity shift over time, so too do our ways of forming family and of picturing it. You and Yours: Images of Family presents classic images of family alongside contemporary artists’ explorations of this universal, yet often idealized, theme.” It’s a fascinating idea. (more…)
The Lighthouse is an icon of the Great Lakes. For more than a century, sailors have depended on them to guide them through darkness, fog and storms. Their light has prevented more than one shipwreck and saved more than one life.
Duluth Lighthouse
We are fortunate to have two lighthouses quite close to our bed and breakfast Duluth. The North Breakwater Lighthouse and the South Breakwater Lighthouse were used to mark the entrance to the canal and the Lift Bridge. Only one is still operational, but they both remain significant Duluth landmarks. (more…)
We have been living on the banks of Lake Superior in our Duluth bed and breakfast in Park Point for a good 33 years now. Over the years, we’ve taken quite a few beach walks with our children, together, alone or with friends. As we walk, we always scan the sand for beach glass.
One of our beach glass lamps.
Why? As Mary says, “They are like little treasures”, and it’s hard to pass treasures without pocketing them. (more…)
