Lake Superior Ice Stacking: Dawn LaPointe’s Duluth Shoreline Film
Lake Superior can sound like a cupboard full of glass when its ice starts moving. In Dawn M. LaPointe’s film from Duluth, thin plates gathe...
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Frozen Flowers in Minnesota: A Familiar Material Becomes Brittle
A flower is usually all bend, softness and movement. That makes the sudden brittleness in Minnesota Cold’s frozen-flower video so surprisin...
The Bartz Brothers’ Giant Snow Octopus and Other Sea Creatures
Octavius did not fit neatly into the front yard. That was part of the charm. The Bartz brothers’ giant snow octopus curled across their New...
Miss Ice River: Steven Peterson’s Account of a Deer Rescue
A deer stands beside a man in a snowy landscape, and the story is told through sign language. The animal became known online as Miss Ice Ri...
The Bartz Brothers’ Giant Snow Turtle and Their Sea-Life Sculptures
A snow turtle has settled into a Minnesota front yard, and it is considerably bigger than the people standing beside it. This is the cheerf...
Five Northern US Cities Known for Cold Winters
Duluth, Grand Forks, Fargo, St. Cloud and Bismarck all appeared in the original cold-city list. The problem was the numbers beside them: wi...
The Bartz Brothers’ 2014 Snow Shark and Earlier Sea Creatures
Austin, Connor and Trevor Bartz gave their New Brighton yard a spectacular marine visitor: a huge shark sculpted from snow. The people besi...