The beaches at Grand Marais are excellent hunting grounds for the ancient Lake Superior agate, a semi-precious stone made up of concentric circles of microcrystaline quartz reddened by iron. Here’s ...
They were forged in lava, shaped by glaciers, and scattered across a lake that actively hates your toes. I came looking for ...
These unassuming rocks transform so dramatically at night that people can't help but wonder if they hide a mystery.
From the Leland Blue, a stone-like slag leftover from the iron ore and mining industry, to the glowing Yooperlite and Lake Superior agates found in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan is home to plenty of ...
Turning Lake Michigan’s beach bounty into keepsakes. Here, beach finds are a sure thing. These geological gifts have been shaped over millennia by water, wind and time, resulting in colorful and ...
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 63 (Sale info: TO BE DISTRIBUTED). No. 7. 1847. June 1. The American Art-Union: Plan of the Institution, List of its Officers, and Catalogue of Paintings, ...