After a meeting last Thursday, Eveleth-Gilbert schools have agreed to join districts in Virginia and Mountain Iron-Buhl in talking about a shared Iron Range school on the east central Mesabi Iron Range. We discussed the Virginia/MI-B cooperation concept last week. The first public hearing on this shared high school issue will take place tomorrow night… Read More →
‘The Bird’ is back in business
July 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
An image of the Whistling Bird’s redesigned interior from the restaurant’s Facebook page. Amid the excitement of an Iron Range Fourth of July: the long-awaited re-opening of the Whistling Bird Caribbean restaurant in Gilbert, Minnesota. I spoke of the phoenix-like resurrection of “The Bird” a while back. We look forward to returning to the restaurant… Read More →
The Whistling Bird to reopen: Caribbean food on the Iron Range!
May 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
UPDATE: The Duluth News Tribune confirms the report, interviewing new owner Jessica Antonovich and chef Patrick Berg. Berg was mentored by the late Whistling Bird co-owner JoPat Curtis during a three year stint as kitchen manager at the original restaurant. The new Whistling Bird will include a wider variety of Caribbean food than before. I… Read More →
Thank you, Gilbert
November 20, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Thanks to all who came out to my “Overburden” reading and lecture last night in Gilbert. It was a great discussion. I unveiled a couple of new riffs that I will be working on for future events. And I was surprised to see Ms. Weigert and Mrs. Elias, my high school band teacher and librarian!… Read More →
Hot book action in Gilbert tonight! Be there!
November 19, 2008 by Leave a Comment
In the early days of the Iron Range, most iron ore miners lived in company location towns where alcohol sales were restricted so that the miners would not drink too much. To defy their bosses, and also to drink vast amounts of alcohol and visit with, uh, professional ladies, these miners would trek across the… Read More →
