We are celebrating 130 Years of handwritten letter writing and connection by mail on the North Shore with this mini-museum exhibit report on the work of Story Scouts.
Story Scouts are the children's publishing club of Minnesota Chlldren's Press. Some 45 Cook County Minnesota students in grades 1-4 who worked Spring 2024-2025 to create the mini-museum exhibit on letters, literacy and connection to community both provide. You can see it when the Cook County History Society Museum opens after May 15, 2025.
From John Beargrease's snowy mail runs through the winter woods to the modern screen-free Letter Writing Park in Grand Marais called Letteracy Deck, our Story Scouts trace the life of letters on the North Shore.
Story Scouts are the children's publishing club of Minnesota Chlldren's Press. Some 45 Cook County Minnesota students in grades 1-4 who worked Spring 2024-2025 to create the mini-museum exhibit on letters, literacy and connection to community both provide. You can see it when the Cook County History Society Museum opens after May 15, 2025.
From John Beargrease's snowy mail runs through the winter woods to the modern screen-free Letter Writing Park in Grand Marais called Letteracy Deck, our Story Scouts trace the life of letters on the North Shore.
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The fearless Ojibwe woodsman, John Beargrease of Beaver Bay, Minnesota, was the first North Shore mail carrier hired by the U.S. Postal Service in 1895. This was decades before good roads and reliable cars made travel along the Lake Superior's North Shore easy, safe and pleasant.
With his 3 sled dogs, in winter Beargrease carried mail from Two Harbors to Grand Portage, sometimes making the trip up and back several times a week! On a bountiful run, a mail sack could weigh 700 pounds! The annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon is held in his honor every year in Minnesota. While modern life of emails, texts and social media threatens letter writing, in Grand Marais, we preserve the tradition of connection and reflection through letters at our public handwritten letter and drawing writing park, Letteracy Deck. It's screen free! Come write and draw with us–everyone, all ages! Ditch your phone! 
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