by Brickyard Creek | Sep 20, 2022 | BYC Library, History
In Brickyard Creek Chronicles, Chapter 4: Naming the Creek, we gave you a brief history on the development of a brickyard at Roy’s Point by Col. Rudd. Rudd had leased the land at Roy’s Point from William Dalrymple. The Bayfield Brick Manufacturing Company was only in operation from 1889 to 1892, probably coming to its demise as the result of the Financial Panic of 1893.
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 16, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Good Oak By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Trees measure time in concentric rings – not hours or days. In this classic essay about time and human history, Aldo Leopold...
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 12, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – Postcard of the Senses By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Nature is more than a feast for the eyes. It can fill all of your senses, if you let it. Yet we become so reliant on...
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 8, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Living Earth By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke It is a feeling you get deep in the forest, a sound you hear when the wind blows at night. The earth is alive. Many...
by Brickyard Creek | Aug 4, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – The Sounds of Silence By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Did you know? I SAID “DID YOU KNOW!” Urban noise levels have been doubling every decade. Road and air traffic tripled...
by Brickyard Creek | Jul 28, 2022 | BYC Library, Reflection
Sense of Place – Rekindling Curiosity By: Jeff Rennicke, Executive Director, Friends of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Photo: Jeff Rennicke Every day you walk the same path, the same trail, the same stretch of shoreline. Slowly, you begin to take it for...
