Archives: August 2026

THE MOVIE: WOODS OF BIWABIK

(6-minute movie follows this short read) Me and Eddie Turk sit on a street curb half a block down from the Biwabik Mine on Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range. (Biiwaabik, in the Ojibwe language, means “iron” or “metal”.) The great majority of the town’s residents are immigrants or their children or, like Eddie and me, grandchildren…