🌱 How one tired settler supposedly named Misery Bay by accident.

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• How one tired settler supposedly named Misery Bay by accident.

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 62 and low of 48 degrees.
• Thursday: Warmer with high clouds, temps: high: 73, low: 53.
• Friday: A shower and t-storm; cooler, with a high of 58 and low of 34 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• How Misery Bay in Lake Superior Got Its Name (wgrd.com) — Misery Bay, tucked in Ontonagon County along Lake Superior, has a name that belies its calm blue water, sandy beaches, and wildflowers. A local legend says an exhausted 1880s settler accidentally named it while complaining he was “in misery” to government surveyors.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• Northern Lights Quilting Guild Presents a Quilt Display
  Historic Ironwood Theatre , 113 E Aurora St , Ironwood
  10:00 am
• SNB Family Finance Night - Elementary
  Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Schools Dollar Bay, MI 49922
  6:00 pm

Thursday April 23

• V Softball @ Hurley-4:30pm
  Ironwood Area Schools Ironwood, MI 49938
  4:30 pm
• Wakefield-Marenisco Spring Concerts
  Wakefield Marenisco School District , 715 Putnam St , Wakefield
  7:00 pm
• Fiddler on the Roof
  Theater North , 825 N Lake St , Ironwood
  7:00 pm

Friday April 24

• V Softball @ Northland Pines-4:00pm
  Ironwood Area Schools Ironwood, MI 49938
  4:00 pm
• KQ Trivia Night Fundraiser
  The Orpheum Theater , 426 Quincy St , Hancock
  6:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• 2nd Annual Designer Purse Bingo
  Club 28 , 203 Sunday Lake St , Wakefield
  1:00 pm

Sunday April 26

• Homeschoolers Spring Formal (K-8th)
  The Calumet Theatre , 340 6th St , Calumet
  2:00 pm
• Fiddler on the Roof at Theatre North
  Theater North , 825 N Lake St , Ironwood
  2:00 pm

Tuesday April 28

• Caregiver Discussion Group
  336 E Aurora St , Ironwood
  4:00 pm
• V Softball @ Gogebic-4:00pm
  Ironwood Area Schools Ironwood, MI 49938
  4:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Houghton

• The Lewd: Derek Bradway becomes Mayor of Houghton (mtulode.com)
• Rx Kids available locally (mininggazette.com)
• Spanish flu epidemic grips campus after being unearthed in the AOB (mtulode.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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