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A brief conversation about chestnut trees sends a hospice nurse down a rabbit hole that changes his life.___________________________*** We need at least 200 of you to step up and join the Points North Fan Club by the end of the year! It's just $5 a month. Sign up today for more unexpected stories from around the Great Lakes. Plus, we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.

George Bernier spent long, cold nights as a sled dog mailman in Michigan’s wilderness in the 1800s. What did those nights sound like and feel like?___________________________*** We need at least 200 of you to step up and join the Points North Fan Club by the end of the year! It's just $5 a month. Sign up today for more unexpected stories from around the Great Lakes. Plus, we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.

A small Wisconsin village is known for one thing: frog jumping. This yearly cultural competition has been happening for over 70 years and brings out hundreds of people. But all that tradition is ending, due in part, to one woman who says her mission is protecting frogs.___________________________*** We need at least 200 of you to step up and join the Points North Fan Club by the end of the year! It's just $5 a month. Sign up today for more unexpected stories from around the Great Lakes. Plus, we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.

Darren Bush has a rule about gifts. He won’t sell anything that was given to him. And, when the time is right, he will give that item to someone else. With one carbon-fiber paddle, that time came on a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.Darren Bush is a writer, hospice chaplain, avid paddler and owner of Rutabaga Paddlesports in Madison, Wisconsin.___________________________*** We need at least 200 of you to step up and join the Points North Fan Club by the end of the year! It's just $5 a month. Sign up today for more unexpected stories from around the Great Lakes. Plus, we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return.Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.

Kevin Shafer's job is to prevent Milwaukee’s sewage from overflowing into Lake Michigan or people’s basements. After a Points North episode about him dropped, he got something unexpected in the mail.___________________________*** We need at least 200 of you to step up and join the Points North Fan Club by the end of the year! It's just $5 a month. Sign up today for more unexpected stories from around the Great Lakes. Plus, we'll send you some cool Points North goodies in return. Subscribe to the Points North Newsletter for more Great Lakes news. And follow us on Instagram.