A loon My grandfather is a kind of mythic figure in my family. That's him holding the canoe on his head. That picture was taken when he was seventy. My parent's house is filled with the wooden statues ...

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DETROIT LAKES — Visitors in Vergas may have thought there was a convention of loons taking place at the public beach on Saturday, Aug. 12. Dozens of people stood under the world’s largest loon statue ...