Hull's Sawmill
PO Box 251
Two Harbors, MN 55616
(Tel) 218.834.5246
(E-mail) hulls@lakenet.com
PO Box 251
Two Harbors, MN 55616
(Tel) 218.834.5246
(E-mail) hulls@lakenet.com
Editorials
Sporadically, over the years, I’ve submitted articles to various newspapers and publication on a variety of topics; political, ethical and social. Some folks enjoy them. Some have referred to me as the “pot calling the kettle black”. But I keep writing on things anyway. I’ve posted most of them here, for folks to read and (if they want) respond to. |
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| Choosing a Candidate for My Vote From the bumper crop of lawn signs and newspaper ads springing up across the county it is apparent that election time in upon us once again. This year it seems that most of the community is running for County Commissioner. Read more |
| He's My President Now I’ll admit it publically. I did not vote for Barak Obama for President. (I’d pause here to wait for the gasps of surprise, but know there won’t be any.) Read more |
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| High School Sports and Ultimate Values T.A. and I have been friends since junior high, which means we are counting our friendship in terms of decades, rather than years. We attended the same college for about a year, when I transferred to a different university. Read more |
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| Mudholes, Highway 61, and Congrassman Oberstar Years ago, travel on the roads of Lake County and the North Shore could be a challenge. Especially in the Spring. Mud holes would appear in the roads as the frost came out, creating mile-long troughs of muck that were monuments to the oil pan and muffler industries. Read more |
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Pheonix Rising: My Aching Back |
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| Phoenix Rising: There is No "They" Lake County’s Original Citizen stopped by last week. O.C. has been laid off from his job due to the recession. He wanted to know if I am hiring at the sawmill. I’m not.With home building, manufacturing and recreation all off, my markets have shrunk too. Read more |
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| Outsiders, Fences, and Lake County I was walking down to get the mail the other day when Lake County’s own Original Citizen happened by in his pickup, and stopped to chat. Spew is more accurate. O.C. is typical of many who live around here: he’s very even tempered. He’s mad all the time. It’s never a question of whether or not he’s mad, it just a question of what he happens to be mad about. Read more |
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| Sergeant Joshua Hull Awarded Bronze Star Staff Sergeant Joshua G Hull received a Bronze Star and Combat Action Badge on July 12, during an awards ceremony in Spring Lake Park, MN. Read more |
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| Swede and O.D.D. Recently I was engaged in a pleasant conversation with my favorite School Marm. She is intelligent, highly degreed and is employed in one of Minnesota’s larger school districts. Her educational specialty is working with educationally challenged and “special-needs” students. Read more |
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| The Cost and Value of Education Lake County’s Original Citizen dropped by the other day, his eldest son Junior in tow. The reason for their visit was two-fold: one to drop off a graduation announcement replete with an invitation to Junior’s open house; the second was to inquire about the possibility of summer employment at my sawmill. Read more |
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| The Tax Revolt We Really Need April 15th has passed, and with it onerous task of getting the taxes paid. Or at least an extension filed. Read more |
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| The Ten Commandments and the County Courthouse Every now and again, as I listen to a public debate over some issue, I come to one simple conclusion: EVERYBODY TALKING IS WRONG! That’s my feeling about the 10 commandments in the Montgomery, Alabama courthouse. Read more |
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| Twice A Day I Check My E-mail Twice a day I check my e-mail, hoping for a note from my son Joshua. Sometimes a week or two goes by, and I hear nothing. It's not that he's irresponsible about staying in touch. I know he's out with his Army unit, roaming the mountains of Afghanistan, doing his job as a soldier. Read more |
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| When did Profit Become a Dirty Word? Once upon a time in this land, the willingness to take on the challenge of using a combination of initiative, opportunity, hard work, good credit and other resources to make a profit was seen as worthy of respect. Success in business ventures was viewed as qualifying one for greater opportunities, as well as being entrusted with public service. Read more |
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| Where does Hamburger come from? If the modern media with its video cameras and on-the-spot reporting had been at Gettysburg, the South would have won the Civil War. Had citizens of the Union been able to see with their eyes the carnage that resulted from the clash of the two armies, they would have let the Union die, rather than face the prospect of even more slaughter. Read more |
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| Who's to Blame for the Mess We're In? I don’t know what everyone will do in another 3 weeks or so, when George W Bush is no longer President. Who then will we blame for everything? Read more |
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| Wild Rice and Radical Militia Members I know a Sergeant in the US Army who works in Psychological Operations. His job is to study and utilize every aspect of psychology to demoralize the enemy, write and distribute propaganda to the population of whatever country he is working in, apprehend and interrogate prisoners, and so on. Read more |
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| Working Towards 14,000 I was in a bookstore last week and a book caught my eye: 14,000 Things to be Thankful For. I picked it up and rifled the pages, stopping randomly in their list. Two words caught my eye: Columnists and Lumberyards. Read more |
