The Snowy Day, a 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, is the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night. Keats's illustrations, using cut-outs, watercolors, and collage, are strikingly beautiful in their understated color and composition.
There are three iron ranges in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, these are the Gogebic, Marquette and Menominee Ranges. The Gogebic was the last of the three great iron ore fields opened in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin.
The Mesabi Range. The largest and most productive Range began shipments in 1892 from the Mountain Iron Mine. From the 1890's to the present over 4 billion tons were removed from more than 350 mines along its 110 mile length. (2) More than 75% of the production of iron ore in the United States has come from the Mesabi Range. Mesabi is the Ojibwa word for Giant. The Merritt Brothers are credited with the first economic discovery of Mesabi iron near Virginia, Minnesota. It wasn't until the Duluth, Missabe, and Northern Railroad (DM&N) linked the Mesabi Range to docks in Duluth Harbor that mining could begin in earnest. The first yearâs rail shipments were 4,245 tons of ore.