Foreign Journalists

 This was the first year that the Historical Society hosted the World Press Institute Fellows to Grand Marais.  I moderated the public forum with the 8 journalists from Argentina, Bulgaria, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Finland, Iran and China.

The public forum was fascinating and of course I made Kaj go so he can expand his horizons.  One of the powerful parts of the evening was talking about censorship and 5 out of the 8 countries represented have sever penalties for journalists who say things that they aren't supposed to say, even over seas.  The tricky part is that it is totally arbitrary as to what you shouldn't say.  

Kaj was ready to move to Finland after the discussion until he heard they have some strict gun laws.

Duane

 Kaj has been on spring break this week.  We didn't have any plans so he called up Duane Ege.  Duane is in his 70s and last summer hired Kaj to help him out here and there.  He pays Kaj a ridiculous amount to help him and Kaj learns a lot from Duane.  Duane is brilliant.  I believe he is an electrical engineer but one of his many jobs was communication, radio towers, airport tower things.  Fixing anything is really what he can do.  He has been another wonderful mentor to Kaj and I feel so fortunate that Kaj has gotten to know him.