April 1, 1926 Weather from the Hill, Olaf Thorvaldsen | Cook County News Herald

Winter seems intent on lingering past its welcome. The coming week will run colder than is customary for early April, with daytime temperatures only narrowly climbing above freezing. Snow is likely next Tuesday and should leave a half-inch cover in town, with deeper totals for those living farther inland.

A quiet week otherwise. Many residents traveled to Duluth or took to the inland lakes for late-season fishing, with Dick Borg and Henry Lindskog returning with a respectable catch. They kindly left a fillet at the weather tower. Miss Fjell invited me to the surprise celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Helmerson’s fourteenth wedding anniversary at the Good Harbor Hill town hall. The floor there has a spring to it that makes dancing agreeable.

The long-planned radio broadcasting equipment, however, has been delayed. Demand for radio parts across the country has grown so swiftly that delivery times have stretched, pushing our hopes for an operational weather station back several months. The council and town president received the report with good humor. Still, I hope it does not become a matter for the upcoming elections.

Setbacks have their own weather, and we live under them as surely as we do the sky. But they also offer instruction. As John Dewey writes, “To learn from experience is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.” If we pay attention to those connections, the work before us becomes an experiment; one where even delays reveal how the world fits together, and how we may meet it more wisely the next time it changes course