The Cloquet library is a godsend to parents in the summer. No sooner did we walk in last week than several kids greeted Tommy and Patrick, apparently friends of theirs from school. Soon, the girls were playing with Eleanor and the boys were looking up sports information.

I found a great book written by Paul Fahlstrom, who grew up here and wrote about his hometown from his home in Maryland. The book, “Old Cloquet, Minnesota: White Pine Capital of the World” was published in 1997, and the copy on the shelf was pretty worn and tattered.

He’s written several books about Cloquet, but this...