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5:36 The words “Mellen State Bank” are etched into the sandstone façade over which Jeff Peters ran his right hand on Tuesday.
“It feels like history,” he said. “It almost feels like the history of connecting this area.”
A sandstone quarry on Basswood Island in the Apostle Islands, circa 1894.
Credit Jeff Peters
Those carved words and the one-story façade look just like they did when the Mellen State Bank opened in 1902.
The sandstone was quarried on Basswood Island in the Apostle Islands, the same sandstone used to build fashionable brownstone homes in East Coast cities.
The sandstone facade of Mellen State Bank.
Wisconsin landscape photographer s passion is telling stories with his lens
Bayfield photographer Jeff Rennicke and his wife, Jill, will co-direct Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore starting Feb. 1. 7:50 am, Jan. 31, 2021 ×
The northern lights and stars over Honeymoon Rock on Lake Superior, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Rennicke)
BAYFIELD, Wis. It was a warm summer night in 2013 when Jeff Rennicke says he had his Aha! moment as a photographer.
Rennicke was about to go to bed at his home in Bayfield when something happened he can’t quite explain, a vision of sorts.
Jeff Rennicke s passion is telling stories with his photos
Bayfield photographer and his wife, Jill, will co-direct Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore starting Feb. 1. 7:00 am, Jan. 29, 2021 ×
The northern lights and stars over Honeymoon Rock on Lake Superior, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Rennicke)
It was a warm summer night in 2013 when Jeff Rennicke says he had his Aha! moment as a photographer.
Rennicke was about to go to bed at his home in Bayfield when something happened he can’t quite explain, a vision of sorts.
“I got a feeling that I had to go out on the lake that night, to go out to take a photo at a specific spot,’’ said Rennicke. “I don’t know why I went. But I trusted the vision.”