By: Callie Sacarelos
Minnesotans have learned that the only way to survive the winter year after to year is to embrace the cold and make the most of the snow and ice.
That would explain the record-breaking 20,000 people who visited the biannual Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake during the dead of winter in 2012.
The artfully constructed ice houses return this year but are calling White Bear Lake their new home.