Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
A GROUP of locals, including, from left, Sable Wood, Cole Johnson, Trisha Winn and Dustin Filippini construct a colorful snow turtle in downtown Ironwood's art park Friday as part of the city's First Friday activities.
By RICHARD JENKINS
Ironwood - It may be the middle of winter and there's lots of snow on the ground across the Gogebic Range, but there were plenty of activities in Ironwood Friday during the city's monthly First Friday event, including a screening of "Caddyshack" at the Historic Ironwood Theatre.
So - to paraphrase Bill Murray's groundskeeper character, Carl Spackler - locals had that going for them, which was nice.
January's First Friday also featured a bonfire and s'mores in Ironwood's pocket park on the corner of East Aurora and South Suffolk streets, snow sculptures in the downtown art park and outside Cold Iron Brewing, and the screening of the 1980 comedy "Caddyshack."
The Harold Ramis-directed movie also stars Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield.
It follows Danny Noonan, a caddie trying to earn enough money to go to college. Danny caddies for Ty Webb, a suave and talented golfer and the son of one of Bushwood's co-founders. Danny tries to gain favor with Judge Elihu Smails, the country club's stodgy co-founder and director of the caddie scholarship program, by caddying for him. Meanwhile, Carl Spackler, a somewhat-unhinged groundskeeper who lives in the maintenance building, tries increasingly desperate schemes to hunt a gopher that is damaging the course.
Although Spackler may have failed to get the gopher, he still had the dalai lama-granted eternal consciousness on his deathbed going for him.
As with other First Fridays, various downtown businesses also stayed open late for those exploring downtown.
