Cannons on Q (Video)

BIG BANGS WERE HEARD NEAR BEST VALLEY Saturday morning as two replicas Civil War cannons were fired at targets on the Bartz Farm along County Road Q north of Downing. The cannons are called “Parrot Guns,” which shoot a ten-pound shell up to two miles. In the above photo one of the cannons is firing and a burst of red fire can be seen exiting the end of the barrel.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt

Jim Couthina of Ellsworth and Bill Dalin of Grand Marais, Minnesota ready one of the cannons for firing.
—photo by Carlton DeWitt