When Bruce Cottington enlisted in 1942, he joined the Navy, but was later assigned to a new Marine Corps unit called the Amphibians. The unit fought on land and sea, and Cottington prepared battle sites in the Pacific during World War 2. (The amphibian unit was the precursor to the Navy SEALS.)
Pat, who is going on 107 years old, says she was surprised that her difficulty breathing was caused by a heart problem, not her lungs.
Filmmaking isn’t necessarily what Minnesota’s Iron Range is known for, but Ironbound Studios hopes to change that. The studios opened their doors earlier this year. We talked with co-founder and CEO Jerry Seppala about the studio’s genesis, Minnesota’s incentives for filmmakers, and how the studio could impact jobs on the Iron Range.
