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ART Color Me Cappaert 030 by Alyssa Skiba
The Girl Who Knew Jens Jensen: Malin Ekman 034 by Patty Williamson, PhD
Many, Many Murals 040 by Gary Jones
CAMEO 046 Harvey Haen, Much More Than Egg Harbor's Mr. Fix-it by Myles Dannhausen Jr.
LITERATURE 050 Hjalmar R. Holand
by Stephen R. Grutzmacher
MUSIC 054 True Wisconsin Roots: Copper Box by Alyssa Skiba
DOOR TO NATURE 058 Large Waterbirds by Roy Lukes
HABITATS 062 Let There Be Light
by Laurel Duffin Hauser
OUTDOOR 084 Working to Restore Former Glory: Bruemmer Park Zoo by Patty Williamson, PhD
TOPSIDE 090 Casting Colors: Fishing Lures by Jackson Parr
FAIRWAYS 094 A Game Within The Game by Matt Stottern
ON YOUR PLATE Garlic is powerful. Garlic is mystical. Garlic is medicinal. 096 by Jess Farley
Pumpkins Beyond Pie 102 by Angela Sherman
IN YOUR GLASS 100 Wherefore Kombucha? by Katie Lott
How a Tavern Makes a Town 014 And how a town makes a tavern
by Myles Dannhausen Jr., Jim Lundstrom & Jackson Parr
Our Kind of Skyscraper 070 County's lookout towers widen horizons by Jackson Parr
FEATURED ACCOMMODATION 118 A Slice of Heaven: Gibson's West Harbor Resort by Laurel Duffin Hauser
NAMES 126 How Clay Banks Got Its Name by Jim Lundstrom
DOOR LENS 128 photography by Len Villano
cover Eagle Tower rises above the autumnal splendor high on the limestone cliffs of Peninsula State Park. Photo by Len Villano. above The Hopp Saloon on Cedar Street in Sturgeon Bay. Photo courtesy of the Door County Historical Museum.
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simultaneous pull of the joyous and the melancholy. There is something so magnificent about fall that it towers above the other seasons. It’s a bittersweet season, with the scent of decay and, ultimately, death wafting over everything, while the colorful visual stimuli of the changing (dying) leaves makes our hearts sing. It’s the sweet and sour of seasons. There are days on my way to and from work that are absolutely breathtaking. With one of the many grand vistas of Door County’s autumnal splendor spread before me, I fall all over again for this place. OK, I admit it, I’m a fall guy. So was George Eliot (sort of):
I’ve Fallen and I Don’t Want to Get Up!
Every season has its moments, but none can equal fall. Don’t believe me? Do we spring in love? No. We fall in love. Do we summer asleep? No. We fall asleep. Did Adam and Eve have a winter from grace? No. They had a fall from grace.
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. — letter to Miss Lewis, October 1, 1841
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MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. grew up in Egg Harbor, where like every little boy, he was in awe of the inventions of Harvey Haen. At age 20, he took over Husby’s Food & Spirits in Sister Bay, and came to learn that bars were much more than places to drink. He writes about Harvey and the role of Door County’s taverns in this issue. He now lives in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, where he is a freelance writer and editor. Food and cooking are JESS FARLEY’s creative outlets. Labeling herself a hobby chef, she has the opportunity to share her passion by contributing to On Your Plate, the foodie column published in Door County Living. This experience allows Jess a creative outlet while developing recipes and learning more and more about food. It’s family, natural beauty and Lake Michigan that keeps Jess in Door County. Her personal mantra: “Smile often and enjoy every moment because not a minute of this beautiful life should be wasted.” LAUREL DUFFIN HAUSER is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and two children in Sturgeon Bay. She is interested in local history and, increasingly, in how people collaborate to make the communities they love vibrant. She worked for many years on the staff of the Door County Land Trust and is co-chair of the Sturgeon Bay Skatepark Initiative. STEPHEN GRUTZMACHER published his first article when he was a sophomore at Beloit Memorial High School and has been writing and publishing ever since. His first job was delivering newspapers in the early morning, a position he held from junior high through high school. Now, at more than 50 years of age, he can be seen delivering the Peninsula Pulse (one of his duties) on publication days. Steve appreciates this small piece of symmetry in his life. Award-winning writer GARY JONES has taught at the University of Wisconsin — Platteville. He and his wife of many years spend summers in Northern Door. KATIE LOTT lives on the fashionable West Side of Sturgeon Bay with her two daughters. A PR professional, poet and singer, she is one half of Door County’s bonafide jazz duo, Katie and George. ROY LUKES has been photographing nature more than 50 years, writing weekly nature stories since 1968 and helping people become better caretakers of the Earth. He holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Lawrence University and was
awarded the Chancellor’s Medallion in recognition of his environmental advocacy from University of Wisconsin — Oshkosh. JIM LUNDSTROM met all three of his ex-wives in bars, but he doesn’t hold a grudge against bars. A stranger to satisfaction, RYAN MILLER is a starving artist and prefers it as such, excessively exploring… exercising his imagination to keep creatively fit. JACKSON PARR believes nowhere in the world but Door County has a more dynamic year and that’s why he plans to stick around for a while. The cabin fever winters give way to the festivalfilled summers, ensuring the party never truly ends. A locavore by nature, ANGELA SHERMAN loves preparing locally grown food — a love that is second only to the love of her husband, Ryan, and sons, Mylo & Theo. When she’s not in the kitchen, Sherman enjoys kayaking, hiking and exploring outdoors with her family. ALYSSA SKIBA’s childhood growing up south of Pulaski, the Polka Capital of the World, included Saturday evenings watching Myron Floren play the accordion on The Lawrence Welk Show and was thrilled to see the good ol’ squeezebox getting some much deserved love from Copper Box, this issue’s featured musicians. MATT STOTTERN is Director of Instruction at Peninsula State Park Golf Course. He coached college golf for six seasons and has also coached Nike Junior Camps for six years. He has 12 years of experience as a Head Golf Professional. An artist, musician, recording engineer and producer, LEN VILLANO left a promising career in architecture years ago to devote his life to capturing the beauty of nature on film. Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary is now the focus of Len’s work. Since 1992, PATTY WILLIAMSON and her husband have spent April through November on Kangaroo Lake, and the license on their van reads LVDCWI. Patty has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English and a master’s and doctorate in education administration. When not writing, she spends her time traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and needlework, researching her Irish roots and volunteering at Zion United Methodist Church, Northern Sky Theater, and Door Shakespeare.
Top to bottom: Myles Dannhausen Jr. Jess Farley. Laurel Duffin Hauser. Stephen Grutzmacher. Gary Jones. Katie Lott. Roy Lukes. Jim Lundstrom. Ryan Miller. Jackson Parr. Angela Sherman. Alyssa Skiba. Matt Stottern. Len Villano. Patty Williamson. Autumn 2015 13
How a Tavern Makes a Town And how a town makes a tavern
by Myles Dannhausen Jr., Jim Lundstrom & Jackson Parr
here is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
– Samuel Johnson “I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit.”
– George Bernard Shaw
There you have in a nutshell the two very different views of taverns. For Johnson, the tavern was the best of times. For Shaw, it was the worst of times. Despite those independent views of the worth of taverns, they have existed from the beginning of recorded time through today for a reason — they serve as the unofficial community gathering place. Every good citizen expected that after attending a grueling meeting for the public weal, blowing off steam at the local pub was part of the process. Or perhaps they congregated at the local over a tankard of porter to gather steam to react to strident public policy, or
to celebrate new beginnings as the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention did two days before signing the document. The bill of fare from that historic night of partying amounted to 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight bottles of whiskey, 22 tankards of porter, eight bottles of hard cider, 12 tankards of ale, and seven bowls of punch (of the alcoholic variety). Those roles of the tavern are as true today as they were when St. Paul, while traveling the Appian Way, stopped to talk with disciples at The Three Taverns. “When Paul saw them, he was encouraged and thanked God.” Unfortunately, the Bible does not tell us what Paul and his people were drinking at The Three Taverns, but it was probably local wine. Think of the Institute Saloon, where locals have been congregating since 1895. That’s an old bar by any standards. Why is it so unusual to see a 120-yearold tavern? Times change. Yesterday’s bar could be someone’s insurance agency or living quarters today. Sometimes a tavern
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is only as strong as the personality of the original owner. When no one else can live up to that standard, the bar’s character dies with its founder. You see examples of that up and down the urban and rural roadways of this state.
In an essay called The Golden Age of Taverns, historian Gregg Smith writes that in the first settlements “taverns were as important a part of any village’s plan as a fire, street, sanitation or police department is today.”
But the Institute Saloon is an aptly named example of a tavern that has weathered with the community it serves, despite a variety of owners in its 120-year history. It has withstood world wars, depressions, Prohibition, breathalyzers and everything else that changing times can throw at a business. Think about that for a moment. The Institute has withstood every societal upheaval it has encountered. What does that say about the purpose it and so many other taverns like it serve?
“With the start of any town’s construction,” Smith writes, “the location of the tavern was given consideration equal to any other aspect of the community. A good tavern was vital to the health and life of the town and as such it was worthy of a central location. More often than not it was placed next to the local meeting hall. This was the case in 1651 when Boston granted permission for a new tavern, provided the owner ‘…keepe it neare the new meeting house.’” While not every meeting hall may be next to a tavern today, the act of retiring to a public house after a meeting is a tradition that continues to this day. It can be a place of quiet contemplation as much as it as a place of loud celebration.
“Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.”
– John Adams
Bar, cantina, dramshop, gin mill, grogshop, pub, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern. Call it what you will, the premise is the same — people gathering in a “public” house to drink and often eat, as well as talk and joke and plot and play. It doesn’t even have to be a place where everybody knows your name — sometimes it’s better if they don’t.
“The tavern is an extension of our living rooms, facilitating socialization with our friends and neighbors in the same way that a coffee shop might,” writes Jim Draeger in his book Bottoms Up, A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars and Breweries. “Taverns are important places for political and social discourse. Many 19th century political leaders were tavern owners because the tavern allowed them to have the ear of the people. As an important social hub, taverns have allowed people to band together for mutual aid. For example, collections to finance medical care for people without other means and other
“I like bars just after they open for the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny and the barkeep is giving himself that last look in the mirror to see if his tie is straight and his hair is smooth. I like the neat bottles on the bar back and the lovely shining glasses and the anticipation. I like to watch the man mix the first one of the evening and put it down on a crisp mat and put the little folded napkin beside it. I like to taste it slowly. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar – that’s wonderful.”
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
types of fundraisers have always been part of the tavern experience. We find jobs, learn the local gossip and make and strengthen friendships in taverns.” These things are as true in Door County as anywhere else in the world, maybe even more so in this place known for family gatherings and celebrations of people from a wide variety of places. Locals share their knowledge of the area over a beer or cocktail at a bar where they’ve just met curious visitors. “Bars have always been social gathering spots. You can trace that back to the large groups of immigrants that came here in the late 1800s and early 1900s,” said Trissa Crowley, former owner of The Common House who now works at the Fish Creek Info Center. “Bars today, you’ll have a back room where the pool table is. In many places, that’s the room where the women and children used to go. Those immigrants, they didn’t have living rooms, so they went and socialized in taverns. And many of the people who settled in Wisconsin were beer drinkers.” A tavern mirrors its town. The Bayside has always been artsy, full of actors, musicians, and artists from the venues and galleries around the town. Husby’s, on the other hand, is more commonly home to construction workers, county league baseball players, and the larger local population of Sister Bay. They both have their boat people. Bayside: the yachties from the marinas a few steps from the bar; Husby’s: the fishermen from the Northern Door piers. In Sturgeon Bay, big flashy bars come and go, earning a ton of publicity before flaming out spectacularly as the people always seem to return to the old standbys described as anything but flashy — The Greystone, Poh’s, The Red Room. The bars of dollar mugs of Bud and dusty morning sunlight. Though no longer open year-round, many still consider the Blue Ox to be Baileys Harbor’s mainstay. “Consistently, it’s been the Blue Ox, though the Cornerstone has ebbed and flowed through the years,” said Crowley. “You have the Ring Toss game [at the Blue Ox], which is one of the true marks of a local.” Autumn 2015 15
Bayside Tavern: The Great Equalizer “You don’t get fired from or quit the Bayside; your shifts just get further apart,” said a bartender in the midst of a long break in the 1980s. In a way, that simple phrase encapsulates so much of what makes the Bayside Tavern such a staple of Fish Creek. It refers to a phenomenon common to Door County restaurants, where getting fired or quitting never has the ring of finality that it does in other professions, or other towns. Often, it doesn’t last through the end of a day, or even a shift. People’s mistakes are forgiven, feelings mend, and sometimes out of mutual necessity, a bartender who left dramatically will find herself slinging drinks to thirsty patrons again when a holiday rolls around, the bar is shortstaffed, and she’s short on cash. In a small town, you can’t be too picky about your staff and the same goes for your customers. The Bayside welcomes them all — the yachties and the tradesmen, the esteemed of Cottage Row and the hippies of Camp David, the pastel boat shoes and the muddied work boots. Young, bronzed 21-year-olds in the awe of their first nights of Door County’s summer bar scene, and old gray-beards not impressed by the this crop of newbies or the 35 incarnations that came before them. Here they sit elbow to elbow, the ledge of the bar the great equalizer in a town where it’s the only one that waits for them all winter long. Some have been kicked out “for life” before, but have eased their way back in. Many have quirks, some endearing, some unnerving, all accepted by a cast of barkeeps that have changed in name, if not in ethic, through the years. Digger. Billy. Christie. Smilin’. Richie. Scottie. DJ. Stoner. Brandon. Leif. Stevie. Bill.
Brandon Fabry, a veteran in his 13th Bayside season. “If something happened in town, they come down and ask us what’s going on. When we have thunderstorms and the power goes out, we stay open for the town.”
your name, it’s the Bayside that feels most like Cheers, the bar from the 1980s television show of the same name. Dark, no matter how blue the sky; warm, no matter how cold outside. The Bayside is a living room, the stools made for comfort.
“As a local, in the winter, you know you’re going to run into somebody to hang out with,” longtime bartender Kathy Faulds said. “It’s sort of the lowest common denominator. The $8 an hour guy can end up in conversation with the millionaire walking off his yacht.”
“Husby’s is more of a sports bar, the Bayside has always been more of a sit-down-and-drink kind of a bar,” said Fabry, who served a healthy stint at Husby’s before joining the Bayside crew. He doesn’t mean to imply it’s a bar full of drunkards — it’s actually a pretty casual scene nowadays, more vacation drinkers and eaters than anything else — but rather, that if sitting down and drinking is your thing, the Bayside is a pretty good place to do it.
But come high season, many locals make themselves scarce. “They avoid the crowds, and you won’t see them for the summer,” Faulds said. “They’ll walk by, peek in the window, see all the people and keep going. They like it when they have your full attention.” While there are many bars on the peninsula in which everyone will know
“We get all the people before the town meetings, after the meetings,” said 16 door county living / doorcountypulse.com
For 40 years, the MacDonald clan has kept the place humming. Elaine and Bob MacDonald brought their family here in 1975, taking over what was once Bill’s Bar, making incremental changes through the years that would get little notice in many worlds, but which are a big deal to the regulars of a bar.
Dark, no matter how blue the sky; warm, no matter how cold outside. The Bayside is a living room, the stools made for comfort.
For thousands of “local tourists” the Bayside Tavern in Fish Creek is Door County. The Clan MacDonald has run the popular bar and eatery for 40 years. Photos by Len Villano.
kind of runs. Over the years, employees have taught each other how to do it. It helps that we pretty much maintain the same schedule for everybody, to the point that for a while we didn’t even write a schedule.”
“The kids used to work all day, then come into the Bayside and spend everything they made,” Faulds said. “We would have to throw a huge crowd out of here at closing time on a Saturday, and even on weeknights.”
Faulds said there has always been a method to the madness.
Now, the bars clear out at 1:30 am most of the time.
“Basically, whoever the longest-tenured bartender on duty was functioned as the manager,” she said. “I always looked at it like I’m a subcontractor for the place. Whoever was closing the joint down was responsible for whatever happened. They’re the ones getting the call in the morning if the work’s not done.”
“People are just more conscious of how stupid drunk driving is,” Fabry said. “Everyone knows someone who has a DUI. We rarely have to kick a ton of people out at 2:00 am, and those we do are usually walking.”
From the late ’80s and through the ’90s, the Bayside’s calling card was live music. Bands on Saturday nights packed the place to the point that people went next door to the C&C Club just to get some air. On Mondays, bands from Milwaukee, Madison, or local favorites Big Mouth would pack it as well, but with a completely different crowd. Monday was the “industry” Saturday night, when all the cooks and servers from Northern Door took over the bar, emptying wells and filling tip jars.
A quarter increase in the price of a Bud Light might send tempers flaring, or the removal of the pool table, or the color of the paint on a wall. Koonie Fish stays the same, however, a watchful eye over an evolving scene. The Bayside would make a fascinating case study in a business school. For years at a time it has functioned with a nominal manager, or none at all. Yes, Elaine is always around, watching over everything and making the final call, but the bartenders make the schedule and make the place hum day after day. “Elaine and Bob set the rules,” Fabry said, “but to an extent the place just
And then there was The Groove King, who cooked during the day, sipped Jim Beam in the evening, and ruled his keyboard at night for open mics or shows of his own. But the live music game is boom or bust in a bar, often more bust than patrons realize, and over the years Elaine tired of that racket. Too many headaches, too little payoff, too much drama. The crowds are different today, too. The C&C is gone, and with it the two-bar draw that kept people partying in Fish Creek all night long. Also gone are the hoards of college students and local kids returning to work the summers, many replaced by workers from abroad who are much smarter about saving the money they make working doubles and triples all summer long.
But the Bayside is packed with diners and drinkers all summer long, and for thousands of “local tourists,” the Bayside is Door County. “A lot of people, when they come up on vacation or for the weekend, they’ll stop here before they even go to their house or motel,” Fabry said. And come winter, the locals return, their stools now given room to breathe. Like many businesses, the Bayside operates at a loss on many winter days, and the income of the servers dwindles to half or less of the peak summer shifts. But Elaine keeps it open in part as a service to the community, providing a place to go, a warm stool, a living room. “You learn in Door County, you gotta go through a recession every year,” Faulds said. “But the beautiful thing about Door County and the Bayside is, you know the people are coming back every summer.” And the people know the Bayside will be there, too. Maybe a little different, maybe with a new face behind the bar, but the door will be open, Koonie Fish will watch from the wall, and somewhere inside, a familiar face will say hello.
— Myles Dannhausen Jr.
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Husby’s Food and Spirits in Sister Bay has long been a gathering place for locals and visitors alike. Emma Husby opened the building at the corner of Highway 42 and Maple as a restaurant during Prohibition in 1929. Photos by Len Villano.
When I Learned What Husby’s Meant to Sister Bay The first time I walked behind the bar for a shift at Husby’s, my steps were stunted, my voice shook, and beads of sweat welled on my head. My brother and two friends who were our business partners were excited at the chance to take over the bar when the opportunity crossed our paths in September of 1999. I was decidedly not. Sure, it was a great business opportunity, but the pressure of owning Husby’s, which belonged to a crowd I didn’t really know, was overwhelming. This was the bar of the working man, the bar that my friends’ parents called home for a couple of hours every evening after a long day on the job, the bar that people counted on having its doors open every day of the year to be there for them to celebrate the good times and drink away the bad.
them more than a fresh new bartender to mess with. A guy who never ordered a drink that didn’t start with “Bud” and end with “er” would ask for a Cuba Libre, just to mess with you (it’s a rum and coke with a lime). The guy at the end of the bar loved to use his cell phone to call the bar, just to make you run down to answer it so he could order his drink over the phone. Eventually, I’d learn to dish out the bull as well as my customers, learn to spin drinks fast enough to keep mugs and glasses full, and after a year or so most of the skeptics came around, admitting that maybe these guys weren’t such bad caretakers of their bar after all. Then came one of the roughest months Northern Door ever endured. At the end of a long winter Johnny Gonzales, a beloved local restaurateur, father to
one post-funeral brunch, when another began. In what is usually the optimistic fresh light of spring, Northern Door felt heavier and grayer than ever, and I learned a lot more about the importance of the bar than all the good days combined. There may not have been a lot of cash going into drawers, and we may have closed a little later on some of those nights than we were supposed to, but people needed a place to go, to share stories, to confirm that they weren’t the only ones who felt empty. They didn’t know what to say, but it was better to not know in the presence of friends. That awful spring taught me a lot about myself, my town, and especially why that bar meant so much to so many. Decade after decade, people had felt every emotion inside those walls.
My name might now be on the lease, but the “owners” of Husby’s were on the stool side of the bar. I looked down that bar, Big Glenn in the pole position by the taps (no bartender can ignore you by the taps), The Butcher with his frosted mug, then a handful of my friends’ parents in red construction sweaters, eyeing me up. Beyond them, a couple of raspy-voiced women who once ruled this bar, and who as little girls ordered Black Cows from founder Emma Husby when she wheeled her way around the bar in her final days. These people had been coming here longer than I’d been alive (heck, the bottle of Early Times on the rail was probably here longer than I’d been alive), some of them three times as long, and I was supposed to lay down the rules now? I thought I was local. I went to the same school as their kids, played on the same little league fields, got my butt kicked on the same awful high school football team. But this was not my bar. My family never frequented the place, my Dad never spent happy hours here. I grew up in Egg Harbor, and I learned quickly that in Sister Bay, Egg Harbor was not local. I might as well have been a FIB, an idea furthered by those whose kids didn’t grow up with me. But their stink-eyes were hiding something — joy. Nothing entertained
a couple of my friends, and the star of many a Halloween party, fell through the ice and drowned. He was just 41. The tears had barely stopped flowing in Sister Bay when our own beloved bartender at Husby’s and life of the party, Darin Daubner, collapsed and died at age 34. And three weeks after that, American Folklore Theatre founder Fred Alley died during a run in Baileys Harbor. He was just 38. After each loss, we cried over beers at the bar, scores of us swapping stories about our friends and struggling to come to grips with gaping new holes in the fabric of our tiny town. It seemed we had only just finished cleaning up after
They’d laughed, they’d cried. They’d fallen in love there, and too often fallen out of love. They’d celebrated, and they’d mourned. And the walls of that bar absorbed it all, the good and the bad, our best and our worst. And in good times and bad, Husby’s was the common ground they could return to, always there, always open, always pretty much the same.
— Myles Dannhausen Jr.
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Red Room: The Working Man's Bar
The smoke used to hang heav y in Hoffman’s Red Room bar on a packed night, or before that, a packed morning when the third shifters would wander in from the shipyards. Those smoky days are gone in Wisconsin bars, but that’s about the only thing that has changed at the Red Room over the years. Perched on the edge of Sturgeon Bay’s main drag, Third Avenue, the Red Room has been in the Hoffman family for three generations. It’s acknowledged by most as the city’s defining bar, if not by itself, then in the company of Poh’s and Greystone. A few years back the bar was featured in the book Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars by Carl Corey. In a photo, Nick Hoffman stands behind the bar, flanked by the familiar row of backlit photos of Sturgeon Bay — the Steel Bridge, the canal, and the frozen bay from high above. “I call Sturgeon Bay the big city; it has streetlights,” said Kathy Faulds, a longtime bartender at the Bayside Tavern who lives in Sturgeon Bay. “Sturgeon Bay’s a working town. You go out to the Red Room in jeans and a sweatshirt and have a Bud Light at the bar and that’s your daily thing.” “It’s the place, like Poh’s and the Greystone, that people go to on New Year’s Eve and Thanksgiving when people are back in town and want to see friends,” says Brian Flanigan, who has been inside nearly every bar in Door County, delivering Budweiser for the family business, Flanigan Distributing. Flanigan has seen many hot new bars come and go, but the city’s mainstay bars stand the test of time with a simple formula. “It’s about the personalities behind the bar, as much as the bar itself,” he said. “Sturgeon Bay is hard working people who want to go sit and talk to other hard working people.”
There’s nothing fancy about the Red Room in Sturgeon Bay, but it exudes the good, old-fashioned neighborhood bar vibe. Locals know it as a place where you can get a good bar food meal with a couple of beers and not break the bank. Photo by Len Villano.
At the Red Room you can still walk in the door with $20, buy a round for your buddies, have a few yourself, and walk out with a couple dollars still in your pocket. You’ll see bankers, shipyard workers and welders, all shooting the breeze, catching up on the news of the day, and adding their two cents. And you can come back tomorrow or in 10 years, and know it will still be the same.
— Myles Dannhausen Jr.
Institute Saloon: Keeping the Locals Happy for 120 years As you drive past the 120-year-old Institute Saloon at the corner of Highway 57 and County P, you can almost feel history oozing out of the clapboard frame. Co-owner Dennis Schartner says sometimes you can feel history oozing right inside the building. “Oh, yes,” he said. “I’ve seen shadows. It’s made the hair on the back of my neck raise. I’ve had other bartenders at closing time hear strange things that startled them.” You won’t hurt Schartner’s feelings if you don’t believe that the Institute Saloon is haunted. “You can believe it if you want. Some people find it far-fetched,” he said. “When the ladies room door opens and closes, people have said, ‘How do you rig that?’ I don’t rig it. It just happens.” Haunted locations are all the rage these days thanks to “reality” TV ghostumentaries. The Institute Saloon was one of the subjects of investigation by the Southern Wisconsin Paranormal Research Group, who made an independent film called The Ghosts of Door County that aired in the local movie theater the fall of 2013. Schartner hasn’t seen the movie, but he knows the word is out that the Institute Saloon is haunted. “I have people come who ask to know what I know,” Schartner said. What he knows is that the ghostly energy people experience might be
Mabel, who owned the Institute from the 1950s until 1992. “I’ve had numerous women come out of the ladies room because they’ve seen Mabel,” Schartner said. “We figure it’s Mabel. She used to hide vodka bottles in the toilet tank to keep them cool, and she’d have a little nip.” One website that tracks Wisconsin haunted locations has a “bartender” at the Institute Saloon regularly finding empty vodka bottles in the toilet tank. It doesn’t really matter. You do not have to believe in ghosts to feel the weight of history in the Institute Saloon. Built in 1895 by German immigrant and apparent Door County pioneer John Wester, the Institute Saloon is a true Door County institution. Comb through the newspapers of Wester’s time and he and his family’s concerns are often noted: Where Mrs. John Wester spent the weekend; the fact that Wester was building a barn that could hold 20 horses; Mrs. Wester eventually went blind; Mr. Wester
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sold his farm because of that. With all their comings and goings noted in newspapers of their time, they were obviously among the movers and shakers of their day. The Institute Saloon also served as the Institute Post Office until 1906, when rural mail delivery was instituted. By then, the saloon was under the ownership of John Moore, who added a large hall that served as the gathering place for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, and whatever anyone wanted to book the hall for. As the plaque erected just outside the front door in 2008, courtesy of the Door County Historical Society, tells
Above: The Institute Saloon has been keeping locals happy for 120 years. Here it is seen in 1898. The sign on the corner of the building advertises the Sturgeon Bay Brewery (photo courtesy of the Door County Historical Museum). Right: Co-owner Dennis Schartner likes to keep the conversation in the bar flowing. Photos by Len Villano.
“You’ve got to keep the locals happy. We treat everybody the same, but you have to keep the locals happy."
– Dennis Schartner
us, in 1912, under the new ownership of Joseph Petersilka, “wrestling matches and square dancing were held for the community July 4th celebrations.” That same plaque says, “The location is enhanced by Door County’s largest Eastern Cottonwood tree. It stands over 100 feet tall, with a circumference of twenty-two feet one inch and having a crown spread of ninety-seven feet as of January 2007.”
But there aren’t many taverns in the world that can exist on history and large trees alone. Something else has to keep the spirit going. “I enjoy listening to the stories and getting in on the B.S.,” said Schartner, who has co-owned the saloon for almost 21 years. “It’s part of it. There are a lot of stories that come around.” Aha! Is that the secret to a tavern’s longevity? Engaged owner/bartenders? Dennis Schartner does not pretend to be a philosopher, but when asked what he thinks has kept the Institute Saloon a viable business in three centuries, he doesn’t have to think about it for long. “You’ve got to keep the locals happy,” he said. “We treat everybody the same, but you have to keep the locals happy. It’s a long winter without the locals.”
— Jim Lundstrom
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Marnie’s: Stepping Into Tradition
Now we are this. That is what Anne Mueller and her family had to say to themselves and the world the day the decision was made to reopen the former Coun’s C Club in downtown Brussels. And they did it with brass, immediately changing the name of the Brussels institution on County C to Marnie’s Supper Club and Banquet Hall. Businesses change hands all the time. The big deal here is that the previous owners, Darrell and Audrey Counard, retired earlier this year after almost a half-century of hosting community and family events in the only bar and 200seat banquet hall in the immediate area. The couple had owned and run the bar/ supper club since 1966.
One of the big concerns about taking on a well-known establishment is how much you make it your own.
“People ask about the significance of the name,” she said. Some, she said, have even wondered why she named the supper club “Marine’s.” She gets a chuckle out of that, but looks forward to the day when someone mentions Marnie’s without adding, “Coun’s C Club.”
“You worry about what you’re going to change and what you’re going to keep the same. But you can’t just walk in and keep it the same,” Anne said.
The brightening included taking down all the beer signs. “So it doesn’t look so taverny,” Anne said.
“Drunk?” chimed in Anne’s brother, Christian Matyshak, as he sat behind the bar polishing a giant brandy snifter that serves as a tip jar.
An area once filled with gaming machines is now filled with comfylooking couches just off the bar — an inviting and relaxing corner to enjoy a cocktail with friends.
“Not drunk,” Anne replied. “I said ‘jump.’” “Oh,” Christian said, “I thought you said you had to be drunk to take this place on.”
Anne bounced around a lot of ideas for names before settling on Marnie’s. “It was hard coming up with a name that hasn’t been taken,” she said. “There are way too many things named Anne, Annie’s, Anna’s, things like that.” The name she came up with was a way to keep it in the family. She replaced the ‘t’ in her husband’s name with an ‘n’ from her name, and replaced his ‘y’
There were some immediate cosmetic changes that could be done with a simple application of elbow grease. “The biggest thing we heard from people is that it was dark,” Anne said. “We brightened it up and did a lot of cleaning. People ask if we’ve painted, no, we just cleaned and opened the windows.”
Asked how you assume the mantle of the Counards, who successfully served as hosts to momentous events in the lives of residents for 50 years, Anne had one word, “Jump.”
“My husband, Marty, has a full-time job, but he comes at nights and on weekends,” Anne said.
And since the kitchen, as she says, “is her thing” and she knows how to cook in volume, this seemed like the right place and the right time.
ending with an ‘ie,’ as in Annie, and, voila, Marnie’s was born. At once she had a name and a conversation piece.
“They knew everybody and everybody knew them,” Anne said.
Marnie’s truly is a family affair, with Christian serving as the fun-loving bartender and Anne’s daughter, Gretchen, also assisting as a server.
“The school’s senior class banquet, they’ve done that here for years and years,” Anne said.
“They haven’t quite caught on yet,” Anne said of the lounge couches.
Above: Bartender Christian Matyshak makes a brandy Old Fashioned at Marnie’s. Photo by Len Villano.
Anne previously had worked as a chef in the Southern Door School kitchen, but always with an eye on opening a restaurant. “We liked this because it wasn’t just a bar, but a restaurant and a banquet hall,” she said. That means family celebrations of all sorts, service organization meetings such as the Lion’s Club, and various events for the Southern Door School District are held here.
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But some things you don’t change because they are effective, and that certainly applies to the menu. “We still have broasted chicken because that’s big around here. Sunday is kind of chicken day,” Anne said. “Fish fry on Friday. You’ve got to have that. Steak and seafood on Saturday. We’ve had coconut shrimp for the last couple of weeks.” Pizza is also a popular menu item, with several calls for takeouts coming in as Anne talked. Being a practical woman, Anne Mueller isn’t willing to speculate on whether Marnie’s will be around as long as her predecessors were, but if you’re around in 2065, stop by and see.
— Jim Lundstrom
A Tavern Less Traveled: AC Tap
“There’s no place in Door County that AC Tap isn’t on the way home from,” Earlen “Butch” Seiler used to say. Seiler was a regular at the Tap with his buddy, the Polka King Freddie Kodanko, a local legend. It was the first and often the only stop on their tractor rides through the rural parts of a rural county. “It was a farmer’s bar and that was its niche here,” said owner Steve Mueller. “It was farmers in the morning, afternoon, whatever they’re doing between plowing or spreading manure or milking cows. They would come in and have a few beers and then go back to their chores.” The AC Tap is four miles south of Sister Bay and four miles north of Baileys Harbor, sometimes referred to as, “the middle of nowhere.” Mueller, who also grew up in that neighborhood that no town could truly claim, said that’s how they wanted it. “They didn’t want to go into town,” he said. “They would have had to change clothes or do whatever. Here it didn’t matter. They had cow poop on their feet, they came in like that.” Mueller took over the AC Tap in 2002 but was familiar with the bar long before then.
Above: Located “in the middle of nowhere,” the AC Tap began as a place for area farmers to tip a tall cool one between daily chores. Photo by Len Villano.
“I was probably here when I was five years old with my parents. We’d be here every Sunday after church for second sermon,” he laughed. But the chuckles don’t mean Mueller is exaggerating. In the mid-19th century,
farmers would rise with the sun every day and get to work. After half a day in the field, their break would consist of beer and conversation with the other farmers living around the Tap. Many, like Freddie Kodanko, drove their tractors to the bar because, as Kodanko liked to say, “You don’t need no license for no tractor.” But being off the beaten path does pose some challenges. “You put my same venue into town and I’d be probably three times as busy,” said Mueller. “The laws changed and it got harder. Mothers Against Drunk Driving was a good thing. But once they got all the bad drunks off the road, then they went for casual drinkers. Now they’re going for anyone who has a whisper of alcohol and I think that’s the wrong thing. It’s going to send taverns out and that’s where bars like this have a harder time than the ones in town that people can walk to.” Still, Mueller is consistently looking for new niches to squeeze the AC Tap into. From serving food until bar close to sushi on Tuesdays, Mueller has worked to improve what will always be the farmer’s bar. “When I started, I wanted it to be a Cheers to Door County,” he said. “I wanted it to be local. I wanted it to be everybody knows everybody and the tourists will find us anyway. I’m not worried about them.”
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Breadth and Longevity: Birmingham’s In the early 20th century, at the peak of Door County’s limestone production, there was only one place to stop between Sturgeon Bay and one of the area’s biggest employers, the Leathem & Smith Quarry. Birmingham’s General Store and bar across the street served the commuters on their way to and from their hard days in the stone yard. “There was no road north of the quarry, that was the end of it at that point,” said Brad Birmingham. He is now the owner of Birmingham’s as it passed down from his grandfather over nearly a century. This oasis began as just a general store in 1927, offering basic groceries for the men heading home from work to Sturgeon Bay. But at the start of the first World War, production at the quarries exploded to keep up with the shipbuilding demands of the war effort. After Prohibition, Herman Geitner responded by opening a bar across the street from the general store. The bar succeeded with the improving stone shipment economy. “The boats coming to load the stone up to go to various ports with their products, they would also get supplies here. It was a very valuable tool at that time,” Birmingham said. Even after the World War I, quarries owned by Leathem D. Smith were some of the largest in the Great Lakes. But with its success tied to the production at the quarry, Birmingham’s fell equally hard during the Great Depression. The Birminghams made up for their losses by selling ice cut from the bay to be used in coolers for locals and tourists. When the U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission contracted Smith’s quarries for building vessels during
Right: Brad Birmingham and his 92-year-old mother Marian Birmingham, who still cooks at Birmingham’s Bar on Mondays. Photos by Len Villano.
World War II, the economic life returned to the quarry and to Birmingham’s. The quarry closed at the end of World War II, but Birmingham’s had already been established as a place for Sturgeon Bay locals to meet. “Back in the old days it was the social hub of families getting together and celebrating and having kids because there weren’t all these places,” Birmingham said. “Back then, everyone got together and drank and met all your friends and socialized. It’s all commercialized now, it has all gone into tourism and things like that. We’re still kind of the local cornerstone for the area for our neighbors. We’re pretty well entrenched in the area.” Brad’s mother, Marian (June) Birmingham, is part of the Geitner family, whose history is tied with Mr. G’s Supper Club, the Nightingale and the Hitching Post, among other county bars. “The Geitner family has been in the bar business for quite some years,”
Birmingham said. His mother shows no signs of stopping when, at 92 years old, she is still back behind the grill cooking at Birmingham’s every Monday. Their breadth and longevity in the business leaves the family well versed in how a bar graduates to become the chosen locale in a community. “It has nothing to do with the bar, it has nothing to do with anything but the people,” Birmingham said. “The local neighbors come in and they have a chance to come in and talk. You see it right here.” He points his hand to the left where three older men had convened at the bar. They had all arrived separately and, although they were surprised to see each other, they also expected nothing less. Brad reaches into the wooden cooler and pulls out another bottle of Miller Lite as the men sit on another Monday and talk about anything.
— Jackson Parr
Epicenter of Island Life: Nelsen’s Hall When the feds walked into Nelsen’s Hall during Prohibition and dragged owner Tom Nelsen to court, the procedure went something like this. “Give me a minute judge,” said Nelsen as he pulled out a bottle of Angostura Bitters. “You can find this at any drug store in the world.” He listed the symptoms that bitters claimed to cure including hiccups, upset stomach and flatulence. Nelsen poured out a shot for the judge and upon taking it, the judge recoiled in disgust. “Well who would ever want to drink this?” the judge claimed. Nelsen’s pharmaceutical license, which he earned for the sole purpose of dispensing bitters to those who came to Nelsen’s Hall, was reinstated. In his defense, Nelsen’s Hall did serve as a dance hall, dentist office, movie theater and, of course, pharmacy. The sale of bitters as a faux stomach tonic is
Above: Nelsen’s Hall has the distinction of being the oldest legally continuously operated tavern in the state, thanks to 90 proof bitters the bar served through the 13 dark years of Prohibition. Photo by Dan Eggert.
what helped Nelsen survive the 13 years of Prohibition. The many roles it filled cemented the hall in the community. For more than a century, it has been the epicenter of life on Washington Island. Nelsen built the dance hall in 1899 after arriving from Denmark like many other islanders. Three years later, he put in the bar and the dancing got a little crazier. “When you walk in, a lot of people say Tom Nelsen still hangs around,” said Robin Ditello, who has owned Nelsen’s Hall since 1999. “It’s always been the place to come. It was the first tavern that was here.” They keep the old movie projector in the back and the dentist chair sits at Jacobsen Museum on the island. Further accolades include a Guinness World Record for the largest purveyor of bitters in the world and being the oldest legally continuously operated tavern in the state. The hall embraces their culture of bitters by incorporating it into more than just a shot glass. “We use it in our bloody Mary, we’ve made bitter burgers, every Easter we make a bitter ham,” said Ditello. To make a bitter ham, simply take out everything you would use to flavor the meat and use bitters instead.
The hall’s second owner, Tom’s nephew Gunner, paid tribute to his late uncle by starting the Bitters Club. Every year, more than 10,000 people join the Bitters Club by ordering a shot of the 90-proof stomach tonic. Ditello dips her thumb in the empty shot glass and prints it on a membership card. This certifies that you have taken ‘the Cure’ by consuming the prescribed measure of bitters and as such are a fully initiated member of the Bitter’s Club. You are now considered a full-fledged Islander and entitled to mingle, dance, etc. with all the other Islanders. Despite the incentive to join the Bitters Club, Ditello claims that is not what makes a tavern the center of a community. “It doesn’t have to have some specialty like our bitters, but it has to have character to make the locals want to come to it,” said Ditello. “It’s the atmosphere.” With that, Ditello casually leans back and tosses out an invitation, as if it’s a Sunday potluck and everyone is invited, “Do you want to join the Bitters Club?”
— Jackson Parr
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With all the taverns in Door County, why did we choose to highlight the ones we did? Deep history in their communities is a big reason. We also wanted to represent taverns and communities throughout this long and narrow county – from Marnie’s in Brussels at the southern end of the county to Nelsen’s on Washington Island. This was not meant to be a comprehensive look at the taverns of Door County, but more about what gives a tavern staying power in the diverse communities of Door County. If we didn’t include your favorite tavern, it’s not because we don’t know it or didn’t want to include it, but we did have to save space for other stories and restrict ourselves to a handful of the licensed liquor dispensers in Door County. Just to give everyone their due, here is a list of Door County Tavern League members:
27 Pines Golf & Range Sturgeon Bay
Alexander’s Dining & Spirits Fish Creek
Apple Valley Lanes Sturgeon Bay
Bayside Tavern Fish Creek
Birmingham’s Bar Sturgeon Bay
Bley’s Bar
West Jacksonport
Brick Lot Pub & Grill Sturgeon Bay
Brussels Countryside Brussels
Casey’s BBQ & Smokehouse Egg Harbor
Castaways on the Bay Sturgeon Bay
Fishing Hole
Mill Supper Club
Greenwood Supper Club
Mink River Basin
Sturgeon Bay
Fish Creek
Grey Stone Castle Sturgeon Bay
Husby’s
Sister Bay
Idlewild Golf Course Sturgeon Bay
Juniper’s Gin Joint Fish Creek
Sturgeon Bay
Ellison Bay
Mr G’s Logan Creek Grille Jacksonport
Nautical Inn Pub & Grill Sturgeon Bay
Nelsen’s Hall/ Bitters Pub & Restaurant
Washington Island
Rouer’s Roadhouse LLC Sturgeon Bay
Shipwrecked Brew Pub Egg Harbor
Sister Bay Bowl Sister Bay
Stage Road Inn Sturgeon Bay
Stone Harbor Pub Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club
Karly’s Bar
The Nightingale Supper Club
Washington Island
Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay
Kitty O’Reilly’s Irish Pub
The Orchards At Egg Harbor
Sunset Bar & Grill
Sturgeon Bay
Egg Harbor
Kona Bay Fishhouse
Pelletier’s Restaurant & Fish Boil
Sturgeon Bay
Liberty Square Egg Harbor
Fish Creek
Peninsula Pub Baileys Harbor
Sturgeon Bay
The Tin Plate Sevastopol
Top Deck
Baileys Harbor
Valmy Happy Hour Sturgeon Bay
Classics
Little Brown Jug Saloon
Cornerstone Pub
Little Sister Resort
The Red Room
Coyote Roadhouse
The Log Den
Rite’s Cove
Donny’s Glidden Lodge Restaurant
Middle Bar II
Roadhouse of Carlsville
Wave Pointe Marina & Resort
Carlsville
Sturgeon Bay
Rouer’s Grand Slam
Woldt’s Corner Pub
Brussels
Baileys Harbor
Baileys Harbor
Sturgeon Bay
The Edge Of Town Brussels
Sturgeon Bay
Sister Bay
Egg Harbor
Washington Island
Mike’s Port Pub & Grill Jacksonport
Source: Door County Tavern League
Poh’s Corner Pub Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay
Brussels
Brussels
The Viking Grill & Lounge Ellison Bay
Waterfront Mary’s Sturgeon Bay
Sturgeon Bay
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ART by Alyssa Skiba / photography by Len Villano
Color Me Cappaert Spontaneity may rule the afternoon and evening hours Ginnie Cappaert spends in her quaint studio overlooking the waters of Egg Harbor, but it is her dedication to a morning routine of meditation and the great outdoors that gets her there.
you” and for the past quarter-century of Cappaert’s life, that has been a home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with frequent visits to the Door Peninsula, both of which boast stunning skylines, plentiful woods, an abundance of open water, and now, Cappaert’s studios.
An abstract landscape painter, those quiet moments practicing yoga, hiking the peninsula’s trails, and biking its rolling country roads are as necessary to Cappaert as the tools she uses to achieve her work.
All of those features have, in the past eight years, become the focal point of her work in oil, which she came to after successful careers in watercolor and mixed media. But why would a self-taught artist step away from her successes to risk failure of a new and arguably more difficult medium?
In fact, that morning routine just may be the most important tool she has. “I do a lot of things and that’s what keeps my life interesting,” Cappaert explained. “And then I think the quiet moments where I can paint kind of balance out all the other things that I enjoy doing so much.” Each afternoon, with a clear mind and her intuition as guide, Cappaert makes her way down the garden-flanked stone path leading to her studio to let those inspirational experiences speak through color — a mission achieved through use of oil paint and cold wax medium in a style characterized by intensive use of shape, line work and texture. It is a style built on a long-held belief that “what surrounds you, inspires
For Cappaert, a wife, mother of two, studio and gallery owner, biker, hiker, yogi and horseback rider, it all had to do with life imitating art. “There was so much going on in my (mixed media) work and so many things and elements, and I think I needed to zone out life a little bit and calm it down,” she said. “Then I started playing around with the oil and cold wax, and that spoke to me. The whole process was much more calming, serene and tranquil.” So is the result. Since she came to oils, Cappaert has become a master of color in her minimalist abstract landscapes, bridging the gap between the expected
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Above left: Ginnie Cappaert, artist and owner of Cappaert Contemporary Gallery in Egg Harbor. Above: “Silence,” by Ginnie Cappaert.
greens of a forest landscape and blues of water with bright pops of pink and gold. She is a keen observer of nature through the seasons, using her abstract leaning to blend the varying colors and textures of the seasons into each piece. “I like the abstract style because it’s not a full-blown abstract — when you look at my work, you can tell it’s a horizon line
“It’s kind of opened up so people can use their own imagination and add to the feel of the piece as well.”
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Right and below: Ginnie Cappaert applies cold wax and oil paint to custom-built birchwood paneling in her Egg Harbor studio. Far right: “Distance,” 24” x 48,” by Ginnie Cappaert.
or you can tell it’s a forest but it’s not so in your face that you see every branch or every detail in the water,” Cappaert said. “It’s kind of opened up so people can use their own imagination and add to the feel of the piece as well.” That upbeat, yet laidback approach to creating her stunning visuals is what caught the attention of JR and Nell Jarosh, owners of Edgewood Orchard Galleries, who came face-to-face with Cappaert’s creations six years ago during the gallery’s open submission process. “She’s the kind of artist we love to have at the gallery because her personality
comes through in her work — colorful, interesting, there’s depth to the work and to her,” JR Jarosh said. “She’s just really friendly and I think for Nell and I, we love to show artists that we love … when someone’s looking at Ginnie’s work, [her personality] comes through.”
The gallery, in the 1873 log cabin on Highway 42 that formerly housed Dovetail Gallery, features regional and national artists working in sculpture, painting, glass, copper and jewelry, along with Cappaert’s tranquilityevoking minimalist landscapes.
Their love and support for Cappaert and her work has been steadfast over the years as she’s continued to bolster her artistic reputation on the Door Peninsula, which this spring led her to close her gallery in the U.P. (which still houses her winter studio) and open Cappaert Contemporary Gallery in Egg Harbor.
“I loved the art energy because there are so many artists, writers and musicians who live here,” Cappaert said of making the move. “All the galleries and studios, that creates this vibrant lifestyle that, as we know, is special to Door County. I wanted to be in the thick of that.”
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The Girl Who Knew Jens Jensen: Malin Ekman
Her parents christened her Malin, a popular name in Sweden, meaning true and trustworthy. When she started kindergarten, school officials changed it to Marlene. But it really didn’t matter, because from the time she was a wee girl, she has been called Tudy, the nickname her father gave her. Her parents were Henny and Titus Ekman, immigrants from far northern Sweden. They were part of the “Evanston Swedes,” a close-knit group who loved to fish and loved Door County because it reminded them of home. Tudy was introduced to art in kindergarten and attended school in Evanston through sixth grade. She was fortunate to spend those early years in a district with a visionary superintendent who was one of the driving forces
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behind the artistic enrichment of the schools in the early 20th century. It was a wonderful place for a child who realized early that art was her destiny. The year 1943 brought big changes. Titus Ekman was a machinist, and friends who had moved to Door County told him about opportunities in the Sturgeon Bay shipyards, booming with wartime business. The family bought the building south of Baileys Harbor on Highway 57 that had been The Old Heidleberg. “There was no electricity, no running water, no bathroom,” Tudy recalls. “There was a hand pump in the kitchen that worked sometimes. It was total culture shock.” The two-room school in Baileys Harbor was an even greater culture shock.
Somehow, Olivia Traven, one of the founders of The Ridges, knew of Tudy’s artistic talent and arranged for her to attend. One day a week for two years, she left school and rode to The Clearing with a group from Fish Creek. Folks from Baileys Harbor brought her home. “Going through the snow banks on that crazy road to The Clearing to get to and from art classes, I knew this was meant to be,” she says. “I was the little farm girl among all those adults. There were wonderful conversations coming and going. I can’t tell you how exciting it was. The whole group of people was amazing, and I was smart enough to listen. “It wasn’t like we sat down and had a class at The Clearing. It was more of a free-for-all. Very informal. You started a project and got some instruction, mostly from one another. Jens Jensen was a big storyteller, and he always had a rapt audience. He was a true philosopher, and he was interested in everything. I remember sitting there and listening to him talk about Mahatma Gandhi. Gerhard Miller was part of the group. He and Jensen together were unbelievable. Emma Toft was a fellow student. I’ve kept those memories my whole life. “There was no art, no music, no creative writing,” she says. “I was a girl in love with horses, who had no horse. But I loved to draw them. I took a drawing to school one day and kept it under the lid of my desk until I dared to show it to Lee Tishler, who sat next to me. He was the only other person who seemed to me to be an ‘art type.’ The teacher, Ernald Viste, noticed and became enraged. He jumped up from his desk and rushed right at me. ‘We can’t have a mule like that around here,’ he shouted.
Above: Malin “Tudy” Ekman’s artwork fills her home on Frogtown Road in Baileys Harbor. She credits Jens Jensen and Gerhard Miller at The Clearing for helping her to find her artistic path.
He threw the picture back in my desk and slammed the lid down. That showed me how important art was anywhere in the town. It just didn’t exist.” High school was no better — a far cry from the opportunities Gibraltar offers today. “The building was grim,” Tudy says. “The only new facility was the gym and, of course, there were no sports for girls. And again no arts program of any kind. Some of the country kids were good writers, but that skill was considered of no value. I felt so bad for them.” Tudy has long believed that she has guardian angels, and she’s sure they were looking out for her at that point in her life. During her freshman year at Gibraltar, Jens Jensen began offering winter classes at The Clearing.
“Jensen instantly judged people — whether he liked you or not, whether you ‘had it’ or didn’t have it. When I first appeared in his class, he asked if I had work ‘from when I was young.’ I told him I did, and he said, ‘Bring it in.’ I did, and apparently he was satisfied, because I was allowed to continue. Gerhard taught painting, and I must say of all the instructors I’ve had in my life, he was one of the best. Jensen taught woodcarving. “After a while, I told him I’d like to try carving. He said, ‘Have Frank Oldenburg make you a stool.’ I came back with a little pine stool with a round top two inches thick. Frank gave me a few hints. Jensen said nothing and paid no attention to what I was attempting to do. Then one day he finally looked at my carving and said, ‘Yes, I can tell you have it in your hands.’ I knew he wasn’t
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Above: Emma Toft works on a piece at an easel in The Clearing Folk School while a group of individuals, including Tudy Eckman (seated center) sit by and observe. Photo courtesy of The Clearing Folk School.
When Tudy graduated from Gibraltar in 1950, Jensen gave her a copy of his new book, The Clearing: “A Way of Life.” On the flyleaf, he inscribed, “Dear Friend, I hope you will ascend in your chosen field.” Tudy worked her way through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a goal of working in advertising, and graduated with honors. Her first jobs were with the Chicago Tribune and the Schlitz Brewing Company. There was little time for art during the 15 to 20 years she was married and raising her children in Winnetka, but excellent adult classes in the school district got her involved again
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When I visit Gibraltar School and walk along the hallway past the old gym, I look on the bottom row of the “Visions of Peace” tile mural created by elementary students in 1997 to find mine, one that I made after teaching Kurt Vonnegut’s antiwar novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. My sense of pride is no different than that of students involved in the project at Gibraltar, or in any of the murals created under the guidance of David and Jeanne Aurelius in other mainland Door County schools. Joan Blackwood was then the Friends of Gibraltar Special Projects Coordinator for the “Visions of Peace” mural.
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“It was a rare day that I did not encounter a child gently touching a tile, a volunteer proudly showing a student the tile he had made, and the student then pointing out her tile,” she said. At Southern Door, art teacher Barb Schriner-Schmitt initiated the “Opening the Door and Soaring to New Dimensions” mural project, again with the Aureliuses. “I see young children especially drawn to it to examine it closely,” she said. “I think the students involved have a special pride for their part of the group effort.” David and Jeanne Aurelius, well known since 1976 for their work
at Clay Bay Pottery in Ellison Bay, are also recognized throughout the state for their excellence as artists in residence, coordinating projects that bring dozens, sometimes hundreds, of students, teachers and volunteers together to complete a permanently installed tile mural in celebration of their community.
murals, the most recent in 2013 for the middle school in Phillips, Wisconsin. In each finished piece the Aureliuses find visions and values unique to a community and incorporate them into the design.
In 1994 the Clay Bay potters were invited to Lake Bluff Elementary School in the Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood to supervise 600 students as they created a tile mural, “Nature and the Neighborhood.”
Elements of the community and the environment create a big picture, Jeanne added, “and we let the small details fill in.”
Including that first project, the Aureliuses have undertaken 21 school
“We tell stories by the mural,” David said.
The completed large-scale murals are constructed with six-by-six inch painted clay tiles that are glazed and fired before being permanently installed on a wall
Top row, left to right: “The Four Seasons of Door County” 7’x15’ at Sevastopol School in Institute. “Celebrate Sunrise in Door County” 7’x11’ at Sunrise Elementary School in Sturgeon Bay. “Wild About Water” 6’x12’ at Gibraltar School in Fish Creek. Bottom row, left to right: “The View of Westside School” 4’x12’ at Sawyer Elementary School in Sturgeon Bay. “Visions of Peace” 7’x15’ at Gibraltar School in Fish Creek.
in a public area of the school. Typically the work is six to seven feet in height and 12 to 14 feet in width. While many of the murals are elementary school projects, some involve middle or high school students. continues on page 45
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Because of the complexity of the creative process that goes into a tile mural, the potters explain, meetings and planning sessions are essential for bringing about well-laid plans that will lead to the project’s success.
Schriner-Schmitt remembered all the parents and grandparents who “volunteered for entire days or came in after school to help day after day.” And at Gibraltar, Blackwood noted, “The cooperation between teachers and administrators, parents, students and community volunteers makes each mural memorable.”
Funding may be drawn from school budgets, corporate sponsors and community donations. State Arts Board grants, unfortunately, are no longer a significant source of financing. Most often parent-teacher organizations are instrumental in fundraising. A residency generally requires two to three weeks. Usually, Jeanne explains, the couple will go into a school in early fall for preliminary planning and then return a month later for the technical work of the mural. While students most often work in art classes, sometimes projects cross curricula. For example, the Gibraltar Middle School “Wild About Water” mural was introduced in science classes, and under the direction of thenstate Poet Laureate Ellen Kort, students in English classes wrote poetry to be included with the artwork. However, school murals not only depict a vision of a community, but their actual creation is the work of the community also, the efforts not only of students,
but of volunteers, often parents and grandparents, and sometimes of other people in the neighborhood as well. Jeanne recalls that for the Southern Door mural, then-Door County Sheriff Terry Vogel painted a police car tile, and Sue Marchant, a grandmother of students and an owner of the nearby grocery store, “came in almost every day to paint.”
Above: Jeanne and David Aurelius in front of the mural “From Shore to Shore” at Sevastopol School in Institute. Inset: Detail of “From Shore to Shore.”
Speaking of her experience with the Aureliuses, Blackwood commented, “The best artists in the world cannot lead a successful residence if they do not love children, respect educators, show flexibility, and possess a unique creative ability to make all of those components come together. “Jeanne and David have all of those traits,” she added, “coupled with incredible artistic vision and talent.” “The experience of working with Jeanne and David was a complete pleasure,” Schriner-Schmitt said. “The mural has become a beautiful focal point for our main elementary office lobby area.” She believes the mural “helps to keep students involved in visual art and their creative vision thriving.”
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Harvey Haen, Much More Than Egg Harbor’s Mr. Fix-it In the days when tourism was only a sidelight in Egg Harbor, when the community was a workingman’s town of cherry pickers, farmers and shipyard workers, nobody was more necessary — or more admired — than the man they called Mr. Fix-it. “If it ran, floated, or towed, Harv could fix it,” Art Witalison wrote of Harvey Haen in a letter recognizing Haen’s 90th birthday in 2002. If you bring up his name to anyone who has lived in the town for more than 30 years, they’ll say the same. Harvey Haen was the sixth of 13 children born in 1913 to Joseph and Theresa Haen and raised on a farm on what is now County Road E outside Egg Harbor. He learned to fix machinery at the side of his father and for the rest of his days, he tinkered with his hands and his mind. Around age 20 he built his father a tractor to plow his fields, and long before it was common for farmers to own them, Harvey built 11 tractors from Model T, Model A, and Chrysler cars.
In 1933 he met Helen Martens, the perfect partner for a man who never wanted much more than a problem to solve, a good conversation, something to learn, and meals at 7:00 am, noon, and 5:00 pm. In 1942 they bought the Sinclair gas station in the center of Egg Harbor, right as Highway 42 bends toward the Cupola House heading north, and named it Harbor Service. Harvey worked days at Leathem Smith Shipyard, so Helen pumped gas from the two pumps out front, washed windows, checked oil, did the books, and scheduled Harvey’s repair jobs for the evenings, when he would come home and work until 10:00 or 12:00 at night. “She put up with all the male crap,” remembered Dan Haen, one of their five children, “And she had a way of calming
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Harvey when he would get excited about something. ‘Oh Harvey, say a prayer,’ she’d say.” One of her great tasks was trying to get him to charge people for his work. “His conscience would hit him,” Dan said. “He’d put down eight hours on a job, but then later he’d go back and change it to six or four because he’d say that the guy couldn’t afford that much.” In 1947 they switched to Mobil gas when Harvey’s brother Lawrence started working for the company, and by then the station had become more than a repair shop — it became a gathering place in Egg Harbor. When travelers were waiting for the bus out front on a cold day, Helen invited
them inside to stay warm. When bored kids wandered into the store, Helen and Harvey let them linger in the waiting room admiring the pop machine and probing Harvey with questions. Harvey was happy to oblige with stories, and not just for the kids. Jim Peterson said Helen always had coffee on and bakery ready in the days when there weren’t a lot of places to grab a cup in Egg Harbor. But you never heard the radio. Harvey couldn’t work with the radio on. “You have to keep your mind clear,” he said in an interview recorded when he was 89. Instead of the background sound of the radio, Harvey talked...and talked.
“You’d stop by and Harvey would say, ‘Well, as long as you’re here, you might as well stick around and have a cup.’ And you would,” Peterson said. “They were such outgoing people. You’d talk to them two or three minutes and you knew them all your life.” “You never knew who was coming to lunch or dinner,” remembered his daughter Judi Dexheimer, who by age 10 was pumping gas and washing windows for her parents. “If you came by for repairs at noon, you were invited in for lunch. If you brought your car by in the evening, he’d invite you in for supper. If you came later, we might be having a second supper.” Fortunately Woldt’s grocery store was next door, and the kids could easily be
dispatched to fetch a little more food for the guest. When Harvey didn’t have a part, he didn’t always order it, he often fashioned it in the shop. He knew the intricacies of welding and returned to vocational school as an adult to learn about hydraulics, quickly becoming an expert and incorporating it into his creations, which were more functional than eye-catching. But Harvey didn’t just repair things. He improved them, built them, invented them. He built 11 tractors back before they were common. He made go-karts and pedal karts for his kids that were the wonder of Egg Harbor boys for
generations. He invented a cherry shaker that was once the dominant form used by orchards throughout the peninsula. Harvey Haen’s garage was not a picture of meticulous organization. Dan learned the trade from Harvey, but they often struggled to work together. Dan thrived on organization, Harvey on the organization in his mind. As hard as Dan worked to keep it clean and in order, Harvey seemed to work just as hard to create a beautiful mess only he could understand. “I’d clean a work bench, and the next day there would be piles of junk on it,” Dan recalled. “He’d shove stuff underneath it, on it, everywhere.”
“It drove Dan crazy,” Judi said. “He was so neat, and Harvey couldn’t work without a mess.” Harvey would survey a pile of junk behind the shop and see what nobody else could see. A shape would grab him, and pretty soon a useless piece of an old car or boat would be just the piece he needed to get a tractor back in the fields again, or to pull a Pontiac out of the lake. “He was like an artist that way,” Dan said. “He could look at a big pile of junk and see a shape he needed.” Many considered Harvey to have one of the most fascinating minds they’d ever known.
“I’ve always felt that Door County is fortunate that Harvey Haen, with his inventive mind, decided to move here instead of to some big city where he probably would have become a noted engineer,” wrote John Enigl, a longtime journalist and historian in Egg Harbor. Harvey Haen only had an eighth grade education, as high school wasn’t common for rural children in the 1920s. He loved to learn, and throughout
Above left: Helen and Harvey Haen made a perfect team at the gas station in Egg Harbor they ran from 1942 until 1979. Above right: The Haens with four of their five children. Submitted photos.
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In 1979, after 37 years pumping gas, giving directions, and feeding strangers at their kitchen table, Harvey and Helen sold the gas station and moved into the house down the street, but Harvey wasn’t the retiring type. He tinkered out of his basement, doing repairs and inventing machines on the dirt floor, yelling up to Helen to unplug the dryer when he needed to fire up the welder. “He just couldn’t quit working,” Dan said. After Helen died in 1998, Harvey moved into an apartment complex in Sturgeon Bay, where he promptly set about tinkering. The day after moving in he had bolted his recliner to the floor to keep it from sliding and created a lampshade for the kitchen table to direct the light precisely where he wanted it. His children figured that by the time Harvey was done, they’d end up having to buy the place. Harvey died in 2004, age 91. The gas station where the town brought their broken down tractors, cars, lawn mowers, and anything with a motor is long gone. The place where many a cup of coffee and impromptu meal were had at the Haens table now only a memory. But in this case, the march of progress may have gotten something just right.
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Harvey and Helen’s homes welcomed everyone in town for more than 50 years — a weary traveler, a local tradesman, the neighbor’s kids. The shop and their home were bought and torn down to expand Harbor View Park, where today everyone is welcome to gather day and night, just as they did at Harvey and Helen’s for decades. When Harvey died, one family member wondered “what he might have become if he had the opportunity of a higher education.” To the people of Egg Harbor, he couldn’t have been much more.
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Hjalmar R. Holand Once the Most Interesting Man In Door County Few, if any, individuals who have called Door County home have led more interesting lives than Hjalmar R. Holand. His interactions with famous people, his world travels, and his prolific writings combine to form a remarkable life. And though he called America home for most of his 90 years, his Norwegian ancestry defined a large portion of his life. Holand was born on October 20, 1872, on a farm called Salstroken on the shore of Lake Hemness in the southern part of Höland in Norway. His father was a successful farmer who sold the farm in 1878, moved the family to Oslo, and bought two apartment buildings. For a brief time the family fared well, but poor investment decisions caused his father to lose the apartments, forcing him to take whatever handy work he could find. Holand’s mother died two years later at the age of 50, so when Holand’s older brother, Anders, invited Hjalmar and his younger sister Helen to join him in America, Holand’s father cobbled together the funds to send the two to Chicago. Hjalmar was just 13 years old. The ensuing years were often difficult as Holand pursued both work and education. He worked for and met Marshall Field in Chicago where he took high school classes at the YMCA. He attended Battle Creek College in Michigan for several years while working for Dr. J. H. Kellogg. But most of Holand’s years were spent in the role of itinerant bookseller, traveling throughout the region selling books door to door. The contacts he made in the Norwegian communities in Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota during his travels would ultimately provide the material for his first book, but Holand was always looking for new areas and communities to sell books, which led him to Door County. As he noted in his biography, My First Eighty Years, published in 1957, “over
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Above: Hjalmar R. Holand arrived in Door County on bicycle in 1898, noting that “apparently the county had not yet emerged from the early pioneer stage.” But he was hooked by the beauty of the county and became its bestknown historian. Photo courtesy of the Ephraim Historical Society.
on the eastern edge of Lake Michigan lay a long peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan which now and then had beckoned to me. Not only its shape, but also its local names fascinated me. They were not all attractive, to be sure, as, for instance, Sevastopol, which was meaningless, seeing there were no Russians there. Fish Creek was plebian, and Europe Lake was a wretched misnomer, no matter what its shape or size. But most names were good — Sturgeon Bay, Egg Harbor, Ephraim, Sister Bay, Gills Rock, North Bay, Clay Banks, and Lily Bay. Especially did I like Ephraim because it had the flavor of old, patriarchal history.” Holand arrived in Sturgeon Bay in late summer of 1898, having made the trip from Madison on his bicycle. After consulting maps at the courthouse, Holand became interested in the Ephraim area. Satisfied that he knew his way he set off on the “highway” north to Fish Creek on his bicycle, a trip where he observed that “apparently the county had not yet emerged from the early pioneer stage.” It was on his second day in the county that he reached Ephraim, where he coasted down the last hill to the beach. “There it lay,” he wrote, “a charming little village, with every house painted white, against a background of bright evergreens on a steep hill behind it! Nowhere had I seen a village that could compare with it in beauty and location.” Sixty years later he still felt the same way. While visiting, Holand became convinced that he needed to own his own land in the community, particularly somewhere across the harbor near the escarpment that so dominated the view. In expressing this desire he learned that there was, indeed, someone who might be interested in selling by the name of Ingebret Barlund, who owned 57 acres just around Eagle Bluff from the village in the area now known as Nicolet Bay. After meeting with Barlund, Holand found that the property could be purchased but he would need time to raise the funds — $50 — in a month to complete the deal. Holand felt confident he could sell the books necessary to
raise the funds in the allotted time, but it ended up taking five weeks. Barland now stated that he had changed his mind about selling but Holand was undeterred. He raised the offer to $75 and, when that was turned down, Holand raised the offer to $85 and tossed in that he would allow Barland to cut trees on the property for a full year. This time Barland accepted but Holand, being $35 dollars short of the agreed upon price, was forced to ask parson Gudmund Kluxdahl for a $20 loan and borrowed the additional $15 from the Sunday School kitty. At last Holand had the funds and bought the 57 acres that is now a portion of Peninsula State Park. The deal done, Holand returned to Madison to continue his studies. While at the University, Holand met his wife, Evelyn, and also learned from professor William A. Henry, Dean of the College of Agriculture, that Door County was an excellent place to grow fruit trees. As it turned out, Barland never harvested any trees during his year of being entitled to do so, thus Holand hired a local man to clear trees and blast stumps. Within a few years, the land satisfactorily cleared, Holand purchased 1,200 fruit trees (1,000 apple trees and 200 cherry trees, though he sold 100 of the cherry trees to Dr. Eames in Egg Harbor), which he planted in the spring of 1902. His home was already built, a modest 20-foot by 31-foot structure with two rooms upstairs and three downstairs. The foundation of his home can still be seen in the state park. By now, Holand had been selling maps for Rand McNally (primarily used as advertising premiums by purchasers) but he quit this work to pursue his writing. He was one of the founding members of the Norwegian cultural society and was elected the society’s archivist and historian. He took his appointment seriously and traveled to settlements throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, giving talks, enlisting new members, and — most importantly — collecting the stories and recollections of the early settlers in each community he visited. These
interviews were eventually compiled into Holand’s first book, published in 1908, titled History of the Norwegian Immigration, published in Norwegian, with 622 pages bound in half leather and 50 portraits of old pioneers. The books sold for $2 each. In 1916, a representative of S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. approached Holand with an offer to write a history of Door County, which they would publish and sell. Holand had already been writing historical sketches for the local paper and, with an offer of $500 payment for the manuscript, readily agreed. Thus, History of Door County Wisconsin: The County Beautiful, a two-volume set was published in 1917. The first volume concentrates on the actual history of the peninsula, beginning in 1608 with the arrival of the French up to the year of publication. The second volume features biographical information of early settlers on the peninsula, which Holand collected in much the same way he collected recollections and stories of Norwegian settlers for his earlier book. “The book … came out on the date planned,” Holand wrote. The publishers were very complimentary and said it was the most complete county history they had ever published. “It was indeed very complete,” he continued, “because I went through the town and county records to include every justice of the peace and constable that ever had office.” Holand realized, however, that the very completeness of his two-volume set “detracted from its readability.” So he decided to write another book and the result was Old Peninsula Days, published in 1925. He expected sales to be rather limited for his slimmed down history so he printed 1,000 copies at his own expense. But much to his surprise the book was a success, “going through seven editions and about 12,000 copies” by 1957. Holand played with the manuscript for Old Peninsula Days throughout his lifetime, rearranging chapters and adding new material. Following his death, a number of publishers
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Through the years the accuracy of Holand’s Door County histories has often been questioned. To some extent this may be due to the lack of bibliographies and scarcity of footnoting in either history. Another factor is that Holand collected recollections from settlers and then organized them into a chronological sequence. Therefore a large portion of his two-volume history and certainly all of Old Peninsula Days is more accurately described as oral history rather than history in its strictest sense. As Sloma noted, “Holand liked to embellish his stories to make them more interesting.” Today, both of Holand’s Door County histories remain in print thanks to Luchterhand and his Wm. Caxton Ltd editions. Both the Caxton editions have been faithfully reproduced from first editions of each history. In the case of the two-volume history, Luchterhand took apart a first edition belonging to Duncan Thorpe and printed the book via photolithographic offset. Only two changes were made: first the margins were narrowed slightly, though the type size remained exactly as it was originally printed, and second, a photo of cherry blossoms that appeared in the original edition was dropped because it was “fuzzy even in the original,” Luchterhand noted. Caxton’s edition of Old Peninsula Days was printed in the same manner, though in a paperback edition, and contains all of the original Vida Weborg illustrations. In the remainder of his long life, Holand went on to write nine more books and became nationally (and, to an extent, internationally) famous
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Holand and the Kensington Stone In 1898 Olof Ohman, a Swedish immigrant clearing his land of trees and stumps in the rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, claimed he found a stone covered in strange markings in the roots of a poplar tree. The stone is approximately 30” x 16” x 6” and weighs approximately 200 pounds. It became known as the Kensington Stone because Kensington, Minnesota, is the nearest settlement. Ohman believed the strange markings were Native American and a copy of the inscription (the stone is inscribed on one face with a second inscription along one side) made its way to Olaus J. Breda, a professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of Minnesota, who determined that the writing was Scandinavian runes and concluded the stone was a forgery. Likewise, several of Breda’s associates in Scandinavia also pronounced it a fake. Holand visited the “small Swedish-Norwegian community … three miles north of the village of Kensington” during his research for History of Norwegian Immigration in 1907. Upon inquiring about anything of historical interest he was told of Ohman’s Kensington Stone. Holand recognized immediately that the inscriptions on the stone were ancient runes and, after some negotiation, purchased the stone from Ohman and had it transported back to his home in Door County.
Though he became aware of Professor Breda’s dismissive conclusions, Holand compiled his own translation of the runes. Holand’s first translation below appears on the face of the stone while the second translation below appears on the edge of the stone (note that the bracketed words do not appear in the inscription): [We are] 8 Goths and 22 Norwegians on [an] exploration journey from Vinland through the West We had camp by [a lake with] 2 skerries one day’s journey north from this stone. We were [out] and fished one day. After we came home [we] found 10 men red with blood and dead A V [e] M [aria] Save [us] from evil. [We] have 10 men by the sea to look after our ships 14 days’ journey from this island [in the] year [of our Lord] 1362 Holand managed to have the stone’s authenticity endorsed by the Minnesota Historical Society, chiefly through the recommendation of Professor N. H. Winchell, but the debate raged on. For each supporter there were two who claimed it a hoax. As Holand noted in My First Eighty Years: “Thus it happened that I became involved in a scholastic inquiry which has lasted half-acentury and the end is not yet. It has been my chief subject of study and meditation, about which I have written four books and more than a hundred articles in various periodicals. It necessitated three research trips to European universities and museums and each year I have made at least one trip to northwestern Minnesota to investigate new finds and circumstances.” This ongoing research led Holand to search for mooring stones. In essence, a mooring stone is “a big boulder on the shore of a lake or big river, which serves as a pier, to which a large or heavily laden boat can be moored. To make this effective a hole is drilled into the top surface of the boulder. This hole, from six to eight inches deep, is for the insertion of a ringbolt to which the painter of the boat is tied.”
Above: Minnesota farmer Olof Ohman discovered the Kensington Runestone in 1898 on his farm near Kensington, Minnesota. While controversy continues to surround the stone, new evidence confirms that the stone is at least 200 years old, which means it could not have been forged by Ohman. Photo courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society.
Holand claimed to have found 10 such mooring stones in Minnesota and offered them as evidence of Scandinavian exploration in the Midwest.
for his unwavering belief in the authenticity of the Kensington Stone (see sidebar). He founded the Door County Historical Society and was a driving force in seeing the totem pole that still stands in Peninsula State Park created and erected. In addition, with his participation, the Historical Society purchased lands that are now treasured county parks including Tornado Park, Robert LaSalle Park, Murphy Park, Increase Claflin Park, and The Ridges Sanctuary. Taken together as a whole, you can see why, during his lifetime, Hjalmar R. Holand was the most interesting man in Door County. Hjalmar Holand Bibliography (listed with original publication dates) History of Norwegian Immigration, 1908 History of Door County Wisconsin: The County Beautiful, 1917 Old Peninsula Days, 1925 Coon Prairie, 1927 Coon Valley, 1928 The Last Migration, 1930 Wisconsin’s Belgian Community, 1931 The Kensington Stone, 1932 Westward From Vineland, 1940 America 1355 – 1364, 1946 Explorations in America Before Columbus, 1956 My First Eighty Years, 1957 A Pre-Columbian Crusade to America, 1962 NOTE: Virtually all of Holand’s books are now in the public domain and free from copyright restrictions. Thus, if you go to search books from Holand today you will find numerous other titles reissued by various publishers. Any title that does not appear in the list above is typically a portion of one or another of the above titles republished with a new title, or is in fact one of the books listed above published under another title.
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True Wisconsin Roots Copper Box draws powerhouse sound from a polka past
by Alyssa Skiba / photography by Len Villano MUSIC
When Judy Drew first heard about the band Copper Box in 2004, her mind couldn’t help but pause when the words accordion and Pink Floyd came up in the same sentence. As the executive director of Third Avenue Playhouse at the time, she was charged with building the theater’s audience by bringing family friendly entertainment to its stage. That meant booking local or regional acts that would get the audience up and moving, and coming back for more. Not having heard a lick of the band’s music, she relied on the Copper Boxpromoting theatergoer who showed up that day to describe their sound for her. “I asked, ‘What kind of music do they play?’ and this person said, ‘Well, I don’t know. There’s an accordion and a guitar and a saxophone and drums,’” Drew recalled. “And I thought, an accordion? And this person said, ‘Yeah, but you’ve never really heard anybody play the accordion like this guy. Don’t think traditional accordion music. Think Pink Floyd.’” Intrigued, Drew took the chance, booking the red-hot powerhouse that is Copper Box for its first gig in Door County. “They came, they did a concert, we drew a really good crowd that was so into it,” Drew said. “They did in fact play ‘Comfortably Numb,’ brought the house down, but then they just played a mix of Zydeco, covers — one of the things that people still want to hear them play is ‘Born on the Bayou,’ but again, on the accordion. I was in love with them! I was just smitten.” As it turned out, so was the audience. When Third Avenue Playhouse started a free annual outdoor concert for the community the next year, the first band Drew thought to book was Copper Box. The evening of the show, close to 500 people showed up to hear them play their signature musical fusion of blues,
Left: Copper Box co-founder Michelle Jerabek rocks out on the baritone sax during a June 2015 performance at Stone Harbor Resort in Sturgeon Bay.
jazz, pop, rock, polka and Americana using an instrumental lineup that included an accordion, cornet, sousaphone, baritone saxophone, guitar, washboard, bass and drums, a majority of which are played by the quartet’s leading members, husband and wife team Danny and Michelle Jerabek. In the decade since they bathed downtown Sturgeon Bay in their powerhouse sound, the musicality and popularity of Copper Box has only grown. They’ve seen a couple changes in their lineup (which now includes
…Danny has been slinging accordions around since the tender age of nine, when his grandpa gave him a squeezebox to play in his family’s polka band.
drummer Jason Van Ryzin and guitar/ bassist Drew Hicks) but their grasp on bringing the party to the people has remained steadfast. “We like to try to bring in the people and not only our friends and families and some of the fans that have followed us but tourists that have been in the audience,” Michelle said. “If they see us, we want them to feel like they’re part of a community. Probably the biggest thing at a Copper Box show is we want everyone to feel like they’re included and I think the music lends itself to doing that.” It certainly does. Whether they are playing their upbeat originals or putting the Copper Box polka twist on covers [their most popular being “The Pink Floyd Polka (Comfortably Numb)”], Copper Box has a command of its audience, bridging the generation gap between senior citizens and children, and pulling in those who ordinarily would not have turned an ear toward the genres they play.
Anyone who has seen the band play will attribute that to the energy of their live performances. Not only are Danny and Michelle talented multiinstrumentalists, they are natural performers whose physicality on stage keeps all eyes on them. “[Danny] has different sized instruments, but he takes that big accordion and slings that thing around and does things with it that you cannot believe can be done,” Drew said. “He’s just a natural performer.” An accurate statement, given that Danny has been slinging accordions around since the tender age of nine, when his grandpa gave him a squeezebox to play in his family’s polka band. Michelle was also raised in a polka-playing family band. In fact, the two met as children while playing in their respective families’ bands — an upbringing that made the transition to professional musicianship as adults a smooth one. “We already had experienced being gone every weekend to a polka dance and watched our dads and in my case, my grandfather, and all the aunts and uncles performing onstage together and having a good time,” Michelle recalled. “It just seemed like when we were growing up, it wasn’t, ‘Are you going to play band? What instrument are you going to play?’ It was, ‘Alright, it’s your turn, now show us what you’ve got. What instrument are you playing?’” Since they branched out on their own in 1997 (first with their polka band Kick and then with Copper Box in 2002), the couple has found solid footing in their musical careers. They have released seven Copper Box albums to rave reviews, performed main stage festivals with the likes of Little River Band, Buckwheat Zydeco, Los Lonely Boys and REO Speedwagon, and garnered a number of impressive awards, including Americana Artist of the Year for the Wisconsin Area Music Industry awards in 2009 and 2012. Despite the tremendous growth in the crowds that have come to see them over the years, Copper Box’s love of Wisconsin has kept them touring close to home with the occasional show out East or West. They average 150 shows Autumn 2015 55
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The most widely distributed and best known heron of our country, the largest and most majestic of these fascinating waterbirds, is the Great Blue Heron. In looking back to my high school years in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, 1944 – 1947, some of the most memorable adventures were spent in the old Chippewa wooden and canvas canoe that my buddy, Tony Kotyza, and I fixed up and owned all through those four glorious years. I clearly recall the many Great Blue Herons we saw hunting in the shallows along the river, and also flying to and from their large rookery in Albrecht’s Woods, between the south portion of the Kewaunee River and the Green Bay and Western Railroad tracks paralleling River Road. Quite often, for both the fun and the challenge, we attempted to get as close to one of the tall herons as we could. Maybe the fishing was so good that the herons waited to the last second before they took off in a “huff,” usually letting loose with a long squirted stream of white chalky excrement as they took to the air. Years ago this habit led to one of the heron’s widely used names, “shidepoke” or “shitepoke.” Every time we saw them fishing along the river they were loners, a typical trait of the so-called “king” of the heron family — a total of 11 large heron species of the world. The only time I observed them fishing reasonably close to one another was during the depths of winter, when they remained in the shallow open water. I was able to make many observations of the herons throughout the cold months below the Petenwell Dam along the Wisconsin River south of Wisconsin Rapids where I was teaching at the time. It is common for some people to confuse a heron with a crane. Both are tall, stately and dignified, and have long
1 necks. One very easily recognized difference is that cranes fly with their necks entirely stretched straight forward. The Great Blue, as with other herons and egrets, flies with its neck kinked into an “S” shape, or, in a sense, tucked between its shoulders. Even while at rest the neck is not fully
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extended. Its neck vertebrae are of unequal length, and it is for this reason that the herons hold their necks as they do. Several years ago a friend, who lived along the shores of Lake Michigan, called to tell us that she had found
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a dead Great Blue Heron. My wife, Charlotte, and I examined the creature, took many photographs of it, and were especially intrigued at the claw of the middle of the three toes on each foot. Its edge resembled the rounded teeth of a comb and is used by the bird to clean its plumage of dirt and debris picked up from its slimy or oily prey. The bird’s hind toe is on a level with its front three toes so, in effect, the bird stands on all four of its toes. We also marveled at the tire tread-like bottom skin on each foot, obviously very effective in that the bird frequently walks on slippery underwater rocks. Stretched out, this graceful and picturesque bird measures 52 inches from the tip of its beak to the end of its tail. Its scientific name is Ardea herodias (AR-dee-a heh-ROE-de-as), “Ardea” being Latin for heron, and “herodias” being Greek for heron. The extensive summer range of the Great Blue Heron stretches from Canada to the West Indies and Central America. These tough birds may winter in open-water areas of central to southern Wisconsin. Our Southern Door County Christmas Bird Count had them one year in the open spillway and shallows of the Ahnapee River below the Forestville Dam on December 28. They can survive in snowy weather as long as they have food. Our Southern Door Christmas Bird Counts have recorded Great Blue Herons in six of the years from 1996 through 2006. Its native solitudes are in the shallows of river edges, small isolated ponds, lakes, rivers and marshes. There you will see it standing still as a statue, waiting for fish to swim within range; or stalking in slow motion in its hunting grounds. Its straight, powerful bill is used to spear and capture fish, salamanders, frogs, tadpoles and snakes. Don’t be surprised to see one hunting for grasshoppers or an occasional mouse in an open field. They are strictly loners while hunting, but are very sociable and like company of their own kind when 60 door county living
nesting. Respectfully observe one of their colonies or rookeries, and you will see that it’s not unusual for their stick nests to be 100 feet above the ground in trees often growing in swamps. A Great Blue Heron rookery may be more dependent upon a good nearby source of food than suitable trees. Following an incubation of about 28 days, the young remain in the nest until fully fledged and nearly as large as the adults. The “whitewash” excrement from young and adult birds liberally coats tree branches, trunks and the ground below, frequently killing the trees. This whitewash, along with dead and rotting dropped fish, produces an odor not soon forgotten by those adventurous people who visit a heron rookery. Perhaps this can be looked at as an unintentional defensive mechanism to keep people and other natural enemies away. Great Egrets are being seen more frequently in Door County — the northern limits of their breeding range
— in the past 10 years. The Horicon Marsh area has a great number of Egret rookeries as does the Mississippi River wetlands. A friend living on the east side of Washington Island told us that the Great Egrets have been nesting on Hog Island in Lake Michigan since about 2003. Chambers Island is another area of a possible rookery. Great Egrets hunt in shallow wetlands, ponds and sloughs in search of crabs, small fish and amphibians. They may also eat small birds and mammals as well as numerous aquatic insects. It is said that they will fly 15 to 20 miles in search of their food. The egret is a migratory species, spending the winter in the south. Arrival dates in Door County range from mid-April to early May. The American White Pelican has become a familiar bird near the shorelines of the peninsula. This is the easternmost range of their nesting territory. In fact, they were not seen in our county before 1994. The first
documented nests in Wisconsin were found in the far southern end of the Green Bay waters in 1994. Those two nests failed, but by 1995 nine nests in Brown County had about 35 pelicans present most of the summer. Now they are common nesters on several islands and in the Horicon Marsh. When heavy storms flooded out many of the Horicon area pelican nests in July 2004, several hundred birds moved up to Little Sturgeon Bay. It is a thrill to see a large flock of White Pelicans soaring together in formation against a deep blue sky. Their bright white wings edged with black make them easy to identify. Do all you can to help these birds by working to keep our native wetlands healthy with clean water and safe nesting areas. Here’s hoping you can enjoy the beauty of flying Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets and soaring American White Pelicans for years to come.
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Let There Be Light “Aging In Place” on Washington Island On a continuum scale with “A Step Back in Time” at one end and “Cutting Edge” at the other, Washington Island’s indicator arrow falls decidedly toward the anachronistic (if you haven’t been fortunate enough to visit, think screen doors and rolling stops and baseball games on Sunday afternoons). 62 door county living / doorcountypulse.com
grandkids here on the island and to have space for other family to visit. The houses we’ve owned throughout our lives have worked because they’ve accommodated our family at various stages. We wanted to build this one with the next stage in mind.” Kickbush toured two of the Petries’ previous homes and talked with them about what they liked, what they’d change and some ideas they may not have given much thought to when they were younger. He then set about designing what’s called, in gerontological jargon, an “aging in place” or “barrier-free” home.
the house is essentially one room wide, you notice the spectacular views accessible from everywhere. For a house designed to be practical, it feels anything but.
According to the Gerontological Society of America, “aging in place” homes “emphasize the interaction between personal competence and the physical home environment…showing how changes at home (such as removing obstacles or introducing mobility aids) can enhance independence.” Kickbush explains that while “aging in place” homes are considered fairly progressive now, they’re becoming increasingly popular. He predicts that in the future, as our population ages, “barrier-free” elements will become more standard.
Lucia’s commitment to delight is apparent throughout the relatively small house; its 1,800-square-feet are chock full of delightful features. A cozy, cantilevered screened-in deck opens directly off of the kitchen and looks over the water and the string of stairs that lead down to it. Lucia explains, “It’s our favorite room in the house and when our daughter-in-law visits from Milwaukee, it’s her yoga room.”
Photo: Courtesy of architect Michael Kickbush.
“They’ll become integrated into the culture of good design,” said Kickbush.
When Lucia and Pete Petrie hired architect Michael Kickbush of M.G. Kickbush Design & Consulting LLC to design a new home for them, they nudged the indicator arrow a bit closer to “Cutting Edge.” In 2013, the Petries decided to sell their home on the east side of Washington Island and purchase a lot next to their oldest son and his family on the north side. “Family is really important to us. We wanted to be close to our kids and
Perched on a bluff overlooking Washington Harbor, the home Kickbush designed for the Petries is outfitted with a number of barrier-free elements— remote-control windows, non-slip porcelain floors, wide doorways with handles rather than knobs, a raised garden and spectacular lighting. (Lucia: “We older people need lots of light!”) Stairs down to the water and up to a loft add to the aesthetics and experience of the home, but are not essential for living in the home. The main living areas, master bedroom and bathrooms are all on one floor. Surprisingly, unless you know that the “aging in place” features are there, you don’t notice them; kind of like hidden objects — until you’re told to look for the hammer or toothbrush or nail, you don’t see them. What you do notice when you walk into the Petrie’s home are its clean lines, the light pouring in from lofty windows, and how the rich wood, weathered stone and artwork stand out so beautifully against the white walls. And, because
“BIG ON DELIGHT” This doesn’t happen by accident. Kickbush paraphrases the Roman architect Vitruvius in explaining that utility is only one part of good design. “It’s like a three-legged stool. It must have firmness (strength), commodity (utility) and delight.” Lucia laughs, “I’m big on delight!”
Pete’s office is another delightful feature. More of an alcove than a room, it shares the same tree-lined view as the porch (how he gets any work done is a mystery!) Above the office, a loft flanks one end of the house and provides sleeping quarters for guests. Lucia notes, “It’s a hit with our grandkids and anyone wanting an afternoon nap.” Kickbush has worked on a number of award-winning projects throughout his career and first used “barrier-free” elements in commercial construction. He finds inspiration in the works of Mexican Modernist Luis Barragán and American engineer and visionary Buckminster Fuller. Whatever his source of inspiration for the home, the Petries couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome. “This is the third house we’ve owned on the island and the second one we built. This is our favorite.” When asked what’s surprised her about the new house, Lucia says, “It’s just so easy to live in. I wasn’t expecting that.” Beyond providing ease, Kickbush explains that “aging in place” homes make good financial sense. continues on page 67 Autumn 2015 63
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“When people think about building a home for their later years, most stop at adding an attached garage. With a little more thought and the help of a designer, you can incorporate attractive features that might save you a year or two of residency later. Alternatives to living in your own home are usually much more expensive, so the payback of that extra year or two is huge. And you get to stay in your own home, which most people prefer.” In addition to its design, the Petries’ home is progressive in another sort of “back to the future” way. All of the elbow grease and knowledge that went into creating the home came, intentionally, from the island. Kickbush, a transplant from Milwaukee, now lives on the island year-round with his wife and young daughter. (She attends second grade as one of the 75 or so students in the K – 12 island school.) Jim Gunnlaugsson, the home’s builder, is a native islander. He and a crew of three worked with subcontractors and suppliers who live on the island or, in the case of the heating and cooling provider, had close ties to the island. “The only exception was the electrician. There’s only one on the island and he was swamped, ” explained Kickbush. Kickbush and the Petries stress the benefits of working with locals. Pete states that island bids were “competitive” and Lucia credits a local purveyor with knowing about a deal that saved them 40 percent on windows. Kickbush adds, “There’s an efficiency when you work with people who know
one another, know the zoning, the land, the suppliers. There’s an amazing talent pool here on the island and in Door County in general. People don’t need to bring designers and contractors from bigger cities to get a creative, exceptional product.” There are also intangible benefits such as a strong work ethic and a familiarity with the harsh climate. Work on the home began in December of 2014 and the Petries moved in that June. Kickbush recounts days when the wind whipped off the lake and temperatures fell to 10 to 15 degrees below zero and still the crews showed up. He shakes his head. “No one expected them to be here. I guess it’s their Scandinavian blood!” The light pouring into the Petries’ new home illuminates more than its beautiful design and interesting art; it illuminates a couple happily ensconced in a home they’ve created and will enjoy for years to come. Lucia looks around and states with certainty, “There isn’t anything I’d change.” Pete smiles and nods thoughtfully, “I agree.” Lucia and Pete Petrie worked and raised their children and still live part-time in the Milwaukee area. They began visiting Washington Island in the late 1960s. They are now, along with more than a dozen other families, part owners of the Washington Island Observer, Washington Island’s award-winning local newspaper. Michael Kickbush is the Principal at M.G. Kickbush Design and Consulting LLC and may be reached at mkickbush@hotmail.com.
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The tallest natural point in Door County is not the scenic Sven’s Bluff or the ascent from Ellison Bay. It is an 860foot mound in the town of Brussels on the county line between Door and Kewaunee. The mound is just a smaller brother to an 870-foot mound in Kewaunee. On a clear day, climbing the hill might result in a view of Green Bay to the west. But this fact is far from Door County’s scenic truth. The high bluffs and rolling waterfront roads are some of the most iconic and important in Wisconsin. At three points from Southern Door to Washington Island, wooden towers stretch above the tree line, redefining the idea of a scenic view. These towers — in Potawatomi State Park, Peninsula State Park and Washington Island — support thousands of visitors each year and are a landmark for the county. Climbing each is often seen as a rite of passage, solidified by carving a name and date in the weathered wood. Their value to the county’s tourism industry is well known, but in the past 100 years, their importance to local residents and industries is a quiet fact weaved through the fabric of everyone from Potawatomi to Washington Island. While they are known today as places for scenic observation, the towers originally served the purpose of detecting wildfires. “Two lookout towers to aid in detecting forest fires have been erected on Sven’s Bluff and Eagle Bluff, which are connected by telephone with the superintendent’s residence and the local exchange,” wrote the Wisconsin State Conservation Committee in their 1915 – 16 Biennial Report. Both towers were built in 1914. When the towers in Peninsula State Park and Potawatomi State Park were erected, citizens surely had stories of October 1871 burning in their minds. The Great Fire of 1871 is the deadliest firestorm in United States history. The fire started in Peshtigo, just west of Marinette, and burned down to Green Bay before crawling back up the Door Peninsula. “The people of Sturgeon Bay had watched with great terror this approaching storm of fire and knew that down there in the smoke-wrapped continues on page 74 Autumn 2015 71
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forest country of Brussels and Gardner a terrible calamity had taken place,” Hjalmar Rued Holand wrote in History of Door County, Wisconsin, The County Beautiful. “This tornado of fire swept up from Brown County, overrunning the towns of Union, Brussels, Forestville, Gardner, Clay Banks and Sturgeon Bay.” The day after the fire broke out in Peshtigo, the Great Chicago Fire burned more than three miles of the city. The impact of the Chicago fire overshadowed the rural devastation in northeast Wisconsin, but the lookout towers were built in hopes that they would never have to sweep up the ashes of their lives again. “Both towers [Eagle and Sven’s] were valuable as lookouts for forest fires, since the park was full of dry, dead grass and brush,” wrote William Tishler in Door County’s Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park. The ledger from A.E. Doolittle, the first manager of Peninsula State Park, lists payments to men for fire watch duty. Although their jobs required focused diligence, the view wasn’t too bad either.
helping the Department of Forestry find wildfires before they got too large. With the beginning of advanced forest fire technology, reliance on the naked eye for fire detection dwindled. The cost of this fire safety method is steep and, over time, states stopped seeing the benefit of having eyes up high. “It costs a lot to have someone sit and watch all day,” said Henry Isenberg, who spent 25 years at a fire tower in Massachusetts. “They have to pay salary, insurance, upkeep of the tower, and most states don’t want to do that.” Towers across the country are being decommissioned, including many in Wisconsin. Today, there are 72 active forest fire lookout towers in the state, down from 95 towers in 2000. Door County is not high risk for forest fires relative to the rest of Wisconsin and although the county’s towers were originally constructed with fire detection in mind, they were also open to the public for viewing pleasure.
Both towers at Potawatomi and Peninsula State Park offered views across the bay, giving visibility to the area where the Great Fire of 1871 started years before.
Following several safe years since the Great Fire of 1871, the towers were only known for a beautiful view. Tourists climbed the steps more than forestry officials and the towers became an attraction to the county.
On June 22, 1915, the first fire detection flight in the world went over Wisconsin’s northwoods in Vilas County. Jack Vilas volunteered to use his plane in
An issue of the Door County Democrat, released on Christmas Day in 1914, claims, “from the one erected on Sven’s
Above and right: In addition to being a popular place to visit, Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park has been the subject of thousands of photographs, paintings and postcards.
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“The prize attraction, however, in an artificial way, is the Eagle observation tower, which strangers are invited to climb. It isn’t so high, as heights go, but ladies with weak hearts are affected with violent palpitation only half way up and are forced to cling tightly to their swains…When you get up you can see twice as much as when you were down. You immediately feel, if your legs don’t ache, an ode coming on. You murmur, tentatively, something about the soul in relation to God and nature…There’s much else to see and feel and smell. But this should be enough of a teaser.”
— Richard S. Davis, Milwaukee Journal, July 23, 1931
Bluff, a view can be seen across the peninsula to the eastward, out onto Lake Michigan, and to the west the waters of Green Bay.”
rebuilt in 1932 with Douglas Fir logs imported from Washington state. Unlike the original construction of Eagle Tower, which used little more than axes, saws and strong arms to erect, a public works crew used horses, tractors and trucks to haul materials to the building site.
Whether the view from Sven’s Tower actually stretched across the width of the peninsula is impossible to know. The tower was torn down in 1947 and never replaced.
The crew wrapped cables around surrounding trees and used them as a pulley system to raise the four main support poles. Even today, there is a tree stump still wrapped with rusted steel cables just north of the tower that was used to raise the structure.
But before Sven’s tower was taken down, Eagle Tower faced demolition. After being lauded as a tourist attraction and climbed by thousands of visitors every year, the tower fell into disrepair. It was dismantled and completely
Although Roosevelt’s New Deal-era public works program, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), did not have a role in constructing the tower, they did build the stone wall lining the bluff along the feet of Eagle Tower. The CCC was limited to unskilled men between the ages of 17 and 28. In Peninsula State Park, the men camped near Gibraltar High School while working on the park’s infrastructure. With these spare hands sitting at their doorstep, park officials entertained the idea of replacing Sven’s Tower, but they decided that Sven’s Bluff already had
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“25 cars parked around the structure continually,” in its issue on October 9, 1931. The new structure offered views never before seen in Door County.
Builders planned for the tower to be the exact height of Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park, but the final measure came up one foot short — topping out at 75 feet. It took the group seven weeks to construct the tower and their efforts were rewarded as attendance quickly approached the numbers visiting Peninsula State Park.
“Monday, the air was so clear that it was possible to see over a radius of about 25 miles. Menominee and Marinette buildings stood out distinctly. To the north and northwest Green Island, Chambers Island, Hat Island and the Strawberries were plainly visible, while to the east one could see the waters of the canal and Lake Michigan.”
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With the finish of the steps at Mountain Park Lookout Tower, the three beacons across Door County were established. They have served tourists and locals in gaining a new perspective on the peninsula and their wood is steeped in history of the people and industries that have created Door County’s success.
After decades of dormancy, the county’s first two towers began showing signs of weathering. By this time, the importance of the towers in attracting visitors and as a landmark for the county was well established and park officials knew that the fate of Sven’s Tower could not be repeated. Potawatomi Tower was closed in 2012 after a major crack in one of the main support beams was discovered. The repair, which was the first major repair since the construction of the tower in 1932, took nearly two years while park officials had to find a living white oak tree big enough to provide a 22-foot long beam. While each tower holds equally incredible views, Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park stands tallest as the icon of the county’s landmarks. The park performed minor safety improvements and repairs beginning
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loved to climb the mountain but found the climb very difficult,” read the Bethel Tidings newsletter on July 23, 1989.
186 Steps to the top of the Mountain Park Lookout Tower 33 Years the tower at Sven’s Bluff stood before it was torn down $1,061.92 Cost to build Eagle Tower in 1914 $25,126.81 Cost to build Eagle Tower in 2015 dollars 225 Feet above Green Bay at the top of Eagle and Potawatomi Towers 7 Weeks it took to build Potawatomi Tower in 1931 109 Steps to the top of Eagle Tower 250 Number of tents at Camp Peninsular for CCC workers
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Recognizing the importance of the tower to the area’s tourism industry as well as its cultural significance in the county, state park officials and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) may fast-track the project. Typically, capital development projects, or infrastructure improvements, require cost estimates and approval before the project goes into the seven-year capital development plan.
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who is luke archer Not everyone who climbs the towers inscribes their name in the wood for their place in Door County history, but it must be pretty close. One man has made his mark on Eagle Tower enough for everyone. I first noticed Luke Archer’s name written on the second platform of the three-story tower. It was during a festival in 2007 and my family and I were taking a gamble of seeing fireworks from the tower while I carved “Jack ’07” on the handrail with a pocketknife. Next to my carving, Luke Archer had written his name in fat, black permanent marker. There was no date and no clue as to who he was.
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As more years went by and I visited the tower on my annual family vacation to the state park, I noticed his name popping up in more places along the 109 steps to the top. It was always written in fat, black permanent marker with a complete disregard for whatever was already inscribed in the location Luke Archer wanted to write.
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At the time, a quick Google search yielded nothing. Perhaps the poor handwriting and lack of any dates was a deliberate attempt at anonymity. But while writing this story on the county’s towers for Door County Living, I gave the search one more try. On Foursquare.com, a site for visitors to post reviews of the places they have been, a man named Bill Neuman wrote a note on August 10, 2010. “Watch out for Luke Archer.”
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hen Pa Bear died at the Bruemmer Park Zoo in Kewaunee in 2011, it was the end of an era.
The zoo, on an eight-acre site within the 30-acre Bruemmer County Park, got its first pair of bears in 1938, and they had a cub in 1940. Pa outlived his mate — named, of course, Ma Bear — and lived on to age 25 or 26. Not only was that the end of the zoo’s most popular attraction, it was almost the end of the zoo. Faced with the need for repairs to the facility and a shortage of funds for its upkeep, Kewaunee County, which owns the park, considered closing the zoo. In 2011, a group of local residents — including those who remember the zoo’s glory days when it and they were young and those who want it
restored for the enjoyment of future generations — formed the Zoological Society of Kewaunee County. Their goal is to provide an educational opportunity to all visitors to the zoo, stressing an understanding of and respect for all living things and seeking to enhance and promote a dignified and aesthetically pleasing environment for all the animals. Sarah Nunn is president of the organization, which has about 50 members.
The above photos show the Bruemmer Park Zoo in its glory days in the 1960s and 1970s, when there were monkeys and bears. At center, former caretaker Frank Ratajczak feeds a monkey in 1969. Photos courtesy of the Kewaunee Courtesy Historical Society.
The zoo has a rich history. It began in 1936 with some ring-necked pheasants. Along with the bear dynasty, there were porcupines, monkeys and deer. Herb Mikels of Sturgeon Bay remembers taking his children to the zoo a number of times years ago. “It was such a nice place,” he says, “there were lots of
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animals, it was always so clean and there were places to picnic.” The monkeys and deer in that long-ago zoo came to a sad end. Bill Behrens, who has lived in Kewaunee off and on since 1969, volunteered at the zoo for four years after retirement and is currently a member of the Zoological Society. He remembers that someone let the monkeys out of their cage one winter night and they froze to death. On another occasion, the deer were shot. Current residents of the zoo include arctic foxes named Buddy and Jewel, bobcats named Bella and Baxter, raccoons, red golden pheasants, a sheep and a goat, white-tailed deer, ducks, a goose and lots of beautiful (and very outspoken) peacocks. Most of them were donated, and all must come from a licensed dealer, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Each has access to constantly running water. County employees feed the animals and clean their cages daily, and two veterinarians are on retainer. Dave Myers, the new director of the Kewaunee Promotions and Recreations Director, who oversees the zoo, appreciates the Zoological Society’s cooperation with the county to raise funds to attempt to bring the facility back to its “glory days.” Already there have been changes — landscaping, new fencing and signage, butterfly houses and animal feeders. “We’re looking into turning a long dormant pen into a new and larger pheasant exhibit by adding some Lady Amherst pheasants to the present pheasant family,” Myers said. In the past year, the society spent about $45,000 for new fencing for the goat and sheep pen, expanding it to include space above the pen that the animals can access via new wooden bridges. There’s also new fencing for the Arctic Fox exhibit. The society’s focus during the next few years is to continue to redo fencing and to create new, larger homes for the animals. The Kewaunee County Tavern League and the Tavern League of Wisconsin donated a new sign to track progress on the goals. The society and the park staff are hoping to raise awareness that it’s a great place for families. There are picnic
Kilns and Quarry Existed First The history of Bruemmer Park Zoo begins with the dolomitic limestone of the Niagara Escarpment. Long before the park existed, men extracted limestone from that same land. In the last half of the 1800s, as the country was growing, there was demand for limestone for building stones and for use as an aggregate in concrete and asphalt for roads. About a mile west of Kewaunee is an area known as Footbridge. This was the home of the Seth Moore quarry and lime kiln, which he began some time in the 1850s. Seth’s son, Ransom, also worked the quarry and lime kilns as a youth, but later went on to become a key player in the University of Wisconsin — Madison’s College of Agriculture and is considered the father of the 4-H movement. In a 1928 essay he wrote for the national dairy industry magazine Hoard’s Dairyman, Ransom Moore wrote about his father’s quarry operation: “We lived where the Niagara limestone jutted out and engaged in burning lime and quarrying. The stone from Moore’s quarry built the first stone bridges across the Kewaunee River, besides hundreds of stone basements under farm and other buildings... Nearly all of the lime used in the city of Kewaunee was taken from the kilns operated by my father and myself.” After being injured when a large rock fell on his back, Ransom Moore studied to successfully earn a teaching certificate, and after eight years of teaching in Kewaunee-area schools, he was encouraged by his fellow educators to run for district supervisor. He eventually went on to a successful career as a UW ag professor and chair of the Agronomy Department. In 1893, the limestone quarry was taken over by the Nast Bros., a company formed in Marblehead, Wisconsin, in 1872. The Nasts operated the quarry until 1916, and when Nast Bros. was purchased in 1921 by Western Lime and Cement, they reopened the quarry for a short time before closing it for good. Sources: Kewaunee County Historical Society, kewauneecountyhistory.blogspot.com Autumn 2015 87
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facilities, shelters to rent, and fishing in the Kewaunee River that meanders through the area. “Movies with the Animals” were held on three Saturday nights in June, July and August. The Zoological Society carried out a variety of activities during the summer to raise money for the improvement projects. There were benefit walks, raffles, auctions, booths at sidewalk sales and other events from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay, culminating in the fifth annual Zoobilee on August 29, 2015.
On February 28, 2016 there will be a repeat of the successful ZoupArt at the Kewaunee County Fairgrounds — an event that combines the results of a soup competition served in ceramic bowls made by Kewaunee students with a display of student artwork from around the county. Is another bear — or maybe two — in the Bruemmer Park Zoo’s future? The Zoological Society would love to see that happen, but new quarters would need to be provided. The zoo was created
from an old quarry, and the bear’s den was dug back into the side of a rocky cliff. Pa Bear and his family lived on concrete. A new bear would need a more comfortable surface. Bruemmer County Park is located at East 4289 County Road F, at the intersection of Roads F and C, about two miles northwest of the City of Kewaunee. It is open year round from 7:00 am to sunset, and admission is free. For more information, call (920) 388-0444.
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Casting Colors The art of hooking fish “What those crazy fish see, I don’t know. But it matters.” Todd Haleen is the owner of First Choice Charters in Baileys Harbor and anglers across the county echo his statement. The fishing lure may be the single most important variable between a big haul and driving home with an empty cooler. The science behind choosing lures is scattered and incomplete. Most fishermen find that it changes every day. “Fish, they have a simple mentality. They will go for what they see, what they’ve been eating that day. That’s all they’re looking for so that’s what you want to use,” said Haleen, who explained the “match the hatch” theory. Anglers will use lures that resemble what the fish are already eating. Depending on weather, time of the year and location in the county, this can change by the day. To figure out what fish have been eating, catch one in the morning, look in its stomach and match what you find with a lure. “As you can see, there are a billion different colors,” said Lance LaVine from Howie’s Tackle in Sturgeon Bay. “Each boat, each charter captain has their favorites. It all depends on what they want that certain day.” While this practice is intuitive and abstract, there are some universal truths to hooking fish. The lure’s job is to attract the fish and get them to investigate, hopefully
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Fishing Lures Spinners Primarily used for fishing bass, spinners are effective in almost any condition and depth, including winter and murky water. A teardropshaped metal blade is attached to the lure, creating erratic movements that mimic small fish. Blades can vary in size and shape, which affects the sound the spinner makes upon reeling in. Broad blades, known as Colorado blades, rotate widely around the line and produce a deeper sound than narrow blades, or willow blades, that spin faster and are quieter. The lure is usually hidden in a colorful skirt, increasing its attractiveness to fish. There are two main varieties of spinners. Inline: The blades are in straight line with the hook and they rotate around the lure. Spinnerbait: The spinner is shaped like an open safety pin so the blade and the hook are running parallel in the water. Plastic worms Best used for largemouth bass and often fished in timber, brush and weeds, plastic worms appear as live bait. A hook is threaded through the plastic worm, completely concealing it from the fish. Crankbaits These hard plastic lures are meant to be reeled in, or retrieved, in order to mimic the movement of a small fish through the water. Crankbaits come in different shapes to look like minnows and other small fish. The concave designs of some crankbaits can change how the water catches the bait and makes it “swim” through the water. Spoons The concave shape of this lure, named for its resemblance to the eating utensil, wobbles from side to side as it is retrieved. Small spoons are used for fishing trout while larger spoons are used for bass and walleye. Flies The fly is used for trout and salmon fishing and consists of a single hook with a skirt. Anglers use different colors and patterns for different fishing conditions. Howie’s Tackle in Sturgeon Bay is developer of the Howie Fly, which they make in house and ship nationwide throughout the year.
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leading to a bite. The lure you choose depends on the color, size and water depth. The deeper the water, the darker it gets. In the color spectrum, dark colors need less light to reflect their color than reds and oranges. So the deeper you go, the darker your lure should be. “Fish see different colors at different depths. The last color in the spectrum is purple so the deepest fishing is purple. If you put an orange down there, they won’t see it,” said Haleen. “One color will catch all your fish one day. Maybe it’s the sunlight, the algae bloom that blocks some of the light.” Even more simply, the deeper you go, the larger your lure should be. Big lures are more visible in dark depths. These ever-fluctuating variables keep fishermen experimenting with different lines every day. In Door County, visitors have come to rely on the local fishermen when they plan a trip out on the water. “Most of the guys coming up now don’t even bring their own tackle,” said Haleen, who is open to sharing what is working for his crew at any time. Boats coming back from their haul will often stop by and tell Haleen what worked for them that day. The process creates a matrix of information that supports everyone’s goal in coming home with a boat full of trophies. “Everyone comes in here and says, ‘Oh you gotta have a Mountain Dew with a Little Boy Blue or a Jumpin’ Donkey fly,’” said LaVine. “Every fly has got a name. It’s hard to explain to a non-fisherman but you hear these guys coming in here and they’re nuts.” Crazy fish are caught by fishermen who are nuts in this oddly colorful sport.
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A G Within a The Game e The short game is typically defined as any shot within 100 yards of the hole. More specifically it includes several different types of shots, including putting, chipping and pitching. If you are lucky enough to have a golf lesson with a PGA Professional, you should spend more than half of the time working on these shots. The best place to enhance these skills is at a short course or a practice facility. Studies have shown that putting itself comprises at least 40 to 55 percent of all shots on a player’s scorecard. If you add in the rest of the shots from within 100 yards, the statistics are up near 70 to 80 percent. Spending the equivalent amount of your practice time would be a wise move. Although seeing your local PGA Professional is the best option to improve, here are a few simple and easy fundamentals that will guide you to more success:
PUTTING Great putters over time have used many different styles of putters, techniques, grips and stances. Although there are no right or wrongs in putting, there are some consistencies that most players have in their putting games. The most
common is to make sure your eyes are directly over the ball. Take your stance and drop a coin from the bridge of your nose between your eyes; the coin should land on the ball. Make whatever adjustment from this exercise that you need to ensure that your eyes are over the ball. Next, try placing the ball position one ball forward of middle in your stance. Lastly, before every putt, try making a practice swing or two — looking at the hole, visualizing the putt, and feeling the length of the stroke. By setting up for success and teaching yourself some feel in the practice stroke, you will improve.
CHIPPING Taking some time to learn the chipping technique and practicing your touch with this shot will save you several strokes off your score almost instantly. Even the very best players in the world typically average just over 13 greens in regulation per round of golf, meaning they are chipping at least four to five times per round as a minimum. Chipping is a low shot that has minimum carry distance and maximum roll distance. Use a club with less loft for this shot, such as a 9 iron or less. Play this shot with your feet fairly close together and the ball position back in your stance (near the right foot for a right-handed player). Keep your arms long and your wrists fairly firm during the entire chipping stroke. Then, as you would in putting, make a few practice swings, looking at the spot you want the ball to land before you make your chipping stroke.
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PITCHING This is a shot you should only use when you have to. Your first option around the greens should be to putt. If you can’t putt due to an obstacle in the way then you should chip. If you can’t chip because you need to have the ball stop faster then you pitch. A pitch shot is one with maximum carry and minimum roll. In other words, it is a high, soft shot. Use your most lofted club for this shot such as a sand wedge. Play this shot with your feet about hip-width apart and play the ball in the middle of your stance or even slightly forward if you need to hit it higher. Again, make sure your arms are long during the entire stroke and soften the wrists, allowing them to release as the arms pass though the impact zone. The best pitchers of the ball have always been known to have soft hands.
The next time you’re at the practice facility, try these techniques. As you will notice, the majority of success in hitting a golf ball lies in how you set up to it. Find yourself a PGA Professional and get your fundamentals looked at and make sure you spend time discussing the short game. Once you have learned the techniques, look for a short course or 9-hole facility where you can really focus on this part of the game. The game within the game is a lifetime project and with it will come a lifetime of fun.
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Anyone who has ever spent much time playing the game of golf has realized that golf is several games within a game. Those who have not played the game much can learn much faster and have more fun if they take the most important part of the game and spend a bit of time learning and practicing some simple techniques that will teach them feel for the game. This part of the game is called the short game.
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arlic has been integrated into cuisine from around the world for millennia. It is a basic staple for flavor and depth in just about everything you are cooking. Raw garlic is spicy and will add a funk to your breath; however, when garlic is cooked the flavor is sweetened and softened. In my opinion it is good to eat both ways.
Approximately a month prior to harvest, the garlic plants will sprout a flower stalk called a garlic scape (scapes are also delicious to eat). It is important to remove the scapes from the plant before they flower. When you cut the scapes, the plants push the last bit of energy down to pump up the bulb’s size. You will know it is time to harvest the whole garlic plants when the leaves begin to turn yellow and die. The fresh harvested garlic is called green garlic
and can be incorporated into your cuisine. Garlic in this stage is very strong in flavor and juice so beware. To store your freshly harvested garlic properly, hang the plants for a month or so in a dry environment to avoid mold and mildew. Cut the neck down to the bulb and cut off the roots. Voila! Your garlic is ready for long-term storage in a dry cool space. Garlic is good for you! It has been proven to lower cholesterol and is associated with a lower risk of stomach cancer. There are also studies linking garlic to preventing common colds. Although it may make you stinky, it is delicious and healthy. Remember, eat garlic among friends! Below: A good and garlicky meal of Roasted Garlic, Spinach and Brie Bisque, Dinosaur Kale Garlic Salad and the Garliciest Garlic Bread Ever is sure to perk up your taste buds. Photo by Len Villano.
Left: Photo by Jess Farley.
Cultures around the world believe garlic has mystical powers. Indians hang garlic on their doors to keep themselves safe from evil. Europeans have been known to wear garlic around their necks to ward off demons, vampires and werewolves. Others believe garlic to be an aphrodisiac. Hindus believe it warms the body and increases one’s desires. Buddhists believe garlic stimulates sexual desire and aggressive drives, which is a direct distraction to meditation. The people of Islam say no raw garlic before mosque, as the odor distracts Muslims from prayer.
There are two major varieties of garlic: hard neck and soft neck. Hard neck is grown in cooler climates and soft neck is grown in warmer climates. Here in Wisconsin, hard neck varieties prosper. You typically plant your garlic cloves late in the season, middle of October into November, approximately three weeks before the ground freezes. Cover the crop with straw and let it overwinter. The plants will pop through the soil sometime in May and be ready for harvest in late July to early August.
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8 – 10 whole bulbs of garlic drizzle of olive oil Leaving the bulbs intact and skins on, slice the very top of each bulb off. Align the bulbs in a baking dish, sliced side up. Drizzle with olive oil and cover with foil. Bake for approximately 30 minutes. Garlic is done when the bulbs are soft to the touch. Roasted garlic can be spread directly on bread or incorporated into many dishes. Mix it with cream cheese and fresh herbs for a quick hors d’oeuvre.
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Above left: The Garliciest Garlic Bread Ever with Roasted Garlic, Spinach and Brie Bisque. Above right: Dinosaur Kale Garlic Salad. Photos by Len Villano.
Roasted Garlic, Spinach and Brie Bisque 1 sweet onion diced 1 shallot diced 3 Tbsp butter 6 – 8 bulbs of roasted garlic, removed from the skin and smashed 1 8-oz. bag of fresh spinach 2 quarts of chicken or veggie stock 1 pint of heavy whipping cream 1/2 lb. Brie cheese cut into chunks, rind removed fresh thyme, Italian parsley, and chives cracked black pepper and salt to taste In a stockpot over medium-high heat, sauté the onion and shallot in butter. Keep the heat low enough so the onion does not brown but wilts and turns translucent. Cook 5 – 10 minutes. Add a bit of salt to the onions as they cook down. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Add the heavy whipping cream, roasted garlic, and Brie, stirring constantly as it melts into the soup. Add the fresh spinach and stir. Finish with the fresh herbs: thyme, parsley and chives. Salt and pepper (I prefer cracked black pepper) to taste. Perfect for a blustery Autumn day.
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• I have found the easiest way to peel garlic is by removing each clove from the bulb and smashing it with the side of my knife. The skin peels right off. • When your fingers have a lingering garlic smell, rub them against stainless steel. The metal neutralizes the odor.
Dinosaur Kale Garlic Salad 1 bunch of kale juice of one lemon 4 – 6 cloves of raw garlic, diced small 1/8 cup of olive oil shredded Parmesan salt and pepper to taste Wash and trim the kale, remove the stems and ribs. Dry the kale. Toss the kale in a bowl with the garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. Add the Parmesan cheese. Salt and pepper to taste. This is my favorite salad, hands down. My sister Meg developed this recipe while growing heaps of kale for her CSA, Steep Creek Farm. I cannot get enough of this salad. It is brilliant.
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Keeping the baguette whole, make slices almost all the way through the bread, approximately one inch apart from one end of the bread to the other. In a bowl, mix the garlic, parsley and butter together. Spread a spoonful of the butter mixture into each slice of the bread. Wrap the baguette in foil and bake in the oven for 15 – 20 minutes. Enjoy with your favorite pasta, soup or salad.
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Wherefore Kombucha?
by Katie Lott / photography by Len Villano
Everything old is new again.
It’s certainly the case with fermentation, the ancient method that preserves and enhances foods from kimchi to sauerkraut, and creates some delightful byproducts as well (i.e. alcohol). Lately, the local foods movement has made fermentation a battle cry, and “fermentation fests” are popping up from coast to coast. Kombucha, a fermented tea beverage, is steadily gaining in popularity due in part to commercial brewers, including Door County’s own Tapuat Kombucha, who brew their regionally distributed product and recently opened a tasting room in Sister Bay. But like all commercially fermented products, Kombucha started humbly, brewed in vats, tubs and pots in people’s kitchens and basements. The beverage can be traced back 5,000 years to China, and then traveled to Japan where, according to legend, it was given to the emperor for “digestive difficulties.” Royalty notwithstanding, local homebrewers are trying their hand at the beverage that’s said to do everything from improving digestion, to boosting vitality and even preventing cancer. Helena Appleton of Sturgeon Bay proves that Kombucha isn’t new to the health scene. “When my stepmother had cancer in the ’80s, she explored lots of alternative health options, and started brewing her own Kombucha. She sent all of us kids a ‘mother’ and we tried our hands at it.” A mother, also known as a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast) is the mushroom-like starter culture of Kombucha, and starts the fermentation process in either black or green tea.
Above: This series of photos shows Megan Lundahl making Kombucha at home, beginning at top with brewing the tea. Next, she separates the SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). Then she adds sugar to the tea, and the SCOBY feeds on the sugar. Finally, she shows an example of the finished Kombucha.
“I tried it for a summer, and then gave it up,” she says. “It was fun for a while, but it was a lot of work…you really had to tend it.” Megan Lundahl has been brewing Kombucha for a year and swears by the beverage’s ability to regulate digestion, balance her body and improve everything from her skin to her mood.
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She does, however, acknowledge that home-brewed Kombucha is “an acquired taste.” Like many Kombucha aficionados, she talks about her SCOBY as if it’s a living, breathing thing, which it is, usually. “I think my SCOBY died,” she says. “It’s under my bathroom sink right now, and I’ve been neglecting it. Fortunately, I gave some of it to my friend in Sister Bay, and she’s brewing, so I’ll be able to get it back again. I guess it will be like a grandbaby to my SCOBY.” She laughs. For high school student Tommy Hauser, brewing Kombucha is part of his commitment to health. An avid skateboarder, Tommy brews about a gallon a week and shares the drink with his friends and mom. “My sister doesn’t think it’s that good,” he says. He keeps a collection of SCOBYs in a jar, and has shared them with friends, too. “I try to drink it every day at the same time,” he says. “It gives me energy and really helps my immune system.” Sturgeon Bay dentist and mom Jennifer Olson not only brews Kombucha for her family, including her three young children, but also recommends Kombucha and other fermented foods to her patients. “Anything fermented helps build healthy bacteria in the gut,” she explains, “that’s important for dental patients too since the oral cavity is the first part of that system.” Jennifer received a Kombucha kit as a gift from her husband, and the family keeps plenty on hand. She has even been known to steep fresh fruit in her brew, inspired by the various flavors produced by Tapuat Kombucha. “The kids call it their soda,” she says. “They love it.” Jennifer brews in a glass jug on her kitchen counter and has passed SCOBYs on to as many as 10 people. “It’s like friendship bread,” she says. “It just keeps on giving.” Autumn 2015 101
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Pumpkins Beyond Pie At Halloween, carved pumpkins line sidewalks and porches, but pumpkins are for more than just carving. Pumpkin’s best-known baking use is pie, but fresh pureed pumpkin is versatile and can be cooked in a variety of ways such as cheesecake, pancakes, and even baby food.
How to get started: • Pick your pumpkin. Typically, baking or pie pumpkins are much smaller than carving pumpkins. I prefer Jarrahdale pumpkins; they have a flat and ribbed shape with a bluish green color on the outside and deep orange color on the inside. Their inside flesh looks similar in color to a cantaloupe and is almost as sweet, too. Pumpkins are best picked after the first frost of autumn. • Wash the outside of the pumpkin, cut in half and remove seeds. • Bake at 350 degrees, checking at 30 minutes and then every 15 minutes until soft, and remove from oven. Or cut into smaller slices and steam on the stovetop until soft. It’s soft enough when you can stick a fork into the pumpkin and it slides in and out easily. • Remove the fleshy fruit from the skin with a spoon or paring knife and put it in a blender or food processor. Puree, adding a little water if needed to help get a smooth consistency. • Choose a recipe or freeze for later use. To freeze: measure portion (I measure based on my recipe needs — 1/2 cup, 1 cup, etc.), put in freezer bag, seal and put in freezer.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Crust: 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 1 1/2 packs of whole graham crackers) 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted Cheesecake: 2/3 cup light brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 pound cream cheese, room temperature 3 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cup pumpkin puree Topping: 1 cup sour cream 1 tablespoon vanilla 1/4 cup granulated sugar Place oven rack in the center of the oven, and preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat an eight-inch spring form pan with coconut oil or butter (you can also use a 10-inch spring form pan for a larger but thinner cheesecake). For Crust: In a medium-sized bowl combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter. Press the mixture onto the bottom of the prepared spring form pan. Cover and refrigerate while you make the cheesecake filling. For Cheesecake: In a separate bowl, stir to combine the sugar, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and salt.
In the bowl of your electric mixer (or in a large bowl with a hand mixer) beat cream cheese on low speed until smooth, about two minutes. Gradually add sugar mixture and beat until creamy and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition (about 30 seconds). Scrape down sides of bowl and beat in vanilla and pumpkin puree. Place spring form pan on a baking sheet to catch any drips and pour the filling over the chilled graham cracker crust. Place a cake pan, filled halfway with hot water, on the bottom shelf of your oven to moisten the air. Bake cheesecake for 30 minutes and then reduce the oven temperature to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and continue to bake the cheesecake for another 10 to 20 minutes, or until the edges of the cheesecake are puffed but the center is still wet and jiggles when you gently shake the pan. For Topping: Whisk together sour cream, vanilla and sugar. Pour sour cream mixture over the top of the baked cheesecake and evenly distribute. Return cheesecake to oven and bake about 8 minutes to set topping. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Loosen cheesecake from pan by running a knife around the inside edge. Place a piece of aluminum foil over the top of the pan so the cheesecake will cool slowly. When completely cooled, cover and refrigerate at least eight hours, preferably overnight, before serving.
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Pumpkin Pancakes 1 1/3 cup flour 2 tablespoons brown sugar (I use a mix of light and dark brown sugars) 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 2 eggs 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil (can substitute with cooking oil) 1 cup + 2 tablespoons milk 1/2 cup pumpkin 2 teaspoons vanilla chocolate or fruit as desired
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In a large bowl combine dry ingredients. In a medium bowl lightly beat eggs with oil. Add milk, pumpkin and vanilla to egg mixture. Stir liquid ingredients into dry mixture with a whisk until slightly lumpy.
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Two cooking methods: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Fill lightly greased cupcake trays half full with batter or 1/3 full with batter and add chocolate or fruit. Bake for 13 – 15 minutes, or until golden brown (insert a toothpick in the center, and when it’s done it should come out clean).
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2. Heat a lightly greased griddle over medium low heat. Add chocolate or fruit to the batter. For each pancake pour 1/4 cup batter onto griddle. Cook until golden, turn when tops are bubbly and edges are slightly dry (1 – 2 minutes per side).
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Baby Food Pureed pumpkin is a great base for baby food. You can use it by itself as one of baby’s first foods or mix it with other foods as baby discovers new tastes. One of my son’s favorite homemade baby foods was chicken, pumpkin and rice.
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1 chicken breast, boiled 1 cup pumpkin puree 1/2 cup brown rice puree* Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor and puree. Baby food can be frozen and thawed at a later date. * Brown Rice Puree Put 1/2 cup uncooked rice in a food processor and blend into a powder. Combine brown rice powder and 2 cups water in a saucepan, bring to boil, simmer 10 minutes, whisking constantly. You can also use this rice recipe to make baby rice cereal by mixing prepared rice with formula, breast milk, or fruits/vegetables.
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Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order by town. Information is subject to change. Contact individual restaurants for hours of operation. Inclusion in this directory should not be considered an unqualified endorsement by Door County Living. Restaurants are encouraged to e-mail us with up-to-date information at: info@doorcountyliving.com.
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AC Tap 9322 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2426 $LD T{ Bearded Heart Coffee 8101 Highway 57 (920) 421-3309 $BL{ Chives Restaurant 8041 Highway 57 (920) 839-2000 chivesdoorcounty.com $$$ L D ( Cornerstone Pub & Restaurant 8123 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9001 baileysharborcornerstone pub.com $$ B L D J T { Coyote Roadhouse 3026 Cty E (920) 839-9192 $$ L D J T { Located on the shores of Kangaroo Lake, come enjoy the beautiful view. We offer a full-service bar, appetizers, lunch, dinner & dessert selections in a relaxed, casual and comfortable setting. Try our mouthwatering baby-back ribs or choose from a variety of homemade soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, steaks, and other entrees. Children’s menu available. Family friendly.
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Sandpiper Restaurant at Maxwelton Braes 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 421-4270 $B J The Sandpiper, located on the upper level of Maxwelton Braes, will now be serving all your old breakfast favorites such as summer hash, chicken fajita, Cajun, corned beef hash skillets and much more. Don’t forget about our “big as Lake Michigan” pancakes! Come join Rosemary, Cassie and their staff for a great breakfast from 7:00 am till noon.
Harbor Fish Market & Grille 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 harborfishmarket-grille .com $$$$ B L D J T { ( A full service restaurant in the heart of Baileys Harbor. Open seven days a week serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. We feature a Traditional New England Lobster Boil every Wed., Fri., Sat., and Sun. We have a full bar, seasonal pet friendly waterfront garden dining and holiday buffets. Contact us for information about hosting your wedding or special event at the Harbor Fish Market. Pasta Vino 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-1404 pastavinodc.com $$$ L D (
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EGG HARBOR Bistro at Liberty Square 7755 Hwy 42 (920) 868-4800 libertySquareShops.com $$ B L D J { ( Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Enjoy delicious pizzas & burgers, homemade soups & pastries. Sample our specialty coffee, extensive wine list, select microbrews & full bar. Dine inside or out. Carry out available. Awarded “Best Fish Fry,” “Best Place to Eat Healthy,” and “Best New Restaurant.” Buttercups Coffee Shop 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1771 $BLD
Carrington Pub & Grill 7643 Hillside Rd. (920) 868-3205 thelandmarkresort.com $$$ B L D J T { ( Visit the Carrington Pub & Grill for a relaxed and inviting atmosphere, as well as friendly and attentive service. Located on the north side of the Landmark Resort property, the Carrington specializes in a great view, tasty food and a friendly crew. Casey’s BBQ and Smokehouse 7855 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3038 caseysbbqandsmoke house.com $$ L D J T Double Delites 7818 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2221 $T{ Galileo’s at Liberty Square 7755 Hwy 42 (920) 868-4800 libertysquareshops.com $$$ D ( Italian at its best! Our restaurant transports you to Italy with colorful panoramic murals of Tuscany’s pastoral countryside, a grand antique mahogany bar, original artist wall etchings and a delicious menu featuring favorite dishes — replete with a list of full, luscious wines designed to enhance every meal. You’ll enjoy generous portions of delicious food and drink. (Located on the south side of Liberty Square.) Greens N Grains Deli 7821 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9999 greens-N-grains.com $BLJT{ The Greens N Grains Deli features a wonderful selection of vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and raw food cuisine. In its fourth year, the new deli also highlights a juice bar with freshly-pressed veggie juices, fruit smoothies, healthy bakery, a tea bar and organic coffees.
Hof Restaurant at the Alpine Resort 7715 Alpine Road (920) 868-3000 alpineresort.com $$$ B D J { (
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MacReady Artisan Bread Company 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2233 MacReadyBread Company.com $LDJT{ Mojo Rosa’s 7778 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3247 mojorosas-doorcounty .com $$ L D J T { ( Parador 7829 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2255 $$ D {( Schoolhouse Artisan Cheese Downtown Egg Harbor, next to Marina Park (920) 868-2400 $$ L D T{ Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicrobrew .com $$$ L D J T { Stonehedge Bar & Grill 4320 Cty E (920) 868-1515 $BLD { The Harbor View Grill 7821 Horseshoe Bay Rd (920) 868-5064 theharborviewgrill.com $$ B L D ( The Orchards at Egg Harbor 8125 Heritage Lake Rd. (920) 868-2483 orchardsateggharbor.com $L J{ The Village Café 7918 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3342 villagecafe-doorcounty .com $BLD JT{
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Fireside Restaurant 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 854-7999 thefiresiderestaurant.com $$$ D ( Mink River Basin 12010 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2250 minkriverbasin.com $$ B L D J T { ( Rowleys Bay Restaurant & Pub 1041 Hwy ZZ (920) 854-2385 rowleysbayresort.com $$ B D J { ( The Viking Grill 12029 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2998 thevikinggrill.com $$ B L D J T Wickman House 11976 Mink River Rd (920) 854-3305 wickmanhouse.com $$$ D { (
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Good Eggs South Ephraim (920) 854-6621 $BL{ Good Eggs: You are one! Breakfast cabana across from the water in south Ephraim. Joe Jo’s Pizza 10420 Water St (920) 854-5455 $LDJT Specializing in homemade thin crust pizza made to order. Put your taste buds to the test — offering 18 gelato flavors. Leroy’s Waterstreet Coffee 9922 Hwy 42 (920) 854-4044 $T{
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Wilson’s Restaurant 9990 Water St (920) 854-2041 wilsonsicecream.com/ main.htm $LDJ{
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Open Daily 7am located on Hwy 42 in Ephraim, just south of the beach 920-854-6621 order online
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Summer Kitchen 10425 Water St (920) 854-2131 $$ B L D J { ( Located between Ephraim and Sister Bay, Door County’s garden restaurant, The Summer Kitchen, is open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Well known for its soup bar and homemade pies, The Summer Kitchen features a daily lunch special of half a sandwich, a cup of soup, and fresh fruit, as well as an early bird special for breakfast and broiled whitefish for dinner. In addition to its extensive menu The Summer Kitchen also serves authentic Mexican food.
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Wilson’s Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor has been located in the heart of Ephraim since 1906. A classic Door County landmark that possesses the enchantment to take even the youngest visitors back in time with its old-fashioned soda fountain and ice cream specialties, homebrewed draft root beer, flame broiled burgers and juke boxes playing the classics.
FISH CREEK Alexander’s Contemporary Cuisine & Fine Spirits 3667 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3532 alexandersofdoorcounty .com $$$$ D J T { ( Specializing in seafood, steaks, contemporary cuisine, catering and special events (fully licensed and insured). Bar opens
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at 4 pm, dinner at 5 pm. Sunday brunch starting at 9 am. Arroyo Bay Grill 3931 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1900 $$ B L D J { ( Authentic Mexican and American food, located directly across from Door Community Auditorium. We are a family-oriented restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week — along with a full bar and late night menu. We also specialize in take-out picnic meals and offer outside patio dining.
homemade pizza, Friday fish fry and Smilin’ Bob’s Chili. Open daily, year round!
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Blue Horse Beach Café 4113 Main Street (920) 868-1471 bluehorsecafe.com $BLJT{
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Craic Coffee and Shop 4199 Main St. (920) 868-5019 craiccoffee.com $BL {
Bayside Tavern Main St. (920) 868-3441 baysidetavern.com $LD JT For an unpredictably great time, visit Fish Creek’s favorite tavern. Serving cocktails, beer and our famous Bayside Coffee. Our short-order menu features hearty homemade soups, sandwiches, burgers,
English Inn 3713 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3076 theenglishinn.com $$$ D J T ( The English Inn cordially invites you to enjoy Olde World Class with traditional supper club portions at The English Inn. “A Door County dining tradition.” Open year round. Now in two locations — Fish Creek and Green Bay. Gibraltar Grill 3993 Main St (920) 868-4745 gibraltargrill.com $$ L D J{
Joe Jo’s Pizza and Gelato Phone: 920.854.5455
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Greenwood Supper Club Intersection of Cty A & F (920) 839-2451 greenwoodsupperclub.net $$$ D J T Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel 4020 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2999 juliesmotel.com $$ B L D J{( Juniper’s Gin Joint 4170 Main St (Corner of Main St. & Hwy 42) (920) 868-2667 junipersginjoint.com $$$ L D J T { Mr. Helsinki 4164 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9898 mrhelsinki.com $$$ D T Not Licked Yet 4054 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2617 notlickedyet.com $LD{
Pelletier’s Restaurant Founder’s Square (920) 868-3313 doorcountyfishboil.com $$ B L D J{(
offers light fare including small plates and desserts. Outdoor seating available. Travel Green Wisconsin certified.
fish boils served Wed., Fri., Sat. and Sun. evenings in summer and fall and on Friday evenings in winter; candlelight dinner served from the menu on the Stillwater’s By the Bay Villaggios evenings when there is no 4149 Main Street 4240 Juddville Rd fish boil. Reservations rec(920) 868-9962 (920) 868-4646 ommended for evening $LDJ{ villaggios-doorcounty.com meals. $$ D J{( Summertime Wild Tomato Restaurant Whistling Swan Wood-Fired Pizza 1 N Spruce St. 4192 Main St and Grille (920) 868-3738 (920) 868-3442 4023 Hwy 42 TheSummertime.com whistlingswan.com (920) 868-3095 $$$ B L D J T { ( $$$$ D JT( wildtomatopizza.com The Cookery Restaurant White Gull Inn $LD JT{ 4135 Hwy 42 4225 Main St (920) 868-3634 (920) 868-3517 GILLS ROCK cookeryfishcreek.com whitegullinn.com GT Coffee $$ B L D J{ $$$$ B L D JT( “Fresh food, expertly Serving breakfast (includ- 12625 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9907 prepared” (Midwest Living, ing America’s Favorite, Best of the Midwest White Gull Cherry Stuffed GalleryTen.com $BLT{ 2011-2012). Offering French Toast, as featured contemporary American on Good Morning Shoreline Restaurant casual fare with an America) as well as a full 12747 Hwy 42 emphasis on local ingremenu daily 7:30 am – 12 (920) 854-2950 dients. Breakfast, lunch pm; sumptuous lunches theshorelineresort.com and dinner served daily. served daily 12 – 2:30 pm; $$$ L D J { The water view wine bar traditional Door County Start at the top of the
county in Gills Rock. Come to the Shoreline Restaurant, where every meal is served with a view overlooking the western waters of Green Bay. We serve lunch and dinner from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm, May through October, featuring whitefish and nightly specials. Along with our numerous whitefish specialties, we have many other nightly features.
Mike’s Port Pub & Grille 6269 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2081 innlet-motel.com $BLD JT{
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JJ’s of Jacksonport Hwy V and Hwy 57 (920) 823-2700 $LD JT{ Travel to Jacksonport for the liveliest setting around! Enjoy Mexican and American dishes and fantastic margaritas — a local favorite!
Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant 10698 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2626 aljohnsons.com $$ B L D JT Look for the goats on the sod roof, on top of an authentic Scandinavian log building. Serving breakfast all day, year round. Open 7 am to 3 pm December to April,
Mr. G’s Logan Creek Grill 5890 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2112 $$$ D J T { Town Hall Bakery 6225 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2116 townhallbakery.com $BL J
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Start at the top of the county in Gills Rock. Come to The Shoreline Restaurant, where every meal is served with a view overlooking the Bay.
6 am to 8 pm May to November. Swedish atmosphere and food specialties, including Swedish pancakes, meatballs, limpa bread and lingonberries. Base Camp Coffee Bar 10904 Hwy 42 (920) 854-7894 ecologysports.com $BLT{ Bier Zot 10677 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-5070 $LD { Carroll House 2445 S. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-7997 $BLJ Chop Country Walk Shops — Garden Level (920) 854-2700 $$$ D T{( Door County Bakery 10048 Hwy 57 (920) 854-1137 doorcountybakery.com $$ B L T { ( The Door County Bakery is a wonderful place to enjoy breakfast or lunch. Their morning and midday menus feature many entrees with a true European continental flair, all created in the kitchen of the Door County Bakery. Besides their Italian coffees, there’s also a full service bar offering an array of beverages to compliment your meal. Served in a comfortable dining room or on their open-air patio, these are meals that will make your trip to Door County memorable. Door County Creamery 10653 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-3388 $LD T{ Door County Ice Cream Factory 11051 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9693 doorcountyicecream .com $LDJ{ Drink Coffee 517 N Bay Shore Drive (920) 854-1155 $BLDT{
Fred & Fuzzy’s Waterfront Bar & Grill 10620 Little Sister Rd (920) 854-6699 littlesisterresort.com $LD J{ A place to dine on our scenic shoreline. Sit outside or under our awning which is enclosed and heated for spring and fall. Grilled sandwiches, full bar, Friday and Wednesday fish fry, boat tie-ups, awesome sunsets and storm watching. Open daily at 11:30 am. Located at Little Sister Resort adjacent to Bay Ridge Golf Course, in Sister Bay. Grasse’s Grill 10663 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-1125 $$ B L D J{ Husby’s Food and Spirits 10641 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2624 $LD JT{ JJ’s La Puerta Restaurant 10961 Bay Shore Drive (920) 854-4513 jjswaterfront.com $LD JT{ Travel to the north end of Sister Bay for the liveliest setting around! Enjoy Mexican and American dishes and fantastic margaritas — a local favorite! Klaud’s Kitchen 2398 Country Walk Drive (920) 421-3971 chefklaud.com $BL Mission Grille Intersection of Hwy 42 & 57 (920) 854-9070 missiongrille.com $$$$ L D J T { ( Exceptional cuisine and fine spirits, Gourmet Magazine Selection, Wine Spectator Award past 13 years. Northern Grill & Pizza 10573 Country Walk Dr (920) 854-9590 $$ L D J T { Patio Motel & Restaurant 10440 Orchard Dr (920) 854-1978 patiomotelandrestaurant .com $BLD{
Sister Bay Bowl 10640 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2841 sisterbaybowl.com $$ L D J T Famous for its Friday Night Perch Fry and its Prime Rib, this throwback to yesteryear is located in the heart of Sister Bay. Open year round, the Sister Bay Bowl features a full dining room, grill and bar, and Northern Door’s only bowling alley.
Casual Upscale Dining in Sister Bay
DINNER DAILY
Sub Express at Sister Bay Mobil 2579 S. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-6700 $BLDJT{ It’s a restaurant with gas pumps! Daily lunch specials, fresh subs, pizza, breakfast bagels, muffin sandwiches, smoothies, and more. Drive-thru service available.
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The Waterfront 10961 Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-5491 jjswaterfront.com $$$$ D T { ( The Waterfront features upscale elegant dining overlooking the beautiful Sister Bay waterfront. Our menu features Door County’s finest steaks, and innovative fresh fish and seafood. Look for The Waterfront when you’re in Door County. It promises to be a memorable dining experience!
RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED
STURGEON BAY 136 Restaurant and Wine Bar 136 N. Third Ave. (920) 746-1100 $$$ L D T( 5th and Jefferson Café 232 N. 5th Ave. (920) 746-1719 $BLD{ Birmingham’s 4709 N. Bay Shore Drive (920) 743-5215 birminghamsbarand cottages.com $$ L D J T Benny D’z 23 W. Oak Street (920) 818-1110 bennydz.com $D T Blue Front Café 86 W. Maple (920) 743-9218 $$ L D JT( Autumn 2015 113
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FOOD IS WHAT WE DO. Open Daily 10am-5:30pm
Distinctive Waterfront Dining in Door County Live Maine Lobster Boil on Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun Evenings!
Reservations Encouraged
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Open Nightly 4pm 3597 Bay Settlement Rd. Green Bay, WI 54311 920.455.0676
Full Menu • Friday Fish Fry(all you can eat) • Beef & Chicken Wellington
Wonderful historic 100 year building located on the water Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner Great garden waterview seating in season Traditional New England
A Door County Waterfront Resort
Lobster Boil Perfect location for weddings & celebrations Live Maine Lobster & King Crab Freshest fish and prime meats available Creative vegetarian entrees
107 North First Ave Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 (920) 746-0700 • 877-746-0700 • www.stoneharbor-resort.com
Exceptional wine list and full bar
Dining by the fireplace
Homemade desserts
Live music every weekend Conferences Weddings
Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner 8080 State Hwy 57 Downtown Baileys Harbor (920) 839-9999 harborfishmarket-bh@gmail.com www.HarborFishMarket-Grille.com
RESTAURANT GUIDE
Brick Lot Pub & Grill 253 N. 3rd Ave (920) 743-9339 bricklotpub.com $LD JT
Gilmo’s Bar & Bistro Wavepoint Marina Resort, 3600 County CC (920) 824-5440 wavepointe.com $LD JT{(
Cherry Hills Lodge & Golf Course 5905 W. Dunn Rd. (920) 743-4222 golfdoorcounty.com $$$ D J T { (
Glas 67 E. Maple St. (920) 743-5575 glascoffee.com $BL T{
Corner Café 113 N. 3rd Ave (920) 743-1991 $BLJT( Donny’s Glidden Lodge Restaurant 4670 Glidden Dr (920) 746-9460 gliddenlodge.com $$$$ D J T { ( Door County Fire Company 38 S. 3rd Ave (920) 818-0625 $$ L D J T
Frozen Spoon Yogurt Bar 210 S. 1st Avenue (920) 818-0250 $LD{ Get Real Café 116 S. Madison Ave. (920) 493-3354 time2getrealcafe.com $$ B L D
Hot Tamales 26 E. Oak St (920) 746-0600 hottamaleswi.com $BLD JT Idlewild Pub & Grill 4146 Golf Valley Dr. (920) 743-5630 $LD {
El Sazon Mexican Restaurant 1449 Green Bay Rd, Ste 2 (920) 743-6740 $BLD JT Fatzo’s 46 Green Bay Road (920) 743-6300 $LDJT{
Holey Cow 129 N. Madison Ave. (920) 818-0261 holey-cow.com $BLD{
Inn at Cedar Crossing 336 Louisiana Street (920) 743-4200 innatcedarcrossing.com $$$ B L D J T ( Kick Coffee 148 N. 3rd Ave (920) 746-1122 $BLT{ Kitty O’Reillys Irish Pub 59 E Oak St (920) 743-7441 kittyoreillys.com $$ L D J T { Kona Bay Fish House 1640 Memorial Dr. (920) 743-5555 $$ L D J T { (
Lola’s Bakery and Restaurant 306 S. 3rd Ave (920) 473-5055 $BLDJ Mandarin Garden 512 S. Lansing Avenue (920) 746-9122 $$ L D T Mill Supper Club 4128 Hwy 42/57 N (920) 743-5044 $$$ D J T Old Mexico 901 Egg Harbor Rd. $$ L D J T { Renard’s Cheese 2189 Cty Rd DK (920) 825-7272 $BL JT{ Renard’s Cheese and Deli is now offering even more great options to our customers. The deli opens at 8 am and has a great variety of meat, egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches as well as a full line of gourmet coffees and tea. For lunch we proudly serve our Renard’s Pizza, hot or cold sandwiches, hot dogs, soup, salad and our grilled cheese of the week, featuring one of Renard’s Gourmet Cheeses. Renard’s Deli also has a unique variety of drinks including Italian Soda, Frappe and Fruit Smoothies as well as soda, beer and wine.
HYLINE ORCHARD MARKET 8240 Hwy. 42 • North of Egg Harbor • (920) 868-3067
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Cherries • Apples • Homemade Products
Open Daily Year Round
Set the Night on Fire!
Scaturo’s Café 19 Green Bay Rd (920) 746-8727 $BL JT{(
CZARNUSZKA SOUP BAR
Voted Door County’s Best: • Burgers • Chili by “Smilen Bob” • Bloody Marys • Tavern, Pub, Lounge
HOT SOUP!
OPEN YEAR ROUND
YOU WORK HARD. EAT SOUP.
9922 Water St. #7, Behind Leroy’s, Ephraim Mowimy po polsku.
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SERVING FOOD ‘TIL 11PM DOWNTOWN FISH CREEK | 920.868.3441 | BAYSIDETAVERN.COM
RESTAURANT GUIDE
lautenbach’s orchard country
tour • taste • shop • enjoy
Enjoy award-winning wines, shop our spacious market filled with local products, or enjoy a guided tour of the orchards, vineyards and winery.
Sonny’s Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria 129 N. Madison Ave. (920) 743-2300 sonnyspizzeria.com $$ L D J T ( Stone Harbor 107 N 1st St (920) 746-0700 stoneharbor-resort.com $$$ B L D J T { ( Stone Harbor’s full-service restaurant & pub offers beautiful water views for elegant yet casual dining. With an all-youcan-eat lunch salad bar seven days a week and live entertainment every weekend, you’re sure to have a great experience here at Stone Harbor. Sunflour Artisan Bakery 611 Jefferson Street (920) 818-0130 sunflowerartisanbakery .com $BL
9197 Hwy 42 Fish Creek • 920.868.3479 • orchardcountry.com
Sunset Grill 3810 Rileys Point Rd. (920) 824-5130 $$ D J T { The Cabin 4680 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 743-2421 $$ D J T ( The Nightingale Supper Club 1541 Egg Harbor Road (920) 743-5593 $$$ D J T The Tin Plate 4849 Glidden Dr. (920) 818-1177 $$ B L D J T ( Trattoria Dal Santo 147 N 3rd Ave (920) 743-6100 trattoriadalsanto.com $$$ D T(
Waterfront Mary’s Bar & Grill 3662 North Duluth Ave. (920) 743-3191 waterfrontmarysbarand grill.com $LD JT{ Woldt’s Corner 911 Green Bay Rd (920) 743-1195 woldtscorner.com $$ L D J T {
WASHINGTON ISLAND Albatross Drive-In N7W1910 Lobdells Point Rd (920) 847-2203 $LD{ Bread & Water Café 1275 Main Rd (920) 847-2400 washingtonislandfood .com $BL{ Cellar Restaurant at Karly’s Bar Main Rd (920) 847-2655 $$$ L D J T { ( Fiddler’s Green 1699 Jackson Harbor Rd (920) 847-2610 washingtonislandfiddlers green.com $$ L D T{ Findlay’s Holiday Inn Restaurant Detroit Harbor Rd (920) 847-2526 holidayinn.net $BLD
Island Pizza At the ferry dock (920) 847-3222 $LD KK Fiske Restaurant 1177 Main Rd (920) 847-2121 $BLDT Nelsen’s Hall Bitters Pub W19N1205 Main Rd (920) 847-2496 $LD T{ Red Cup Coffee House 1885 Detroit Harbor Rd (920) 847-3304 $BL Sailor’s Pub 1475 South Shore Dr (920) 847-2105 $$$ D { ( Ship’s Wheel Restaurant Shipyard Island Marina, South Shore Drive (920) 847-2640 BLD Sunset Resort Old West Harbor Rd (920) 847-2531 sunsetresortwi.com $B The Danish Mill 1934 Lobdell Point Rd (920) 847-2632 danishmill.com $BLDJT{
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A Slice of Heaven Washington Island’s West Harbor Resort
Built as a lumberjack lodge in the late 1870s, Herb and Marianna Gibson’s West Harbor Resort is a slice of heaven — but only if you’re partial to soft lake breezes, golden, diffused light and a sense of utter and transformative peace. Situated on the west shore of Washington Island, Gibson’s occupies the point that frames the north end of West Harbor, a protected bay that looks out to the waters of Green Bay. It provides some of the prettiest scenery you’ll find in a pretty county. According to Herb, he and Marianna own “somewhere between 4 ½ to 6 acres.” Herb has lived on West Harbor his whole life. His parents, Frank and Pearl Gibson, purchased the property in 1947 and turned what had been a general store at one time and a lodging establishment since 1910 into the West
Harbor Hotel. The Gibson family has been welcoming guests ever since. Herb and Marianna took ownership in 1971. Innkeeping is in Marianna’s blood, too. She grew up almost kitty-corner to the island where her family ran the Jackson Harbor Inn. Gibson’s West Harbor Resort is comprised of six fully-equipped housekeeping cottages and a lodge that houses nine rooms of various sizes, all appointed with antiques and linens freshly laundered and hung to dry on clotheslines behind the inn. Rooms in the lodge share a men’s and women’s bath and shower down the hall. Rates on the cottages average $95/day or $500/week; rooms in the lodge rent for $50/night for two people. When asked if they discuss raising the rates, Herb says, “Occasionally, but
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we’re of different minds about it.” He laughs, “We’ll bring it up again at the next board meeting.” Marianna admits that some people are turned off by the thought of sharing a bathroom. Most who start out reticent leave saying it worked “just fine” and many come back year after year. The Gibsons have guests who have been returning for decades, families who have passed the tradition on to multiple generations and who have become friends as well as customers. They take reservations on New Year’s Day for dates throughout the year. “We started asking for deposits a few years ago because it helps with cash flow,” Marianna explains. “But, if we know you…” Her voice trails off and she waves the idea away.
The Gibsons’ six children grew up helping with chores and enjoying a ready supply of new kids to play with each week. Five of the six went off to college. Some have returned and live on the premises or elsewhere on the island. Two live as far away as Pennsylvania and Saudi Arabia. Marianna thinks that running a family business has helped instill a sense of responsibility. “They’re always good natured about helping, although I do recall feeling a little bad when one daughter pointed out she’d only been home six hours before I asked her to make a bed!” When you check into Gibson’s, you’ll be given a warm welcome and an open invitation to use the kayaks, canoes, row boat, fire pit, swings and game room that dot the property. What you won’t be given is a key for your room, which
you’re able to lock from the inside but not from the out while you’re gone. Marianna and Herb explain, “We’ve never had a problem. We tell people to take valuables with them or leave them in their car.” They laugh. “The only thing we’ve ever had stolen was a photo of our daughter from the lounge downstairs. We think that someone had a crush on her.” Gibson’s may not be for everyone, but that’s because it offers an experience that’s unique in a world that’s increasingly predictable. Great sunsets are more certain at Gibson’s than cell phone coverage. But those who do love it, love it fiercely and protectively. Herb laughs, “Our guests help watch the property and let us know if anything’s going on. They don’t want anything
Above: Herb and Marianna Gibson have turned a former lumberjack lodge into a slice of heaven for visitors to Washington Island.
to change.” He adds, “Every so often, someone drives up and asks how much we’d take for the place. They say, ‘it’s just what we’re looking for.’” Lucky for the many who love West Harbor Resort, Herb and Marianna’s answer is firm and is one they agree on 100 percent. “We’ll be here for awhile. We’re not going anywhere.” Gibson’s West Harbor Resort 2206 West Harbor Road Washington Island, WI 54246 (920) 847-2225 gibsonswestharbor.com Autumn 2015 119
LODGING GUIDE
Lodging facilities are listed in alphabetical order by town. Information is subject to change. We encourage readers to contact these establishments for more specific information. Inclusion in this directory should not be considered an unqualified endorsement by Door County Living. Innkeepers are encouraged to e-mail us with up-to-date information at: info@doorcountyliving.com.
BAILEYS HARBOR Gordon Lodge Resort Baileys Harbor Ridges Resort & Lakeview Suite 8252 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2127 ridges.com Cottage, Resort $52-$210 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly, Playground, Snow Shoeing, Snowmobiling, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Baileys Harbor Yacht Club Resort 8151 Ridges Rd (920) 839-2336 bhycr.com Resort $79-$249 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/ Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Sauna, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Baileys Sunset Motel & Cottages 8404 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2218 Cottage, Resort $38-$120 Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Playground Beachfront Inn at Baileys Harbor 8040 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2345 beachfrontinn.net Hotel/Motel $67-$169 Cable/Movies, High Speed Internet Access, Microwave, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Water View, Waterfront Blacksmith Inn On the Shore 8152 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9222 theblacksmithinn.com Bed and Breakfast $145-$315 Bikes, Kayaks, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Smoke Free, Water View, Whirlpools
1420 Pine Dr (920) 839-2331 gordonlodge.com Resort $130-$250 Bar, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fishing, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Gustave’s Getaway, 1887 Historic Log Home 2604 Grove Rd — Office (920) 839-2288 Cottage $135-$195 Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Pet Friendly, Smoke Free Journey’s End Motel 8271 Journey’s End Ln (920) 839-2887 journeysendmotel.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $50-$150 Fireplace, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly Kangaroo Lake Resort 2799 N Kangaroo Lake Dr (920) 839-2341 Cottage, Resort $125-$175 Boating, Fireplace, Fishing, Kitchen, Playground, Smoke Free, Water View Maxwelton Braes Lodge 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2321 maxweltonbraes.com Cottage, Resort $89-$169 Bar, Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fishing, Golf, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Meeting Room, Microwave, Non-smoking Rooms, Refrigerator, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Snow Shoeing, Snowmobiling, Tennis, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Orphan Annie’s 7254 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9156 Hotel/Motel $95-125 Kitchen, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible
Square Rigger Harbor 7950 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2016 Hotel/Motel $90-$120 Microwave, Refrigerator, Water View The Inn at Windmill Farm 3829 Fairview Rd (920) 868-9282 1900windmillfarm.com Bed and Breakfast $110-$125 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free The Rushes Resort Western Shore of Kangaroo Lake (920) 839-2730 therushes.com Resort $139-$295 Boating, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Playground, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools
EGG HARBOR Alpine Resort 7715 Alpine Rd (920) 868-3000 alpineresort.com Cottage, Resort $80-$219 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Fishing, Golf, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Restaurant, Tennis, Waterfront Bay Point Inn 7933 Hwy 42 (800) 707-6660 baypointinn.com Resort $225-$259 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpools Cape Cod Motel 7682 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3271 doorcountynavigator.com Hotel/Motel $69-$79 Cable/Movies, Playground, Refrigerator
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Door County Cottages/ Cottage Retreat 7574 Relax Ln (920) 868-2300 Cottage $100-$550 Fireplace, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Pet Friendly, Whirlpools Door County Lighthouse Inn B & B 4639 Orchard Rd (920) 868-9088 dclighthouseinn.com Bed and Breakfast $105-$175 Deck, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Egg Harbor Lodge 7965 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3115 eggharborlodge.com Resort $100-$325 Fireplace, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Tennis, Whirlpools Landmark Resort 7643 Hillside Rd (920) 868-3205 thelandmarkresort.com Resort $89-$240 Bar, Cable/Movies, Deck, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Restaurant, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Whirlpools Lull-Abi Inn of Egg Harbor 7928 Egg Harbor Rd (866) 251-0749 lullabi-inn.com Hotel/Motel $89-$189 Biking Trails, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Whirlpools Meadow Ridge 7573 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3884 meadow-ridge.com Resort $130-$350 Bike Rentals, Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Deck, Fireplace, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Tennis, Whirlpools
Newport Resort 7888 Church St (920) 868-9900 newportresort.com Resort $79-$257 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Fireplace, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
The Landing 7741 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3282 thelandingresort.com Resort $61-$233 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Whirlpools
Shallows Resort 7353 Hoseshoe Bay Rd (920) 868-3458 shallows.com Cottage, Resort $65-$350 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/ Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Playground, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools
Bayview Resort & Harbor P.O. Box 73 (920) 854-2006 Resort $120-$250 Boating, Fitness Center, Kitchen, Playground, Tennis
Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Highway 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicrobrew.com Hotel/Motel $79-$119 Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Restaurant The Ashbrooke 7942 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3113 ashbrooke.net Resort $99-$210 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools The Cornerstone Suites 6960 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3005 Resort $130-$220 Deck, Kitchen, Whirlpools The Feathered Star 6202 Hwy 42 (920) 743-4066 featheredstar.com Bed and Breakfast $110-$130 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
ELLISON BAY
Hillside Inn of Ellison Bay 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2928 Hotel/Motel $48-$98 Bar, Continental Breakfast, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible Hotel Disgarden B & B 12013 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9888 Bed and Breakfast $65-$125 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free, Waterfront Norrland Resort 12009 Hwy 42 (920) 883-9033 Cottage, Resort $60-$125 Boat Rentals, Boating, Fishing, Grill, Water View, Waterfront Rowleys Bay Resort & Vacation Homes 1041 Hwy ZZ (920) 854-2385 rowleysbayresort.com Cottage, Resort $59-$359 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Playground, Restaurant, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools
The Parkside Inn 11946 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9050 theparksideinn.com Hotel/Motel $59-$79 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast
EPHRAIM Bay Breeze Resort 9844 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9066 baybreezeresort.com Cottage, Resort $53-$169 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Waterfront, Whirlpools
Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Waterfront French Country Inn Of Ephraim 3052 Spruce Lane (920) 854-4001 innsite.com Bed and Breakfast $65-$100 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free Harbor View Resort 9971 S Dane St (920) 854-2425 Cottage, Resort $130-$185 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen
Eagle Harbor Inn 9914 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2121 eagleharborinn.com Bed and Breakfast $69-$237 Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Sauna, Whirlpools
High Point Inn 10386 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9773 highpointinn.com Resort $80-$328 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Whirlpools
Edgewater Resort 10040 Water St (920) 854-2734 edge-waterresort.com Cottage, Resort $79-$419 Cable/Movies, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Sauna, Waterfront, Whirlpools
Lodgings at Pioneer Lane 9996 Pioneer Ln (800) 588-3565 lodgingsatpioneerlane .com Hotel/Motel $65-$175 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Non-smoking Rooms, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
Ephraim Guest House 3042 Cedar St (920) 854-2319 ephraimguesthouse.com Resort $75-$185 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Smoke Free, Whirlpools
Pine Grove Motel 10080 Hwy 42 (800) 292-9494 pinegrovemotel.com Hotel/Motel $91-$108 Cable/Movies, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Non-smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
Ephraim Motel 10407 Hwy 42 (920) 854-5959 ephraimmotel.com Hotel/Motel $69-$129 Grill, Bike Rentals, Hiking Trails, Refrigerator, Microwave, High Speed Internet Access Ephraim Shores 10018 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2371 ephraimshores.com Resort $75-$210 Cable/Movies, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Playground, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Whirlpools Evergreen Beach Resort 9944 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2831 evergreenbeach.com Resort $75-$140
Somerset Inn 10401 Hwy 42 (920) 854-1819 somersetinndc.com Resort $59-$169 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Spruce Lane Lodge 3038 Spruce Lane (920) 854-7380 Hotel/Motel Kitchen The Juniper Inn B & B N9432 Maple Grove Rd (920) 839-2629 juniperinn.com Bed and Breakfast $85-$195 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Whirlpools
Trollhaugen Lodge 10176 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2713 trollhaugenlodge.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $79-$169 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Village Green Lodge 10013 Poplar Street (920) 854-2515 villagegreenlodge.com Bed and Breakfast $105-$240 Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Grill, Limited Food Service, Microwave, Outdoor Pool, Refrigerator, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Waterbury Inn 10321 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2821 waterbury.com Resort $85-$187 Cable/Movies, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Playground, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Whirlpools
FISH CREEK Apple Creek Resort, Motel & Suites Hwy 42 & F (920) 868-3525 applecreekresort.com Cottage, Resort $52-$250 Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Snowmobiling, Whirlpools By-The-Bay Motel Hwy 42 (920) 868-3456 Hotel/Motel $59-$155 Smoke Free, Water View Cedar Court Inn 9429 Cedar St (920) 868-3361 Cottage, Hotel/Motel $69-$325 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Whirlpools Evergreen Hill Condominium 3932 Evergreen Rd (800) 686-6621 homesteadsuites.com Resort $89-$204 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Fish Creek Motel & Cottages 9479 Spruce St (920) 868-3448
fishcreekmotel.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $58-$175 Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Water View Harbor Guest House 9480 Spruce St (920) 868-2284 harborguesthouse.com Resort $157-$378 Boating, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Kitchen, Smoke Free, High Speed Internet Access, Waterfront Hilltop Inn Hwy 42 & Cty F (920) 868-3556 hilltopinndc.com Resort $79-$199 Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Snowmobiling, Whirlpools Homestead Suites 4006 Hwy 42 (800) 686-6621 homesteadsuites.com Resort $75-$189 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Whirlpools Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel 4020 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2999 juliesmotel.com Hotel/Motel $55-106 Cable/Movies, Pet Friendly, Restaurant, Smoke Free Little Sweden Vacation Resort Hwy 42 (920) 868-9950 Resort $175-$350 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snow Shoeing, Tennis, Whirlpools Main Street Motel 4209 Main St (920) 868-2201 mainstreetmoteldc.com Hotel/Motel $49-$96 Cable/Movies, Smoke Free Parkwood Lodge 3775 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2046 parkwoodlodge.com Hotel/Motel
$79-$199 High Speed Internet Access, Microwave, Refrigerator, Complimentary Coffee, Grill, Indoor Pool, Playground, Tennis, Whirlpools Peninsula Park-View Resort W3397 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2633 Cottage, Resort $49-$199 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Settlement Courtyard Inn & Lavender Spa 9126 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3524 settlementinn.com Resort $72-$224 Bar, Biking Trails, Cable/ Movies, Massage Spa, Continental Breakfast, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Outdoor Pool, Smoke Free, Snow Shoeing, Snowmobiling, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools, Laundry The Whistling Swan Hotel 4192 Main St (920) 868-3442 whistlingswan.com Bed and Breakfast $135-$185 Bar, Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access, Restaurant, Smoke Free Thorp House Inn & Cottages 4135 Bluff Lane (920) 868-2444 thorphouseinn.com Bed and Breakfast, Cottage $75-$215 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Whirlpools White Gull Inn 4225 Main St (920) 868-3517 whitegullinn.com Bed and Breakfast $155-$295 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
GILLS ROCK Harbor Light Inn 12666 Hwy 42 (920) 421-2233 harborhousedoorcounty .com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $79-$129 Boating, Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Fireplace, Fishing, Grill,
High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Microwave, Pet Friendly, Playground, Refrigerator, Water View, Whirlpools Maple Grove Motel of Gills Rock 809 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2587 Hotel/Motel $65-$85 Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly On the Rocks Cliffside Lodge 849 Wisconsin Bay Rd (920) 840-4162 Hotel/Motel $305-$775 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Water View, Whirlpools The Shoreline Resort, Motel & Condominiums 12747 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2900 Hotel/Motel $79-$139 & $195-$300 Boating, Cable/Movies, Deck, High Speed Internet Access, Water View, Waterfront Jacksonport Innlet Motel 6269 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2499 dcty.com Hotel/Motel $50-$150 Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Restaurant, Snowmobiling, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Square Rigger Lodge 6332 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2404 squareriggerlodge.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $75-$250 Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Sauna, Waterfront, Whirlpools Whitefish Bay Farm 3831 Clark Lake Rd (920) 743-1560 whitefishbayfarm.com Bed and Breakfast $115-$125 Full Breakfast, Smoke Free
SISTER BAY Birchwood Lodge 10571 Hwy 57 (920) 854-7195 birchwoodlodge.com Resort $79-$219 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Tennis, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
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Bluffside Motel 10641 Bluffside Ln (920) 854-2530 Hotel/Motel $39-$150 Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Refrigerator Century Farm Motel 10068 Hwy 57 (920) 854-4069 Hotel/Motel $40-$75 Pet Friendly
Awaken to the sound of waves lapping the shore. Linger over breakfast as the morning light glistens on the water. Kayak the harbor, bike to a lighthouse. Fifteen guest rooms each with in-room whirlpool, fireplace, balcony & a view of the harbor. Romance & relaxation are yours! Visit our website for honeymoon packages. On the shore of Baileys Harbor Door County, Wisconsin
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Ashbrooke JUST FOR THE TWO OF YOU
Church Hill Inn 2393 Gateway Dr (920) 854-4885 churchhillinn.com Resort $65-$174 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Full Breakfast, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Coachlite Inn of Sister Bay 2544 S Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-5503 coachliteinn.com Hotel/Motel $45-$125 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Whirlpools Country House Resort 2468 Sunnyside Road (920) 854-4551 Resort $76-$326 Continental Breakfast, Deck, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Tennis, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpools Double S Lodge 11086 Hwy 42 (929) 854-3253 Bed and Breakfast $225 - $275
Edge of Town Motel 11902 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2012 Hotel/Motel $40-$80 Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly Inn On Maple 2378 Maple Dr (920) 854-5107 innonmaple.com Bed and Breakfast $85-$125 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free The Liberty Lodge at Sister Bay 11034 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2025 libertylodgesb.com Resort $99-$199 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace Little Sister Resort 10620 Little Sister Rd (920) 854-4013 littlesisterresort.com Cottage, Resort $75-$165 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Playground, Restaurant, Tennis, Waterfront Moore Property Services 10553 Country Walk Dr (920) 854-1900 Resort $120-$455 Cable/Movies, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Non-Non-smoking Rooms, Tennis, Waterfront Nordic Lodge 2721 Nordic Dr (920) 854-5432 thenordiclodge.com Cottage, Resort $60-$160 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies,
Continental Breakfast, Indoor Pool, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Open Hearth Lodge 2669 S Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-4890 openhearthlodge.com Hotel/Motel, Resort $59-$125 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Indoor Pool, Non-smoking Rooms, Whirlpools Patio Motel 10440 Orchard Dr (920) 854-1978 patiomotelandrestaurant .com Hotel/Motel $42-$74 Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Playground, Restaurant Pheasant Park Resort 130 Park Ln (920) 854-7287 pheasantparkresort.com Resort $88-$274 Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Scandinavian Lodge 10506 Hwy 57 (920) 854-7123 scandlodge.com Resort $90-$260 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools The Brodd’s Little Cottage 2182 Seaquist Rd (920) 854-2478 thelittlecottage.com Cottage $90
The Ashbrooke features a distinctive variety of one and two room suites for your luxury, privacy and enjoyment. Catering to adults, The Ashbrooke creates an elegant retreat for couples looking for a uniquely different Door County vacation.
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7942 Egg Harbor Road ♦ Egg Harbor, WI 54209 877.868.3113 w w w.ashbrooke.net
Newport Resort 7888 Church St., Egg Harbor, WI 54209
Spacious one and two bedroom suites with whirlpools, fireplaces & full kitchens. In & outdoor pools, whirlpool, sauna & fitness room. Free continental breakfast daily! Great Egg Harbor location within walking distance to shops, restaurants & attractions.
920.868.9900 • 800.468.6160 • www.newportresort.com
High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Microwave, Refrigerator, Smoke Free The Inn at Little Sister Hill 2715 Little Sister Hill Rd (920) 854-2328 doorcountyinn.com/ littlesister Resort $79-$179 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible Village View Inn 10628 N Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2813 village-view.com Hotel/Motel $45-$95 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Refrigerator, Smoke Free Voyager Inn 10490 Hwy 57 (920) 854-4242 voyagerinndc.com Hotel/Motel $55-$95 Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Whirlpools Yacht Club at Sister Bay 10673 Regatta Way (866) 951-0974 sisterbayresort.com Resort $107-$500 Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Smoke Free, Tennis, Water View, Waterfront
STURGEON BAY Along The Beach B & B 3122 Lake Forest Park Road (920) 746-0476 Bed and Breakfast $105-$135 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Waterfront AmericInn Lodge & Suites of Sturgeon Bay 622 S Ashland Ave (920) 743-5898
Hotel/Motel $59-$175 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Indoor Pool, Meeting Room, Pet Friendly, Sauna, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Bay Shore Inn 4205 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-4551 bayshoreinn.net Resort $79-$309 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/ Movies, Fishing, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Playground, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Beach Harbor Resort 3662 N Duluth Ave (920) 743-3191 beachharborresort.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel, Resort $69-$210 Bike Rentals, Jet Ski Rentals, Smoke Free, Waterfront Black Walnut Guest House 454 N 7th Ave (920) 743-8892 blackwalnut-gh.com Bed and Breakfast $135-$145 Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Bridgeport Resort 50 W Larch St (920) 746-9919 bridgeportresort.net Resort $69-$299 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Chal A Motel 3910 Hwy 42/57 (920) 743-6788 chal-amotel.com Hotel/Motel $34-$64 Non-smoking Rooms
Chanticleer Guest House 4072 Cherry Rd (920) 746-0334 Bed and Breakfast $120-$275 Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Limited Food Service, Whirlpools
Bed and Breakfast $65-$750 Full Breakfast Holiday Music Motel 30 N 1st Ave (920) 743-5571 holidaymusicmotel.com Hotel/Motel $99-$140 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access, Microwave, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Smoke Free
Cherry Hills Lodge & Golf Course 5905 Dunn Rd (920) 743-4222 Resort $89-$155 Full Breakfast, Golf, Outdoor Inn The Pines Pool, Restaurant, Smoke Free 3750 Bay Shore Dr Colonial Gardens B & B (920) 743-9319 344 N 3rd Ave innthepinesbb.com (920) 746-9192 Bed and Breakfast colgardensbb.com $120-$150 Bed and Breakfast Cable/Movies, Continental $100-$175 Breakfast, Fireplace, Limited Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Food Service, Smoke Free, Limited Food Service, Whirlpools Whirlpools Little Harbor Inn Comfort Inn 5100 Bay Shore Dr 923 Green Bay Rd (920) 743-3789 (920) 743-7846 littleharborinn.com Hotel/Motel Bed and Breakfast $89-$145 $120-$175 Continental Breakfast, High Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Speed Internet Access, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Indoor Pool, Microwave, Whirlpools Refrigerator, Whirlpools Motel 57 Garden Gate B & B 1160 Green Bay Road 434 N 3rd Ave (920) 746-8000 (920) 743-9618 Hotel/Motel doorcountybb.com $79-$89 Bed and Breakfast High Speed Internet Access, $50-$120 Kitchen, Microwaves, ReCable/Movies, Full Breakfrigerator, Complimentary fast, Smoke Free Coffee Glidden Lodge Beach Resort 4676 Glidden Dr (920) 746-3900 gliddenlodge.com Resort $140-$375 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Hearthside Inn B & B 2136 Taube Road (920) 746-2136
Quiet Cottage B & B 4608 Glidden Drive (920) 743-4526 quietcottage.com Bed and Breakfast $180-$225 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access Sand Bay Beach Resort & Suites 3798 Sand Bay Point Rd (920) 743-5731 sandbaybeachresort.com Resort
$85-$299 Fireplace, Fishing, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Meeting Room, Sauna, Whirlpools Sawyer House B & B 101 S Lansing Ave (920) 746-1640 bbonline.com/wi/sawyer/ Bed and Breakfast $90-$200 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Whirlpools Scofield House B & B 908 Michigan St (920) 743-7727 scofieldhouse.com Bed and Breakfast $84-$220 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Snug Harbor Resort 1627 Memorial Dr (920) 743-2337 snugharborinn.com Cottage, Resort $50-$169 Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly, Playground, Waterfront, Whirlpools Stone Harbor Resort & Conference Center 107 N 1st Ave (920) 746-0700 stoneharbor-resort.com Resort $99-$501 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Sauna, Snow Shoeing, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpools Stroh Haus B & B 608 Kentucky St (920) 743-2286 Bed and Breakfast $60 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Meeting Room
The Barbican 132 N 2nd Ave (920) 743-4854 barbicanbandb.com Bed and Breakfast $115-$220 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Limited Food Service, Whirlpools The Chadwick Inn 25 N 8th Ave (920) 743-2771 thechadwickinn.com Bed and Breakfast $110-$135 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Whirlpools The Cliff Dwellers 3540 N Duluth Ave (920) 743-4260 cliffdwellersresort.com Cottage, Resort $89-$230 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/ Movies, Fishing, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Waterfront, Whirlpools The Foxglove Inn 344 N. Third Ave (920) 746-9192 foxglovedoorcounty.com Bed and Breakfast $175-$530 High Speed Internet Access, Cable/Movies, Deck, Full Breakfast, Refrigerator, Complimentary Coffee, Fireplace, Whirlpools The Inn at Cedar Crossing 336 Louisiana St (920) 743-4200 innatcedarcrossing.com Bed and Breakfast $75-$190 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Whirlpools The Lodge at Leathem Smith 1640 Memorial Dr (920) 743-5555 thelodgeatls.com Resort $89-$279 Boating, Continental Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant
Affordable lodge rooms, kitchenettes and suites with wood burning stove.
Every one of our 38 suites has a breathtaking view of the bay. ✧ indoor pool ✧ whirlpool ✧ picnic area ✧ playground ✧ grills ✧ tennis courts ✧ and lots of open space to play!
3775 Hwy. 42 ✧ Fish Creek, WI ✧ 920-868-2046 ✧ 800-433-7592
www.ParkwoodLodge.com
Suites include kitchens, whirlpool tubs & fireplaces. Resort amenities include heated indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna & fitness room.
Enjoy the splendor of our resort. 4303 Bay Shore Drive Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
920.746.4057 • 800.440.4057 • www.westwoodshores.net
LODGING GUIDE The Pembrooke Inn 410 N 4th St (920) 746-9776 pembrookeinn.com Bed and Breakfast $80-$120 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free, Whirlpools
$79-$289 Boating, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, High Speed Internet, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
The Reynolds House B & B 111 S 7th Ave (920) 746-9771 reynoldshousebandb.com Bed and Breakfast $69-$160 Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Smoke Free, Whirlpools
White Lace Inn 16 N 5th Ave (920) 743-1105 whitelaceinn.com Bed and Breakfast $70-$135 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
Wave Pointe Marina and Resort 3600 County CC (920) 824-5440 wavepointe.com Resort $90-$250 Boating, Cable/Movies, Deck, Fireplace, Kitchen, Laundry, Limited Food Service, Outdoor Pool, Waterfront, Whirlpools Westwood Shores Waterfront Resort 4303 Bay Shore Dr (920) 746-4057 westwoodshores.net Resort
White Pines Victorian Lodge 114 N 7th Ave (920) 746-8264 whitepineslodge.com Bed and Breakfast $85-$150 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast
WASHINGTON ISLAND Bitter End Motel 1201 Main Rd (920) 847-2496 washingtonisland.com/ bitterendmotel/ Hotel/Motel
Microwave, Refrigerator, Restaurant
Hotel/Motel $95-$135 Microwave, Refrigerator, Restaurant, Water View
Bread & Water Lodging 1275 Main Rd (920) 847-2400 washingtonislandlodging .com $80-$150 Cable/Movies, Deck, High Speed Internet Access, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Whirlpools
Gibson’s West Harbor Resort & Cottages 2206 West Harbor Rd (920) 847-2225 Cottage, Resort $30-$90 Waterfront
Deer Run Golf Course and Resort 1885 Michigan Rd (920) 847-2017 deerrunwi.com Resort $79-$100 Bar, Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Golf, Restaurant, Smoke Free Dor Cros Inn 1922 Lobdell Point Rd (920) 847-2126 dorcrosinn.com Cottage, Resort $78-$157 Bike Rentals, Boating, Grill, Kitchen Findlay’s Holiday Inn 1861 The Inn Rd (920) 847-2526 holidayinn.net
Sunset Resort 889 Old West Harbor Rd (920) 847-2531 sunsetresortwi.com Resort $94-$112 Full Breakfast, Hiking Trails, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront The Townliner 1930 Townline Rd (920) 847-2422 brothers-too.com Hotel/Motel $64-$115 Cable/Movies, Kitchen, Refrigerator Viking Village Motel Main Rd (920) 847-2551 vikingvillagemotel.com Hotel/Motel $65-$120 Fireplace, Grill, Kitchen, Pet Friendly
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Door County Living in Pictures: The Photography of Len Villano
DOOR COUNTY LIVING IN PICTURES
The Photography of Len Villano
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NAMES by Jim Lundstrom
How Clay Banks Got Its Name When a friend in the news business asked which municipality was destined next for this feature, I was surprised at the cynical response to my answer of Clay Banks. “Duh!” my friend said. “I try to assume nothing,” I responded. “Maybe everything isn’t that obvious.” Perhaps, I hoped, there would be a story behind the name of the county’s seventh organized town and prosperous farming region. But I have to admit to being slightly daunted when the Town of Clay Banks website history page describes its original name as “High Clay Banks. Sailors used them as sailing landmarks.” So, the name of the county’s most southeastern municipality is that obvious. Still, who were those sailors? The town’s history page does not say, but does go on to this: “Set off from Town of Forestville in Feb. 1859. First town meeting held April 1859 at Prescott’s Boarding House. “First Settlers: W. H. Warren Sr. from New York, farmer and surveyor; William Helmholz, from Germany, farmer. (Both came in 1855). “Ethnic groups: New Englanders, German, Norwegian.” (It’s about time those New Englanders were classified as a separate ethnic group.) According to the April 7, 1916, Door County Democrat newspaper, the name Clay Banks was used for the area “long before any part of this county was organized.” The Democrat went on to say the high clay banks of the region “loomed up wonderfully and sailors could readily
recognize them many miles distant. In passing up and down Lake Michigan ‘clay banks’ was sort of a point to reckon on distance and bearings from. When that section began to settle up, names for that portion of the county were numerous, but to make known the location the word ‘Clay Banks’ always
had to be attached, and to save time and get immediate recognition, all other names were dropped, and Clay Banks adopted as the name.” I guess my friend’s “Duh!” was appropriate.
Top: The Tanum Forest Evangelical Lutheran Church has been serving the community since 1872. Bottom: An undated Clay Banks school photo from the Door County Historical Museum. Right: This plat map of Clay Banks comes from the 1899 Illustrated Atlas of Door County, Wisconsin, published by Randall & Williams of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and republished by the Door Reminder.
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