Door County Living Late Summer 2015

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You Say Tomato The versatile love apple

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Summer 2015 / Volume 13 Issue 2

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ART Art Auction 014 A Sculptor’s Life 016

by Alyssa Skiba

Mother Nature’s Artist 022

by Alyssa Skiba

CAMEO 026 Door County’s Peter Pan: Dave Ellmann

by Myles Dannhausen Jr.

MUSIC 032 Kim Souther: Door County’s Avant-Garde Cellist

by Alyssa Skiba

LITERATURE 036 Murder, They Wrote

by Gary Jones

DOOR TO NATURE 040 The Fossils of Door County

by Roy Lukes

HABITATS 044 A Dream Green Home

by Jim Lundstrom

HISTORY 052 The Toft Family and The Places They Called Home

by Patty Williamson, PhD

OUTDOOR 086 A Sport Built On Determination

by Alyssa Skiba

Historic Door County Summer Camps 056

by Laurel Duffin Hauser

Biggest, Finest, Fairest 070

by Jackson Parr

TOPSIDE 090 Bass Capital

by Jim Lundstrom

FAIRWAYS 092 A Sea of Grass

by Sean Zak

ON YOUR PLATE You Say Tomato 096

by Jess Farley

Smokin’! 102

by Jim Lundstrom

IN YOUR GLASS 100 Pucker Up!

by Jim Lundstrom

FEATURED ACCOMMODATION 118 Somerset Inn & Suites Has Location, Location, Location Plus

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cover Is there a greater symbol of county fairs everywhere than the mighty Ferris wheel? The Ferris wheel was designed

by George W. Ferris, a bridge-builder from Pittsburgh, who created the first one for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, held to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus landing in the New World. Photo by Len Villano. above Girls enjoy the waters of Green Bay while staying at Camp Meenahga at Peninsula State Park in Fish Creek. The camp for girls, founded by Alice Orr Clark, flourished from 1916 to 1948. Clark wrote a note to parents of potential campers that closed with this: “Remember, this camping season is a vacation. Vacation means happiness. Happiness is everyone’s due.” Submitted photo.

NAMES 126 How Jacksonsport Got Its Name

by Jim Lundstrom

DOOR LENS 128 photography by Len Villano

EDITOR’S NOTE 011 CONTRIBUTORS 013 RESTAURANT GUIDE 108 LODGING GUIDE 120

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EDITOR’S NOTE

‘Summer’s Lease Hath All Too Short a Date’ It was late May when I was thinking about how to introduce this summer issue of Door County Living. The crabapple tree outside my office window was finally bursting into hearty pink bloom, but not enough yet to release its heavenly aroma.

It stood out from its surroundings as the only thing not enveloped in the thick white fog rolling inland from Lake Michigan.

It was a chilly day with a biting easterly wind in Baileys Harbor, but nine miles away on the other side of the peninsula it was sunny and 72 degrees. The wind was also blowing on the other side, but it carried the soft promise of summer that most of us long for during the long winter.

Recalling the tongue-lashing I received from a woman who lives in the southern climes of Sturgeon Bay about my last magazine intro giving short shrift to spring in Door County (Did I forget about the arrival of warblers and blooms popping out, she asked), I thought perhaps I should explain that our office is in beautiful downtown Baileys Harbor, which has its own unique weather patterns. It is almost always cooler here than everywhere else, and I like it like that. It’s what I grew up with in Duluth, Minnesota, followed by four years in England, which also is known for having its own unique damp weather.

As I pondered these things, it seemed best not to try to evoke summery

thoughts through my words. Instead, let the words of others talk of summer.

“Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness.

The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond. The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green; and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.”

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist “Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step.”

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...”

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine Oh, and thanks to William Shakespeare for the headline.

Jim Lundstrom Editor

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Dan Anderson ~ Jack Anderson ~ Bridget Austin ~ Michael Bond ~ Don Fundingsland Kathy Glasnap ~ Mary Johnson ~ June Maeder ~ Melissa Merkel Stacey Small Rupp ~ Charles L. Peterson ~ Mark Vandervinne

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributing Editor MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. spent many summer nights bouncing around the grounds of Camp David. It’s where he was introduced to bluegrass, where they held his 10-year class reunion, and where an older sister got married. In this issue he takes a look at Dave Ellmann, the life force behind the party barn, and a man who has lived the nomadic Door County summer life longer than anyone else. Dannhausen is a freelance writer and Egg Harbor native who now lives in Chicago.

JIM LUNDSTROM always gravitated to the anatomical oddities on display at the county fairs of his less politically correct youth, and particularly remembers being front and center for a display by Willie “Popeye” Ingram, whose unique talent was being able to push his “elastic eyeballs” an inch out of his head.

Food and cooking is JESS FARLEY’S creative outlet. 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. There’s a lot of love in Jess’s life, even outside of work. She’s a supermom to her young son, and they spend days exploring Door County’s forests, farms and towns. They share affection for the land and water. It’s family, natural beauty and Lake Michigan that continues to keep Jess here. Her personal mantra: “Smile often and enjoy every moment because not a minute of this beautiful life should be wasted.”

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 festival-filled summers, ensuring the party never truly ends.

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.

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.

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.

A stranger to satisfaction, RYAN MILLER is a starving artist and prefers it as such, excessively exploring… exercising his imagination to keep creatively fit.

ALYSSA SKIBA, the Arts, Entertainment and Literature Editor for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living, has long admired individuals who throw caution to the wind and go where few, if any, have gone before.

She was fortunate to meet a number of those individuals in the art and sport communities for this issue.

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.

SEAN ZAK is an assistant editor at GOLF Magazine and Golf.com in New York City, where he has learned that writing about golf is just as difficult as playing it. Although he may have graduated to the Big Apple and is falling in love with the city, he’ll know it will always lack one important thing from his adolescence: the Door County sunset.

Top to bottom: Myles Dannhausen Jr. Jess Farley. Laurel Duffin Hauser. Gary Jones. Roy Lukes.

Jim Lundstrom. Ryan Miller. Jackson Parr. Alyssa Skiba. Len Villano. Patty Williamson. Sean Zak. Summer 2015 13

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ART AUCTION FOR CHARITY Since 2009, Door County Living has successfully partnered with local artists to create paintings that have not only graced the covers of our annual Philanthropy Issues, but have also been auctioned off to raise funds for the Door County charity of the winning bidder’s choice.

Door County Living Creative Director Ryan Miller created this year’s painting, “Butterfly Effect,” which depicts a budding philanthropist in a field of colorful butterflies. Inspired by the publication’s theme of cancer, the painting incorporates the colors of the many cancer awareness ribbons.

The oil pastel (30” x 15” framed to 36” x 20”) will be on display during the summer of 2015. For viewing and other information, contact the Door County Living office at (920) 839-2120.

All bid submissions (minimum bid: $2,000) should be mailed by September 15, 2015 to: “Butterfly Effect” Bid c/o Door County Living PO Box 695 Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin 54202

Sculptor Deb Dendler’s epoxy bronze bust, “Tom.”

by Alyssa Skiba / photography by Len Villano ART

A Sculptor’s Life DEB DENDLER has always had an interest in using her artistic talents to demonstrate the human condition. It is evident in the dozens of terracotta, bronze and relief sculptures lining the shelves of her countryside art studio in Fish Creek.

These sculptures are more than lumps of clay, porcelain and bronze shaped to represent her observations of human and animal life the past 40 years. For Dendler, they are her way of helping the modern world retain the human elements of life. These sculptures of mothers and their children, napping chefs and poised dancers are her answer to the question, “What does it mean to be human?”

Dendler is not interested in being cutting edge. Since graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1977 with a degree in sculpture, she has seen art trends go from abstract expressionism and pop art to today’s hyperrealism.

Her representational figurative sculptures have never been on-trend and after a formative youth growing up in the New York art scene and being exposed to “the vagaries of taste and fashion,” she certainly doesn’t mind.

“One thing that it did was convince me that the art world is insane because it’s all based on fashion…it’s very silly,” Dendler said. “Consequently, I pay no attention to any of it and do what I think is good.”

For her, that is art created by studying from life, something Dendler does often with sketchbook and pen in hand. As she learned at the art academy, when a sculptor does a drawing, they are not making pictures. They are making a diagram.

“Anything that expresses dimensionality — the lights and shadows, the lines, the contours — that’s

what’s important to a sculptor,” Dendler said.

Despite serving as a blueprint for future works, Dendler’s sketches are more than just lines on paper. There is a humanness to them, perhaps only achieved because the subject was oblivious to being the center of Dendler’s world for the few moments it took to immortalize the scene on paper.

Though “vulnerable” comes to mind when flipping through the aptly named images, “Waiting In Airport,” “Airport Sleeper,” and “Texting on the T,” Dendler is not exploiting anyone — she is simply passing time by capturing the raw little moments of everyday life.

“What interests me are all the different examples of every possible kind of person: good health or bad health, young, old, rich, poor — just the whole spectrum,” Dendler said. “The more I draw people, the more it seems like there is of every person that you see going by. There’s the story, there’s the whole thing right there in their face.”

It also says a great deal about the private, soft-spoken artist behind the work who has long struggled to see how her art evokes emotion and who holds firm that the sculpture she is most proud of is “the next one, because it’s the only one that’s flawless.”

It may sound like Dendler doesn’t believe in her own abilities but in sharing her 40-year journey with art, it quickly becomes clear that today, she is the most confident she has ever been.

Born in Chicago, Dendler lived in 13 places before the age of five due to her father’s career in chemical engineering.

When she was entering 10th grade, Dendler’s family moved to a suburb of New York, a 20-minute train ride from Manhattan and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (also called “the Met”).

The young Dendler frequently skipped class to hop a train to the museum and was often the only person in the building, which in the mid-1960s, was not uncommon.

Sometimes these sketches find their way into Dendler’s studio and become a permanent three-dimensional sculpture.

“Shopper”, a sketch of a lowly woman barely clasping the thin straps of a shopping bag resting on the floor, is one such piece.

“I’m not sorry because you couldn’t actually do that anymore,” she said.

“When I’ve been to the Met since then, it’s packed … it’s become a worldrenowned museum. Back then, New York wasn’t the center of the art world yet.”

While the shadows on the woman’s face and behind her back did not transfer to the bronze form, her poignant posture did.

But it was the center of Dendler’s art world.

Alicia Mulliken, longtime friend of Dendler, recalls seeing “Shopper” in bronze form for the very first time and likens it to her first view of Edgar Degas’ 1881 mixed-media sculpture, “The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer,” which depicts a young female student of the Paris Opera Ballet.

“I just got so emotional, I couldn’t stand it,” Mulliken recalled. “It just said so much in that little teeny figure.”

She recalls being at the New York World’s Fair and seeing Michelangelo’s “Pietà,” the world-famous marble sculpture depicting the body of Jesus in Mary’s lap after the Crucifixion.

“I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen,” Dendler said.

It didn’t occur to Dendler that she was capable of being a sculptor herself until two years into her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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“Moving from the painting studios to the sculpture studios was like that part of The Wizard of Oz where everything turns to color.”

— Deb Dendler

Left and above: Fish Creek sculptor Deb Dendler works on her most recent clay piece, “After the Bath,” in her studio.

Top: “Shopper” bronze sculpture. Submitted photo.

“I actually started out wanting to paint so I painted for a couple of years and discovered that I was much, much better at sculpture,” Dendler said.

“Moving from the painting studios to the sculpture studios was like that part of The Wizard of Oz where everything turns to color.”

She was immediately good at sculpture and was awarded a full scholarship at the academy to finish her degree in the art form.

Despite a childhood of frequent moves, there was one constant in Dendler’s life: summer vacations in Door County. It was during one such vacation with her former husband in the late 1970s that Dendler decided to lay her roots here.

Like most Door County artists who got their start here back then, The Hardy Gallery became a very important venue for her. Her reserved personality proved difficult in a time when selfpromotion wasn’t as easy as setting up a professional website, but she still thrived creating sculptures, exhibiting in galleries, and taking on commissions.

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She obtained her own studio on her land and worked diligently on sculptures and drawings while waitressing, exhibiting widely throughout the peninsula, raising her two children, and teaching sculpture at Peninsula Art School from 1983 until 1996.

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It was then that, faced with a number of life-threatening family illnesses, Dendler’s work disappeared from public exhibits and her life as a sculptor halted.

It would be another 10 years before she would start “puttering around” her studio again and six more beyond that before she would once again exhibit her sculptures.

Dendler credits her cancer diagnosis, first in 1995 and then again in 2006, and the subsequent tests, scans and doctors for being her wake-up call.

“I had the experience several times of thinking I only had a short amount of time left,” Dendler said. “That was wrong but I didn’t know that. I thought, ‘Okay, this is what I want to do. I want to make that sculpture.’ That was what really surprised me. I was like, ‘Okay, I’ve got six months to live.

What do I want to do? Well then I want to goof around. If I’ve got two years to live, then I want to get some sculpture done.’

It was very clarifying.”

The confident artist had emerged. In 2012, Dendler launched a website and has since been accepted into more than two-dozen exhibits across the world. She has taken top honors for her work throughout the East Coast and has been emboldened to take risks in creating art — the same type of risks her teenage self took just to be exposed to it.

Painting by L.H. LaMont

Founded in 1882, Bethany Lutheran Church is served by visiting pastors from May 24 through October 18. For the home-bound and others not able to attend, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday worship services with open Communion are streamed in real time and archived for later viewing at BethanyEphraim.org.

Visitors and viewers always welcome.

“Taking all that time off, I guess I really thought about it — what I wanted to do, what I didn’t want to do, and I realized that I had been very childish actually when I was showing my work here,” Dendler said. “I would really be offended by not being accepted in a show or by a gallery not wanting my work, not realizing that it’s just the luck of the draw. You win some, you lose some. So I would let that stop me, which is a shame. Now when I get a rejection I don’t pay any attention to it. I just move onto the next thing. I also am more strategic about where I want to exhibit or show…and not just assuming that they’re going to take care of this for me.”

This significant change in her approach to art has not gone unnoticed by those close to her. Tony Staroska, co-owner of Juddville Clay Studio Gallery, points out that for the first several years of his friendship with Dendler (he met her about 10 years ago), he didn’t see any of her artwork.

Today, he has not only seen her sculpture and those longhidden sketches, he has also witnessed her evolution firsthand.

“She’s a figurative sculptor but she’s trying to push her own little twist on things,” Staroska said. “Some people can’t get away from their classical training…but she’s a fine artist and a really nice person. It’s nice to see her come out of her shell.”

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Making Music by Susan Ploughe

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Mother Nature’s Artist monarch-shaped handmade paper. It quickly becomes clear that, if in some unfortunate twist of fate, Mother Nature were to reel her ugly head on Kirsten and her husband Carl’s little piece of earth in Algoma, cleanup wouldn’t be a problem. Everything would find its place in the natural world as it had before, no HAZMAT suits necessary.

When Algoma environmental artist and teacher Kirsten Christenson walks the shore of Lake Michigan, observing the ebb and flow of the water, the crisp color of the sky, the bright leaves of summer trees, she is noting nature’s structure as much as she is appreciating it.

Call it the benefit of an artist who so respects nature that little, if any, of the material she uses isn’t provided by the great outdoors.

“What I like to do is bring people’s attention to things in nature and hardly change them,” Kirsten said.

When she returns home, she will bring those mental notes to a quaint horse barn-turned-art studio at the back of her cream city brick home in Algoma and apply it to her medium of choice, handmade paper.

The delicate woman embodies all things nature, from her soft-as-cotton laugh to her sea sparkle eyes. It’s a wonder she got a start to her art career by working with heavy marble structures (which she did on commission for the Milwaukee Marble Company), as there is no trace of weight in anything she does.

Her movements are breezy, her conversation light and she flits about random nooks and crannies in her studio to show me the many ways she has fused her training and background in sculpture (she has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in the art form) with her passion for handmade paper.

There are the framed pieces of handmade paper embedded with pressed ferns, bluebells, hostas and Queen Anne’s lace, the shadow boxes of willow branches and handmade paper vessels, and canvases of

Kirsten’s introduction to the wonders of the natural world happened during childhood growing up on a farm in upstate New York. Though she didn’t recognize it at the time, it is also where the budding artist within began to bloom.

“I was in the woods all the time,” she recalled. “Along the water, we had a creek that ran through our farm. I was always outside making stuff. It was ongoing; it wasn’t like I thought of that as art. It was just what I did.”

Nearly four decades after life brought her from New York to Milwaukee and finally to Algoma, natural art is what she continues to create. Although her beginnings in sculpture started out with marble in Milwaukee, she was

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introduced to the art of handmade paper during a one-day adult education class at the University of Wisconsin — Green Bay. It wasn’t long before she fused her passion for sculpture with her newfound passion for paper. Her love for Mother Nature remained the foundation of her creations and she began learning how to make paper out of all sorts of things, from hemp to flax, cotton to irises, corn leaves to cattail leaves.

“It’s natural made materials. It’s very malleable. It is very open,” Kirsten said.

“You can see with my work how many different things you can do with it; you can work with it sculpturally, you can work with it flat, you can work with it painting. There is just so much you can do with it and it’s very teachable, too.”

Kirsten speaks from experience.

Shortly after learning the basics of papermaking, she began teaching it at the college level for undergraduate and graduate students at UW — Green Bay and UW — Madison, as well as at the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. She also began incorporating it into her artist-inresidencies in schools and communities throughout the state.

Locally, Kirsten has taught at the Peninsula School of Art and since 2008, has managed The Center for Handmade Paper at Woodwalk Gallery, where she is also a gallery artist.

Margaret Lockwood, who co-owns Woodwalk Gallery with her husband Allin Walker, met Kirsten at the Peninsula School of Art in the late

Above: A handmade paper monarch.

Right: Environmental artist Kirsten Christianson in the early stages of the paper-making process in her Algoma studio.

1990s when Allin and Margaret co-directed the school. Kirsten was teaching clay sculpture and handmade paper at the school.

and she can relate to 2-year-olds and 85-year-olds; she can relate to any age.

Men or women, doesn’t matter. She has a teacher’s touch.

When Margaret and Allin moved onto their new venture at Woodwalk Gallery and had an opening at the shop below their gallery, they knew they wanted to offer it to a passionate artist with a knack for teaching. Naturally, Kirsten fit the bill.

“She’s so generous with her own talents,” Margaret added. “She’s full of grace and so her work is also. It’s homage to what she loves and what she loves is nature.

She brings it out in this beautiful work she does. It doesn’t hit you in the face.

It just feels like it was always there even though she just made it.”

“She’s meant to pass on what she knows,” Margaret said. “She’s a great teacher. She’s very patient but direct

As generous as she is with her own talents, Kirsten is also fiercely dedicated

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to maintaining a give-and-take relationship with Mother Nature. The great outdoors provides her with the sticks, leaves, flowers and wild fiber that she puts into her paper and in return, Kirsten uses her artistic abilities to draw attention to environmental concerns — most recently, the plight of the monarch butterfly.

“I heard how monarchs are in such a delicate state,” she said. “They go to Mexico and their habitat is now limited.

They come here and the fields don’t have the plants that they need for food.”

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Left to right: Kirsten Christianson removes the outer frame that gives shape to her handmade paper. A shadow box of willow branches and handmade paper vessels. A framed piece of handmade paper embedded with ferns and cattail fibers. A freestanding piece of art in the window of Christianson’s studio.

Kirsten had heard about a monarch tagging workshop conducted by The Ridges Sanctuary’s naturalist Brian Forest and approached the sanctuary about the potential for collaboration. Kirsten’s idea was to hold a summer-long workshop at the Center for Handmade Paper during which families and individuals would come in to create monarch-shaped handmade paper.

Kirsten launched The Monarch Butterfly Project in early summer 2014 and at the end of August, when Forest hosted his monarch tagging workshop at The Ridges, it was accompanied with dozens of delicate handmade paper monarchs from Kirsten’s workshop.

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“It turned out really nice,” Brian said of the project. “It was neat to have that personal touch with pieces she picked up at The Ridges. She collected ferns, sticks and anything that her students or her could incorporate into their piece.

“What she was doing with her shop and her studio really brought attention to the monarch project,” he added.

As the seasons change, the leaves fall, the monarchs come and go, there will remain one constant in Algoma: a selfless environmental artist intent on sharing her love of nature with the masses, one handful of pulp at a time.

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Door County’s Peter Pan: Dave Ellmann For most of the past 40 years, Dave Ellmann has rolled into Door County in May, fresh off a winter waiting tables in Florida or Hawaii, back to do the same here, his Door County farm house waiting for his return.

The anticipation of summer buzzes, calling Ellmann home, where he is a walking, breathing symbol of the season with a ballcap slapped over his silver ponytail, surprisingly determined eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, a face in perpetual tan.

There are many people who live the seasonal Door County lifestyle for a time, basking in the best of the peninsula’s summer months before darting off to work through the winter on the beaches of Florida or Texas, or the ski hills of Colorado. Some manage to extend the routine over a decade, a few even longer. But nobody has lived this bipolar existence so long and spectacularly as Ellmann, Camp David’s Master of Ceremonies.

To many, Ellmann’s life is seasonal Door County to perfection. He swoops in when the weather is at its best, with a home to return to on a farm of legend.

Each summer 17 seasonal workers come to live on his property, a former dairy farm about a mile down County F from the Greenwood Supper Club in Fish Creek. They pay a couple hundred dollars a month to earn the special badge of being one of the long line of Happy Campers, a far cry from any other kind of Door County living.

Cathy Hoke, now the executive director of the Peninsula School of Art, lived at Camp David in the early 1990s and describes Ellmann as “part Peter Pan, ever the optimist. He really does genuinely believe that people are good.”

“Living there, it’s communal, there’s no other way to put it,” she says. “You have an obligation to the other people you live with.”

Ellmann is not so much a landlord to his tenants as he is an uncle of sorts.

Residents help in the garden if they

There are many people who live the seasonal Door County lifestyle for a time…but nobody has lived this bipolar existence so long and spectacularly as Ellmann, Camp David’s Master of Ceremonies. want, pitch in to build the annual Camp David Fourth of July Parade float (a legend of its own), and gather for group dinners.

Hoke said that when she lived there, spaces would get repurposed on a whim. Someone would get an idea, and Dave would send them off with it. Hoke created an art studio out of one room, “just because it was available.”

And the Happy Campers will have fun.

They’ll join Ellmann to sail on his 25foot sloop, or to play on the Camp David volleyball team, the Chicago Cubs of the Northern Door Volleyball League.

They’re almost always near last in the standings, but first in enthusiasm, facial hair, and fun, with Dave there every week to cheer them on like all-stars.

Generations of summer workers and locals tell tales of the parties on the farm, some massive and organized, some random and chaotic. In the late 1980s, Ellmann began throwing an end-of-summer party for residents and friends, selling buttons for $5 to help cover the cost of the beer, corn, burgers and brats he gave away free to all who showed up, an expensive proposition when the party swelled to an estimated 1,500 people a few years later. He took a lot of flack for those bashes from neighbors, the Chamber of Commerce and police, and it helped earn Camp David a less than stellar reputation in some circles of the county.

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Still, Ellmann continued to give his residents freedom as long as they respected the grounds. His rules are few and simple: No Stealing, No Dealing, No Violence.

“He’s there, he’s hands on, and he’s interested in them, not just in being good tenants, but in that their lives are happy,” says longtime friend Andy Coulson, owner of the White Gull Inn, who admires Ellmann’s ability to be relaxed, friendly and personable in almost every encounter. “He has rules, but it’s a very casual atmosphere. They have their garden, he’ll cook a big dinner and share it with the kids. He tries to make sure they have a good experience there.”

Ellmann says all of that is true, but there’s also a practical purpose to his approach.

“You’re not gonna make much money getting $250 a month from college students,” he says. “You have to be there.

Or, if they’re like I was as a kid, they’ll tear the place apart.”

Hoke says she learned a lot about the county living amidst a mix of old and young, people who knew where the bodies are buried and those just getting their feet wet.

“We got to know this place in a different way than you would living somewhere else,” she says. “It changed my whole idea of being a part of this community.

Never underestimate the person across from you because you have no idea what they know and what their experiences were.”

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Dave Ellmann, the Master of Ceremonies at Camp David, is giving up the reins to the summer music series known as Fishstock at the end of this summer.

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to turn that farm into something that became revered locally and regionally, the Fishstock Concert Series.

For 20 years Ellmann has hosted concerts in the big barn, a venue with professional sound and lighting, but where the summer breeze still sneaks through the cracks and doors. When the crowd swells to several hundred, a video of the show is projected on the outside wall of the barn for those squeezed out.

The series, whose name is a combination of Fish Creek and Woodstock and was coined by Stewart Dawson, began in the small upstairs loft of the barn with musicians from American Folklore Theatre playing on their Sunday nights off. Eventually it grew into the larger space of the main barn, and Ellmann brought in top bluegrass and folk acts, introducing a new crowd to the genre and turning many musicians into local celebrities.

Names like Eric Lewis, Tommy Burroughs, Jimmy Davis and Karen Mal all earned local popularity in the

barn before becoming mainstays of the peninsula live music scene.

“There was some bluegrass up here in the ’70s,” says Coulson, a bluegrass player himself for the band Highland Road, “but the whole live music scene and bluegrass in particular had withered away. Fishstock opened people’s minds up to that kind of music again.”

Ellmann’s nephew, Jon Ellmann, was one of those whose minds were opened.

“I used to think a good concert was rock ‘n roll, hip hop, blues,” Jon says. “That was my narrow-minded self. Then, to be exposed to Eric Lewis and Jimmy Davis in my late teens was definitely eye opening. I would sell friends on the barn and atmosphere, and by the end of the night they would be blown away by the music. It completely changed my perception of music and my tastes.”

Those concerts did something else, too. This place once renowned — or notorious, depending on your point of

view — for the hard-partying ways of its residents and owner, welcomed a largely graying crowd. Yes, there were still plenty of young folks sporting flip-flops and beards, but the base of Ellmann’s crowd could be their parents, maybe their grandparents.

“The people that supported it tended to be retirees and older people,” Coulson says. “I think some people started looking at the place differently after that.”

Camp David and its owner, who Coulson calls “the eternal summer employee,” all grown up.

This summer will be Ellmann’s last running the concert series. His brother Steve, who has handled concert sound here for years, will take it over in 2016.

“After this summer, I’ll be debt free for the first time in my life,” Ellmann says.

“Steve is a helluva lot better musician with a better ear than I have, so he’ll take it in different, better directions and bring in a new audience.”

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You get the sense from Ellmann that maybe it has become too much business now. After all, it all started as a party.

“As a kid, we just went there to help paint the barn, have family picnics, get chased by ‘Uncle Leaker,’ which we called Dave for some reason,” his nephew says. “I thought every family had a crazy uncle you went to hang out with.”

“He’s driven by relationships,” Jon Ellmann says. “I think when it started there was this little hint of a business aspect, and he was probably aware there was a need for housing, but it’s always been about people.”

And so when the summer ends, he’ll release the reigns of Fishstock, leaving the hippie who still doesn’t own a cell phone more time to shepherd his flock of residents, work his garden, and sail through his summers.

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When Kim Souther was in sixth grade, she sat down with her band teacher and expressed her interest in switching from piano to oboe.

She loved the mellow sounds of the instrument in Peter and the Wolf, the musical children’s story written by Sergei Prokofiev, and wanted to emulate that sound for her school band.

Her teacher said no.

Incidentally, as Souther was processing this rejection, the school’s strings teacher was standing in the doorway and overheard the exchange.

“She said, ‘Hey, you look like a cellist.

Let’s try this out,’” Souther recalled. “I stuck with it.”

That introduction to the cello, the four-foot-tall member of the violin family known for having a range very similar to that of the human voice, was the beginning of what has become a successful career of pushing boundaries in genre and style.

Souther, who was classically trained while growing up in Virginia, originally had her sights set on a career of conducting youth symphonies and performing professionally. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education, with an emphasis on conducting, Souther did both for a number of years — conducting and touring with highly successful youth orchestras throughout Virginia while also playing professionally.

When her husband, Shannon, accepted a job offer as pastor of Sturgeon Bay Community Church in 2009, Souther began teaching at Door County String Academy and playing for symphonies in Green Bay, Manitowoc, Oshkosh and the Fox Valley.

It was here that her most creative pursuits would begin to unfold, and it

Kim Souther Door County’s Avant-Garde Cellist all began with a little bit of bluegrass and homesickness.

“It’s a growing trend, people wanting to see what their instruments can do beyond tradition,” Souther said. “It’s a very small community of people but they’re very approachable which in some ways is different than classical music … it’s kind of like a little family of people with a core of 20 to 50 performers internationally that are directing a new movement of, ‘Let’s explore outside the boundaries.’”

“My mom was a bluegrass singer when she was in high school,” Souther said.

“When we moved here, I moved away from home and I missed [my family] so much. Growing up, she would sing the bluegrass music while she was cleaning and doing other stuff.”

Souther wanted to join their ranks. She began attending workshops, frequently as the only cellist in the group. These workshops taught her to think beyond classical, to use electronics with her instrument, and to play genres not typically reserved for cello.

Ironically, Souther (a Milli Vanillilistening teenager at the time) was not a big fan.

The real game-changer for her came in 2014 with acceptance into the Mike Block String Camp in Vero Beach, Florida. The intensive weeklong camp, intended to “empower musicians to learn new ways of playing music,” introduced Souther to the world of improv and turned her whole musical world upside down.

“I hated it!” she laughed.

Somehow, hearing it as an adult in Wisconsin not only brought her comfort but inspired her to fuse her passion for cello with her love of home. Her first challenge? Finding a way to make her classical background and instrument work for the American roots music.

Cue discovery of Crooked Still and Punch Brothers, two bands exploring the potential of bluegrass and string instruments.

“After the first day, I was so stressed out because there is so much,” she said. “It’s all new. There is so much music that they throw at you…it’s all to be kept in your head; there is no writing anything down. That was a new concept for me.”

“I started listening to these groups realizing that the cello is capable of doing some things that are not typical,” Souther said. “Not only that, but you can play it in different ways.”

Though overwhelmed, Souther was up for the challenge. She learned new ways of practicing and was diligent in applying those lessons to her cello. It certainly helped that, even after the camp was over, it kept her and her fellow attendees accountable through Facebook and web pages.

Feeling bold, Souther decided that she didn’t want to just think outside the box, she wanted to “get rid of the box entirely.” The classical cellist was rebelling against the rulebook and soon enough, discovered a small network of musicians doing the same.

“You’re always seeing what those other people you were with are doing,” Souther said. “You’re seeing them put out albums and you’re seeing who you’re working with so it’s always there in your mind. You know you’re going back the next year so you better have

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Achieved may be an understatement.

Since returning from the camp last summer, Souther has recorded a demoturned-album (Missing You, released in April 2015) and been accepted into the highly regarded Silkroad Global Musician Workshop, led by Silk Road Ensemble cellist Mike Block and featuring Yo-Yo Ma. The workshop seeks to “foster a community of globally minded musicians engaged in learning from one another’s traditions and incorporating them into their own artistic voices,” according to its website.

That “globally minded” tagline is exactly what Souther hoped to demonstrate when she recorded a demo for recording studios last year.

But when she sent it to her teachers, they urged her to make it into an album. Within months, she had done just that.

With a melting pot of influences, from blues and bluegrass to rock and Brazilian Choro, Missing You is the perfect demonstration of Souther’s transition from classical music to global.

Just ask Marc Golde, owner/operator of Rock Garden Studio in Appleton, who worked with Souther on her debut album.

“I have worked with many classically trained musicians but none like her,” Golde said. “Most classically trained musicians play what they’ve been trained to play and Kim uses an imagination on her instrument. She draws out sounds that are not typical, and techniques. She’s just a really unique musician and very musical at the same time. Kim has something special going on.”

Golde, who describes Souther’s music as avant-garde/New Age/ jazz/classical/movie soundtrack/ soundscape, said Souther is an example of a real artist — someone who wants “to go beyond what they’ve heard and witnessed before.”

“The thing about Kim and this record is, it’s highly listenable too at the same time, even though it’s experimental.

Even if you don’t know what she’s doing, it’s still great music.”

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Even after the tracks were mastered, Souther wasn’t resting on her laurels — she was continuing to break the rules and certainly a few strings along the way. When she attends the Silkroad Global Musician Workshop this summer, she’ll have an arsenal of kitchen utensils to bring with her — utensils that she has learned how to apply to her strings in pursuit of even more unique sounds, like a spatula for Bach and metal tongs that, when applied to the cello’s strings, resemble the sound of a knife being sharpened.

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She hopes to use those utensils and her lessons from the global musician workshop to write her next album. In the meantime, she is planning a summer tour with the sevenpiece Fox Valley rock ensemble Vic Ferrari Band and a fall tour with a number of musicians she met at the Mike Block String Camp last year.

If it sounds like things are going just a tad fast for the cellist, they are.

“Some of the coaches that I worked with last year told me, ‘Don’t expect anything quickly. It’s about a five-year process before you can really get your foot in the door,’” she recalled.

“When I was talking to some of these coaches, I said, ‘What should I do? It’s going a little fast,’ and they just said, ‘Ride it.

Stay on the ride. It’ll come and go but you’ve sparked some interest so see where it takes you.’ I guess that’s what I’m doing.”

Her pioneering journey with the cello speaks volumes of a musician who, seeing the need for a revolution in the musical world, decided she was capable of helping make it happen.

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“I think we should always be innovators, we should always be thinking outside the box,” Souther said. “I feel that with the music I’m hearing now, it seems like we’ve settled … adding one instrument does not justify something being innovative.

It needs to be something different. I think that people are ready for something a little bit different.”

Kim Souther lives in Sturgeon Bay with her husband, Shannon, and her two children, Madeleine and Will.

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Murder, They Wrote A number of authors have used the Door County peninsula as a setting for their fiction; among the earliest and best known to do so is LaVyrle Spencer in her 1990 romance Bitter Sweet. But more recently, murder mysteries have scattered their clues on the terrain.

Patricia Skalka’s Death Stalks Door County (2014) is the first in a series of traditionally gritty novels dealing with the investigations of fictional former detective-turned-park ranger Dave Cubiak, who came to Door County seeking refuge from his former life in Chicago but discovers crimes waiting to be solved in Northern Door just as he had in the Windy City.

Co-writers Rosalind Burgess and Patricia Obermeier Neuman include in their Val & Kit Mystery Series their third book Death in Door County (2013). Val and Kit are good friends as well as amateur sleuths and bring a light-hearted, and at times comedic, approach to solving crimes, the murders tastefully executed in the style of a BBC crime series.

Elizabeth Rose offers yet another perspective on solving mysteries with her Murder in Death’s Door County (2012). Annie Malone quits her day job in Milwaukee to accept a ghost writing assignment in Northern Door. Her amateur attempts at crime solving put her in danger, but also bring romance.

This cozy mystery avoids potentially offensive action in its pursuit of justice.

But murder in Door County? Visitors to the peninsula enjoy the friendly smalltown atmosphere where strangers greet each other on the street, where the innocent optimism of the arts inspires, and where calendar-perfect scenery offers tranquility.

Isn’t murder out of place in such a setting?

That contrast is one of the reasons that Skalka chose the peninsula as the location for her series of Dave Cubiak mysteries, an environment that she

knows well because she has had a rustic cottage on a Door County beach for 30 years. When she found herself gazing at bright blue sky and water during the day but clouds and darkness at night, she began thinking “about the contrast between light and dark, good and evil,” the possibility of “the veneer of natural beauty and positive atmosphere” of the peninsula opposed to “a sinister feeling beneath the surface.” She imagined old grudges and the need for revenge, events of the present linked to the past, a protagonist not from the area who would not know the back story and would have to ferret it out.

Neuman, too, finds the county “a good setting for a murder” because outwardly, the landscape is “bucolic, beautiful, with a sense of peace that juxtaposes murder.” And like Skalka, she has a cottage on the peninsula, and as a seasonal resident has a firsthand familiarity with the area.

While Neuman has spent her life living in the Midwest, her writing partner is from London and now lives in Houston, Texas. Burgess visits her co-writer in Door County and enjoys the contrast to a big city, as “everything is close by — so accessible. I love the relaxing atmosphere, the nice mixture of people.”

In an earlier novel, the writers had located the mother of their amateur sleuth Val in Door County. Burgess thought, “What a wonderful place for Val and Kit to take a road trip visiting her!” And what possibilities the people and places of Northern Door can offer the imagination of crime writers.

Rose had initially planned to set her novel in the town Omro, near Oshkosh, where she was living at the time.

“But Omro didn’t click,” she said, and when she spent a weekend on the peninsula, “it all came together.” Her story seemed to take a life of its own and “almost wrote itself.” She stayed at a Door County inn very similar to the one in her novel, and took a ghost tour, inspiring the one in her story.

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And as for a murder mystery in Door County? “Why not!” she laughed.

Because Neuman and Burgess are good friends and enjoy creating together the adventures of the amateur sleuth characters Val and Kit, readers might assume that the crime solvers are the alter egos of the writers. Without hesitation, Neuman asserts they are not, but rather “an amalgam of us,” she explained. “They are truly themselves by now,” she added, “and they do it [the writing] for us!”

Burgess agreed, pointing out “there is a little bit of both of us in Kit and Val.” While Kit “can be outrageous, neither of us would be.” And then she added, tongue in cheek, “But I’d like to be more assertive.”

On the other hand, Rose writes what she knows. She shares a number of autobiographical similarities with her Annie Malone character who was raised by grandparents in Milwaukee, attended Marquette University, and moonlighted as a ghostwriter — even having a bad telephone interview with a client.

Annie’s new Door County friend Lizzie was based on Rose’s good friend and former college roommate.

Skalka has “always been a fan of mysteries” but spent her professional career writing nonfiction. She believes “a mystery should not only solve a crime but provide insight into human character, both the person who solves the crime and the perpetrator, not just what happened, but the reason why.”

While Death Stalks Door County is Skalka’s first Cubiak Door County mystery, it is not her last. The sequel Death at Gills Rock was published this June, and she has outlined future Cubiak novels set on the peninsula with recurring characters moving forward in time.

Skalka has shared her writing expertise with students at Write On, Door County (she will offer more classes this summer) and her fiction at local

Death Stalks Door County

Day becomes considerably less than a happy occasion.

by Patricia Skalka

Despite the discovery of a second victim and a considerable range of suspects, the narrative is written with a light touch. The zany personality of Kit brings comic relief to the tragedies, as she and Val, with less than professional expertise, resolve the mysteries, dealing with colorfully amusing characters.

Patricia Skalka’s Death Stalks Door County, a Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery, brings the genre to a setting that has been anything but threatening to visitors and residents alike.

The fictional character Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective whose grief and guilt after the deaths of his wife and daughter at the hands of a drunk driver have made him unfit for work with the department, has moved to Door County to work as ranger in Peninsula State Park hoping to get his life back on track. But when tourist recreation in the area is threatened by a series of gruesome murders, all occurring in or near the park, Cubiak finds himself back in his role of law enforcement, an outsider dealing with the local establishment as he ultimately gets to the bottom of the crimes.

Readers who know Door County will enjoy the familiar terrain; fans of romances will be entertained by the sorting out of relationships; and mystery readers will be satisfied by the answers to the questions of whodunit, solutions that ultimately reveal hidden motives.

Death in Door County by Rosalind Burgess and Patricia Obermeier Neuman, Blake Oliver Publishing, 2013

Cubiak is a classic detective, a loner dealing with the burden of his past while bumping heads with those in charge, discovering dark secrets, and respecting a higher moral order.

Murder in Death’s Door County

The author admits that she has taken liberties with the reality of Door County, but readers who know the area will enjoy familiar landscape and speculating as to the possible identities of businesses whose names have been changed. In addition they will be intrigued by the glimpses of a fictional under-belly of year-round life in Door County, and just maybe, glance over their shoulders from time to time when they explore Peninsula State Park.

Elizabeth Rose’s novel Murder in Death’s Door County is an Annie Malone cozy mystery, one in which crime invades the Door Peninsula leaving murder in its wake. Young Annie Malone has a mind-numbing business day job in Milwaukee but freelances as a ghostwriter for a vanity press.

When the opportunity arises for her to accept a large stipend that allows her to relocate to Door County and ghostwrite the autobiography of an alleged crime figure, she resigns her position and travels to Egg Harbor to begin her work.

Death Stalks Door County by Patricial Skalka, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.

But something about the assignment doesn’t make sense to her, especially when she has a unsettling telephone interview with her eccentric reclusive subject. However, she is distracted from the project as she quickly makes new friends among the local population and meets a guy who reciprocates her interest in him.

Death in Door County

by Rosalind Burgess and Patricia Obermeier Neuman Death in Door County is the third in a series of Val and Kit mystery novels written by Rosalind Burgess and Patricia Obermeier Neuman, the first to be set on the Door County peninsula.

When Val visits her mother Jean in Door County on Mother’s Day, the occasion becomes more than a celebration of mother-daughter relationships. On the drive from Downers Grove, Val brings not only her adult daughter Emily but her best friend and co-sleuth Val. The first victim is a mother whose daughter, because of their troubled relationship, becomes a suspect in the case. Val has troubles with her own mother as well, and is concerned about the problems her daughter is experiencing. Mother’s

by Elizabeth Rose

Then disturbing events occur: she discovers a body in the inn where she is staying, finds mysterious evidence, and realizes that she has become the target of criminals.

Her adventures take her to different settings in Northern Door as she decides to take on the mystery with the help of her new friend Lizzie.

Events are not always what they seem, and people are not always who they appear to be.

But this is a cozy mystery that gently disturbs the universe, and Annie Malone triumphs.

Murder in Death’s Door County by Elizabeth Rose, Jax Publications, 2012

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readings (including the Maritime Museum in Gills Rock this July).

Unlike Skalka, Neuman and Burgess dispense with plot outlines, preferring instead to use the creative writing classroom technique of alternating chapters between the two. Neuman generally writes the first one and sends it to Burgess who edits and adds another chapter before sending it back, and so the novel progresses.

As a division of labor, Burgess’s specialty is adding “sparkles” and Neuman’s, careful editing.

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“We begin by trying to paint the other person in a corner,” Burgess laughed.

Once the pair has finished moving passages about, revising, and editing, the chapters become seamless and belong to neither writer in particular, she said.

Their Door County murder mystery is the third in a series of four, all featuring Val and Kit and recurring characters, but the only one set on the peninsula. Number five, Palm Desert Killing, came out this June with the characters traveling to Palm Beach and number six is planned to be set in Burgess’ native England.

Like Skalka, Rose created an outline before writing this, her first novel. But like the other novelists, she envisions a series of Annie Malone cozy mysteries. The crime-solver Annie has taken up residence in Door County, but may return to Milwaukee for her next adventure.

The response of Door County readers to the three novels has been good, the authors report. Skalka laughed when she said that she doesn’t believe her fictional murders in Peninsula State Park will keep visitors away. Rose sees a cathartic value in mysteries, as after all, the reader doesn’t know the victim. And Burgess explained that she and Neuman enjoy “a lot of laughter, a lot of fun writing together,” a joy that they hope to pass along to their readers.

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If there was one time when I really got turned onto the mystery and fun of searching for, finding and learning about fossils, it was when I was working for the Kewaunee Highway Department during the summer of 1950. A crew was building a new road somewhere north of Luxemburg and the quarry from which I was hauling gravel in a large truck was near Frog Station in northwestern Kewaunee County.

One noon after I had finished my lunch I wandered over to the edge of the quarry and soon realized there were many fossils to be found there. They turned out to be mid-Silurian in age, roughly 425 million years old, and that got me started in a fossil-collecting and studying hobby, which continues to this day. A few years ago I donated at least three-fourths of my large collection to the University of Wisconsin — Oshkosh Geology Department. There many students can view, handle, learn about them and perhaps become motivated to the great joy and excitement of fossil hunting and collecting.

My favorite “museum specimen” of a fossil, now at Oshkosh, was a siphuncle of a cephalopod that was approximately 18 inches long, imbedded within a slab of bedrock limestone. More than one person, upon seeing this excellent specimen, thought it resembled a person’s spine. Two other fascinating and fairly common fossils found in Door County are Hexagonaria (Michigan’s state fossil) and Syringopora, one of the tabulate corals.

One of our best fossil discoveries in the county occurred in October 1976 when Charlotte and I were teaching at The Clearing Folk School at Ellison Bay. With the farmer-owner’s permission, we spent some interesting time examining a few of the many stone fences in northern Door County. (By the way, we never ventured onto property, including stone fences, without the owner’s permission).

Naturally we came upon literally hundreds of coral fossils, including the abundant honeycomb and chain coral fossils. Included in our finds were a small number of brachiopod fossils. These in a sense are cousins to the clams. The lifeless objects out of the prehistoric past are also bivalves.

One major difference is that, unlike pelecypods (pe-LESS-i-pods), each of their two shells is different.

The brachiopod fossils we examined, Pentamerus laevis, are found in several states including Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and New York. I have heard more than one person wonder out loud whether these objects, dating back to the mid-Silurian period, were the fossilized tracks of deer. One can, with a little imagination, visualize a cloven hoof, oval in shape and about the same size, considerably like that of a deer.

the equator where a tropical climate existed, thereby enabling tropical sea life, including many species of corals, to live. This explains why so many of the fossils found here are of tropical nature.

They lived and became fossilized at the equator and gradually through plate tectonics, split apart and moved northward to 45 degrees north latitude where we live now.

How well I remember an experience with one of my students when I was teaching at Gibraltar School. I told him to ask his father if it would be all right for me to look for fossils on one of their stone fences. Back came a reply the next morning, “Pa sez ya kin have all the fossils ya want, but come and pick ‘em when we’re pickin’ stones in the fields this spring.”

Experts have identified and recorded several thousand different species of brachiopod fossils, most of which lived in shallow water during the Paleozoic Era. Gradually, as their environment disappeared due to the geological and geographical changes of the earth, pelecypods slowly took their places.

Slightly more than 200 species of living brachiopods occupy modern seas today.

I look back on that treasured moment of reply with more and more respect every time I see a stone fence. My motivation of primarily rural junior high students to the study of geology was more difficult than in an urban setting far from rock-studded fields. The sons and daughters of farmers tended to associate rocks and stones with the strenuous task of clearing the fields.

Needless to say, geology did not “turn them on!”

Most geologists agree that approximately 450 million years ago the continents were joined into one land mass referred to as “Pangea.” Gradually the land masses split apart, becoming continents. Wisconsin was roughly at

The occurrence of fossils, amidst the ordinary lackluster rocks to be piled onto the mountainous fences, did add a little interest to our study. However there were several repercussions from parents toward our geology course. One

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1 Hexagonaria is a genus of coral that is called the Petoskey Stone in Michigan.

2 Chain Coral is one of the most common in Door County. This one is still imbedded in the Limestone matrix.

3 The Chain Coral at the left was soaked in a weak solution of sulfuric acid to dissolve some of the matrix.

The right one has been polished.

4 The Brachiopod at the left shows the quartz interior. The center one was tumble polished and reveals the unequal halves. The right one shows the contours of the outer shell.

5 The Honeycomb Coral housed the living polyps in connected chambers resembling a honeycomb of our modern day honey bees.

6 This Siphuncle of a Cephalopod is the crystalized interior of a creature similar to the Nautilus of today.

7 A Brachiopod is a bivalve, as are clams in our lakes and streams; however, its two halves are not the same shape and size.

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remarked during a parent-teacher conference, “My daughter is just no good anymore at picking stones. Ever since you began teaching her about fossils she insists on turning over and over every stone she picks from the field and wastes so much time. She wants to bring home nearly as many as she piles on the fence!”

Many of the older pieces of limestone, including those with fossils, making up the mile after mile of stone fences have been etched, cleaned, and worn by the forces of weathering. A weak form of carbonic acid, produced by nature during rainfall, as well as that horrendous substance called acid rain, a devastating byproduct of some industries and various other forms of combustion, are constantly at work, slowly dissolving the rocks.

Crystallized, ossified, fossilized, petrified, all will in due time be returned to the earth, their point of origin.

A favorite poem of mine, “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, says that good fences make good neighbors. Two of my friends, David and Hazel Cox from Beloit, Wisconsin, visited me on September 29, 1966. It was their first trip to Door County and they saw something entirely different in the thousands of feet of expertly made and durable stone fences. My fondest memory of their visit is in the form of a poem which Hazel wrote and left with me.

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by Hazel Cox Stone fences stretch in ordered rows, Abandoned grass-grown plots enclose.

The saying was that every field In this new land two crops would yield, Potatoes would in summer grow And frost-heaved rocks in winter’s snow.

So every spring with stubborn toil Before the plow could turn the soil, The pioneer with calloused hands And aching back cleared off his lands, Assisted by his willing brood, For well they knew the need for food.

Man, beast and fowl must all be fed, And so the crude and home-made sled, A clumsy “stone-boat” was brought out By patient oxen dragged about Until once more the field was cleared And higher yet the fences reared.

The little fields now lie untilled, The work-worn hands have long been stilled.

The stark bones of stone fences stand As monuments through this fair land To all the sturdy pioneers — To by-gone ways of by-gone years.

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A Dream Green Home

Chris and Dave Kellems hired green architect Virge Temme to turn a drafty cottage into a LEED Platinum home.

Drafty cottage becomes LEED Platinum home

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very public transformation took place recently on Alabama Street in Sturgeon Bay when a drafty summer cottage sitting on a canal to the bay was carefully torn down and a sturdy, super-efficient year-round home was erected in its place.

“The old house was cute and everybody loved it, but there was no insulation to speak of. It was just terrible,” said Chris Kellems, owner with her husband, Dave, of the home at 120 Alabama Street.

“It was a cold and uncomfortable home,” said Dave Kellems, reciting a litany of deficiencies with the old home, from leaky roof to bad electrical.

“All of those things pushed us to the edge,” he said. “It was in the stars for us to bring it up to date.”

Up to date is a bit of an understatement for what is only the second LEED Platinum home in Door County. The first was built in Gills Rock in 2013.

Both were designed by Sturgeon Bay architect Virge Temme.

“People are craving information about how to build energy-efficient homes,” Temme said. “Not only can you do this, but you can do this fairly inexpensively, less than two percent of the total construction cost.”

The summer cottage was built by Chris’ father, Adam Kreuter. The Kellems lived

in Redwood City, California, where Dave owned a business and Chris painted on a large scale, as in houses, not canvases. After the kids were gone and retirement loomed for them, the Kellems talked about moving to Sturgeon Bay.

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“We had been talking about it for years,” Dave said, “but to say, let’s go ahead and get started, I had to sell my business, and I had a secondary business that took a year or two to wind down. So now we know that’s coming to an end.”

The couple started emptying the house in June 2014. Adam Kreuter died on August 1, 2014, at the age of 99, without ever seeing his daughter’s green dream home.

“He was able to see some progress,” Dave said. “He would come by with tears in his eyes, but we just said, ‘We’ve gotta move on with our lives.’ At that time he was getting to the point, one week he was driving his car and the next week he was gone. It was that quick.”

After paying a $400 heating bill for the month of February 2014, the Kellems knew they wanted to make the house energy efficient, but when they hooked up with Temme, they knew they wanted to go all the way with LEED Platinum certification. By June of 2014, they had signed with Ahnapee Construction of Algoma to do the build.

“They have done a fabulous job,” Chris said.

Bryan Neubauer, owner of Ahnapee Construction, said he first started learning about green building techniques six years ago at a trade show, and wanted to use the techniques to make his own home more energy efficient.

“Resistance to change is the number one reason that more builders are not building green. It’s a habit to do it the old way,” he said.

Four years ago he met Temme.

They were visiting Chris’ 98-year-old father at Christmas in 2013 when they decided it was time to make the move and get started on the house.

“He didn’t relish the idea of us tearing down the old house he had built,” Dave

said. “He had memories he wanted to keep. I had to sit down with him, and say, you’ve been here for 40, 50 years.

You always wanted us to live here. We want to live in a new version of your old place. We showed him what we planned.

Virge had made up a nice rendering.”

“She is a big advocate for green building and energy efficiency,” he said. “Once I built one home with her, I loved it. I loved learning the more advanced way of doing things. It was more interesting to me than just doing a standard home.

It was a bit of a challenge. It’s a whole new way of doing things. We have 11 people working for us. It takes a lot for my foremen to change the way they’ve framed 15, 20 years. Now I’m teaching them and Virge is teaching them how to reduce all the extra studs that aren’t needed.”

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The Kellems paid tribute to Chris’ father, Adam Kreuter, by recycling the handmade doors and cabinets he installed in the cottage. Additional doors were made from recycled wood to match. Special double stud walls were constructed, leaving a small air space in the middle that is filled with recycled newspaper insulation, creating a much more efficient thermal bridge.

HABITATS What is LEED? LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a system developed by the United States Green Building Council to assist in the design, construction and testing of some of the most energyefficient and environmentally sound buildings in the world. LEED has four tiers of ratings based on points earned in eight categories, including site, indoor air quality, innovative design, air quality, materials, water and energy efficiencies and education. Platinum is the highest level of accomplishment.

The LEED program LEED point levels Certified: 36.5 points Silver: 51.5 points Gold: 66.5 points Platinum: 81.5 points The Kellems expect their home to earn 98 points LEED Point Categories ID: Innovation & Design Process 7 points: Regular meetings held before and during construction; solar orientation; home modeled using Passive House (PHPP) software; extensive re-use of existing building; electric car charger; vegetable garden plan; exemplary energy performance; durability strategies incorporated.

LL: Locations and linkages 3 points: Use of previously developed site; built above flood plane on piers to bedrock.

SS: Sustainable Sites 15 points: Native & non-invasive landscaping plan; limited conventional turf; permanent erosion controls installed; nontoxic pest control.

WE: Water Efficiency 6 points: Rainwater harvesting; rain garden; very high-efficiency plumbing fixtures.

EA: Energy & Atmosphere 33 points: Exceptional energy efficiency, at least 76 percent more energy efficient than required by code; 9.5kW solar electrical system; compact water heating design; all plumbing pipes insulated to R-5; refrigerants comply with Global Warming Potential Equation; all LED lighting; Energy Star appliances.

MR: Materials & Resources 13 points: Framing waste reduced; framing efficiencies throughout; environmentally preferable products used throughout; local and low carbon emission products; all possible recyclable materials diverted from landfill.

EQ: Indoor Environmental Quality 19 points: Third-party testing; best furnace filters; fully seated closed loop heating system; continuous indoor air ventilation; low-VOC paints and adhesives; fireplace installed with outside makeup air; home meets Energy Star requirements; heating balanced room-by-room; radon protection.

AE: Awareness & Education 2 points: Public awareness through opens houses and newspaper articles; operations manual prepared for homeowners.

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himself into it. Because of that, the Kellems largely took the house apart by hand, recycling what they could for themselves and finding others who could use most of the rest of what came down.

“What you’ll see is a lot of material salvaged from the house,” said Temme. “When you walk on the drive, you’re walking on the original slab for the house. We crushed it so it didn’t have to go to a landfill. Chris and Dave manually tore this house apart and salvaged wood and beams and doors and cabinets.

What they couldn’t salvage they either sold or donated to Habitat for Humanity, and the rest went to a building materials recycling plant in Oshkosh.”

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“We salvaged as much as we could. My dad had made a lot of it,” Chris said. “It was like, you know, there’s no reason to throw this stuff away.”

As a painter, Chris has spent plenty of time around construction sites.

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“I just see how much energy and effort is being wasted, how much stuff is being thrown away,” she said. “So I took this class in sustainability and sustainable design and said, I need this so I know how to deal with my dad’s house. I educated myself. And along the way realized there’s not much education going on. California is extremely active and has mandated a lot of things that people at first were furious about. California Title 24, especially, which is mandating that builders build houses and commercial buildings to be energy efficient. Hey folks, this actually saves you money.”

She has evidence of that already. That giant heating bill for the month of February 2014 was reduced significantly one year later when the home was not yet furnished and was being heated by a temporary furnace. The Kellems paid $72 and some-odd cents for heating in February 2015. Now with an energy efficient heating system and a very tight home, the dead of winter should not pose such an economic burden.

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Education is an important component in obtaining LEED status, and an important part of the Kellems’ lives.

“This is all about education,” Chris said. “I’m really disappointed in the state and federal leadership. I find it quite stunning, and I’m a Republican. Does that matter?

Our climate change transcends any of that. What’s not happening is ridiculous. I’ve told people, I went to California, got married, raised three kids. During those years, in a way, I kind of went to sleep. I stuck my head in the sand and pretended things weren’t happening. Now the kids are gone.

As a house painter, I’m in construction. I’m seeing what’s out there.”

Temme provided them with a helpful connection in the Door County Climate Change Coalition, which agreed to be sponsors for a series of open houses held at the home while it was under construction.

“We have had four open houses,” Chris said. “The very first one, it was about 10 degrees below zero and 15 people

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During the build, Architect Virge Temme was on hand for all the open houses to answer questions and discuss the innovative energy-efficient techniques being used by the team.

“The energy leakage from commercial buildings is very substantial. It’s a major contribution to our atmospheric conditions,” Dick Smythe said. “Updated business codes would be helpful.

Wisconsin hasn’t updated its building codes since 2009.”

showed up, but toward the end 100 to 150 people were coming.”

Climate Change Coalition members Dick and Mary Smythe said it seemed natural that they team up with Temme’s team to help fulfill the educational component.

“Virge is a really strong part of the leadership team of the Climate Change Coalition,” said Mary Smythe. “She’s passionate about building sustainability and she’s also passionate about education about how we can live more sustainably. It was just natural for her to suggest to us that we’d be considered as the sponsors for her open houses to help educate the public about climate change issues. The education is all toward reducing human impact on the environment. It’s just a marvelous blend of her high skills and deep interest in reaching out to the public and education.”

The final step in granting LEED certification is testing the house for air tightness with the help of a blower door, a technology developed in Sweden in 1977. The blower door testing took place on April 25 and was conducted by Tom Krawczyk of TJH Energy Consulting, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He also sealed all the heating and return vents to see how tight the ductwork is.

“In most homes, cold air returns run between ducts,” Krawczyk said. “In LEED homes they are within sealed ductwork. That prevents a lot of heat loss in the ducts. When the cold air comes back into the furnace, it’s pretty much pre-warmed, so it makes the furnace run that more efficiently.”

Krawczyk’s testing revealed a couple of tweaks that needed to be done, but the numbers he was getting will put the home in the Platinum LEED category.

“I’m thrilled,” said Chris Kellems. “I am really thrilled.”

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HISTORY by Patty Williamson, PhD

The Toft Family and The Places They Called Home

Most people in Door County are likely familiar with the name Emma Toft. Some of them probably know that the Baileys Harbor house associated with her was, until recently, occupied by the Red Geranium Gift Shop.

But Emma, “Wisconsin’s first lady of conservation,” has been gone for 33 years, and memories fade.

Many may not be aware that Emma came from a large family and over the years they lived in several houses. Even fewer may know that only by a quirk of fate were there any Tofts in Door County.

When Emma’s father, Thomas, and two of his brothers arrived in Racine from their home in Denmark in 1863, they discovered that their last name, Jensen, was very common. Wanting to stand out from the crowd, they changed it to Toft, a name common in the area from which they had come. The newly christened Thomas Kresten Toft was 19 years old. For two years, he and his brothers worked in the pineries near Racine.

Next, they bought a farm in Minnesota, but by 1871, Tom had sold his interest in the farm and moved to Door County, where he worked as foreman for the Buckley and Wing Stone Company with a quarry at the Point on Mud Bay (now known as Toft Point).

The two-story lodge that housed the quarry crew had three sides of unpainted vertical boards, with a front of horizontal siding. A barn and outhouses were constructed of chinked logs. In 1874, Thomas, then 30, married 16-year-old Juley Anne Panter, the oldest of the eight children of Rebecca and Thomas Panter, who helped establish the Town of Jacksonport. The couple moved into the company lodge at Mud

Left: Photograph of Emma Toft, by Frank Pechman. Right: A rendering of Toft Point, complete with a strawberry patch identifier. Drawing courtesy of Roy Lukes.

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Bay. Juley cooked for the large crew and within the next four years bore four children, William, Olive, Mary and Thorwald, who lived only two months.

When the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal opened in the 1880s, the Laurie Quarry in Sturgeon Bay became a less dangerous place to load stone, and the quarry at the Point was soon out of business. Thomas Toft acquired some of the land from the company in lieu of owed wages and purchased more at a sheriff’s sale and from individuals. Sam, Lucy and Emma Toft were born at the Point. They grew up in the woods and water with their older siblings, doing farm chores and walking two-and-ahalf miles to school in Baileys Harbor.

When it snowed, their Newfoundland dog pulled them to the village on a sled made by their father.

Helen Herbst. It is this “saltbox” house which, years later, became the Red Geranium.

Both the Toft homes had “stovewood” barns behind them. In 1900 Thomas Toft had also purchased Government Lot Three, about 40 acres, on top of the bluff from Ellen Leist. The family had huge gardens there, raspberry patches and maple trees they tapped for maple syrup.

No additional history of the Thomas Toft house has been found. All the children except Emma married and left home. Emma and her parents continued to live there in the winter, returning to the Point in good weather. In a 2012 interview, the late Florian Kwaterski, who was involved with many local businesses, said that Emma talked him into buying and razing the 17-room family home in the 1960s. He reported that Emma had leased the house next

In 1892, Thomas Toft purchased for $400 the large Miles Carrington home in Baileys Harbor on the northwest corner of Main Street (Highway 57) and Doc’s Hill (Bluff Road), so called because Doctor Voight lived on it just below the bluff. The youngest Toft child, Elsie, was born there that year. The house shared a well with its neighbor on the north, a two-family home that had been built by Joel and Alice Carrington as a “temporary” residence after their original home was lost in the great fire of 1868 that destroyed most of the village.

In 1900, William Toft bought the Joel Carrington property for $400, and it was the home he brought his bride, Anna Hafner, to five years later. Each side of the building had a kitchen and parlor downstairs and a bedroom upstairs. An attic ran across the back. In a three-part memoir written in 1992 by William’s daughter-in-law, Ruby Voeks Toft, she described the home as having wooden floors, ash wainscoting in the kitchen added by William, and a front door with a “beautifully etched waterfall scene.” A room on the right front of the house served as the village post office when William was postmaster from 1918 to 1939. When William’s son, Thor, and his wife, Ruby, were preparing the house for sale in the 1980s, one of the former post office walls was found to be covered with graffiti — names of long ago teenagers like Bernice Hartwig and Summer 2015 53

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door, formerly the home of her older brother, William, and that she wanted no money for the sale of her family home, just one percent interest on the selling price.

Like her older sisters, Mary and Lucy, Emma taught school for a while, but had begun nurse’s training at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago shortly before her father suffered a fatal stroke in the fall of 1919. The family felt the stroke was caused by stress over an ongoing dispute about property boundaries that, after more than 20 years, was finally settled in the Tofts’ favor. Emma, the only unmarried daughter, came home to help Juley Anne. Needing income, Emma, Lucy and their mother decided to open a summer resort at the Point in 1920, housing guests in the old lodge where quarry workers and the young Toft family had once lived.

There were three original cabins on the property, and a few more were built.

The chicken coop was also turned into a guest cottage, and a lean-to on the south side of the lodge became the summer kitchen. There was no running water, no electricity, no flush toilets and no advertising. But the natural beauty, tranquility and amazing meals fresh from Emma’s garden kept guests coming back to Toft Point Resort for more than 50 years.

The Toft children and grandchildren banded together to ensure that the unspoiled corner of Door County their family had protected for generations would forever remain in a pristine state.

The property was sold to The Nature

Above: The Toft family on the steps of their Baileys Harbor home. Family members, from top row, left to right, are: Olive, Samuel, Mary, William, (bottom row) Lucy, Thomas, Elsie, Juley Anne and Emma. Photo from Toft Point, A Legacy of People and Pines by Roy Lukes. Below: An old barn at Toft Point today. Photo by Len Villano.

Conservancy in 1967, with life tenancy given to Emma. Today Toft Point is owned by the Wisconsin Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the University of Wisconsin — Green Bay. The site is recognized by the National Park Service as a National Natural Landmark and was designated a State Natural Area in 1967.

In 2013, The Town of Baileys Harbor purchased the property long known as the Toft House, most recently the site of the Red Geranium Gift Shop, at 8061 Highway 57. How appropriate that it now houses the town information center and the Baileys Harbor Historical Society. We think Emma would be pleased.

Sources A series of three reminiscences written for the Door County Advocate in 1992 by Ruby Voeks Toft Toft Point, A Legacy of People and Pines

by Roy Lukes, 1998 Toft Point as it is today, with a few structures remaining from the Tofts’ time, including an old lime kiln (bottom). Photos by Len Villano.

Door Way

by Norbert Blei, 1981 North Bay, Door County, Wisconsin

by James Arnold Erikson, 1998

by Laurel Duffin Hauser

Historic Door County Summer Camps Happy campers…Door County was full of them in the 1920s. Its forests, fields and bays reverberated with “Reveille” at dawn and “Taps” at dusk. From the Mabel Katherine Pearse modern dance camp on Washington Island to the rustic Adventure Island Camp off the shores of Ephraim to Camp Meenahga in Peninsula State Park, Door County summer camps were a beloved rite of passage for many youth from the Midwest and beyond.

A 1926 brochure beckoning young women to Camp Kewahdin on Chambers Island states, “The summer camp is thoroughly established as an effective supplement to the winter school.

It provides wholesome romance and adventure, and promotes courtesy and good cheer. The joy of living in the open develops vigorous bodies, alert minds, and happy hearts.”

The establishment and popularity of camps in Door County in the 1920s reflected a trend in American culture. “Summer camp became an American institution in the aftermath of World War I,” writes Nancy Mykoff in Summer Camping in the United States.

Parents who worried that their sons were being “emasculated by overcivilization” or that their daughters were ill prepared for the new opportunities available to women in the post-war world, turned to camp as an answer. “Summer camp was presented as a cure for these social dilemmas. Camp brochures pledged…to transform ‘physically and spiritually illiterate’ boys and girls into ‘able bodied’ and ‘morally upright’ American citizens.”

Alice Dyer, a parent from Chicago, rhapsodized over the transformative nature of camp in a letter she wrote to the director of Camp Meenahga. “Mr. Dyer and I feel very deeply indebted to you for what your Camp did for Esther and Alice…After eight short weeks, both girls came back to us looking so rosy and in

such radiant spirits that we almost doubted their identity.”

While the fresh air and sunshine they proffered might be free, summer camp wasn’t. With an average fee of $350 for an 8 to 10 week session (a $4,070 value today), camps catered to an affluent crowd. Elaborate brochures were printed and disseminated to attract upper class families, and camps competed with each other by offering a huge array of activities — swimming, diving, tennis, archery, drama, dance, horsemanship, sailing, canoeing, fishing, arts and crafts, nature study, overnight camping excursions, carpentry and more. Each camp augmented its regular activities with much-loved “Frolics” or “Red Letter Days,” events such as Popcorn Night, Cabaret, Supper at Eagle Bluff, Red Raspberry Picking, Derby Day, treasure hunts, minstrel shows, and formal teas with the directors. Outings into nearby villages were also a part of the fun and the Door County Advocate routinely made mention of the arrival of campers in Ephraim or Fish Creek, where they’d stop at Wilson’s for ice cream or the Maple Tree Café (now the Summertime) for pie.

In addition to physical and social activities, camps touted their wholesome food or “table” — fresh vegetables, milk, cream, butter and eggs. In some cases, meat and fresh fish were provided daily. Camp Kewahdin kept its own dairy herd, along with a herdsman from the University of Wisconsin to manage it.

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According to its brochure, “tons of the clearest ice” provided refrigeration, and the ice cream, “made at camp, is of the purest ingredients.”

Drinking water was pumped directly from the bay and analyzed by the State Board of Health. Camp Kewahdin offered a Kewpie Lunch Club for underweight campers. In 1924 they reported, “the class as a whole made 650 per cent [sic] of the expected gain for their ages.”

Along with good food, camps emphasized safety. Camp Meenahga in Peninsula State Park assured parents that in addition to a camp doctor, Sturgeon Bay’s physician and surgeon, Dr. Egeland, was just a phone call away and could “be at the camp within an hour.”

Campers were provided with an “Outfitters” list that included a camp uniform, in camp colors of course, and items such as “2 pair bloomers, 1 pair riding breeches, 6 middie blouses, 1 WARM sweater” etc. They were instructed to tag each item with a woven name label. Steamer trunks were shipped to Door County from all over the United States. Adventure Island Camp alone boasted campers from 36 states.

Because travel was time-consuming and expensive, campers typically journeyed on their own and stayed for “the season” — i.e. early June to late August. Many came by train. A Camp Meenahga Special Sleeper Train brought girls from St. Louis to Chicago, where Pullman cars were added to accommodate those who joined the group en route. After nine hours, the train arrived in Green Bay. Girls transferred to the Chicago and Northwestern line that ran a twicedaily route to Sturgeon Bay. An alternative to the train was the steamship. An inexact schedule put the Goodrich Boat “touching at Fish Creek about July 6th.” Motoring was a third option. Campers heading to Chambers Island’s Camp Kewahdin were assured they’d get to Fish Creek on “splendid concrete and macadam roads through beautiful scenery.” Once there, they’d be transported on the Islander or As You Like It to the island. Certainly the

prize for the most unusual mode of transportation went to the 19 boys and men who rowed a 36-foot homemade Viking replica boat 200 miles from Winnetka, Illinois, to Adventure Island in 1925.

get out of this wonderful community life.” She closed the same note with an equally important entreaty: “Remember, this camping season is a vacation.

Vacation means happiness. Happiness is everyone’s due.”

Part of Door County’s allure as a camp destination was its near-perfect summer climate. Mabel Katherine Pearse relocated her eponymous camp from its first home on the mosquito-infested Lake Tomahawk to the northwest corner of Washington Island, where lake breezes apparently kept the pests at bay. Other aspects of Door County’s allure were its unique geography and remoteness.

Camps are, by their very nature, fleeting. The camps that dotted Door County’s islands and peninsula in the early part of the last century offered a hiatus from life, an almost dreamlike experience for those fortunate enough to attend. As the 1920s turned into the 1930s, many of these cherished camps disappeared. A few endured into the 1940 and ’50s. Some closed due to the failing health of a founding director, others because state regulations required upgrades, such as indoor plumbing, that were too expensive to absorb. And certainly, most were affected by the Great Depression, which made camp a luxury fewer people could afford or justify.

Camp Panhellenic, on the northeast side of Washington Island, described its location as “isolated…in the extreme northern part of Lake Michigan.” Olga Achtenhagen’s poem published in the 1922 Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega celebrated the camp’s natural features.

“I can feel the cool lake breezes from the harbor blowin’ free I can hear the tent flap flappin’, and it’s there that I would be; Where the campin’ ground’s a-callin’, I can hear it callin’ me— To Wisconsin’s island forest, to Michigan’s blue sea.”

Although summer camps touted moral rectitude and rigorous schedules (“Reveille” at 7 am; breakfast at 7:30; flag raising ceremony at 8, tent cleaning at 8:30; general assembly and announcements at 9…and so forth, ‘til “Taps” brought the day to an end), they also promised autonomy and latitude.

With all the fresh air came a great amount of freedom — freedom from parents, the opposite sex and, even, from the person one was at home.

Camp Meenahga founder Alice Orr Clark starts out her letter to parents on a serious note: “We are trying to teach our girls to THINK…She must realize her responsibility, first to herself and then to others; what she must contribute, and what she must

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Camps were fleeting in the impression they left on the land, too. Tents were dismantled and fire rings disappeared as quickly as a campfire’s embers faded.

The foundation of a dining hall may remain here or there, if one knows where to look. In some instances, a lodge was turned into a private residence.

John and Patty Lehman own the property that once housed the Mabel Katherine Pearse Camp on Washington Island. He recalls visits from elderly women looking for traces of their camp and reminders of happy times. “But,” he notes, “that hasn’t happened for awhile now.”

In her farewell letter announcing the closing of Camp Meenahga after 33 years, Clark writes, “There is always a beginning and by that same token, an ending.”

The following are just some of the many camps that have called Door County home over the years. Others included Camp Careless in Idlewild and Camp Mudjeeke in Lily Bay, both near Sturgeon Bay; Camp Wildwood in Juddville; Camp Fish Creek, where Hidden Harbor condos are today; Camp Greenwood in Ellison Bay and Camp Shoreland in Jacksonport.

Above: Young ladies at the Mabel Katherine Pearse camp on Washington Island pose in bathing suits on the camp’s dock.

Left: Campers practice modern dance moves. Right: A group of young dancers stands before the ivy-covered barn where modern dance classes were held. Photos courtesy of Mary Lehman.

Mabel Katherine Pearse Camp Location: Washington Island Years operating: 1923 – 1940 Founder: Mabel Katherine Pearse Campers: Girls 8 – 18 years old

In a January 2013 essay published in The Antioch Review, Marcia Cavell wrote “When I was ten I went for the first time to a place I came to love, a dance camp on Washington Island in Lake Michigan…Our Prospero on that island, always singing with the sound of gulls, and orioles, and mourning doves, was Mabel Katherine Pearse.” Mabel Katherine Pearse was a social reformer credited by some with introducing modern dance to Chicago. She was a “resident” at Jane Addams’s Hull House, a social settlement home for immigrants. Her resident duties included dance instruction.

In 1923, she opened a camp that catered to approximately 28 mostly upper class dance students. It was the only one of its kind in the Midwest. Cavell wrote, “I loved Lake Michigan, where we bathed and swam alongside the huge water-snakes that…we came to feel were just an undulating, rather beautiful part of the water. I loved the rusted water pump where we drew water, and the gas lamps…and the little wooden cabins, built for only six girls each, in my case presided over by my dance teacher, Marge Turner…Above all I loved our classes in modern dance in the ivy-covered barn with the softly gleaming oak floor.”

Miss Pearse believed that through modern dance and techniques of relaxation, one could achieve the “complete freedom of the individual.” According to a 1934 article in Wilmette Life, “While a great deal of attention is paid to manners and regularity of habits (at the camp), organized routine and discipline are avoided as much as possible.”

Cavell called it “an experience that informed my pursuit of happiness for a long time.”

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Adventure Island Camp Location: Big Strawberry Island, renamed Adventure Island Years operating: 1925 – 1952 Founder: Charles A. Kinney, aka “Skipper” Campers: Boys 7 – 14 years old

According to camper and counselor Don Oleson, Charles “Skipper” Kinney was an inveterate sailor and former shop teacher who created and ruled over a camp dedicated to “the spirit of adventure which is inherent in practically every boy.” Unlike many other camps, all the work on Adventure Island Camp, except cooking, was done by the boys — and it was done without electricity or running water. In the early years, this included building the camp’s cabins and other structures. In exchange for their hard labor, the boys were given a heady amount of freedom. Jerry Chomeau recalls, “He (Skipper) would let you do virtually anything you wanted to — in fact encouraged it — as long as it was reasonable. If you wanted to go out in the woods for the night, out by yourself, just take off.”

The boys dug ponds and outfitted them with fish and frogs, built wooden kayaks, and took their Serpent of the Sea Viking ship on five-day “cruises” to places as far away as Escanaba or Marinette. If this wasn’t heavenly enough, the boys were allowed to bring their dogs for the summer. The camp’s freedom came with consequences, however. Campers were “free” not to do their dishes, but then they ate on dirty plates. They were “free” not to write letters home, but then they forfeited a ticket to Sunday’s special and highly anticipated dinner. As the camp became more established, it offered a baseball league, stamp club, journalism, orchestra and shooting range to augment the activities the boys created themselves.

Left: A group of young male campers sails away on the Serpent of the Sea Viking ship.

Photo courtesy of Anne Glabe.

Top to bottom: A bird’s eye view of Adventure Island. The dock for Adventure Island Camp on Adventure Island. A camp cabin. A group of young campers hangs out with their dogs on the lawn outside a camp cabin.

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Camp Kewahdin Location: Chambers Island, Fish Creek Years operating: 1922 – 1926 Founder: Mrs. E.J. Barrett Campers: Girls 8 – 20 years old

Just across the water from Adventure Island Camp was an outfit offering a very different camping experience. Camp Kewahdin operated for only four or five seasons, but while it lasted, it was, according to H. Wellington Wack, a “camp of exceptional organization, equipment and individuality,” and he should know. Wack inspected more than 360 camps in his life and described them in The Camping Ideal. He was taken with the “western girls” who were “as bonnie a lot of lively young women as you’ll ever meet in this world…natural and eager, and always wood and water sprites of grace and charm and a bounding spirit.” Although he doesn’t mention it, he must have been equally impressed with the camp facilities, which included an electric light plant, sewerage system, steam laundry, warehouse and bakery. The camp advertised 62 door county living / doorcountypulse.com

hot and cold running water and bathtubs. The camp’s elegant Main Lodge, complete with a library, assembly room, three dining rooms and servant quarters, overlooked inland Lake Muckasee (now spelled Mackaysee). The girls stayed in “artistic cabins…called Kiosks.” Each kiosk had electric lights, hardwood floors, shutters and screens.

Wack stated, “So far as we know, this Camp Kewahdin on Chambers Island is the largest private camp site in the United States.” And although it was more expensive than other camps in Door County, it attracted between 85 to 125 girls each season, partly from ads placed in magazines like Good Housekeeping.

Camp Kewahdin was created by Mrs. E. J. Barrett and her husband. Mrs. Barrett had inherited most of Chambers Island when her father, Fred Dennett, died in 1922. The luxury camp ultimately proved unsustainable and in 1926, Chambers Island, which had been in the Dennett family for more than two decades, was sold to a group of private investors from Chicago.

Clockwise from top: Campers relax on the sands of Chambers Island. Campers socialize outside the artistic cabins, also called “Kiosks.� Two female campers take a canoe out on the waters surrounding Chambers Island. A group of females joins hands during an activity at Camp Kewahdin. Campers enjoy wading in the shallow waters off the dock. Photos courtesy of Mary Grota.

Camp Meenahga Location: Peninsula State Park, Fish Creek Years operating: 1916 – 1948 Founders: Alice Orr Clark and Fanny W. Mabley Campers: Girls 8 – 19 years old

Camp Meenahga (the Ojibwa word for “the blueberries”) welcomed 80 to 90 girls each summer and gave them “a vacation from fashions and abnormal excitement.” Its location in Peninsula State Park provided a home base for excursions to Folda’s Island (now Horseshoe Island), where they were fed and entertained with tales of Native Americans by Mr. and Mrs. Folda. They rode horseback into Fish Creek and took overnight canoe trips along the shore, sometimes 50 miles or more, to Gills Rock and back. Elaine Mabley Schram, whose mother co-founded the camp, recalls “sleep-out nights” at Svens Tower or Eagle Tower and quips, “The sleep certainly was out!” She wrote, “I wonder if the atmosphere above Northern Wisconsin still permits the glorious displays of Aurora Borealis…When this happened after ‘lights out’ there was an unwritten agreement we could all go down to the pier, lie on our backs and watch the show with no penalties attached.” She also recalled the joys of swimming without suits in the waters of Green Bay. “We quaintly called this going in a la Venus, and how we loved the feel of it, sometimes in the path of moonlight on the water. In later years this had to stop because of the increasing number of ‘tourists’ whom, of course, we scorned.”

The Door County Democrat called Camp Meenahga “probably the merriest place on the whole Door County peninsula.”

Archery, horseback riding and fun in the sun were a regular part of the routine for girls at Camp Meenahga in Fish Creek.

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Camp Panhellenic Location: Jackson Harbor, Washington Island Years operating: 1919 – sometime in the 1930s Founder: Gladys R. Dixon and Ruth Siefkin Campers: College-age women

Camp Panhellenic was founded by Gladys R. Dixon, the director of physical education at Washington University, St. Louis, and her friend Ruth Siefkin of Wichita, Kansas.

According to an article in a 1922 women’s fraternity magazine, the Arrow of Pi Beta Phi, “The venture is proving a boon to college women and alumnae as a place for rest and recreation as well as a place to promote a fine, broad, intercollegiate spirit.”

A 1921 ad in the Trident of Delta Delta Delta said that college women “who are vagabonds for the summer will find a woodsy goal, free from the conventional summer resort —

where they can store away their company manners with their ‘store clothes’ and tarry in the Heart of Nature, reviving the old college spirit around the campfire.”

An article in a 1921 Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma told about the 1921 Pi Beta Phi Convention at Charlevoix, Michigan. A group of 40 Pi Phis traveled from the convention on boat to the camp for a two-week stay. After a week of hot weather, “Things got better for the group’s second week when ‘much sleep, splendid meals, and a cool breeze made us feel like living.’ When a local farmer called on the camp to save his cherry crop, there was unanimous response.” The group made 10 cents for each quart of cherries they picked and donated it to the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Camp Panhellenic disappeared sometime after the 1920s. A stone chimney and fireplace were eventually incorporated into a private home and portions of the camp property are now protected by The Nature Conservancy.

Special thanks to Fran and Paul Burton, Cheryl Ganz, Mary Grota, John, Patty and Mary Pat Lehman, the Door County Historical Museum and the Door County Library’s Laurie History Room for information, camp brochures and images.

Sources: Camp Meenahga, Alice Peddle, presented to the Door County Historical Society.

Door County’s Emerald Treasure, William H. Tishler. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Door County’s Islands, Paul and Frances Burton. Ephraim, Wisconsin: Stonehill Publishing, 2009.

Old Peninsula Days, Hjalmar Rued Holand, Ephraim, Wisconsin: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1934.

The Camping Ideal, H. Wellington Wack, New York, New York: The Red book magazine, 1925.

Door Life issue date March 12, 1993.

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“Cropped Fields”

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FAIR

BIGGEST FINEST Photo: Len Villano.

JACKSON PARR

FAIR THERE WAS A TIME IN THE NOT TO0 DISTANT PAST when the end of summer was signaled in Door County by the arrival of the Door County Fair. The county fair of yesteryear was an event big enough to garner a sizable portion of front-page news, as indicated by the Door County Advocate headlines (opposite) announcing the war years “Victory Fair” of 1942. In its earliest days, Door and Kewaunee counties collaborated to put on one event featuring exhibits from both counties.

The advent of the automobile encouraged visitors traveling from Death’s Door and the Manitowoc County line to Sturgeon Bay. The entire effort prompted the Advocate to call the event the North Eastern Wisconsin State Fair.

1919, airplanes raced automobiles and cash prizes were offered to the horse races. In 1885, the Weekly Expositor Independent explained how organizers looked to “embrace everything raised or manufactured in Door County.”

Today, fair organizers don’t claim such a bold title and the event is exclusive to Door County, but John Miles County Park in Sturgeon Bay still features attractions and exhibits steeped in the history and tradition of the county.

This year’s events feature stock car racing, tractor pulls and a return of the demolition derby in addition to live music, animal exhibits and the 4-H Junior Fair.

“The main idea behind the fair is supposed to be the end of summer gathering for friends and neighbors to get together and show each other what they did throughout the year,” said County Fair Board President Thad Ash. In a county where fairs and festivals are found every weekend through the summer, the Door County Fair looks to offer something that other events in the area do not.

“I think you get a lot more of the agriculture side of the county rather than the other festivals that each have their own thing,” said Ash. “I think this gets the people out of the agriculture setting but still in their home territory.”

Since the beginning, organizers have looked to offer something unique every year while holding onto the Door County culture. The Door County Advocate promotes “America’s Favorite Cowboy” Gene Autry making an appearance at the 1958 fair. In

While there is always something new at the fair, many of the events and attractions have their place in Door County Fair history. Tractors have replaced horses in pulling contests and rock bands fill the airwaves instead of vocal quartets. The demolition derby has been featured since 1950 when the Lucky Lott Hell Drivers put on the “World’s Wildest Show.” But the importance of the fair to agriculture and animal exhibits is still the foundation of the weekend.

The agricultural innovation and animal exhibits are what make county fairs a hallmark of Midwestern states that pride themselves on farming. County fairs serve as a runway to state fairs, which got their start in the 19th century for the purpose of promoting state agriculture. In the early 1900s, as the country became more industrial, innovative technology was added to the fair lineup.

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man with some sheep under a tree in Massachusetts.

Elkanah Watson is known as the “Father of U.S. agricultural fairs.” In 1807, this New England farmer set up a small exhibit of his well-groomed sheep under an elm tree in the middle of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Watson claimed his sheep’s wool could beat the finest imported wool from England.

In his journals, now part of the New York State Library, Watson wrote, “Many farmers, and even women, were excited by curiosity to attend this first novel and humble expedition.”

In 1810, Watson expanded the event to include a Berkshire cattle show, featuring more than 500 animals.

Watson promoted his first fair as a way

to create competition and innovation in the agriculture and livestock business.

This concept remains true today.

Competitive livestock and produce exhibitions remain the focal point of the fair circuit, pushed along by the involvement of the area’s youth.

The 4-H Youth Development Program looks to empower youth to reach their full potential through cooperation with land-grant universities, county government and federal agencies. While the program features activities such as cake decorating, photography and political sciences, it is best known for agriculture and farm sciences.

“I think that’s the vital part of it,” said Ash. “Families and grandparents come to watch the youth and that’s what it’s

all about. I’ve noticed in years past that the youth exhibiting and showing their work do an outstanding job of promoting it to their peers.”

Kids can compete in more than 20 categories, all of which are judged by experts in each individual field. One of the most competitive categories in Wisconsin is the Holstein cattle showing.

A Holstein cow is the most common of dairy breeds in the country. Its distinctive black and white color makes it easily recognizable. Professional judges look at the animals and score them. But what makes a good cow?

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FA Left: The Door County Fair had its beginning in 1871 and was held on a 40-acre tract north of Sturgeon Bay, about where The Mill now stands at the intersection of Highways 42 and 57. Its purpose was “the advancement of the science of agriculture, the development and improvement of a better class of stock and the advancement of home manufacturers and fine arts.” The fair moved to its present location on 14th Street in 1908. Financial difficulties shut the fair down for five years — from 1923 to 1928 — but it has run continuously since then.

Photo by Len Villano.

Right: Legendary fair organizer John Miles on August 23, 1962.

Photo courtesy of the Door County Historical Museum.

JOHNNIE MILES IS A FAIR NUT Anyone who has attended the Door County Fair has heard the name John Miles. In 2001, a 59-acre park in Sturgeon Bay was renamed John Miles County Park. The location on 14th Avenue has hosted the county fair since 1908.

But who is John Miles?

John Hobbes Miles joined the Door County Fair Board in 1928 and served as secretary for the Door County Fair from 1937 – 1971. His importance to the success of the fair through the depression years and for nearly half a century after earned him the title of Mr. Door County Fair.

Miles was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1893 and came to Sturgeon Bay in 1919 to work in the orchards after serving in World War I. He began attending the county fair before it was discontinued in 1923 for financial difficulties.

When the county appointed a new county agent, Ben Rusy, in 1927, one of the first agenda items was to reinstate the county fair. Rusy called on Miles to help revive the event.

“At that time, in 1928, as commander of the American Legion, the only veterans organization in Door County, and the fact that the Legion had a stand at the fairgrounds, seemed to be my qualifications for getting into the fair business,” wrote Miles in 1971.

During the depression era of the 1930s, community members volunteered to build the grandstand, livestock buildings and improve the roadways and midway on the fairgrounds.

The group also enlisted the aid of the Works Progress Administration, the largest agency born out of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The agency paid for employees to work on public works projects around the country.

After providing the infrastructure, Miles coordinated events and promoted the event to everyone in the county.

“The Door County Fair through the years has developed and maintained an outstanding entertainment program and over the past several years… have improved the grandstand and entertainment programs to rate among the best in the state,” he writes.

“Over the past forty years I have visited more than half of the seventy-six county and district fairs in Wisconsin… and five other state fairs and some people refer to Johnnie Miles as a fair nut — but it is a great hobby and you meet a lot of wonderful people.”

Miles recognized the true nature of the fair: getting neighbors together to share their accomplishments from the year. This, combined with the goal of improving and advancing agriculture in Door County, persuaded John Miles to spend the better part of his life waiting for the gates at the grandstand to open again.

“I have remained in the fair business more or less ever since 1928 and it is very hard to entirely divorce myself from the fair. To my many friends, workers and associates I offer you my thanks and congratulations because it was all of you who made the Door County Fair the real successful fair it is and I am sure will continue to be.”

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a cow is at producing milk, the better the cow.

These qualities include everything from foot angle and width of the ribs to bowed legs and depth of the udder. Cows are scored on five categories including frame, dairy character, body capacity, feet and legs, and udder. The highest scoring cow wins Grand Champion status.

Despite its importance in youth agriculture and education, the future of county fairs is cloudy.

Attendance and revenue from the fair has fluctuated the past 10 years, but since 2011, the Door County Fair has run a deficit. After the fair in 2014, Tom Ash, board member on the Door County Fair Board, requested the county provide an additional $15,000 to offset the losses from the event.

The Door County Fair is also the leastattended fair in Northeast Wisconsin, trailing the Kewaunee County Fair by an average of 7,000 attendees each year. Door County’s fair attracts the same number of visitors today as it did in 1928, despite a significantly greater number of tourists to the county in August.

“During the time period the fair is run, the county is full of people,” said former county supervisor Hugh Mulliken in a 2012 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. “I think a few minor changes could make the county fair the star fair of the state.”

These facts led the Door County Board of Supervisors to launch an Ad Hoc committee in 2012. The committee was charged with finding ways to make the fair more financially sustainable. In the report published in February 2014, the committee spoke with several groups involved with the fair and came up with their own recommendations for improvement.

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In Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, a domesticated St. Bernard mix is thrown into the Alaskan wilderness and quickly proves to be an unmatched sled dog. His beloved owner wagers that the dog, Buck, can break a 1,000-pound sled loose from the ice and pull it 100 yards.

Had London published the book today, he might have written about tractors.

Tractor pulling is known as the “world’s heaviest motorsport.” Yet, unlike other motorsports, the fastest vehicle is not always the winner. The goal is to travel the furthest distance along a 320-foot track.

Tractors pull a sled that is continually loaded with more weight as the tractor moves forward along the course. The distance pulled is usually measured to the thousandth of an inch and few machines can pull the sled the entire distance.

Whoever pulls the sled the furthest is the winner.

“What has happened is that when the farm economy gets good like it has from 2010 to 2013, and these guys get money for their milk, they’ll take one of those farm tractors and take it to the specialty shops and get them soupedup,” said Harold Schnell from the Schnell Bros.

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The Schnell Aggravator will serve as the sled for the tractors at the Door County Fair. Schnell’s family has been travelling to fairs across the state since 1983, fighting back against the tractors that attempt to pull the Aggravator.

The Door County Fair discontinued the highest power tractor pulls for the 2015 fair following budget cuts and high costs of getting the highly modified tractors to Door County.

“Up in Door County we do not have what we call a heavy turbo class because there aren’t that many of those tractors up there,” said Schnell.

The lack of dairy farming in Door County relative to other areas of northeast Wisconsin means a lack of the heavy turbo tractors.

Since these heavy turbo tractors are not street legal, competitors must load their tractor into a trailer and bring it to the venue, which can get expensive. Once at the site, these modified tractors incur other expenses.

“The problem is that it’s so costly to do — use them — because they don’t stay together,” said Schnell. “They were not designed for that kind of horsepower. They do what we call a lot of wrenching, they make one or two pulls and then they have to fix the tractor again.”

“When we were young and foolish we did that too,” joked Schnell. “We were lucky to get first place and get a trophy that the wife doesn’t want to dust off.”

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Above: Harness racers Tom Franey, with his horse Grey George, and John Daley, with Buckskin. Circa 1890. Photo courtesy of the Door County Historical Museum.

Participants customize their engines to get the most power as fast as possible.

One of the challenges to pulling the sled lies in loading the front of the vehicle with as much weight as possible. This allows the front tires to dig out a track for the rear tires to follow. It also keeps the front of the vehicle on the ground, giving full traction on the dirt course as the weight of the sled increases.

As the sled is pulled further down the course, the weight on the sled shifts. Starting over the rear axle at the beginning of the pull, the weight moves forward on the sled, increasing the friction of the sled against the track. As the friction increases, the tractor struggles to continue pulling the weight.

When pulling sleds, drivers use two techniques.

The popular method consists of a driver putting as much power into the tractor at the start of the pull, hoping to gain speed and momentum that will help in pulling the sled. The other method is a slow and steady approach. Tractors rely more on consistent power and traction to pull the sled the farthest.

Before high-powered tractors and mechanized sleds, horses and barn doors were the tools of competition. Back in the 1860s, when horses pulled farm equipment, farmers would bet on the strength of their horses. They ripped down a barn door and hooked it to a horse, laying flat on the ground. As the horse moved forward, people would jump on the barn door, increasing the weight the horse had to pull until it could not move forward any more.

History is not entirely lost at the Door County Fair, as the county has a big showing for the antique class of the tractor pull.

“There are a lot of tractors built prior to 1955 up in Door County and they are easy to get around because you can just take them on the road,” said Schnell.

Tractor pulling has its origins in the Midwest and remains a regional sport. No state west of Kansas is included in the National Tractor Pullers Association and Tomah, Wisconsin, is host to one of three Super National events every year.

Everyone must get their start, though, in local county events such as the Door County Fair.

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DEMOLITION DERBY When fairgoers walk into the grandstand on Sunday afternoon, it may look like a junkyard art exhibit. Yet when these rusted cars start their engines, the crowd roars just as loudly as the engines.

The last car standing wins a demolition derby.

Vehicles speed around an open pit and crash into each other, trying to cause enough damage so their opponent’s vehicle stops running.

The Door County Fair offers three divisions: full size, small car and truck. Small cars are the most popular given their abundance in junkyards, and vehicles tend to be from the 1960s and ‘70s.

Larger, heavier frames that served as collision protection were popular in this era of the automobile.

Competitors often scrap for the frame of a vehicle before putting in the engine to make

it run. Sometimes drivers will weld the doors shut, remove the bumpers, and relocate the battery and gas tank. All amenities such as plastic, lighting and glass are removed and the exterior is crudely painted with slogans and identification.

As a safety precaution, the driver’s side door is often painted a bright, contrasting color.

Derby rules vary across different events, but it is typically illegal to crash into the driver’s side door.

Still, derby events can be dangerous and the attraction used to be reserved for professional drivers.

In the 1950s, the Door County Fair brought in “America’s Original Crash Test Dummies,” the Hell Drivers. This group of stunt drivers

performed dangerous stunts all while destroying their cars.

The official origin of demolition derby is uncertain. In the early 1900s, following the over-production of Ford’s Model T, the excess vehicles were often driven into destruction for fun. In the 1940s, full contact automobile races were introduced. A used car dealer in Franklin, Wisconsin, promoted his own demolition derby in 1950 and Webster’s Dictionary officially recognized the term in 1953.

The future of the event is as uncertain as its origins. Many European countries have banned the practice due to the spilling of gas, oil and other fluids on open soil as well as the unfiltered exhaust from the vehicle.

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Rodeos, petting zoos and barn dances were just a few of the ideas proposed by committee members and the groups they spoke to. 4-H members also suggested healthy food options, trolleys from campgrounds, and paving the midway to reduce dust and dirt in the exhibits.

“Recommendations like having a more diverse and healthier menu at the food stands, sprucing up the display areas for the craft exhibits, and having a nicer looking midway were things that happened as early as 2013 even before the Ad Hoc committee finished,” said Rob Burke from the UW-Extension Office in Sturgeon Bay. Burke served as staff support for the 14-person committee.

The committee disbanded following the release of the report, but many of its members are still involved in the fair. This fact means continued improvements for the mid-summer weekend. At a time when county fairs across the country are in jeopardy, the Door County Fair is staying dynamic in order to fulfill the headlines it earned decades ago.

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A Sport Built On Determination

Skateboarding finds its way into Door County

Born on the sidewalks of California in the late 1940s by surfers looking for something to do when the waves were flat (according to Skateboarding Magazine), skateboarding has cruised its way into the mainstream sports category alongside basketball, baseball and football.

For the first few decades, its popularity ebbed and flowed, largely driven by the fact that some saw it as a dangerous and passing fad. But with those concerns emerged a more significant trait of the sport: determination.

As its history shows, early skaters of the movement went to great lengths to remove obstacles of the sport, be they real or perceived. They were determined to grow its population by switching from clay wheels to urethane

in 1972 (removing the largest risk factor) and introducing contests to already-established festivals such as the slalom and freestyle contest at Ocean Festival in Del Mar, California, in 1975 to show people what skateboarding was capable of.

Skateboarding companies were started, tricks were invented (with a special shoutout to Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, who invented the “Ollie,” a revolutionary trick wherein he soared through the air with his board seemingly glued to his feet), and when public skateparks became cost-prohibitive because of high insurance rates, those skaters took to their backyards, driveways and the streets to progress their passion.

For every obstacle, skaters seemed to have an answer.

It would be a new technological advancement, the Video Home System (VHS), that gave skateboarding its final push into the mainstream. In 1978, mechanical engineer George Powell teamed up with professional skateboarder Stacy Peralta to create and market skateboard products through their company Powell Peralta. When VHS was invented, Powell and Peralta’s Bones Brigade, a team of top skateboarding competitors, started recording skateboarding videos that found their way into living rooms across the world.

And then, in 1995, ESPN hosted its first ever X-Games with skateboarding at the helm. The sport hasn’t looked back since.

As quickly as skateboarding found its footing in the 1990s, it became more than a sport — it became a culture.

Above and opposite: Skaters at the Sturgeon Bay Skatepark on Spruce Street show off their tricks, spins and grinds on the 1,000-square-foot concrete park, which includes a bowl that pays homage to the Turf Skatepark Clover Bowl in Milwaukee.

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“You’re pedal-pushing yourself, you’re moving yourself around the park. It’s an adrenaline rush that nothing else comes close to. It keeps you coming back.”

— Matt Dixner Young

sport has a strong following here among people of all ages.

On this cool and foggy spring night at the skatepark, nothing could be more clear. While three young men played catch with a baseball on the grass next to the park, at least two-dozen skaters, males and females of all ages and backgrounds, dipped into the bowl, grinded on rails, and talked to me about their love for what was, not too long ago, considered an underground sport.

Their stories, backgrounds and goals are as varied as the art adorning their skateboard decks: some were introduced to skateboarding around the time they learned to walk and others, maybe around the time they bought their first house. Some are working on landing an Ollie and others, like six-year-old Siri Fittshur, decked out in hot pink shoes and rocking an alphabetcovered skateboard, want to learn how to ride, “but no tricks.”

In Door County, that culture is perhaps best represented by the Sturgeon Bay Skatepark Initiative (SBSI), a group of dedicated skateboarding enthusiasts and business owners who partnered with the City of Sturgeon Bay to build a professionally designed skatepark on the city’s West Side.

It was a three-and-a-half year process, from city council approval to the skatepark’s opening in September 2014, and one that showed the residents of Door County that this fast-growing

Skateboarding is a two-layer sport: driven by individual determination within a community setting. You set your own goals and your own timeline, but if you are struggling to land a trick, there is a good chance you’ll hear some tips from someone who already has.

Practice doesn’t begin at 3:15 pm and if you aren’t good at it from the get-go, you are not going to be cut from the team.

“When they talk about why they love skateboarding, it’s that no coach is telling you you have to be here for this practice or you have to do it their way or you have to sit on the bench while someone better gets to play,” said SBSI co-chair Laurel Hauser. “Really it’s an individual sport but they all help each other out.”

Another benefit? Skateboarding is a fairly inexpensive sport to get into.

Once you get set up with a complete skateboard and purchase a sturdy

pair of skate shoes — some of the kids recommend suede for its durability — you are ready to go.

For Draeden Goettelman-Hodges, 14, the first step to learning to skateboard is “being able to get yourself around and getting comfortable riding the board.”

It may not be easy at first and you’ll take your fair share of spills, but once you land your first trick (the Ollie), everything comes naturally after that.

“At the beginning, you take a lot of falls learning,” said Jack Frank, 17. “But when you start to get past that, it gets a little easier and you start to get the hang of it. It’s a lot of time and dedication, then you get pretty good.

“It’s your individual motivation that allows you to get better,” Frank added.

“It’s very creative. I don’t have a schedule to skateboard but since it’s such a passionate thing, I go out every day to get better and better. I think that’s what’s kind of nice — you can do however much you want and it’s your own thing.”

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Dixner Young also points out that since the skatepark opened last fall, it has enjoyed visits from people from all across Wisconsin and the Midwest in what he called “skateboard tourism.” Since the sport has only in the past decade enjoyed a surge in popularity, skateparks are not necessarily part of every community’s growth plan so when skaters hear of a new one, they make a point to visit it.

Call it another way of showing their determination.

“Something I want people who don’t know anything about skateboarders to know is that they are determined,” Dixner Young said. “When they set their mind to doing something, they will do it. It may take them a long time but they’ll get to it.”

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“When an 8.45-pound fish wins big bass — and that fish is a smallmouth — heads turn. That’s exactly what happened at a local tournament on this section of Lake Michigan last year. In that very same two-day tournament, it took 67.13 pounds to win (an average of almost 34 pounds per day). If you are looking for a destination to catch the biggest smallmouth of your life, Sturgeon Bay should be your next trip. Simply put, if you want to angle the best bass fishing waters that currently exist for size and numbers of fish, head to Wisconsin.”

That was what Bassmaster said in April 2014 when it named Sturgeon Bay the number one among its top 100 bass fishing spots in the nation.

event. If people have been to other bass tournaments, don’t expect what you’ve seen. It’s one of the top events out there.

It’s not your father’s fishing tournament.”

hundreds of thousands of people. People will be watching our weigh-ins on the website. There is a lot going on with the fishing tournament.”

That designation led to Sturgeon Bay being named host city of the 2015 Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship on September 17 – 20.

The tournament is open to the top 50 Bassmaster Elite Series anglers who will be fishing for the $1 million prize purse.

Lopez said he and other members of the production team bring experience from staging epic sporting events such as the Olympics and World Cup soccer to the bass tournament.

So, what can we expect?

“The smallmouth fishing up there is second to none in the world. That’s what excites us and our anglers in regards to being able to compete on this particular body of water,” said Eric Lopez, director of events at B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsman Society). “It’s not a small

“I grew up working at the Olympics,” he said. “We have the same policies and procedures here as they have there.

We approach it the same way. We’ll do a site survey later this summer. We already had people in the area late last year to scope it out. We have the media component with ESPN2. From a social media standpoint, we will be reaching

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“People can expect a tournament that features the top anglers in the world and an expo, a fun, free, family event that coincides with the tournament,” Lopez said. “This is the last event of the year that follows the elite series season. We have eight elite events that lead up to Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship. At all of those events, all of our national-level sponsors set up displays, so there’s a festival that accompanies the event. We also work with the host — in this case it’s

Competitors in the 2015 Spring Sturgeon Bay Open Bass Tournament held in mid-May. Photo by Len Villano.

the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center. They will bring different activities as well.

Everyone is still working on all the plans.

There will be a great lineup of activities.

We’re really looking forward to it.”

Lopez points out that the anglers competing for the $100,000 top prize and trophy are not weekend warriors.

“These are 50 of the top professional anglers, not 50 guys who go fishing on the weekend,” he said.

Lopez said the tournament fishing events, wherever they are held, are a boon to the local economy.

“For an elite series event, the local economic impact for other cities with a full field of 100 anglers could be upwards of $2 million,” Lopez said.

“This is obviously a smaller field, so we don’t have as many anglers, but it will have a large impact, not to mention the fact that the area will be featured on ESPN2, so the secondary impact will be significant. When that show airs on ESPN, we will have many, many people

see this and become interested in fishing that particular body of water. It’s something I think most people should be excited about.”

For those who follow competitive fishing but can’t make the trip to the event, “People can go to bassmaster. com and watch the anglers fish, if that’s something you are interested in, and we’re finding that many, many people are. We will have cameras on top anglers’ boats, streaming back to our base camp at the main venue, and then we’re sending that signal back to Little Rock, Arkansas, where our studios are.

We’re excited about this new technology we developed and it will be the first time it will be in general use. If that pleases you, you can sit and watch someone fish.

It’s kind of one of those secret passions that a lot of people have at work when the boss isn’t looking, because we have tons of people watching on a Friday afternoon when they should be at work.

But I’m not complaining.”

How do the competitors feel about being under constant scrutiny?

“They don’t have a choice,” Lopez said. “This is one of those things. It’s professional fishing. A lot of people have this image in their head of fishing being a romantic activity that requires solitude. Sure, a lot of that still remains. But the sport has advanced eons. They’re fishing in boats that go 75-, 80-miles an hour. There’s more technology on the boats. The spectator aspect is one of the most important things that is advancing the sport and bringing it to new markets and enticing new fans, specifically the youth.

“I’m sure some of the anglers are a bit put off by the constant coverage, but those are the requirements at the professional level. It’s not uncommon to have 50 to 60 chase boats following one angler. We’re not going to stop people from doing that. Those are things that the pros are going to have to take into account. If it means he’s going to have to change his game a little bit, so be it. That’s what distinguishes these anglers from your average weekend warrior. They have to take all of that into account as well.”

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A Sea of Grass Golf is tricky. Immensely tricky. One of the trickiest games out there, they say. Anyone who has flopped a wedge before will tell you so. The root of that trickiness, however, is also the trickiest of delusions, as it is commonly attributed to the player’s brain, body, instruments or some tricky combination of the three. No, the trickiness doesn’t start there; it starts with the field of play.

The golf course is one of the only sporting arenas in the world cared for by one group, crafted by another, assaulted by its participants and manipulated by Mother Nature. Indeed, this is where you play one of the trickiest games in the world.

Encompassing most of this field of play, nearly all of it, is grass. Lots and lots of grass. It’s everywhere, yet its intricacies are often left misunderstood.

ROUGH It might seem odd to begin by detailing a place where golfers despise landing, but the truth for most golfers is, rough is oftentimes the easiest area to find. It’s also the easiest to understand.

The rough is likely the longest grass you’ll find on the course without retreating to the woods and hazard areas. Anywhere from a few inches to a few more is normal length, depending on the specifications of the course (and maybe the mood of the maintenance director).

One very common rough grass is Kentucky Bluegrass. The grass on the high school football field? That’s likely Kentucky Bluegrass. The grass on the farm, being snatched up by grazing heifers? That’s likely Kentucky Bluegrass.

It grows well, and with enough water, will be long and dense enough to irritate both the golf club and whichever player is swinging it.

A rough grass like bluegrass is popular because it’s easy to care for. Water and sun, just like the front lawn, are the main ingredients. This low-maintenance is good for business, because that isn’t always the case in areas like the fairway.

FAIRWAY Serving as the landing strip of every golf course, the fairway is every golfer’s happy place. Landing here constantly makes the game (seem so much) easier.

It’s smooth, short and functions as an interstate toward the green.

Fairways come in many different variations. The cheaper level of them is just a much shorter rendition of the bluegrass found in the rough. Where the

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A creeping bentgrass is common for courses yearning that low, dense, rolling smoothness of turf from tee to green. The grass grows thick and more horizontal than vertical (unlike bluegrass); thick enough to resemble the consistency of a rug, with enough texture to slow the golf ball down, but not so much to keep it from bounding a few times closer to the hole.

Bentgrass fairways provide a different ball-striking experience, almost to the case that, once used to playing from them, playing anything else feels second rate. Owning bentgrass fairways is actually a bragging point for some courses. Sounds inconsequential, and it just might be, but to the golf nerd, this is the difference between a four-star and a five-star movie.

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It’s the shortest grass on the property — often measured in thousandths of an inch — so it’s easy to understand its fussiness. When not cared for properly, the green is the first to show effects of improper affection.

Most courses employ a creeping bentgrass on their greens (tee boxes, too). That doesn’t mean they’re very similar to the fairway, however. Modern agronomy has created countless editions of bentgrass, some with greater durability, others with a tighter roll and feel, and some different in color.

When courses hit a dry spell, the greens are likely first to show it, which just adds to their importance and maintenance requirements. In moments like these, courses will do everything they can to keep their greens, well, green.

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n my opinion, the tomato is the most versatile fresh ingredient in the world. They are delicious when eaten raw like an apple, in salads, roasted, baked, sautéed, marinated, pan fried…they are just so good.

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If you did not know better, you would think you were traveling to exotic lands, writing poetry, or naming punk bands. There are approximately 7,500 varieties of tomato known today. Each variety is grown for different reasons — shelf life, flavor, production yield, disease resistance, nutritional value. I recommend heirloom (a tomato variety that has been passed down through

several generations) varieties for consumption.

Tomatoes originated in Central and South America and are believed to be discovered and first brought to Europe

by Hernando Cortez after conquering the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. Once Europeans got beyond the fear created by the unknown exotic fruit and began eating the tomato, culinary roads were changed forever.

1 Tomato Summer Salad and Pico De Gallo — two dishes where tomatoes are the star of the show. Photo by Len Villano. 2 Heirloom varieties of tomatoes are recommended to use in the recipes on page 99, including one for Tomato Summer Salad. Photo by Len Villano.

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4 Huevos Tomatoes. Photo by Brett Kosmider. 5 Eggs are cooked in the tomato base for Huevos Tomatoes. Photo by Brett Kosmider. 6 Jalapeño peppers accompany tomatoes in many of the featured recipes.

Photo by Brett Kosmider. 7 Tomato Zucchini Bake. Photo by Brett Kosmider.

When it comes to tomato season, it is typically all or nothing regarding availability. As they say, when it rains it pours. Find a storage option that works for you. Dehydrate, can, blanch, freeze them whole, or processing into sauce or salsa works great, too.

Having the opportunity to dip into garden-fresh deliciousness in the dead of winter is heaven on earth.

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ON YOUR PLATE Fresh tomatoes should be stored on the counter or in a basket. Do not put tomatoes in the refrigerator because the flavor fades and the flesh gets tough.

Tomato Zucchini Bake When pairing this with dinner, you can skip the starch and instead enjoy this with grilled chicken or salmon.

Serves 4 – 6 (side dish) 3 – 4 Tbsp olive oil 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar 3 cloves sliced garlic 2 zucchinis sliced lengthwise 5 – 6 sliced tomatoes ¼ cup of roasted red peppers sliced crusty bread chopped fresh basil feta cheese (substitute parmesan if you prefer) salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 375 F

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Drizzle enough oil to cover the bottom of a baking pan. Place the sliced bread in the pan, drizzle with more oil. Layer on top of the bread: zucchini, tomatoes, garlic, basil, feta cheese, balsamic and more oil. Bake for approximately 30 minutes, keep covered for half the bake time.

Tomato Summer Salad Goes great with a backyard picnic.

1 quart of cherry tomatoes, halved 1 cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced ½ red onion, thinly sliced 1 garlic clove, minced 1 8 oz. container of fresh mozzarella balls Dressing Whisk together: ½ cup olive oil ¼ cup red wine vinegar chopped fresh basil and chives 1 tsp sugar salt and pepper to taste Pour the dressing over the salad ingredients and let sit for at least 1 hour to allow the flavors to meld.

Pico De Gallo — Fresh Chopped Salsa Delicious on eggs, on nachos, your favorite fish.

1 quart small tomatoes, diced ½ onion, finely chopped 2 jalapeños, finely chopped (seeds removed) corn, chopped off the cob 1 – 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped juice of 1 – 2 limes ½ cup chopped cilantro salt to taste Mix everything together and marinate for 1 hour to allow flavors to meld.

Huevos Tomatoes Makes 2 servings 1 tsp olive oil splash of balsamic vinegar 6 tomatoes, chopped ¼ cup onion, chopped 1 garlic clove, chopped 1 jalapeno, chopped cilantro, chopped basil, chopped Queso blanco, crumbled 4 eggs ½ avocado 14 oz. can of black beans, rinsed 4 corn tortillas Garnish pickled red onions (see recipe below) pickled jalapenos (see recipe below) Pico de gallo cilantro, chopped In a sauté pan over medium high heat, add the olive oil, splash of balsamic, tomato, onion, garlic, jalapeno, cilantro and basil. Cook down until it is a consistency of tomato sauce. Add a pinch of salt. Turn the heat down to a simmer.

Crack 4 eggs into the tomato sauce and cover.

The eggs will poach in the tomato sauce, sprinkle the eggs with salt. Approximately 5 minutes, do not stir.

In the meantime, warm the tortillas in a cast iron skillet.

To plate: place two tortillas on each plate. Scoop 2 eggs onto each plate with the tomato sauce. Top the eggs with black beans, pico de gallo, pickled onions and jalapenos, queso blanco, and cilantro. Buen Apetito!

Simple Pickled Red Onion or Jalapeno Derived from The Joy of Pickling by Linda Ziedrich red onion, thin-sliced rings ¼ cup white vinegar ¼ cup warm water ½ tsp pickling salt or 3 jalapeno peppers, sliced into thin wheels ¼ cup white vinegar ¼ cup warm water ½ tsp pickling salt Set the onion and jalapeno up in separate glass bowls. Cover the jalapeno and onion with boiling water for 1 minute. Pour the water off. Pour warm water, vinegar and sprinkle with pickling salt. Let sit for at least one hour. Pickled veggies can be stored for up to one week in the refrigerator.

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Any experienced drummer will testify that, when you want to do business, there is no economy in ham and lemonade.”

Excuse me, Mr. Twain, but you seem to malign the magnificent drink known as lemonade as something as common as… um, well, ham.

Nistebox’s Strawberry Basil Lemonade 1 pound fresh strawberries from Malvitz Bay Farms, hulled & rinsed Small handful of fresh basil from Steep Creek Farm Juice of 1 lime & 1 lemon (about 1 cup) 6 Tablespoons of Malvitz Bay Farms maple syrup (more or less depending on desired sweetness) 6 cups cold water In a blender, combine strawberries and basil on low until liquified. Do not strain pulp.

Combine all remaining ingredients in pitcher. Serve on ice and garnish with lemon wedge & basil leaves.

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Have you ever wondered about the feelings of surprise experienced by the first person to taste a lemon?

It looks so inviting, the intense yellowness enticing you to bite deep into its sweet and succulent flesh. Instead, the lemon delivers a tart sucker punch to the palate and reduces the biter to a terrible sour-faced pucker.

The first person tells a second person that despite its beauty, that yellow thing tastes like sour armpits. Since the first person is still alive, the wiser second person has a small taste and confirms that, yes, indeed, that is more than the human palate can endure, unless maybe squeezed on top of stinky fish.

Or, the second person thinks, what if I tame its wild taste with water and sweeten it with honey…hmm, I might have a tartly refreshing drink.

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We’ll never know who first came up with the idea of turning lemons into lemonade, but one can only imagine minds were blown.

But, as with all things, its novelty faded, and instead of appealing to the bold and adventurous, lemonade became synonymous for the staid and boring status quo, or so Mr. Twain would have us believe.

Besides being a tasty drink, lemonade — or at least its main component — is very good for you. You don’t see many lemonade drinkers with scurvy. Each fluid ounce of lemon juice provides you with 13 percent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C. It also provides you with vitamin A, calcium, folate and potassium, and the low pH of lemon juice gives it antibacterial properties.

Patients treated at the kidney stone center at UW Hospital are put on lowsugar or no-sugar lemonade therapy for lemon’s ability to slow the development of new kidney stones in kidney stoneprone people. The citric acid helps prevent salts in the kidney from forming stones.

These are all good reasons for drinking lemonade, but perhaps the best reason is that it tastes good.

Charolette Baierl of Nistebox, Door County’s only food truck, came up with a version of lemonade that tasters rave about. She was happy to share it with us.

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Getting fired up for Death’s Door BBQ Ask Kansas City or Memphis about barbecue tourism. They’ve known for years there is money to be made in smoked meats.

Plenty of other places are establishing themselves as ’cue destinations, such as Alabama, where the state Tourism Department declared 2015 the Year of Barbecue, and Washington Island, where Death’s Door BBQ draws competitive BBQ teams from across the Midwest and beyond, as well as several thousand people who travel to the island for the annual late August barbecue contest.

“We figured we’d get maybe 1,500 people the first year, but we got 3,000.

And it’s been growing ever since. We’ve been getting 4,000 to 5,000 ever since,” said Dick Jepsen, co-founder of Death’s Door BBQ, which is one of a growing number of competitive barbecue events held across the country.

While Death’s Door BBQ is only in its fourth year, its genesis goes back to 2003 when Jepsen got the barbecue bug.

“I’ve been a griller most of my life. I got interested in smoking,” Jepsen said.

“I went out to Kansas City and took a judging class and became a certified barbecue judge in 2003.”

Jepsen began traveling the country to judge Kansas City Barbecue Societysanctioned competitions, and in 2010 went through the program to become a Master Judge.

“It’s pretty intense,” he said about obtaining master rating. “I’ve judged probably 70 contests now.”

Jepsen had been sharing his barbecue adventures with island residents Fred Hankwitz and Lisa Gibson, “and they got interested and became certified judges,” he said.

With three KCBS-certified judges on the island, talk of holding a KCBSsanctioned barbecue showdown on the

island was a natural progression. The three island BBQ fans decided to apply to hold a KCBS-sanctioned event. The process included picking a date that didn’t conflict with other competitions.

“We were lucky enough the first time that they went for our date,” Jepsen said.

Then the trio of organizers had to follow an experienced event organizer from start to finish at a sanctioned event.

2015 Death’s Door Barbecue Friday, August 28 8:00 am – 5:00 pm: Registered competition cooking 8:00 am – 7:00 pm: Load-in and set-up for all competitors and vendors 9:00 am – 5:00 pm: KCBS meat inspection 5:00 – 6:00 pm: Cooks meeting 6:00 – 7:30 pm: Welcome party 9:30 pm: Star party Saturday, August 29 7:00 – 9:45 am: Vendor set-up 9:00 – 10:45 am: Judge registration 10:00 am: Gates open to public 10:00 am – 5:00 pm: Barbecue and other vendors open to public 11:00 – 11:30 am: Judges meeting Noon – 2:00 pm: Turn-in times for registered competitors Noon: Chicken 12:30 pm: Pork ribs 1:00 pm: Pork 1:30 pm: Beef brisket 2:00 pm: Dessert 4:30 pm: Awards ceremony “Fred, Lisa and I went to the Up in Smoke contest in Mason City, Iowa, to learn all the behind-the-scenes elements of running a contest,” Jepsen said.

The Kansas City Barbecue Society will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2016.

“I went to my first contest in 1980. That was Memphis in May. I thought it was an absolute hoot,” said KCBS co-founder

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and Executive Director Carolyn Wells. “I entered my first contest in 1982. At the time, there were no rules. Everybody had their own rules. Once we came into being, we sort of cobbled rules together to set a standard. That has paid off very well.

“I can tell you we’ll do 500 competitions this year,” Wells said. “It’s really growing in Wisconsin. That’s a state that had a real growth spurt.”

Wells said after 9/11, society-sanctioned barbecues began growing at almost double the rate it had in the past.

“We were growing at 7, 8, 9, percent a year contest-wise,” she said. “After 9/11, it shot up to 15 percent. I went to a contest the weekend after 9/11 in Decatur, Alabama. It was an epiphany.

People wanted to be with other people, see their kids in a playground, drink beer, barbecue and just be together.

After that, small- and medium-town America sort of decided barbecue is a very good anchor to promote their community or charity. Ninety-nine percent of the contests we work with are either for civic awareness or charity.”

The next spurt came from reality cooking shows, specifically BBQ Pitmasters, which debuted on TLC in December 2009.

“Barbecue is the hot new old food,” Wells said of what she calls her favorite food group. “It’s had a resurgence and gone to new heights. There are all sorts of cottage industries that have grown out of competition barbecue.

People open their own restaurants, they go into catering, the sauces, rubs and marinades, custom cooker manufacturers, competition barbecue classes. It’s been great to see its evolution from dad in the back yard. It’s a fun sport. Anybody can do it. It does require a little stamina. And you get to eat. Barbecue is all about family, fun and friends.”

“The very cool thing is it’s exploding internationally,” Wells continued. “They think it’s a wild and wacky sport. They want to be involved and they want to do it the way we do it. We have 26 international contests this year.”

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T-Mac Smokin’ BBQ was the grand champion in the first Death’s Door BBQ in 2012, which earned the team a spot in the prestigious invitational American Royal World Series of Barbecue in Kansas City, where they earned runner-up status from among 563 teams.

“For us it was our very first grand champion ever,” Mackintosh said.

“It’s certainly going to be one we will always remember. Those grand championships don’t come easy.

We’ve only had three since then.

The most recent was also on an island, down in Puerto Rico this past February. Last year we did 19 contests and this year we’ll probably do 20. The year we won Death’s Door, I think we did 12. The addiction ran a little bit deeper after picking up Death’s Door.”

Last year, T-Mac Smokin’ BBQ’s brisket and ribs ranked about 50th in the country, out of about 5,000 teams, and the team ranked about 100 overall.

Mackintosh said his wife Becky is just as passionate about competitive barbecuing as he is.

“What’s especially fun about it, it’s something my wife and I enjoy doing.

On weekends, we’re going in the same direction. We don’t have different interests, which I think happens a lot with people when they grow older.”

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We’re looking forward to that.”

There will also be music all day instead of just for a portion of the day as in the past, this year featuring the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Award-winning Alex Wilson Band.

“The ferry line is our biggest sponsor.

Without their cooperation this would be a no go,” Jepsen said. “The ferry lines will run as long as there are people in line. To get everybody off the island who want to get off, which is really nice. They’ve got four boats running steady.”

“It’s a hustle. We’re moving as fast as we can to keep things moving,” said Hoyt Purinton, president and captain of Washington Island Ferry.

Jepsen also noted that those who want to attend the event don’t have to bring their cars to the island.

“There’s a barbecue train for people who don’t want to bring a car,” he said. “Park at Northport, take a ferry and hop on the barbecue train. It’s free and it takes them right to the contest site and back to the ferry.”

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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.

BAILEYS HARBOR

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AC Tap 9322 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2426 $LD T{

$5 – 10* $10 – 15* $15 – 20* $20* Full Bar Beer & Wine only Outdoor Seating available Kid’s Menu available Offering Breakfast Offering Lunch Offering Dinner Reservations Accepted Open during winter (hours may vary)

Bearded Heart Coffee 8101 Highway 57 (920) 421-3309 $BL{ Chives Restaurant 8041 Highway 57 (920) 839-2000 chivesdoorcounty.com $$$ L D (

*price range based on average dinner entrée (if available)

Cornerstone Pub & Restaurant 8123 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9001 baileysharborcornerstone pub.com $$ B L D J T {

SUBS • WRAPS • SALADS • PIZZA DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS • BREAKFAST FLATBREAD PIZZA • LA COPPA GELATO

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.

Custard’s Last Stan 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 ${ DC Deli 8037 Hwy 57 (920) 839-1361 $BLD JT{ Florian II Supper Club 8048 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2361 $$ D J Harbor Fish Market & Grille 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 harborfishmarket-grille .com $$$$ 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 ( PC Junction Corner of A & E (920) 839-2048 $LD JT{

Casual Fine Dining in a Beautifully Remodeled 100 Year-Old Church

LOVE AT FIRST BITE! Healthy Food for Hungry Guys • Gals • Kids

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featuring LA COPPA ARTISAN GELATO

In front of Shopko at SISTER BAY MOBIL

2579 S. Bay Shore Drive • Sister Bay

920.854.6700

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DINE IN, CARRY OUT or DRIVE THRU!

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DINNER DAILY HOMEMADE & FRESH s Daily Lunch Specials FULL BAR s Subs - Salads - Wraps LARGE PARTIES & CATERING s Flat Bread Pizzas GARDEN PATIO DINING s La Coppa Artisan Gelato RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED s Red Hot Chicago pure beef hot dogs

10627 Made-to- N. Bay Shore Drive • Sister Bay s Breakfast: plus order sandwiches, 920.854.9070 • missiongrille.com yogurt, hummus cups, fresh fruit cups, pastries, muffins, croissants, bagels

Pen Pub County Hwys A & E (920) 839-2141 $LD T{ Sandpiper Restaurant at Maxwelton Braes 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2321 $BJ 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.

The Blue Ox 8051 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2271 $LD {

Top Deck Restaurant & Bar 1420 Pine Drive (920) 839-2331 gordonlodge.com $$$$ B L D J { ( Yum Yum Tree 8054 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2993 $LDJ{ The Yum Yum Tree, established in 1972, offers homemade candy, ice cream and deli sandwiches. A full service lunch counter with made-to-order deli sandwiches and salads.

Indoor and outdoor seating including lakefront picnic-style seating. Family friendly.

CARLSVILLE Bistro 42 5806 Hwy 42 (920) 743-9463 bistrofortytwo.com $$ L D JT{(

Carlsville Roadhouse 5790 Hwy 42 (920) 743-4966 LD T

Buttercups Coffee Shop 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1771 $BLD

Double Delites 7818 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2221 $T{

Door County Coffee & Tea Co. 5773 Hwy 42 (920) 743-8930 doorcountycoffee.com $BLJT{

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.

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.)

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.”

Winner of GMA’s “Best Breakfast in America Challenge”

Casey’s BBQ and Smokehouse 7855 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3038 caseysbbqandsmoke house.com $$ L D J T

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 $$$ B D J { ( Log Den 6626 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3888 thelogden.com $$ L D J T { (

Come for the goats...

Breakfast Served All Day

Stay for the food. breakfast • lunch • dinner traditional Door County fish boils

overnight lodging

4225 Main Street • Fish Creek • 888.364.9542 innkeeper@whitegullinn.com • www.w hitegullinn.com

10698 N. Bay Shore Drive • Sister Bay 920.854.2626 • www.aljohnsons.com

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Indoor - Outdoor Dining

A Popular Destination for Breakfast & Lunch Presenting a delightful European style menu of delectable entrees Wines Beers Spirits

8 a.m. daily Summer and fall.

(phone for off season hours)

Pastries • Delicatessen

Home of the Corsica Loaf tm

10048 HWY 57 • South of Sister Bay • 854-1137 • doorcountybakery.com

Great Food & Drinks!

OPEN YEAR ROUND On Kangaroo Lake

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{

BAILEYS HARBOR, WISCONSIN

OPEN EVERYDAY 11 AM SERVING LUNCH & DINNER www.coyote-roadhouse.com 3026 County E • Baileys Harbor • 920.839.9192

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 {

Locally Owned Family Restaurant!

Serving omelette wraps, fresh bakery, and coffee

Open Daily 7am located on Hwy 42 in Ephraim, just south of the beach 920-854-6621 order online

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{ Trio Restaurant Hwy 42 & County E (920) 868-2090 $$$ D

ELLISON BAY Brew Coffee 12002 Hwy 42 (920) 421-2739 $BL T{ 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 $$ B L D J { ( The Viking Grill 12029 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2998 thevikinggrill.com $$ B L D J T Wickman House 11976 Mink River Rd (920) 854-3305 wickmanhouse.com $$$ D { (

EPHRAIM Chef’s Hat 9998 Pioneer Lane (920) 854-2034 $$ B L D J T { ( Czarnuska Soup Bar 9922 Water St 7F (920) 634-9649 $LDT{ 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{ Old Post Office Restaurant 10040 Hwy 42 (920) 854-4034 oldpostoffice-door county.com $$ B D J { ( Summer Kitchen 10425 Water St (920) 854-2131 $$ B L D J { ( Located between Ephraim and Sister Bay, Door County’s garden

www.goodeggsdoorcounty.com

Door County’s Garden Restaurant

Fu Bar

Old Fashioned Homemade Cooking

Homemade Pi a

summerkitchendoorcounty.com

Homemade Soup5 Choices Daily, Sandwiches, Salads & Pie

Patio Dining

Breakfast Served til N n Authentic Mexican, American & More

North Ephraim

920-854-2131

Across from Door Community Auditorium

3931 Hwy. 42 Fish Creek, WI • 920.868.1900 a oyobaygri.com

B r e a k f a s t • L u n c h • D i n n e r • Ta k e - O u t Ve g e t a r i a n & G l u t e n F r e e O p t i o n s

Up s t a i r s a t M a x w e l t o n B r a e s 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.

$$$$ D J T { ( Specializing in seafood, steaks, contemporary cuisine, catering and special events (fully licensed and insured). Bar opens at 4 pm, dinner at 5 pm. Sunday brunch starting at 9 am.

Wilson’s Restaurant 9990 Water St (920) 854-2041 wilsonsicecream.com/ main.htm $LDJ{ 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

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.

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, homemade pizza, Friday fish fry and Smilin’ Bob’s Chili. Open daily, year round!

OPEN DAILY

Blue Horse Beach Café 4113 Main Street (920) 868-1471 bluehorsecafe.com $BLJT{

Rosemary’s Favorite Breakfast Dishes Are Back!

Craic Coffee and Shop 4199 Main St. (920) 868-5019 craiccoffee.com $BL { 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{ 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{(

7am-Noon Serving Breakfast Only 7670 Hwy 57 Baileys Harbor, WI

(920) 839.2321

maxweltonbraes.com/dining/ sandpiper

Where The Food Is As Excellent As The View InnovatIve Menu • Full Bar • extensIve WIne lIst

open tuesday through sunday at 5 p.m.

10947 n. Bay shore Drive, sister Bay 920.854.5491 reservations recommended www.jjswaterfront.com

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Jacksonport

Hwy. 42, North end of Sister Bay

6301 Hwy. 57, Jacksonport

920.854.4513

920.823.2700

OPEN DAILY

OPEN DAILY

MEXICAN & AMERICAN FOOD ~ World Renowned Margaritas ~

www.jjswaterfront.com

OPEN YEAR ROUND CALL FOR RESERVATIONS

Fresh Seafood • Hand Cut Steaks • Full Bar • Extensive Wine List & Martini Menu

3667 Hwy. 42, 1 mile N. of Fish Creek | 920.868.3532 | alexandersofdoorcounty.com OPEN NIGHTLY • BAR AT 4PM • DINING AT 5PM • CHAMPAGNE SUNDAY BRUCH AT 9:30AM

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Juniper’s Gin Joint 4170 Main St (Corner of Main St. & Hwy 42) (920) 868-2667 junipersginjoint.com $$$ L D J T {

Summertime Restaurant 1 N Spruce St. (920) 868-3738 TheSummertime.com $$$ B L D J T { (

Villaggios 4240 Juddville Rd (920) 868-4646 villaggios-doorcounty .com J{( $$ D

Mr. Helsinki 4164 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9898 mrhelsinki.com $$$ D T

The Cookery Restaurant 4135 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3634 cookeryfishcreek.com $$ B L D J{ “Fresh food, expertly prepared” (Midwest Living, Best of the Midwest 2011-2012). Offering contemporary American casual fare with an emphasis on local ingredients. Breakfast, lunch and dinner served daily.

The water view wine bar offers light fare including small plates and desserts. Outdoor seating available. Travel Green Wisconsin certified.

Whistling Swan 4192 Main St (920) 868-3442 whistlingswan.com $$$$ D JT(

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{( Stillwater’s By the Bay 4149 Main Street (920) 868-9962 $LDJ{

White Gull Inn 4225 Main St (920) 868-3517 whitegullinn.com $$$$ B L D JT( Serving breakfast (including America’s Favorite, White Gull Cherry Stuffed French Toast, as featured on Good Morning America) as well as a full menu daily 7:30 am – 12 pm; sumptuous lunches served daily 12 – 2:30 pm; traditional Door County 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 evenings when there is no fish boil. Reservations recommended for evening meals.

Wild Tomato Wood-Fired Pizza and Grille 4023 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3095 wildtomatopizza.com $LD JT{

GILLS ROCK GT Coffee 12625 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9907 GalleryTen.com $BLT{

Shoreline Restaurant 12747 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2950 theshorelineresort.com $$$ L D J { 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.

JACKSONPORT 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!

Mike’s Port Pub & Grille 6269 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2081 innlet-motel.com $BLD JT{ 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

THE SHORELINE RESTAURANT

A 3rd-generation business growing almost 200 acres of Honeycrisp apples, juicy strawberries, raspberries, cherries and spring vegetables.

We are the only Wisconsin grower of the new SweeTango® apples!

Very Unique Gifts! Plus ...

Jams • Pie Fillings • Dried Cherries Baked Goods • Homemade Fudge Cherry Strudel • Cherry Salsa 8112 HWY 42 • EGG HARBOR 1-866-763-2334 SweeTango® is a registered trademark of the University of Minnesota for the Minneiska cultivar.

www.woodorchard.com

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.

Open Daily at 11:00 SISTER BAY 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, 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{

Joe Jo’s Pizza and Gelato 10420 Water St. (Hwy. 42) Ephraim, WI 54234 www.doorcountypizza.com

Phone: 920.854.5455 PIZZA • GELATO • SORBETTO • SANDWICHES • SALADS

YUM YUM TREE

Wilson’s & IC E CR E A M P A R LO R

Homemade Ice Cream, Candy, Many Licorices, Deli Sandwiches Downtown Baileys Harbor • Open Daily

A Door County Tradition Since 1906 Open Daily 11am May-October

Drink Coffee 517 N Bay Shore Drive (920) 854-1155 $BLDT{

Wilson’s & IC E CR E A M P A R LO R

Great Food • Ice Cream Specialties Home-Brewed Draft Root Beer Outdoor Seating • Family Atmosphere

9990 Water Street • Ephraim 920-854-2041 • www.WilsonsIceCream.com

Live Music Every Tuesday from 7 - 10

Mid-June through Mid-September

10620 Little Sister Rd • Sister Bay • (920) 854-6699 • www.fredandfuzzys.com

Located at Little Sister Resort (adjacent to Bay Ridge Golf Course)

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Sample award-winning wines, shop our spacious market filled with local products, or enjoy a guided tour of the orchards, vineyards and winery.

lautenbach’s orchard country

winery • market • orchards • vineyards 9197 Hwy 42 Fish Creek • 920.868.3479 • orchardcountry.com

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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{ Harbor Pie Co. 10647 N Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-3427 $LD T{ 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.

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.

The Inn at Kristofer’s 10716 Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-9419 innatkristofers.com $$$$ D JT{( The Waterfront 10961 Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-5491 jjswaterfront.com $$$$ 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!

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 $$ L D JT( Brick Lot Pub & Grill 253 N. 3rd Ave (920) 743-9339 bricklotpub.com $LD JT Cherry Hills Lodge & Golf Course 5905 W. Dunn Rd. (920) 743-4222 golfdoorcounty.com $$$ D J 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 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{

Frozen Spoon Yogurt Bar 210 S. 1st Avenue (920) 818-0250 $LD{

Lola’s Bakery and Restaurant 306 S. 3rd Ave (920) 473-5055 $BLDJ

Get Real Café 116 S. Madison Ave. (920) 493-3354 time2getrealcafe.com $$ B L D

Mandarin Garden 512 S. Lansing Avenue (920) 746-9122 T $$ L D

Gilmo’s Bar & Bistro Wavepoint Marina Resort, 3600 County CC (920) 824-5440 wavepointe.com $LD JT{( Glas 67 E. Maple St. (920) 743-5575 glascoffee.com $BL T{ Holey Cow 129 N. Madison Ave. (920) 818-0261 holey-cow.com $BLD{ Hot Tamales 26 E. Oak St (920) 746-0600 hottamaleswi.com $BLD JT Idlewild Pub & Grill 4146 Golf Valley Dr. (920) 743-5630 $LD { Inn at Cedar Crossing 336 Louisiana Street (920) 743-4200 innatcedarcrossing.com $$$ B L D J T ( John Martin’s Restaurant 50 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 746-6666 $$ L D JT 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 { (

Mill Supper Club 4128 Hwy 42/57 N (920) 743-5044 $$$ 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.

Scaturo’s Café 19 Green Bay Rd (920) 746-8727 $BL JT{( 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-you-can-eat lunch salad bar seven days a week and live entertain-

ment 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 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 $$$ D J T The Tin Plate 4849 Glidden Dr. (920) 818-1125 $$ L D 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 {

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Island Pizza At the ferry dock (920) 847-3222 $LD KK Fiske Restaurant 1177 Main Rd (920) 847-2121 $BLDT

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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

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Somerset Inn & Suites Has Location, Location, Location Plus In a former life, Somerset Inn & Suites was called Woodland Village Motel, a cluster of little cottages on five wooded acres at the north end of Ephraim. A larger log building housed a restaurant, and fish boils and a choo choo train for children were also available. The 1954 brochure advertised Woodland Village as the “coolest, most beautiful spot in Wisconsin’s air-conditioned playground.”

graduated from the University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire with a business degree before working for a company that managed several Country Inn & Suites hotels. Matt started at The Alpine and The Orchards and is now the golf course superintendent at Peninsula State Park, as well as the head golf coach at Gibraltar High School. (He’s also great with repairs and landscaping, Angie notes.)

The fish boil and train are long gone, and the cottages were demolished in the 1970s, but the location of that “most beautiful spot” is what attracted the most recent owners, Matt and Angie Meacham, who purchased Somerset in 2013. Attractive tan buildings mark the spacious grounds with white fences and lots of trees and flowers scattering the property.

“Location, location, location is what sold us on Somerset Inn & Suites,” Angie says. “We knew that over the years we could change and update the property, but this location can’t be duplicated. We love the fact that the woodland setting is within walking distance of shopping, recreation and food and just a short drive to beaches and Peninsula State Park.”

Both Matt and Angie are Door County natives who grew up working in the hospitality/tourism business. At 14, Angie was a housekeeper at Bay Shore Inn, and they have waitressed, bartended and worked retail. Angie

Somerset now includes 20 traditional hotel rooms, 14 suites with fireplaces and four suites with fireplaces and hot tubs, including a luxury suite with such added amenities as a bottle of Door County wine, a basket of specialty hors d’oeuvres, his- and-her bathrobes and

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therapeutic bath salts. There’s an indoor pool and hot tub, an outdoor heated pool and sundeck, gas grills, picnic areas and a playground.

The couple is continuing to update the rooms with new paint, flooring,

bedding, plumbing fixtures and other fresh touches. There’s a new wi-fi system, TVs with internet for streaming, more outlets with USB ports and new family games. “We want to freshen the property, but still keep the country-cozy feel,” Angie says.

The inn has the perfect layout for bus tour groups and has hosted a number of them. They will also reserve blocks of rooms for weddings. Angie and Matt are proud of the fact that many long-ago guests from the original cottages are still staying with them.

A two-night Season of Blossoms Package, available during May and early June, includes wine, a cheese-and-cracker basket, a one-day pass to Peninsula State Park and a $25 Door County gift certificate. The two-night Sweethearts Package also includes wine and a gift

Above: A copy of the Woodland Motel brochure. The motel was a precursor to Somerset Inn & Suites.

Left and right: Owners Matt and Angie Meacham are continuing to update the inn with fresh décor and amenities. Photos by Len Villano.

certificate, and a couples’ massage at the Spa at Sacred Grounds can be added. The two-day autumn package, So Delicious, So Door County, includes a park pass, a bottle of Island Orchard Cider, a picnic basket and a gift certificate.

A free Door County Coffee and Tea bar is always available. There is free parking for guests, children below the age of five are free if no additional bed is required and designated pet-friendly rooms are available. The inn is a non-smoking facility. It is open May 1 to October 31.

“We both have been blessed with the opportunity to work at some premier properties in Door County and in other parts of the country,” Angie says. “We have learned from the best and invite guests to experience the personalized care and red-carpet service that a family-owned-and-operated hotel offers.

Our goal is to provide a room that is clean and comfortable at a valueconscious price.”

Somerset Inn & Suites 10401 North Water Street, PO Box 555 Ephraim, Wisconsin 54211 (920) 854-1819 or (800) 809-1819 somersetinndc.com somersetinn@dcwis.com

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 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

Relax & Refresh

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-Nonsmoking 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

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NAMES by Jim Lundstrom

How Jacksonport Got Its Name The Town of Jacksonport might just as easily have been known as Harrisport or Reynoldsport, according to the venerable Door County historian Hjalmar R. Holand.

In his 1917 account History of Door County, Wisconsin: The County Beautiful, Holand writes that in 1867 three men — Colonel C.L. Harris, John Reynolds and Andrew B. Jackson — set their sights on exploiting the natural resources of the “nameless lakeside forest” that eventually became Jacksonport by purchasing 2,000 acres for a lumber operation.

Col. Harris had been commander of the 11th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. Reynolds was a native of Ireland who had moved to Madison, where he became a “real estate operator.” The rest

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of his family from Ireland joined him in Madison, including brother Thomas, who would eventually work for his brother as a teamster in Jacksonport before buying his own plot of land, marrying another Irish transplant and having 10 children, one of whom, John, went on to become Wisconsin’s attorney general (1927 – 1933). His son, John Reynolds Jr., served as state attorney general (1959 – 1963) and then as the state’s 36th governor (1963 – 1965). In October 1965, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Reynolds to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and he served as chief judge from 1971 until 1986. In 1976 he ordered the

desegregation of Milwaukee’s public schools.

Jackson was born in the east but moved to the Wisconsin territory as a young man and represented Racine County in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1846. In 1861 he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as register of the U.S. government land office in Menasha.

The conversations that led the men to name their venture Jacksonport Lumbering Co. is lost to history, as is how that business name came to be the name for the town once it was formally established in 1869 (making it the last municipality organized in the county).

Interestingly, Jackson was the first of the group to exit the business. He pulled up stakes and relocated to Evanston, Illinois, in 1869.

Just a few years later, in 1872, the original principals were heavily in debt and the U.S. District Court sold their property. The buyer was Reynolds’ brother, Charles, who became a successful merchant in the growing community, served as postmaster for 20 years, and was sent to the state Legislature twice, in 1892 and 1894.

“The first white men came here for the cordwood and they stayed for the sake of the clover and corn,” Holand writes in his Door County history.

As the accompanying photographs illustrate, Jacksonport and West Jacksonport were once bustling agricultural communities. By 1885 there were 862 people living in Jacksonport, and five years later the original businesses of lumber and fishing had mostly been replaced by agriculture.

It wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century that Jacksonport started attracting summer vacationers. The first motor stage brought vacationers to the community in 1911. And the rest is history.

Opposite: The old dock at Jacksonport. Photos courtesy of the Jacksonport Historical Society. Above: Cordwood piled up back when Jacksonport was still a lumber town. Middle: A street scene in West Jacksonport, circa 1908.

Below: Workers clear land for what would become Highway 78 through Jacksonport. In 1930 the road’s name was changed to Highway 57.

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