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Tucked away in Baileys Harbor is a sanctuary for those seeking enlightenment and relaxation. Björklunden, Lawrence University’s northern campus, hosts world-renowned speakers every summer and fall. Make this the year you experience the Björklunden Seminar Series—and deepen your sense of wonder. Partial list of 2016 seminars Is it Warm in Here? The Intractable Policy Challenges of Climate Change David Gerard, associate professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Lawrence University What Next for Israel in the New Middle East? Jon Greenwald, taught diplomacy and foreign affairs as the Scarff Professor at Lawrence, 1998–99, and has given multiple Björklunden seminars on the Middle East Villains of the Opera: Why Are the Bad Guys (and Gals) So Good? Dale Duesing ‘67, is recognized as one of the leading baritones on the international music scene. He received a Grammy Award in 1993 for his recording of Samuel Barber’s The Lovers with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Twenty Years with a Pulse 50
by Alyssa Skiba
by Jim Lundstrom
Starting with Dolls and Paris 22
Journey of a Lifetime 68
Art Auction 29
by Patty Williamson, PhD
LITERATURE 30 No Holds Bard
The great migration of the monarch butterfly by Jackson Parr
by Gary Jones
MUSIC 32 pat mAcdonald: Troubadour of Stomp by Alyssa Skiba
CAMEO 40 A Tip-Top Team by Jim Lundstrom
DOOR TO NATURE 46 Wildflowers of the Wetlands by Roy Lukes
HISTORY 82 Unearthing Artifacts by Patty Williamson, PhD
OUTDOOR 88 The Machine that Didn’t Change the World by Jackson Parr
TOPSIDE 92 Wooden Watercraft by Katie Lott
FAIRWAYS 99 Putt for Dough by Matt Stottern
ON YOUR PLATE Knee High by the Fourth of July 100 by Jess Farley
Summer Sweetness 106 by Katie Lott
IN YOUR GLASS 104 Cold Brew for Hot Days by Jackson Parr
FEATURED ACCOMMODATION 116 Julie’s Park Café and Motel by Patty Williamson, PhD
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DOOR LENS 128 photography by Len Villano
EDITOR’S NOTE 11 cover A majestic monarch butterfly. Photo by Len Villano. above Tom McKenzie prepares to deliver an early issue of the Peninsula Pulse.
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A Finger on the Pulse As a longtime toiler in the inky fields of newspapering
— almost my entire adult life — I’ve watched a corporation gobble up a once bright and shining example of a daily newspaper and spit it out in shreds. I’ve seen the aforementioned corporation swallow as many newspapers as it could and turn them into belt-tightening, bottom-line operations that are ghosts of their former selves, led by people who believe TV-like news is something to aspire to for today’s readers with short attention spans. I’ve seen good family newspapers consumed by newspaper corporations that seemed more concerned about satisfying shareholders with returns than doing good old-fashioned newspapering. I’ve seen publications I once read or worked for fold. The Honolulu Advertiser is the first that comes to mind. I’ve seen, for years now, headlines proclaim the death of newspapers in this digital age.
Yet in our not-too-distant past, a mark of progress and civility in any new territory was the appearance of a newspaper. The best of them served not only as information providers, but as advocates for the community they represented, and they did that without conducting reader forums and surveys and market studies because they were part of the community. A reader’s forum is the mark of a newspaper that has lost its way in its own community. So, to see a newspaper steeped in its community these days is something to behold. That is why I was so happy to be hired as editor of the Peninsula Pulse back in April of 2013. That it should come with a glossy magazine, this very Door County Living, was a big bonus. When we decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pulse in this largest issue of Door County Living, I was happy to tell the story of two liberal arts grads who turned their love for Door County into a newspaper the summer of 1996 — the fortuitous summer of Hale-Bopp, a comet that lingered for 18 months in our skies and first became
visible to the naked eye in May 1996, just as the Peninsula Pulse first became visible to the people of Door County with the first issue on May 24, 1996. Because of the scope of this story, we are breaking it into three distinct parts that will run in the remaining issues of the 2016 Door County Living. This first chapter of the Peninsula Pulse story comes with a sidebar on the colorful newspaper history of Door County. We hope you enjoy this look at our sister publication’s 20th anniversary, as well as the wide range of other stories that grace these pages. Have a great summer! Catch you in the fall!
Jim Lundstrom Editor
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The essence of Door County in an historic setting 2016 Gallery Night Receptions and Exhibits ~ Thursday July 7 ~ Exhibit II: “A Walk in the Woods” featuring Sue Seeger, Dennis Salaty, Mark Motquin, Lynn Schoenecker and Albert Stark reception 4:30-7pm music by Geroge Sawyn and Lori Wier 5-7pm
~ Sunday August 21 ~ Exhibit III: “Unexpected Pairings” featuring Tom Maakstad, Dale Vanden Houten, Cynthia Linnabary, Tom Jenz reception 4:30-7pm, music by George Sawyn 5-7pm
~ Wednesday August 10 ~ Inspired by Nature artists workshop in collaboration with The Ridges Sanctuary, see website for details
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Food and cooking are JESS FARLEY’s creative outlets. Labeling herself a hobby chef, she has the opportunity to share her passion by contributing to On Your Plate, the foodie column published in Door County Living. This experience allows Jess a creative outlet while developing recipes and learning more and more about food. It’s family, natural beauty and Lake Michigan that keeps Jess in Door County. Her personal mantra: “Smile often and enjoy every moment because not a minute of this beautiful life should be wasted.” 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.
A stranger to satisfaction, RYAN MILLER is a starving artist and prefers it as such, excessively exploring… exercising his imagination to keep creatively fit. JACKSON PARR believes nowhere in the world but Door County has a more dynamic year and that’s why he plans to stick around for a while. The cabin fever winters give way to the festival-filled summers, ensuring the party never truly ends. Arts and Entertainment Editor alYssa skiBa has one thing to thank for turning her life upside down in 2014: the vibrant and eclectic publication that is the Peninsula Pulse. MATT STOTTERN is a PGA Director of Instruction.
KATIE LOTT lives in the fashionable West side of Sturgeon Bay with her two daughters. She recently joined the legions of Door County entrepreneurs by starting her own PR agency, Lott Communications. This summer she aims to visit as many #DCBeaches as possible.
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.
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.
PATTY WILLIAMSON and her husband discovered Door County in 1990 and have been part-time residents on Kangaroo Lake since 1992. After a 27-year career in public relations, she enjoys reading, writing, keeping in touch with their two children, nine grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren and volunteering at Zion United Methodist Church, Northern Sky Theater and Door Shakespeare.
JIM LUNDSTROM hoards quarters for his visits to the laundromat.
(Top to bottom) Jess Farley. Gary Jones. Katie Lott. Roy Lukes. Jim Lundstrom. Ryan Miller. Jackson Parr. Alyssa Skiba. Matt Stottern. Len Villano. Patty Williamson. Summer 2016 13
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he interaction of humans and technology has always been an interest of artists Dave Tilton and Paula Oeler. It has been a common thread in their work for the past 25 years, from their early years in information design to their current role as digital artists. In the ‘90s, they used evolving technology to communicate information in their digital design careers. Today, the husband and wife use it to turn sounds into landscapes, celebrating the “essence of land, water and sky” through artistic collaborations in their Sister Bay studio, Carta StudioWorks. These collaborations, under the mark Tilton + Oeler, represent Dave and Paula’s shared history and love of cartography, information design, geography, photography, sound
(Left) “Blue Evening Timbre” (36” x 45”) by Dave Tilton. (Above) Artists Dave Tilton and Paula Oeler. Photo by Len Villano. Summer 2016 15
synthesis, and the interaction of humans and technology.
that are both representational and abstract.
Distinct elements of each individual can be found in every piece. The couple likens the combination of their styles (Paula’s love of shape, contrast and movement, and Dave’s ambient landscapes) to “adding voice and lyric to instrumental composition.” The result is complex and painterly works
“What it’s about for me is wanting to help people see the beauty in the landscape that I see, but the creativity is, what’s the new way to show that? What’s the next thing?” Paula said.
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For 15 years, the couple has worked on fine-tuning their intuitive and highly
technical artistic process to create textural landscapes that suggest mood, atmosphere and mystery. That process involved modeling a set of techniques on the creation and synthesis of sound that would result in visual images in a digital environment. The impetus for using sound to create visual art came in the late ‘80s and early
ART ‘90s during their academic research in information design at the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, where the couple met. Working with complex data sets, the couple explored the role of sound in representing data in graphics. “Imagine you wanted to have a whole bunch of variables like income and population density and at a certain point, you can’t show that visually but we thought if you increased the
loudness of the sound as your mouse went over a certain area, you could say that represents higher population densities,” Dave said. While the couple worked with sound in information design, Dave discovered a new creative outlet in sound synthesis. He bought a synthesizer and steeped himself in sampling (taking a sample of one sound recording and reusing it elsewhere), waveform modulation
(Left) “Walk This Way” (16” x 13”) and (below) “Drifting Along Blues” (30” x 48.5”) by Dave Tilton and Paula Oeler.
“We feel that’s something necessary for abstracted pieces — that there are things giving you something all the time as you look deeper and deeper into the image.” — Dave Tilton
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(varying the tone) and composition, and discovered what would eventually become the basis of his and Paula’s art. After retiring in 1999, the couple spent a year traveling the country on HarleyDavidsons before moving to Onalaska, Wisconsin, along the Mississippi River. Dave picked up a camera again and realized that, unlike his first foray into photography in the ‘70s, photographs alone weren’t satisfying what he really wanted to create. “The original inspiration was going back to image and thinking, I want to be able to reconstruct memories, and not just a memory of a place but all of the richness that experience brings to something that the eye doesn’t necessarily capture,” Dave said. Cue his experience working in sound synthesis. “The basic model for how you create sound through synthesis is something that could work if you had the right technologies for creating visual pieces,” he explained.
Those technologies were just beginning to emerge: computers, printers and digital cameras with “enough megapixels to make it worthwhile.” For four years, they developed a model that essentially reimagined the way standard tools of digital photography were used: sounds were replaced by pixels created in Photoshop or acquired by sampling light with a digital camera; Photoshop became a synthesizer and sequencer; and an inkjet printer was the recorder.
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Components of electronic music would inspire the color and texture within their digital landscapes. While watching a sunrise years ago, Dave made a connection between events in nature and sound events. Drawing on a component of electronic music called envelope — how a sound changes over time — Dave began thinking about how nature mimicked resonance and reverb. “Resonance and reverb actually occur, from an electronic music sense, when the event stops, when the bow comes off the string,” Dave said. “The resonance Summer 2016 19
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Those concepts became the way color and light were carried through the landscapes. When inspiration strikes, Dave creates his own music in GarageBand to invoke the mood he hopes to create in his piece. Occasionally, music from popular bands like The Kinks and Aerosmith will inspire a piece, as was the case for their pieces, “Dedicated Followers of Fashion” and “Walk This Way.” The structures found in their images — of trees and shorelines — are sometimes inspired by forms found in Paula’s photographs but are more often created by Dave. The textures of those forms are created in Photoshop and are especially intricate to reward viewers for looking close. “We feel that’s something necessary for abstracted pieces — that there are things giving you something all the time as you look deeper and deeper into the image,” Dave said. While elegance, beauty and curiosity of the landscape are driving forces behind Tilton + Oeler artwork, their ultimate goal is accessibility. “Technology has always been interesting to me and especially if you can retrieve it from the hands of technologists,” Dave said. “Technology is a human creation, it is about making it something accessible for humans. “What is more human than creating visual art?” he added. “All the way back to the caves, it is a huge motivator and what if we could make technology create this kind of stuff? It is the human component of this that is really important to us and creating something that’s beautiful, inspiring — these are all things you hope as an artist if you’re doing something that generates those feelings in somebody who is looking at it.”
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Starting with Dolls and Paris Beth Peterson’s career in fashion design
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Growing up in Ephraim in the 1970s, it never occurred to the three little Peterson girls that every family wasn’t just like theirs. Deeply immersed in art and music, they were taught to constantly observe what was going on around them. If they were driving through a city, for example, they’d often stop and discuss the design of a building. Their mom, Susan, wrote poetry, and in the evening their dad would bring in the painting he’d finished that day and prop it against the fireplace so the family could discuss it during dinner and sometimes make suggestions for changes. (Yes, he’s that Peterson — Charles “Chick” Peterson — and occasionally he did make changes based on his family’s input.)
At 17, just after graduating from Gibraltar High School, she went to work as a seamstress for Alicia Wilson [Mulliken], a clothing designer in Ephraim who taught her patternmaking and tailoring techniques. Four years later, Beth was off to Paris for intensive study in the field.
Beth’s interest in clothing design was evident from an early age, when she was the only one of the sisters interested in making doll clothes. In high school, she wore the “most unusual clothes” that were neither fashionable nor trendy, but were often selected from a refrigeratorsize box of Victorian dresses, hats and shoes given to her father by a former colleague who was retiring as head of the theater department at Marietta College in Ohio. (The shoes, unfortunately, were mostly size two — too small for teenage feet in the modern era.)
“His designs were very unusual 30 years ago,” Beth says. “I learned from him that it was possible to create things for the body that are not fashionable or trendy.”
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“There are times I still think, ‘Did I really do that?’” she says. “Going to Paris alone at that age, not speaking a word of the language.” The time there, of course, solidified her commitment to her career and provided invaluable training. She was also introduced to the work of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, who remains one of her primary inspirations.
When her study in Paris ended, she returned to Ephraim to work with Wilson for a few more years. She would take a temporary hiatus from fashion design to focus on her family and what would become a 12-year dedication to streamlining the India adoption process. After marriage at 26 and the birth of her first son, Nicholas, in 1988, Beth and
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her husband began talking seriously about international adoption, something they’d always been interested in. In 1994, when second son, Alexander, was three, Beth spent six weeks in India waiting to finalize the adoption of twoyear-old Ellie.
Barker Foundation in Washington, D.C. She went to India twice a year to work with the government, adoption agencies and orphanages, and during this time she added second daughter Maia to their family.
“I was naïve,” she reflects now. “I was sure I could develop a more efficient plan.”
“I loved this work so much,” she says, “and I still miss it badly. But I had to stop. It was just too emotionally draining.”
And she did, establishing India Adoption and Assistance, an agency that operated for 12 years as part of The
After taking a year to train an assistant to take over her position, Beth returned in 2012 to the career that was her first
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love. She now works from her home in Sturgeon Bay, creating unique clothing designs for women, primarily for sale in two shops — Breathe Clothing and Breathe-Again on Etsy.com, advertised as “the world’s most vibrant handmade marketplace.” Breathe Clothing, Beth says on its website, “expresses [a] mood or attitude…eclectic or structured, tattered or architectural, light, dark or even whimsical.” The pieces are not mass-produced but individually made with quality linens and other
natural materials by Beth and her “two wonderful seamstresses, Elizabeth and Jill.” As Beth notes on the site, “The garments are meant to look as if you’d found your grandparents’ steamer trunk and revived the rumpled linen clothing, back to life.” The Breathe collection includes separates of all kinds, dresses and accessories. The Breathe-Again shop, described as “art for the body,” is especially dear to Beth’s heart, as it
involves recycled garments for which she creates one-of-a-kind patterns. For example, a customer in Australia sent her a camisole that Beth combined with bits of an old wedding gown to create a new blouse and skirt. The customer was delighted. “I love to imagine how something might look and create a pattern for it,” Beth says. “I might take a cashmere sweater, drape it on a dress form and imagine how it could become part of something else. It’s fun to go into my room when I’m working because it looks like a Summer 2016 25
ART tornado with pieces everywhere. I’ve learned how to make patterns to match my vision of how something would hang on the human body.” One of her favorite quotes is from former top fashion model Lauren Hutton: “Fashion is what you’re offered 3/8” DRILLED HOLES AS SHOWN (IN PINK)
four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.”
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Breathe designs have been sold locally at What Next? in Fish Creek and Kim’s Boutique in Egg Harbor. To see Beth Peterson’s fashion designs, visit Etsy. com/shop/BreatheAgainClothing or Etsy.com/shop/BreatheAgainDesign.
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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. Egg Harbor artist and gallery owner Ginnie Cappaert created this year’s painting, “Summer Field,” a subtle and serene oil and cold wax piece paying homage to the very best Door County has to offer.
The painting (30” x 30” on wood panel) will be on display during the summer of 2016 and will be auctioned to raise funds for the local charity of the winning bidder’s choice. The minimum bid is $2,000. Please contact the Door County Living office at (920) 839-2120 for current viewing information. All bid submissions (minimum bid: $2,000) should be mailed by September 16, 2016 to: “Summer Field” Bid c/o Door County Living PO Box 695 Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin 54202
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LITERATURE by Gary Jones
No Holds Bard The global and local celebrations honoring Shakespeare’s death
Four hundred years ago William Shakespeare went to meet his maker, but he left behind a body of work that is still alive and well. When most of us hear the words “To be or not to be, that is the question” or “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks” or “Double, double, toil and trouble,” we immediately can identify the Shakespearean play in which the lines are spoken. University of Wisconsin — Madison Libraries, UW — Madison Arts Institute, and the Chazen Museum of Art, along with partners across the state, will join the worldwide celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy through the project Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016. Performances, lectures, K – 12 educational opportunities, and other events will demonstrate ways in which the bard still influences the world, including the lives of those in Wisconsin. One of those partners is Door Shakespeare, the local theater that is unique in the state for primarily 30
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producing the plays of Shakespeare. Since 1995 audiences have been enjoying classic theater in the gardens of Björklunden near Baileys Harbor. “Shakespeare outside is a gift,” said Amy Ludwigsen, executive director of Door Shakespeare. “Theater in the open air, as the plays were presented originally, requires the audience to listen to the text and focus on the story.” Because the audience is seated closely on three sides of the performance space, they enjoy a sense of immediacy. “I like the vibe that you feel,” Ludwigsen continued. “The play begins in daylight” and as the evening descends “it becomes participatory and fun.” A centerpiece of this year’s celebration of Shakespeare’s legacy is a national touring exhibition of Folger Shakespeare Library’s First Folio, with destinations throughout the United States. This November the exhibition will open at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison.
As part of the tour, the library has assembled extensive instructional resources available to teachers and families. Door Shakespeare will be taking advantage of them during this summer’s productions of Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Will-In-the-Woods Educational Series will be presented before selected performances twice each week in the recently restored walled Shakespeare Garden adjacent to the performance space. Using materials provided by the Folger Library, Ludwigsen, actors, and a retired educator will offer free interactive, informal discussions that are appropriate for all ages. Doorways, the Door Shakespeare summer theater workshop series for children, has become a fixture in the community; its focus, however, now has evolved from theater games and improvisational experiences “to a program that is itself a tribute to Shakespeare,” Ludwigsen said, as
First Folio After Shakespeare’s death two actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, assembled and published the playwright’s work in 1623. The First Folio provided the only source for 18 of the plays, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and As You Like It. The Folger Shakespeare Library acquired this First Folio in 1897 as a part of the Warwick Castle Library. Now the Folger collection holds 82 copies of the First Folio, one-third of those that still survive.
2016 Season Door Shakespeare’s productions this summer have special significance for those of us of a certain age. Many of us were introduced to Shakespeare in high school through studying Julius Caesar. And longtime theatergoers in Door County may recall that A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the very first show produced by Door Shakespeare. (Far left) Grayson Heyl as Miranda and Andrew Carlyle as Ferdinand in Door Shakespeare’s 2015 production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. (Center) Jonathan Wainwright in Door Shakespeare’s 2015 production of Romeo and Juliet. (Left and right) The ensemble of Door Shakespeare’s production of Romeo and Juliet in 2015, directed by Leda Hoffmann. Photos by Bruce Ambuel.
participants “explore the words of Shakespeare,” culminating their studies with performances of “green shows” for audiences. Door Shakespeare’s participation in Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016 will take the troop beyond the boundaries of the Björklunden gardens. Ludwigsen belongs to the Shakespeare Theater Association (STA), a network of member companies from around the globe who are primarily the producers of Shakespeare’s plays. Because of her connection with this group, Door Shakespeare’s Facebook page will announce upcoming activities and links to live-streamed events. One of the more imaginative observances planned, Ludwigsen said, is a live broadcast in which Shakespearean dialogue will be spoken to and from astronauts aboard the International Space Station in English, Japanese and Russian. While the event
has been approved, an actual date has yet to be confirmed. Less spectacularly but perhaps of even more significance, plans exist “to bring Shakespeare to marginalized communities, including Shakespeare Behind Bars in prisons” and to culturally and economically under-served areas, she added. Shakespeare can be “a tool for social justice,” she explained, because of the universal themes that appear in his plays, such as the challenge faced by veterans returning from war. In addition to incorporating Folger educational materials into the WillIn-the-Woods programs, Ludwigsen plans to use them for outreach to local schools, an extension of work the theater has done in the past. “This is an exciting year,” said Ludwigsen, not only because of the events planned to celebrate the 400year legacy of Shakespeare, but for
the 2016 season at Björklunden. After the transition period during which Ludwigsen became executive director, the theater has made impressive changes, including the introduction of a fixed set piece, a cast of diverse young talent, and the addition of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater mainstays Joseph Hanreddy and James Pickering. “The shows are going to be exciting and fun,” she added, “a way for everyone to tune in and realize how relevant Shakespeare still is.” To learn more about Shakespeare in Wisconsin 2016, visit library.wisc.edu/ shakespeare2016/home/about; to learn more about Door Shakespeare’s role in the program, visit doorshakespeare.com.
Door Shakespeare’s season runs June 29 to August 20. For information or to order tickets, visit their website or call (920) 839-1500.
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by Alyssa Skiba MUSIC
pat mAcdonald: TroubAdour of Stomp Editor’s note: One of the perks of being a rock star is having a say in how you are addressed. Prince did it in the ‘90s, even taking it a step further by foregoing a name in favor of a symbol. In this article, you’ll learn about one such rock star. After countless misspellings of his moniker as McDonald in newspapers and magazines across the country, Pat MacDonald did what he is best known for in these parts — he forewent all formal rule and took matters into his own hands. Throwing grammatical correctness to the wayside, he reinvented his name in a way that ensured that small but not insignificant letter didn’t get missed. So yes, pat mAcdonald is correct. Three weeks out of the year, Sturgeon Bay’s Holiday Music Motel takes on a life of its own, pulsating with the irrepressible creative energy of musicians who have traveled from near and far to take in the atmosphere of original collaboration. Central to the organized chaos of musicians spinning bottles, writing tunes and laying down tracks in one of the motel’s recording studios is pat mAcdonald — Door County’s troubadour of stomp, rebel with a cause, Steel Bridge Songfest creator and cofounder of the motel where the musical magic happens. His is a story that has made its way into glossies and onto television screens across the country — the story of a Green Bay boy who made it big as part of the 1980s’ post-punk duo Timbuk3. A master of clever verse who has favored guitar strings and bar gigs to a standard 9-to-5, who counts Jackson Browne among his closest friends, and who has turned down collective millions from companies wanting to use Timbuk3’s only mainstream hit, “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades,” in advertising campaigns. Photo: Len Villano
Though he has 14 studio albums, a Grammy nomination, Billboard Top 20 hit and collaborations with some of the country’s biggest musicians (Cher, Stewart Copeland and Peter Frampton among them) on his resumé, pat mAcdonald considers the past decade of his 40-year musical career to be the most important. Perhaps it’s because the vibrant music scene he has singlehandedly inspired since landing here in 2004 is paying dividends in collaboration and creativity that are worth far more to pat than any royalty check. “I feel I’m a part of all these collaborations and I feel like it’s a calling I didn’t really aspire to,” pat says. “It was something that was motivated more by living in a place and seeing a need and knowing that I’m committed to being here and knowing that I wouldn’t want to be here if that need wasn’t at least addressed or fulfilled.” The Holiday Music Motel and the creative songwriting festivals that happen there are a symbol of a long and winding musical journey that has steeped pat in the deepest realms of songwriting, collaboration and a “less is more” approach to music.
MAKING CONNECTIONS He outlines his entry into music in chapters: a childhood inspired by his parents’ harmony singing and rockabilly records, a teenaged foray into songwriting inspired by Bob Dylan and political folk-rock poets The Fugs, and a move to Madison where he eked out a living playing solo and band gigs. “When I was 19, it seemed to start a series of projects that lasted awhile, more or less, but all that time I was really feeling that I wanted to be a songwriter,” pat says. “Playing in bands was how I made my living but I was really kind of aspiring to be a songwriter to where I could just write songs and I wouldn’t necessarily have to perform.”
So he did what any aspiring songwriter with nothing to lose would do: put together a demo of mostly country originals and made his way to Nashville, where, in exchange for room and board, he hosted writers’ nights at a coffeehouse and was immersed in a subculture of young songwriters who, for the most part, “weren’t writing the kind of music that was going to get recorded by anybody.” “That writers’ night was actually a real life-changing experience because I met a lot of songwriters and I got to be exposed to a lot of people playing night after night after night, and I got to play, myself, night after night after night,” pat recalls. “I was busy developing my own kind of music at the time and not really trying very hard to write country songs or get them published. I just was in this other realm there, as were a lot of other writers there.” In 1975, with a wealth of experience gleaned from a “very charmed existence” in Nashville, pat made his way to his parents’ new home and business, Fish Creek’s Bayside Tavern. While pat was “the only kid who never worked there,” he remembers hooking his amp up through a sound system wired for records and the ensuing disappointment of one of his first Door County gigs. “There was no connection with the audience there,” pat recalls. “People weren’t interested in music there that much. It was loud, really loud there and they wouldn’t shut up.” While disappointing, the performance sharpened his resolve to seek out venues where he didn’t have to fight for attention or pander to a crowd. By the end of the summer of 1976, he made his way back to Madison to continue a solo and band career, dabbled in the Chicago folk scene, and got opening gigs for some of his heroes at the time, including jazz blues musician Mose Allison and fingerstyle guitarist John Fahey. But his big break would come in 1984 alongside his then-wife, Barbara Summer 2016 33
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FROM THE STREETS TO THE GRAMMYS The concept of the band was simple yet innovative: eliminate the need for additional musicians with a mobile rhythm section consisting of homemade drum and bass tracks played on a boom box. The rewards were immediate. “We actually went out to New York and played for about a week. We set up in Greenwich Village and played with this boom box and we got invited to play CBGB’s open mic,” pat recalls. “…We got to go directly from the street to the legendary CBGB. That was a turning point.” They trucked their boom box down to Austin, Texas in 1984 (where, despite the whole mobile concept, they only played on the street once) and within nine months, were discovered by a film crew shooting footage for I.R.S. Records’ monthly MTV music program, “The Cutting Edge.” “Their first on-the-road ‘Cutting Edge’ episode was Austin — they were interested in the Austin music scene,” pat recalls. “We were on that show, our little duo with a boom box and they told us we got the most response around the country for our performance on the show.” “That was a catapult to sudden credibility,” he adds. “We were suddenly of interest to people whereas before we had just recently celebrated our first $500 night at the Pig & Whistle in Fort Worth. They signed us and we commenced to making our first record for them.” Greetings from Timbuk3 opened with the band’s signature tune, “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades,” which would also become the basis for their first music video, Grammy nomination for best new artist, and MTV Video Music Awards nomination for best new artist in a video.
While they never followed up the hit, Timbuk3 did make five more studio albums for I.R.S. Records before the band, and marriage, broke up. In many ways, the end of Timbuk3 marked a rebirth for pat. No longer constrained by the expectations of a record label and the mainstream, he was able to further develop his signature style of edgy, falsetto vocals and low, lush guitar, turning out a number of solo albums in the process.
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His first, Pat MacDonald Sleeps With His Guitar, would be his only U.S. release in 10 years and would solidify his reputation and connection to the fans who stuck around after Timbuk3 parted ways. One of those fans was Greg Welsh, a Seattle-based graphic designer who now donates his time and talents to designing the Steel Bridge Songfest album covers. “What initially blew me away about Sleeps With His Guitar was how pat did so much musically with so little,” Welsh says. “Simple chord structures and simple arrangements. And yet it sounded so powerful, so full, and so subtly beautiful; nothing felt missing. Then after a few back-to-back listenings, I started paying more attention to the words. Genius. Personal, profound even and yet never taking himself too seriously.”
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It would be years before U.S. fans would have easy access to pat’s music. By 1999, he had moved into the Barcelona apartment of his good friend, Jackson Browne, where he released three albums on the German label Ulftone: Begging Her Graces, Degrees Of Gone and a cover album of Depeche Mode originals, Strange Love: PM Does DM.
‘THIS WHOLE BRIDGE THING’ Everything he did in his solo career at home and abroad has come full circle in his life in Sturgeon Bay, where he has lived since 2004 and given his time to showing the community that art and music aren’t just about beauty. In the beginning, that was through searing, critical verse aimed at those who wanted the historic Michigan Street Bridge replaced rather than rehabbed. “Anybody with half a brain could see how stupid it was to tear it down,” pat says. “If you allow yourself to think
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about that, you can become obsessed with it because here I am in this place and there’s these people who are so stupid they want to tear that thing down and they don’t have a good reason and they don’t have any sense of aesthetics or appreciation for things that are special.” “What made it something that was kind of a must-do thing was the fact that there was so much emotion invested,” he adds. “It aroused so many feelings of anger and frustration, this whole bridge thing, and at the same time, from day one of being involved, I also saw that bridge as a really strong symbol for something really good. The idea of sides coming together, the idea of a bridge being a bridge, becoming a bridge in your life and as a symbol of collaboration. Being fired up on one end and being inspired poetically on the other. It was kind of like it became inevitable that this was something that would take a lot of me, take a lot of my energy.” And it has. What began as a free concert with songs about the bridge by pat’s friend, Jackson Browne, has quickly become Door County’s largest music festival. It lit a fire under the city’s creative community and inspired pat to gather friends to invest in another forgotten gem of Sturgeon Bay: the Holiday Motel on 1st Ave. The now-Holiday Music Motel serves as the headquarters for dozens of invited musicians who descend upon Sturgeon Bay to collaborate, write and record original songs not only for Steel Bridge Songfest, but for its other annual songwriting festivals: February’s Love on Holiday and October’s Dark Songs. Though it sounds like chaos masked as art, Sturgeon Bay artist and business owner Jeremy Popelka says these festivals have given Sturgeon Bay an identity it never had before, and it’s all thanks to pat and his life and musical partner, melaniejane (who moved to Door County after a life-altering week at Steel Bridge Songfest in 2007).
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“It’s exposed Sturgeon Bay to a lot of people that otherwise would not have come up here,” Popelka says. “It doesn’t take much to light a fire with some of the local people but also with the tourists that come here to check out the eccentric, eclectic things that are happening. The city really needs that kind of spark to make it a destination so the fact that those guys dedicated themselves to preserving an icon here, the Holiday Motel, and repurposing it as a place to write, at this point, over a thousand songs has been an amazing, creative jolt to our town.”
A SONGWRITER’S DREAM FULFILLED In 2015, on the 10th anniversary of Steel Bridge Songfest, pat’s dedication to Sturgeon Bay was not only honored with the official proclamation of June 13, 2015 as Steel Bridge Songfest Day in the city, but with a tribute album created by 38 Steel Bridge Songfest artists under the direction of pat’s friends Joe Kaftan, Steve Hamilton, Adam Mackintosh, Jimm McIver and melaniejane. Kaftan’s goal with the project was as simple and profound as the lyrics that drew him to pat’s music in the late ‘90s,
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MUSIC to share the musical genius of a man who has put his soul into every musical project he’s done. “I felt like we have an American treasure amongst us,” Kaftan says. “pat’s a human being, he’s just another person but he also happens to have written a couple of hundred amazing songs and a few dozen masterpieces and I felt that not many people were aware of that. Particularly it seemed a shame that most of the songwriters weren’t aware of all of his music and I thought this was a way for them to learn pat’s music and it was also a way for them to honor pat.” The 38-song double album, Begging His Graces: The Songs and Sins of pat mAcdonald, was not only a touching tribute to one of Door County’s most beloved musicians but the true fulfillment for a guy whose biggest dream was to be a songwriter. “It’s something I’ve never had in my life before,” pat says. “All these songs and hearing the way they could sound with somebody else doing it. It’s such a gift to that guy in me that always really wanted to write for other voices and hear other people doing these songs.” And it will continue, as pat and Kaftan have teamed up to create a collection of Begging His Graces albums featuring various musicians whose lives have been changed one songwriting week after another. But the timing was bittersweet. As pat was arranging the song order for Begging His Graces volume two and getting into high gear for Steel Bridge Songfest 2016, he was diagnosed with stage four lymphoma. While it pushed his and melaniejane’s projects to the backburner while they grappled with the diagnosis and lived
in hospital rooms off and on during six rounds of chemo, it also gave pat the chance to reflect on his life and set his sights on what’s to come when he hits his next big goal, that of cancer survivor. “I hope I emerge a wiser person,” pat says. “I think I will. I am already starting to learn those things about life that facing one’s own mortality brings. It’s good. I didn’t know that I’d have to reach that level of growing up this early but it’s not bad timing actually. I think it’s about right.” In the meantime, his projects carry on — Steel Bridge Songfest had a full lineup of musicians this June, Begging His Graces volume two is about ready to be made into an album, and pat is giving his remaining energy to his newest venture, the Tambourine Collaboratory, a year-round social club that extends on the Holiday Music Motel’s mission of spurring collaboration between artists. And in the process, giving voice to the creative energy that he inspired all those years ago, as evidenced by the words of every musician, friend and stranger pat has met. “He’s raised the bar for myself and anybody who’s had an opportunity to come perform at Steel Bridge Songfest or any of the events we have throughout the year,” says musician and Holiday Music Motel investor Bruce Reaves. “I’ve witnessed it over and over and over. pat’s a very nurturing person and he’s somebody who is never going to raise his voice at you but just by being around him and by his actions and listening to his music, he’s raised the bar and made us all so much better.”
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Tucked back from Kentucky Street and hugging an alley between 4th and 5th Avenues in Sturgeon Bay is an unassuming beige building with a row of windows where more often than not you can see May “Momsie” Jutila at work. Her work and what satisfies her most about it is, simply, “Making stuff come out clean.”
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Maybe it’s Momsie’s photographic wall of fame in one corner near the front windows, with pictures of her husband Tim in his role as bowling coach at Sturgeon Bay High School, as well as other family, friends, pets, co-workers, customers and their families.
“When I first started working here in 1979 – 80, I was cleaning at night. Eventually I got into pressing and worked my way into the cleaning,” Momsie said. In 2004, owners Jack and Janet Schultz were ready to retire after owning TipTop for 38 years. “Jack asked me if I wanted to buy this place. I always wanted to buy it because I like doing this kind of work,” Momsie said. With machines that have seen better days, Tip-Top is not the most modern of laundromats. But it is the most inexpensive laundromat in Door County and also the most efficient in terms of
But more importantly, it does not feel like a roomful of impersonal washing equipment. It feels as if a human being is behind this, almost as though you are airing your laundry to someone you know.
Or maybe it’s the homegrown artwork that adorns the laundromat walls, courtesy of her now 20-year-old granddaughter Makayla. “It started when she was in first grade. When I bought the place, she started drawing pictures,” Momsie said, laughing, “and I decided to make it an art museum down here.” Momsie began life as a Washington Island Gunnlaugsson, the fourth girl in a family of five children. “My dad wanted a boy. My uncles all had boys and he had girls,” she said.
Everyone was so convinced that she would be a he that Momsie ended up with a very unique name. “My name is Maynette,” she said. “I was supposed to be Maynard. The doctor was wrong. He lost a quarter to my mother because I didn’t have the little thing. Well, I was a tomboy, so. I’ve been called Mayonette and Little Martina. So we shortened it to May. It’s easier.” Since coming to the mainland at the age of 18, Momsie has worked a variety of jobs. “I worked at the shoe factory, cutting out soles. I worked at Doerr Electric and Emerson’s. Then I worked at the courthouse part-time. I was a bailiff up there. It was very interesting. My dad was on one of the juries, so I got to tell him where to go and what to do.” And while working at the Schultz-owned Tip-Top Laundry, she also cooked at the Neighborhood Pub [where CVS Pharmacy now stands on Egg Harbor Road in Sturgeon Bay]. That’s where she got the nickname Momsie. “The Navy was here down at PBI [Peterson Builders Inc., a Sturgeon Bay shipbuilding company that closed in 1998 after a long history of building
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military vessels]. I cleaned their clothes here and cooked their food at the Pub,” she said. “I did everything but tuck them in at night. They started calling me Momsie and it just kind of stuck. That was back, I don’t remember exactly what year it was. It was fun knowing them people. They were around for a while, more than a year, I believe. They were nice guys. Now I can walk in any place and somebody will call me Momsie. That’s fine with me.” Another sign that Tip-Top is not just another business is the loyalty of longtime employee Pam Kramer, who has worked there twice as long as Momsie has owned it. “Pam’s been here 24 years,” Momsie said. “I started here part-time when my daughter was in first grade and she’s 32 years old now,” Pam said, whose response to what she likes about working here echoes that of her employer.
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there was no money because I had already emptied it out. They ruined it for nothing. I called the police and said if you see the top of a white washer running around, it belongs to Tip-Top Laundry. Otherwise, we’ve got some people who come in and take spray cans in the bathroom or soap left out on the sink. You don’t know.”
“And then they put Shout on dry cleaning stuff and we can’t dry clean that,” Momsie said.
The final major problem in the cleaning business is people who attempt to fix stains themselves.
“They want us to dry clean it and press it now,” Momsie said.
“Now they’ve got that Dryel stuff. They use it and then bring it to us to fix it,” Momsie said, referring to a popular home “dry cleaning” preparation. “That’s probably the No. 1 thing I tell people,” Pam added, “if you’ve got something, just leave it. Don’t do anything. Don’t put water, don’t rub on it.”
“We’ve pretty much seen it all. Nothing surprises us,” Pam said. Which brings up the “No Rush Jobs” posted by the cash register.
“I think they’re used to the bigger cities. We’re a slower pace here,” Pam said. “Yeah,” Momsie said. “It takes a good week, unless it’s an unexpected funeral. I’ll break my back just to get something for a funeral done.”
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Wildflowers My first introduction to a quaking bog occurred 74 years ago. That’s when the boys’ seventh and eighth grade Sunday school teacher took our small group on one of our “after church” hikes to Seidel Lake southwest of Kewaunee.
The very wettest parts of acidic sphagnum bogs are its favored habitats, where they are known to grow by the hundreds on the floating or quaking vegetation at the edges of the landlocked bog ponds and small lakes.
Not only did we see our first Ruffed Grouse there but also the amazing carnivorous Northern Pitcher Plant. The sight of its leaves and the very brief story about them left an indelible impression in my mind. I later spent 27 years working closely with these plants of great renown at The Ridges Sanctuary.
By far the easiest and most comfortable location for getting within inches of pitcher plants, without having to get your feet wet and muddy, is at The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor. There, genuine bog-like conditions exist — home to wild cranberries, Water Horsetail, Round-leaved Sundews and, naturally, Northern Pitcher Plants.
The hollow rain-holding, bronzy reddish-green leaves remain in very good working condition from spring until the snow flies and are among the best attention grabbers I can imagine for those seeing these bog plants for the first time.
Among the 10 pitcher plant species that inhabit the U.S., the Northern Pitcher Plant is the only one that grows in Wisconsin and can tolerate a cold climate. The often rain-filled leaves of this perennial freeze solid in winter, thaw out the following spring, capture
insects and other tiny creatures, thereby providing much-needed nitrogen to the plant, and soon give way to brand new leaves as summer approaches.
A wonderful experience of 49 years ago was brought to mind while reading some handwritten notes in Emma Toft’s copy of Homer D. House’s Wild Flowers book that I had borrowed. Written among her many dated anecdotal records in the book was the following: “Roy Lukes and Carl Scholz took me to Mud Lake in a canoe to see the exquisite white water lilies floating above their beautiful reflection. The fragrance was as wonderful as ever. We portaged the canoe to the creek via Ridges Sanctuary 20 acres. Saw black duck, wood duck, bittern and blue heron all on their home grounds. August 14th, 1967.” The sweet-scented White Water Lily is open from approximately 7:00 am to
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of the Wetlands 1:00 pm, as an example. Upon closing, four long boat-shaped sepals, that are reddish on the outside but white on the inside, completely surround the petals. I remember seeing a time-lapse movie of water lilies opening in slow motion, breathtakingly gorgeous. When you drive on the Kangaroo Lake causeway you may see a few White Water Lilies but the more common one on the north side is the Yellow Water Lily, also called Spatterdock. The rather small water lily family has the name Nymphaeaceae, an impossible word to try to pronounce (nim-fee-A-see-ee). There are only eight genera and 90 species worldwide. There is a small but spectacular family of flowers that perfectly represents the month of June, the iris. Bordering this family on one side is the huge dazzling lily family, and on the other side, not to
be outdone, the attractive and alluring orchid family. One would have to search far and wide to locate a flower more perfectly suited for the bees than the Blue Flag Iris. It is a large showy blue flower, favorite color of bees, has ideal landing platforms, fascinating structure and patterns of nectar guides to follow and a copious quantity of sweet nectar. Iris is the Greek name for the rainbow. The distinctive shape of the iris led it to be called the flower of chivalry, with a sword for a leaf and a lily for its heart. It was the model for the well-known “fleurde-lis,” a device common in artistic design and heraldry. There are more than 200 species of irises in the Northern Hemisphere, most of them native to Asia. The many varieties of bearded irises in cultivation
1 A rare orchid, the Arethusa bulbosa, grows in secluded wetlands. 2 The Four-petaled Fringed Gentian opens only on sunny days. 3 White Water Lilies open in the morning and will close by early afternoon. 4 A Northern Pitcher Plant leaf is full of water waiting for the next insect meal to drop in. 5 Jewelweed flowers are small flashy blooms of wet edges along ponds and streams. 6 Buckbean or Bog Bean flowers are gorgeous in bud and fully opened. 7 Blue Flag Iris grows well in wetlands where cattails thrive. 8 The Spatterdock or Yellow Water Lily is not as showy as the white. 9 Rose Pogonia is also called the Snake’s Mouth Orchid. 10 Northern Pitcher Plant flowers’ deep red petals will drop leaving just the yellow seed case to stand tall until autumn.
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rank high in popularity along with the smaller, more slender beardless Siberian Irises. Gray’s Manual of Botany lists 10 species for central and northeast U.S. including the Yellow Iris, I. pseudoacorus, that was introduced from Europe and has become naturalized here. In the proper environment they can grow six feet tall. By far the most widespread species is the Blue Flag, I. versicolor, also referred to as I. shrevei by some modern botanists. This is the iris of marshes, swamps, wet thickets and shores of ponds and streams. At one time my favorite huge wild garden of these lovely blue irises was also home to thousands of leopard frogs, to give you an idea of the preferred habitat of these stately erect wildflowers. A long time ago several people were studying wild plants of the wetlands with me when we suddenly came upon some smartweeds in blossom. I told my companions the common name but the genus name escaped me momentarily. And wouldn’t you know it, someone had to ask me what it was. As quickly as I said that I didn’t know, one of my friends, Evie, piped up with, “Oh, I think it is Intelligentsia.” To make matters worse, I accepted her answer for about two seconds, until I realized she pulled a fast one on me! No, the genus name was not Intelligentsia but rather Polygonum, pronounced “po-LIG-o-num.” There are so many other wetland flowers that one can see in many of the parks and preserves in Door County or along shorelines or roads with wet ditches. Joe-pye Weed, Kalm’s Lobelia, Purple Gerardia and Boneset are just a few. Later in summer and into fall the fringed
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Another group of plants associated with wet areas are some of the wild orchids. Arethusa bulbosa and the rose pogonia look very similar. The first is also called the Dragon’s Mouth Orchid and the second is sometimes called the Snake’s Mouth Orchid. Grass Pink Orchids used to be quite abundant along Ridges Road across from the lower range light. However, trees have taken over the site and have shaded out most of the plants. Spotted Jewelweed, or Touch-me-not, is a perky orange flower of the wet edges of ponds and quiet streams. It is in the impatiens family and has seedpods that, when squeezed slightly at the ends, will instantly pop open and disperse the tiny seeds for several feet. Enjoy these wild colorful flowers but take care to step lightly and cautiously when walking along shores and beaches so as not to trample any other small plants surrounding them. Learn what is growing in your nearby wetlands and do all you can to protect them and ensure there is clean water for their survival.
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How many people can say their job is to create something out of nothing? Who would even want that job, because what if your creation was something that no one wanted?
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But creating something out of nothing is the very essence of a newspaper. Each day or week — depending on the publication schedule — begins with a bunch of blank pages that have to be filled with engaging, original content and information, as well as the advertising to pay for it all. What kind of nut would take the gamble to start a newspaper, especially after the birth of the internet? Meet David Eliot and Thomas McKenzie, who in the summer of 1996 became co-founders of the Peninsula Pulse. McKenzie, from Appleton, Wisconsin, and Eliot, from Ipswich, Massachusetts, met while they were English majors earning liberal arts degrees from Lawrence University in Appleton. They would spend their summers working in Door County, but McKenzie’s roots here went even deeper. His uncle James McKenzie was a producer at Peninsula Players Theatre from 1960 until his death in 2001. “I was a kid who would run around the theater, meet everybody, go backstage. I really got to know the people who came every summer,” McKenzie said. “It was captivating. I was an ingénue there for some time and played many, many roles. It was always a place that inspired me and had a kind of magic and intrigue, everyone working together on a common, imagined vision, sitting on a back bench with my uncle watching the opening night show, watching it from his perspective, to see this endeavor come together. I would volunteer to usher and you really start to talk to
people, welcome them to the place, set the tone for the evening of joyous and spellbinding theater under the stars with bats flying around the house.” Because of that, Door County was a second home to McKenzie. “I knew it as a place where creative projects could happen and there were really interesting people to engage, and you had a really positive and supportive community for creative ventures. I learned all that, I think, through my time at Peninsula Players,” he said. Back in high school in Massachusetts, Eliot was introduced to desktop publishing. “My senior year in high school [1989], there was PageMaker,” he said, referring to one of the earliest desktop publishing programs. “My English teacher was talking about how we could sit in front of a computer and make a newspaper. Layout and design was just shifting from cut and paste to submitting something entirely digital. I was assistant editor and took over a computer and started making a newspaper.” Eliot said it was the people involved that made producing the school newspaper interesting. “I think what drew me to it was the people I worked with and the energy of making something out of nothing,” he said. “That was what made me interested in newspapers, getting the right creative heads together. That was my beginning.”
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Eliot, a sophomore at the time, was offered the job of editor of the student newspaper, The Lawrentian.
Discussing their college years at Lawrence University individually, both Eliot and McKenzie sound of like mind.
“And then I went and looked at the office. They had computers worse than what we had used at my high school,” he said. “So I went to my adviser and asked if we could get better computers. He said, ‘I’ll put you in a room with someone who might be willing to donate the money.’”
McKenzie said he didn’t have any specific thoughts for his future other than a vague notion that he would like to write. “Lawrence gave me the confidence that I could be a writer, but I had no confidence in that skill coming out of high school,” he said, adding that he blames himself and not his K – 12 education. “I did not pick up the fundamentals in K – 12,” McKenzie said. “When I managed to get into Lawrence after spending some time in community college, I worked really hard and realized I can write. This liberal arts education and the way it engages the thinking muscle, the philosophical muscle, the visioning muscle is really exciting.” “I chose a liberal arts school like my dad had before me,” Eliot said, “because the education was supposed to present itself and through learning I was supposed to figure out the right path. I felt through education I was given all these opportunities, but high school wasn’t enough to tell me what to choose. College was supposed to give me enough variety to tell me that. But I goofed off a lot in my freshman year.” Luckily, his adviser noticed that Eliot wasn’t achieving his potential, and his adviser just happened to be Lawrence President Richard “Rik” Warch. “He called me into his office and said ‘You know, I had the same problem. I goofed off a lot, too.’” Warch advised Eliot that he needed to engage himself in activities. “So I thought, I worked with the newspaper before. Hey, what’s going on with the newspaper? It turned out the editor got kicked out and there was a sports writer and that was it.”
Eliot put a proposal together requesting $5,000 for the equipment needed to put together a newspaper, and found himself in a room with Fox Valley architect/philanthropist Frank Shattuck. “He wrote me a personal check for the amount of money that I asked for and I gave it to the school,” he said. “We got new computers and we made The Lawrentian into a digital newspaper.” But Eliot learned an important life lesson in his encounter with Shattuck. “I never wrote Frank a thank you note. Two weeks later — I’ve told this story to graduating seniors — I got a note from Frank. His response was, ‘Don’t bother writing a thank you note, it’s too late.’ Whenever someone gives you money or anything, the right response is a thank you.” Eliot immediately faced another dilemma. “I didn’t have a staff and I couldn’t write it myself,” he said. So he went to all the campus groups and asked them to submit to the newspaper. “Just give us information and we’ll print it,” he told them. “So I recruited that way. When we started, I had one sports editor and by the time I left, we had 60 different people contributing to the paper.”
(Above) Dave Eliot helped both his high school newspaper, The Governor, and his college newspaper, The Lawrentian, enter the digital age. (Left) Dave with his St. Bernard Charley. Dave's interest in digital technology resulted in the birth of the Peninsula Pulse. Submitted photo.
Eliot also had an early experience in negotiations while serving as a college editor. A conservative group on campus approached the administration with demands for a budget to start their own newspaper because they didn’t
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like the views being espoused in The Lawrentian. That’s when Eliot had to explain that under his direction, The Lawrentian was funded by its advertising rather than by the college. Then he told the conservative group they could have their own column. “Write something and participate. We don’t publish you because you don’t submit anything,” he said. “So we got a conservative column. And it worked.” While Eliot was making the campus newspaper vital and bringing it into the new digital age, McKenzie was contributing to the campus lit/art publication, Tropos. “I had worked a little with Dave at The Lawrentian. I submitted a couple stories when he was editor,” McKenzie said. “What Dave did that was really remarkable because it gets to a kind of Malcolm Gladwell place, the people who exhibit success are at the right place at the right time. Dave converted the campus paper from cut and paste to digital layout design, which in those days was brand new. “Dave attracted a circle that enjoyed questioning and pushing things further,” McKenzie continued. “He’s a very visionary guy. He would always be really fun to philosophize with, whether
it was something substantial or not. So we connected on those levels and really enjoyed talking and thinking different perspectives on things that were being presented in our academic curriculum.” All of which set the stage for the next chapter in the two young men’s lives.
What’s Next? The big reality check of graduation day was coming fast. “When it came to this conversation of what do we do next, the first big idea that came to us was to purchase a hotel in India and run it. Take our skills we got in Door County and import it to another country,” McKenzie said. “We kind of came down from that idea to something a little more pragmatic.” “It was a possibility,” Eliot said of the hotel idea. “We had lots of friends in India. We were also going to start a coffee shop. We had the location picked out and everything.” Ultimately, they decided starting a newspaper in Door County would be the most fun. “Let’s take these skills — writing, publishing and engaging in the creative arts and other knowledge of community we’ve built up, let’s start a newspaper. Go where we would go anyway, back to Door County,” McKenzie said. continues on page 63
A Brief History of Door County Newspapers Three years after Wisconsin entered the union as the 30th state in 1848, the peninsula was recognized as Door County and communities started springing up. It took another full decade before one of the first signs of progress and growth of a newly settled territory in the United States came in the form of a newspaper. The Door County Advocate made its debut on Saturday, March 22, 1862. Printed at the
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“The Advocate will sustain the administration of President Lincoln, in putting down this unholy rebellion, our politics will be strictly Union, until peace, is restored to our beloved country, we shall sink all other political questions, until every state is back in the Union, and peace law and order re-established in the land.” That first four-page broadsheet issue was filled with war news. A.R. Laurie & Co. advertised in
This is the home on Juice Mill Lane in Ellison Bay where Dave Eliot and Tom Mackenzie spent the winter of 1995 planning the beginning of the Peninsula Pulse. Submitted photo.
heavy, bold type, “Ready-Made Clothing!” S.W. Earle & Brother advertised that they had the best stock of dry goods in northern Wisconsin, “War or No War!” Another decade would pass before a competitor arrived. On October 24, 1873, The Expositor appeared to challenge The Advocate. “We aim to advocate the highest and best interests of the whole people, absolutely regardless of all parties in politics and sects in religion.
Terms: Two dollars per annum.” Its editors referred to the competition as “the organ.” The Expositor added Independent to its title with the May 11, 1877 issue, with its sale to Charles Martin. Last issue on June 25, 1880. On March 5, 1886, the first issue of The Independent was published after having purchased the “equipment and goodwill” of The Expositor. Its aim? “To be wholly devoted
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Jr. declared The Republican to be “straight Republican in politics, will advocate every measure calculated to advance the best interest of Door County and Sturgeon Bay…”
to the best interests of Door County.” Its last issue appeared on June 27, 1890. One week later, on July 3, 1890, The Republican was born, with the same motto as The Independent, “Devoted to the Local News of Door County.” Editor Joseph Harris
In the beginning, its masthead read: “A Republican journal published every Thursday afternoon.” By the time of its final issue on Dec. 22, 1892, the masthead read “A Democratic journal published every Thursday afternoon.” Apparently Mr. Harris had a falling out with the Republicans, but not enough to change the name of the newspaper. That was followed on Jan. 28, 1893, by The Door County Democrat, which announced a subscription of $1.50 a year. “Is it not worth it? Of course it is very agreeable to have subscriptions paid in advance, but if you want the paper and
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Drab was kicked by a vicious horse at the Northwestern House and is disabled from duty” and “The inside of Stiles & Reynolds’ drug store has received a new coat of paint.” It seemed to mimic a more metropolitan tone by providing plenty of world and national news stories and tidbits, such as “Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, is said to be dying of consumption at his home in Samoa.” Some of it seemed more like filler, such as the story “African Cattle Plague.” Finally, the editorial introducing the publication addresses the very issue mentioned above: “The Door County Democrat will be much more than a local paper. We scarcely understand, any more, the old marked distinction between provincial and metropolitan. The idea and even the words
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Advocate. They consolidated under the name Door County Publishing Co. Four years before that acquisition, another newspaper appeared, The Door County News. It published a frontpage creed with its first issue on July 1, 1914: “The Door County News aims to be just a fearless champion of all things that make for the welfare of the majority. Where something needs to be done, we will shed our coats and jump into the fray. We believe that empty criticism of men and things accomplishes nothing. But seeing a positive task and doing it — in other words, engaging in forceful constructive work — this is the highest mission of a newspaper. Such are the aims and purposes of The Door County News. It will aim to
Earl M. LaPlant served as its president, manager and editor and its motto was “Broad and Liberal In All Things.” In what turned out to be its final issue, a notice on the front page of August 31, 1939, Door County Daily News said it would be delivered a day late the next week due to the Labor Day holiday. But that was its last issue.
be an aggressive force in the community. It will do things constantly. It will be the kind of newspaper so electrically alive, so alert and so interesting that you would rather go without your meals than miss it.”
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County. The service now boasts more than 140 rack card customers and 200+ racks of many styles and sizes. Their most recent business addition, Peninsula Filmworks, was launched in 2015, providing an opportunity to expose millions more people through the evolution of video on the web to the beauty of the peninsula and the quality of its people. The consistent growth of Peninsula Publishing & Distribution during the last 20 years has directly translated into the creation of a considerable number of professional, year-round jobs on the peninsula. Between their four separate but related business entities, the company’s total combined annual revenue makes theirs one of Door County’s more successful homegrown businesses. “It is our pleasure to recognize Dave and Madeline with the Entrepreneur of the Year award,” said DCEDC Executive Director Bill Chaudoir. “They have built a diverse multimedia company in Door County that is focused on celebrating our unique community. We have been thrilled to watch their company’s growth and we wish them nothing but continued success.”
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“I said ‘Why not?’” Eliot said. “At that point the technology was moving at a fast rate to make newspapers. We thought, no one else is doing this. Having been in that community, everybody’s talking to a different audience, a 35 to 50-yearold audience, and even within that, no one’s talking about the rich art and music performed. At that time there was music everywhere.” That was the summer of 1995. McKenzie was dispatched to Door County to find a place for the pair to live and Eliot went home to Ipswich, where his job was to come up with the necessary computer equipment.
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The great migration of the monarch butterfly by Jackson Parr
The monarch is not just a butterfly, it is the butterfly. It’s the iconic insect of North America, easily recognizable and beloved by everyone with a net and some free time in a prairie. They even have a place in the hearts of entomophobics, who deny the relationship between a monarch and the rest of the insect kingdom. Threats of extinction have spurred an international rally around their protection, but it’s hard to protect something so fleeting. The migration of the monarch is known as one of the great natural phenomena in the world. Unlike birds that fly south in the winter and return in the summer, or a salmon run, where the fish migrates upriver to spawn, a single monarch butterfly will never complete its entire journey.
Photo: Len Villano
“The monarchs around here never make it to Mexico. That’s what most people find most surprising,” said Erik Ostrum. Ostrum interned at the Butterfly House on Washington Island in the summer of 2015 while he was finishing his degree in entomology at the University of Wisconsin — Stout. “The ones around here only make it to central or southern United States.”
House into his collection than at Nelsen’s Hall Bitters Pub with the rest of the island folk. He doesn’t just pick up the caterpillars nesting on the roadside milkweed when he sees the town lawn mowers come through, he brings them home and nurtures them into butterflies. Ostrum looks out over the prairie behind his home among the insects. “Most people just look at this and don’t see anything but plants.” It is that naive disconnect that has already endangered the survival of the monarch butterfly. An article published by Scientific Reports in March of 2016 estimated up to a 57 percent risk of monarch extinction over the next 20 years. Monarch population has declined more than 90 percent in the past 25 years. While the numbers for individual years rise and fall with weather events, the longterm trend is a threat to their existence.
But the cycle continues.
“Habitat destruction in the United States and Mexico, deforestation of their migration areas, pesticides and insecticides on croplands,” Ostrum lists the mounting threats to the monarch, ticking them off on his fingers.
Ostrum is a bug guy. He feels more at home pinning the fragile bodies of the insects he catches behind the Butterfly
But the threats to the monarch all take place under the journey of their lifelong migration.
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The Mountain of the Butterflies
You could say that the migration of the monarch does not start somewhere, it simply continues. The butterfly is always following the trails of milkweed along roadsides as it comes north with the warmer weather and retreats south during colder months. If there is any place that a monarch could call home, it is a group of mountains 60 miles west of Mexico City. The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a 140,000acre preserve of pine forest that houses a uniquely dense population of the butterflies from October through March. But before it was a designated reserve and a World Heritage Site, a textile engineer from Kenosha and a native Mexican responded to an ad in a Mexican newspaper in 1973. The ad, printed by Canadian zoologists Fred and Norah Urquhart, sought research associates to help in tracking monarch migration. Ken Brugger was working at a textile company in Mexico City with a passion for nature on the side. Catalina Trail was a native of the country whose Spanish fluency and knowledge of the terrain helped bridge the gap between the locals and the outsiders. The two amateur naturalists set out to track the monarchs and soon found themselves at the summit of Cerro Pelón, surrounded by millions of monarch butterflies. They covered the tall fir trees and littered the forest floor. National Geographic featured Trail on the cover of its magazine in 1976. She sits smiling between two pillars of monarchs with butterflies resting on her outstretched fingers, her denim pants covered in blurred orange and black. From there, things moved pretty quickly. Mexico’s President José López Portillo designated the reserve in 1980. Research and tourism dollars flowed into the rural mountain area. Local governments enacted laws prohibiting logging in the area and the national government prohibited tourism in many of the roosting sites. In 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), named the area a World Heritage Site. While monarchs west of the Rocky Mountain continental divide often travel to California for the winter, roosting in suburban parks and golf courses along the ocean shore, and monarchs of the eastern United States head for Florida’s warmer weather, the mountains of Mexico are most abundant with monarchs in the winter months. It is in these mountains that the life cycle of a monarch begins. But when it comes to a monarch, the life cycle is better understood as the journey of many generations rather than a single butterfly.
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The Great Migration
In February and March, after a long winter in the Mexican mountains, the monarch begins travelling north. They find mates and begin laying eggs as they cross the border into Texas. After laying eggs, the monarchs from Mexico die and their offspring are left to continue the northern migration. This first class of monarch children are known as the first generation and they will continue heading north through the spring as milkweed begins popping up throughout the Midwest. But the first generations of monarchs are not those we see fluttering around the Door County peninsula. The southernborn butterflies live between two and six weeks, mating and laying eggs on milkweed plants along their journey before dying. Finally, by the third generation, the butterfly makes the trip all the way north to spend the summer. “In this part of the area, depending on warmth, you get one to three different generations of monarchs,” said Ostrum, happy to see more monarchs on Washington Island than in past years. “In the early summer they’ll hatch and then midsummer or early fall is the next generation.” The monarch may not know when school goes back in session and the tourists leave the county, but as the days get shorter and the temperature drops, the butterfly prepares for the final and greatest generation of its migratory cycle. The fourth generation of monarch develops just like its ancestors, but when it finally takes flight in September and October, it will live up to eight months as it makes the return journey south. “The tagging programs that tagged [butterflies] in Wisconsin or Minnesota were found in southern Texas, which I think was the longest one they’ve found,” said Ostrum. The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor offers a tagging program where visitors can place small identification stickers on the wings of the monarchs before setting them free. Shannon Pump, naturalist at The Ridges, led the program in 2015, which contributes to the massive data collection of butterfly migration across the country. “So we know where they ended when they died and they lay their eggs before they die,” said Pump. “They are going to get there and breed and lay an egg. Then [researchers] tag their migrators and their migrators come back up here, so we’re getting a general consensus of where all of that’s going and that’s kind of the importance of the whole tagging program.” Every organization that tags monarchs has a special identification code. When a butterfly turns up in Arkansas,
Rose Hara, 8, releases a tagged monarch butterfly at The Ridges Sanctuary. Photo by Jackson Parr.
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Shannon Pump, right, helps visitors tag monarch butterflies at The Ridges Sanctuary. Photo by Jackson Parr.
you can type the code into an online database and learn that the monarch came from The Ridges up in Wisconsin. The program helps answer questions such as how far a butterfly can travel during its life cycle and whether butterflies from one area tend to migrate together along the same paths year after year. “It takes many years of doing that before we get really good data,” said Pump.
The generation of monarchs that leave The Ridges will travel more than 50 miles each day on its 2,000-mile quest, resting on the receding milkweed and red clover fields as they follow the warm temperatures south. The fourth or fifth generation monarch makes it back to the mountains in Mexico and stays through the winter, right where its great-great-grandparents spent the winter the year before. “They usually take the same paths every season,” said Ostrum. “Just like other animal migrations, it’s just hardwired into them.”
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“Milkweed doesn’t do too bad in disturbed areas,” said Ostrum. “It’s the birds that stay away from it but a lot of insects really don’t have a problem with it.”
Most threats to the monarch fall under the decline of its habitat. Roadside milkweed is not the only thing these butterflies need to survive. Unfortunately, much of this habitat destruction is done illegally and outside the reach of conservationists.
For such a graceful creature, milkweed seems like a strange plant to depend on. It is poisonous to birds and smaller animals while feeling at home growing along busy interstates and construction sites.
This aversion by birds is part of what protects the vulnerable monarch from being eaten. It didn’t take long in evolutionary history for the monarch’s predators to realize the black and orange butterfly is not fit to eat. Monarchs lay their eggs on milkweed and the plant is the only thing the young caterpillars will eat. Planting milkweed is one of the few things you can do to provide more habitat for the travelling monarchs, especially in the more diverse climate of Wisconsin. “I read in one study they did in south Texas and the southern states, where milkweed grows year round, that bacteria or virus that’s naturally occurring gets attached to the butterflies down there and kills them off, which doesn’t happen up here because it dies with the milkweed,” said Ostrum. “They’ve started telling people down there to mow or cut down their milkweed once a year so it can grow back.” But in places with healthy milkweed, roadside mowing is part of what is destroying the nesting areas for monarchs. Some states, such as Minnesota, recognized the limited options in planting beneficial native species that will survive next to an interstate and enacted laws to reduce roadside mowing. Iowa and other states have actively planted milkweed along roadsides. “When I see the tractor coming to mow all the ditches I go in front of the tractor and pick all the caterpillars off before it goes through,” said Ostrum. But mowing is just one of the threats to a monarch population that has been dwindling for decades.
Despite declining numbers, the monarch is not yet designated as an endangered species. Although state and federal efforts have encouraged support for the butterfly, it is not afforded any legal protection against what threatens them.
Back in the rural Mexican mountains, it is a socio-economic battle of conservationists and natives. Up until 1980, when the country designated the area a protected reserve, those who lived near the mountain of the butterflies made their living by cutting down the trees that housed the monarchs through the winter. Deforestation continues, with an estimated 26,000 acres of the forest preserve lost between 1986 and 2006. Those who have lived within the preserve their whole life bristle at the idea of taking their industry away so more tourists can come and view the natural phenomenon. Some natives in the area have embraced the attraction, offering tours, lodging and crafts to the global visitors. Locals can even make money from conservation groups who pay them to patrol the forest in search of illegal logging activity. Similar to bees, the adult monarch also relies on the nectar of wildflowers and water sources for sustenance during their journey. The use of herbicides to kill plants in rural fields and water diversion for agriculture use means the butterfly has to spend more energy flying around in search of food. If a tired butterfly gets to Mexico, it is unlikely that it will survive the winter to begin the cycle over again. “If you can have a healthy balance of something for each part of the season, then you’re going to have a lot of pollinators in your yard,” said Kate Markiewicz, Ostrum’s fellow intern at the Butterfly House, who only entered the world of bugs after seeing Ostrum’s fascination. “People need to realize that
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we’re all part of one giant ecosystem that is interconnected in every way so there’s always going to be a cause and effect. When it comes to the big picture, humans have a pretty big impact and if we don’t start making a change then there are irreversible effects.” But some of the biggest butterfly enthusiasts may be hurting the insect the most. Tourism at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve brings in 150,000 tourists from around the world every year. The proliferation of businesses to capitalize on the new tourism industry and the thousands that visit the sensitive area every year have disturbed the area enough for many monarchs to abandon it.
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“When insects are gone, we’re gone,” said Ostrum. “They feed the small mammals that feed the bigger mammals that we feed on.”
Photo: Len Villano
Good weather helped the monarch numbers rebound in 2015, but the broad trend over two decades shows a decline. Despite knowing the threats to the monarch, it is hard to know exactly what is causing this decline. A series of seven monarch studies published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America in 2015 provides evidence that summer breeding areas in the United States have not seen as much decline in numbers as the Mexican wintering sites. Another study said that monarchs are laying fewer eggs because they can’t find the milkweed to nest on.
The continuous and rapid life and death of the monarch makes any attempt at counting the insect futile. Some researchers in the studies believe that amateur naturalists voluntarily counting the butterfly are sticking to the prairies and forests where walking around in search of butterflies is pleasant instead of examining interstates and commercial farms, where the impacts to the monarch may be the most severe. Despite the ambiguity in what is causing the problem, the February 7, 2014 edition of Science Magazine agrees on one thing. “Over the past 20 years, the number of monarchs returning to the largest known wintering ground in central Mexico’s highland forests has plunged by more than 90 percent.” Summer 2016 79
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The Butterfly House is a modest operation, offering simple education from some college interns and a small prairie out back to see the education in action. “I’ve had grown men in the back labyrinth with a net trying to catch butterflies and it’s adorable,” said Markiewicz. “I really love that about this place.” There are dirty plastic containers littered with milkweed that has been chewed into strange shapes. Exhibits often stuck behind glass panes are in the open air, free to touch. It’s hard to know whether the bugs crawling around the floor are part of the experience or just part of the house. “I had a mother come in the other day and I was showing her kids the monarchs and I said, ‘You can open the containers for the caterpillars,’” said Ostrum, seeing the excitement in their eyes. “She looked at me and said, ‘Why do you do this?’ I was taken aback by that question, just by her tone of voice. That was the first time I was ever asked something like that. “‘Because I get to study the world that everyone else is oblivious to.’ That would have been a good answer.”
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obtained from other groups (beans, the third of the “Three Sisters” of the American Indian diet, came later). Evidence suggests this was a larger group than had been here earlier and that fishing was their main occupation. There are signs that the site, by then a substantial village, was home to two other groups from 800 to 900 AD. Like the earlier residents, they fished, then traveled to their winter hunting camps, where they lived in caves or rock shelters on the Green Bay side of the peninsula or on the edges of wetlands. About 900 AD, the Oneota people appeared. They settled in the area twice, separated by more flooding. These people grew corn and squash, as well as fished and hunted. They had learned to grind the corn into flour, as the Whitefish Dunes dig unearthed seven charred black lumps that contained corn flour, an early form of bread that has not been found at other archaeological sites in the Midwest. The Oneotas may have lived at the site year round. In recognition of the number of past occupations and excellent state of preservation, this site has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. All the digs Dirst conducted over 21 years were for the purpose of ensuring that planned building projects would not cover important archaeological evidence. In contrast, ongoing digs at Crossroads at Big Creek are aimed at educating children and adults through hands-on participation, as well as contributing to the knowledge of prehistoric life in Door County. For the past three years, Midwest Archaeological Consultants (MAC) from Sturgeon Bay has been hired to conduct initial digs on property owned by Crossroads. Last year, Crossroads developed the Citizen Science/ Educational Archaeology Program to involve the schools and community in the research. Grants from several funds of the Door County Community Foundation underwrote part of the cost. In 2014, Crossroads acquired a 64acre parcel of land from the Nature
(Opposite page, left to right) Sheri Stang and Kris Hirst at the Whitefish Dunes site. Photo by Victoria Dirst.
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Conservancy. MAC conducted a preliminary survey on a small portion of the land along Ida Bay and discovered a landscape with a high potential for the existence of archaeological sites. A shovel-testing grid at 10-meter intervals was staked and mapped over the parcel. Results indicated that the site is a pure representation of North Bay culture around 200 BC – AD 250. Last October, four MAC archaeologists — Randy Dickson, Jim Clark, Willy Kemps and Cassandra Tobin — came to Crossroads to teach elementary and middle school students and their teachers about Wisconsin prehistory, Native American stone tool making, the principles of scientific recording, systematic sampling design, washing and cataloging artifacts, principles of excavation and environment, and cultural adaptation. A total of 450 students from Green Bay, Oshkosh, Sturgeon Bay, Washington Island, Sevastopol, a home school group and some Gibraltar children brought by their parents got to experience hands-on archaeology. Among the artifacts they have found are North Bay-type projectile points (not really arrowheads, as bows and arrows didn’t appear until about 700 – 800 AD), pottery, chert knives, a copper awl, hammerstones, flake tools, antler tools, deer and other animal bones, and
(Above, left to right) Molly Ariens, Melody Walsh and Lori Bass-Edgar working at the Shanty Bay site. Photo by Victoria Dirst.
The Really Early Residents by Patty Williamson, PhD Thinking about indigenous people roaming Door County 1,400 years ago stretches the imagination, but that’s nothing, really, in terms of the rest of the story. How about 11,000 or 12,000 years ago? Of course, we all learned in grade school that our peninsula was covered by glaciers then. Except, there’s pretty good proof that isn’t true. In 2001, when the highway department was preparing to build a new four-lane highway from Green Bay to Sturgeon Bay, they realized it would pass through the site of The Boss Tavern, once a landmark north of Dyckesville. Dr. David Overstreet, a well-known archaeologist, was in charge of the two-year dig to determine if archaeological treasures were to be found. James Clark, now part of the Ida Bay dig at Crossroads, did much of the excavation. It was determined that the site had been a campsite for Paleoindians for hundreds and hundreds of years; Paleoindians existed 10,500 to 11,000 years ago. Investigation by Overstreet of another site located on the Cardy truck farm in southwest Sturgeon Bay provided even more conclusive evidence that Paleoindians were, indeed, living in Door County in the 11th century.
In 1960, when Darrell Cardy was a student at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, he tried to convince his archaeology professor that the weapon points he’d found on his family’s farm were very similar to the Clovis points associated with Paleoindians in other parts of the country. The professor doubted the provenance of the chert points, first identified in New Mexico and associated with mastodon and mammoth kills. In 2003, Overstreet did excavation at the Cardy site and found evidence that Paleoindians were there up to 11,000 years ago, making it one of the most important archaeological finds ever in northeastern Wisconsin. It was added to the Wisconsin Register of Historic Places in 2009 and to the National Register in 2010. And the glaciers? Evidently, they did not reach the Door Peninsula, at least not during that time period. Victoria Dirst, David Overstreet, Ron and Carol Mason of Lawrence University and many other archaeologists are convinced it’s true. As Overstreet told Paul Burton of Ephraim in an interview for Burton’s 2007 book, More Door County Stories…and the Indians who discovered the Door Peninsula, “Guys, here are the data, you figure it out.”
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fire-cracked rocks. The students also learned to use a flot machine, a tool with a series of fine sieves that remove seeds and tiny bits of stone and bone from the soil. Ultimately, the purpose of the project at Ida Bay is to create an educational environment that introduces students to the disciplines of archaeology with a hands-on approach in the field and the laboratory, including the interpretation of prehistoric cultural life. Dickson told the students that when the early natives moved from a hunter lifestyle to one more centered on agriculture, it was not because agriculture was easier but as a result of being squeezed out of hunting grounds. Struggles to hold on to their territory caused warring between tribes. “Think the homicide rate is terrible today?” Dickson asks. “It was much worse then.” All these early residents of Door County are thought to have been ancestors of the Menominee people, followed by HoChunk/Winnebago, Pottawatomi and Huron. Crossroads at Big Creek Director Coggin Heeringa says, “Never before has an activity so completely achieved the mission of Crossroads. The most gratifying part of the project was seeing students fully engaged, viewing learning as an adventure and connecting outdoor experiences to classroom endeavors. We heard comments like, ‘Oh, now I see why we learned to plot points on a graph.’” And, to a student who said he wanted an outdoor job like archaeology so he wouldn’t have to write, Dickson was quick to respond that he spends about 90 percent of his time at his computer, doing research and writing reports — 300 of them in 2015. Forty adults from the community volunteered for the Ida Bay dig in 2015 and Heeringa says additional adult participation will be scheduled for fall 2016.
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Crossroads also offered a graduate-level class, “Teaching Archaeology in the Elementary School,” through the University of Wisconsin — Green Bay. Nine teachers (three of them from three different Wisconsin tribes) participated in the digs and worked with the archaeologists to create curriculum materials for their own students that were also used with children participating in the dig at Crossroads. Work at Ida Bay will continue this year, along with early explorations at Big Creek Cove, another Crossroads site discovered by Kemps, who had a “gut feeling” when he drove by the spot in the rain. A final word: there are strict federal laws about the disturbance of archaeological sites by anyone other than qualified individuals with appropriate permits. Penalties for breaking the law range up to $100,000 and imprisonment.
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The Machine that Didn’t Change the World How two men made the Segway a tourism favorite
Steve Jobs said it would be as important as the PC. John Doerr, venture capitalist behind Amazon.com, thought it might be bigger than the internet. Instead, we zip around Peninsula State Park, the Sturgeon Bay waterfront and Seaquist Orchards for a few hours during the summer, imagining what past inventors saw when they envisioned the future. In all of its failure as the reinvention of local transportation, the Segway found a new home in the tourism industry. “The big reason for that is that they are not allowed [on trails] in national parks, state parks, not even here in county parks,” said Steve Seaquist, owner of Off-Road Segway Adventures. “So where do you ride them? Private land.” But not everyone has acres of private land to traverse and even fewer people have a Segway. “I talked to my cousins at Seaquist Orchards and I started out in 2011 giving tours at the orchards,” said Seaquist. “You can come and ride one for $50 and have someplace to go with it. Or you can spend $7,000 and find someplace to ride it. I think that’s one of the reasons it’s been successful in the tourism industry.” Nick Dokolas, owner of Segway the Door Tours, answers that same question of where to ride a Segway. Segway the Door offers tours on the roads through state and county parks, to see lighthouses and around Sturgeon Bay’s downtown corridor. “For the normal person, it’s a lot of money for something, especially in the colder climates where you can only ride it for six months of the year,” said Dokolas. “It’s so fun to ride that tours are perfect.” The niche for the Segway as a tourist attraction was born out of struggles the technology had when trying to market toward the masses. Inventor Dean Kamen was sure corporations and government agencies would clamor for the super-scooter. Mail delivery would be expedited, police patrols would be battery powered, and company executives could oversee their massive warehouses at twice the speed. But after
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OUTDOOR launching in December of 2001, the response was less than exciting. In fact, it was dismal. Kamen hoped for sales in the billions but in the first six years the company sold only 30,000 units and it has been described as one of the biggest tech failures of the 21st century. Price was one problem, as average consumers were not going to spend more than $4,000 on a device that could only travel 12 miles on a single charge. At that price, the big groups Kamen hoped to attract never took the bait. The United States Postal Service gave it a shot in 2002, but it didn’t save their mail carriers any time. Mailmen couldn’t sort through mail between stops or hold an umbrella in the rain because the machine required two-handed steering at all times. Police forces found it useful for parking enforcement, but that was about it. The biggest hurdle, both on the corporate and consumer level, was safety. Segway officials were going to require four hours of training before using the product but didn’t really have a way to administer that, especially when sales went online a year after debuting. The final nail in the Segway’s coffin was its ambiguity on the road. Was it a vehicle or no more than a battery-powered scooter? Many cities didn’t want them on their sidewalks. Other places would not allow them on the roads. In the end, they weren’t allowed anywhere. Soon they became an expensive joke, with mall cops and police officers riding a Segway for comedic effect on screen.
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But they still look fun and that’s where Segway tours have a market. Seaquist and Dokolas are able to provide a solution to all the problems the Segway faced. Visitors could ride one for the cheap cost of a tour. Tour leaders can offer the appropriate training. Seaquist has private land to tour in one of the county’s most attractive industries, cherry orchards, while Dokolas could use the winding roads in the county’s rural corners and state parks without much fear of vehicle or pedestrian traffic. “I guess what I like to think is that it’s so far ahead of its time,” said Seaquist, who is still holding out for the mass integration of the Segway. “There’s very little out there to challenge them technology wise even though it’s been 15 years. It’s still innovative.” That innovation is still protected today, after Segway filed a lawsuit for patent infringement in 2014. The result in 2016 was a ban on importing “personal transporters” that use the shifting of a person’s weight to move. The folks at Segway are still holding out for a transportation revolution. “I think Dean Kamen would say that it’s only been 15 years,” said Dokolas. But for now, Dokolas and Seaquist are happy to tour around the county’s most beautiful landscapes, holding onto the question of what the future might look like in the open air of today.
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SHAWN PETERSON leads me past the yardbirds at his Egg Harbor farmstead, into the cool stanchion area of the century-old barn, and through the door into his workshop. It’s a long room, full of sawdust, books and a custom-made table he uses for building his handmade cedar strip boats. “This is where I live,” he said. Two winters ago, Shawn began building boats during the slow season. He and his wife Karen own Maxwell’s House, a shop in Egg Harbor, and the winters are the time he can devote to his love of woodworking. “Summers are packed with running the business, animal husbandry, and the garden. In the offseason, I need to find something to keep me busy, or Karen will find it for me,” he said, laughing. He named his first completed boat, a canoe, for Karen in homage to her gentle push that got him started. Shawn started woodworking as a young boy at his father’s side. Coming of age in Sturgeon Bay, he took shop class in Summer 2016 93
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high school and was surrounded by boatbuilding culture. “We’d walk home from school and go past PJ’s,” he said. “We knew all the guys working there and saw the boats from start to finish.” Like many of his generation, he learned to sail at the Sturgeon Bay Sail Training Foundation and spent time with family in the commercial fishing business. Shawn and his dad built duck boats and skiffs together, and later he began building furniture. He studied design at the University of Wisconsin — Stout and after college worked at the Kohler Company doing industrial design. “I had it all, the paycheck, the nice car. But I hated the corporate mentality, so I quit.” After some time in Arizona studying art, he found his way back to Door County and met Karen. “We grew up in school, church and college together,” he said. “But never gave each other any notice until we met later in life, back here.” Shawn is slight of build, friendly and direct. You get the sense that when his hands are idle for a moment, he’s planning what to do next. When not woodworking, he is often picking up a paintbrush. Last winter he completed several large canvases, both abstract and figurative, many featuring birds. “I can read a book, and learn to do just about anything,” he said. That’s how he learned the craft of strip boat building.
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patterns in the bow of the canoe to the hand-hewn paddles that accompany the boats. Shawn admits his biggest challenge is his perfectionism. He is proud that, unlike many builders of strip canoes and kayaks, he uses no staples or “cheater strips” (small strips of wood used to fill in gaps in the curves of a vessel) during construction. He hand-cuts the strips and hand-planes the hulls, applying multiple coats of varnish that make his boats glossy and extremely durable. Once Shawn got started down the boatbuilding road, he was hooked. He finished the canoe, then built a kayak and a stand up paddleboard. “Then I had some strips left over, so I made another canoe,” he said. “I can’t really keep track of all the hours.” But for purposes of selling the boats, he estimates he has logged between 200 and 350 hours per vessel. He showed his boats at the Door County Maritime Museum’s Classic and Wooden Boat Festival last summer, and in the shop and on the lawn at Maxwell’s House. “They really look best in the water.” Peterson would love to build another boat and has the plans all ready to go on top of a shelf in his woodshop. “They’re up there in a box,” he said. “But I’ve got to sell one of these first. There’s a limit to how much money I can have tied up in these.” If he had to dream big on a future project? “I’d love to do a sailboat,” he said. For now, the boats are decorating his barn, but he’s looking for just the right place to show his work. Shawn doesn’t take his boats on the water, as he prefers sturdier craft for duck and geese hunting. But as he looks at them and runs his hands over their sleek curves, it’s obvious he’s proud. “I just appreciate beauty, that’s all.”
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that today’s top professionals attain. It simply requires three things: the ability to hit a putt on a straight line, the ability to hit a putt the correct distance, and the ability to read a putt. Nearly anyone can accomplish these three tasks with some guidance and a lot of practice.
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HIT A PUTT ON A STRAIGHT LINE There is an expression in golf that was coined by the great Bobby Locke that says, “Drive for show, putt for dough.” Modern golf statistics try to prove this theory wrong, but with more than 20 years of teaching and coaching the game, I know that tournaments are won and lost with putting and the average golfer will enjoy the game more if they make more putts.
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Putting is a game all its own. It is truly the only area of the game that the average player can quickly improve and become nearly as proficient as a tour player. A 65-year-old male golfer with a handicap of 20 may never be able to hit a drive 290 yards like the professionals do, but he can hole 50 percent of his putts from eight feet like the average tour player does. Putting does not require the physical ability and strength
The best way to acquire this skill is to find a straight uphill putt that is four feet in distance. Lay down a chalk line or use two aiming sticks that form a bowling alley effect with the hole being the pins. Then get five of your own golf balls (never use range balls) and putt until you can make 50 in a row. Once you can do this you are able to hit a putt on a straight line. Practice this drill as often as you can.
HIT A PUTT THE CORRECT DISTANCE This is a little more challenging and also a little more important. Take four golf tees and place them in a line three paces apart. Grab three of your own putting balls and place them at the first tee. Putt all three balls toward the second tee, attempting to have them stop as close to the tee as possible
without being short. Then, collect the three balls and turn around and putt back to the first tee with the same goal. Repeat and putt all three toward the third tee. Turn around and putt back to the first tee and so on. This is called the ladder drill and has been used by top players and coaches for decades. It is a simple but very effective way to improve your distance control.
READ A PUTT This is the most challenging factor in putting and also the most important. If you don’t read the putt somewhat correctly it doesn’t matter if you can hit a putt on a straight line or the right distance. Reading putts is an educated guess. The best way to read putts is to employ a great caddy. Barring that option, if you have the time, look at the putt from both sides. Then, look at the surrounding area and identify the high area and the low areas. Find out if there are any significant features that putts tend to break toward, such as water or a valley. Lastly, imagine pouring a bucket of water where your ball is and visualize the direction the water would drain. These are just a few of the quick and common methods used to improve your green reading. Spending some time using the drills above will quickly improve your putting, in turn lowing your scores. Learning to read greens, hit a putt on a straight line, and hitting a putt the correct distance are all you need to do in order to “putt for dough.” Enjoy your practice and the lower scores that follow!
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I digress here, let’s talk about food. When it comes to eating, summer brings picnics, watermelon, Wisconsin brats and grilled anything. It says to me garden produce and fresh ingredients, maybe something a little spicy or crunchy, flavors at their peak. Corn, however, is the definitive vegetable of the summer. Fresh corn is plentiful in the summer months, as early as mid-April at the grocery store and then fresh from local Door County growers and farmers markets throughout July.
We Midwesterners are lucky to be surrounded by patterned cornfields as we drive down highways and the back roads during summer months. It’s a little reaffirmation of all the good around us. I remember hearing as a child, “Corn should be knee high by the Fourth of July.” Corn is a versatile vegetable that is loved by all. A summer BBQ is not complete without corn-on-the-cob, butter running down your chin. It is also a food that is easy to preserve and enjoy year round. It is delicious popped and gobbled in front of a movie, and incorporated into your favorite soups, side dishes and bread. Corn is a delicious accompaniment to any meal.
When it comes to preserving the taste of summer, corn is simple. Don’t be afraid to buy a lot of corn from your local farmer and “put it up” for use in the cooler months. The process is a very straightforward, six-step endeavor; do not feel intimidated here. WHAT YOU WILL NEED 1 dozen ears of corn (the average cob provides a ½ cup of corn) • Bring a stockpot of water to a gentle boil. Add one tablespoon of salt to the water. • While the water is heating up, shuck the corn — remove as much of the corn silk as possible. • Boil the entire cob for approximately five minutes. The goal is to blanch the corn, not cook it all the way through. • Strain the corn from the water and allow to cool. • Using a chef knife, remove the kernels from the cob. • Spread the corn in a single layer on sheet pans and freeze for one hour or until kernels are frozen. Store in quart size freezer bags in the freezer. The corn will stay good for three to six months.
Creamy Corn Pudding Serves 4 3 cups of fresh corn kernels cut off the cob (average cob is ½ cup of corn) 3 roasted jalapeño peppers, deseeded and diced ½ cup Vidalia onion, diced 1½ cups heavy whipping cream 1 egg ½ cup shredded white cheddar cheese 1 Tbsp smoked paprika 3 Tbsp fresh chives, diced ½ tsp salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 375°F. Mix raw corn kernels, jalapeño, and onion in a bowl and set aside. Mix heavy whipping cream, egg, cheddar cheese, paprika, chives, salt and pepper together in a second bowl. Combine all the ingredients in one bowl. Pour into a shallow baking dish. Bake for approximately 30 minutes. Serve warm. This is a great accompaniment to BBQ chicken and pork or a fish fry. Summer 2016 101
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Popped Corn the Old Fashioned Way WHAT YOU WILL NEED • Stockpot with a tight-fitting lid • Oil — coconut, vegetable, grape seed all work well • Popcorn (I recommend purchasing popcorn in bulk from any health food store. They typically have many organic options to avoid GMO and pesticide ridden food.) • 1 Tbsp of oil, enough to cover the bottom of the pot • ½ cup popcorn kernels, enough to cover the bottom of the pot in a single layer HOW TO POP Turn on burner to medium-high heat. Place the oil and a layer of popcorn kernels in a pot. Place the lid on the pot and wait. Popping corn is a listening and waiting game; never take the lid off to visually check the corn. The kernels will begin popping slowly, and then quickly, then all at once. You know it’s done when the popping slows to notable pauses between pops. Remove from heat immediately. It will go fast once it begins to pop, so have a bowl ready to pour the popped corn into. Be ready to move quickly, the corn will burn if you stall.
Savory Popcorn Topping ½ stick of melted butter ½ tsp sea salt 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast (found in bulk sections of most health food stores) ¼ tsp cayenne pepper 1 Tbsp Parmesan cheese, grated balsamic vinegar Pop the popcorn and drizzle the butter over it. In a separate bowl mix together the sea salt, nutritional yeast, cayenne pepper and Parmesan cheese. Sprinkle the mixture over the popcorn, making sure it is coated thoroughly. Drizzle balsamic vinegar over the bowl of popcorn, stir and enjoy!
Sweet Corn Topping ½ stick of butter ¼ cup of Sucanat (dehydrated cane sugar, available at health food stores) ½ tsp cinnamon sprinkle of salt Pop the popcorn. Using a sauté pan, melt butter over medium heat and add the Sucanat — stirring constantly to alleviate burning. This will create a caramel-like sauce. Mix in the cinnamon and sprinkle of salt. Pour the sweet, hot mixture over the popcorn and stir. Let it set for a moment and enjoy! Whether you like it sweet or savory please enjoy with good company!
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Cold Brew for Hot Days With the advent of craft breweries and specialty wines, coffee has not been forgotten. Those with a refined palate are now turning to a new way to brew. Cold brewed coffee is a method of brewing that uses cold or room temperature water instead of hot water. Best understood as a summer drink,
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the benefits to a cold brew exceed its temperature. “Cold brew really exposes what kind of beans you have,” said Shane Krueger, barista at Bearded Heart Coffee in Baileys Harbor. “You get all the flavors of the bean without it being covered up by the acidity that’s caused by pouring the hot water through the grounds.”
Cold brewed coffee has only one third of the acidity of a standard cup of brewed coffee. Most people with heartburn can point to coffee as a trigger and consuming acidic foods and drinks can have other adverse health effects. But let’s say you are in perfect health despite the coffee cups that litter your desk. If you really want to know what
How to Cold Brew Although cold brewing takes longer than traditional coffee brewing, the process is simple. • Put four to five ounces of coffee grounds in a French press or Mason jar. • Add four cups of cold water and mix together. • Seal the jar and leave at room temperature for at least 12 hours. • Strain the coffee into a pitcher through the French press or using a coffee filter. • Cover and refrigerate for at least two hours and up to five days. Your cold brew will be very concentrated, making it great for iced coffee by adding cream or water over ice. The lower acidity levels make the coffee more accessible to people who prefer plenty of cream and sugar for their coffee to cut the bitterness. If you still want a hot cup of coffee with the low acidity and deep flavor of a cold brew, simply add hot water in proportion to the concentrated cold brew and enjoy.
Photo: Len Villano
a good cup of coffee is, and drink a cup too, it’s time to turn to cold brew. When coffee grounds sit in cold or room temperature water for several hours, it draws out the true flavor profile of the coffee bean. You can actually taste the chocolate, fruit and spices that it says on the bag but you have never been able to truly taste. In traditionally brewed coffee, hot water zaps the grounds so
quickly that there is no time for the beans to marinate and for the full flavors to come through. “We use the Creamery blend from Ruby because it’s a nicely balanced blend of beans,” said Krueger, adding that blended beans from many regions thrive in a cold brew system because the tasting notes are balanced. “But obviously it’s personal taste. If you’re
making smaller batches, you may like single origin bags.” Bearded Heart is working with Ruby Coffee Roasters in Nelsonville, Wisconsin to create a new roast of coffee beans used specifically for cold brewed coffee.
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A crisp wedge of watermelon rounds off a summer plate like nothing else — and it’s also a work of art. Flecked with seeds, the rosy flesh is surrounded by a green rind, which can be served pickled or stewed — or, more often, simply thrown in the compost pile. At 91 percent water, the fruit is an excellent complement to a juicy burger or succulent rack of ribs.
by Katie Lott / photography by Len Villano
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Watermelon, Feta and Mint Salad 6 cups watermelon, cubed 4 oz feta cheese, crumbled 1 cup fresh mint, roughly chopped juice of one lime 1 cup arugula leaves (optional) Toss ingredients in a large bowl and serve immediately.
Watermelon has been refreshing the human palate for centuries. Originating in southern Africa, where it still grows wild, remnants of the fruit have been found at the tomb of King Tut and in ancient India and China, now the world’s leading producer. Spanish settlers were growing watermelon in Florida by the late 1500s, and now the fruit is grown in 44 U.S. states. Here in Wisconsin, where the growing season is famously short, certain cultivars thrive. Watermelon requires 100 days from planting to produce mature fruit, and growing conditions need to be right. According to Kelly Berg, former Door County resident and founder of the Growing Collective in Stevens Point, Sugar Baby, Sweet Dakota Rose and white-fleshed Cream of Saskatchewan are popular varieties. Here are a few growing tips for those who have the space and the stamina to nurture their own watermelon patch. • Melon seeds live for more than 10 years with proper storage. • Use liberal amounts of compost or aged manure in each hill for planting.
• A cold start can permanently stunt a melon’s growth. Be patient and wait for a warm spell after all danger of frost has passed to plant your seeds. • Keep well watered. “Harvesting watermelon is an art,” said Berg. “When you thump your melon, it should make a low hollow sound.” Another good indicator is the “ground spot,” the part of the fruit that touches the soil. When it changes from white to creamy yellow, the melon is ready to be picked. Whether you grow your own melons or find them at the farmers’ market or grocery store, there are many ways to use up the ample amount of fruit — the average watermelon weighs 20 pounds at harvest. Smoothies, salads and even grilled kabobs are great ways to make the most of your melon. For those embracing a gluten-free diet, try a watermelon sandwich: fresh mozzarella, herbs and sweet pickles sandwiched between two rindless slices of watermelon and secured with a skewer.
Watermelon Basil Sorbet 8 – 10 cups watermelon, cubed 1 cup Greek yogurt ¼ cup basil simple syrup* Place cubes of watermelon in sealable bag or on a baking sheet in freezer for four hours or until well frozen. Working in batches, puree in blender or food processor until smooth. Combine watermelon puree with Greek yogurt and simple syrup. Place puree in baking dish and freeze for one to two hours more. Scoop and serve garnished with a sprig of basil. *Basil Simple Syrup ½ cup sugar ½ cup water ½ cup fresh basil leaves Combine the sugar and water in a saucepan and boil until sugar is dissolved. Steep basil leaves in liquid until cooled. Strain, and pour into a glass jar. Simple syrup will keep for a week in the refrigerator.
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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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*price range based on average dinner entrée (if available)
AC Tap 9322 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2426 $LDJ T Bearded Heart Coffee 8101 Highway 57 (920) 839-9111 beardedheartcoffee .com $BL{ Chives Restaurant 8041 Highway 57 (920) 839-2000 chivesdoorcounty .com $$$ L D ( Cornerstone Pub & Restaurant 8123 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9001 baileysharborcorner stonepub.com $$ B L D J T { Coyote Roadhouse 3026 Cty E (920) 839-9192 $$ L D J T { Located on the
Winner of GMA’s “Best Breakfast in America Challenge”
shores of Kangaroo Lake, come enjoy the beautiful view. We offer a full-service bar, appetizers, lunch, dinner & dessert selections in a relaxed, casual and comfortable setting. Try our mouthwatering baby-back ribs or choose from a variety of homemade soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, steaks, and other entrees. Children’s menu available. Family friendly. Custard’s Last Stan 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 ${ DC Deli 8037 Hwy 57 (920) 839-1361 $BLD JT{
Florian II Supper Club 8048 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2361 $$ D J Harbor Fish Market & Grille 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 harborfish market-grille.com $$$$ B L D J T {( A full service restaurant in the heart of Baileys Harbor. Open seven days a week serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. We feature a Traditional New England Lobster Boil every Wed., Fri., Sat., and Sun. We have a full bar, seasonal pet friendly waterfront garden dining and holiday buffets. Contact us for information about hosting your
wedding or special event at the Harbor Fish Market. Pasta Vino 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-1404 pastavinodc.com $$ D J { ( PC Junction Corner of A & E (920) 839-2048 $LD JT{ Pen Pub County Hwys A & E (920) 839-2141 $LD T{ Sandpiper Restaurant at Maxwelton Braes 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 421-4270 $BL J The Sandpiper located on the upper level of Maxwelton Braes will now be serving all your old breakfast favorites such as summer hash, chicken fajita, Cajun, corned beef
“Cheers” to Friends and Family.
Voted Door County’s Best Tavern!
For generations, Bayside has been the perfect place to gather and celebrate with friends and family over great food and drinks.
• Smilen’ Bob’s legendary Chili • Famous Bloody Marys & Old Fashioneds • Huge selection of Craft Beers on Tap • Delicious Burgers, Pizza, Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Steaks & Seafood And, in case you just can’t get enough, we’ve also got Door County Cherry Pie!
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
Bayside Tavern Drinks | Dining | Shops
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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, and lunch from Noon till 2:00 pm. The Blue Ox 8051 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2271 $LD { Top Deck Restaurant & Bar 1420 Pine Drive (920) 839-2331 gordonlodge.com $$$$ B L D J {( Yum Yum Tree 8054 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2993 $LDJ{ The Yum Yum Tree established in 1972,
offers homemade candy, ice cream and deli sandwiches. A full service lunch counter with made-to-order deli sandwiches and salads. Indoor and outdoor seating including lakefront picnicstyle seating. Family friendly.
CARLSVILLE Carlsville Roadhouse 5790 Hwy 42 (920) 743-4966 LD T Door County Coffee & Tea Co. 5773 Hwy 42 (920) 743-8930 doorcountycoffee .com $BLJT{
EGG HARBOR Bistro at Liberty Square 7755 Hwy 42 (920) 868-4800 libertySquareShops .com $$ B L D J { ( Buttercups Coffee Shop 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1771 $BLD Carrington Pub & Grill 7643 Hillside Rd. (920) 868-3205 thelandmarkresort .com $$$ B L D J T {( Visit the Carrington Pub & Grill for a relaxed and inviting atmosphere, as well as friendly and attentive service. Located on the north side of the Landmark Resort property,
Goats, Cocktails & Great Views?
Al's new Swedish beer garden, next door to the restaurant!
Check out our amazing selection of fine beers and signature cocktails, with one of the best views in the county. Est. 1949
the Carrington specializes in a great view, tasty food and a friendly crew. Casey’s BBQ and Smokehouse 7855 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3038 caseysbbqandsmoke house.com $$ L D J T Galileo’s at Liberty Square 7755 Hwy 42 (920) 868-4800 libertysquareshops .com $$$ D ( Greens 'N Grains Deli 7821 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9999 greens-N-grains .com $BLJT{ The Greens 'N Grains Deli features a wonderful selection of vegetarian, vegan,
gluten-free and raw food cuisine. In its sixth year, the deli also highlights a juice bar with freshly-pressed veggie juices, fruit smoothies, healthy bakery, a tea bar and organic coffees. Hof Restaurant at the Alpine Resort 7715 Alpine Road (920) 868-3000 alpineresort.com $$$ B D J { ( Log Den 6626 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3888 thelogden.com $$ L D J T { ( MacReady Artisan Bread Company 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2233 MacReadyBread Company.com $LDJT{
SUBS • WRAPS • SALADS • PIZZA DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS • BREAKFAST FLATBREAD PIZZA • LA COPPA GELATO
LOVE AT FIRST BITE! Healthy Food for Hungry Guys • Gals • Kids
featuring LA COPPA ARTISAN GELATO
In front of Shopko at SISTER BAY MOBIL
10698 N. Bay Shore Dr. • Sister Bay • 920.854.2626 • www.aljohnsons.com
Mojo Rosa’s 7778 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3247 mojorosas-door county.com $$ L D J T { ( Parador 7829 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2255 $$ D {( Schoolhouse Artisan Cheese Downtown Egg Harbor, next to Marina Park (920) 868-2400 $$ L D T{ Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicro brew.com $$$ L D J T { Stonehedge Bar & Grill 4320 Cty E (920) 868-1515 $BLD {
2579 S. Bay Shore Drive • Sister Bay
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Harbor Fish Market & Grille
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Experience a Live Maine Lobster Boil Weds, Fri, Sat, & Sun Evenings
Fresh Fish including Chilean Sea Bass, Halibut Cheeks, fabulous Scallops, Fresh Tuna, & many more.... Kobe Steaks, Prime Rib, & other exceptional meat choices!
We dare you to find better Prime Rib anywhere else! Open 7 days a week Breakfast 7:30 AM Lunch 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM Dinner 4:30 PM to close
8080 Highway 57 • Downtown Baileys Harbor 920.839.9999 • www.harborfishmarket-grille.com Now taking reservations for breakfast, lunch, & dinner | online or by phone! With your reservation we guarantee No Wait for your table! Just ten minutes from Sister Bay, Ephraim, Fish Creek, and Egg Harbor.
The Harbor View Grill 7821 Horseshoe Bay Rd (920) 868-5064 theharborviewgrill .com $$ B L D ( The Orchards at Egg Harbor 8125 Heritage Lake Rd. (920) 868-2483 orchardsategg harbor.com $L J{ The Village Café 7918 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3342 villagecafe-door county.com $BLD JT{
ELLISON BAY Brew Coffee 12002 Hwy 42 (920) 421-2739 $BLT{ Fireside Restaurant 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 854-7999 thefireside restaurant.com $$$ D T (
Mink River Basin 12010 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2250 minkriverbasin .com $$ B L D J T {( Rowleys Bay Restaurant & Pub 1041 Hwy ZZ (920) 854-2385 rowleysbayresort .com $$ B D J { ( The Viking Grill 12029 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2998 thevikinggrill.com $$ B L D J { T Wickman House 11976 Mink River Rd (920) 854-3305 wickmanhouse .com $$$ D { (
EPHRAIM Chef’s Hat 9998 Pioneer Lane (920) 854-2034 $$ B L D J T { (
Czarnuszka 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
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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 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.
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 jukeboxes playing the classics.
FISH CREEK Alexander’s Contemporary Cuisine & Fine Spirits 3667 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3532
alexandersofdoor county.com $$$$ D J T { ( Specializing in seafood, steaks, contemporary cuisine, catering and special events (fully licensed and insured). Bar opens at 4 pm, dinner at 5 pm. Sunday brunch starting at 9 am. Bayside Tavern Main St. (920) 868-3441 baysidetavern.com $LD JT For an unpredictably great time, visit Fish Creek’s favorite tavern. Serving cocktails, beer and our famous Bayside Coffee. Our shortorder menu features hearty homemade soups, sandwiches, burgers, homemade pizza, Friday fish fry and Smilin’ Bob’s Chili. Open daily, year round!
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Blue Horse Beach Café 4113 Main Street (920) 868-1471 bluehorsecafe.com $BLJT{ Craic Coffee and Shop 4199 Main St. (920) 868-5019 craiccoffee.com $BL { English Inn 3713 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3076 theenglishinn.com $$$ 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. Fish Creek Grill 3931 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1900 $$ B L D J { ( Authentic Mexican and American food, located
directly across from Door Community Auditorium. We are a family-oriented restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week — along with a full bar and late night menu. We also specialize in take-out picnic meals and offer outside patio dining. Gibraltar Grill 3993 Main St (920) 868-4745 gibraltargrill.com $$ L D J{ Greenwood Supper Club Intersection of Cty A & F (920) 839-2451 greenwood supperclub.net $$$ D J T Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel 4020 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2999 juliesmotel.com $$ B L D J{(
THE SHORELINE RESTAURANT
GREEN BAY
4pm & IC E Open CR ENightly A M P A R LO
THE ENGLISH INN $1.00 OFF Any Dinner or Special
3597 Bay Settlement Rd.R Green Bay, WI 54311 920.455.0676
Full Menu • Friday Fish Fry(all you can eat) • Beef & Chicken Wellington
A Door County Tradition Since 1906 Open Daily 11am May-October
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
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.
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A Popular Destination for Breakfast & Lunch Presenting a delightful European style menu of delectable entrees Wines Beers Spirits 8 a.m. daily (Closed Mondays)
Summer and fall. (phone for off season hours)
10048 HWY 57 • South of Sister Bay • 854-1137 • doorcountybakery.com
OPEN YEAR ROUND
Great Food & Drinks!
On Kangaroo Lake
BAILEYS HARBOR, WISCONSIN
OPEN EVERYDAY 11 AM SERVING LUNCH & DINNER
Pastries • Delicatessen
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Juniper’s Gin Joint 4170 Main St (Corner of Main St. & Hwy 42) (920) 868-2667 junipersginjoint.com $$$ L D J T { Mr. Helsinki 4164 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9898 mrhelsinki.com $$$ D T Not Licked Yet 4054 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2617 notlickedyet.com $LD{ Pelletier’s Restaurant Founder’s Square (920) 868-3313 doorcountyfishboil .com $$ B L D J{( Stillwater’s By the Bay 4149 Main Street (920) 868-9962 $LDJ{ Summertime Restaurant 1 N Spruce St. (920) 868-3738 TheSummertime .com $$$ B L D J T {( The Cookery Restaurant 4135 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3634 cookeryfishcreek .com $$ B L D J{ “Fresh food, expertly prepared” (Midwest Living, Best of the Midwest 2011 – 2012). Offering contemporary American casual fare with an emphasis on local ingredients. Breakfast, lunch
and dinner served daily. The water view wine bar offers light fare including small plates and desserts. Outdoor seating available. Travel Green Wisconsin certified. Villaggios 4240 Juddville Rd (920) 868-4646 villaggios-door county.com $$ D J{( Whistling Swan 4192 Main St (920) 868-3442 whistlingswan.com $$$$ D JT( White Gull Inn 4225 Main St (920) 868-3517 whitegullinn.com $$$$ B L D J T( Serving breakfast (including America’s Favorite, White Gull Cherry Stuffed French Toast, as featured on Good Morning America) as well as a full menu daily 7:30 am – 12 pm; sumptuous lunches served daily 12 – 2:30 pm; traditional Door County fish boils served Wed., Fri., Sat. and Sun. evenings in summer and fall and on Friday evenings in winter; candlelight dinner served from the menu on the evenings when there is no fish boil. Reservations recommended for evening meals.
Wild Tomato Wood-Fired Pizza and Grille 4023 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3095 wildtomatopizza .com $LD JT{
GILLS ROCK GT Coffee 12625 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9907 GalleryTen.com $BLT{ Shoreline Restaurant 12747 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2950 theshorelineresort .com $$$ 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 Island Fever Rum Bar & Grill Hwy V and Hwy 57 (920) 823-2700 $LD JT{
www.coyote-roadhouse.com 3026 County E • Baileys Harbor • 920.839.9192
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LaPuerta of Sister Bay
Hwy. 42 North end of Sister Bay 920.854.4513 MEXICAN & AMERICAN FOOD ~ World Renowned Margaritas ~
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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 JT{( Door County Bakery 10048 Hwy 57 (920) 854-1137 doorcountybakery .com 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. $$ B L T { (
Door County Creamery 10653 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-3388 $LD T{ Door County Ice Cream Factory 11051 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9693 doorcountyice cream.com $LDJ{ Drink Coffee 517 N Bay Shore Drive (920) 854-1155 $BLDT{ Fred & Fuzzy’s Waterfront Bar & Grill 10620 Little Sister Rd (920) 854-6699 littlesisterresort.com $LD J{ A place to dine on our scenic shoreline. Sit outside or under our awning which is enclosed and heated for spring and fall. Grilled sandwiches, full bar, Friday and Wednesday fish fry, boat tie-ups, awesome sunsets and storm watching. Open daily at 11:30 am. Located at Little Sister Resort adjacent to Bay Ridge Golf Course, in Sister Bay. Grasse’s Grill 10663 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-1125 $$ B L D J{
Pie, Coffee, Chocolate, Gifts and Gab
Open Daily 9-5 through Labor Day 10-4 through October
At the Settlement Shops Fish Creek 920.868.2743 sweetiepies.us
Starting 7/7 OPEN
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 $$$ D J T { Town Hall Bakery 6225 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2116 townhallbakery.com $BL J
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CALL FOR RESERVATIONS | 920.868.3532 3667 HWY. 42, 1 MILE N. of FISH CREEK | LICENSED CATERER | ALEXANDERSOFDOORCOUNTY.COM OPEN NIGHTLY | BAR AT 4PM | DINING AT 5PM | CHAMPAGNE SUNDAY BRUNCH AT 9:30AM
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Homemade Ice Cream, Candy, Many Licorices, Deli Sandwiches Downtown Baileys Harbor • Open Daily Open Daily at 11:00
Joe Jo’s Pizza and Gelato 10420 Water St. (Hwy. 42) Ephraim, WI 54234 www.doorcountypizza.com
Phone: 920.854.5455 PIZZA • GELATO • SORBETTO • SANDWICHES • SALADS
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Awesome Place For Everything Breakfast & Lunch!
Husby’s Food and Spirits 10641 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2624 $LD JT{ JJ’s La Puerta Restaurant 10961 Bay Shore Drive (920) 854-4513 jjswaterfront.com $LD JT{ Travel to the north end of Sister Bay for the liveliest setting around! Enjoy Mexican and American dishes and fantastic margaritas — a local favorite! Klaud’s Kitchen 2398 Country Walk Drive (920) 421-3971 chefklaud.com $BL Lure Intersection of Hwy 42 & 57, Sister Bay (920) 854-8111 luredoorcounty .com $$$ D J T { ( Northern Grill & Pizza 10573 Country Walk Dr (920) 854-9590 $$ L D J T { Roots Kitchen 2378 Maple Dr (920) 854-5107 $L T{ Sister Bay Bowl 10640 N. Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2841 sisterbaybowl.com $$ 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 Waterfront 10961 Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-5491 jjswaterfront.com $$$$ D T { ( “The Waterfront” features upscale elegant dining overlooking the beautiful Sister Bay waterfront. Our menu features Door County’s finest steaks, and innovative fresh fish and seafood. Look for The Waterfront when you’re in Door County. It promises to be a memorable dining experience! Wild Tomato WoodFired Pizza and Grille 10677 N Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-4685 wildtomatopizza .com $LD JT{
7670 Hwy. 57 • Baileys Harbor, WI • 920.421.4270 Door County’s Garden Restaurant Old Fashioned Homemade Cooking
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Authentic Mexican Food Homemade Margaritas Friday Perch Fry Pizza • Patio Dining Breakfast til Noon Early Bird Special 7-9am
Homemade Soup5 Choices Daily, Sandwiches, Salads & Pie
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Open Daily 7am-8pm Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
920-854-2131
Open Daily 7am - CL Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner 3931 HWY 42 | FISH CREEK, WI | 920.868.1900
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STURGEON BAY 5th and Jefferson Café 232 N. 5th Ave. (920) 746-1719 $BLD{ Birmingham’s 4709 N. Bay Shore Drive (920) 743-5215 birminghamsbarand cottages.com $$ L D J T 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 { ( Compass Rose 9254 Lime Kiln Rd, Sturgeon Bay (920) 824-5334 $$ L D J { Corner Café 113 N. 3rd Ave (920) 743-1991 $BLJT( Crate — Sushi & Seafood 136 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay (920) 818-1333 $$$ D {T( 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{ Get Real Café 116 S. Madison Ave. (920) 493-3354 time2getrealcafe .com $$ B L D Gilmo’s Bar & Bistro Wavepoint Marina Resort, 3600 County CC (920) 824-5440 wavepointe.com $LD JT{( Glas 67 E. Maple St. (920) 743-5575 glascoffee.com $BL T{ Holey Cow 129 N. Madison Ave. (920) 818-0261 holey-cow.com $BLD{ Hot Tamales 26 E. Oak St (920) 746-0600 hottamaleswi.com $BLD JT Idlewild Pub & Grill 4146 Golf Valley Dr. (920) 743-5630 $LD { Inn at Cedar Crossing 336 Louisiana Street (920) 743-4200 innatcedarcrossing .com $$$ B L D J T (
Kick Coffee 148 N. 3rd Ave (920) 746-1122 $BLT{ Kitty O’Reillys Irish Pub 59 E Oak St (920) 743-7441 kittyoreillys.com $$ L D J T { Kona Bay Fish House 1640 Memorial Dr. (920) 743-5555 $$ L D J T { ( Lola’s Bakery and Restaurant 306 S. 3rd Ave (920) 473-5055 $BLDJ Mandarin Garden 512 S Lansing Ave (920) 746-9122 $$ L D T Mill Supper Club 4128 Hwy 42/57 N (920) 743-5044 $$$ D J T Old Mexico 901 Egg Harbor Rd. $$ L D J T { Renard’s Cheese 2189 Cty Rd DK (920) 825-7272 $BL JT{ Renard’s Cheese and Deli is now offering even more great options to our customers. The deli opens at 8 am and has a great variety of meat, egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches as well as a full line of gourmet coffees and tea. For lunch we proudly serve our Renard’s Pizza, hot or cold sandwiches, hot dogs, soup, salad and our grilled cheese of the week, featuring one of Renard’s Gourmet Cheeses. Renard’s
Deli also has a unique variety of drinks including Italian Soda, Frappe and Fruit Smoothies as well as soda, beer and wine. Scaturo’s Café 19 Green Bay Rd (920) 746-8727 $BL JT{( Sonny’s Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria 129 N. Madison Ave. (920) 743-2300 sonnyspizzeria.com $$ L D J T ( Stone Harbor 107 N 1st St (920) 746-0700 stoneharbor-resort .com $$$ B L D J T {( Stone Harbor’s fullservice restaurant & pub offers beautiful water views for elegant yet casual dining. With an allyou-can-eat lunch salad bar seven days a week and live entertainment every weekend, you’re sure to have a great experience here at Stone Harbor. Sunflour Artisan Bakery 611 Jefferson Street (920) 818-0130 sunflowerartisan bakery.com $BL Sunset Grill 3810 Rileys Point Rd. (920) 824-5130 $$ D J T { The Cabin 4680 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 743-2421 $$ D J T (
Live Music Every Tuesday from 7 - 10
The Nightingale Supper Club 1541 Egg Harbor Rd (920) 743-5593 $$$ D J T The Tin Plate 4849 Glidden Dr. (920) 818-1177 $$ B L D J T ( Trattoria Dal Santo 147 N 3rd Ave (920) 743-6100 trattoriadalsanto .com $$$ D T( Waterfront Mary’s Bar & Grill 3662 North Duluth Ave. (920) 743-3191 waterfrontmarysbar andgrill.com $LD JT{ Woldt’s Corner 911 Green Bay Rd (920) 743-1195 woldtscorner.com $$ L D J T {
WASHINGTON ISLAND Albatross Drive-In N7W1910 Lobdells Point Rd (920) 847-2203 $LD{ Bread & Water Café 1275 Main Rd (920) 847-2400 washingtonisland food.com $BL{ Cellar Restaurant at Karly’s Bar Main Rd (920) 847-2655 $$$ L D J T { ( Deer Run Pub & Grill 1885 Michigan Rd., Washington Island (920) 847-2017 Fiddler’s Green 1699 Jackson Harbor Rd
(920) 847-2610 washingtonisland fiddlersgreen.com $$ L D T{ Findlay’s Holiday Inn Restaurant Detroit Harbor Rd (920) 847-2526 holidayinn.net $BLD Le Petit Bistro at Fragrant Isle 1350 Airport Rd (920) 737-5064 fragrantisle.com $$ L { Island Pizza At the ferry dock (920) 847-3222 $LD KK Fiske Restaurant 1177 Main Rd (920) 847-2121 $BLDT Nelsen’s Hall Bitters Pub W19N1205 Main Rd (920) 847-2496 $LD T{ Red Cup Coffee House 1885 Detroit Harbor Rd (920) 847-3304 $BL Sailor’s Pub 1475 South Shore Dr (920) 847-2105 $$$ D { ( Ship’s Wheel Restaurant Shipyard Island Marina, South Shore Drive (920) 847-2640 BLD Sunset Resort Old West Harbor Rd (920) 847-2531 sunsetresortwi.com $B The Danish Mill 1934 Lobdell Point Rd (920) 847-2632 danishmill.com $BLDJT{
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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Julie’s
Park Café and Motel Julie’s Park Café and Motel has grown in so many respects this summer, as owners Sande and Shane Solomon enter their seventh season. Let us count the ways. It began in May 2015 when they started the process of obtaining the seven variances needed to rebuild the motel. Work started in November. Although the original plan was to add a second story to the original motel, the nearly 60-year-old building proved to have many challenges. “In the end,” Shane said, “the money was better spent on a totally new building. It was a long process, with a lot of waiting, but it all turned out well. The county and township have both been very supportive of the project.” From the beginning, the Solomons had two goals in mind — to keep the design true to Door County charm and aesthetic, and to be as green as possible. The new two-story motel has 21 rooms, eight more than before. It is quite heavily insulated and has radiant heating throughout. Repurposing was a priority. When two trees had to be taken down to make room for the new construction, the lumber was planed and used to build nightstands and end tables for the motel rooms. “One of the most fascinating things,” Shane said, “is that we came across an old Jim Beam barrel house that was being deconstructed. Our furniture maker said if he could get ahold of the beams, he could use them for dressers and refrigerator enclosures. Each of those pieces will have a little plaque describing its provenance.” The building has been designed for maximum efficiency, with a footprint that’s as small as possible. There’s infloor heating throughout, and the lawn sprinkler system recycles water pulled 116
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from the sump pump and held in a 600-gallon reservoir. Mike Haberkorn of Manitowoc was the general contractor. Local craftsmen were used whenever possible. The motel opened on May 6th and will be in operation year round. The café opened on April 29th and will have an almost year-round schedule, with weekends only during the winter and a brief closure possible in late March and/or early April. The hours will remain the same: 6:29 am to 9:01 pm. Why the unusual times? “It’s a conversation piece,” Shane said. “People talk about it and remember it.” Most of the staff in the café is about the same this summer. Four positions have been added to the motel, bringing the employee total to 40.
“Some people who have been with us for a while have been moved to more strategic management positions, leaving Sande and me free to be ‘firefighters’,” Shane said. “We’ve purchased two houses near the business to provide employee housing, which is often a problem in the community. We think that being open longer during the year will help the local economy and also help us keep employees.” The Solomons came to Door County from Milwaukee, where Sande taught Spanish at Pius XI High School, and Shane was assistant director of resident life at Concordia University. Although both had an academic background, owning a restaurant was always Shane’s goal from the time he’d worked in very nice ones in Florida as a high school and college student. Their daughter, Gabriella, will be a kindergartner at Gibraltar Elementary School this fall, and their son, Malachi, is two. You’re likely to spot them in the giant Adirondack chair out front that is Julie’s trademark.
Julie’s Park Café & Motel 4020 Highway 42 Fish Creek, WI 54212 (920) 868-2999 juliesmotel.com
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LODGING GUIDE BAILEYS HARBOR 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, Nonsmoking 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, Nonsmoking 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
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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.
Bed and Breakfast $145-$315 Bikes, Kayaks, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Smoke Free, Water View, Whirlpools Gordon Lodge Resort 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, Nonsmoking 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,
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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 $125-$139 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 DoorCounty Cabins.com 4999 Plum Bottom Rd (936) 293-0913 doorcountycabins .com Cabin/Cottage Retreat $109-$310 High Speed Internet, Cable, Full Kitchen, Hiking Trails, Grill, Gardens 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, Nonsmoking 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 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, Nonsmoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Playground, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Highway 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicro brew.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 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
ELLISON BAY Bayview Resort & Harbor P.O. Box 73 (920) 854-2006 Resort $120-$250 Boating, Fitness Center, Kitchen, Playground, Tennis 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 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 Edgewater Resort 10040 Water St (920) 854-2734 edge-waterresort .com Cottage, Resort $79-$419 Cable/Movies, Kitchen, Nonsmoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Sauna, Waterfront, Whirlpools Ephraim Guest House 3042 Cedar St (920) 854-2319 ephraimguesthouse .com Resort $75-$185 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Smoke Free, 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 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 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 Hillside Inn of Ephraim 9980 Water St. (920) 854-7666 hillsideofdoorcounty.com Inn, Cottage $250-$365 Air Conditioning, Boat Rentals, Boating, Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Continental Breakfast, Cross Country Skiing, Deck, Fireplace, Grill, High Speed Internet, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Microwave, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Smoke Free, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpool Lodgings at Pioneer Lane 9996 Pioneer Ln (800) 588-3565 lodgingsatpioneer lane.com Hotel/Motel $65-$175 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Nonsmoking Rooms, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Pine Grove Motel 10080 Hwy 42 (800) 292-9494 pinegrovemotel.com Hotel/Motel $91-$108 Cable/Movies, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Nonsmoking Rooms, Waterfront, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools 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, Nonsmoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools
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LODGING GUIDE 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 harborhousedoor county.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
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NAMES by Jim Lundstrom
How Sister Bay Got Its Name There is a little feature you see on a satellite map of the waters just off Sister Bay that looks like a pair of lonely eyebrows. Those are the Sister Islands, a generous name for a pair of rock outcroppings that are recognized by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as an important gull and tern nesting site. The DNR owns the islands and they were designated a State Natural Area in 1966. The name “Sister” came to represent the bay in which the “islands” were situated, as well as the community that eventually sprang up on its shores. Although in the beginning the settlement was known as Big Sister Bay, “Big” was dropped, possibly when
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founders realized the shortened version would be BS Bay. But what if the fellow who named Sister Islands had not thought of them as sisters, but instead saw them as eyebrows or mustachios (yes, he might have needed satellite vision to perceive them that way, but…), would the vibrant village we know today be the village of Eyebrows Bay or Mustache Bay instead of Sister Bay? And why sisters? Why not brothers, cousins or fraternal twins? Fraternal Twins Bay certainly has a mysterious ring to it. Swedish woodchoppers were the first folks to settle in the area we know today
(Clockwise from top left) Steamer Carolina docked at Roeser’s dock, standing in front are Edith Becker, John Pahl and Mary Starr; Sister Bay after the fire of 1912, looking west, the remains of the hotel in the foreground; The Fruit Grower’s Canning Co. at the Produce Dock, also known as Wiltse’s dock at the north end of town. A later photo of the building about the time Sam Subin was building the dock into Anchor Sam’s Marina. The building became the office and is still used by Yacht Works; Early view of the lumberyard dock with piles of cordwood ready for shipping out by ship; Hayes Hardware, serving food made on the Malleable Range they were selling. Located on the lower hill across from the hotel. Circa 1910 – 12; The Liberty Grove Hotel at the north end of town, located just south of the condos located south of JJ’s/LaPuerta restaurant. Photos courtesy of the Sister Bay Historical Society.
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as Sister Bay, or, at least, that is the history passed down to us from Hjalmar Holand in his History of Door County. “They were big, strapping fellows, chopping wood from fall to fall, often making four cords a day, drinking, fighting and eating what they liked,” Holand wrote. Since land was cheap, many of the woodchoppers stayed and became farmers. Holand claims the rough and ready days of the settlement ended in 1877 when a group of Swedish families organized a Baptist church. “Largely through its influence saloons have been banished from Liberty Grove and Sister Bay.” But it was apparently a combination of saloons and roads that inspired the residents of Sister Bay to break off from
the township of Liberty Grove and petition to become a village in 1912. The temperance movement was raging in the country and in Door County in 1912. Liberty Grove was talking about going dry and Sister Bay residents didn’t agree.
(Clockwise from top left) Loggers at a logging camp with three men identified: Eddie Nelson, Henry Knutson, William Knutson. Circa 1910; Barn dance; Workers at the lumber mill, circa 1910. Photos courtesy of the Sister Bay Historical Society.
The other factor was that when it came to road maintenance, Sister Bay felt it was getting the short end of the stick from the town. Village residents felt they could do a better job of maintaining their roads themselves. That pioneer independence seems to thrive to this day in the vibrant village of Sister Bay, but think of all the fun the village could have if the guy who named the islands wasn’t hung up on his sisters.
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