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The Pioneer 28 High-performance home designer and architect Virge Temme is retiring — but not from convincing people that the world can be changed one house at a time CURIOSITIES 14 OUTDOOR Ice Biking 18 DOOR TO NATURE Winter Birds of Prey 22 ART The Pursuit of Curiosity 38 The art and adventures of Seth Taylor

CAMEO The Bird Whisperer 44 Rob Hults champions the birds at Open Door Bird Sanctuary

ALUMNI Dan Austad 50 LITERATURE America’s Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker 54 Introducing the 8142 Review 59

ESSAY Ice 62 Brett Kosmider explores ice through photos

HISTORY Stavkirke Honors Washington Islanders’ Heritage 68 IN YOUR KITCHEN Blind Kitchen Sink 72

PUBLISHER’S NOTE 11 CONTRIBUTORS 13 RESTAURANT GUIDE 76 DOOR COUNTY MAP 82 cover Photo by Brett Kosmider. this page Ice bikers make their way back to Anderson Dock after circling the Eagle Harbor shoreline. Photo by Amy Sacka.

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during the early days of winter in 2017. Kendall Johnson was prepping my wife for her first winter in Door County, and I thought at first that Kendall was simply putting my wife through the peninsula spin cycle to make sure she stuck around. Certainly, we do have to play certain mind games with ourselves to convince our brains that we’re not crazy for living near the tip of a remote thumb of a northern state that prides itself on the quality of its skillful snow-removal techniques. But it’s not all sugarcoating. For those of us who count people in the tourism industry as a hefty percentage of our circle – as my wife and I do –

the slow, desolate days of winter fill a void in our relationships. Yes, we see Kendall (the wine encyclopedia and perfectionist behind the bar at The Waterfront) and our other industry friends during the peak season, but most of those visits are brief exchanges over a bar top, through a kitchen pass or elbowing in on their shift drink. Then winter comes, and though the hours of light are short and many of our favorite places have long since closed, I’ve come to understand why so many people used to tell a younger, dumbstruck version of me, “I love the winter up here.” It’s the season we get largely to ourselves. When the waterfront comes tax free (page 18) and the crowds are gone. When we see the lake in a whole new way (page

62) and have time to discover the other creatures around us (page 22) or dive into our projects (page 50). Or we simply slow down and make time to be with the friends we’ve been too busy for, or who’ve been too busy for us. As Jess Farley writes on page 72, there’s no better place for this than in a cozy kitchen, full of faces that feel like home. Here’s to those kitchens. To having time. To winter. To Friends Season.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Door County Living and Peninsula Pulse copy editor PAULA APFELBACH thinks people should start wearing fedoras again — preferably tipped at a rakish angle. SALLY COLLINS is a librarian at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College who lives in Sturgeon Bay with her photographer husband, geese-obsessed daughter and snuggly cat. Writer and editor MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. has been searching out stories for Door County Living since 2005. A board member of Write On, Door County, he lives in Sister Bay with his wife, Anne; and their son, Connor. JESS FARLEY is a sales manager for Door County Living and the Peninsula Pulse. Food is her passion, and practicing creativity in the kitchen is her happy place — preferably when paired with good company, great music and a full-bodied cabernet. DEBRA FITZGERALD is the editor of the Peninsula Pulse. She is thrilled to be back and is enchanted daily by her reacquaintance with the peninsula’s people and places. She’s living the good life north of Sturgeon Bay with her partner, Louis “Luther” Cole. JESSICA GATZOW studies journalism at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and interned at the Peninsula Pulse. She enjoys exploring the outdoors — and writing about it, too. GRACE JOHNSON is the special issues editor and a book nerd. Her overweight cat and a floppy paperback bring her much joy; her favorite word is petrichor.

CAROLYN KANE is Professor Emerita of English at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. Today she lives and writes in Door County. She is the author of the novel Taking Jenny Home, which was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. Her latest novel is A Fiddler at Death’s Door. When BRETT KOSMIDER isn’t wandering off into the wilds, he usually has a camera in front of his face taking photographs or, as a co-founder and the creative director of Peninsula Filmworks, is producing videos about the people and places of Door County. Peninsula Pulse photographer and videographer, RACHEL LUKAS, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and interned at the Pulse during the summer of 2021. She loves taking photos in Door County and looks forward to becoming more familiar with the community. Since her husband Roy’s passing in 2016, CHARLOTTE LUKES writes to fulfill his mission to help educate and inspire readers to learn, care for and protect our native species and the natural world. Door County Living and Peninsula Pulse creative director RYAN MILLER excessively exercises his imagination to keep creatively fit. JUSTIN SKIBA is a Sevastopol educator who lives in Sturgeon Bay with his wife, Stephanie; and daughters, Delaney and Amelia. He has a passion for cinema, period dramas and the art of mindful living.

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CURIOSITIES

The Man above the Bar at the Bowl

Is that a picture of the owner, or the owner’s father? After all, it’s the only photo up there, looking down every night as old-fashioneds fill the bar, bowlers take their score sheets to the counter to pay, and bartenders curse an order for another round of grasshoppers. But it’s not the owner. It’s Bob Collins: a man who was never on the payroll, but who made a big contribution to the Bowl’s success. Collins was the morning DJ for the Chicago radio superstation WGN-720 AM from 1986 until 2000. His show was the top-rated morning show in Chicago, and he happened to be a good friend of a Sister Bay restaurateur by the name of

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Al Johnson. Collins visited Sister Bay often, staying in Johnson’s boathouse. That inevitably led to on-air plugs for Al Johnson’s and the Sister Bay Bowl’s fish fry. “He would be doing his show and he’d say he was heading to Door County and my first first stop is going to be the Sister Bay Bowl for that great perch fry,” recalled Sharon Daubner, daughter of Earl and Rita Willems, founders of the Bowl. “I’d have people come in and say, ‘yeah we heard Bob Collins say he was coming to the Bowl tonight.’ And once he got there, we never had him pay a dime.” “He loved Al Johnson’s, and he loved the Bowl,” recalled Sharon’s son Mike Daubner, who grew up working in the family business at the Bowl before opening his own restaurant — Boathouse on the Bay — down the street. “He became great friends with my mom and dad [Sharon and Dick Daubner]. Dad would go to WGN with

cherry pie and talk about the Bowl, Al’s and the fish fry. It was a really popular show, and it helped.” By the mid-1990s, the Bowl was regularly serving more than 700 fish-fry orders every Friday night, topping out at 775. Many of those were thanks to words from Bob Collins. An amateur pilot, Collins died Feb. 8, 2000, at the age of 57, when his plane collided with one guided by a student pilot on the approach to the runway at Waukegan Regional Airport outside Chicago. When Collins died, the Bowl’s owners honored his memory by putting his photo above the bar, where it still hangs today. And his endorsement still resonates with Chicagoans. A 2016 Tripadvisor review is titled, “Bob Collins would tell you, Sister Bay Bowl is the best.”

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You might sit at the Sister Bay Bowl’s bar dozens of times before you notice it. Tucked up high behind the upper cabinet on the north side of the bar, a single picture hangs. Just a man in a bomber jacket, hands on his hips, with a beautiful sunset of purples, oranges and pinks behind him.

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That’s where Brian Fitzgerald fell in love with the game while growing up outside of Minneapolis. “I’ve always been passionate about outdoor rinks,” he said. “When I moved here from Minnesota, I thought that was missing in Door County.” And the joy of skating in the open air, far from the lifeless, echoing confines of an empty arena, is what he had in mind when he started the Door County Pond Hockey Tournament in 2013. The tournament will return to Kangaroo Lake in Baileys Harbor on Feb. 12, 2022, when up to 50 teams will compete in much the same way they did as kids. There are no goalies, and only four players to a side. There are scorekeepers but not referees — the game is played largely on the honor system. Instead of boards, there are snowbanks around the smaller rinks to keep pucks (mostly) in play, and the goals are far different from the hockey goals you see on TV. Fitzgerald built 30 goals from 2x6 boards, each with two small openings

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Most hockey players don’t learn the game inside an arena. Their love affair with a pair of skates, a stick and a puck often starts outside on a patch of ice in the backyard, at an outdoor community rink or on the unpredictable ice of a frozen pond.

just a few inches tall for players to shoot for. The game relies more on fitness, stick handling and skating, and less on size and brute force. “It’s about spacing, it’s about stamina, it’s about creativity,” Fitzgerald said. Come January, Fitzgerald and his team will start watching the weather and nervously measuring ice cover on Kangaroo Lake, hoping it freezes in time to start preparing the 15 rinks that must be cleared and smoothed — as best they can — for a long day of hockey. But Mother Nature doesn’t always cooperate. In 2019 Fitzgerald had to make an 11th-hour decision to move the tournament to Sister Bay, configuring the Teresa K. Hilander Community Ice Rink into five rinks for a condensed tournament on frozen land. His team pulled it off in just five days, but this

year, they can’t wait to get back to the lake. Creating a venue on a lake from scratch is hard work. It’s cold, wet and windy; sunlight is in short supply; and getting volunteers to join the effort isn’t quite as easy as asking them to pour beer under the summer sun. But Fitzgerald said it’s all worth it come tournament Saturday. “The motivation is there just from the enjoyment I get from skating outside,” he said. Learn more about the tournament or enter a team at DoorCountyPondHockey.com.

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Door County Pond Hockey Tournament on Kangaroo Lake. Photo by Brett Kosmider.

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Brad Lindenberg, a Sister Bay ice fisherman, once shared an inspiring take on what can seem like a desolate winter life here. He called the snowcovered bay the “white sand beach.” “All these people spend millions on their waterfront homes and pay thousands in property taxes, and in the winter we get it all for free,” he told me as we talked about the joy he gets from ice fishing. He didn’t turn me into an ice fisherman, but 15 years later, I’ve come to understand what he meant. Enough Christmases have gone by for me to

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accumulate the gear necessary to enjoy the iced-over peninsula of January and February. Several years ago, I received a fat bike, which changed my understanding of what constitutes “riding weather.” A couple winters ago, at the suggestion of Brian Fitzgerald, I swapped out my tires for some studded treads from Nor Door Sport and Cyclery, opening the door to a new adventure: ice biking. It looks cold. A little dangerous. Maybe stupid.

People expect to see you unloading your bike at a trailhead during the summer and fall, and since fat bikes hit the scene a few years ago, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing people ride in the snow. But when you’re rolling your tires onto the frozen surface of Eagle Harbor in Ephraim, you still get some quizzical looks, like the one I got from photographer Amy Sacka as I pedaled off a pier and onto the lake before dawn one freezing February morning in 2019. She waved frantically from the shore, barely visible in the first light of day. I thought she might be a prudish Ephraimite upset that I was tarnishing the pristine view, like the ones who hated the pontoon boat we had moored in the harbor years earlier.

“What is this?!?” she asked after I rode to her perch on the shore.

blowing as we waited for the sun to come up for our sunrise trek to Eagle Bluff.

I told her a few friends and I were meeting to ride across the bay, seeking a new view of the peninsula — and fulfilling a photo idea hatched with Brett Kosmider, my business partner at Peninsula Filmworks.

Sacka captured our journey from the ground while Brett Kosmider captured it from the air. Studded tires helped us keep a grip on the ice and hard-packed snow, though we learned quickly to follow a straight course and avoid sharp turns.

Sacka was circling the Great Lakes on a photography assignment for National Geographic magazine and happened to be up early, driving through an empty Ephraim, when she found me biking along on the ice. “Mind if I take some photos?” she asked. Soon Chris Miller, Deb Neuville and Eric Scheller joined me, wrapped head to toe in layers of winter gear to battle the brisk air. We got lucky that the wind wasn’t

A mile later, we had crossed the bay and stood beneath Eagle Bluff, the sun by then lighting the steeples of Ephraim. We may not have been sunbathing on the shore like the waterfront property owners of summer, but we had the “white sand beach” entirely to ourselves — for free. And I realized what Lindenberg had meant all those years ago.

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smallest of these, the sharp-shinned, is a fairly common nester in Door County. The Cooper’s has become more abundant during recent years, and the northern goshawk is now quite rare. Accipiters are known by their rounded wing tips and long tails. They often sit in a forest, watch for bird activity below, then swoop in rapidly to snatch their food. They are very adept at swerving among trees with amazing agility and speed. Accipiters, unlike the merlin, pluck the feathers of the bird they catch before eating it. Buteos are larger, heavy-bodied hawks with long, broad wings that help them soar high over open land. The red-tailed hawk is perhaps the most common in our area and nests in woodland edges. It’s easy to identify an adult by its rusty, red-brown tail. It has a four-foot wingspan and is only slightly smaller than the rough-legged hawk. During mild winters, it may not migrate south.

Winter Birds of Prey The winter avian landscape is usually much quieter than the summer breeding season. Bird activity during the winter is mainly to find enough food and seek shelter from predators. With few insects available to eat, it’s important to provide seeds and suet for both the bird visitors from the north and the yearround residents such as chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers and cardinals. Also vital is clean, fresh water every day in a heated bird bath. The autumn migration is a very gradual one compared to its spring counterpart. Young, newly fledged migratory birds linger until their food supply diminishes and the adults begin to fly south. Now

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The open countryside of fields and grasslands is the best place to see the very large rough-legged hawks. Look for their white rump patch, and watch them hover in one place as they spy some food on the ground. This species nests in the Arctic and travels south during the winter as its food supply diminishes. The first sightings in autumn are usually in October, and they can remain here into early May.

is when some new birds arrive to spend the winter here. Dark-eyed juncos are often the first to show up in September. There’s another bird group that comes through during the fall, and some overwinter here. Accipiters are fast fliers that do nest here but are also seen during migration. They are often blamed for snatching smaller prey such as our resident songbirds and mourning doves at the feeders. Some of these smaller hawks may remain here during the winter months. The three species in the accipiter group are the sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper’s hawk and northern goshawk. The

You might see rough-legged hawks perched atop power poles or on trees along open fields and marshland. They prey on small- to medium-sized mammals such as mice and meadow voles. During winters of deep snow cover, they may travel farther south, where the ground is bare and hunting is easier. Another open-country hawk that has a white rump patch is the northern harrier. It flies at a much lower level than the rough-legged hawk and can swoop quickly when it spies a mouse or vole. It has a longer and narrower tail. The adult male is gray above, and the female has brown feathers on the back and tail. During mild winters with light snow cover, it may not even migrate. The harrier is about 17 inches long, compared to the 20-inch rough-legged

(Opposite) Gyrfalcons, like this one seen in January 2020 near Ellison Bay, are rare winter visitors to Wisconsin, seen fewer than eight times per year. Photo by Joe Rakoczy. 1 A back view of a red-tailed hawk shows its mottled, brown-and-white plumage and the rusty-colored tail. 2 One of the county’s yearround residents is the barred owl. This one cooled off in our cement bird bath.

3 A sharp-shinned hawk patiently awaits a moving target below for its next meal. 4 Great horned owls are also living here all year long and are one of most common and wide-ranging owl species in North America.

5 The tiny saw-whet owl can be very tame and appear on a branch at eye level in a forest when you least expect to see one. Photos by Roy Lukes.

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hawk, and the harrier’s wingspan is 44 inches, versus the rough-legged’s wingspan of 48-56 inches. Falcons are a group of swift fliers with long, pointed wings and medium to long tails. They attack their victims with sharply notched and curved beaks that help them to sever the neck vertebrae. Species range from the smallest — the American kestrel at about nine inches long — to the merlin at 11 inches and the peregrine at 17 inches. Wingspans for these three are 22, 24 and 41 inches, respectively. We’ve had winters when all three species were seen in our area. The largest of the falcons is the gyrfalcon, which nests in the Arctic. They seldom migrate this far south during the winter, but a report of one that was photographed near Ellison Bay came in on Jan. 19, 2020. They can be up to 22 inches long, with a wingspan of nearly four feet. They prey on mammals and ducks and like to hunt along shorelines or from an exposed perch. Their ability to fly rapidly allows them to follow a bird that’s swerving to escape, but they rarely do a stoop flight from high up the way the peregrine does. The bald eagle is a common bird of prey that’s usually here all year. When Lake Michigan waters stay open, they catch fish, but during severe winters with frozen lakes, we’ve seen them acting like vultures by eating dead animals along roadsides. One winter, someone observed an eagle consuming a dead calf in a farmer’s field. Owls are also birds of prey, and several species live here all year, including the barred owl and the great horned owl. Others that have been seen during the winter are the eastern screech owl and the shorteared owl. There may be more of them than we realize because they are difficult to count. They don’t come

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to feeders and are usually active at night, meaning they are seen less often. Winters with little snow cover help short-eared owls to find food in the fallow fields where meadow mice are sometimes quite abundant. There was a colony of these owls in far Southern Door in January of 1995, and my late husband, Roy, took many photos of them. Northern harriers were also soaring over the same fields to grab voles and field mice. During some years, snowy owls migrate down here from their farnorthern breeding grounds. Members of that species are seen more often because they are active during the day. Their main food in the Arctic is a small rodent called the lemming, whose populations alternate through high and low cycles. It’s during the low cycle when many of the young snowy owls show up in the Midwest during the winter, often starving. The eastern screech owl and the saw-whet owl are the smallest of the group and seem to be less afraid of humans. During the extremely cold and snowy winter of 2013-14, when Lake Michigan froze over, we learned of several screech owls that were found on the snow near Northern Door homes. It seemed that they were starving. The deep snow cover made their search for mice very difficult because the mice were taking cover under the snow, staying out of sight of their predators and eating the bark off of shrubs. These small owls do not vocalize much for fear of being found and eaten by the bigger great horned owls. Obviously, the winter months are a difficult time to survive out in the wild. You might say it’s an owl-eat-owl world out there!

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The Pioneer High-performance home designer and architect Virge Temme is retiring — but not from convincing people that the world can be changed one house at a time

When I pulled into the gravel drive leading to the home of architect Virge Temme, she was outside rummaging in the back of her Dodge Ram City Van. The white home before me was charming, with clean lines and a simple elegance recognizable even to the untrained eye. Temme had designed the home located not far from the bay of Little Sturgeon, and together, she and husband Brett had torn down the original 1940s cottage to its foundation, and built their home back up in 2002. Architect Meghan Hawkins, who has been to the home, said that with the exception of its contemporary twist, it looked like it could have been built on the site 100 years ago. “And it’s hard to get those historic things right,” said Hawkins, who, as founder of Evolve Design Workshop in Madison, designs homes across the state, including in Door County. “There are really particular things with proportion and the size of overhangs that are really easy to get wrong. And she did it with such skill.”

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Temme’s American water spaniel, Emmett, bounded toward my car and hopped inside once I opened the door. Temme walked over, smiling. She has been honored with a sustainability award that has been given only to women such as Hillary Clinton, yet she appeared completely down to earth, her attire as casually stylish as her short, blonde hair: longsleeved T-shirt, jeans, boots. She didn’t wear any makeup to define her blue eyes, high cheekbones or classic Czech jawline that even now, at 68 years old, wasn’t surrendering much to gravity. “Ready for some lunch?” she asked, after completing a tour through the voluptuous gardens surrounding the house, the chicken coop, the plans for future improvements. “I have water or wine.” A pause. I was sitting on a stool at her kitchen island facing a sunken living room lined with windows that brought the outside in. The harmonious, refuge-like space and Temme’s

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warm personality made wine seem like the perfect choice. It was easy to see why she’s remained close, lifelong friends with many of her clients. “Virge is about relationships — relationships with her clients, subs, suppliers, regulators and bankers,” said past client Steve Mumma. But the occasion for the visit was an interview. Temme is retiring from 22 years of designing homes on this peninsula through Virge Temme Architecture. Some 200 homes in Door County carry the Temme imprimatur, either through a remodel or custom home. Her retirement will be official when her final two homes are completed in December 2021.

She’s Got Grit The homes Temme designs aren’t just pretty. A glance up at the solar panels splayed across her home’s roof reveals a greater purpose. She’s spent the better part of her Door County career designing environmentally ambitious, high-performance homes that are tight, resilient and energy efficient. Her work is based on scientific design principles from the Passive House Institute U.S. (PHIUS) and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) that can put a home on the path of net zero or net zero ready: generating as much energy as the home consumes over the course of a year, with no use of fossil fuels. For the bulk of her career, Temme has been the area’s sole designer and voice for sustainability and green building, putting the peninsula on the map for its concentration of high-performance homes. “I don’t think there is any area in the state that has as many LEED or high-performance homes,” said Hawkins, a cofounder of the Passive House Alliance-Wisconsin, a state chapter of PHIUS. “It’s really incredible what she’s done,

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Women in Sustainability Leadership Award Virge Temme was recognized by gb&d (Green Building and Design) magazine and the U.S. Green Building Council with a Women in Sustainability Leadership Award in 2017. These honors celebrate the achievements of women who are creating lasting change, and they identify and connect the most powerful women at the forefront of sustainability. The award is considered to be one of the most prestigious honors in the world of architecture. Past winners include Hillary Clinton; Bea Perez, vice president of Coca-Cola; Angela Forster-Rice, managing director of environmental affairs and sustainability for United Airlines; Arielle Bertman, renewableenergy investment leader on Google’s Green Business Operations team; and Cindy Ortega, chief sustainability officer at MGM Resorts International.

“Our world is undergoing monumental shifts in climate due to natural evolution, as well as the impact of human activity. I believe that architecture has the power to change our lives.” — Virge Temme, architect

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going off on her own and really making a name for sustainability and this kind of construction in Wisconsin.” A high-performance home is one that’s tighter, quieter and more energy efficient because it has better windows, more insulation, maybe double-walled construction and concrete floors. It also means the home is more healthful for its occupants because consideration is given to all the materials that go into building it, from their manufacture, to their application, to the end of their life cycle. The homes are also a lot less expensive to heat and cool without sacrificing comfort. “If you have a house that was built properly to start with, then you’re offsetting all those costs and saving more and more money as time goes on,” Temme said.

She learned about climate-specific housing design and sustainable landscaping while in graduate school as part of a team that designed a fully sustainable neighborhood in Fort Hood, Texas. That experience formed the basis of her devotion to sustainable design, She learned by doing, her designs evolving with her concerns about the depletion of natural resources and a homeowner’s ability to withstand the ever-increasing energy costs of a climate-changed world. She backed those concerns with research, then blazed her trail through a landscape of large, code-built homes that prioritize bottom lines and profit margins over environmental responsibility. “Everything I profess states that we should build no larger than needed to

consume fewer natural resources, make what you build as environmentally sound as possible, and concern yourself not just with the bottom line, but with the life-cycle cost and overall human benefits of high-performing building,” she said. If Temme’s unapologetic criticism of mainstream house building has not endeared her to the traditional homebuilding community, she’s captured the hearts and minds of architects, subcontractors, clients and designers who are following the same path. “She’s got grit,” said Christi Weber, director of design and LEED designer at TDS Custom Construction, a Madisonbased firm that designs and builds netzero and passive homes. “As a woman, growing her career at the time she did was definitely difficult. It’s difficult

MUMMA HOME, SISTER BAY This three-bedroom, two-bath, mid-century modern home in Sister Bay belongs to Steve and Denise Mumma. The 1,418-square-foot home, completed in 2020, illustrates spatial economy and passive solar design details. It’s all electric, with energy-conserving appliances and LED lighting, and it’s considered net zero ready. Many of the materials were sourced locally. The design features include double-wall construction, efficient windows and an efficient heat pump with energy-recovery ventilation. Materials include ZIP System sheathing, which is an engineered wood panel with a water and air-resistive barrier built in. The exterior is a low-maintenance combination of corrugated-steel siding and shou sugi ban cedar siding. The shou sugi ban style is a method of burning the wood, then applying a sealant made of Swedish pine tar and pure linseed oil. The siding is then both fire resistant and bug proof.

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Passive Home, LEED & Net Zero Architect Virge Temme has been trained and certified in passive homes, and she uses the LEED certification system to rate the performance of the homes she’s designed. For the past decade, she has taken on only those clients who want net-zero or net-zeroready designs. Passive homes and net-zero homes both aim to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions through greater efficiency. Passive building achieves this by allowing little energy to escape from the home. Netzero homes achieve it by ensuring that the home generates enough power to balance its energy consumption. The nonprofit Passive House Institute U.S. (PHIUS) is committed to making highperformance passive building the mainstream market standard, in part through training and certifying professionals. Buildings that meet the PHIUS+ standard use 40% to 60% less energy for space conditioning than conventional buildings. KELLEM HOME, STURGEON BAY The LEED Platinum-rated, net-zero, 2,240-square-foot home of David and Chris Kellem illustrates resilient design in a flood-prone area. Because the home is located in a flood plain, piers were sunk down 25 feet, and the home’s foundation was built on those. The Kellems’ monthly utility bills, in total, equal $69.11. That figure includes city water, sewer and trash services. The roof-top solar array generates about $1,400 annually for Sturgeon Bay Utilities, Chris Kellem said. The home is all electric and natural gas powered. The LEED Platinum rating is the highest a home can achieve.

for women in this industry in general, and she didn’t always have the best treatment. There are many women who have paved the way and made it easier for us, and I really appreciate someone like her who didn’t let it get her down or make her do anything less than she believes. I truly consider her one of the pioneers.”

A Circuitous Path Temme was a 31-year-old, divorced, single mother of a young son when she finally learned that architecture was her calling. “When the universe wants you to head in a certain direction and you don’t, it gives you a swift kick,” Temme said. Virgil Tibbs was a general contractor who owned his own company, Tibbs Construction, in Pontiac, Illinois, a city

about 100 miles southwest of Chicago. Virgean Tibbs, the youngest of three daughters, was his namesake and the son he never had. She shortened the name to Virge to avoid her teachers’ embarrassing pronunciations and made it legal when she married Brett almost 30 years ago. Temme grew up in a sawdust pile by her father’s side. She recalled being in his workshop drawing small houses to his big ones, and clambering down off the stool beside him to pilfer wood for the forts she built in the neighborhood cornfields. Her father died of emphysema when she was 11 years old. She remembers him as a quiet, ethical, philosophical man who believed that everyone deserved a good home. “He ended up building most of the homes in our neighborhood — the post-

The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is the most widely used green-building rating system in the world. LEED provides a framework for healthful, highly efficient and cost-saving green buildings.

World War II, 600- to 800-square-foot homes like the ones on 6th Avenue in Sturgeon Bay,” she said. Time at Illinois State earned Temme more than enough credits to graduate, but not in any one thing. Instead, a cross-country hitchhiking adventure came next, followed by marriage and the birth of her son, Jake. Along the way, she refinished an attic or constructed a lean-to or reconfigured space wherever she was living. Her husband at the time, tired of being a father, abandoned his wife and young son, forcing Temme into the role of sole provider. “And I had no marketable skills,” she said. She took a secretarial class and landed a job as the assistant to the plant manager of a candy company. In a twist of fate Winter 2021/2022

DICKMANN HOME, JACKSONPORT This home is a rare example of one of Virge Temme’s larger designs. At 4,200 square feet, the home has tradeoffs that reduce its carbon footprint and enable it to be more environmentally sustainable and energy efficient. The Dickmann home has in-floor radiant heating under a concrete floor that provides excellent solar heating in the winter and keeps the house cool in the summer. Overhangs on the first and second floors allow the family to have the windows open when it’s raining and keep the air flowing. The native landscaping does not require any mowing; the driveway is not blacktopped; and there’s a rooftop garden. The windows have the highest insulation rating, and the great room’s sliding doors open 25 feet to allow for air circulation and to bring the outside beauty inside. The Dickmanns’ electric bill last month was $3. “Virge taught us about light pollution, so all our outdoor lighting does not disturb the viewing of the nighttime sky,” said Karen Dickmann.

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that would seal her own, the company was undergoing a remodeling project, and Temme became the liaison between the plant manager and the architect and interior designer. The architect noticed Temme could easily read plans and visualize in 3-D; the interior designer saw that Temme talked about long and short views and opening up walls, rather than wall coverings and window treatments. They both told her she should be an architect. Their advice gave her the clarity she’d lacked at Illinois State. Yet now, as a single mom, she had no flexibility or money for tuition to finish her undergraduate degree. Instead, she called her shop teacher from high school to ask whether he knew anyone who could give her drafting lessons. He said he’d do it. “He said, ‘It’s about goddamned time,’” Temme recalled. “‘You should have done this right out of high school.’” Later, a residential construction firm posted an ad for a designer. Temme worked 72 hours straight on her first home design — a cute, little bungalow, she recalled — to meet the application deadline, then put on her best dress and applied. “I landed the job as the head designer,” she said. She returned to school and then continued to get her master’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois-Champaign, meeting her husband, Brett, while he was there finishing his degree in aeronautical engineering. Brett has been the primary person with whom she kicks around questions and thoughts regarding her business practices and design issues. His job with a nautical engineering firm in Sturgeon Bay brought them here in the summer of 1997 after having visited only once for a weekend. “It’s almost like Door County calls the people it wants, and when Door County calls you, all the obstacles just disappear,” Temme said. “We have

deeper roots here than I’ve ever had anywhere.” She founded her company a little more than a year after landing in Door County. Her first memorable project was a remodel addition for a farmhouse in 1999 for Bob and Karen DeNoto. Within six months of that, she designed her first sustainable home. She’s never looked back.

A Vision for the Future Temme’s energy seems the same as that of her husband, who’s 10 years younger. Her clients and peers describe her using words such as “tireless force” and “perseverance,” and as someone who’s still making positive changes to the world of design and architecture. “She’s got a lot of light and power in her that never seems to go out,” Weber said. Temme acknowledged that she’s leaving at a high point: proud of what she’s done and knowing she’s helped to change the mindsets of a large swath of the community. “Virge was intent on educating others — both us as her clients, as well as all the craftspeople she brought to the project,” said Karen Dickmann about the Jacksonport home Temme designed for her and her husband, Jeff. “She would push back on any ideas we had that were not efficient, and she would do so by questioning why and offering other solutions.” But retirement for Temme means channeling her energy and creativity away from design work and toward research and writing for the cause of sustainable building. With millions of new homes constructed every year, there’s too much at stake to give up that fight. “The impact of that massive amount of construction obviously has a profound impact on the environment of our future,” she said. “[In] my next phase of my life, I want to really be able to dive into more research on this.” And Temme is well positioned to make an impact. Gov. Tony Evers appointed her to the Uniform Dwelling Code Council in December 2020 for her

knowledge of energy-efficient design. That council has been charged with reforming building codes in the state that haven’t changed since they were developed in the 1970s. “His and my hope is that I can help guide the state to higher energy standards than current code requires,” Temme said. She’ll come at this problem not just as an architect, but also as the general contractor she became five years ago. Her sister company, SAGE Homes, oversaw the construction of her own designs. “I understand pricing and the obstacles they’re facing,” she said. “I feel I have feet in both worlds and hopefully can help builders understand it’s not as big a wall as they think it is.” That also means educating the banking, insurance and appraisal industries about the costs and values of passive building. It’s more expensive to build a high-performance home — the exact cost difference is being developed by the Passive House Alliance-Wisconsin — but with escalating energy prices and increased durability, the long-term expenses that are saved recoup the higher upfront costs. “Spend more upfront, and you spend less out of pocket every month to live in your house,” Temme said. Retirement will mean carving out time to do what she said she’s neglected during a busy, demanding career: spending time with family and friends, doing a home-renovation project, caring for her stunning gardens and practicing the violin her husband bought her two years ago. Woven throughout that life, she’ll also continue doing the same thing, but in a different way: changing the world one house at a time. “I’m hoping in time it’s not going to be a Virge Temme thing; it’s not going to be a sustainable thing; it’s not going to be a high-performance thing,” she said. “It’s just going to be, ‘This is how we do it.’ That is my ultimate goal. That is what I hope is going to happen.”

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THE PURSUIT OF CURIOSITY

The art and adventures of Seth Taylor Seth Taylor’s studio in Sturgeon Bay appears to belong to many artists. Lifelike portraits are strewn about a table alongside caricatures of politicians; several loose-lined ink drawings of animals — deer, horses, sturgeon — take up an entire wall; a watercolor is beginning to take shape on an easel near the window; and brightly colored children’s illustrations — dancing bears, smiling mushrooms and animals’ toes — alternate on a computer screen.

direction — to my detriment in some respects — but I think it makes things so much more interesting.” With passport in hand, Taylor has pursued this curiosity to the far reaches of the globe for the past 30-odd years, ever since enrolling as a foreignexchange student in Malaysia straight out of high school. It was an experience he found fascinating, liberating and addicting. “In the U.S., you have certain cultural expectations — things you’re expected to do,” he said. “When I went to Malaysia, nobody knew what Americans were supposed to do, but they also didn’t expect me to be Malaysian, so there’s this space where you’re allowed to be a culture unto yourself. You are who you are.”

With this newfound sense of self, Taylor went about getting an art education not by careful planning, but by chance, and through his willingness and eagerness to learn whatever he could from whomever he could. “A lot of artists, when they talk about where they learned art, it’s a list of different institutions, different internships,” Taylor said, “but for me it’s kind of a list of the countries that I’ve been to and what art was happening [that] I ran into there.” First there was the introduction to traditional Chinese ink painting at an artists’ commune in Beijing. Taylor was skeptical at first. “I always felt — and part of it was looking at it with uneducated eyes —

“As an artist, you’re told to have a single response to, ‘What kind of art do you do?’” Taylor said. “I’ve never been able to limit my curiosity to a single

(Left) Taylor pursues a variety of art styles in his Sturgeon Bay studio. Photo by Brett Kosmider.

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“The basic idea of a lot of Asian art is that you need to practice doing what the masters did for 10 to 15 years. Then, over time, you develop your own style — if you’re lucky.”

“The Western approach, especially in modern art, is [that] you have to start creating your own stuff and have your own voice right away. There are positives and negatives on either side.” — Seth Taylor

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that Chinese painting always looked the same,” he said. “Like Renaissance art, a kid would look at that and say, ‘It’s just old,’ but in Beijing, I started to see artists doing new things with it.” Taylor added more layers to his education in Vietnam, learning about values and tones from a photocopy artist working with charcoal dust on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, where he also learned technical painting skills from a group of artists whose occupations entailed re-creating famous European paintings that were shipped to China and Europe. “One guy was the Van Gogh guy, and he would paint Van Gogh sunflowers 50 times a week. There’d be a guy doing Rembrandt, and one doing Monet’s waterlilies,” Taylor recalled. “As long as I didn’t get in the way, they were willing to let me hang out.” He studied art history when he hitched rides on dump trucks to the farthest corners of Qinghai province, a remote region of China that’s technically closed to foreigners, “but there were so few people — mostly Tibetan yak herders and monks — no one enforced it,” he said. The monks welcomed him into their monasteries, showing him ancient Buddhist art, known as Thangka scrolls (Google them — they’re incredible), which had to be hidden from the Chinese government. Taylor’s brushwork improved during a calligraphy class in Taiwan, where seating was ranked by beginner to advanced. “I never got out of the beginner seat,” he said with a laugh. He delved deeper into Thangka painting in India, honed his portrait skills

(Opposite, top left) Taylor’s ink painting, “The Wild Balance,” was featured in the Miller Art Museum’s Wildlife Biennial show.

in Japan, and studied life drawing, painting and watercolor in South Korea.

didn’t consider art a career until later in life.

Throughout these 30-some years of travel, Taylor primarily earned his living by teaching English. In Taiwan, he taught basic English to elementary students and corporate English to the country managers of Microsoft, Christian Dior and Montblanc. He taught Tibetan refugees in India, where he met his wife, Hong Byung Yun. And eventually he and his wife started their own language school — the Da Vinci Language Academy — in her home country of South Korea.

“I just thought of art as part of what you do. Just like I wouldn’t think of cleaning the house or getting dressed as a career,” he said. “I was immersed in doing art and having art around me, and it didn’t click that that was what I wanted to do until a lot later, until things started to coalesce, and people started saying, ‘How much do you want for that?’”

“We focused our school just on elementary,” Taylor said. “Our focus was getting our kids to exist in English, learn through English. We created a program that fixed all the problems I saw with traditional English-language education and education in general. That was a passion for 13 years.” During those 13 years — the longest Taylor has lived anywhere since graduating from high school — he joined an artists’ studio, Jankura Artspace. He found a mentor whom he credits for “bringing everything together and cementing it into a more recognizable style for me.” This style was the culmination of years of unconventional education and combining elements of Asian and Western approaches to artwork. “The basic idea of a lot of Asian art is that you need to practice doing what the masters did for 10 to 15 years. Then, over time, you develop your own style — if you’re lucky,” Taylor said. “The Western approach, especially in modern art, is [that] you have to start creating your own stuff and have your own voice right away. There are positives and negatives on either side.” Taylor’s style is often described as “Asian art in the West.” “But it really isn’t,” he said. “If you take my artwork to Asia, people buy it because it looks different. A Japanese person looking at my work instantly knows it’s not from a Japanese artist.”

Taylor sold art in Taiwan and Japan; his work was featured in art shows in South Korea; and several Asian publications hired him for portrait work. Since relocating to Sturgeon Bay in the summer of 2020 — a move inspired by his ancestors, who immigrated to the county during the 1870s — the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay featured his ink painting “The Wild Balance” in its Wildlife Biennial show. It’s a piece Taylor calls a “synthesis of a lot of work I have been doing for a number of years. It’s a kind of breakthrough for me.” Between working as a bridgetender, remodeling a 120-year-old building on 3rd Avenue, raising a toddler and awaiting the publication of his first children’s book — another artistic avenue on which he recently took a detour — Taylor continues to hone his many crafts and seek out unexpected educational opportunities and teachers, such as his daughter, Mina. “She calls my attention to things I no longer see: these granular details she’s excited and curious about,” he said. “As an artist, you’re always looking for that.” Taylor’s certainly not done learning yet, and who knows where the Door County arts scene will take him? “The wonderful thing about art,” he said, “is you never get to the end of it.”

Learn more about Taylor and his array of work at SethTaylorStudio.com. His work will be featured in a show at SOMI Gallery, March–April 2022.

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The Bird Whisperer You may know the “birdman” of Baileys Harbor, but do you know the one in Jacksonport?

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acksonport has become known for birds, but not the kind that Albert Zahn carved out of wood at Birds Park in the nearby Bird City of Baileys Harbor.

Past the winding gravel entrance off County Road I, the calls of owls, falcons, eagles, hawks and a turkey vulture greet visitors to Open Door Bird Sanctuary (ODBS): the forever home of 18 resident raptors that cannot be released into the wild. A staff of volunteers moves about like worker bees as they clean out aviaries, wash mats, prepare food, mow trails, sell tickets and greet visitors — all with enthusiasm and laughter. Each member of this Raptor Team presents educational programming with a bird on her or his falconry glove, both at the sanctuary and at various pop-up events throughout Door County.

Behind the scenes of many nonprofit organizations, there is often a founder, an executive director and experts who keep things running smoothly. At ODBS, one man fills all three roles, and you’ll usually find him with a bird perched on his hand and a beaming smile stretched across his face. Rob Hults spends nearly every day at ODBS, running his dream come true. “I was a teacher for 35 years, and I have learned so much from Rob,” volunteer Bill Bauernfeind said. “He’s like a bird whisperer.” Hults grew up in Germantown, Wisconsin. After high school, he started apprenticing to be a home-remodeling contractor and was self-employed for most of his career. He always maintained an interest in nature as a hobby, volunteering at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Bayside, near Milwaukee. In 2006, Hults applied to volunteer for the center’s raptor program. Like other animals, birds must assimilate to the individual personality of their caretakers, and sometimes a bird prefers certain individuals or personalities over others. Instantly, Hults discovered a passion for and mutual connection with the birds. “Having this inherent ability was really cool because the birds interacted with me well,” he said. “It was very rewarding.”

“We called it Open Door Bird Sanctuary because from day one, we wanted to be a part of the Door County fabric. This isn’t just a sanctuary that happens to be in Door County — this is Open Door Bird Sanctuary.” — Rob Hults

Discovering his natural aptitude and joy for working with birds of prey led Hults to an immersive workshop experience at World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis. After a week of networking with people from nature centers around the Midwest and learning about different ways to work with birds, he had an epiphany. “On the way home, driving back from St. Louis, I had a notepad next to me on the seat of the truck,” he said. “I started writing down a list of things that I would need to do in my life to be able to work with birds forever.” At 46 years old, Hults did a 180-degree turn in his career: He set out to shift his

résumé of home-remodeling experience into one that featured skills in raptor husbandry and training. There was no college major or crash course in all things avian, so Hults built up enough savings to be able to afford giving all of his time to interning. First, he flew across the ocean. He’s a member of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators (IAATE) and had once toured the Irish Raptor Research Center, which is known for its grand bird show in northwest Ireland. Hults contacted the director in 2008, offering to volunteer his time in return for raptor-handling experience. Within a matter of months, he found himself working as the center’s first intern, caring for and training more than 70 raptors. The center’s director had never let anyone else host the raptor show, much less fly the birds at the presentation’s pinnacle, but one rainy day during Hults’ internship when the director was particularly busy, he asked Hults to start the show’s introductions and said he would step in later to fly the birds himself. “The rain cleared up, and the sun came out as I was finishing up all the introductory things we do with the visitors,” Hults said. “I kept looking at him [the director] and waiting for him to step in. He wanders over, and says, ‘Why don’t you do the show?’” After three months as an intern, Hults stayed on as an employee through 2009. The center wanted Hults to relocate to Ireland, but family matters called him back to the United States. During the next IAATE conference, Hults stumbled upon another yearlong interim position, this time at the Ohio Bird Sanctuary. Once again, he took on a temporary role for the executive director, doing everything from training and rehabilitating birds to scripting educational programs. When the interim position ended, Hults decided he’d take his ambition to the next level: start a sanctuary of his own. First he gathered his avian connections near Milwaukee and established a board of directors. Then he developed some criteria for finding a sanctuary location: Winter 2021/2022

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The property should be secluded, but not in the middle of nowhere. It should attract visitors from everywhere, but not the kind who’d prefer a trip to an amusement park over a hike through a state park. Hults wanted a place that supported environmentalism but could also generate enough revenue to function. And he’d need 20-40 acres — preferably a parcel of dry land that would shelter birds from mosquitoes. “Door County fit the bill,” he said. In 2015, Hults received his first bird, a Eurasian eagle owl. Carrying on the tradition of the Irish Raptor Research Center, he used an old Irish word to name his inaugural resident: Aisling, meaning “dream.”

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Hults recruited her to rekindle her passion and help work with Aisling. Their friendship grew and eventually blossomed into something more. Amy and Rob married right at ODBS, with Aisling as the “best bird.” And just as Amy had joined Rob in his Door County adventures, he joined her as well. They now own Amy’s family farm in Institute, where they grow organic blueberries and asparagus to sell at local markets and stores. Amy plays a major role at ODBS by coordinating all the volunteers and overseeing bird care when Hults isn’t there, as well as doing bookkeeping and contributing her knowledge as a veterinary technician. “When it comes to on-site stuff here, she is my right-hand person,” Hults said. “Even before she became a vet tech, if we had to do some intense husbandry with a bird, I wouldn’t do it unless Amy was here.”

Hults built their new home right next to the sanctuary property so he could live in a quiet setting, with just a short walk as a commute to work. “It’s like a sanctuary for us, too,” Amy said. Hults plotted the layout of ODBS’s aviaries and care facilities, which he planned to construct himself. His master plan includes a visitor center and show area — sketches of which are available at opendoorbirdsanctuary.org/ about/sanctuary — because ODBS has a dual mission of caring for birds and educating the public. But he didn’t start with those. Hults said he has a “great sense of appreciation for growing within your own skin — not getting too big too fast.” That’s why he expands ODBS one resident and one aviary at a time. Hults’ vision prioritizes what’s best for the birds and land stewardship. Preferring not to redesign what nature

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ALUMNI PROFILE: DAN AUSTAD After 60 years in leadership positions, sometimes Dan Austad just likes to be a kid again. The 1959 Sturgeon Bay High School graduate has had a lifelong passion for wooden-model and toy building.

Fire Department for 34 years and as president of the Door County Maritime Museum. Those endeavors are in addition to years of being the face of Door County Hardware, a family-owned business.

“When some men get into their 50s and 60s, they may revert to doing some of the things that they wish they were able to do as a child,” he said.

Austad considers his life “quite a journey of luck, luck, luck.” At age 14, he began working at Door County Hardware, a business his parents owned. Then, after heading to Madison Business College when he was 18, Austad’s father died. He returned home from college frequently to help his mother continue to run the family’s hardware store.

One of Austad’s more prominent displays — a model of the 1878 Door County Courthouse — sits near the entrance of the Door County Government Building. Other models he’s built have been on exhibit in the Door County Maritime Museum and the Door County Highway Department. The hobby is a welcome respite from his duties as the longest-serving member of the Door County Board of Supervisors. 50

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Austad has tallied 40 years of service in local government, beginning in 1978. He’s also served with the Sturgeon Bay

“I had no intention of being in hardware,” he said. “I was only a college freshman, and [my father’s death] altered my life. I saw the opportunity there, but it was only a small business

at the time. So I served in the Army and took over the family business.” As a small-business owner, Austad credits his flexible schedule with allowing him to pursue service in local government. He spent 13 years on the Sturgeon Bay Plan Commission before being elected to the Door County Board of Supervisors in 1978. He’s served on that board since then, with a six-year hiatus during the 1990s. “Between serving on the Door County Board and as president of the Maritime Museum, I must have put in more than 4,000 meetings in my time,” he said. Much like his family’s history in the hardware business, Austad’s family has long been involved in local government. His father, Russell, served on the county board, and his uncle, Orville, served as Sturgeon Bay’s mayor. As the District 8 supervisor on the Door County Board of Supervisors, Austad is proud of what he and his colleagues have accomplished through the years. He was instrumental in the decision to construct the Door County Justice Center, the County Highway Department building on Duluth Avenue in Sturgeon Bay, and the ambulance station in Sister Bay. He also helped to lead the effort to build the Veterans Memorial near Sturgeon Bay City Hall that honors Door County veterans who died while on active duty.

tremendous amount of time thinking about it and whatever is going on in it. Dan’s service to the county is exemplary. He deserves our gratitude.” Austad’s impact on the county has continued through his involvement in its local museums. “Dan Austad has been a driving force behind the growth of the Door County Historical Museum over the past 40 years,” said Steven Rice, the museum and archives manager. “From spearheading a major expansion drive during the 1980s, to his instrumental role in the creation of the Door County Archives and tireless advocacy on the county board, Dan has a gift for seeing the big picture and shaping the future of Door County history.”

Sam Perlman, deputy director and development manager of the Door County Maritime Museum, credits Austad for his leadership during the time when the organization’s main facility was built and opened a year later, in 1997. “That project was constructed under the leadership of Dan Austad as chair of the board of directors,” Perlman said. Austad was awarded the museum’s “E” Award, based on the Army-Navy’s “Excellence in Production of War Equipment” honor during World War II, last year. The honor is awarded to individuals for “exceptional service and achievement in promoting and preserving the rich maritime history of Door County and the Great Lakes.”

“We’ve accomplished a lot together,” he said. “In government, no one person does everything.” Susan Kohout, a fellow county board supervisor, acknowledged Austad’s dedication to the county. “Dan lives and breathes county board,” she said. “I believe he spends a

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America’s Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker Lorine Niedecker (1903-70), who has been called “America’s greatest unknown poet,” lived almost her entire life in Wisconsin. Many of her poems were inspired by the wildlife, the water and the people in and around her home on Blackhawk Island (which is not actually an island, but a flood-prone peninsula near Lake Koshkonong, southeast of Madison). A visit to The Ridges Sanctuary in Door County in 1966 was the inspiration for one of her most impressive poems, “Wintergreen Ridge.” In many ways, Lorine Niedecker fits the stereotype of the eccentric, impoverished artist struggling to share his or her truth with an unresponsive world. People who knew her described her as a petite, shy, frail-looking woman who wore abnormally thick glasses. Her adored father earned enough money as a carp fisher to send Niedecker to Beloit College, but when carp fishing fell into disfavor, he ventured into the business world, to which he was ill suited. She was forced to drop out of college after two years. Her father’s solution to his chronic unhappiness was to take a mistress (who was only three years older than Lorine) and squander his resources on her, leaving Niedecker with little in the way of an inheritance. But at least he was able to build her a one-room house on Blackhawk Island — without plumbing or telephone service, but with electricity.

(Left) Niedecker on Blackhawk Island later in life. Photo courtesy of the Hoard Historical Museum and Fort Atkinson [Wisconsin] Historical Society.

Indeed, the men in Niedecker’s life tended to betray her. Her first marriage failed after two years; then she settled briefly in New York, where she became the mistress of Louis Zukofsky, a promising young poet. He had founded a literary movement of sorts that he called Objectivism, an avant-garde approach that emphasizes clear, sharp images and structure rather than content or theme. The poem is an object that’s separate from its meaning. He offered helpful criticism of her poetry, but when she became pregnant (possibly with twins), Zukofsky demanded that she get an abortion, in spite of her pleading. She reluctantly had the abortion. Although Zukofsky soon married another woman, Niedecker continued to correspond with him for years, going so far as to type his manuscripts and send money to him and his family. He was a well-known literary figure, and his endorsement of Niedecker’s work would have been a big help as she struggled to make a name for herself. Instead, her “reward” for her devotion was Zukofsky’s refusal to write a prologue or recommendation for any of her books. Back on Blackhawk Island, Niedecker wrote poetry that was published both in England and America. She earned a reputation as a gifted poet, but not enough money to live on. Her chronically poor eyesight made a desk job impossible, so she was forced to accept cleaning work at Fort Atkinson Hospital, scrubbing floors like a literary Cinderella. Two years after beginning work at the hospital, she fell joyfully in love with a widower, Harold Hein. He was a dentist from Milwaukee who appeared to share

her feelings. His family welcomed her warmly; even Zukofsky wrote to express cautious optimism. But months passed without a marriage proposal. When Niedecker finally asked Hein about his intentions, he told her that he would never marry again and planned to retire to California. Then he marched out of her life, leaving her miserable. At the age of 60, Niedecker met Albert “Al” Millen, an industrial painter and heavy drinker who had left school after the eighth grade. He was a great reader, however, and she decided to marry him almost at first sight because he could give her “time and space for poetry.” Zukofsky was skeptical, and, as one might expect, Millen could be a difficult husband. (Niedecker’s friends became concerned for her safety after he drank himself into a rage and threatened one of them with a gun.) Still, he supported her work as a poet, and he drove her on long trips around the Great Lakes region, where she found inspiration for such works as “Lake Superior” and “Wintergreen Ridge.” Niedecker’s poems have been described as “spare” and “haiku-like.” She never identified herself with any of the fashionable literary movements, and as a poet — as in her life — she went her own way. Like the Japanese masters of haiku and the five-line tanka, Niedecker typically preferred short poems. She developed her own variation on the tanka, in which the third and fourth lines rhymed: River-marsh-drowse / and in flood / moonlight / gives sight / of no land Like the Objectivists, Niedecker strove to create compelling images and Winter 2021/2022

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concise, muted lines. (She once referred to her desk, and perhaps her mind, as a “condensery.”) Here, in an autumn poem, a deserted boat promises the eventual return of spring: They’ve lost their leaves / the maples along the river / but the weeping willow still / hangs green / and the old cracked boat-hulk / mud-sunk / grows weeds / year after year Objectivist poets wished to convey emotion, but they shunned lush, romantic ecstasies or agonies. As Zukofsky wrote, “The emotional quality of good poetry is founded on exact observation.” Niedecker often followed his advice, as in her comment on Harold Hein’s desertion: My life is hung up / in the flood / a wave blurred / portrait / Don’t fall in love / with this face — / it no longer exists / in water / we cannot fish Niedecker had long yearned for fame, and as years passed, she feared she would die without leaving a legacy. But she and Millen were planning a vacation trip to Lake Superior, and she was convinced that the lake could inspire a masterpiece.

befuddled / the door behind him / closed he must / go out at the rear / the load on him / for the next / flower Niedecker died in 1970 without winning the fame she longed for. She never received a Pulitzer Prize or saw a book of her work published by a major company. For about two weeks after her death, Millen was a weeping, broken man; then he perked up and wrote to his ex-wife, suggesting that they get back together. (They tried and failed.)

A quote from a Niedecker poem is included in the Ram Rojas mural on the wall of the former Nelson’s Hardware building in Baileys Harbor: “Every creature better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees.”

In “Wintergreen Ridge,” Niedecker returned to the “exact observation” of the processes of life, as in this description of a bee pollinating a flower: Lady’s slipper’s glue / and electric threads / smack the sweets-seeker / on the head / with pollinia / The bee /

But Niedecker’s admirers, both in America and England, worked diligently to get her remaining manuscripts published, to bring out a book of her collected works and to arrange for a State Historical Marker on her property. (Apparently Zukofsky was no help.) On the marker, these lines from Niedecker’s “Paean to Place” appear: Fish / fowl / flood / Water lily mud / My life / in the leaves and on water / My mother and I / born / in swale and swamp and sworn / to water

She prepared for the journey by clipping travel articles, reading widely about the geology of the Great Lakes and taking notes about where the most interesting rocks might be found. Although Niedecker is often described as a poet of water, her long poem “Lake Superior” deals almost entirely with geology and evolution. The poem is a development of a theme stated in the first four lines: In every part of every living thing / is stuff that once was rock / In blood the minerals / of the rock

Niedecker on Blackhawk Island as a girl. Photo courtesy of the Hoard Historical Museum and Fort Atkinson [Wisconsin] Historical Society.

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With a few rare exceptions, Lake Michigan’s Green Bay freezes over every winter, usually for eight to 12 weeks or more. It’s one of only a handful of places on the Great Lakes where this happens on a regular basis. Depending on the speed and severity of the freeze, ice can form to a thickness in excess of three to six feet on the bay, making the 1,600-square-mile expanse of water look more like the North Pole than the great inland sea that we all know and love during the summer months. Over the years, I’ve looked out across our small slice of the cryosphere and found little of photographic interest, other than the crisp, minimalist line of the horizon. I didn’t grow up on the bay, so I never thought much of venturing out onto it during the winter. Yet that is what many have done, from the earliest settlers taking goods to market, to entrepreneurs moving entire hotels across the ice, to today’s weekend warriors zooming over it on snowmobiles and fishing through it in heated shanties. My first foray over the ice was actually by air, with a drone. It wasn’t until I trained my camera straight down did my interest in lake ice consume me. Here is a world that few have had the chance to see: a dynamic world that varies day by day, from one location to the next, as the ice continuously evolves in shape, color and texture. There’s gray ice, white ice and black ice. Ice feet, ice rind and pack ice. Like the Inuit language possessing many words to describe snow, so there are many terms to describe ice on the Great Lakes. Each relates how the ice was formed or the state it’s in. Typically, ice begins to form in smaller inlets and bays, usually in mid- to late December, when the water near the surface is cooled by subfreezing air with little or no wind and few, if any, waves. This sheet can quickly extend out from

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the shore, but it also freezes down into the depths of the lake. During a series of very cold, still nights, the entire bay freezes over. Some of the more visually interesting ice formations are created by the churning up and refreezing of sheets of primary and secondary ice into a fruitcake-like amalgamation called agglomerate ice. Scientists are studying the effects of lake ice on local weather patterns courtesy of records that have been kept over the past five decades. They’re finding that without lake ice, Great Lakes communities bear the brunt of larger snow events, and the basin as a whole

I’ll always look at the bay differently now during the winter months: as a constantly evolving visual playground full of drama and conflict, with opposing natural forces creating an infinite palette of wonder that I can return to on a daily basis to find inspiration. — Brett Kosmider

is facing decreasing Great Lakes water levels through increased evaporation. Sure, we’re coming off historically high water levels, but the trend of a warming climate and warming waters in the lakes sets the stage for long-term losses in Great Lakes water levels: something that will affect everyone from local merchants, fishers and resort owners to large manufacturers in distant cities that rely on the Great Lakes to engage in commerce. I’ll always look at the bay differently now during the winter months: as a

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ESSAY

constantly evolving visual playground full of drama and conflict, with opposing natural forces creating an infinite palette of wonder that I can return to on a daily basis to find inspiration. But I’ll also look at the bay and its ice as reminders of my duty to my friends and neighbors — whose livelihood depends on that sweetwater miracle that is literally outside our doorsteps — to do whatever I can to preserve it. My muse is a complicated beast: one full of power and might, but also surprise, beauty and delicacy. My muse is the water all around us: life giving, sustaining and worth protecting for all.

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PR ES ENTS

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Visit our newly-renovated theatre in downtown Sturgeon Bay and watch for our 2022 Season announcement!

Learn more at www.ThirdAvenuePlayWorks.org

RYAN CAPPLEMAN AND MEGHAN JARECKI IN THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION OF GEORGE GERSHWIN’S LA LA LUCILLE. PHOTO BY HEIDI HODGES.

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Celebrating 50+ Years of Superior Service

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Be proactive! Protect your trees from the Emerald Ash Borer! Dave’s Tree Services oﬀers environmentally friendly treatments that are available for healthy and infected trees.

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Bringing hockey back to the pond.

2022 PENINSULA CENTURIES Century Ride • Metric Century • 50 mile • 25 mile

SPRING CLASSIC June 18, 2022

FALL CHALLENGE

September 17, 2022

Each team is guaranteed to play at least 3 games, so be ready to skate! All games are played Saturday. The tournament will include 9 divisions in 2022. • Men’s Open A (Pro, college, or junior level players) • Men’s Open B (high school, organized, or recreational players) • Men’s Open C (Rookies) • Men’s Open D (Recreational) • Classic A (40 and over) • Classic B (40 and over, slowing down) • Legends A (50 and over) • Legends B (50 and over, slowing down) • Women’s Rinks will be cleared on the lake, including one for family and recreational play. A beer and food tent will be erected on the ice as well.

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The winning teams will receive the coveted Stanley Thermos Trophy.

HISTORY

by Jessica Gatzow

Stavkirke Honors Washington Islanders’ Heritage

A sense of community drove the idea for the church and made its construction possible. In 1983, island pastor Rev. James Reiff envisioned building a structure that reflected the influence of Scandinavian immigration on Washington Island. He suggested a design based on an iconic structure of 11th-century Scandinavia: a stavkirke, or stav church. Constructed of wood rather than stone, the architecture of such churches resembled Viking ships. Pat Mangan, an architect from Sister Bay with an interest in these churches, proposed a design based specifically on a well-preserved stavkirke in Borgund, Norway, that he’d visited. Mangan drew up the floor plans and materials list, and craftspeople and carpenters from the Door peninsula began volunteering their time to construct the church. “There are no precise blueprints available for constructing such a church,” said Richard Purinton, a Washington Island Ferry captain and author who helped build the Stavkirke and continues to contribute to its upkeep. “The carpenters had to figure out how this thing was going to be put together.” The homeland of long ago and far away inspired the idea and design for the Stavkirke, but its composition comes from present-day home: Algoma Lumber Company milled pine from northeastern Wisconsin for the main church structure, and northern parts of the state supplied white cedar to create the roof shingles. By August of 1995, the church was dedicated, and it gained a decorative bell tower four years later. 68

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Upright poles known as “stavs,” or masts, characterize the Stavkirke’s design. In Norway, this type of construction allowed the churches to withstand strong winds and storms. Washington Island’s Stavkirke has 12 upright stavs. The traditionally dark color of these churches comes from a pine-tar coating that extends the life of wooden structures. Gary Hendrickson created the Stavkirke’s acanthus carvings: a design similar to rosemaling that imitates Mediterranean leaves. “Acanthus carvings were sort of the pinnacle of decorative carving in Norway and Sweden,” Purinton said. “It’s a very prescribed and precise type of carving, with the swirls imitating the [acanthus] vines. You don’t just improvise.” These carvings intermingle with Purninton’s own carving contributions: flat, Celtic-inspired carvings that pay homage to Vikings in general, as well as to Ireland and Scotland. Volunteers did landscaping around the church grounds, including a “prayer path” through the woods. A short boardwalk section leads to the road where Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church — which owns and manages the Stavkirke — resides on the other side. Typically, Trinity Lutheran hosts weddings, baptisms and Wednesday evening services at the Stavkirke. The church is also open freely to the public, with between 8,000 and 10,000 people visiting it each summer. “The hope is that people will find something that strikes their spirit,” Purinton said. “We hope that they will find something peaceful, meditative — that they’ll go away with something in addition to having seen a point of interest on Washington Island.”

Photo courtesy of Destination Door County.

Embellished with a dark wood stain, scalloped shingles and intricate carvings, one destination on Washington Island looks like a structure from another era. The Stavkirke honors Washington Island heritage — not as an original structure built by Scandinavian settlers, but as a modern creation inspired by history.

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IN YOUR KITCHEN by Jess Farley / photography by Sarah Koehler

A Delicious, Surprising Kitchen Challenge

Blind Kitchen Sink

We women — my friends who share my love for the culinary arts — rejoice in the preparation of food, and also in the indulgence of sitting around a table, sharing a leisurely meal and wonderful conversation. There are similarities to kitchen shows such as Chopped, but our

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goal is collaboration, not competition. We embrace the concept of working together, and we all look forward to reveling in the experience and sharing in the surprising flavor explosions. It’s even more special because we choose to carve time out of our busy lives to do so. I hope you take on this challenge! Use what you already have in your refrigerator, freezer and pantry. The experience is the reward, and the shared meal is the cherry on top of the sundae. You’ll also learn some shortcuts and new food-preparation tricks from one another. This is a very tasty experience based on the love of food and friendship.

Photo: Wyatt Bultman

This is an idea, a concept, a creative way to bring friends together to share in a meal. It was born in the world of mothers: busy, working mothers finding companionship after grabbing whatever ingredients were in their refrigerator and pantry, contributing them to a pool and meeting up to create a meal and enjoy good times together. These meals are memorable and so much fun. This concept blossomed and grew.

Follow these tips for a successful, delicious, surprising meal: • Invite four to six of your favorite people — the more the merrier! • Each guest must contribute three or four ingredients to the pool, but keep them a secret: Part of the fun is not knowing what your friends are sharing. • Set yourself up for success by having a pantry stocked with good, allaround basics to use to fill in the gaps throughout your culinary adventure. • Make a soundtrack with some funky music and a good beat to get the kitchen energy moving. • Have a blast!

STEP ONE: INVENTORY THE INGREDIENTS Take stock of the contributed ingredients, and then put your heads together to plan a menu. The goal is to use all the ingredients. When my good girlfriends and I tested this concept, our pooled resources supplied these ingredients: Brie cheese, fresh basil, poblano peppers, speckled string beans,

butternut squash, roasted pumpkin seeds, kielbasa sausage, kale, golden beets, Door County Creamery truffle chèvre, shrimp, zucchini and sweet peppers.

STEP TWO: CREATE THE MENU Our menu consisted of three courses (recipes are on the following page). Course 1 Stuffed and Roasted Sweet Peppers Mini peppers filled with Brie cheese, sausage and fresh basil, and finished with a balsamic glaze Course 2 Poblano Butternut Squash Bisque Topped with truffle chèvre and roasted pumpkin seeds Course 3 Grilled Shrimp and Sausage Skillet Tossed with wilted kale, beets, speckled string beans and zucchini sautéed in rosemary-garlic butter

prepping all the ingredients. We were roasting squash in preparation for the soup and grilling sausages. “Can we all just move in together and do this every night?” one friend asked. We got the prep work done fairly quickly, then transitioned to the fun part: getting the flavors dialed in just right. How much salt? Which spices? How long should I let this cook? Include everyone in the process, and remember to listen to one another. It was so much fun to see which ideas and concepts we all brought to the table. The best part for me was knowing that we were all stronger together in figuring things out than we were as individuals. We shared our shortcuts and ideas, made up new words and laughed — we laughed a lot! In my opinion, laughter is the best medicine for a happy life. And I promise you: When you finish with your evening, your belly will be full of great food prepared with love, and your heart will be filled with joy! What will fill your belly and soul during your blind kitchen challenge?

Once we had decided on the menu, we got to work, dicing and slicing and Winter 2021/2022

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IN YOUR KITCHEN

Stuffed and Roasted Sweet Peppers Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grilled kielbasa sausage (grill sausage; then remove from casing and crumble) 1 cup Brie cheese, rind removed and remaining cheese cubed ½ cup fresh basil, chopped Salt and pepper to taste 12–15 mini sweet peppers, tops cut off and seeds removed Balsamic glaze While the oven is preheating, mix the grilled sausage, Brie and basil in a bowl until well blended. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place the peppers on a parchment-lined sheet pan, and parbake for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool. Using a spoon, stuff each pepper with the Brie-and-sausage mixture. Place the peppers back on the sheet pan, and roast in the oven for about 10 minutes or until the peppers begin to brown and the cheese filling begins to ooze out. Remove the peppers from the oven, and arrange them on a plate. Finish with a drizzle of balsamic glaze and a sprinkle of fresh, chopped basil.

Poblano Butternut Squash Bisque Topped with truffle chèvre and roasted pumpkin seeds Preheat the oven to 425°F. 1 butternut squash (medium large), cut in half, with seeds removed Olive oil Coarse salt 3–4 poblano peppers, grilled or oven roasted, with charred skin removed (Keep the seeds if you like the spicy heat, or remove them for a milder flavor.) 5–6 cups chicken broth 1 cup apple cider 1 tsp nutmeg Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Truffle chèvre Roasted pumpkin seeds Drizzle the squash with olive oil and a sprinkle of coarse salt. Bake on a parchment-lined sheet pan for about 30 minutes. Remove the squash from the oven when it’s fork tender, set it aside and let it cool. Remove the skin and add the squash, poblano peppers and chicken broth to a

soup kettle. Using an immersion blender, blend all the ingredients until they’re silky smooth. (We added about a cup of apple cider, a teaspoon of nutmeg and lots of freshly ground pepper to finish the soup. The flavors were layered and complex.) Bring the soup back to a gentle boil. Before serving, add a quenelle of truffle chèvre and a sprinkle of roasted pumpkin seeds to the top of each cup of soup. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Grilled Shrimp and Sausage Skillet Tossed with wilted kale, beets, speckled string beans and zucchini sautéed in rosemary-garlic butter 1 lb fresh, wild-caught shrimp, with shells and tails on Olive oil Juice of ½ lemon Salt and pepper to taste Fresh rosemary (large sprig), finely chopped, stem removed 2–3 cloves garlic, diced 3–4 Tbsp butter 3 golden beets, cubed and roasted 1 zucchini, chopped into cubes ½ lb speckled string beans, ends snapped 1 head fresh kale, chopped, ribs removed ¼ cup chicken broth or white wine 1–2 kielbasa sausage links (grilled at the same time as the sausage for the stuffed peppers), sliced into circles Toss the shrimp in a drizzle of olive oil and lemon juice, season with salt and pepper and approximately 1 teaspoon of the chopped rosemary and half the diced garlic. Set off to the side to marinate for 10–15 minutes. Heat a large, cast-iron skillet to mediumhigh heat. Add the butter, the rest of the rosemary and the rest of the garlic. Once the butter is melted and the garlic is starting to sizzle, add the beets, zucchini and speckled string beans. Sauté for 5–10 minutes — long enough to allow the beans to sweat and the zucchini to wilt and start to become translucent. Add the kale and a drizzle of olive oil and the broth or wine. Turn the heat down to medium low, cover the skillet and steam the kale for about 3 minutes. Uncover and give it a good stir. Add the grilled sausage at this point. We precooked it on the grill, so it only needs to be heated through. In the meantime, grill the marinated shrimp. This step will not take long — only about two minutes on each side. They’re finished when they start to turn pink.

Add the grilled shrimp to the skillet, give it another big stir, and add salt and pepper to taste. We set a bottle of hot sauce on the table, and my friend Jess also had homemade ramp butter that we added to our plates when serving.

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This culinary adventure takes time, so we took advantage of it by incorporating some fun cocktails and mocktails into the experience.

The Mocktail: Blackberry Ginger Sparkle This drink is surprisingly refreshing and absolutely delicious, and it was well received by two of the three children in tow. Makes 4 servings Rosemary-infused sugar (¼ cup turbinado sugar and 1 Tbsp fresh, finely chopped rosemary blended together) 2 Tbsp blackberry jam 1 tsp elderberry syrup 24 oz ginger kombucha 2 12-oz cans blackberry seltzer water Fresh blackberries Fresh mint leaves 4 pieces candied ginger Rim the glasses with the rosemary sugar, and add ice. Add the jam, syrup and kombucha to a cocktail shaker, and give it a good shake. (You may need to do this step twice, depending on your shaker size.) Split the mixture equally among the four glasses, which should fill them halfway. Top off with the blackberry seltzer. Garnish with the fresh blackberries, mint leaves and candied ginger.

The Cocktail: Sake It to Me! Makes 4 servings 1 750-ml bottle Nigori sake 8 Tbsp tart cherry juice concentrate Juice of 1 lime Rosemary-infused sugar (see the recipe above) Rosemary sprigs for garnish Make each drink individually. Using a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add about 8 oz of sake, 2 Tbsp of cherry juice concentrate and a splash of lime juice. Give it a good shake. Rim a rocks glass with rosemary-infused sugar, and pour the contents of the shaker into the glass with no ice. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary.

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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 email us with up-to-date information at info@doorcountyliving.com.

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BAILEYS HARBOR AC Tap 9322 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2426 $LD JT Baileys 57 7998 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2114

Baileys57.com $BLDT Bearded Heart Coffee 8093 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9111 beardedheartcoffee. com $BL{

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selections in a casual and comfortable setting. Children’s menu available. Family friendly. Florian II Supper Club 8048 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2361 $$ D J Harbor Fish Market & Grille 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 harborfish market-grille.com $$$$ B L D J {( Harbor Frozen Custard 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 ${ Heirloom Cafe & Provisions 2434 Cty F (920) 839-9334 heirloomcafeand provisions.com $$ B L

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Big Easy Bagel & Beignet 7755 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9600 bigeasydoorcounty. com $BLT{ Buttercups Coffee Shop 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1771 $B Carrington Pub & Grill 7643 Hillside Road (920) 868-5162

thelandmarkresort. com $$$ B L D J T {( Casey’s BBQ & Smokehouse 7855 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3038 caseysbbqand smokehouse.com $$ L D J T Matthew Peterson established Casey’s BBQ & Smokehouse in the spring of 2008. Matthew, a Door County native, wanted to put a Door County twist on Southern-style BBQ by using cherry wood to give our meats a rosy cast with a delicious, mild smoked flavor. We also offer a fabulous fish fry, locally famous burgers and many other tasty treats. Fireside Restaurant 7755 Hwy 42 thefireside restaurant.com $$$ D J (

Glacier Ledge 8103 Hwy 42 (920) 868-1333 $$ L D ( We are casual fine dining, offering an eclectic menu with small plates made to share. We offer unique items with a blast of flavor. Our chef has traveled the world and is bringing all those delicious flavors right here. We have a newly added bar serving wine, beer and lowalcohol speciality cocktails. Greens N Grains Deli 7821 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9999 greens-Ngrains.com $BLJ{ The Greens N Grains Deli features a selection of vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and rawfood cuisine. The deli also features a juice bar with freshly pressed veggie juices,

fruit smoothies, a healthful bakery, tea bar and organic coffees. Call for winter hours. Log Den 6626 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3888 thelogden.com $$ L D J T { ( MacReady Artisan Bread Company 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2233 MacReadyBread Company.com $LDJT{ Mojo Restaurant Group 7778 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3274 mojorestaurant group.com $$ L D J T { ( Parador 7829 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2255 $$ D {( Shipwrecked Brew Pub 7791 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicro brew.com $$$ L D J T { The Harbor View Grill 7821 Horseshoe Bay Road

(920) 868-5064 theharborviewgrill. com $$ B L D ( The Orchards at Egg Harbor 8125 Heritage Lake Road (920) 868-2483 orchardsategg harbor.com $L J{ Village Cafe 7918 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3247 $$ B L J { Wild Pizza Works’ Pizza Romana at One Barrel 4633 Market St. (920) 868-9453 wildtomatopizza. com $$ L D T{

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RESTAURANT GUIDE Hügel Haus 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 633-4080 $$ D J T ( A German-inspired, Wisconsininfluenced restaurant located on the hill in Ellison Bay serving Deutschland classics and inspired Wisconsin favorites, including Door County’s best cheese curds! Nightly specials and daily happy hour with German bier, wine and specialty cocktails. Open year-round and selfproclaimed as “Door County’s Wurst Bar.” View our menu and hours online at hugelhausdoor county.com. Kick Ash Coffee 12001 Mink River Road (920) 421-1041 kickashproducts. com $BL T{ Mink River Basin 12010 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2250 minkriverbasin.com $$ 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 Road (920) 854-3305 wickmanhouse.com $$$ D { (

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FISH CREEK Alexander’s Contemporary Cuisine & Fine Spirits 3667 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3532

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alexandersofdoor county.com $$$$ D J T { ( Specializing in seafood, steaks, contemporary cuisine, catering and special events (fully licensed and insured). Bar opens at 4 pm; dinner at 5 pm. Sunday brunch starting at 9 am. Barringer’s Restaurant 1 N. Spruce St. (920) 868-3738 barringersdoor county.com $$$$ L D { T ( Bayside Coffee The Shops at the Bayside baysidecoffee cottage.com $BLJ Fish Creek’s only waterfront cafe. Beautifully situated across from the town dock. Outdoor seating with a view. Featuring piping hot or iced Colectivo coffee, espresso drinks and Rishi teas, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, salads and bakery. Bayside Tavern 4160 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 Smilen Bob’s chili. Open daily year-round! Blue Horse Beach Café 4113 Main St. (920) 868-1471

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bluehorsecafe.com $BLJT{ DC Chocolate Design 9341 Spring Road, Unit A6 (920) 868-5155 dcchocolatedesign. com $BL T{ English Inn 3713 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3076 theenglishinn.com $$$ D J T ( Fika Bakery & Cafe 3903 Hwy 42 (920) 868-5233 $BL{ Greenwood Supper Club Intersection of Cty A and F (920) 839-2451 greenwood supperclub.net $$$ D J Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel 4020 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2999 juliesmotel.com $$ B L J{( Loft 4170 Main St. (920) 868-5242 $$ L D J { Nicolet Beach Concessions 10170 Shore Road (in Peninsula State Park) (920) 854-4486 $LDJ{ Not Licked Yet 4054 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2617 notlickedyet.com $LD{ Pelletier’s Restaurant Founder’s Square (920) 868-3313 doorcountyfish boil.com $$ B L D J{( Shiny Moon Café 4164 Main St. shinymooncafe.com $$ B L In the heart of Fish Creek, serving breakfast and lunch

with a full-service coffee bar, beer and wine. Vibrant food for the soul that makes you feel good! Skaliwags 4135 Main St. (920) 868-3634 $$ L D { Skaliwags in Fish Creek serves lunch and dinner daily. Our specialties focus on custom-ground burger patties; the best handcut steaks; fresh Hawaiian seafood; big, sexy pasta; and famous sandwiches found around the country, perfected with quality ingredients. Join us! The Cherry Hut 8813 Hwy 42 $$ L 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 the famous Cherry Stuffed French Toast as featured on Good Morning America, as well as a full menu daily. Featuring fish boils in the summer, fall and select winter nights, along with candlelight dinners. Reservations recommended for dinner. Wild Tomato Wood-Fired Pizza & Grille 4023 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3095 wildtomatopizza. com $LD JT{

FORESTVILLE Johnny G’s Fishing Hole 51599 Hwy 42 (920) 743-9814 facebook.com/ johnnygsfishing hole $$$ L D J The Bullpen 213 W. Main St., #9691 (920) 856-6199 $$ L D T

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

JACKSONPORT Island Fever Rum Bar & Grill Cty V and Hwy 57 (920) 823-2700 $LD JT{ Little Bit of Coffee 6332 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2408 $B T Mr. G’s Logan Creek Grille 5890 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2112 $$$ D J T {

SISTER BAY Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant 10698 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-2626 aljohnsons.com $$ B L D JT Boathouse on the Bay 10716 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-3223 $$$ L D J { Carroll House 2445 S. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-7997 $BLJ

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RESTAURANT GUIDE Chop 2345 Mill Road (920) 854-2700 $$$ D JT{( Door County Bakery 10048 Hwy 57 (920) 854-1137 doorcountybakery. com $$ 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{ Fat Belly Bowls and Burritos 10621 N. Highland Road (920) 854-3500 fatbellybowls.com $$ L D { Grasse’s Grill 10663 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-1125 $$ B L J{

Husby’s Food and Spirits 10641 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-2624 $LD JT{ JJ’s La Puerta Restaurant 10961 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-4513 jjswaterfront.com $$ L D J T { Travel to the north end of Sister Bay for the liveliest setting around! Enjoy Mexican and American dishes and fantastic margaritas — a local favorite! LURE Intersection of Hwys 42 and 57 (920) 854-8111 luredoorcounty.com $$$ D J T { ( McEvoy’s Culinaria & Catering 2602 S. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-8029 $LDT{ 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 yearround. Featuring a full dining room, grill and bar, and Northern Door’s only bowling alley. Skip Stone Coffee Roasters 10678 S. Bay Shore Dr., Building 2 skipstonecoffee.com $BL JT{ Stabbur Beer Garden at Al Johnson’s 10698 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 421-4628 $$ L D {

Sub Express at Sister Bay Mobil 2579 S. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-6700 $BLDJT{ The Kitschinn 10440 Orchard Dr. (920) 854-5941 $BJT{ The Waterfront 10961 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-5491 waterfront-DC.com $$$$ D T { ( Thyme Restaurant + Catering 10339 Hwy 57 (920) 421-5112 Thymecatering DoorCounty.com $$ L D { J T ( Thyme restaurant has a new home in Sister Bay. Join us at our brand-new restaurant, bar and outdoor dining space, where we’ll be serving up fresh, new dishes, as well as some of our classics. Next door is twelve eleven

provisions + wine bar, where you can enjoy a variety of wines sourced and produced from grapes grown in Sonoma and Mendocino County. Our private, openair dining space and gabled meadow are available to rent. See you soon! twelve eleven provisions + wine bar 10339 Hwy 57 (920) 421-9463 $$ L D T{ twelve eleven + Thyme Cuisine are pleased to collaborate in a fullservice restaurant with indoor and outdoor dining, private events, wine bar and provisions shop in Sister Bay. Our provisions shop offers wine selections from our namesake, as well as two additional California base

labels, whose winemakers hail from Wisco and the Mitten. In addition to slinging juice, the shop will offer a selection of artisanal cheeses + charcuterie, bread and a carefully curated selection of local wares. Wild Tomato WoodFired Pizza & Grille 10677 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-4685 wildtomatopizza. com $LD JT{

STURGEON BAY 5th and Jefferson Café 232 N. 5th Ave. (920) 746-1719 $BLD{ Birmingham’s 4709 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 743-5215 birminghamsbar andcottages.com $$ L D J T

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Blue Front Café 86 W. Maple (920) 743-9218 $$ L JT( Brick Lot Pub & Grill 253 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-9339 bricklotpub.com $LD JT Bridge Up Brewing 129 N. Madison Ave. (920) 743-2300 sonnyspizzeria.com/ bridge-up-brewing/ $LD T{ Cedar Crossing Restaurant & Bar 336 Louisiana St. (920) 743-4200 innatcedar crossing.com $$$ B L D J T ( Corner Café 113 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-1991 $BLJT( Crate — Sushi & Seafood 136 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 818-1333 $$$ D T{( Dan’s Kitchen 50 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 818-1300 dans-kitchen.com $LD T Door County Fire Company 38 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 818-0625 $$ L D J T El Sazon Mexican Restaurant 1449 Green Bay Road, Suite 2 (920) 743-6740 $BLD JT Fatzo’s 46 Green Bay Road (920) 743-6300 $LDJT{ Get Real Café 43 S. Madison Ave. (920) 818-1455 getrealcafedoor county.com $$ B L D Glas 67 E. Maple St. (920) 743-5575 glascoffee.com $BL T{ Greystone Castle 8 N. Madison Ave. (920) 743-9923 Greystonecastle bar.com $$ L D J T Hoffman’s Red Room 66 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-3913 $LD T Hot Tamales 26 E. Oak St. (920) 746-0600 hottamaleswi.com $BLD JT Institute Saloon 4599 Hwy 57 (920) 743-1919 institutesaloon.com $LD T

Kick Coffee 148 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 746-1122 $BLT{ Kinara Urban Eatery 25 N. Madison Ave. (920) 743-8772 $LDT Kitchen Barons Public House 23 W. Oak St. (920) 818-0377 $$ L D Kitty O’Reilly’s Irish Pub 59 E. Oak St. (920) 743-7441 kittyoreillys.com $$ L D J T { Lodge at Leatham Smith 1640 Memorial Dr. (920) 743-5555 $$ L D J T { ( Melt Shoppe at Renard’s Cheese 2189 Cty DK (920) 825-7272 $BL JT{ Now offering more great options. The deli has a great variety of meat, egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches, as well as a full line of gourmet coffee and tea. Lunch features Renard’s pizza, hot and cold sandwiches, hot dogs, soup, salad and a grilled cheese of the week. Offering a variety of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages. Mill Supper Club 4128 Hwy 42/57 N (920) 743-5044 $$$ D J T Morning Glory Restaurant 7502 Hwy 42 (920) 743-5355 $BLJ Old Mexico 901 Egg Harbor Road (920) 818-1500 oldmexicowi.com $$ L D J T { Poh’s Corner Pub 164 N. 3rd Ave. $LD T Samuelson’s Creek Pub & Grill 1009 S. Oxford Ave. (920) 743-3295 whitebirchinn.com $$ L D J T ( Scaturo’s Café 19 Green Bay Road (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 $$$ B L D J T {( Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club 600 Nautical Dr. (920) 743-6934 $$$ L D ( The Gnoshery 23 N. 3rd Ave. (920)818-0727 $BLT New in 2021, the Gnoshery is Door County WI’s premier board game cafe. Filled with fun, games and great “Gnoshables” food and drink that make your experience a truly memorable one! The Nightingale Supper Club 1541 Egg Harbor Road (920) 743-5593 $$$ D J T The Spoon 210 S. 1st Ave. (920) 818-0250 $LD{ Trattoria Dal Santo 147 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-6100 trattoriadalsanto. com $$$ D T( Wanda Jean’s 846 Egg Harbor Road (920) 743-0105 $BLDJT Waterfront Mary’s Bar & Grill 3662 N. Duluth Ave. (920) 743-3191 waterfrontmarys barandgrill.com $LD JT{

VALMY Donny’s Glidden Lodge Restaurant 4670 Glidden Dr. (920) 746-9460 gliddenlodge.com $$$$ D J T { ( The Hitching Post 4849 Glidden Dr. (920) 818-1114 thehitchingpost doorcounty.com $$ B L D J ( Valmy Happy Hour 4418 Whitefish Bay Road (920) 743-6236 $LD JT

WASHINGTON ISLAND Albatross Drive-In N7W1910 Lobdells Point Road

(920) 847-2203 $LD{ Bread & Water Café 1275 Main Road (920) 847-2400 washingtonisland food.com $BL{ Cellar Restaurant at Karly’s Bar Main Road (920) 847-2655 $$$ L D J T { ( Fiddler’s Green 1699 Jackson Harbor Road (920) 847-2610 washingtonisland fiddlersgreen.com $$ L D T{ Findlay’s Holiday Inn Restaurant Detroit Harbor Road (920) 847-2526 holidayinn.net $BLD Hotel Washington 354 Range Line Road (920) 847-3010 $$$ D T{( Island Pizza At the ferry dock (920) 847-3222 $LD Jackson Harbor Soup 1904 Indian Point Road (920) 847-2589 $L{ KK Fiske Restaurant 1177 Main Road (920) 847-2121 $BLDT Le Petit Bistro at Fragrant Isle 1350 Airport Road (920) 847-2950 fragrantisle.com $$$ L D {( Nelsen’s Hall Bitters Pub W19N1205 Main Road (920) 847-2496 $LD T{ Red Cup Coffee House 1885 Detroit Harbor Road (920) 847-3304 $BL Sailor’s Pub 1475 South Shore Dr. (920) 847-2105 $$$ D { ( Ship’s Wheel Restaurant Shipyard Island Marina, South Shore Dr. (920) 847-2640 BLD Sunset Resort Old West Harbor Road (920) 847-2531 sunsetresortwi.com $B Time Out Concessions At Jackson Harbor $L{

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Door County Living - Winter 2021

Articles inside

Blind Kitchen Sink

Stavkirke Honors Washington Islanders’ Heritage

America’s Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker

Dan Austad

CURIOSITIES

The Bird Whisperer

The Pursuit of Curiosity

CONTRIBUTORS

Winter Birds of Prey

Ice Biking

PUBLISHER’S NOTE