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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Photo by Len Villano.

FEATURE

A Journey to Acceptance 58 Owen Alabado and Northern Door Pride OUTDOOR Cherryland USA 16

MUSIC One Note at a Time 40

ALUMNI Boomerang 54

IN YOUR GLASS Rediscovering Vermouth 88

TOPSIDE Between the Bays 20

The Peninsula Symphonic Band

Cam Fuller’s athletics journey brings him home.

ON YOUR PLATE Healthy Made Easy 94

DOOR TO NATURE Bluebirds of Happiness 66

Guilt-free eating at Get Real Cafe

Exploring the Cana Island Lighthouse

HABITAT Storybook House 26 Deb Carey’s cozy cabin on Chapel Lane

ART The Evolution of a Glass Artist 32 Deanna Clayton pushes the boundaries of an art form.

Cover by Len Villano.

MUSIC A Tribute to a Home for Music 44 Musicians honor Butch’s Bar.

HISTORY Much More Than a Country Doctor 48 The legacy of Horace Franklin Eames lives on in Egg Harbor.

ART A Visual Builder 72 Hal Prize photography judge Lars Topelmann

FAIRWAYS Golf by Design 78 The shaping of Door County’s golf courses

ON YOUR PLATE Ramping Up for Spring 100

EDITOR’S NOTE 11 CONTRIBUTORS 13 RESTAURANT GUIDE 104 DOOR COUNTY MAP 113

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Door County Land Trust editor

Myles Dannhausen Jr. special issues editor

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EDITOR’S NOTE The Hope of Spring I distinctly remember three hugs from my mom. She wasn’t shy about showing affection, but there were three times when she hugged me longer, harder, prouder.

Once was after the Packers lost the Super Bowl to the Broncos in January of 1998. She knew.

Another was when I married my wife.

Mom loved Anne from the moment she met her and immediately told me to “hold on to that one.” When we married, Mom knew how happy I was, and that more grandchildren were on the way.

Then there was the spring of 2011, and the huge smile and long embrace she gave to me and my brother on the stoop at the entry to Mom and Dad’s little house on Heritage Lake Road in Egg Harbor. Mom and Dad loved to garden, and at that time, Mom was selling their harvest at three or four farm markets a week. My brother, Dan, and I had come home for the weekend with friends (and Dan’s future wife) to help them build a massive, 70-foot-by-30-foot greenhouse in hopes that they could get a little earlier start on planting each year, and better fight the whims of Door County’s spring weather.

We thought it was a five- to 10-year solution for my parents, but as things

Myles Sr. and Mary Dannhausen get ready for spring in version two of their greenhouse. Photo by Myles Dannhausen Jr.

tend to go in our family, it didn’t make it five months. We would wake up to a photo from my dad in September.

An overnight windstorm had whipped through the property and mangled the greenhouse, ripping one end of the metal framework out of the ground and folding it over the other, shredding the plastic.

mind will be battered and worn come November.

I was devastated, but Mom and Dad shrugged it off.

This year the staff will arrive. This year we’ll find the time to enjoy the sun. This year we’ll have time to harvest some ramps in May; the slugs and weevils won’t get the strawberries in June; and the tomatoes will ripen in July.

“We’ve got a project for next spring now,” they said. Of course, I was part of that “we.” And rebuild we did, with a new design. That one was in turn torn apart by a windstorm a few years later that uprooted several old trees on the property and flooded the garden.

They rebuilt again.

It’s one of the great traits of my parents, but one I recognized only in adulthood.

Or more fully, in fatherhood. Mom and Dad were never great at getting ahead, but they were phenomenal at getting back up, at plowing forward, at not looking back.

It prepared them well for living in the cycle of Door County, particularly in the spring. Renew. Rebuild. Retrench.

Each spring beckons a season of work, of grind, of enthusiasm destined to turn to exasperation in a matter of months (or weeks). Assuredly, the body and

But the long winter puts space between us and the worst of our exhaustion. The cold blacks out so much. And when the first glimmers of hope arrive in the form of glorious, 38-degree April Saturdays, our optimism returns in full.

The hope comes back for the farmers, the shopkeepers, the restaurateurs.

Just as it came for my mom that day on the stoop, looking out at a greenhouse in the spring, thinking of all that was possible. A hug full of all the hope and happiness of spring.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Copy editor PAULA APFELBACH does her thing remotely from Minneapolis.

Words are glorious, wherever you go.

SALLY COLLINS lives in Sturgeon Bay with her photographer husband, 2-yearold daughter and cuddly cat. Her board book, Door County Animals, written for the littlest of locals and tourists, will be released this summer.

Writer and editor MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. has been searching out stories for Door County Living since 2005. In this issue he takes on the arduous task of cocktail sampling as he helps readers rediscover vermouth.

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.

TOM GROENFELDT of Sturgeon Bay writes about financial technology for Forbes.com and The Financial Brand in addition to writing profiles of Door County artists for the Peninsula Pulse.

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.”

Whatever chair creative director ANDREW KLEIDON sits in for the Peninsula Pulse, he’s always having a blast. When he’s not in the office, he’s hanging with his wife, Yorkie and son Oliver, and eagerly awaiting baby number two.

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.

When not writing for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living, SARA RAE LANCASTER splits her time between writing about the people and places of Door County, and operating OneEighty Petals Flower Farm in Fish Creek with her husband, John; son, Jack; and daughter Evangeline.

Peninsula Pulse photographer and videographer, RACHEL LUKAS, is getting more familiar with the county with every shoot.

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.

JENNIFER MUCH is a freelance writer who resides in the Fox Cities of Wisconsin with her husband, Corey; and their two children, Katelyn and Lucas.

Door County is their second home.

CHRIS RUGOWSKI is a photojournalist from Green Bay who captured the scene of a benefit for Butch’s Bar in Sturgeon Bay, which burned down last winter.

JUSTIN SKIBA is a Sevastopol educator who lives in Sturgeon Bay with his wife, Stephanie; and daughters, Delaney and Amelia.

Outdoors enthusiast CRAIG STERRETT of Egg Harbor has more than three decades of journalism experience and a passion for the links. In this issue he discovers the people who designed the county’s golf courses.

Since 1992, PATTY WILLIAMSON and her husband, Howard, have enjoyed spring, summer and fall in their cottage on Kangaroo Lake. Her passion for local history takes her to the story of Doc Eames, Egg Harbor’s country doctor.

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d n a l y r r e h C USA Door County is synonymous with cherries. Cool spring weather makes the peninsula an ideal cherry-growing climate, and as Memorial Day nears, the most-asked question of spring is always, “Are the cherry trees blooming yet?”

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he 2,500 acres of beautiful, white blossoms usually paint the countryside in mid- to late May, starting on the southern part of the peninsula and working north a day to a few days later.

You can also catch great views of blossoms along Old State Road and County ZZ in Sister Bay, along Shiloh Road and County HH in Sturgeon Bay, and on Cherry Lane in Forestville.

To follow the status of the season, check Destination Door County’s Cherry Blossom Report at DoorCounty. com, or visit the Peninsula Pulse on Facebook for updates.

Those are just a few great places to look, but there are more to discover as you travel the peninsula’s back roads. If we’re lucky, the blossoms stick around for a couple of weeks, but a bright field of blossoms can fade overnight. Soak them in when you can!

Where to See the Blossoms

Pick Your Own

One reason people fall in love with Door County is because of the way the quaint villages are broken up by expanses of agriculture and forest.

Blossoms can be seen along Harbor School Road just outside the village of Egg Harbor, along Highway 42 between Egg Harbor and Fish Creek near Hyline Orchard and Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery and Market, and north of Sister Bay at Seaquist Orchards.

Come late July, the cherries will be ripe for picking. Fill your buckets to make cherry pie, tarts or maybe even a little cherry bounce for next year. Pick your own cherries at Cherry Lanes Orchards, Choice Orchards, Kielar Akers Orchard, Robertson Orchards, Door County Fruit Connection, Schartner’s Farm Market, Hyline Orchard, Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery and Market, Meleddy Orchard and Sorens Valhalla.

Photo by Brett Kosmider.

Cherries By the Numbers 4th Wisconsin’s ranking as a cherry producer in the nation, behind Michigan, New York and Utah.

6 The number of stages of cherry growth: budding, blossoming, petals falling, green cherries, yellow cherries and red cherries that are ready to pick between mid-July and mid-August. Following the harvest, cherries are out of season again until April.

7.5 The number of pails of cherries that the boys

who traveled to Horseshoe Bay Farms for its Cherry Camp in the 1940s and 1950s had to pick per day to earn their room and board. They could stop after that or keep picking to earn a wage.

10 The percentage of all of the nation’s cherries that Door County grows.

48 feet, 1 inch The state-record length

for the farthest cherry-pit spit. You can try a cherrypit spit for yourself at Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery.

300+ The number of cherries that go into one pie made at Seaquist Orchards. Cherry pies are normally produced with around 250, but Seaquist packs them in, meaning that a standard slice contains 50-plus cherries.

1896 The year when Door County’s first cherry trees were planted. In experiments conducted by the University of Wisconsin’s Horticulture Department, cherries flourished, whereas apples, plums and pears didn’t fare as well.

1945 The year when German prisoners of war

were brought to Door County to harvest cherries to fill the local labor void created by World War II.

2,500 The number of acres of cherry orchards in Door County.

7,000 The number of cherries on an average tart-cherry tree.

42,000 The number of cherries harvested per minute with a harvesting machine.

270,000 The total number of cherry trees in Door County.

Sources: USDA, Laura Seaquist, doorcounty.com, wisconsincherrygrowers.org, orchardcountry.com, horseshoebayfarms.org

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Between the Bays Exploring the Cana Island Lighthouse

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Nestled on 8.7 tranquil acres between Moonlight Bay and North Bay in Baileys Harbor is one of the most recognizable and celebrated sights in Door County: the Cana Island Lighthouse.

Connected to the mainland by a water-covered, natural-rock causeway, the 89-foot structure – once merely composed of clay Cream City bricks – is now also encased in a reinforced steel shell and harbors rich memories. It has proudly shown its light on an invigorating local history that has continued to fascinate lighthouse aficionados for decades.

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The Test of Time Built in 1869, the cherished cylindrical tower was once the tallest structure in Door County. It rests alongside a rugged shoreline and rocky reefs, and the vast waters surrounding it are home to a collection of sunken vessels and woodhulled schooners that once graced the surface. The lighthouse, along with its historical ambience, welcomes visitors of all ages and keeps the significance of the island alive through keeper stories and its iconic charm.

The captivating background of both the island and the lighthouse began with its construction, paralleling a past navigational need from ships passing by the shores. Its existence over time has proven to be indispensable, and it has embedded itself well within the classic maritime narrative.

Likewise, the island has experienced its share of ravage, including a record storm on October 15, 1880, known as the Alpena Gale. Lake Michigan’s wrath destroyed seven ships within the vicinity of the island and caused waves to break into the lighthouse.

Nearly 50 years later, in October 1928, the M.J. Bartelme, a freighter known to carry ore, coal and grain, met the same fate despite the aid attempt of the Cana Island light. It ran aground in dense fog and sustained damage to its hull, collapsing its engine room, cabins and stack. Today the wreck rests in 15 feet of water just off the southeast point of the island. Numerous artifacts, including a portion of the ship, are on display on shore.

The island was once home to lighthouse keepers, their assistants and at one time, the McCarthy family, whose members leased the island in 1945 as a summer residence for nearly 25 years.

Keepers’ logs, starting with the first keeper, William Jackson (1869-1872) until the last, Louis and Rosie Janda (1977-1995), reveal many harrowing accounts of life on the island. These recollections record simple joys, document struggles and record major life events such as seeing Halley’s Comet – a once-in-a-lifetime moment to witness in Door County’s beautiful, starspeckled sky.

The Door County Maritime Museum owns the lighthouse, which joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Although it’s now powered by electricity rather than lard oil as it once was, it continues to be an active navigation resource under the jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard.

Exploring the Lighthouse As one of the 11 historical lighthouses in Door County, Cana Island attracts thousands of visitors throughout its MayOctober season. Enthusiasts, families and adventurers can climb the tower’s impressive, 97-step spiral staircase to the watch deck for a breathtaking view of the Door peninsula and Lake Michigan.

On land, they can explore the oil-storage house and exhibits within the former keeper’s quarters.

Beyond a sweeping height, the Cana Island Lighthouse is known for a very specific feature: its original third-order Fresnel lens.

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County Maritime Museum. “The intact Fresnel lens [is a] significant attraction.” The lens, located in the light room atop the tower house, was produced in France and dubbed the “invention that saved a million ships.”

Consisting of circular prisms that gather light from a lamp, a powerful ray of light is produced from refracted and bent beams. For this reason, Fresnel lenses have become an operational staple for lighthouses and spotlights around the world. The light at Cana Island has the ability to project up to 18 miles into Lake Michigan, offering a trusted guide for nearby ships.

Previously, the system required a dedicated maintenance regime as keepers needed to wake every few hours to refuel the light with oil or kerosene.

By 1945, thanks to modern advances, Cana Island was updated with an engine-driven, two-kilowatt generator and batteries to power a 100-watt, 32volt bulb. During the 1960s, a power line was also installed on the island.

Despite operational changes, the tower’s beacon continues to attract curious visitors – even those who now see it from a different perspective.

“Going to Cana Island Lighthouse was a great experience for my husband – a retired freighter captain – and me,” said Peggy O’Connell, whose husband, Raymond Sheldon, passed by the light for nearly 45 years during his time on the Great Lakes. “When we visited, it was the first time he had seen it by land,” O’Connell said.

Although today’s technology has improved the ability to navigate the lake tenfold, lighthouses still play a key role.

“In his early years of sailing, he remembers using the light as a navigational tool,” O’Connell of her husband. “When we visit lighthouses, he has real-life experience understanding their importance, and he appreciates the work of the keepers.”

Preserving a Legacy “The buildings and grounds have been maintained by the Door County Maritime Museum for over 40 years,” Perlman said. “They are in the final stages of a four-phase restoration.”

The restoration plan was developed to protect and preserve Cana Island and included an array of projects that have been ongoing.

Phase 1 included adding new restroom facilities in 2010, along with a maintenance building. No vehicles are allowed on the island, but a dedicated parking lot was constructed on the mainland before the crossing. Exterior features of the lighthouse and keeper’s quarters were also fixed, including the copper roof; the tower was repainted; masonry repairs were made; and the windows and doors were restored.

In 2017, Phase 2 of the project wrapped up. It entailed restoring the oil house, privy and barn, among other key areas. This brought an update into the summer of 2020, when new construction introduced the welcome and interpretive center, with exhibit space, an admissions desk and a museum gift shop complete with books, apparel and collectibles.

Phase 4 is currently underway and seeks to restore the interior of the keeper’s quarters and lighthouse tower.

The last occupants vacated in 1995, and the museum hopes to safeguard the property’s legacy and all of its artifacts, such as photograph collections, vintage furniture and tools of the trade.

Together, the phases connect seamlessly and prompt the island to inspire both locals and visitors. Beyond the physical structures is Cana Island’s unwavering heritage. In 2019, the Door County Maritime Museum celebrated the lighthouse’s sesquicentennial anniversary by bringing together 20 descendants of the island’s past keepers.

The event coincided with National Lighthouse Day and reaffirmed the importance and intrigue of the island and its lighthouse.

Photo by Len Villano.

Door County Lighthouse Festival Visitors and enthusiasts can enjoy exclusive access to lighthouses that are not typically open to the public during the annual Door County Lighthouse Festival.

Explore Chambers Island, Plum Island and Sherwood Point Lighthouses during tours for all activity levels. From hiking the grounds to capturing stunning views by boat, a portion of ticket sales helps to fund the Door County Maritime Museum and the Lighthouse Preservation Society.

2022 Festival Dates Spring: June 10-12, 2022 Fall: Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2022 Purchase tickets at dcmm.org/ door-county-lighthouse-festivals.

“Many crew members still use the sight of these beacons as a way point and a sign that they are on the right course,” O’Connell said. “Giving visitors the opportunity to visit, climb and experience Cana Island keeps history alive.”

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Storybook House The Carey’s cozy cabin on Chapel Lane

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The buildings of Peninsula State Park inspired Carey to choose wide pine boards for the siding of the home.

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hen Deb and Dan Carey began designing their second home in Baileys Harbor, they weren’t focused on space. They bucked the HGTV trends that dot the peninsula’s fields and shorelines – there’s nothing “modern farmhouse” about it.

“We wanted it cozy, warm, inviting,” Deb said. “And we wanted it to fit in with this street. I wanted it to look like it belonged here.”

the home feel whimsical and Old World, much like the village of New Glarus, home to the famous brewery they founded in 1993.

That street is Chapel Lane, a short stretch of rustic road south of Baileys Harbor lined with historical log cabins, a canopy of trees, and a touch of fairytale. Dan said they aimed to make

And it does. Deb calls it “my storybook home” for good reason. From the outside, it resembles a gingerbread house – a cabin straight out of a

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A stained-glass window featuring a cherub is installed above the doors to a small, secret room off the kitchen. Carey came across the window while searching for a piece for their brewery in New Glarus, Wisconsin. “I think things find me sometimes,” she said.

children’s fairytale – with a small turret entryway as a touch of castle.

The three-bedroom home on the rocky shores south of Baileys Harbor encompasses a bit more than 1,800 square feet.

“The idea of having thousands of square feet to heat and clean didn’t appeal to us,” Deb said. “We were thinking of retirement when we built it.”

Deb an Dan Carey sought to build a house to fit the cottage aesthetic of Baileys Harbor’s Chapel Lane.

When envisioning the exterior, Deb was inspired by the buildings of Peninsula State Park, choosing wide planks of liveedge pine from central Wisconsin.

“Woodpeckers eat cedar, not pine,” she said.

Inside, the rooms are small, with arched doorways and Old World touches such as the stained-glass window in the dining room and the Swedish stove, or kakelugn, that efficiently distributes radiant heat into the small living room, which has windows looking out on Lake Michigan.

The one small “extra” in the home is a small room off the garage, where Deb continues her pursuit of her original passion. Here Deb – the artist behind the beer labels of New Glarus Brewing Co. – continues to paint, with a portrait in progress resting on an easel during our tour.

Twelve years after moving in, she has no regrets.

“We love it here,” she said.

A painting in progress rests on an easel in Deb Carey’s studio.

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The Kakelugn The Swedish stove, or kakelugn, is the centerpiece of the living room. A craftsman and his daughter were flown in from Sweden to build the stove in traditional Swedish style.

For centuries, Nordic countries relied on wood as the primary fuel for heat, but by the 1700s, the nation’s forests were being depleted. In 1776, Sweden’s King Adolf Frederick commissioned Carl Johan Cronstedt to develop a more efficient stove.

The result was a tiled Swedish stove, which burns wood more slowly and radiates heat for hours, even after the fire burns out. The tile exterior hides a distinctive construction of brick channels that guide heat up and down the stove, slowing its path out the chimney and providing warmth for up to 12 hours.

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"Living Together With Different Views", cast glass and copper, 2022

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The Evolution of a Glass Artist

by Tom Groenfeldt photos by Brett Kosmider

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lass artist Deanna Clayton doesn’t look for traditional ways to create in glass. Twenty-five years into her career as a glass artist, she continues to push the limits of the materials she uses and continues to take artistic risks in pursuit of growth.

“I like to get an idea, and try it, and see what happens,” she said.

Now based in Juddville, Clayton is best known for creating vessels using pâte de verre, meaning “paste of glass”: a term used to describe working with glass particles and a binder. She often combines glass and copper, frequently designed with space between the top and the base.

“Using the copper mesh in the glass is unique to me as far as I have seen,” she said.

Ten years ago, after her father died, Clayton began making heads of solid glass. They reflected her emotional state.

“So the first head was sad, and people said, ‘Whoa, what is this?’” she said.

“Doctors would look at them and say they loved the sculpture, but they see that face every day at work and can’t live with it.”

Clayton was known for vessels, so evolving to include figurative work was a risk.

“When you change your work – and for 25 years, I was known for vessels – and I show up with a sad head, well, it takes

a long time before people accept what is new,” she said.

But Clayton said she couldn’t force herself to make happy faces when she was going through difficult times in her own life. When her personal life changed course, so did her art: The heads became light, and they started looking up.

Clayton’s process evolves as she works, and she relies on journaling to find the direction she’s going with the torsos.

“I don’t just want to make pretty pieces,” she said. “I want it to have some significance.”

Stephanie Trenchard, an artist in glass and painting at Popelka Trenchard Glass fine-art glass gallery and studio in Sturgeon Bay, admires Clayton’s tenacity.

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“It is wonderful for me to have another strong woman in the glass world who is also a neighbor, with whom I can share so many experiences about process, professionalism and fun,” Trenchard said. “Plus I adore her work.”

Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled shows and exhibits, Clayton had an idea for attaching torsos to the heads, and during lockdown, she had the luxury of time to explore the concept.

“The inspiration for the torso comes from Gustav Klimt – a Viennese painter famous for painting women in elaborate, flowing gowns – but I wasn’t interested in interpreting a lifelike torso that can be read as shoulders, legs and waist,” Clayton said. “For me, it is more the gesture of it, the form under fabric, expressed through color and texture.

Robes provide abstraction.

“I have been working on making the figures tall and thin, and I am having success,” she said. “I incorporate copper mesh in the glass, and it holds up the glass. Some of the copper mesh will be embedded in the glass and some exposed.”

When a piece comes out of the kiln, Clayton can also add more copper through electroplating, assembling solid materials from molecules, ions or complexes in a solution to coat an object in a layer of metal.

“The copper gives it strength, and it also warms the glass a little bit,” she said.

Clayton’s work was also affected by the discourse surrounding the nation’s response to the pandemic as well. She made several drawings of groups of people, exploring how the pandemic showed that “people we loved and really cared about didn’t think the same about certain issues,” she said. She began making figures with multiple heads, wrapped together in robe and fabric and trying to exist together in a harmonious way. Some embrace, others face in opposite directions.

“That is what the red piece is about: We are going to live together even if we don’t see eye to eye,” Clayton said. “My artistic dream is to make connections with people and look past all this stuff

"Monet's Other Daughter", cast glass and copper, 2022

Deanna Clayton’s work will be on display at Edgewood Orchard Galleries July 16 – Aug. 28. An opening reception featuring Clayton and fellow artists Ginnie Cappaert, Marcia McDonough and Dale Olsen will be held July 16, 4-7 pm.

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"Tidal Vessel", cast glass and copper, 2020

and get back to humanity. I think I will be working on trying to touch people, although it’s pretty braggy to claim you have achieved such a thing.”

Duncan McClellan of the Duncan McClellan Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida, lauded Clayton’s distinctive approach.

“Deanna has been a great artist of ours,” McClellan said. “I don’t know anybody else building up the glass particles and incorporating copper. It is a brilliant addition to the work and very popular in our gallery. When she does a master

workshop at our place, it sells out in a week.

“The workshops are designed for people who have never worked in glass, although they may be collectors,” he said. “It gives them a much deeper appreciation for how something is made and the difficulties an artist goes through in accomplishing a creation.

And then they all walk out in a couple of days with a really beautiful piece.”

“Artists are evolving to work with more content, not just beautiful aesthetics,” he explained. “There is meaning behind the pieces, or at least a concept. The artist who transcends the decorative into evoking some kind of message – or more important, taking a particular technique such as Deanna has, and taking it to a new direction – those are the types of artists that our gallery attracts and we look for.”

Glass is a maturing field, McClellan said, and Clayton an ever-maturing artist.

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“Celebrating its 140th year of ministry in Door County” Bethany Lutheran Church Founded in 1882, Bethany Lutheran is served by visiting pastors from May 29 through October 16. For the home-bound and others not able to attend, 9:30 a.m.

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MUSIC

One Note at a Time

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ot long after being named the new director of the Peninsula Symphonic Band (PSB), Jason Palmer sat down for coffee with his soon-to-be predecessor to get the lay of the land he was about to enter.

Before moving to Door County in 2018, home for Palmer and his wife, Jamie, had been the Fox Valley region of Illinois, where they had founded the Fox Valley Academy of Music Performance in Aurora. Palmer had a hunch this newest venture would be more low key than that, but he wanted confirmation.

who isn’t ready to stop playing. They all have a seat with PSB. “This is what makes this experience so special,” said Gary Ciepluch, a member of PSB who, for 28 years, was the Wind Ensemble conductor at the Cleveland Institute of Music and director of winds and bands at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. “Performing with musicians from ages 15 to 80 and above gives it a special, unique experience that is simply indescribable.”

“So, how does it work?” Palmer asked then-director of 14 years, Paula Eggert.

Despite the patchwork of musicians, Ciepluch said he continually hears comments from audience members about how professional the group sounds.

“She told me, ‘Well, people come. They sit. They play. And we’ve never had a problem,’” Palmer said, recalling the conversation. “And you know what? It works.”

“My favorite question is always, ‘How much do you get paid to play in the band?’ They are astounded that we are all volunteers, and that it is open to all community players.”

Since taking the reins in 2018, Palmer can attest that the no-audition-required, open-door invitation process not only works, but it’s even a key reason why the concept of the community band thrives.

But their volunteer status and varying ages, experience and skill levels don’t mean that Palmer steers clear of giving the band challenging pieces.

“It certainly makes it easy to become involved,” Palmer said. “In an orchestral program, musicians audition. With this, it’s, ‘Y’all come!’”

Players run the gamut in background and experience, from the high school student who wants additional experience, to the middle school and high school band directors yearning for an opportunity to step outside the classroom, to the retired band professor

“I remember when he first got there, he thought he’d keep them at a level three,” said Jamie, who is a member of the Swingin’ Door Big Band, an affiliate community-band program of PSB. “Now you’ve done, what, level four?”

“Level five,” Palmer said.

On a scale of one to six, level – or grade – five band music is considered medium-advanced. The repertoire is generally written for musicians who have been playing for at least six years.

“It came down to the last week of rehearsal, but then it just clicked,” he said.

Maybe it was luck. Maybe it was practice. Or maybe that is the power that’s inherent in a group of musicians who play for the pure love of making and sharing music with their communities. Give them an ounce of encouragement, and they’ll outrun the expectations set before them.

We, as audience members, just happen to be the happy recipients of what the Palmers consider to be the best-kept secret in Door County.

“It’s been around for 31, going on 32 years, and still so many people don’t know about it,” Jamie said.

Yet with a roster of 70 musicians – and growing each season – word seems to be getting around. And now with people eager to attend live-music events after a two-year hiatus for most, those numbers might start outgrowing some of the band’s performance venues.

“It’s getting to the point where we don’t have a venue that will hold all of us,” Jamie said.

That highlights what Ciepluch has known his entire musical career.

“Music making is an inclusive, not exclusive experience,” he said – an experience that seems to live in perfect harmony in Door County.

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A Tribute to a Home for Music

by Christopher Rugowski

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hen Butch’s Bar burned down Feb. 22, Sturgeon Bay lost more than a bar. Two people who lived in the apartments above the bar lost their lives, and seven others lost their homes. Many creatives lost a stage.

Three weeks after the tragedy, 20 musicians came together at the Sturgeon Bay Fire Company with the help of Chris Bishop to raise more than $5,700 for those who had become displaced.

The event was a showcase of talent, keeping the tradition of the Wednesday-night jam sessions at Butch’s alive one last time. It was a living tribute to Butch’s Bar that included many bands and musicians who had played there over the years. As patron Cassey Bess summed up Butch’s, it was “a dive bar, but the best kind of dive bar. The kind of dive bar you want to play at.”

With guitars tuned, lights on, drinks in hand and a packed hall, the event started off with a poem from Door County Poet Laureate Mike Orlock and a moment of silence for the lives lost.

The night was divided into 15-minute sets from each act, maximizing the available time to showcase the music. At no point, though, did it feel rushed. It felt exactly appropriate. There was little downtime, and lots of love and energy the entire night. Considering it was a Wednesday, the crowd stuck around for the majority of the event, which ran until about 12:30 am – proof that this was more than just a show. This was a true benefit.

When Bishop took the stage to play some Southern rock with his group, The Plum Dogs, happiness was written all over his and his bandmates’ faces.

Although there is no longer a Butch’s Bar on 3rd Avenue in Sturgeon Bay, the memories of it as a Cheers kind of bar and a great music venue will not soon be forgotten.

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Much More than a Country Doctor Horace Franklin Eames

by Patty Williamson, PhD February 1882 (not unusual in those days) and enrolled in a normal school in Valparaiso, Indiana. Most normal schools existed only to train teachers, but this one also offered medical training. Eames taught in Clay Banks and Egg Harbor for three more years, leaving early each spring to return to Valparaiso, but in the fall of 1886, he enrolled in a medical college in Iowa.

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oc Eames is still a familiar name in some parts of Door County, even though he died nearly 85 years ago.

But Horace Franklin Eames was not always a doctor. Born on May 30, 1859, in Masham, Québec, he moved at age 17 with his parents, William and Asenath, to a farm in Clay Banks, Wisconsin, and later to Sevastopol.

By the fall of 1881, Eames had graduated from Oshkosh Normal School and was teaching in Egg Harbor.

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Seven months later, he was awarded a diploma to pursue the healing arts and set up practice in Waucedah, Michigan. On April 7, 1887, Eames married Emma Baker of Egg Harbor in Stephenson, Michigan, but by September 1888, she had returned to Egg Harbor to stay with her mother while Eames went to Illinois University in Chicago to resume his medical studies. By March 1889, he was an M.D. The first of their eight children was born that month in Egg Harbor.

From 1890 to early 1893, Eames practiced in Rapid River, Michigan, but

by May 1893, he had purchased Levi Baraboo’s house in Egg Harbor, as well as a fine horse and buggy. Franklin Eames, as he was known by that time, had settled into the role of country doctor: one he would hold for 48 years.

There were no privacy regulations in those days, so the newspapers faithfully reported the condition of those who

were ill or injured and the doctor’s prognosis for their recovery. Eames did little advertising, but he helped to keep his name before the public by dropping by the newspaper offices (The Weekly Expositor Independent, The Independent, The Republican, The Democrat, The DC News and The Advocate) when he was in Sturgeon Bay. Although Doc Eames always had his office in his home, he treated most of his patients in theirs. He dealt with many illnesses such as diphtheria and pneumonia that were potentially more fatal then than they are today, along with farm and mill accidents, horse and auto catastrophes, scaldings, neardrownings, poisonings, stabbings and gunshot wounds.

In March 1894, he vaccinated all the schoolchildren in Egg Harbor, and three months later opened his first business venture: a drug store to “provide for the ailing.” It was soon being referred to as Eames’ Store, and Sherwin-Williams paint was advertised for sale.

Within the next few years, Eames was appointed to head Egg Harbor’s board of health, was in charge of the town’s 1900 census, became a leader in the Republican Party and took charge of the new circulating library, which was located in his home. He also owned an extensive collection of medical books dating to 1764 that contained accounts of the first attempts to “use the knife” to cure the ill.

In 1902, Doc Eames purchased a 120-acre farm from Gus Peterson and bayside property from Fred Hanson, on which he built a pier and warehouse.

In April 1903, the first fruit trees were planted in what was to become the huge Eames Orchard.

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Doc Eames (second from left) with his family in his orchard overlooking Egg Harbor. Photos courtesy of the Egg Harbor Historical Society.

In the fall of 1903, The Advocate reported that a large barn was being built on the Eames farm – once part of the L.D. Thorp estate – and the warehouse on his pier was being enlarged to handle increased business.

The DC Democrat reported on the founding of the Door County Medical Society in June 1904, as well as the election of Eames to the board and later as its president. By the following spring, he was a director and one of 20 subscribers to the telephone company that was providing service north of Sturgeon Bay. In 1911, Eames traveled to Dansville, New York, to purchase 2,500 cherry trees to be planted on 40 acres – trees that were in addition to his already extensive apple orchard. By the following year, he had expanded his orchards and was also raising 70 acres of alfalfa. Along with selling fruit trees, he offered raspberry, blackberry and currant bushes and asparagus roots.

The Eames’ house and drug store next door were sold in June 1912 to John Bertschinger, and the store’s fixtures and merchandise were moved into the Eames building across the street to

begin a new drug store. In November 1912, the members of the Eames family celebrated their first Thanksgiving in their new home on the farm they had named LaVista.

In 1914, Eames was elected president of both the County Board of Education and the newly formed Egg Harbor Advancement Association.

The Eames farms had operated for years with teams of horses, but the doctor was one of seven forward-thinking, largescale farmers who purchased Mogul tractors from the Sawyer Implement Company in 1917. In June of that year, Frank and Emma’s daughter Bernice, age 19, died at People’s Hospital following surgery for appendicitis. Their son Frederick had died in infancy.

As World War I approached, Eames was part of the local Defense Council.

By this time, talk of a railway north of Sturgeon Bay had ended, but he was pushing for a concrete road from Sturgeon Bay to Egg Harbor.

In September of 1918, Eames gave an address at the dedication of Gibraltar High School: Northern Door’s first high school.

In 1920, more than 1,000 bushels of plums were shipped from Eames’ orchard.

Eames sold some of his dock property in January 1925 for a three-story canning plant built by the Door County Fruit Growers Union and the Fruit Growers’ Canning Company.

The winter of 1926-27 was the first of many that the doctor and Emma spent in the South, where letters home focused on agriculture and spoke of the pleasure of shaking hands with John D. Rockefeller.

After a good rest, Eames returned “ready for action” with his medical practice, as well as supervising his 500acre farm with purebred Holstein dairy cows, hundreds of hogs, and orchards full of cherries, apples and plums.

By 1929, the Eames orchards totaled more than 200 acres, and Doc Eames advertised that he’d pay $1 for every worm found in his fruit. Asked whether he was joking, he said, “No, sir, I never joke about financial matters.”

His health was described as very poor at that time, and three of his children

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The Doc Eames farm on the hill overlooking the Village of Egg Harbor is now home to the Eames Farms condominiums. Photo courtesy of the Egg Harbor Historical Society.

By that November, he was one of the trustees representing depositors when the Great Depression caused the Bank of Sturgeon Bay to close briefly and was on the board of the Fruit Growers Union Co-op when it faced possible bankruptcy.

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was postponed because of Emma’s illness, but the public was invited to a huge reception at their home May 30 – also the doctor’s 78th birthday.

a time. In 1993, Richard and Gloria Hansen moved the house to their Cupola House property and renovated it as their home.

He lived just two months longer, dying on July 30, 1937, after a two-day illness with heart trouble. His obituary in The DC News described him as “not only a country doctor, but a truly great man.

As a community builder, he stood for every progressive idea. His entire life was one of service to humanity and the community in which he lived.”

Today, the Eames Farm Condominiums on County E cover many of the acres where Horace Franklin Eames, M.D., once raised a large family, fine dairy cows and hogs, and “worm-free” apples, cherries and plums.

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Boomerang Cam Fuller’s athletics journey brings him back to northeastern Wisconsin

by Justin Skiba

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am Fuller’s athletics journey has taken him from the golf greens of Door County, to courtside at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, to now overseeing nearly 600 student-athletes and coaches at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Fuller – a 2008 graduate of Sevastopol school and three-time Packerland Conference Player of the Year as a standout golfer – continued his success on the links for the Division I UW-Green Bay Phoenix team as a four-year varsity letter winner in the Horizon League.

went on after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 tournament. For the first time in the tournament’s 82-year history, all games were held in one state: Indiana. And Fuller was instrumental in the tournament’s success.

He has since returned to northeastern Wisconsin after being named St. Norbert College’s director of athletics and physical education in 2021, and we caught up with him to talk about his new position.

The following interview has been condensed and edited for space.

After graduating from UW-GB in 2013 with a degree in business administration, Fuller returned to the Horizon League, this time as an intern in the Indianapolis office. Over the course of nearly eight years, he advanced to become the league’s assistant commissioner for competition, branding and sponsorship.

Justin Skiba (JS): What are you enjoying about your new position?

In that role, Fuller served as the tournament manager for the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which

I wake up every day and have an excitement that we have an opportunity to make a major impact on the lives of our student-athletes and position their

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Cam Fuller (CF): For any individual to be successful, there must be a fit and a similar ethos. From the first conversation I had with the leadership team at St. Norbert College, I sensed a strong value alignment.

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Sevastopol graduate Cam Fuller took over as St. Norbert College’s athletic director in 2020 after his position with the Horizon League included work as the tournament manager for the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

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experience in a way they will be proud to be a graduate of St. Norbert College.

I saw this as a great opportunity to build on what so many great leaders did before me while planting roots in an area that is important to my wife, Kaylee, and I. My family is in the Sturgeon Bay area, and Kaylee’s family is in the Sheboygan area, so it has been a joy to be close to family and friends.

JS: You had spent eight years at the Horizon League office in Indianapolis before coming to St. Norbert. You’ve gone from intern to assistant commissioner. Tell us about your progression.

CF: My experience at the Horizon League was remarkable, and I was fortunate to not only work with a great group of people, but develop lifelong friends. Jon LeCrone, and then later Julie Roe Lach, were fantastic commissioners who taught me the value of relationships and building a team.

I was able to grow in an accelerated fashion and throughout my time at the Horizon League. I worked in nearly every facet of the office, which led to various growth opportunities, and those experiences positioned me for success in my role at St. Norbert College.

JS: You served as the tournament manager for the 2021 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect your planning?

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We were hosting one of the largest events during a global pandemic, and we felt a responsibility to the NCAA that we pull it off.

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As the youngest of three boys, and having a father who coached girls’ basketball and a mother who coached youth tennis, I grew up around athletics. The values instilled in me at a young age have carried forward with me in my professional life and spurred my interest in sports management.

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When I graduated, I was ready to take a full-time job, but instead I took an internship. I would say the lion’s share of people who have progressed in the field know there is no shame in taking a graduate job and internship. You’ll learn what your strengths and interests are. There are so many areas in the sports field, and by taking the approach of learning what’s out there, you’ll be able to narrow in. During college, you don’t have to wait until the end.

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A Journey to Acceptance

Owen Alabado and Northern Door Pride

by Sally Collins

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s a young adult, Owen Alabado despised being gay. A first-generation U.S. citizen of Filipino descent, he wanted to be “normal” and accepted and have a family one day. But in 1990s Janesville, Wisconsin, there were few resources for him and little representation of homosexuals in his community or mainstream culture, much less celebrations centered around diversity and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

“I hated being gay,” he said. “You didn’t see gay men getting married, having kids. That was completely foreign to me.”

In 1998, 17 years before samesex marriage was legalized, Alabado couldn’t hide who he was anymore. He came out during high school and faced an onslaught of discrimination, including death threats.

“Food was thrown at me at school.

A teacher saw it and did nothing,” he remembered. “A guy threw a football at my head so hard it knocked me out. I’m a trained martial artist because I had to learn how to defend myself.”

Alabado’s family expelled him from his home senior year. He didn’t talk to his father for six years.

Long Road to Acceptance Just a year prior, in Door County, Sandy Brown had started a PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) chapter inspired by comedian Ellen DeGeneres coming out on national television.

“That was huge,” Brown said. “A lot of people in this county started talking more about LGBT.” But there was still stigma and fear.

She shared meeting times and dates with local media, only to have them not appear in print.

“I talked to someone [at one local newspaper] who said, ‘It isn’t our policy to promote that sort of thing,’” Brown remembered.

But she persisted and has seen this county, and country, take considerable strides toward accepting and celebrating LGBTQIA+ people. She answered desperate letters sent to the PFLAG post office box, screened PBS and National Geographic documentaries about LGBTQIA+ individuals and topics, and celebrated Pride in a barn until Open Door Pride was established in 2017 and held its first annual festival in Sturgeon Bay’s Martin Park.

Door County has made progress, Brown said, “but there is still important work that needs to be done.”

Photo by Brett Kosmider.

“Things are good now, but that rejection from your family affects your psyche,” Alabado said. “I had it rough, but I’m a fighter, an emotional fighter. Not everyone has that strength. LGBT kids are killing themselves. I was there and happened to fight through the pain,

but some people can’t handle that amount of teasing, ridicule, hate.”

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Finding an Outlet During Alabado’s teenage years, he found solace and acceptance in the performing arts. He majored in theater and performance at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and found a community, a close-knit group of friends and causes “that fed my soul,” he said. He was the director of multicultural diversity for student government and president of the Gay Straight Alliance.

Upon graduation, Alabado headed to Los Angeles, where he landed small roles in Shameless and This Is Us. He appeared in a Toyota commercial and on a comedy special on Amazon Prime.

He wrote, directed and starred in the award-winning series Dudes. But acting is a tough gig. To make ends meet, he managed a restaurant and worked at a gym.

“I was getting burnt out in L.A.,” he said.

But Los Angeles was a safe space – his home for 15 years.

“In L.A., you’re spoiled,” Alabado said.

“There is every walk of life. Nobody bats an eye over your orientation or dress.

But the industry is very self-centered.

You have to be selfish and think only about you if you want to break in. I’m not wired to do that.”

Alabado’s longtime friend Mike Holmes, co-owner of the Wickman House and Trixie’s restaurants in Door County, encouraged him to relocate to the peninsula.

“He knew I was unhappy, but I was terrified about moving here,” Alabado said. “Are they racist? Homophobic?”

But the COVID-19 pandemic made it an easy decision. He made the move in April 2020.

“I love Door County – the friends I’ve made, the things I’ve done,” Alabado said. Along with managing Trixie’s and teaching at the YMCA, he joined a volleyball league, ran a karaoke night, went to his first Packers game, played broomball and even made a short film called Two Truths and a Lie, which premiered at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor.

“Owen is a ball of positive energy. He’s a good dude,” said Chad Kodanko, owner of Husby’s Food and Spirits in Sister Bay. “Rarely do people live here a year and know more people than those of us who have been up here 20 years.”

So in the early summer of 2021, when Alabado wanted to celebrate Pride, “a bunch of us jumped on board and said, ‘We’ll help you out,’” said Collin Doherty, owner of Roots Inn & Kitchen in Sister Bay. But COVID-19 had put a halt to public gatherings. Then on June 10, the Sister Bay Village Board voted to allow public gatherings, giving Alabado about 10 days to pull the event together.

Kodanko and his team at Husby’s stepped up, along with Doherty and his team at Roots, plus those at the Sister Bay Bowl, Peach Barn Brewery, Bearded Heart Coffee, Wickman House, Pearl Wine Cottage and other businesses, plus an army of volunteers.

Mary Blichmann (Left) and her wife, Betts Williams, have found an accepting home in Door County since moving here in 2017.

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“I had so much help,” Alabado said. “I was overwhelmed by all the people who came out of the woodwork. All these people who procured raffle prizes, made posters.”

Sandy Brown drove to Northern Door on June 22 to show her support and congratulate Alabado.

“That little hall was just packed with people. It was wonderful!” she said. “I love to see young blood not waiting around asking someone else to do something. He saw a need and met it.”

“The music was great. The dancing was great,” said Louise Howson, the community coordinator for the Sister Bay Advancement Association. Her team helped with facilities and setup and partook in the festivities as well.

“That event was 99.9% Owen,” Howson said. “He is quite something, a great organizer. Pulling people together is not easy, but he’s good at it.”

“The community response was overwhelming,” said Doherty, who even spotted individuals at the event he was surprised to see. “To see them let loose, show support and be a part of it – it’s a testament to the community, to Owen to have that vision.”

Alabado remembered the dancing and the slew of people who approached to thank him for putting on such an event.

“An older lesbian couple came up to me with tears in their eyes and said, ‘We never thought we’d see this day,’” he said. Amid the festivities, he sat in the back of the hall, took in the scene and shed a few tears himself.

“Let’s be honest: There aren’t a ton of LGBT [people] up here,” he said, “but all these allies who came out – there was such a spirit of unity and acceptance. It was breathtaking.”

That was the beginning of Northern Door Pride (NDP).

Alabado became president of the NDP board and Doherty the vice president.

They added more members, wrote the bylaws and shared their mission: “To inspire the community to be the best version of themselves by embracing everyone, promoting self-acceptance and providing a safe environment to do so.” They want to bring visibility to the LGBTQIA+ community in Northern Door, to be a resource for residents and visitors alike.

“NPD is about awareness, inclusivity, whether you’re on the [LGBTQIA+] spectrum or not,” Alabado added. “The goal is to show the community you are not alone and create a safe space, especially for youth who might be struggling.

“When I was a teenager, in my early twenties, to see something like this would have meant the world to me,” Alabado said. “We want to throw together events that bring people together, people who wouldn’t normally hang out.”

Since Pride 2021, NDP has put on a series of such events: Carrie’s Prom, a Halloween dance; HUG’N at the Bowl, a holiday-themed night of trivia and games; and For the Love of Love, a cabaret coinciding with Valentine’s Day. But it “can’t just be centered around fun,” he said. “We’re still solidifying the tasks we want to accomplish – outreach, advocacy. We want to make a difference at schools, get more involved in change up here.”

a straight white guy, everything is centered around you.”

For Howson, the support and visibility NDP gives LGBTQIA+ people goes without saying, but it also recognizes the diversity of Northern Door.

“That didn’t exist before,” she said. “It lets people know they have support on a lot of different levels and an opportunity to celebrate who they are. It makes people more comfortable knowing they are a valued member of the community.”

“All of us on the board, the volunteers, none of us could have anticipated how [NDP] would be as big and as accepted as it is – in just a few months,” Doherty said. “We’re going to continue to grow and fill a need emotionally and financially to the community.”

And like planning the Pride gathering in June, people are lending support, sharing ideas and offering help.

“I just had lunch with a woman who has two LGBT children,” Alabado said. “She said, ‘How can I help?’ The response [to NDP] has been nothing but positive. I’ve been here two years, and it’s become my home so fast. I can’t help but want to make Door County a better place.”

Learn more at NorthernDoorPride.com.

Kodanko appreciates that NDP is reaching out to a demographic that is often underrepresented.

“It exposes [the community] to their cause, their needs. It only makes us better,” he said.

“It’s something centered around their lives.

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Owen Alabado and Chad Kodanko (right), who said Alabado’s efforts can “only make us better.”

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Bluebirds of Happiness

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H

ave you ever heard of the Bluebird of Happiness?

Every time I see a bluebird, it makes me happy. Most people have never seen one close up, but if you maintain and monitor a bluebird trail, you know the joy of seeing these birds using your nest boxes.

“The Bluebird of Happiness” is a song written in 1939, but bluebirds have been honored much further back in history for bringing peace and hope. The Navajo Nation considers the mountain bluebird a spirit in the animal world, and Russian folklore revered the bluebird as a symbol of hope.

Bluebirds are in the thrush family, which includes the Townsend’s solitaire (a western bird), American robin, veery, gray-cheeked thrush, Swainson’s thrush, hermit thrush and wood thrush.

The veery, hermit thrush and wood thrush nest in Door County, but the others are seen only during migration.

There are three bluebird species in North America. The eastern bluebird is most widespread and is the one we normally see here. The western bluebird breeds in the Pacific Northwest and is common well down into Mexico. The male has similar colors as our bluebird, with a rusty breast, but a gray belly instead of white. The mountain bluebird male is entirely blue with no rust, and it breeds in the mountains of the western United States up to Alaska.

The eastern bluebird is the state bird of both New York and Missouri. Other birds that are blue include the blue jay and indigo bunting, but the eastern bluebird is the only one with a reddish breast, like a robin, and a white belly.

Some say it carries the sky on its back,

and others say it bears the colors of our flag: red, white and blue.

claim nesting spots before the bluebirds return.

Eastern bluebirds were more common before English sparrows and European starlings were introduced to our country. Both of these species nest in cavities, like the bluebird. Eastern bluebirds migrate to the southern U.S. during the fall to find food and shelter until spring arrives, and because the nonnative starlings and English sparrows do not migrate, they can

Years ago, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources pleaded with volunteers to build more nest boxes and monitor the breeding success of the eastern bluebirds in the state.

That’s how the Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin (BRAW, braw. org) came to be formed in 1986.

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My late husband, Roy, and I developed our modest bluebird trail about 25 years ago and became members of BRAW. I have been its coordinator for Door County’s nest-box monitors since 2007. We had a 50-box trail at one time, spread out over a six-mile diameter between Baileys Harbor and Egg Harbor, but my trail now comprises 24 boxes.

The bluebird is a cavity-nesting species, just like the tree swallow, house wren and black-capped chickadee. These are the most common birds to use the nest boxes we set out. Nesting usually begins in April and ends by mid-August.

Bluebird nest boxes should have an entrance hole no larger than an inch and a half in diameter, which is too small for starlings and cowbirds to get in, but it can accommodate tree swallows, chickadees and house wrens.

An important factor in box placement is to put them in open areas, well inland, where you see bluebirds on roadside trees or wires. Putting the boxes in shrubby areas near woodlands attracts house wrens, which are not good neighbors. House wrens are native birds, but they often destroy bluebird eggs so they can take over a nest box.

And a nest box placed near the waters of Lake Michigan may attract only tree swallows and chickadees.

The BRAW website has information to help you in siting your nest boxes.

Bluebirds need a large area – two to three acres of open land per pair – to provide a good food supply for the family. It is important to set the box on a pole that animals cannot climb and far enough away from anything that a predator can jump from.

One egg is about to hatch next to three newly hatched chicks. Photo by Roy Lukes.

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Place the box with the opening facing a medium to large tree that is 25-100 feet away. That’s because when the young leave the nest, they must fly to a tree where they can exercise their wings and be fed by the parents until, eventually, they learn how to get their own food.

If a young bluebird leaves the box and lands on the ground, it is doomed: Its wings are not strong enough to allow it to fly up to a tree. Therefore, most nest boxes that are placed in wide, open fields with no trees nearby will be occupied by swallows.

Crucial to maintaining a bluebird trail is to check all the boxes once a week during the breeding season to see what’s happening with the occupants.

If you set up a nest box but do not do weekly monitoring, you won’t know whether a predator has destroyed the nest. If that happens and you don’t clean the box, it will go unused for the rest of the summer. And if an animal has destroyed the nest, then you know to move the box to a safer location or place it on a predator-proof pole.

Bluebirds return by late March, usually to within a mile of where they were the previous year. Males come back first, then sing to claim their territory and attract a female. Once a male has found a mate, she starts building a nest in the box if the weather is good and ample food is available.

I have had many pairs that had two broods during a summer, and several times, a pair successfully nested three times. That is more common in the

South, where they can get an earlier start.

First broods of bluebirds may have as many as six light blue-green eggs, and second broods usually have fewer eggs.

A bluebird sometimes lays white eggs, but they’re easy to compare to tree swallow eggs because of their size and shape.

The female does all the incubation, and it takes about two weeks for the eggs to hatch, and another 14-17 days before the young fly out of the box. The male helps to feed the incubating female and the young.

A bluebird’s diet consists of insects found on the ground, so the optimum habitat is short grass, plowed fields, mowed roadsides and any area where the perched bluebirds can see the ground to find their food. Tree swallows get all their food in the air, and the adults can fly up to four miles from the nest box in search of insects.

(Above) This mated pair of eastern bluebirds has live mealworms to eat and feed the youngsters.

(Below) A mountain bluebird was discovered near Newport State Park many years ago.

Photos by Roy Lukes.

The winter of 2021 was so cold in Texas and Oklahoma for much of February that many bluebirds died from starvation. As a result, nesting success last summer was only fair in producing young bluebirds. Let’s hope for a better breeding season in 2022, with more of our bluebirds surviving the winter down south and increasing their numbers.

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A Visual Builder Hal Prize photography judge Lars Topelmann

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ou’ve probably seen Lars Topelmann’s photography.

You might even have stopped to ponder his images for a while as you flipped through the pages of a magazine in the waiting room at your dentist’s office, or took a second glance at a billboard.

But you probably didn’t know his name, and you almost certainly didn’t know the photographs were his. For nearly 30 years, Topelmann carved out a niche as a photographer on ad campaigns for brands including Nike, Audi, Converse and Dr. Martens, and was known for his distinctive style of black-and-white photography.

“I homed in on that because you need to have a focus. You can’t be everything because you won’t stand out,” Topelmann said as we flipped through portfolios in the Ephraim home that he and his wife, Monique McClean, remodeled when they moved back to his hometown in 2018. “Having that narrow-ish view – a little goofy, a little fun – pigeonholed me in a good way.”

His work, even when painstakingly planned and staged, feels authentic, spontaneous and random.

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“My goal is to make it look natural and comfortable, even in a setup,” Topelmann said. “You can get that photo at the actual moment it’s happening – then you need one photographer. But you have one chance to get it. That’s why you need all those people on a shoot: the designer, the lighting guys, the wardrobe folks. They’re re-creating that. You’re basically making up reality, but you’re trying to use all the cues from what reality is.”

When he was growing up in Ephraim in the 1970s, he didn’t want to be a painter in the shadow of his parents, the late Karsten Topelmann and the late Ellen Sprogø-Topelmann.

“My parents had that painting thing going on,” he said. “I was too impatient for it, and they were kind of rock stars in the art world.”

His dad turned him on to another creative pursuit at an early age, taking him on photography adventures around the peninsula, playing with video and still photography. At Gibraltar High School, Topelmann joined the Ink and Shutter Club, and after graduating in 1981, he studied further at Milwaukee Area Technical College, then at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

“It was cool to do something that was artistic, but not painting,” he said. “It’s all in the same territory – a lot of the same principles.”

But breaking into the business in the mid-1980s was hard.

“I thought I was going to be this hotshot photographer, but I didn’t have a direction,” Topelmann said.

He went to Chicago and found work as a photographer’s assistant, working on fashion, food and commercial shoots, lugging equipment, setting up lighting and learning what he loved – and what he didn’t. But he was falling into the trap of being known as a great assistant, not a great photographer.

He moved to Portland, Oregon, to reestablish his identity.

There, a friend got him hooked up with a low-paying, but high-profile opportunity shooting a spread on outdoor activities for The Oregonian newspaper.

“It was right up my alley,” Topelmann said. “Windsurfing, snowboarding, kayaking, fishing, showing all Oregon has to offer. And I needed to establish myself as an outdoor, fun photographer.”

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His work came out as a big spread in the paper and gave him a calling card. Soon agencies were calling him to shoot in New York, in Ireland for Harp beer, and in Trinidad for 10 Cane rum.

and McClean moved to Ephraim, where he helped her open Pearl Wine Cottage on Church Street.

He remains what he calls a “visual builder” – just in a more tangible fashion.

“They send all these people to Trinidad to set up these shots,” he said. “They spend a lot of money.

That’s a lot of pressure for a photographer.”

His vision now manifests itself in the tables he welds together in the wine bar, the floating shelf for his record player and albums in his living room, and the hardwood floors he’s refinishing in his late parents’ house.

Then the shift to digital changed the industry. Topelmann had specialized in film, and the rise of camera phones stole his niche.

“I was all about creating that spontaneity, putting you there,” he said. “But now everyone has a camera. People maybe don’t remember this, but back then, you had to buy a camera if you wanted to be a photographer. People didn’t own cameras in the 1990s. Now everyone has a camera. That devalued what I did.”

Topelmann stopped doing commercial photography, and he

“I’ve always been really into renovations and buildings and fixing stuff and visually making things look cool,” Topelmann said. “So even though I haven’t done that style of photography in a while, I don’t feel like it’s that far from me. It’s kind of ingrained in there. I’m still trying to do things that create in people an emotional response.”

Learn more about 2022 Hal Prize photography judge Lars Topelmann and see his photos at larsmade.com.

This expansion into photography categories is a natural evolution of the contest, which grows larger every year, and it comes at the request of past and present judges. As the number of entries has increased, it has became harder to judge the wide range of photos that come across the judge’s desk.

“That’s going to be more fair to the entrants,” said 2022 photography judge Lars Topelmann.

Topelmann said that within each category, he’ll be looking for similar aspects that make a photo stand out.

“Visual impact is number one,” he said.

“What am I looking at here? Does it make an impact? Then you go back and refine it in the second pass. Is it something I haven’t seen before? If it’s anything that’s common, it’s got to be a new look, or a more interesting composition.”

An experienced photographer judging the work also looks for qualities beyond that initial impact.

“There’s a technical aspect I appreciate,” he said. “What’s involved in taking the photo?

What went into it?”

As for digital manipulation, Topelmann is all for it – to a point.

“If you want to move something visually in a photo, if it enhances the image, that’s great,” he said. “If it’s heavy handed and looks unnatural, to me that’s not very pleasing.”

Photography is just one part of the Hal Prize, the annual writing and photography contest presented by the Peninsula Pulse; Write On, Door County; and Peninsula School of Art that offers prizes for poetry, nonfiction and fiction in addition to photography. Winners receive cash prizes, mugs from Clay Bay Pottery and publication in 8142 Review, the annual literary magazine from Peninsula Publishing & Distribution. Submissions will be accepted until Sept. 16 at thehalprize.com.

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This is part one of a two-part look at the people behind the design of Door County’s 10 golf courses. Part two will be found in the Summer edition of Door County Living, available July 1.

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oor County’s nine public golf facilities and one private resort course each have character, style and appeal all to themselves, and there’s one big reason for that: They have no designers in common. “Variety” is definitely the word for Door County’s golf challenges and the history of its courses.

The Alpine (18 holes, but previously 36) had four separate architects by the time the Black Nine opened in 2001.

Over a century, Peninsula State Park Golf Course has also had four different creators, counting Lohman Golf Design, which planned the award-winning, donor-funded, six-hole short course across Highway 42 from the driving range seven years ago.

Door County courses benefit from the peninsula’s great variations in topography and scenery, and their designers worked with the land while creating entertainment and challenges for golfers. A few of the designers are renowned in the golf world; some have been forgotten, despite their lasting achievements; and two little-known designers were involved in creating two of the most dizzying and famous holes in the county.

Multiple golf websites and Peninsula State Park Golf Course pro Jason Daubner say the 1931 efforts of Midwest club pro and clubmaker William “Bim”

(Left) Course builder David Truttmann designed Cherry Hills course with great variety, including three narrow fairways through forest on the back nine. Photo by Len Villano.

(Right) Lost Creek course, which became Idlewild, was one of 60 courses that Homer Fieldhouse designed.

Lovekin led to the construction of Peninsula holes including the difficult, par-3 17th, which requires a shot from the top of the state park’s sledding hill to the bottom of it. That hole, combined with a 69-yard tee shot to the eighth green 50 feet below, make a round at Peninsula downright unforgettable.

And Fritz Schaller, designer of The Woods in Green Bay and former course superintendent of Shorewood at UWGreen Bay, designed the Alpine’s former Blue Nine, which includes the 270-yard, par-4 ninth hole, said Bill Bertschinger, whose family previously owned the Alpine Resort. Course managers plan to make it the finishing hole again this spring.

Golfers tee it up on top of the Niagara Escarpment and hope they hit it straight. From the top of the cliff – other than the waters of Green Bay as the backdrop – players see a narrow, treelined fairway and green 120 feet below.

And then there were the unknown – or at least forgotten – designers. Cherry Hills was originally named Pepperdine when it opened in 1977. Larry Rand, owner of Royal Scot near Green Bay and Cherry Hills manager in the early 1980s, said course builder David Truttmann designed it for developer George Marcantonio on former Martin Orchards land.

Truttmann’s architecture provides great variety and forces golfers to hit it extremely straight on narrow fairways through forest on three holes on the back nine. Cherry Hills’ builders capitalized on elevation changes, requiring downhill tee shots to the

par-3 second and eighth greens. And spectacularly, they created a fairway on the par-4 15th hole that leads to a cliff about 240 yards from the tee.

Originally, the cliff featured a manmade waterfall that recycled through a pump and reservoir.

PARKSIDE SANCTUARY As a neighbor to Potawatomi State Park, Idlewild Golf Course – called Lost Creek in the 1970s by early developers, including John Mendonca – puts golfers into peaceful, natural settings while also providing many maddening moments for those who don’t hit their ball straight. The wetlands and lowland woods attract enough birds and wildlife that Idlewild could double as an Audubon sanctuary.

Head professional Brandon Hansen wasn’t familiar with the designer, but said the course provides a good mix of easier and difficult holes, and it forces players to use every club in their bag.

There’s no shrine to the architect, but it’s the work of Homer Fieldhouse – a Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced nurseryman’s son and a college-trained landscape architect who’s credited with work on 60 courses and who landscaped Wisconsin’s pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair.

Picturesque when viewed from the second-story Pub and Grill, the par-5 ninth provides an opportunity for players to try for the island green in two, but go-getters risk plunking a shot into the water.

Golfers won’t need cameras to remember some difficult holes at Idlewild, including the par-4 fifth hole, which requires a long, perfectly placed drive because of water to the right of the fairway, and then a long carry on the approach because of a creek in front of the green.

Door County residents moved countless tons of rock to create Maxwelton Braes between 1929 and 1931. The golf course and resort construction resembled the great public-works projects carried out by the Works Progress Administration, but in this case, Baileys Harbor native and Sunbeam Corporation president Michael McArdle footed the bill, used local materials and put local people –

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and up to 12 teams of horses – to work, said historian Kriss Schorer, McArdle’s niece. McArdle died before the course opened.

He and Schorer’s father, Jim, started to sketch out ideas for the course during the early 1920s, and the short, par-4 first hole looks nearly identical to that sketch today, except sand is gone from two fairway bunkers.

An avid golfer who played at the Westmoreland Country Club north of Chicago, McArdle hired north-suburban golf professional Joe Roseman to complete the design.

Though Roseman designed or redesigned 150 courses, he’s most famous as a “father of modern mowing equipment,” starting with his invention of a three-gang mower that was pulled by horses. His designs span from

Racine Country Club and Petrifying Springs in Kenosha in Wisconsin to Fort Lauderdale Country Club’s south course (1926).

Peninsula State Park Superintendent A.E. Doolittle was reportedly a “bit dictatorial,” but his layout of trails and roadways throughout the park survives to this day, said Rudy Carl, a 95-year-old golfer who played Peninsula State Park Golf Course regularly for seven decades.

Likewise, Doolittle oversaw the layout of the golf course’s initial six holes, and in 1923, an expansion to nine holes, according to the course’s website.

Today, the first hole along the park’s north entrance road remains much as it has been from the very beginning, except, for part of the 20th century, the course had sand-and-oil greens. Initially, the second hole was across present-day Highway 42.

Many of the oldest holes from the days of Doolittle and Lovekin remain in place today, such as the course’s most famous hole: the 69-yard, par-3 eighth hole, which requires a tee shot off a cliff, and the bluff-edge 11th hole.

Peninsula did not have a well-known architect until the early 1960s, when Lawrence Packard oversaw the redesign. He worked on more than 100 course projects, with most in Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida.

Some of the original 18 holes truly needed redesigning by the 1950s, such as the second, which once required players to hit a blind uphill drive from a tee box built on a rectangular flagstone structure partway down the bluff, Carl said. The redesign eliminated a par-3 hole that had a green in approximately the same spot as the present-day ninth. That mid-century green’s

Michael McArdle (second from left) footed the bill to build the Maxwelton Braes resort and golf course during the Great Depression. His project supported local materials suppliers and put hundreds of people and up to 12 teams of horses to work, but he died before the course was completed, according to his niece, Kriss Schorer. McArdle and Schorer’s father started sketching the course during the early 1920s, then turned the work over to the designer, golf pro and equipment inventor Joseph Roseman.

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Fritz Schaller sits on a bulldozer while building the Blue Nine at Alpine, including the famous cliff hole (left, inset). Golf course construction and care was a family business for the Schallers.

Submitted photo/Scott Schaller.

surface matched steep terrain near the clubhouse almost exactly, and Carl recalled the slope being terrible.

As recently as 1958, the 12th hole struck fear of injury into golfers. The hole paralleled the 17th, which serves as the park’s sledding hill, and the tee box sat too close to the 17th green for golfers. They probably should have worn hard hats.

Carl loves the “new” (circa 1960) risks of the Packard-designed par-4 12th, with its roller-coaster fairway and a severe drop-off along the entire left side.

Players can’t see the landing area from the tee, so groups in front ring a bell to give players behind them the all-clear to swing away.

“The 12th hole is a terror,” Carl said.

Longtime Alpine clubhouse employee Pete Hickey noted that the Red, White and Blue Nines at Alpine provided distinctly different experiences. He called the old 1920s-era Red Nine “charming.” With holes #1, #6, #7 and #8 perched alongside the forested Niagara Escarpment, that first nine can be friendly – or punishing if you slice.

Alpine Resort founders Paul and John Bertschinger did not build the first nine. Arn Glidden opened the course during the early 1920s. In 1926, Glidden was “on the rocks” and asked the Bertschinger brothers to buy it, said Bill Bertschinger, Paul’s son.

Bill, who – along with family members – owned the resort for 99 years until a sale in May 2020, said documents don’t clearly show who designed the White Nine, and until his dad and brother were dead, he never had a reason to ask.

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William “Bim” Lovekin poses with trophies for the 1948 Worthington Country Club (Minnesota) tournament in a Nobles County Historical Society/Daily Globe archival photo. Lovekin redesigned Peninsula State Park Golf Course during the 1930s. Among his surviving holes is the par-3 #17, also famed as the “Hill 17” sledding hill. Submitted.

Whoever designed it in 1948 created a straight, but demanding track.

Golfers got a wakeup call from the 196-yard, par-3 fourth hole below the bluff, followed by back-to-back par-4s stretching out well over 400 yards and a 235-yard par-3 that often calls for a driver from the tee.

Bertschinger said he got into a “row” with planner Fritz Schaller during the Blue Nine’s construction. Schaller asked Bertschinger to stop telling him what to do so he could think. Bertschinger said he left the designer alone, and Schaller worked harder than ever to complete the job in 1976.

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Growing grapes in the north How is Door County, an area known for harsh winters, also able to grow grapes for wine?

At approximately 45 degrees north, Door County is situated in an ideal spot on the globe for wine growing.

Although our winters are much more severe than those at the same latitude in Europe, the peninsula shares almost identical growing degree days, precipitation amounts and length of daylight with places such as Tuscany in Italy and Bordeaux in France from April through October.

Still, the grapes grown in Europe can’t withstand the Wisconsin winter. Wisconsin dairy farmer Elmer Swenson overcame this by creating a hybrid of two grape species. Now there are more than a dozen grape varietals growing in the northern regions, including Marquette, Frontenac and La Crescent.

The Wisconsin Ledge, which runs through Door County, became one of the newest wine regions of the world when the federal government established it in 2012.

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ediscovering ermouth

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f you’re a cocktail drinker who has never given much more than a passing thought to vermouth, you have a lot of company.

“Americans generally treat vermouth as something that is supposed to be in the drink, but that they don’t want to taste in the drink,” said Kendall Johnson, bar manager at Waterfront Restaurant, as she and Zach Lozoff, longtime-bartenderturned-cocktail-ambassador, gave me a tutorial on the long-buried ingredient that has slowly made its way to the front of any good bar’s shelf.

Most of us know vermouth in two ways: as the dry version we’re supposed to rinse our martini glass with, or as the sweet version our grandparents put in their Manhattans. Over the years, proportions of vermouth in cocktails such as martinis and Manhattans have been dramatically reduced. Where once a cocktail would be made with a third part vermouth, it’s now a splash or a rinse.

But as cocktail culture has made its comeback over the past decade, so has our understanding of vermouth.

Vermouth is an aromatized, fortified wine, flavored with botanicals such as roots, bark, flowers, herbs and spices.

The European Union has strict rules for products that carry the vermouth name: They must be 14.5% to 22% alcohol by volume (ABV); they must be 75% wine; and they must include wormwood as a bittering agent, among other rules.

Vermouth has long been popular in Europe, where many drink it straight or on the rocks with a twist of lemon. If that sounds disgusting to you, then your vermouth palate is probably similar to what mine was not long ago: Martini & Rossi sweet or dry, likely out of a rarely touched, dusty bottle.

A couple years ago, Lozoff introduced me to better vermouth, and it expanded my cocktail horizons. A high-quality vermouth will run you about three times the cost of Martini & Rossi, but it’s worth it not only for making a better Manhattan or martini, but also for creating easy-sipping, simple, low-alcohol drinks that are perfect for a warm spring afternoon, like the Spanish Gin and Tonic or just a glass of vermouth with a lemon twist.

Grab a bottle to see for yourself!

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MARTINI 2 oz gin (Letherbee Autumnal) 1 oz dry vermouth (Dolin)

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled. Serve up in a chilled coupe or martini glass.

Though simple, this recipe will produce a martini that will taste like an entirely different cocktail to most drinkers. Most make a martini with no more than a rinse of vermouth in the glass, but using the full portion in a 2:1 ratio produces an herbaceous, floral cocktail.

BOULEVARDIER 1½ oz whiskey (New Riff) 1 oz sweet vermouth (Cocchi Torino) 1 oz Campari Twist of orange peel for garnish

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled. Serve over a big cube.

A Boulevardier is similar to a Negroni, but replaces gin with whiskey. In this version, we change the proportions as well, adding extra whiskey to bring the flavor to the forefront.

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SPANISH GIN AND TONIC

NEGRONI 1 oz gin 1 oz Campari 1 oz sweet vermouth (Cocchi Torino)

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled.

Serve over a big cube or up in a chilled coupe glass. For a sweeter flavor, substitute Rinomato – what Lozoff calls the “Dreamsicle bitter” – for Campari.

1½ oz gin (Gin Mare) 1 oz dry vermouth (Carpano Bianco or Yzaguirre) Tonic to fill the glass Citrus round for garnish

MARTINEZ 1½ oz gin 1 oz vermouth 1 cocktail spoon Maraschino liqueur 2 dashes orange bitters Lemon twist for garnish

Fill a glass with ice, add the gin and vermouth, and fill with tonic. Add a citrus round as a garnish.

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled.

Serve up in a chilled coupe or martini glass.

Make yourself a better gin and tonic by adding a quality dry vermouth that will sweeten the drink slightly and add complexity of flavor. It’s a simple build for impressive results, or what Lozoff called “soda for adults.”

Don’t get the Maraschino liqueur confused with the juice from a jar of maraschino cherries. I’ve done it, tried it in a drink, and although I’m not so picky that I didn’t drink it, it definitely isn’t the same thing.

MANHATTAN 2 oz rye whiskey (Rittenhouse) 1 oz vermouth (Carpano Antica) Dash Angostura orange bitters Dash Angostura bitters

Put all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled. Serve over a big cube, or up in a chilled coupe or martini glass.

This is the classic proportion, but Lozoff and Johnson said they typically double the whiskey. “The modern drinker wants the flavor of the bourbon or whiskey to be at the forefront,” Johnson said.

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Healthy Made Easy Guilt-free eating at Get Real Cafe

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unshine streams through the high windows of Sturgeon Bay’s Get Real Cafe, illuminating the colorful dishes coming from the open kitchen: a quinoa salad topped with red onions and avocado, an Italian sandwich with sun-dried tomatoes and artichokes,

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Veronica Ripp works in the kitchen of her Madison Avenue restaurant, where customers have found that healthful food is also delicious.

a bowl of pork-curry vegetable soup with garbanzo beans and mushrooms bobbing on the surface. The place smells delicious.

Patrons drink their berry smoothies, cucumber juices or regular coffees as Veronica Ripp prepares yet another dish featuring organic, sustainable and

as-local-as-can-be ingredients. She does it all, from whipping up the hummus to simmering the bone broth, whisking her homemade salad dressings to pulling apart tender meat.

“Everything is made,” Ripp said, “except the mayo. I draw the line. Hellmann’s still can’t be beat.” And her following

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Veronica Ripp (right) and her wife, Judy Sinitz, have brought color to the outside of their location on Sturgeon Bay’s west side.

doesn’t seem to mind the jarred mayo: Since opening Get Real Cafe in 2014, the business has thrived, outgrowing its first location and keeping Ripp and her loyal staff very busy.

Once Ripp reached adulthood, she decided to try something new. She sold Saturn vehicles for a few years and worked in a winery, but the restaurant industry was in her blood.

“I think a lot of people didn’t think we’d succeed because of the type of food I’m serving, but I’m busier than I ever thought I’d be,” she said. “I bought 25 pounds of spinach in February. In February! That’s insane. We’re not supposed to be that busy.”

“I didn’t want to open anything without having an education other than just one restaurant,” she said.

But a busy restaurant puts Ripp right in her element. She grew up in the Door County supper club scene – serving up many an old-fashioned, plate of deep-fried perch and slice of cherry pie – because her family owned The Nightingale in Sturgeon Bay for most of her life.

“I did everything from setup to dishes to bartending,” she said. “Weddings.

Banquets. I would pull 16-, 17-hour days. I grew up wanting my own little restaurant.”

In 2005, she enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta.

Ripp not only learned how to make incredible dishes, pick out distinctive flavor combinations and keep a kitchen spotless, but she also met people with similar aspirations who called upon her.

“I got to be a part of a team, helping open new restaurants with new concepts in Georgia and North Carolina,” she said. “I learned a lot.

Every restaurant is just so different.”

In 2010, Ripp made the move back to Door County and put her supper club apron back on.

“I felt a little stifled moving back here – being a lesbian, being a local,” she said. “It was awkward for me. So I started cycling, then running. I was always athletic as a kid, so it wasn’t anything new to me, but I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t feel well. It was my diet. Turns out your body doesn’t perform well on prime rib and cheese curds.”

After helping at the family restaurant for a bit, she decided “it was time to just step back and say, ‘I’m doing my own thing,’” she said. Katie Nichols, a longtime friend and employee at The Nightingale, went along for the ride.

“I remember her leaving [The Nightingale],” Nichols said, “and it was like, ‘Who’s coming with me?’”

Ripp got to work arranging permits and licenses. She concocted a menu featuring fresh, high-quality ingredients that “satiates both sides,” as she puts it – those looking for something extra healthy and those giving in (guilt free)

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to a craving. “Sometimes you want a quinoa salad, and sometimes you just want a Cuban sandwich,” she said.

What she wasn’t going to do was take shortcuts.

“Having been around enough restaurants, I know so much is ordered frozen off the truck, dumped in a fryer and served,” she said. “That’s not what I want to do here. I did not go to culinary school and bust my butt to open a package and serve it.” The menu was also going to feature her favorite meal: big, substantial sandwiches.

Within a few months, panini press in hand and Nichols by her side, Ripp opened Get Real Cafe in a small space on Madison Avenue on the west side of Sturgeon Bay.

“I did everything on an induction burner, a panini press. I had a little halfsized oven I called my Easy-Bake oven,” she said. That entire restaurant would almost fit inside just the kitchen in her new location.

The jump into the larger space scared her at first, but the location became easier to imagine and less frightening once she met her wife, Judy Sinitz, at the cafe. Sinitz is now an owner and general manager. “It’s not that I have any power, but it sounds good,” Sinitz said, broom in hand. She joined the team in August of 2021 after 40 years in healthcare.

Sinitz enjoys seeing where Ripp takes the menu.

“Her combinations, her palate are amazing. Sometimes I look at the board and read the special and think, ‘I’d never eat that.’ Then she gives me a taste, and I say, ‘OK. I’d eat that.’ She’s able to find the intricacies of food.”

“When I sold Saturns, part of their philosophy was continuous improvement, and those bastards got in my head,” Ripp said with a laugh.

As far as Get Real Cafe’s food goes, patrons might argue that there simply are no improvements to make.

“After getting married, and having help in the kitchen, and financially and all together, it became a possibility where I wasn’t afraid of it,” Ripp said.

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fter being confined indoors or adventuring through the frozen Door County landscape for the last five months, my heart goes pitter-patter with the first signs of spring.

The lake breeze shifts and starts blowing the warmer air in from the south. Certain spring ephemerals start to peek through the last traces of winter, the bits of snow and ice leaving behind the packed-down leaf layer on the forest floor. The trees begin to bud; the sandhill cranes return; there are signs of new life

everywhere. Take a deep breath in, and rejoice in the beginning of the warm months.

For me, the shift of seasons comes with an excitement for foraging and tramping through the forest. Door County is a perfect place to allow yourself time and space to get lost in the hunt for things of earthy, delectable delight. The first wild deliciousness you will find in early spring are ramps, also known as wild onion, wild garlic or wild leeks.

Get out for that early spring hike – it’s good for your soul! When you do,

the ramp greens are the first things you’ll see peeking up from the rich soil found in the Door County forest floors. Inhale deeply, and you’ll smell a hint of onion in the air. For me, this moment is the opportunity to close my eyes, take in the change of season and give thanks for all the new life in the world.

Ramps are native to our climate and were a prevalent food source for both Native Americans and early settlers.

When harvesting anything from the wild, including ramps, it’s important to put on your sustainable hat.

(Above) In early May, a blanket of ramps provides the first color to grow on the floor of many wooded areas in Door County before being overtaken by other foliage.

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Although ramps are a perennial (bulb) and will reproduce year to year, don’t take a full clump from any given place in the forest. Instead, gather a few from here and a few from there – it won’t take long to obtain the quantity you’re looking for.

The entire plant is edible, both the bulb and the leaves. The flavor is somewhere between a very strong onion and raw garlic, so a little goes a long way. The longer ramps are in the ground, the stronger they get. I try to get out early in the season to harvest them when they’re young and tender. You’ll know it’s time to harvest when you see the forest floor covered in clumps of broad, green leaves, four to six inches long.

When harvesting, take a gardening hand tool such as a small shovel or trowel, gardening gloves, and a canvas or netted bag to carry out your haul.

The tool is used simply to loosen the soil around the bulbs. Dig deep enough so you can gently wiggle a few out at a time.

Cleaning ramps can be a bit tedious because soil can get trapped within the layers. I start by giving them a good wash in cold water using my hands to remove as much soil as possible, then cut off the roots and remove the white bulbs from the greens. The next step is to give the greens a whirl in a salad spinner. Then remove whatever soil still remains, and spin extra long to remove as much water as you can.

Store the bulbs in the refrigerator between layers of paper towels inside a plastic bag to keep them fresh.

(They’re best if used within four to five days of harvest.)

Store the greens in a separate plastic bag with a paper towel folded up at the bottom of the bag to absorb any excess water. They’ll keep in your refrigerator for about a week.

The following recipes allow you to use the greens for ramp pesto and ramp butter, and the bulbs for pickled ramps.

RAMP BUTTER Have a food processor at the ready.

1 lb unsalted butter, room temperature Handful of ramp greens, chopped 1-2 cloves garlic, diced Pinch or two of salt

Place all ingredients in a food processor, and whirl until well blended. Remove from the processor, roll in wax paper and place in the freezer. You will get two or three rolls, depending on how thickly you roll.

Pull out of the freezer 30 minutes before using.

Remove the wax paper and slice into pinwheels – the presentation will surely impress! Serve with warm bread or substitute in all savory recipes calling for butter.

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RAMP PESTO Have a food processor at the ready.

1 lb ramp greens, chopped 1 cup olive oil (and more if necessary) 2 cups nuts of choice: raw pine nuts, pecans, walnuts or almonds ½ cup Parmesan or other hard cheese of your choice, grated (optional) 1 Tbsp lemon juice (juice of ½ lemon) Salt and pepper to taste

Add the ramp greens, olive oil and nuts to the food processor.

Pulse until all is well blended.

(Depending on the size of your food processor, you may want to add just a bit at a time or process in batches.) When blended, add the cheese (optional), lemon juice, salt and pepper (to taste) and whirl again.

This pesto is great on eggs, pasta, fish or chicken. It can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week or frozen in ice cube trays. This freezing method allows you to portion out the pesto in easy-touse quantities. Store the frozen cubes in a freezer bag.

PICKLED RAMPS You’ll need four pint jars for this recipe.

These are refrigerator pickles, which means they are not sealed properly to be stored in the pantry.

However, you can store them in your refrigerator for a month or two. They make awesome additions to a spring-themed charcuterie board, your favorite grilled sandwiches or a Bloody Mary. I love having these available to add a pop of flavor to just about anything savory.

Step 1: Blanch the bulbs 4 cups salted water 1 lb ramp bulbs Bowl of ice water

Bring the water to a boil; then drop the ramp bulbs into the water, boil for approximately 30 seconds. Using a slotted spoon, quickly remove the ramps from the boiling water and submerge them in a bowl of ice water. Remove when cool to the touch, approximately 1 minute. Place them off to the side.

Step 2: Pack the Jars Fresh oregano and fresh thyme for Mediterranean style or fresh cilantro for curry style 4 small serrano or jalapeño peppers (optional)

Pack the ramps tightly into the four pint jars.

Add fresh oregano and thyme to the jars when choosing the Mediterranean-style brine, or fresh cilantro when choosing the curry-style brine. To add spice to either recipe, add a small serrano or jalapeño pepper to each jar.

MEDITERRANEAN-STYLE PICKLED RAMPS 3 cups water 1½ cups red wine vinegar ½3 cup sugar ¼ tsp mustard seeds ¼ tsp black peppercorns ¼ tsp caraway seeds ¼ tsp allspice seeds 1 bay leaf 1 Tbsp pickling salt or kosher salt

CURRY-STYLE PICKLED RAMPS 3 cups water 1½ cups apple cider vinegar or white wine vinegar ½3 cup sugar ¼ tsp mustard seeds ¼ tsp coriander seeds ¼ tsp allspice seeds 1 small cinnamon stick ½ tsp turmeric ¼ tsp red pepper flakes 1 Tbsp pickling salt or kosher salt

In a small stockpot, bring all ingredients to a boil. Simmer for approximately 30 minutes, allowing the flavors to meld.

While the brine is still hot, carefully pour enough brine into each jar to cover the ramps. Put a clean lid on each jar and quickly turn them upside down to cool. Once the jars have cooled, place them in the refrigerator. Let them sit for a minimum of a week before you dig in.

Step 3: Make the Brine There are two options for the brine – pick your favorite! Both recipes make enough brine for one pound of ramps packed into four pint jars.

The city of Chicago got its name from the word “shikaakwa,” used by local Miami and Illinois peoples for onion and skunk. The name stuck and evolved into “Chicago.”

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Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order by town. Information is subject to change.

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DCBC Eats 8099 Hwy 57 (920) 412-7226 $$ L D

Florian II Supper Club 8048 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2361 $$ D J Harbor Fish Market & Grille 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 harborfishmarketgrille.com $$$$ B L D J { ( A full service restaurant in the heart of Baileys Harbor. Open 7 days a week serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have a full bar and seasonal, pet-friendly waterfront garden dining.

Heirloom Cafe & Provisions 2434 Cty F (920) 839-9334 heirloomcafeand provisions.com $$ B L

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(920) 839-9665 $$ L D T Vino! Vino! is a contemporary Tuscan wine bar and tapas experience. Boccé serves oak-barrel-fired pizza at Stone’s Throw Winery. Traditional northern Italian-style pizza like no other!

Join us for great wine and fresh food in an atmosphere of friendly, casual elegance.

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Burton’s on the Bay 7715 Alpine Road.

920.868.3000 Alpineresort.com $$$B L D The Alpine Resort in Egg Harbor is cooking up something special: Burton’s on the Bay is opening this summer!

Burton’s on the Bay is an upscale waterfront restaurant within the newly restored Alpine Resort.

Burton’s on the Bay offers delicious daily cuisine – breakfast, lunch and dinner with panoramic views of the bay. Both indoor and outdoor dining options are available.

Follow The Alpine Resort on Facebook and Instagram for updates.

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

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Fireside Restaurant 7755 Hwy 42 thefireside restaurant.com $$$ D J ( Greens N Grains Deli 7821 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9999 greens-N-grains.com $BLJ{ The Greens N Grains Deli features a selection of vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and raw-food cuisine.

The deli also features a juice bar with freshly pressed veggie juices, fruit smoothies, a healthful bakery, tea bar and organic coffees.

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Just south of Egg Harbor, you will find a hand-carved restaurant nestled in the woods, The Log Den. With an atmosphere like no other, an eager staff and savory menu. We encourage you to stop in for a one-of-a-kind Door County experience.

Serving lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch.

MacReady Artisan Bread Company 7828 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2233 MacReadyBread Company.com $LDJT{ Mezzanine 7821 Horseshoe Bay Road (920) 786-7698 mezzaninerooftop.com $$$ B L D Mojo Restaurant Group 7778 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3274 mojorestaurant group.com $$ L D J T { ( Parador 7829 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2255 $$ D {( Pizza Bros 4633 Market St. $$ L D Shipwrecked Brew Pub 7791 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicro brew.com $$$ L D J T { Stonehedge Golf and Pub 4320 Cty E $LD The Orchards at Egg Harbor 8125 Heritage Lake Road (920) 868-2483 orchardsategg harbor.com $L J{ Village Cafe 7918 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3247 $$ B L J {

ELLISON BAY

Open Year Round 3667 Hwy 42 North of Fish Creek 920.868.3532 alexandersofdoorcounty.com

Blue Bear 12029 Hwy 42 (920) 854-3284 $$$ B L D Brew Coffee 12002 Hwy 42 (920) 421-2739 $BLT{

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Hügel Haus 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 633-4080 $$ D J T ( A German-inspired, Wisconsin-influenced 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 self-proclaimed as “Door County’s Wurst Bar.” View our menu and hours online at hugelhausdoorcounty. 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 Cty ZZ (920) 854-2385 rowleysbayresort.com $$ B D J { ( Wickman House 11976 Mink River Road (920) 854-3305 wickmanhouse.com $$$ D { (

EPHRAIM Bad Moravian 3055 Church St. $$ D Chef’s Hat 9998 Pioneer Lane (920) 854-2034 $$ B L D JT{( Fresh Take 42 10420 Water St. (920) 854-3232 freshtake42.com $$$ L D Good Eggs 9820 Brookside Lane (920) 854-6621 $BL { Lost Tuk Tuk 9922 Water St., #7 (920) 421-1328 losttuktuk.square.site $$ L D

Old Post Office Restaurant 10040 Hwy 42 (920) 854-4034 oldpostoffice-door county.com $$ B D J{( Pearl Wine Cottage 3058 Church St. (920) 633-5006 pearlwinecottage.com $$ D { Peninsula State Park Clubhouse Restaurant 9890 Shore Road (920) 854-5791 peninsulagolf.org $BL Prince of Pierogi 9922 Water St., #6 (920) 421-8619 princeofpierogi.com $$ L D { Summer Kitchen 10425 Water St. (920) 854-2131 $$ B L D J{( Located between Ephraim and SIster Bay, Door County’s garden restaurant, the Summer Kitchen, is open every day for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and it's wellknown for its soup

bar and homemade pies. In addition to its extensive menu, the Summer Kitchen also serves authentic Mexican food.

Sunset Harbor Grill 10018 Water St. $$ B L D J Trixie’s 9996 Pioneer Lane (920) 854-8008 $$$ D ( Wilson’s Restaurant 9990 Water St. (920) 854-2041 wilsonsicecream.com $LDJ{ Located in the heart of Ephraim since 1906. A classic Door County landmark that possesses the enchantment to take even the youngest visitors back in time with its old-fashioned soda fountain, ice cream specialties, house-brewed draft root beer, flamebroiled burgers and juke box playing the classics.

FISH CREEK

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 house-made soups, sandwiches, burgers, housemade pizza, Friday fish fry and Smilen Bob’s chili. Open daily year-round!

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

Alexander’s Contemporary Cuisine & Fine Spirits 3667 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3532 alexandersofdoor county.com $$$$ D J T { ( Specializing in seafood, steaks, contemporary cuisine, catering and special events (fully licensed and insured). Bar opens at 4 pm; dinner at 5 pm. Sunday brunch starting at 9 am.

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.

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DOOR COUNTY’S GARDEN RESTAURANT 10425 N. Hwy 42 • North Ephraim 920.854.2131 TheSummerKitchenDoorCounty.com

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DC Chocolate Design 9341 Spring Road, Unit A6 (920) 868-5155 dcchocolate design.com $BL T{ Chocolate, full coffee menu, beer, wine and friendly smiles. Serving rich and bold milk chocolate and warm and complex dark chocolate. Handmade on site. Grab a seat at the bar to watch the process or sit outside on the patio with fresh espresso, beer or wine.

English Inn 3713 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3076 theenglishinn.com $$$ D J T ( Fika Bakery & Cafe 3903 Hwy 42 (920) 868-5233 $BL{ Fish Creek Market 4164 Main St. (920) 868-3351 Fishcreekmarket 1892.com $$ L

Greenwood Supper Club Intersection of Cty A and F (920) 839-2451 greenwood supperclub.net $$$ D J Hill Street 4149 Main St. Hillstreetdoor county.com $$ B L D 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 { 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{

CASEY’S BBQ & SMOKEHOUSE brisket • ribs • wings salads • soups • sandwiches burgers • friday fish fry saturday smoked prime rib

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/ johnnygsfishinghole $$$ L D J

The Bullpen 213 W. Main St., #9691 (920) 856-6199 $$ L D T

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 Located in Jacksonport at the Square Rigger Lodge, you will find us serving delicious coffee, quiche and baked goods. Come for the coffee, and linger for the great water view.

Mike’s Port Pub 6269 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2081 $$ L D Mr. G’s Logan Creek Grille 5890 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2112 $$$ B L 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 { Flip-flop into Boathouse on the Bay for outside seating, majestic marina and grand sunset views.

Stay for the good people, great food and speciality drinks. With our patio seating, our Fly Bridge Bar and dining area with floor-to-ceiling windows, you can’t miss the beautiful panoramic view!

Carroll House 2445 S. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-7997 $BLJ

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OPEN FOR LUNCH AND DINNER CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 920.868.3888

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6626 HWY. 42 • EGG HARBOR, WI 54209 • THELOGDEN.COM

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• Fresh Handcrafted Burgers • Wild caught Hawaiian Seafood • Kobe Beef Steaks • Mouthwatering Sandwiches

CHOP 2345 Mill Road (920) 854-2700 $$$ D JT{( Crain’s Kitchen 10635 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 633-4047 $LD 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{ Come try our superpremium ice cream made right in-store.

Door County Ice Cream Factory has more than 30 flavors to choose from, as well as a long list of sundaes and other specialty ice cream offerings. More than 15 sandwiches made to order, housemade pizza, soups and salads. There really is something for everyone.

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 $$ L D J T { Pasta Vino 10571 Country Walk Dr $$$ D 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, plus 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 { ( The Waterfront features upscale, elegant dining overlooking the beautiful Sister Bay waterfront.

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for The Waterfront when you’re in Door County. It promises to be a memorable dining experience!

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, open-air dining space and gabled meadow are available to rent. See you soon!

Wild Tomato WoodFired Pizza & Grille 10677 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-4685 wildtomatopizza.com $LD JT{

STURGEON BAY Corner Café 113 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-1991 $BLJT( 5th and Jefferson Café 232 N. 5th Ave. (920) 746-1719 $BLD{ Betsy Ross Family Restaurant 239 Green Bay Road (920) 743-811 Betsyross restaurant.com $BLD Birmingham’s 4709 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 743-5215 birminghamsbar andcottages.com $$ L D J T Blue Front Café 86 W. Maple St. (920) 743-9218 $$ L JT(

Brick Lot Pub & Grill 253 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-9339 bricklotpub.com $LD JT Cedar Crossing Restaurant & Bar 336 Louisiana St. (920) 743-4200 innatcedar crossing.com $$$ B L D J T ( Chaser’s Sports Bar & Grill 1217 N. 14th Ave. (920) 743-6997 applevalleylanes.net $$ Cherry Lanes Arcade Bar 127 N. 4th Ave. (920) 818-0093 facebook.com/ cherrylanes arcadebar $$$ D Crate — Sushi & Seafood 136 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 818-1333 $$$ 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

Healthy Way Market 216 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 746-4103 healthyway market.com $L 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 $$ L D J T { Little Brown Jug Saloon 8952 Cty C (920) 824-5005 littlebrownjugbar.com $$ L D Lodge at Leathem 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

Gnomes Good Food Great Games Grand Memories Gnosh! Gnosh!

DOOR COUNTY’S ‘WURST’ BAR & RESTAURANT

Fine German Fare, Full Bar, & Nightly Specials

11934 Highway 42 Ellison Bay, WI 54210 920-633-4080

23 N. 3rd Ave Sturgeon Bay www.The-Gnosher y.com Coffee, Tea, Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

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LaPuerta of Sister Bay

breakfast • lunch • dinner traditional Door County fish boils overnight lodging 4225 Main Street • Fish Creek • 920.868.3517 innkeeper@whitegullinn.com • www.whitegullinn.com

Hwy. 42 North end of Sister Bay 920.854.4513 MEXICAN & AMERICAN FOOD ~ World Renowned Margaritas ~

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Home-Brewed Draft Root Beer Outdoor Seating Family Atmosphere

Open Daily 11am • May-October

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

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HARBOR Fish Market & Grille

Distinctive Waterfront Dining Serving Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner 7 days a week Outside Waterfront Dining (Weather Permitting) 8080 Highway 57 Baileys Harbor 920.839.9999 www.harborfishmarket-grille.com

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a variety of alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages.

Mill Supper Club 4128 Hwy 42/57 N (920) 743-5044 $$$ D J T Morning Glory by the Bay 306 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 818-0711 $$ B L 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 $$ L D J T ( Stage Road Inn 2049 Cty S (920) 743-4807 facebook.com/ stageroadinn $$$ D Stone Harbor 107 N. 1st St. (920) 746-0700 stoneharborresort.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 the county'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 $$$ D J T Trattoria Dal Santo 147 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-6100 trattoriadalsanto.com $$$ 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 $$ L D T{ Hotel Washington 354 Range Line Road (920) 847-3010 $$$ 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

Over 30 years creating the flavors of Door County and family friendly dining!

11051 Hwy 42 • Sister Bay, WI 54234 • (920) 854-9693 www. www.doorcountyicecream.com .com • scoop@doorcountyicecream.com Early Summer 2022

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