CONTRIBUTORS

Copy editor PAULA APFELBACH is living the good life in a great place west of Door County: Minneapolis. She also wonders how it got to be summer again.

Writer and editor MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. has been searching out stories for Door County Living since 2005. This issue, he recounts the effort to move the Little Sister Barn and 16 other buildings from the Little Sister Resort.

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.

POLLY FITZ is a writer and Pilates teacher who has Door County genes through her mother, grandparents and great-grandmother, all of whom were born and raised on the peninsula. Although she remains an aspirational resident, she’s a frequent visitor and is grateful to share stories about the place she loves the most.

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. For this issue, she talked with former co-worker and author Sally Collins about her new children’s board book.

Whichever 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, their Yorkie, and their 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.

SARA RAE LANCASTER splits her time between writing about the people and places of Door County for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living, 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 the passing of her husband, Roy, 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.

As a journalist, DUSTIN RENWICK focuses on stories from the Midwest and Great Lakes. He’s the production director for National Geographic Live and visits Door County every summer from the other DC – the nation’s capital.

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

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