Door County Living 2010 Early Summer Issue by Door County Pulse

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2010 Early Summer Editor Madeline Johnson Associate Editor Sara Massey Copy Editor Allison Vroman Photography Director Dan Eggert Artist Nik Garvoille Contributing Editors Myles Dannhausen Jr., Jacinda Duffin, Nik Garvoille, Mariah Goode, Stephen Grutzmacher, Gary Jones, Brittany Jordt, Roy Lukes, Tom McKenzie, Karen Nordahl, Megan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Meara, Sam Perlman, Melissa Ripp, Katie Lott Schnorr, Bonnie Spielman, Patty Williamson Advertising Sales Madeline Johnson, Bonnie Spielman, Steve Grutzmacher Publisher David Eliot Owners: Madeline Johnson & David Eliot Door County Living magazine is published five times annually by: Door County Living, Inc. P.O. Box 695, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202

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LIFE IN DOOR COUNTY

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(Left) Tom Utzinger and Bryon Smith (right) find a way through the ceiling and back.

EDITOR’S NOTE

Madeline A. Johnson, Editor

Door County Living has a new home! As this issue hits stands, Door County Living, along with sister businesses the Peninsula Pulse and Paper Boy, will be just settling into its new permanent home, the former Frogtown Framing building in downtown Baileys Harbor. It’s been an educational and demanding journey to acquire our new digs, but two things are eminently clear. One, we’re overjoyed to become the custodians of a historic 91-year-old building. And two, we owe an enormous thank you to the Door County community that’s helped us achieve a dream that was a long time in the making. Without the help of Tom Utzinger and Colleen McCarty (the former owners who’ve

lovingly restored the building over the last 15 years), Jacinda Duffin and Dan Mortier (our enduringly optimistic real estate agents), Bryon “Fuzzy” Smith (the builder who made us office-ready on a militant schedule), Nate Bell (our telecommunications wizard and genius mastermind), Pat Bryant (our esteemed electrician), a dozen painters (volunteerfriends we’ll forever owe), Ken Glasheen (our banker – mustn’t forget him!), John and Peg Lowry (our former landlords, under whose roof we’ve prospered for the last six years), and above all our dedicated, talented, patient, and supportive staff…we wouldn’t be able to open the doors on a new era.

readers, supporters in general – too many to mention by name), but we ultimately hope to pay forward in full the generosity we’ve received. While we chip away at that goal, stop in and see us in our new home.

There’ve been countless other helping hands along the way as well (plasterers, floorers, hardware experts, advertisers,

(Above) Editor, Madeline Johnson puts some finishing touches on the ceiling. Photo by Sarah Doneff. (Below) Frogtown Framing.

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CONTENTS

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HABITATS Building a Nest Box Constructing Homes for Bluebirds FEATURE For the Love of the Players 75 Years and Counting

ART SCENE A Century of Change, A Century Unchanged Four Generations of Draeb Jewelers ART SCENE Struggle for a Stage Door Community Auditorium

OUTSIDE IN DOOR Opening the Door Wider to Kayakers The Team Leadership Center DOOR TO NATURE Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers

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CAMEOS Small Town Girl Runs with the Big Dogs Wendi Ray FEATURE Changes and Constants in Health Care Health Care on the Door Peninsula MUSIC SCENE Reggaebilly Soulgrass The Music of Nick Steingart

HISTORY The County’s Most Significant Architectural Find The Hans Hanson House TOPSIDE Spring Cleaning on the Lake Floor

FAIRWAYS Inside the Ropes at The Masters Local Golf Course Owner Recalls Experience

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DOOR COUNTY MAP Your Guide to Door County ON YOUR PLATE Fun, Casual and Familiar JJs/La Puerta ON YOUR PLATE Savory Leek, Gorgonzola, and Bacon Custards

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Jacinda Duﬃn has lived in Door County all of her postcollegiate life, and has had the good fortune of wearing many hats: restaurateur, art gallery owner, playwright. She is an avid reader, crossword puzzler, freelance writer, and theater-goer. Jacinda spends entirely too much time buying and selling real estate – both personally and professionally – and is a broker/owner and partner at True North Real Estate in downtown Fish Creek. After a long and illustrious scholastic career in the cities of Philadelphia, Chicago and Minneapolis, Nik Garvoille, against all better judgment, landed in Door County in 2005 where he has been painting, writing, cooking, trailblazing and loving the land ever since. Mariah Goode is the Director of the Door County Planning Department. She is a member of the Door County Economic Development Corporation Attainable Housing Committee and the Door County Green Fund board. When she used to have free time (before she and husband Sam had two children, Thelonious Jacob Goode and Trenowith Blair Perlman), she liked to walk the beach with their dog Lucy, watch Law & Order, do yoga, read, drink wine, travel, and spend time in the darkroom. Stephen Grutzmacher published his first article when he was a sophomore at Beloit Memorial High School and has been writing and publishing ever since. He currently owns Passtimes Books in Sister Bay in addition to working for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living. His first job was delivering newspapers in the early morning, a position he held from junior high through high school. Now, at 50 years of age, he can be seen delivering the Peninsula Pulse (one of his duties) on publication days. Steve appreciates this small piece of symmetry in his life. Gary Jones is a freelance journalist as well as a poet, dramatist, essayist, fiction writer, and occasional teacher of writing. After nearly 30 years of living in Door County, he and his wife have finally put down roots. (No small thing; a late orchard man once told Jones that because of the peninsula’s rocky soil he sometimes had to blast to plant trees.) Brittany Jordt graduated from UW-Madison in May 2009 with a BA in English and Theater. She feels excited and honored to be able to share her passion for the arts by contributing to Door County Living. Door County is a wonderful community with a variety of art forms and very talented artists, which makes it a delightfully compelling place to live and to write. Besides writing for Door County Living, Sam Perlman is the Economic Development Manager for the Door County Economic Development Corporation, where he is involved in a number of initiatives designed to enhance the vitality and variety of the local economy. Prior to working for DCEDC, he was the Program Director for the Peninsula Art School in Fish Creek. In past lives in Chicago and New York City, Sam has worked as a talent agent, a marketing executive and a dot-communist. He has a BA in Music with a concentration in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Grinnell College (IA).

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The study of nature has been a lifelong pursuit for Roy Lukes. Learning, photographing and teaching about the natural history here since 1964 has sharpened his awareness and knowledge of the excellent biodiversity in Door County and the urgent need for stronger continuing stewardship of this great peninsula. Researching the history and delivery of healthcare in Door County rang a personal note for Karen Nordahl. Granddaughter to the late Dr. H.D. Grota, Nordahl called upon relatives, friends and family archives to obtain information for her contribution to this issue. Nordahl has worked in the medical industry for nearly 20 years, currently as the Director of Healthcare Economics for St. Jude Medical. She resides in Baileys Harbor with her husband Kevin and their two children, Aria and Kai. Megan O’Meara started coming to Door County for family vacations as a child. During a Thanksgiving stay in 1998, she discovered that the Irish House (now O’Meara’s Irish House) was for sale and purchased it. Before moving to Door County from Chicago, she worked for an electrical contracting company. Megan graduated from St. Ambrose University with an English and French degree. Most of her time is spent in her store; however, she does find time to write, read and take in the occasional Door County view.

Contributors

Myles Dannhausen Jr. watched several 8th grade graduations and plays sitting on steel foldout chairs in Gibraltar’s Old Gym before the Door Community Auditorium was built. In this issue, the News Editor of the Peninsula Pulse and boys basketball coach at Gibraltar High School looks back at the struggle to build the Door Community Auditorium.

Melissa Ripp, a native of Door County, decided to come back to the place she grew up after college graduation. The county hasn’t been the same since. Melissa lives her life by word counts and is a regular contributor to Door County Living and the Peninsula Pulse. When she’s not under deadline, Melissa enjoys working as the Marketing & Community Relations Director for the Hardy Gallery as well at her creative services company, Peapod Public Relations & Marketing. Katie Lott Schnorr lives in Southern Door County with her husband and two young daughters. She is a teacher in the Sturgeon Bay Public Schools. Aside from teaching and raising a family, poetry and jazz singing are her creative endeavors at present. She feels fortunate to live in such a beautiful place full of imaginative and passionate people. Bonnie Spielman is currently the Sales Manager for Door County Living and the Peninsula Pulse. With a college background in English and journalism, she has enjoyed rekindling her interest in writing in her spare time. A selfproclaimed “jock,” she discovered golf in her adult years, and credits her husband and avid golfer, Bob, for turning her into a single-digit handicap. She also authors the Peninsula Pulse’s regular golf page, “Making The Turn.” Bonnie and Bob own Hat Head in Fish Creek and reside in Baileys Harbor with their dog, Looper. Patty Williamson grew up in the small town in North Missouri where Walt Disney spent much of his childhood. Since 1992, she and her husband have spent April through November on Kangaroo Lake, and the license on their van reads LVDCWI. Patty has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English and a master’s and doctorate in education administration. She retired in 1993 after 27 years in public relations and has worked since then as a free-lance writer, editor and photographer. She is the author of four books, including A History of Kangaroo Lake and See You Under the Stars…The History of American Folklore Theatre, out this May. When not writing, she spends her time traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and needlework, researching her Irish roots and volunteering at Zion United Methodist Church, American Folklore Theatre and Door Shakespeare. Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 11

AROUND THE DOOR

Early Summer 2010

enjoy the peninsula & surrounding islands

Spring, though sometimes slow to arrive, is a magical time on the peninsula – you can almost hear the collective sigh of joy around the county at the sound of canoes being launched on Kangaroo Lake, the reappearance of snow-birds’ friendly faces, and the return of our beloved fair-weather flora and fauna. Below are just a few of the many ways to make the most of the season. Enjoy!

Take in the Cherry Blossoms Door County’s cherry orchards, dormant and dreary for much of the winter, burst to life in May presenting a staggeringly beautiful landscape of delicate whitish-pink blossoms. Take a bike ride down any back road during peak bloom, and you’ll find yourself happily enveloped by these unrivalled symbols of Door County agriculture, heritage and beauty. You’ll have to wait another month or two to taste the fruit, but the sight of these enormous bouquets sprung from the earth will be enough to tide you over. Early mornings and late afternoons are especially enchanting; just be sure to bring your camera and pleasant company with you.

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Hunt for Treasures Antique shops and resale barns unveil scores of new collectibles each spring. Vendors spend the wintertime searching far and wide for new rarities, so early season is the best time for the savvy shopper to strike. Antique stores are countywide and plentiful, but if you’re going to attempt a full day start with the cluster of centers just south of the Village of Egg Harbor on Highway 42, which includes the Peninsula Antique Center, the Olde Orchard Antique Mall, and the Bay Trading Company. Each facility offers meandering rooms, thousands upon thousands of items, and knowledgeable staff to shed light on your discoveries.

Make it a Museum Day Sturgeon Bay is home to an enriching and entertaining museum dedicated to the area’s storied maritime past. Located at the foot of the historic Steel Bridge, the Door County Maritime Museum presents several permanent exhibits and, opening on May 23, 2010, the muchanticipated “Ghosts: Haunted Lighthouses of the Great Lakes” exhibit. For an extra $5, also tour the tug John Purves, docked in the channel. Save the date, too, for the 20th Annual Classic and Wooden Boat Festival later this summer, which runs August 7 - 8, 2010.

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AROUND THE DOOR Tour the Taverns

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Step one: Designate a driver. Step two: Pick up a “Tour the Door” booklet from the Door County Tavern League (available in midNearly 200 Scottish Terriers and their adorMay at Mike’s Port Pub in Jacksonport as ing owners from across North America will well as two dozen or so other bars). Step gather for this year’s 10th annual event on three: Endeavor to discover the many “old May 22nd. The highlight of the event is a school” taverns across the county by col“Scottie Parade” through downtown Baileys lecting stamps Harbor complete with kilts, bagpipes and at each one. curious onlookers. A must-see! Even locals say that this “passport” has taken Ride for Nature them to Saturday, June 19 little known www.ridefornature.com corners of (920) 421-1509 the county for good, Each year brings new old-fashioned north woods brew challenges to peninsula and chat. You’re bound to find outdoor enthusiasts. This rickety pool tables, true pub year the Ride for Nature to décor (replete with vintage beer benefit The Ridges Sanctusigns, taxidermy of all sorts, and ary will offer a 100-mile antique farming equipment fasroute for the first time. The tened to the wall) and a tall tale 22nd annual event will also or two, but that’s all part of the include 50 and 25-mile fun! $30 will get you a booklet routes, plus a 15-mile family and a hooded sweatshirt; collect ride. The century distance stamps from three-quarters of offers serious riders a great the participating taverns and early-season challenge, you’ll qualify for a cash prize while weekend warriors drawing in January 2011. For can stretch their limits as more information about “Tour they take in the beautiful the Door” and the Safe Ride blooming scenery along the Program, call Mike’s at (920) peninsula’s back roads. 823-2081.

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The Ellison Bay Service Club is hosting the 44th annual Olde Ellison Bay Days celebration in June on the grounds of the Community Center Park in Ellison Bay. This smalltown festival is well worth the trip north to scenic Ellison Bay, which also boasts some of Door County’s most renowned art galleries, resident artisans, and two acclaimed schools, The Clearing Folk School and Savory Spoon Cooking School. The event features a pie baking contest, a “grande parade,” and an art fair, along with music by Copper Box and the Door County Bluegrass Camp. Also enjoy food, games, dancing, and activities for children at the park.

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HABITATS BY ROY LUKES

Building a Nest Box Constructing Homes for Bluebirds

Photo by Heather Harle Frykman of the Frykman Studio Gallery, Sister Bay.

At least 85 species

of North American birds either excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting from decay (natural cavities), or use holes created by other species in live, dead, or deteriorating trees for their home. Species such as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, bluebirds, nuthatches and owls, to name a few, are cavity nesters. Heading the list in numbers in North America are the woodpeckers, 19 species in all. Even seven duck species use cavities for nesting, including four Door

Author Roy Lukes monitors a K-style nest box with the top opening. Photo by Charlotte Lukes. 14 Door County Living Early Summer 2010

County species: the Wood Duck, Common Goldeneye, Hooded Merganser and Common Merganser. Prior to the arrival of Europeans to North America, all cavity-nesting birds used natural cavities. Gradually, standing dead snags (excellent sites) were cleared away along with other trees that were not aesthetically pleasing to the eye. As a result, few nesting sites were left for cavity-nesting birds. The arrival to our continent of the European Starling and House Sparrow proved to be highly competitive to the Eastern Bluebird, for example, for good nesting sites. The farm my dad was born and raised on during the early 1900s, along with most other farms of those times, used Eastern White Cedar fence posts. Often the top three-to-four-inch wide central portion of the posts rotted out, to around four to six inches deep. According to my dad, Eastern Bluebirds used those natural cavities extensively. Obviously, those nesting sites lacked roofs, but the birds got along in most in-

stances very nicely. This was before starlings and opossums were big predators. The introduction of steel fence posts to farming did away with most of the cedar post nesting cavities, and here is where people entered the picture by designing suitable wooden nest boxes. These were accepted readily by the bluebirds and, without a doubt, the badly dwindling population of this species was helped remarkably by well-meaning people. It can safely be said today that bluebirds need people more than ever. This applies to all three North American species: the Eastern, Western and the Mountain Bluebirds. Helping bluebirds by building nest boxes, establishing nest box trails, and doing careful monitoring goes back between 50 and 60 years in Wisconsin. Fortunately, I’ve been involved with building and putting out bluebird boxes for at least 53 years. The box my dad and I designed to start with had a relatively small cavity size of around 3 ½ inches by 4 ½ inches, a size that was doorcountyliving.com

HABITATS criticized by some of the “experts” as being too small. Dad based the size of the cavity upon his experiences on the farm with the bluebirds that nested in the hollowed-out White Cedar fence posts. Our small boxes (we built 475 one winter) worked very well. Today, the recommended cavity size is 16 square inches. Our boxes 50 years ago were only slightly smaller. Gradually, through the years bluebirders have tried at least a dozen or more different bluebird nest box plans. Today, the three most widely used plans in our state are the NABS (North American Bluebird Society), a box having a slanting roof and a side opening, and which is fairly easy to build, install and monitor; the Peterson box, which is very difficult to construct and is comparatively heavy and challenging to mount; and the K-style (Kentucky), which is the box we favor and use exclusively on our 48box trail. It is quite easy to build, has a top opening which is ideal for monitoring the nesting progress, and is also easy to mount using rebar (concrete reinforcing rod) and half-inch electrical conduit. After using the K-style box (which has only a top opening) for several years, I revised the plan to have both a top opening for the best monitoring and a side opening for easy cleaning of the box after each brood. The easiest lumber to obtain for the K-style box, and others as well, is 7/8-inchthick Western Cedar, readily available at lumber yards. I like to use full 1-inch thick Eastern White Cedar, native to this region, which I order from a local sawmill as 1½-inch boards. I then have these planed so that the boards are rough-sawn on one side and smooth on the other, but a full inch thick. For quite a few years I fastened the K-style boxes to the electrical conduit using two ½-inch double-winged “C” clamps (available at hardware stores) used with ½-inch electrical conduit. The problem, though not serious, we had with this method was doorcountyliving.com

Photo by Heather Harle Frykman of the Frykman Studio Gallery, Sister Bay.

that the nest box acted like a weather vane in high winds, in that the conduit pipe and box are slipped over the rebar and can quite easily turn. Only the rebar is pounded into the ground. It’s imperative that the opening of the nest box be directly aimed at a nearby tree, within 25 to 100 feet away, to which the fledglings will fly upon leaving the box on their “maiden flights.” The box style one

uses for the bluebirds is not as important as where the box has been placed. Ideal placement is beneath overhead power lines with mown roadsides or lawn below. This provides the adult birds with good perches from which to do their insect hunting on the ground below. Nearby open agricultural fields are also very good hunting sites. When you place the boxes too close to brushy areas you run the risk of attracting Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 15

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A nest of newly hatched bluebirds in the K-style box with one egg still to open. Photo by Roy Lukes.

House Wrens. Yes, they are protected native birds which consume many injurious insects, but they are also known to be highly aggressive and intolerant of other cavity nesting birds and will often destroy their eggs in the nests. If some of our nest boxes attract House Wrens we simply move the boxes to better sites. Don’t hesitate to ask neighbors who have good bluebird habitat

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if you can set up boxes on their land. Our 48 boxes have been set up within a threemile radius of our home. Only three of the boxes have been erected on our own land. The boxes, ideally facing east, should not be placed closer than 100 yards apart, though 200 yards is better. The closer to water your boxes are placed the greater likelihood there will be of attracting Tree Swallows. Our goal is to attract as many bluebirds as we possibly can. We are members of and praise the great work being done by the Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin (BRAW) and are serving as coordinators for Door County. This group’s Web site, www.braw. org, is loaded with excellent, helpful advice on being a good bluebirder. Many good hints can be learned from this group, and the proper monitoring of boxes is covered very completely.

Consider joining and supporting BRAW. You’ll receive, as part of your membership, very helpful printed material. Included, for example, are color photographs of baby bluebirds for each of the 14 days, from the day of hatching to the day of fledging (leaving the nest box). This can be very helpful in good nest monitoring. One of BRAW’s goals for 2010 is to have at least 30,000 Eastern Bluebirds fledged in Wisconsin for which there are accurate observations and records. With this achievement we’ll be crowned (with a blue crown!) number one bluebird state in the nation. Please join the ranks of Wisconsin’s bluebirders. It’s challenging and great fun learning to think like a bluebird! Information: Send $2 to: Roy Lukes, 3962 Hillside Rd., Egg Harbor, WI 54209 and you will receive a set of complete easy-to-follow plans for constructing the double opening K-style Eastern Bluebird nest box.

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PENINSULA PLAYERS

For Love of the Players: By Brittany Jordt

nce upon a time, there was a beautiful little theater in the woods, in a quaint place called Fish Creek. The theater sprang up in 1935 from the passions of a brother and sister, Richard and

Caroline Fisher, but soon the whole family got involved. Mama Fisher made up the costumes and meals for the company, and Papa Fisher, with his superb electrical skill, was the handy man. It was behind the Bonnie Brook Cottage/ Motel, that their first play, Noel Coward’s, Hay Fever, was staged. Word spread fast, and many people reached into their pocketbooks to pony up one dollar for a ticket, in exchange for a fine piece of theater. Soon, they outgrew their location and moved to a

22-acre piece of land on Green Bay’s shores. There were apple trees, and the teenagers filled their stomachs with applesauce to fuel their creativity. Audiences sat outside under the stars, while the players acted for them on warm summer nights. This was the magical land where the Peninsula Players grew up. A land where people, slowly recovering from the Great Depression, and a theater, created at a time

when those same people needed it most, teamed up to bring the county something truly special. Seasoned stage, screen, and television actress Jean Sincere performed at the theater off and on from 1939 to 1995. “It was really sort of like a fairy tale place to be, where nothing in the outside world made a difference. It was a wonderful place to act, and we were all so young…” Sincere said. From the time of its birth, Peninsula Players has been a place where actors, directors, designers, and apprentices work, eat, and sleep side by side. Together, young and old, experienced and inexperienced artists hone their craft. Initially, the Players staged one show a week, scrambling to bring everyone and everything together by opening night. Somehow, they still had a little spare time for shenanigans.

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75 Years and Counting “In the early days, it was a very free way of living. Mama Fisher made wonderful liverwurst sandwiches after the show and we’d go golfing on the golf course at 4:00 am. I don’t know how many times we did that,” Sincere said. Jean Sincere, and actor Bob Thompson, who began his career with the Peninsula Players in 1938 and ended it in 2003, are just a few of the many people who have made lifelong contributions to the Players. It was a combination of location – the bay stretching out alongside the theater – the people, friends, and the quality of work produced there that brought them back summer after summer. And, as Thompson put it, “It’s better than selling shoes.” Back then, according to Thompson, bats made regular appearances at the eve-

ning shows. They expertly navigated through the bundle of wires above the stage, and, like little dive-bombers, made straight for the lights. Papa Fisher fought them unsuccessfully, and eventually audiences and actors acknowledged their position as members of the Peninsula Players community. “If you didn’t have the bat swooping down in the middle of a show, you didn’t have the character, and you didn’t have the play,” Thompson said. John and Pamela Walker, who now both work for Pixar, spent nine summers with the Peninsula Players. John joined the cast

Top of page (left to right): An early Players production, two years after the company’s opening; 1949 performance of Amphitryon 38 with Leo Lucker and Margot Fisher; Born Yesterday with Erica Elam; the theater as it looked in 1937; Proof with Maggie Carney, Greg Vinkler, Patrick New and Cassandra Bissell; 1984’s Painting Churches with Jean Sincere and Bob Thompson – the two starred in numerous productions, such as Da and Foxfire, in the roles of husband and wife; present-day theater. (Right) Exterior of the rebuilt Players theater, completed in 2006. (Bottom left) Around the World in 80 Days with Jay Whittaker and Kevin McKillip, 2009.

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in 1979, and Pamela came on board a year later. Eventually, John started to produce shows under Jim McKenzie’s (who was the Executive Producer) guidance and tutelage. Then, in 1984, he became the General Manager. John Walker said, “Everyone would come, the sunset would be great, and so would the weather. You could talk to the audience while you were waiting for the show to start. It was really wonderful. It felt like you were having this big party and people really enjoyed coming down there for the theater and the setting.” Don’t worry; this fairy tale has its fair share of romance, too. The Peninsula PlayEarly Summer 2010 Door County Living 19

PENINSULA PLAYERS ers’ Web site features a quote from Sam Wanamaker, a member of the cast in 1937 who later organized fundraising for the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

Children of a Lesser God, a role which John and Pamela vigorously studied sign language for in preparation, John got down on one knee and popped the question in sign language.

along the shoreline. To keep warm, they set up wood stoves and a fire pit at the back of the theater (it was not too long before the fire department requested the stoves be removed), and blankets were provided to patrons.

“What romantic memories! So many firsts – first play, first car wreck, first passionate unrequited love affair (Caroline), first starfilled nights, first Northern Lights...It was a beautiful time which I shall always cherish,” Wanamaker said.

Sincere said, “Nobody ever got any sleep, and there was always music playing – except when we were rehearsing. There were lots of romances; it was that kind of place.”

“It was very romantic and cool,” Pamela Walker said. “It was a real growing experience and also such a pleasure.”

And there’s more: John Walker proposed to Pamela Walker on the stage of Peninsula Players in 1981. After the curtain call for

The fall season at the Players began in the early 1980s, and was a particularly special time of year. The crowds thinned out, the air was crisp and brisk in the evenings, and leaves fell

The Peninsula Players’ mission statement, which reads “To support, without reservation, the most exciting theatre company possible; to preserve the Theatre in a Garden’s natural beauty; to provide artists the freedom, tools, and facilities they require to

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PENINSULA PLAYERS entertain, uplift, and inform our audiences; to foster future generations of theatre professionals through the internship program; and to maintain fiscal policies that insure the future security of the theatre,” shows the nature of their commitment to the theater’s unique history, and to Caroline and Richard Fisher’s vision. Providing artists “the facilities they require to entertain” and audiences a little protection from summer storms can be trickier than it seems. In the Peninsula Players long history, weather has reared its ugly head more than once, complicating the art of performing theater in the great outdoors. As a result, the Peninsula Players theater has gone from no rooftop, to a canvas one, and finally to something more permanent. In his book, An Actor’s Life: It’s Better than Selling Shoes!, Thompson recalls the huge canvas top that was strung up over the audience in 1946. Although it protected the audience from weather, the canvas would flap loudly during inclement weather. More often than not it required audience participation in holding it down. Several years later, in 1957, Caroline Fisher’s dream of a permanent roof over the theater came true. The Peninsula Players demonstrated their promise to preserve the future of the theater when, in 2005 and 2006, the aging stage house and audience pavilion was renovated. No longer could the worn down director’s chairs comfortably seat patrons, many of whom were beginning to complain. “We had folks that didn’t want to come back because we took down the theater, and those who wouldn’t come back unless we took down the chairs,” Brian Kelsey, Managing Director of the Peninsula Players, said. Most patrons who have visited since the new theater was constructed, however, give glowing reviews. The state-of-the-art building has the ability to be an outdoor or indoor facility, with sidewalls that can raise doorcountyliving.com

A BEACON AT THE THEATER IN A GARDEN: JIM MCKENZIE By Tom McKenzie

o be clear, James B. McKenzie was my uncle. He and the Peninsula Players – the theater he nurtured for over five decades – made a huge impact on me. Without the enchantment I experienced watching Players’ performances, hearing his stories, and exploring the Players’ beautiful grounds, my interest in the dramatic arts and love for Door County would never have blossomed, nor would I currently be pursuing theater through my work at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Jim became an intern at the Peninsula Players in the mid ‘40s after he returned from the Navy. He had come under fire in Okinawa during the final bloody days of World War II, and Door County’s placid shoreline must have been a welcoming place to renew his pursuit of the theatrical craft. He worked during summers at Peninsula Players while attending the University of Iowa. Afterward, he founded Dobbs Ferry Playhouse in New York and worked in the pioneering days of live television at NBC and PBS. Meanwhile, by the late 1950s the Peninsula Players began to endure severe financial hardship. In 1960, a New York attorney purchased the theater at auction and asked Jim to serve as the theater’s managing producer. Jim agreed, and on September 22, 1961 the Peninsula Players became established as a charitable non-profit organization with a public mission “to promote, encourage, and stimulate public interest in the theatre arts, music, and literature by presenting dramatic, operatic, or musical entertainments of a high quality.” Jim served as producer for the Players from 1960 until he died in 2002, during which time he staged new works, Broadway hits, and classics. All were of the highest caliber that could be found north of Chicago, and arguably anywhere. Simultaneously, Jim remained active in theaters nationwide, and his experience contributed to what he could secure for Door County each summer. All told, he helmed over 2,000 productions, hundreds of which were at the Players. He was producer at 10 other regional theaters, including the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut. He also produced over 60 national and international tours and three Broadway plays. This included the Tony nominated And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel, whose work Jim championed twice on Broadway as well as at the Players. Drawing on his extensive connections in the theater world, Jim had the opportunity to fashion the Peninsula Players as a testing ground for promising playwrights of the day. It frequently held true that if it played well in Fish Creek, it could be a hit in New York. Door County audiences have reveled in having access to, and input on, some of the freshest contemporary theater. The relationships Jim cultivated with groundbreaking playwrights, like Neil Simon, A.R. Gurney, and Marc Connelly, created a boon for theater lovers. Thanks in part to Jim’s talented custody of the theater over so many years, a magic continues to reverberate between the venerable resident ensemble members who lift each Peninsula Players production to its highest potential and the audiences that bring joy and celebration each summer to this spot on the shore.

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PENINSULA PLAYERS audience and the 75th anniversary in mind, Greg Vinkler, Artistic Director at the Players, is in charge of puzzling out how to compile a successful season.

Master Class with Carmen Roman and Scott Ramsey, 2006.

and lower depending on weather conditions. It can get a bit chilly down by the bay in the fall months, but radiant in-floor heat adds a little warmth. “We have to rebuild for the next 75 years. The new theater enabled the Players to continue to do what they’re doing,” Kelsey says. “It didn’t lose any of the touch or any of the feeling. It just reinforced the professionalism.” The new facility, while beautiful, maintains a sense of simplicity. “Last time I visited, I was amazed to see how [the theater] had changed, but at the same time how little it had changed,” Sincere said. First time visitors are easy to spot. They are in disbelief the theater looks the way it does, says Kelsey, and the most commonly asked question at the box office is “Where’s the theater?”

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After all these years, choosing each season’s shows continues to be a challenging, sometimes tricky job. Keeping the summer

In a 2009 press release, Vinkler described the process: “I am always on the look-out for a variety of theatrical works to bring to Door County audiences,” Vinkler said. “Friends give me scripts to read. I see shows. The Players’ has a self-imposed 20-year rule; we try not to do the same show twice within that time frame. So I take time to search for new theatrical pieces to bring to the stage, scripts that our company will be excited to work on and ones that will give a thrilling, challenging and above all exciting experience at the theater.” For 2010, and the 75th anniversary, the roster of shows will combine tradition, crowd pleasers and new works all into one top-notch season. “I can tell you that I went through a lot of thinking about what an anniversary means – especially a 75th one. I came to the conclusion that the best way to celebrate our anniversary was to do what we’ve always done well: to put a variety of shows on and to have a good time,” Vinkler said. Heroes, a play written by Gérald Sibleyras and adapted by Tom Stoppard, launches the summer season with a hilarious tale of friendship and courage. Heroes, which debuted in London, won the 2006 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

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PENINSULA PLAYERS The sci-fi romantic comedy, Comic Potential, by Alan Ayckbourn, serves as a nod to the future, and all the seasons yet to come. Finally, as fall approaches, the chill won’t just be in the air, but also in Joseph Goodrich’s new thriller, Panic. Winner of the 2008 Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best New Play, Panic, wraps up the 75th anniversary with a bang. Starring an Alfred Hitchcock-like main character, there will be blackmail, disappearances, and, of course, murder. And, curtain. Patrons enjoy a shoreline sunset preshow.

Jumping from friendship right into family, Over the Tavern, by Tom Dudzick, keeps the laughs coming. “It’s a very funny, very touching story about family,” Vinkler said. A Little Night Music, by Steven Sondheim serves as the centerpiece of the season and the show that will most definitely please the crowds. Inspired by the only comedic film that Ingmar Bergman ever did, the show tells the story of the romantic lives of several couples. It’s a period piece, set at the turn of the last century, and features the well-loved song, “Send in the Clowns.” Vinkler said, “It will be very pretty. I’m thinking of it as a sort of valentine to our Door County audience.”

“We stand behind the idea that every year we put on a ‘75th’ season, because every year is as important as the next year,” Kelsey says. “To me, it marks the milestone of looking forward 75 years.” Now America’s oldest professional resident summer theater, the Peninsula Players still wows audiences with stellar performances and an idyllic landscape. Steeped in tradition, the theater operates much as it did 75 years ago. A few things have changed since 1935, though. There’s a new roof over the Peninsula Players’ heads, special effects aren’t as simple as they used to be, there are fresh faces in the cast, and more people in Door County. Though some of the Players have changed, the basic concept that created them remains the same. Since its inception, Peninsula Players has offered artists and audience members alike the opportunity to recharge their batteries. “People come there and leave transformed. Their life might take a different direction – they’re reinvigorated,” Vinkler said. “It’s a summer camp for everybody.”

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Kelsey says, “We were born in the great depression, we’ve survived world war, several armed conflicts, and we’ve survived the great recession. It’s still here. It has that rightful place. Art. Door County. Peninsula Players.”

Caroline Fisher, photographed with the cast of Mr. Roberts, including Leo Lucker, 1954.

Peninsula Players: there’s something about that place. Where the Green Bay shoreline greets patrons as they roll down the hairpin curve, and suddenly it seems the whole rest of the world has up and disappeared. Fading sunlight glows fondly on the faces of awed visitors, and the creak of the porch swing where lovers sit softly accents the evening air. “Perhaps more individuals will remember the simple things in life that make us happy, like gathering with friends and family for a picnic dinner and enjoying an evening of theater in the true Door County icon that is Peninsula Players,” Kelsey says. Nothing says, “Love and Be Loved,” like the Peninsula Players, where the words still stand on the back of the stage house. Originally painted on the old building, the saying was saved and remounted on the new. Now that’s romantic.

INFORMATION ADDRESS: W4351 Peninsula Players Road, Fish Creek PHONE: (920) 868-3287 SCHEDULE: Performances nightly except Mondays. June 15 through October 17.

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ART SCENE BY STEPHEN R. GRUTZMACHER

A Century of Change, a Century Unchanged

Draeb Jewelers, Inc. Celebrates Four Generations and One Store on Sturgeon Bay’s Third Avenue in an attempt to discover the owner. Richard Weitlich, who owned a jewelry store on the street, was so impressed by young George’s honesty that he hired George to sweep the floors and perform other odd tasks. George studied the business, took on more and more responsibility, and finally opened his own business, Draeb Jewelers, Inc. at 50 N. Third Avenue on Sturgeon Bay’s East Side, the same building and storefront they occupy today and a proprietorship that has passed to George A.’s son, John William (Bill), to John William’s son, George William, and his son William (Bill) George. Draeb

Jewelers

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their

location. In addition to the jewelry, George sold watches, silverware, glassware, and writing instruments. In 1935, the store’s fortunes took a dramatic turn. On February 26, 1935 the Prange Washburn department

This story begins

in 1910, a year remote to all but a handful of centenarians and those avid students of history. A year when the great pitcher, Cy Young, recorded his 500th victory in Major League Baseball; when South Africa became a republic; when Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time; when the world panicked as the Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet; and when neon lights debuted at the Paris Auto Show. So, in a way, this story is a history.

But what this story is really about is four generations of one family, one business in the same location for a century, and the community they continue to serve. In 1904 (according to the family story), George A. Draeb found a $20 bill on the street in downtown Sturgeon Bay. George

store (at the site of the present Younkers store) caught fire. The weather was bitterly cold and made the fighting of the fire particularly difficult. Remarkably, Sturgeon Bay firefighters kept the fire from doing any extensive damage to the Draeb store even though the department store was a complete loss.

came from a poor background and had

The reprieve, however, was short lived.

only completed his education through the

During the night, the fire flared up a second

eighth grade. Nonetheless, George, who was

time and this fire completely destroyed

working in a department store at the time,

Draeb Jewelers. It remains Sturgeon Bay’s

took the $20 bill into every store on the street

worst fire in terms of property lost.

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(Clockwise from top left) Joan, J. William, and George W., 1988; Draeb Jewelers circa 1935; photo of founder George A. Draeb, 1920; George W. and his father J. William, 1976; Bill Draeb, the family’s fourth generation to own the store; J. William, Marie Griesen, and George W.; J. William and George W. holding a Harry Winston design for Elizabeth Taylor.

George A. was determined to rebuild and, after considerable searching, the local Savings & Loan agreed to finance the rebuilding. While the store was being rebuilt, George opened a store inside the Hahn Funeral & Furniture Home (owned by Henry Hahn) located across the street with what merchandise he was able to salvage from the rubble left from the fire. Working with Weeks Architects from Sheboygan and the New London Construction Company, George A. designed a new store that would rival the original. Most notably, he made the rather extravagant investment in black carrara structural glass (a popular storefront accent during the 1930s). George William, and his son Bill, who are the current Draeb members to run the store, proudly show off the original invoice for the glass revealing that the store’s founder paid $1,800 for just the material! doorcountyliving.com

After months of work, George A. moved

“One thing that was very popular was

his business back into its Third Avenue

costume jewelry,” she continues. “But now

home, where it has remained to this day.

everyone sells costume jewelry and we

George A.’s wife died in October of 1935,

don’t.”

before the new store formally opened. As a

Different eras featured different popular

result, his son John William (Bill) spent a lot

products, Joan’s son George notes. “In the

of time with his father in the store. Bill was

1960s Zippo lighters were very popular.

drafted right out of high school and served

We sold lots of them. And then in the ‘50s

as an X-ray technician in the Philippines.

and ‘60s silverware and china patterns were

He returned to Sturgeon Bay in 1946, and

strong.”

the store and his marriage to Joan in 1947 soon led him to Bradley University where he spent two years studying watchmaking. By 1950, he had graduated and was back

Bill and Joan tried to convince their son George to avoid pursuing retail as a career. While most of the reasons for this effort

working full time in the family store. “In those days [the 1940s and ‘50s],” Joan says, “we sold typewriters, electric razors, and Sunbeam Mixmasters. It probably sounds tacky, but we offered a very eclectic assortment of merchandise.

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(Clockwise from top left) The west side store, 1908; Draeb Jewelers at 100 years old, still an anchor on Third Avenue; two scenes of Third Avenue just after 1935 fire that destroyed Draeb and the adjacent Prange Washburn department store; George A. and George W.; Joan A. and J. William.

remain obscure, one factor is clear: George is left-handed. You see, watchmaking and repair were still a significant portion of Draeb’s business and watchmaking tools were made exclusively for right-handed individuals. George was undeterred, however. He left for watchmaking school in 1973 and was back in Sturgeon Bay by November 1975.

“The funny thing was that one year after I passed my test, in October of 1976, the state stopped licensing watchmaking,” George says. “So I was one of the last group of licensed watchmakers.” Though mechanical watches are largely a thing of the past, George continues to do a considerable amount of watch and clock repair. George’s son William (Bill) was another Draeb family member who was uncertain about continuing the family tradition of working in the store. Though he would work in the store after finishing his day at Sturgeon Bay High School, Bill enjoyed the water, working summers at places ranging

In those days, watchmakers had to be licensed by the state, so George needed to serve a year’s apprenticeship before he took the state test, which involved both written and practical sections.

from the Fish Creek Dock to serving as a deckhand on a Palmer Johnson yacht. Bill’s change of heart occurred when he met his father and grandmother in Washington, DC in February 2003 for a spring jewelry show. Whether he caught the jewelry bug, or simply decided on a more stable future, by September of 2003 Bill was enrolled at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California. Bill’s schooling was intensive: in order to graduate he was required to show proficiency in four separate portions of testing, including a lab test where 100

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ART SCENE percent is required to pass. Since his graduation Bill has continued to expand his education. He became a member of the National Association of Jewelry Appraisers in March of 2007, a distinction that requires continuing education courses almost yearly. When taken as a whole, Bill’s experience and expertise has added an additional dimension to Draeb Jewelers that was previously absent. One of the most recent changes to the physical storefront wasn’t so much a change as it was a re-establishment. George and Joan were sure that a free-standing clock had, at one time, stood in front of the store on the sidewalk. The problem was that, though they had a photo of the store showing the sign mounted on the facade, they had no proof a clock had once stood out front, and the City of Sturgeon Bay wanted proof before they were willing to consider the idea of an installation. Two friends and customers, Dorothy Berg and Steve Johnson, came forward with postcards of Third Avenue in the 1920s that clearly showed a free-standing clock on the sidewalk in front of Draeb Jewelers and so, armed with the proof and with a separate sidewalk improvement already scheduled by the city, the Draebs were allowed to install their clock in 2001. Of course, 100 years has meant a lot of changes in the business portion of the establishment, as well. The silverware, Mixmasters, Zippos, and typewriters are all gone. What remains are the exquisite jewelry and gems, a new computerized engraving machine, and the Draeb family tradition and expertise. Joan, who served as the store’s bookkeeper from 1959 until 2008 and has seen the store operate through 60 of its 100 years, sums up the first century of Draeb Jewelers this way: “We just do what we have to do to keep things going. It’s really as simple as that.” And yet, if it were truly that simple, 100 years in business would hardly seem such a remarkable achievement. doorcountyliving.com

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ART SCENE BY MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR.

Struggle for a Stage It took a ﬁght to get the ﬁrst year round performing arts venue built in Door County

Johnny Cash. Victor Borge. Harry Belafonte. Ray Charles. Willie Nelson. Chubby Checker. They are among the biggest names in entertainment of the last half century. Thanks to the vision and belief of a persistent few more than 20 years ago, they’ve also performed for audiences in Fish Creek at the Door Community Auditorium (DCA). Today, the DCA is an integral part of the Northern Door arts community, the premier venue for music and entertainment on the peninsula. It hosts school plays, Grammywinning artists, middle school band concerts, and even movie screenings. Its presence and connection is so strong that it’s often forgotten that the struggle to get it built in the late 1980s was one of the most divisive and controversial efforts of its time. In 1983, Gibraltar School’s tiny Old Gym, constructed in the 1950s, was still host of school plays, graduations, concerts, and even the Peninsula Music Festival. Concerts and performances split stage and practice time with physical education classes, assemblies, and practices. Rows of metal folding chairs were lined up tightly to squeeze in audiences. Then Friends of Gibraltar, a community organization that offers programming and services to enrich Gibraltar Schools, began an artist-in-residency program, and a few folks began talking about building a performing arts venue for the school and community. Anne Haberland, owner of the Edgewood Orchard Galleries and one of the idea’s initiators, said it was clear that if the community hoped to attract great artists to the area to inspire Gibraltar’s youth, it would need a better venue.

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ART SCENE She joined a committee within the Peninsula Arts Association to investigate the possibility of building a professional performance facility. The committee became the Peninsula Auditorium Association (PAA), and a dream became a real possibility thanks to a pair of generous sisters who visited Haberland’s gallery. The late Laurie Nowack (Hislop) loved going with her husband to the Peninsula Music Festival, which was then held in Gibraltar’s Old Gym, where attendees sat in metal folding chairs. One day she talked to her sister Marian Hislop about how great it would be if there was a quality performing arts venue to host the festival, and when the sisters learned of the PAA committee, they decided to pay a visit to her gallery in July of 1986. After some small talk, Laurie told her sister to tell Hablerand how they were prepared to help build an auditorium. Haberland wasn’t prepared for what they said next. “We’d each like to give $500,000 to the auditorium,” Hislop told her. Haberland’s knees quivered as she tried to grasp what she heard. Later, she called Hislop to clarify. “Did you say $50,000 or $500,000?” she asked in embarrassment. Hislop spoke slowly into the phone. “We would each like to give you $500,000. That’s $1 million, dear.” With that, Haberland and the Auditorium Association got down to business. A proposal to build the auditorium with $1 million from the sisters and $1.16 million from taxpayers went to referendum in 1988. The lead-up to the vote split the community, and meetings were heated. Supporters faced vehement opposition that Haberland still struggles to understand. “I tried to focus on the positive. If you got mired down in the negative, you’d never do anything but crawl into a hole and hide.” On Feb. 16, 1988, the referendum failed.

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Peter Trenchard, owner of Bay Ridge Golf Course and a member of the pro-auditorium faction, was floored. In a roundtable discussion with fellow supporters Haberland, Marian Hislop and George Larsen in 2009, he spoke of his reaction to the vote. “When it failed, I talked to Lon Kopitzke at the Door Reminder and asked if I could buy the front page and just write the word ‘STUPID,’” Trenchard said. It was an era when the arts were still struggling for respect in the community. The county was undergoing a transformation to a tourism-dependent economy, and many hadn’t yet realized the role the arts could or would play in the new era. If the auditorium was to become reality, Haberland and the committee were going to have to re-group and fight with even greater passion. Discussions continued after the referendum failure, but when a contingent pushed for a Sister Bay location for an $18 million facility, Haberland and 21 others resigned. Her driving force had been the vision of a facility that would benefit children and the school. A separate facility wasn’t worth the fight. The dream languished until a year later, when Trenchard rekindled the flame with a fortuitous phone call to Haberland from a phone booth outside O’Hare airport. He had recently seen the impact that an artist-in-residency program with Caryl Yasko had made on Gibraltar students. He couldn’t stomach not trying again. “If I head up a Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 31

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(Clockwise from top left) Victor Borge performs at the auditorium in 1997; Lars Johnson, Victor Borge, and Al Johnson; three scenes of the auditorium under construction; Gibraltar kindergarten teacher Liz Thomas with Richie Havens; Willie Nelson is one of many big names to grace the auditorium stage; Gibraltar elementary students rush forward to help break ground for construction in May of 1990; Marian Hislop, who spurred the fundraising drive when she and her sister Laurie Nowack gave $1 million to the cause, and George Larsen, who was a daily presence at the construction site.

group to raise the money, will you come back?” he asked Haberland. He wanted to raise all the money through donations, then donate it to Gibraltar to build the auditorium. Haberland jumped back on board and the wheels began to turn again, aided by the Hislop sisters reaffirming their $1 million commitment. Bob Dahlstrom became Gibraltar’s elementary principle in 1987, shortly after the referendum had failed. His support was crucial, Haberland said, even more so when he moved up to superintendent in 1990. “We needed a place for assembly,” Dahlstrom said. “The intent was to build it and not cost the school anything but also have it available for the community.” Dahlstrom was behind it, but the school board was split. Some didn’t see a need for doorcountyliving.com

it, others worried that it would end up costing the school money in spite of the fundraising. “It was not an easy time to be on the school board,” Haberland said.

“You’re lying,” Trenchard remembered the opposition saying. “You haven’t got a million bucks. If you do, why don’t they come forward?”

Some members lost their seats, but the anti-auditorium faction also turned on the Hislop sisters, who had insisted that their donation remain anonymous. One would think that a $1 million commitment would make for smooth sailing, but it became a focal point in the fight. “It was extremely controversial,” Dahlstrom recalled from his current home in Rockville, Maryland. “We would have meetings in the gym and hundreds of people would attend. People thought the money wasn’t really there and that raised suspicions. There was a big push to find out who the donors were.”

The Hislop sisters wanted desperately to remain anonymous, but saw the writing on the wall. Nowack called Haberland and offered to go public if she thought it would help. Reluctantly, the Hislop sisters came forward, a decision that strained some of their personal relationships but quieted a few critics. Ironically, the fundraising effort fed off the negativity. Each time someone wrote a letter to the editor against the project, Trenchard said, more donations poured in. Money was raised in chunks big and small to reach the $2.7 million goal. In May Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 33

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(Above) Thor Johnson conducts in the early days of the Peninsula Music Festival, which was held in Gibraltar’s Old Gym until the auditorium was built, giving the festival a brilliant new home (below).

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of 1990, ground was broken for the Door Community Auditorium. Gibraltar elementary students lifted some of the first divots.

ing donors not by the amount given, but by simply listing them alphabetically. Hislop would have it no other way, she said.

George Larsen, a retired music teacher and a member of the auditorium committee, dedicated himself to the project’s construction. He became so omnipresent at the work site that the workmen gave him a hard hat and a broom, and to this day a photo of Larsen in his hard hat hangs prominently in the auditorium lobby.

As the auditorium nears its 20th season it faces daunting new challenges. When it was built, the auditorium was essentially the only game in town. “There wasn’t anything else like it,” Dahlstrom remembered. “Some people with foresight had the vision, that there was something it could provide for the community and the school.”

“George made friends with all of the workmen and I think that added a lot to what we got,” Haberland said.

The shine, the uniqueness, and excitement that the community felt at the opening of the facility has faded. In the late 1990s, several venues opened that spread both audiences and donor dollars thin.

Also in the lobby, one will find an unusually formatted list of auditorium donors. There is no tier, with large donors separated from small. Haberland saw to this, so appreciative was she of all of the small donations and letters that poured in. She delicately broached the idea with Marian of recognizdoorcountyliving.com

The Third Avenue Playhouse, the Southern Door High School Auditorium, and the Trueblood Performing Arts Center all opened their doors. American Folklore Theatre surged in popularity and added fall shows,

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ART SCENE and Peninsula Players and Birch Creek recently expanded facilities through large-scale capital campaign drives. Three years ago, the outdoor Peg Egan Performing Arts Center opened in Egg Harbor, offering for free some of the same acts the DCA once offered exclusively.

The struggle to build the county’s first year round performing arts centers is largely forgotten, and today it must compete as just another of many venues offering an entertainment product.

the hiring of a new executive director in April. She said more local acts will grace the stage and more school children will fill the seats in a re-dedication to its strong community roots.

Kaaren Northrop, President of the DCA Board of Directors, said the organization is adjusting to the more competitive market. “It totally changes what we need to do. We have to offer what nobody else can.”

A return to the glory days won’t be easy, but when one looks back at the early struggle for the Door Community Auditorium, to expect easy would be naïve.

This year Terry Meyer-Matier, who served as the auditorium’s executive director through much of the 1990s, is back working on main stage programming for 2010. She has been the programming director for Big Top Chatauqua in Washburn, Wisconsin since leaving the auditorium in 2000 and was recently named that organization’s executive director.

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Anne Haberland blackens the final “audience member” to fill the auditorium fundraising drive in 1990.

Northrop is excited to have Meyer-Matier back in the fold, and looks forward to moving ahead after a restructuring that included

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“The struggle is why I care so much about the place, because we did have to work so hard,” said Haberland. After a decade away from the auditorium’s board of directors, she accepted their invitation to help them find a new executive director. “I want to see someone with a big vision come in there. I want to see kids in the seats, and children running through the halls of the Link Gallery. You have to get them all in there, because you never know when you might have someone in there who might change a life.”

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OUTSIDE IN DOOR BY SAM PERLMAN PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF TEAM LEADERSHIP CENTER

Opening the Door Wider to Kayakers The Team Leadership Center

With its ample

kayaking. In fact, the kayaking page on the

paddle in, it’s easy to see why Door County

Web site of the Door County Silent Sports

has become a prominent Midwest kayaking

shoreline and waterways, Door County

Alliance (DCSSA) states that “from begin-

destination. Door County has placid bays

makes for a natural destination for paddle

ner to expert thrill seeker, Door County is

on the Green Bay side that are almost always

THE place to kayak.”

semi-calm. For that matter, head over to

sport enthusiasts. From Cave Point to Kangaroo Lake and from the Sturgeon Bay ca-

Lake Michigan during a strong west wind,

nal to the Mink River, Door County holds

The DCSSA site continues: “With its

and, voilà, calm waters. The fact that you

wonderful treasures for those who like to

warm, calm waters of Green Bay, dotting

can almost always find calm, warm water is

explore the great outdoors via canoeing and

of islands and a myriad of environments to

a heady reason to paddle in Door County.”

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OUTSIDE IN DOOR Summer 2010 will bring a new business venture to Door County that will directly cater to silent sport adventurers and ecotourists, and provide them with the vessels, gear and knowlegde to safely explore the waters of the peninsula. Kayaking Adventures Door County will open its door this year to offer a full range of services to paddlers and kayak enthusiasts of any age and skill level. The new venture is located one half mile south of the village of Egg Harbor at the Door County Outpost, just off Highway 42. The new company is an offshoot of the Team Leadership Center, located on the east side of the peninsula north of Sturgeon Bay, that was established in April of 1995 by founder Tim Pflieger. A Sevastopol High School alum who was raised in Door County, Pflieger started the Team Leadership Center after he looked out the back door of his family’s Door County farmhouse in 1994, gazed at the barn and said to himself, “I have an idea.” A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Pflieger had worked at St. Norbert and Ripon Colleges in student activities and leadership development programs. He was ready to bring his skills and experience back to Door County. The Team Leadership Center, billed as “Door County’s Adventure Center,” provides a wide variety of team-building and communications programs, training seminars and workshops using an adventure education curriculum, solution-finding activities, low and high ropes challenge course, outdoor adventures and kayaking to suit the training needs of corporations, schools, youth groups, athletic teams, community organizations, government agencies and families. The Team Leadership Center offers the only privatelyowned ropes course in the state of Wisconsin. doorcountyliving.com

“Kayaking has been a part of what we do [at the Team Leadership Center] since the beginning,” say Pflieger. The center really doesn’t cater to the traveling public, though. The activities offered at the center are geared to private groups, although they did begin offering a Family Fun Day once a week in 2009. “After 15 years away from the tourist industry,” Plieger said, “it was time to open our doors in a strategic way.” For the past 15 seasons, the Team Leadership Center has provided coastal sea kayaking tours, workshops and trips as part of its curriculum. Now, Kayaking Adventures Door County will feature those tours, instructional workshops and multi-day trips. All programs will be guided and taught by American Canoe Association-certified coastal sea kayak instructors. They will also offer Door County’s only shop dedicated exclusively to paddling. Customers will find expertise in the sale of gear and Prijon kayaks and expert local guides to assist paddling the waters of Door County. For beginning paddlers, recreational kayak tours are offered throughout the paddling season. These are three hours

in length and include kayaking gear and certified instruction. Additionally, Kayaking Adventures Door County can provide private lessons custom designed to meet a variety of needs and abilities. For those who are interested in learning about the basics of coastal sea kayaking, there is an introductory workshop offered on Saturday, June 5, 2010 which will include equipment orientation, basic paddling strokes, trip planning, and open water judgment and safety skills. For more advanced paddlers wanting to learn more about the sport, try the Coastal Sea Kayaking Adventure on Saturday, June 26, 2010. Participants will learn paddle strokes, maneuvering, open water skills and assisted rescues. Kayaking Adventures can also provide kayaking trips for organized groups interested in team building as well as seasonal trips

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OUTSIDE IN DOOR open to all paddlers. The company can custom-design an adventure for any size or type of group. Already planned for 2010 are two Women’s Sea Kayaking & Camping Trips to Rock Island on June 24th through 27th and September 2nd through September 5th. For those who are ready to brave the open waters that surround the peninsula, Kayaking Adventures can host one of two four-hour Coastal Sea Kayak Crossings. The Chambers Island Crossing features an open water crossing from Tennison Bay boat launch in Peninsula State Park to Chambers Island and back. Participants will have the opportunity to develop open water paddling skills while passing through the Strawberry Islands.

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DOOR TO NATURE BY ROY LUKES

Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers I began to learn

and enjoy spring wildflowers in early childhood in one of my dad’s favorite woods bordering the Kewaunee River, close to his home farm near Slovan. These are still among my favorites today; included are the Hepatica, Trout Lily, Large-flowered Trillium, Bloodroot, Spring Beauty, Dutchman’s Breeches, several different violets and Wild Ginger. These and other wild plants don’t need humans to water, feed or mulch them, yet spring after spring they bloom to the delight of many people. However, these flowers will continue to exist only so long as we preserve the woods, step lightly, admire their beauty, and then leave. The spring ephemeral wildflowers bloom for only a short time, often no more than a week for some species. They begin to flower before the thick canopy of deciduous tree leaves forms which produces dense shade, covering as much as 95 percent of the forest floor. Everyone who ventures into this “spring woods awakening” should do so as gently as possible, or, as one of our naturalist friends, Ray Schulenburg of the Morton

A patch of Bloodroot.

Arboretum, pleaded with his students, “Put your feet down as rarely as possible!” A great many of the spring ephemerals are reclusive and fragile. The exacting conditions they require for proper growth have, in many instances, been greatly reduced by human encroachment, too often in preoccupation with profit making. Sadly, we are stunned to see a sprawling development in a woodland which, as recently as the year before, was home to thousands of wildflowers and other native plants. Awareness, sensitivity and thoughtful conservation have to be brought to play in order to preserve our dwindling native wildflowers. Many of our European ancestors who came to settle in America were so homesick that some wildflowers and other plants they found in their new country, which had at least some slight resemblance to plants they knew and loved so well in their native country, received those familiar names, many of which have remained. For example, a favorite wildflower of the wet borders of the spring woods my parents took us to were called Cowslips, a plant also called Marsh Marigold today. In recent years I learned that a very common yellow wild primrose of England was called “Cow’s Lips” (another white form of wild primrose was called “Ox Lips”). When these homesick settlers saw the swamps come alive in spring with yellow wildflowers, naturally they referred to them as their beloved “Cow’s Lips,” a name which quite easily was changed to Cowslips through the years. Hepaticas break the winter dormancy in our woods every spring and, in some years, may begin to bloom before the end of

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A cluster of pink Hepaticas.

March. Even though a common nickname for these lovely white, pink, blue or purple pastel-colored flowers is the Mayflower, many Door County woods have scores of these handsome plants in full flower before the end of April. Acutiloba, by far the most common species, sports acute or pointed leaf lobes, while the species Americana has round-lobed leaves, slightly smaller blossoms and tends to favor more acidic soil. For both, last year’s leathery three-parted leaves accompany this season’s blossoms. Close to bloom on the heels of the Hepatica is the Trout Lily, also called Yellow Dog-tooth Violet (it is definitely not a violet!), Fawn Lily, or Yellow Adder’s-tongue. Early naturalists observed these wild yellow lilies blooming in the woods when they went fishing for trout, hence the most commonly used name of Trout Lily today. From a small, elongated white bulb, resembling a dog’s tooth, as much as eight to twelve inches below the top of the soil, comes the lovely three or six-parted yellow lily. Nearly six or seven years are required, from the time a seed germinates, to produce a blosdoorcountyliving.com

DOOR TO NATURE

A great many of the spring ephemerals are reclusive and fragile. The exacting conditions they require for proper growth have, in many instances, been greatly reduced by human encroachment, too often in preoccupation with profit making. Cowslips, or Marsh Marigolds, at Logan Creek.

som. During the night and on dark overcast or rainy days the perianth (floral envelope) surrounding the all-important stamens and pistil uncurls and hangs downward, thereby protecting the important reproductive organs of the flower like a tiny umbrella. To see a sunny spring woods in mid-May literally carpeted with thousands of Largeflowered Trilliums is an unforgettable sight. These indeed are precious woods in need of careful managing and preserving. A fascinating feature of trillium seeds, as well as several other wildflower species’ seeds, is that a part of each seed includes a fatty material, a lipid, called elaiosome (e-LIE-o-soam) which the ants and especially their larvae relish. After the seeds have been stripped of the elaiosome in the ants’ underground chambers the remaining undamaged seeds, along with dead ants, feces and other debris, is brought to the surface and placed on the ants’ “compost” pile. Here the seeds germinate considerably better than when they simply fall to the ground beneath the tril-

lium plant. This so-called ant compost has been tested and found to be much like the inorganic 10-10-10 fertilizer used by many gardeners and farmers.

woods; it has wonderful fragrance and tiny white blossoms that resemble the blossoms on Bleeding Heart flowers so common in many gardens.

One of the most fragile among the earliest wildflowers is the Bloodroot whose eight white petals shine like little stars in the woods. Given the proper growing conditions, colonies of several hundred plants can be formed. Their finger-size root indeed appears to be quite blood-like when cut into. The beautiful large roundish leaves remain healthy and vigorous well into the late summer, long after the blossoms have disappeared, making and storing food as do other wildflowers so that they can spring forth with blossoms and leaves at the first sign of sunlight and warm soil the following year.

No spring ephemeral can match the Spring Beauty for virtually carpeting some mixed hardwoods in the county. A favorite place of ours to enjoy such an expanse, without even getting out of the car, is a small woodlot of an acre or so where cows and horses retreat in summer for a little shade

A great favorite of many people is the Dutchman’s Breeches whose flowers lack fragrance. Squirrel Corn, quite similar and a close relative, blossoms a week to ten days later and frequently exists in the same

A mass of Spring Beauties.

Read Roy’s “Door to Nature” column each week in the Peninsula Pulse or online at www.ppulse.com. doorcountyliving.com

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Bloodroot Wild Ginger Pale blue Hepatica

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Work diligently to make your wildflower hikes family events and learn to understand and love the delicately unfolding wildflower drama in the spring woods. Step lightly, admire these plantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exquisite beauty and leave these precious woods with more determination than ever to preserve these natural shrines for future generations to enjoy. May you revel in the rich mosaic of the spring woods carpet.

Trout Lily

At least a dozen species of violets find their home in this region. This is a wonderful and challenging group of spring wildflowers to get to know. A few are quite special, such as the rare Long-spurred Violet which grows only in Wisconsin counties that border Lake Michigan. One of the most common, sometimes forming large patches in roadside ditches, is the Butterfly Violet, Viola papilionacea (pa-pil-e-o-NAY-see-uh). Its four bluish petals, collectively, resemble a small butterfly. One of the most abundant, tallest-growing and longest-lasting violets in the county is the Canada Violet. Gently turn the blossom over and you will marvel at the lovely pastel blue color on the undersides of its white petals. Some of the violets, much like a number of the spring ephemerals, are fussy as to where they grow. A fa-

vorite violet of ours is the tiny Sweet White Violet, Viola pallens, which favors cold wet springs and brooks and is mostly northward in its distribution. Its leaves are round and its tiny white petals are strongly marked with vivid purple lines, excellent guides for insects searching for the plantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nectar.

Spring Beauty

and some water from a watering tank. Naturally, the ground becomes well fertilized and is literally covered with tens of thousands of Spring Beauties early each spring. There are two species of this wildflower growing in the state, the Virginia Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) having very narrow grasslike leaves, and the Carolina Spring Beauty (Claytonia caroliniana) having considerably shorter and wider leaves. The Virginia Spring Beauty is by far the most common and abundant in Door County.

Deep pink Hepatica

Cowslip blossoms up close.

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cameos CAMEOS By Gary JONES Jones BY GARY

“As a runner, it’s who you are. If I don’t run, I’m just not who I am. Physically, mentally, spiritually, it’s part of my life. It’s my number one job; others fall behind it.” - Wendi Ray

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Small Town Girl Runs with the Big Dogs Most elite

runners arrive at events wearing high tech

and earned her second place finishes her junior and senior years. She also ran track under Laviolette, competing at state every year and often winning a first or second in the distance events. Ray began her college running career in 1991 with a partial scholarship to the University of Minnesota. While at that school she enjoyed success as the only freshman to run varsity and set a freshman record for the 10,000 meters (35:20); however, the experience was demanding both athletically and academically. “It was very hard coming from a small school to race at that level and to focus on academics,” she said. “I missed 12 days of classes for cross-country meets; class work took a back seat.”

running gear in the company of their per-

After taking off a semester from college,

sonal trainers and coaches. Wendi Ray trav-

Ray enrolled at University of Wisconsin-Os-

els with her parents and carries gloves that

hkosh only to learn that that school was not a

sometimes have holes in them. But unlike

good fit for her, and transferred to University

some of her picture perfect competition,

of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where she found

Ray is one of the top women marathoners in

her niche both as a runner and a student,

the United States; her fastest time, 2:38:58

earning NCAA Division III All-American

(averaging about six-minute miles), has

recognition in 1996 and graduating with a

qualified her for the 2012 Olympic Mara-

BA in Communicative Disorders.

thon Trials. Presently, she is ranked number 13 in the United States for the 26.2-mile event, but she hopes to do even better.

While completing her Master’s in Speech Therapy, Ray continued to work out alone, running about 20 miles a week. On a lark,

Wendi was raised in Baileys Harbor, the

she decided to enter the Twin Cities Mara-

daughter of Bonnie and Bob Zak, and at-

thon even though she hadn’t trained for it.

tended Gibraltar School where she ran mid-

As a precaution, she said, “I had my fam-

dle school track. “At that time I didn’t know

ily wait for me in their car about every five

I had running talent,” she said, shrugging.

miles in case I had to drop out.”

“I did okay in the 800-meters event.”

But she didn’t; she finished with a time

Her older sister Tami was an outstanding

of 3:30. And then completed the Chicago

athlete in high school, but didn’t compete in

Marathon in 3:20. When she ran the first

cross-country. “I joined because she wasn’t

Green Bay Marathon, “Things started click-

in it!” Ray confessed.

ing in my head,” she said. “If I trained, may-

Because in high school cross-county she

be I could break a three-hour marathon.”

was shy and the only freshman girl on the

She went online for the answer to her

team, Ray tended to run with the guys. “The

question and found coach Art Lieberman

girls already had their group,” she recalled.

of Charleston. “He looked at my college

The more rigorous workouts and the inspi-

times,” Ray said, “and felt I could make the

ration of her coach Dale Laviolette helped

Olympic Trials.” The qualifying time then

her qualify for the state meet the next year

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“I called my parents and told them what he said,” she continued, “and they thought I was nuts!” Lieberman served as an online coach for Ray, helping her prepare for the 2004 Olympic Trials in St. Louis, where the qualifying time was 2:48. She made it with a time of 2:47:59, indeed reaching her goal of breaking a three-hour marathon time. Unfortunately, she fell victim to both a stress fracture and tendonitis two months before the trials, but competed nonetheless. “It was a disappointment,” Ray said, “but still a wonderful experience.” Her goal was simply to finish the race, and she did, even though she had to run-walk the last four miles. After taking time off to recover, “I didn’t know where I wanted to go,” she said. “I was running on my own but not training.” In December of 2005, she met her second online coach, the accomplished runner John Sinclair who is married to marathoner Kim Jones. Sinclair helped her qualify for the 2008 Olympic Trials with a time of 2:40:41 in the 2006 Chicago Marathon, and win $3,500, her largest cash prize. But the trials were again a disappointment. “I went out too fast,” she said, “bumping arms with Deena Kastor [holder of the American record for the marathon]. It was very windy, and I never felt I hit my stride, as groups were either too fast or too slow to run with.” In addition, she discovered fewer fluid stations on the course than she had been led to expect. “I was surprised to see that I ran a 2:46,” Ray said, “based on how I felt. I had trained to run a 2:40; my workouts had gone well, Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 47

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At this this point point in in her her career career Wendi Wendi Ray Ray isis At running with with the the Big Big Dogs. Dogs. But But don’t don’t exexrunning pect to to see see this this elite elite runner runner traveling traveling with with pect an entourage. entourage. However, However, you you may may find find her her an waiting on on your your table table at at the the Mink Mink River River waiting Basin Friday Friday night night fish fish fry; fry; she she owns owns the the Basin restaurant with with her her husband husband Linden Linden Ray. Ray. restaurant Or you you might might encounter encounter her her as as aa speech speech Or therapist; she she has has worked worked for for the the Door Door therapist; County Birth Birth to to Three Three Program Program since since County 2000, has has had had additional additional part-time part-time jobs jobs at at 2000, the Door Door County County Memorial Memorial Hospital Hospital and and the Scandia Village, Village, and and isis presently presently at at SevasSevasScandia topol School. School. topol Although few few elite elite runners runners use use the the serserAlthough vices of of an an online online coach, coach, Ray Ray finds finds that that for for vices her cyber coaching is ideal. Northern Door her cyber coaching is ideal. Northern Door relatively remote remote location location and and her her work work isis aa relatively schedule is not conventional. As she schedule is not conventional. As she isis aa disciplined athlete, athlete, she she does does not not require require the the disciplined Early Summer 2010 Door County County Living Living49 49 Early Summer 2010 Door

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physical presence of a coach, and her budget likes the less expensive alternative. When she is training, Ray averages 60 to 90 miles a week, dropping down to about 50 when not involved in a specific program. Many of her winter miles are put in on a treadmill, her workouts beginning at five in the morning. Runners typically schedule their long runs for weekends, but because of restaurant work, Ray’s are planned for Mondays, her day off. She’ll have her intense workouts on Fridays before her evening shift at the restaurant, and then have easy workouts on Saturdays. “I’m much better at juggling jobs now,” she said. “They help me organize my training sessions. Sometimes it’s hard being on my feet so much,” she continued, “but maybe it makes me a better runner than other women!” At age 36 Ray competes with younger runners, but unlike men, she said, women distance athletes often don’t begin to slow until age 40. A glance at marathon runners making the Olympic Trials supports this assertion, as most top male runners are in their 20s while several females are in their 30s. For over 20 years now, running has been an important part of Wendi Ray’s life. “As a runner,” she said, “it’s who you are. If I don’t run, I’m just not who I am. Physically, mentally, spiritually, it’s part of my life. It’s my number one job; others fall behind it.” And of her success, she added, “I want people to know that the girl next door – anyone – can accomplish their goals if they want to.”

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n the winter of 1864, tugboat Captain Robert Noble’s legs froze during a stay on Washington Island. Gangrene developed and Noble desperately needed medical attention as his condition deteriorated. A physician, Dr. Farr, happened to be in Sturgeon Bay looking over mill property that he was considering for purchase. The visiting doctor was quickly summoned to the Cedar Street house on Third Avenue to care for Noble. Realizing an amputation would be necessary, Dr. Farr promptly sent for instruments to be retrieved from Green Bay and then borrowed a butcher’s saw to complete the procedure. Captain Noble came through the ordeal well and continued to serve as a prominent citizen of the period.

(Left) Dr. Henry Cheever Sibree (1852 – 1923) arrived in Sturgeon Bay in 1883 and claimed to be the first doctor to operate for appendicitis in Door County. (Right) Dr. Phil Arnold administers care at the Door County Half Marathon, keeping alive the tradition of personal medical attention on the peninsula.

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HEALTH CARE Thankfully, times have changed and so too has the delivery of health care in Door County. Penicillin and surgical anesthesia would have certainly made things easier for Captain Noble, not to mention the availability of a medical clinic on Washington Island and helicopter service to the mainland. Door County residents and visitors now have access to several clinics serviced by a multitude of providers. Extensive emergency medical services are staffed year round, with helicopter transport available from even the most remote areas of the county. Our modern and expanding Door County Memorial Hospital in Sturgeon Bay is equipped with the latest technology and staffed with over 125 experienced physicians, with specialties including Pediatrics, Orthopedic Surgery, Neurology, Rheumatology and Oncology. Door County history includes countless stories of those who practiced medicine in the area. Some quickly moved on, but others choose Door County as their permanent home and dedicated their career and much of their lives to serving the people’s needs. A sampling of these stories reveals what has changed and what has remained constant in the delivery of health care on the peninsula. Dr. Edward F. Battershill was the first physician on record in Door County, ar-

riving in 1850. In addition to working as a physician, he held the position of High Sherriff of Door County and he often treated patients from the sheriff’s office. In July of 1861, there was a feud between George Boyer and Charles Wilkins which led to a fight outside the Lee House Saloon at 218 Kentucky Street in Sturgeon Bay. Boyer stabbed Wilkins and fled. Wilkins went directly to Dr. Battershill to have his wounds treated and bound. Shortly thereafter, Sherriff Battershill started after the culprit who eventually escaped by rowboat across the bay. Dr. Battershill departed in the early 1860s, and Door County remained without a resident physician until after the Civil War. Patients often traveled to Green Bay for treatment and sometimes their condition worsened considerably while awaiting transport. Following the incident of Captain Noble’s amputation in 1864, public demand for a resident physician heightened significantly. The Door County Advocate printed an article stating the desperate need in town for a doctor, as well as a lawyer, blacksmith and tinsmith. Approximately one year later, villagers induced Dr. Pommier to come to the county by collecting a subscription fund of $1,000.

Dr. Gustave R. Egeland, founder of the Egeland Hospital. Photo courtesy of Janet Nicolson and the Door County Historical Museum.

He was replaced in 1867 by Dr. Despin, who established the county’s first pharmacy. Dr. Young was the next physician to arrive in Sturgeon Bay, and the first to build a combined doctor’s residence, clinic and dispensary. Over the next 30 years, other physicians followed Young’s lead by turning their residences into Door County’s earliest hospitals. Early Sturgeon Bay records indicate that dominant areas of medicine in the late

(Left) Captain Robert Noble, whose malady famously underscored the need for improved medical services in the region in 1864. (Right) Captain Noble went on to own and operate a ferry service (one of his vessels shown here), helping to improve transportation. Many years later, the Washington Island Ferry line named a boat for him.

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HEALTH CARE 1800s included homeopathic remedies of the immigrant settlers, native American Indian remedies and spiritual healing. Residents also sought care from non-licensed providers, such as Betsey Henderschott, a widow and mother of 11 who arrived in 1855 and served as a midwife for approximately 25 years. For these early caregivers, serving the needs of the county proved to be both time consuming and dangerous. In June of 1881, a Dr. Mullin is on record for traveling the 26 miles from Sturgeon Bay to Baileys Harbor in 2 hours and 15 minutes by horse and buggy, which represented a new speed record for the period. Such house calls could prove treacherous, and travelers occasionally suffered injury from accidents during their late night trips over the rough roads. In 1902, the first free-standing hospital was established on the Sturgeon Bay shoreline at what is now 1114 Memorial Drive. The facility was originally named Bay Shore Hospital but the name was later changed to Peoples Hospital. Not long after, Dr. Gustav R. Egeland established Egeland Hospital which was later owned an operated by his nephew, Dr. Daniel Dorchester. Meanwhile, Dr. Charles Leasum maintained Citizens Hospital with space for 12 to 15 patients, located in a three-story building on Michigan Street and Third Avenue. Each of these facilities was privately owned and they essentially operated in competition with one another. An addition to the Egeland Hospital was funded by the federal government in 1943, at which time the facility was established as a non-profit hospital organization named Door County Memorial Hospital. Physicians of this time period were not like the sub-specialists of today. They treated all ailments and handled every aspect of their patient’s care, whether office visit, surgery or hospital rounds. It is no wonder that the family physician became intimately familiar with the details of their patients’ lives and often came to know them as well as their closest friends. doorcountyliving.com

In 1935, a young physician named Hubert D. Grota settled in the county. Grota was employed by Dr. Dorchester until January 1940 and then established his own private practice through which he became known as Doc Grota, or simply Doc. As recalled by Phyllis Gorectke, daughter of the late Doc Grota, her father treated generation after generation of Door County residents. “He knew not only the patient’s history but their family history.” Grota commented in a 1996 interview, “It was a family affair. We would deliver the baby, become well acquainted with the family, and go back to treat the kid for colds, appendicitis, whatever.” In his memoirs, Grota wrote, “I was the young doctor in Door County, so I suppose that is why the young people came to me. I delivered about 250 babies a year for 20 years.” This was the baby boom generation, and Grota delivered approximately 90 percent of the babies born in the county during that time period, most in the families’ own homes. One of Grota’s late-night deliveries occurred during a brutal snowstorm in the winter of 1936. The mother lived near Newport so Grota arranged to meet the woman’s husband at Anderson’s store in Ellison Bay. From the store they set out by foot across two miles of woods and open fields. Grota was soon wet and cold and covered with snow. Seeing that he was shivering, the pregnant woman invited him into her bed for warmth and promised to wake him when the baby came. Several hours later, they baby was delivered successfully. Grota bathed the baby and cared for the mother, then packed his bags and hitched a ride back to the store on a passing snowplow. This story represents just one of many late-night house calls. “He would get out of bed and leave without anyone knowing,” recalls Gorectke. He would often arrive at the breakfast table with his white collared shirt on over his nightshirt, a tell-tale sign that he’d been called out during the night. Sturgeon Bay’s shipyards were very busy in

Dr. H.D. Grota holding a certificate commendation from the State Medical Society of Wisconsin for doing the “Your Personal Health” program for 25 years on WDOR. He continued for many more years beyond that. It was a weekly program in which he addressed questions mailed in by listeners.

the 1940s, employing up to 7,000 workers. Grota would sometimes make two or three nightly trips to the shipyards to stitch up a cut, fix an abrasion or pull a metal sliver out of an eye. What was the price of care in those days? As Grota established his practice in the 1940s, the charge for an office visit was $1, a home call $2 and a baby delivery with pre/ post-partum care was $25. During hard economic times, patients didn’t necessarily have the means to pay. In Grota’s words, “A lot of them didn’t pay or couldn’t pay, but nobody died because they couldn’t pay. Over the years, we wrote off a lot of debts.” There were unique methods of payment as well. Grota was offered chickens, plumbing work and other trades as compensation. Tokens were required to purchase rationed items during World War II and some patients would offer their gas tokens in payment. This served a second purpose, ensuring that Grota would have enough gas to get to them if necessary. Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 55

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Thinking back on her father, Gorectke explained, “The old time doctors worked 24/7. He did medicine all the time. Every conversation, every outing included an encounter with someone who was seeking medical advice. Work often intersected with home life.” Gorectke tells of a time when a man appeared at Grota’s front door with his hand wrapped in a towel. He had sliced off his finger and was bleeding profusely. Grota’s wife Carrol answered the door and by the time Grota arrived on the scene she had passed out, unable to tolerate the sight of blood. Patients at the door weren’t the only trial Grota’s wife endured. There was more than one occasion where she would be dressed up and ready to go out, but was left waiting because her husband just didn’t come home. Knowing that he was busy caring for someone somewhere, Carrol eventually traded her evening gown for a nightgown and went to bed. But did the sacrifices he and his family made ever cause him to question his course in life? “Not for a minute,” The Bay Shore Hospital, later called the People’s Hospital.

says Gorectke, “he loved the practice of medicine.” As the years went by, the medical needs of the peninsula were primarily managed by a small handful of physicians. Among these were Dr. Edward Farmer who practiced on Washington Island for 25 years before moving his practice to Sister Bay. Dr. Sneeburger ran his practice in Ephraim at what is now The Ephraim Inn. Dr. Hirshbeck was based in Forestville. Dr. John Muehlhauser and Dr. Frederick Huff worked in Sturgeon Bay, and Dr. Edward Konop in Sawyer. Construction of a new Door County Memorial Hospital building began in 1962, financed through federal grants and local fundraising efforts. It was completed in 1964 on the site of what is now the Dorchester Nursing Center. Another man who would make Door County his home and dedicate over 35 years in its service was Family Nurse Practitioner and Surgical Physician Assistant Mike Flood who joined the community in 1976. Flood was hired by Door County Medical Center with the intent of creating an outreach clinic in northern Door County. Many county residents had become accustomed to traveling to Algoma for care, and there was a recognized need to reestablish the resident population’s relationship with the Sturgeon Bay facility. Flood saw several physicians come and go. He suspects that they became frustrated

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with the workload and lifestyle associated with practicing in a small, close-knit community. As Flood explains, “Things are a bit different here. People don’t see you as a medical provider. You are a community leader and a friend.” Flood continued to run the clinic for Door County Medical Center until 1981. He then built his own clinic which he and his wife owned and operated for 20 years. During that period, Flood estimates that he conducted over 11,000 patient visits per year. With so many hours spent working, Flood made every effort to avoid talk of medicine when away from the office. Still, he says, “There were many times I was called upon for off-the-cuff advice. It goes with the territory.” His Sister Bay practice was sold to Aurora health care in 2005 and Flood continues to serve a large number of patients at the Aurora Nor-Door clinic location. Despite the many advances in medical treatments and technology, Flood faced some of the same difficult realities as the earliest physicians in the county. He was on call every night and every weekend for 25 years and essentially filled the roles of coroner and EMT, in addition to his role as primary care provider. The only ambulance for a long time was a privately-owned hearse, still used in that service. In addition to the black curtains, there was a parlor shade displaying a red cross that could be drawn when transporting a patient. A significant step forward in the availability of emergency care resulted from Flood’s efforts. He and Dr. John HerThe Egeland Hospital, which burned and was rebuilt, later became the Door County Memorial Hospital.

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lache established a paramedic training program, one of the first rural programs in the U.S., for which Flood served as the training supervisor. With teams of paramedics in place, the medical teams are now somewhat relieved of the 24/7 pressure. Why did Flood choose to stay when so many others had left? Quite simply, he “likes the area.” “My four kids grew up here, we did well here, we like the people, we have close friends,” he explains. Flood came from a small town where “everyone knows everyone,” and he continues to feel comfortable in that environment. A more recent arrival to Door County’s medical community echoes some familiar themes when sharing his impressions. Dr. Phil Arnold joined Door County Memorial Hospital (DCMH) in 2006, and works as a family doctor and sports medicine specialist based at the Fish Creek clinic. As he sees it, Door County is “a place where you know everyone and your neighbor is your patient.” Arnold embraces opportunities to connect with the community; you might see him at a high school sporting event sitting with parents of the young athletes he treats. Arnold comments on the breadth of services he and his colleagues provide, stating, “In a small town versus a large city – doctors simply do more.” Arnold realizes that some residents and visitors may be skeptical regarding the level of care in a rural community and points out,

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A new surgery center opened in 2003, a Cancer Center in 2005 and a Women and Children’s Health Center in 2007. Further construction is underway, with a 31,080 square-foot addition due for completion in late 2010. Consistent through the centuries, Door County’s medical professionals have recognized that working here demands flexibility and breadth, acceptance that work will intervene in the off-hours and a commitment to work above and beyond the expectations of their contemporaries. Today’s residents and visitors can feel confident in the extensive level of services available. Many limitations of the past have been eliminated, but fortunately the patient-caregiver bond unique to a small town environment still remains.

Resources: Stanley Greene Collection of Special Subjects – Medicine; 1999.6.6; courtesy of the Door County Historical Society. “You just had to get up and take care of them,” by Joe Knaapen, Door County Advocate, March 8, 1996. “Hospitals of Door County,” by John L. Herlache, published in The Peninsula, Vol 14, 2007-2008, Door County Historical Society. Photos for this article were taken from Images of America: Sturgeon Bay, written by Ann Jinkins and Maggie Weir for the Door County Historical Museum in Sturgeon Bay.

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5:00 pm and the Door County snow has melted, chances are that somewhere – not too far away – Nick Steingart is making music. Follow the sound of mandolins, violins, banjos, guitars and harmonicas; join the crowd, sit back and enjoy the show. For many locals, the first spotting of Steingart’s old Volvo wagon rolling into the county means the bluegrass boys of summer are back, and so is their music. Thirty-two year old Steingart has made Door County his warm weather home – alternating with winters in Vail, Colorado – for nearly a decade. He has woven himself tightly into the working scene (in Door County as bartender, waitperson, sailor, and parasailing trainer; in Vail as a Personal Ski Instructors of America-certified ski instructor) and the music scene, becoming a bit of a local legend in both places. Meet him once and it’s easy to see why: Steingart has remarkable charisma and energy. He’s athletic, creative, old enough to be truly accomplished, and young enough to be energetically and unapologetically boyish. Vibrant and charmingly modest (“I have groupies?” he laughs, “Yeah, I guess I do. That’s great.”), Steingart seems sincerely surprised and delighted that he has a following.

Did I mention that he’s good looking? He’s good looking. But what folks are really following is a homespun, eclectic mixture of bluegrass, reggae, classic rock, country, indie and blues. Steingart’s take is eclectic and, like any good musician, he makes it look…easy. Primarily self-taught, Steingart plays violin, guitar, bass (“anything with strings, pretty much”) and his favorite instrument is the mandolin. He is a strong solo performer, as well as a seamless collaborative performer. When Steingart plays solo, he often accompanies himself by using a loop pedal. (A loop pedal is a device that allows you to record yourself, then automatically play it back, leaving you free to jam with the instant accompaniment. In a sense, it allows you to harmonize – with yourself – to get a more textural, filled-in musical sound while maintaining the intimate feel of a solo performance.) When he’s not performing solo, Steingart jams with individual musicians, some more formally than others, creating a playlist that’s hard to categorize. Longtime friend and fellow musician Nick Hoover (with Steingart, the other half of The Nicks, a Door County favorite band) describes it like this: “To put it simply,” says Hoover, “Nick and I just play what we like, and we like a lot of different types of music. We might start off with some bluegrass, play a country standard,

try out some obscure modern song that only one person in the crowd knows, and finish with an old Irish folk tune. A lot of times we don’t even know what’s next.” “I call it reggaebilly soulgrass,” says Steingart. “And as long as it sounds good, we’re having fun and the crowd loves it, we’ve met our goal.” Steingart was raised in New Berlin, Wisconsin, began playing piano at age five, and sang in the church choir. In fifth grade, through his school music program, he took up violin and continued to play throughout high school. But in his college years (Steingart has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Geography), when many self-taught musicians really take off, Steingart was musically quiet. “I was on sensory overload: classes, people, fun. I didn’t really think about music.” Then one night, a roommate took him to hear a bluegrass band at a local bar and he found himself fascinated by the mandolin. “I realized the mandolin has the same scale as the violin, and I thought ‘Hey, I can play that.’ The very next day, I went out and bought a mandolin and I’ve never stopped playing.” After graduating from college, Steingart found himself wanting to spend as much time as possible doing what he loved – ski-

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MUSIC SCENE ing and playing music – and has carefully crafted a life that’s allowed him to do both. Spending summers in Door County and winters in Vail provides Steingart with enough stability to keep him disciplined (and fed), and enough adventure and change of venue to satisfy his wanderlust. So I asked this modern-day troubadour for his take on psycho-geography, the study of places affecting our thoughts, and if living in two places helps him with his creativity. “For certain,” he says. “These are both fantastically supportive communities, with really great people who encourage music and encourage musicians. The scene is different: in Vail we get big names playing in small clubs and there’s a ton of great stuff to listen to. Door County is filled with really talented musicians who I not only get to play with, but I get to know and learn from. Playing with Eric Lewis and Tommy Burroughs, or Paul Sowinski, Pat Judy and others, it’s amazing. Both places are so beautiful, with so much to keep me motivated and keep me happy.” Bass player Paul Sowinski of Big Mouth appreciates the collaborative energy Steingart brings to the community. “Nick is very enthusiastic about performing and listening to music. He gets into it. He also enjoys getting any player who may be in the crowd to get on stage and bang out a tune or two. People look up to him as a respected performer. He lives life to the fullest and is an all ‘round good, responsible guy.” Steingart is also his own booking agent and publicist, a job he considers a necessary evil and one that he doesn’t necessarily enjoy. Like most musicians, he’d prefer to spend his time playing rather than focusing on the details of the business. But to his credit, he appears to be doing something right. These days, Steingart plays an impressive 100-plus days of the year. “I still have a hard time thinking of myself as a musician. I just love playing music; it’s all I want to do. I get to show up and play music and get paid – that’s a bonus.” doorcountyliving.com

Nick Steingart live at Fred & Fuzzy’s, a Tuesday night hot spot.

Steingart also maintains a basic, practical Web site that allows you to view his performance calendar, supplies contact information and gives you a taste of his music. If you haven’t heard him play, take a listen at www.nicksteingart.com, where you can hear a moving version of progressive bluegrass player Peter Rowan’s “Fetch Wood Carry Water,” or listen to Skin the Rabbit, Steingart’s Vail-based string band. And though he claims he doesn’t write music, you can listen to “BBQ Boogie,” a Nick Steingart original and tribute to a Vail favorite, Moe’s Original Barbeque.

est issue of the Peninsula Pulse to see where he’s at. From May to October, you can most often find him on the lawn at Fred & Fuzzy’s, in Fish Creek at the Bayside Tavern, wailing in the halls of Husby’s, or at the always-welcoming AC Tap. “Really, we just have fun. Every time I play, and all the people I play with. We have fun, and then we have more fun, and the crowds seem to have fun, too,” says Steingart. Sounds like reggaebilly soulgrass might be a little bit of what the world needs now.

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Door County’s Most Significant Architectural Find The Hans Hanson House

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amazing discoveries – a long-lost Rembrandt revealed beneath an amateur’s landscape or a signed first edition of Hemingway buried in a box of old books from an estate sale. Now Door County has a “find” of its own that is attracting attention statewide and is almost sure to earn a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2002, the Sturgeon Bay Educational Foundation purchased a five-acre tract north of Utah Street in Sturgeon Bay, not far from the Crossroads at Big Creek Environmental and Historical Center. The site had been deserted since 2000, and the frame house was expected to sell as a tear-down. It was not until 2008 that members of the Door County Historical Society (DCHS) took a close look at the structure and were intrigued to find 152-year-old logs underneath the clapboard siding. When plaster and lath were chipped away, the original whitewash was revealed on interior log walls. DCHS President George Evenson realized the significance of their discovery and quickly contacted two experts – Darrell Henning, curator emeritus of Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, and Alan Pape, a historic preservation planner and consultant from Greenbush, Wisconsin. “These two men,” Evenson said, “know more about Norwegian architecture than anyone else in the country.” They called the house “a gem,” one of only doorcountyliving.com

The Hanson house as it stands today. three of its kind in the United States. It is even more unique – one in a million, they said – because it was found and will remain on the farm where it was built in 1856, just eight years after Wisconsin became a state and four years before Lincoln was elected President. Research revealed that the builder was Hans Hanson, an experienced carpenter and ship builder who was born in Norway in 1815. With his wife, Bertha, and children, Gunnild and Knud, he emigrated from Hurum to Chicago in 1853. Knud died there before his second birthday. In 1855, the family, that now included daughter Kattin, moved to an 80-acre farm near Big Creek in what was to become Door County. The price was $250. The location had been identified on an 1834 map as the site of a prehistoric portage or trail for travelers crossing from Lake Michigan to Sturgeon Bay. The family’s first home was a two-room log structure. Working with just an ax, Hans hollowed out the bottom of each log to fit tightly against the un-worked top of the log below. They were matched so closely that no caulking was necessary, but he tucked in sphagnum moss to make

the building airtight, a technique dating to medieval times. Bits of it are still in place. Corners were dovetailed in the traditional Norwegian style. Two additional rooms and a sleeping loft, reached by a ladder, were added later. When work on the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal began in 1872, Hans was able to collect enough rock to build a full basement close to the original site. The cabin was disassembled and rebuilt over the basement. New, extra-long roof beams were cantilevered beyond the east end of the house to cover an unheated area or forstue that included the front entrance, storage and access to the new second story. This style, Henning says, dates to some of the earliest log buildings in Norway. The Hanson house has undergone a series of five additions and renovations. The DCHS has decided to restore the home

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HISTORY to Phase III, its appearance in 1875-1885, because a great deal of physical evidence remains from this period. The house had been expanded to include four bedrooms, a combination kitchen/dining room/living room, a pantry, a back entry/mud room, a front entry/stairway, a hallway that provided access to two upstairs bedrooms and attic storage, and a parlor used temporarily as a bedroom for Hans’ brother, Carl, who came from Norway in 1879 and died of asthma and measles the following year.

(Clockwise from top left) Detail shows a medrag and stokk which holds logs in alignment for a door opening; three cantilevered logs above the window and door demonstrate the Norwegian forstue style; Norwegian concave and convex log stacking with moss in between logs; precision notching on inside and outside corners tighten over time.

During this period, the outside of the house was covered with horizontal clapboards, and a cream brick chimney was installed in an upstairs bedroom. Interior log walls were whitewashed, ceilings, partitions, doors and trim were painted light olive gray and floors were stained walnut brown. Kerosene lamps were mounted on iron wall brackets, and heat came from wood-burning stoves. A stovepipe running from the kitchen range to the chimney in the bed-

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HISTORY Founding Father, Paul and Frances Burton describe how Rev. Iverson, Hans and Bertha went into the house, fell on their knees and prayed “as if their hearts would melt.” The house was saved.

Exterior detail shows notching from interior walls and ceiling supports.

room above provided the only warmth for the upstairs. Drinking water was obtained from a spring Hans capped. (It was still in use in 2000!) The 1880 Census reported seven people living in the house: Hans, age 65; Bertha, 63; Gunnel, 29; Catinka, 25, born during the family’s time in Chicago; Hans Jr., 21, and Elisebeth, 18, both born after the move to Wisconsin; and Carl, 47. By 1890, Hans Jr., had married Gustava, and their children, Clara, Hammeril, Ester, Arthur, Elmer and Bertha, were sharing the house with Hans Sr., Gunnell and Elisebeth. The elder Bertha had died in 1899. Hans Jr. and Gustava had three more children, Adolph, who died at age four, Kenneth and Donald. During their years in Chicago, the Hansons attended a Lutheran church, but in Wisconsin they became Moravians and were close friends of the Rev. Andrew Iverson, who founded the Ephraim Moravian Church and, with Hans’ help, established a congregation in Sturgeon Bay in 1863. Concerned because the Hansons were not present at his farewell sermon there in June 1864, Rev. Iverson went to their home and found the family sitting in a field, watching a brush fire that had destroyed their barn and was threatening the house. In Ephraim’s doorcountyliving.com

In a 2009 letter to Evenson, Pape noted that “few examples of the Norwegian scribe-fit sval log house construction are to be found outside Norway, and only two have been saved through museum restoration in the United States. Many evolutionary secrets are yet to be discovered that will help in the structure’s eventual restoration. To have the house actually connected to the Crossroads Museum Village property is truly a one-in-a-million event.” Henning has called the house the most significant architectural find in Door County. “You are extremely fortunate,” he said, “that the house sits on its original site, which will provide significant data when properly excavated and interpreted. It is one thing to see the artifacts of history, but quite another to actually walk in the footsteps of those who made history, seeing what they saw from the very place they stood.” The goal of the Door County Historical Society is to restore the house, repair outbuildings and plant flower and vegetable gardens to recreate the site as the Hansons knew it. A heritage trail will connect it to

the Crossroads Historical Village. Interestingly, the village’s pioneer church is a replica of the one Rev. Iverson started in Ephraim in 1859. Another recently-discovered fact is that the Hanson farm was later owned by Professor Moulton Groff, whose cherry orchards were among the first in Door County. Gustava Hanson died in 1918, and the following year the rest of the family moved to Daggett, Michigan. Relatives still in that area knew nothing about the original homestead until they were contacted in 2009. Since then, they’ve made two trips to the site, and Hans and Bertha’s great-great-great grandson, Thaddeus Nowak, developed the Hans Hanson House Web site, hanshansonhouse.org. The restoration cost is estimated to be $140,000 over two years. It is hoped that grants will cover much of that amount, but contributions are also being sought from individuals and groups. Contact George Evenson at 4994 Ripp Road in Sturgeon Bay or by phone at (920) 743-4945. By 2011, you may be able to stand in the front door of Hans Hanson’s house and gaze east toward Big Creek over a landscape that looks much different from the modern world on Utah Street, 140 feet and 136 years away.

Original whitewash is still evident on the interior walls. The ceiling boards were smoothed using a “draw shave” and have remained as smooth as a desktop.

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Spring Cleaning on the Lake Floor

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County maritime community grinds to a wintery halt save the few hearty souls that shore up ships, break icy water routes and haul gill nets laden with fish. In order for much of this activity to go on, a small but hardened labor force works to dredge channels, boat basins and harbors, from the shoreline and on the frozen waters of Door County.

Death’s Door Construction When most companies are looking to layup their equipment for the season, Death’s Door Marine of Ellison Bay, owned and

operated by Mike Kahr, is getting into full swing. Kahr’s small crews of three to five men work year round to ensure deep water access for Door County’s boaters and mariners. Working off the ice is a task achieved only with the utmost precaution according to Kahr. A recent winter scene finds the Death’s Door crew on Ephraim ice in Eagle Harbor. Fog covers much of the frozen seascape and the mechanized digging is the only sign of life in this village’s late winter afternoon. Dredging a channel for summer boaters, a large dump truck sits offshore on ice only a couple of feet thick. Beside the truck is an enormous crane. Dredge material consisting of rock and dirt is being scooped from a watery hole in front of the crane. Water streams continually from the bucket and flows back to the icy surface to freeze up once again. Boulders and debris are lifted and dropped into the truck’s bed with a crash. The truck and crane shake as the load is dropped.

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The scene provides perspective of the typical questions from Door County visitors: “Is it safe to walk on the ice?” and “Do people really drive out there?” In comparison to the large equipment laden with rock and dirt just off the Ephraim shoreline the questions seem superfluous. The concerns, however, are taken from cautious self preservation and are the same ones Kahr addresses each day before he enters this arena of dredging from a frozen platform. To safely work on the ice, thickness needs to exceed two feet and anything above this is Mother Nature’s gift to crew and equipment. Looking at Mike Kahr and the burly crew that makes up his winter dredging workforce, one would think they go out as mavericks trusting fate and experiences. For Kahr, it is a much more calculated event. He understands the loads he is placing on the ice with his machinery and he is continually testing and measuring the ice against the weight of the machinery. doorcountyliving.com

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To determine ice thickness he drills holes with an auger. If the ice is too thin he will build it up or, quite literally, make ice with pumps that draw water from a hole and then disperse it back on top of the ice where his crew is working. Ironically, the cold surface snow sitting on top of the ice insulates it, and must be removed in order to begin the buildup of a safe icy offshore platform. So why endure all the cold and wet work that exists to continue dredging in the raw winter months on the peninsula? The number one reason Kahr cites is the limitations enforced upon him through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). These dredging restrictions center on fish spawning along Door County’s shoreline. The fish spawning season runs from March 15th to July 1st. Carrie Webb, Door County’s Water Management Specialist for the DNR, says that there is a “concern that the dredging will cover up fish eggs, making them helpless to reproduce.” She did add, doorcountyliving.com

however, “that if a fish biologist views the area and finds that the dredging operation will not impede fish spawning, then there may be an exemption on either end of the fish spawning window.” Kahr can be frustrated at times as he works to balance customer’s deadlines and DNR restrictions. He wishes there was more flexibility in the process. “If the temperature is too cold, fish won’t spawn; if it’s bad for fish, it’s bad for me,” he said. The main reason for this is that dredge material freezes in the boxes of his dump trucks. Recently, his crew moved 50 tons of ice to get his barge into a dredging area for a spring project. But warm weather also poses a problem. “One 50 degree day destroys the ice to the point of not being able to safely operate,” he said, adding, “Sunny days are the worst.” Kahr’s working limitations within a calendar year become obvious. Municipalities require their docks, harbors and channels to be dredged in time for the county’s boat-

ing season. Owners of private marinas and docks also want their dredging complete in time to enjoy a short northern climate boating season. Utilizing an 80-foot barge that he designed and built himself, Kahr pushes into the warmer weather months to keep up with the workload. The barge is a huge working platform that holds cranes, equipment and dredge spoils. Although this workhorse of a platform sees many miles and hours of use in the summer, late winter and spring months remain salient to his schedule.

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quired dockside service to load and unload their freight with greater ease. As technology and commerce increased, so did the dredging or digging of the shorelines and bays. Water fluctuations have kept marine construction companies busy for years with either dredging or, ironically, building up docks to keep high water contained. Record high water levels occurred in the 1980s that sent Door County residents running for sandbags and rip rap to handle the rising water level. Paul Burton, an Ephraim resident and author of Door County’s Islands, cited no less than eight Door County islands that were either underwater in 1986 or barely emergent in that year. Record high water levels are rare, historically caused by ample snow and rainfall. The snow and ice pack that sits on the northern shore of Lake Superior is a key player in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron’s water levels. These latter lakes are considered to be

one lake in a hydrographical sense, as they have no locks or dams separating them. Lakes Huron and Michigan are replenished during the early summer months as melt water returns to these mammoth fresh water holdings from Lake Superior. Yet the region is vast and historical data suggests that one lake level can and will fluctuate somewhat independently based on storms around a particular lake’s watershed or shoreline. Localized rainfall is still enough to raise lake levels for the short term. Unlike our oceans, it appears that high water levels are the least of our worries as residents and keepers of the Great Lakes. The continual dredging of the St. Clair River between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway and its locks, as well as the reversal of the Chicago River have all acted as a siphon effect to drain our fresh water resources to the ocean. If levels were to return to 1980s levels of another 16 inches of water, many

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yards, docks and occasionally roads would be awash once again. A Greater Dredging Need A need for dredging in Door County will undoubtedly increase rather than decrease. Dredging these shorelines is expensive, arduous and over the long term the need looks to be ongoing. The most significant and impressive example of a dredging requirement is the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal which acts as a line of demarcation dividing the peninsula into southern and northern Door County. The canal was finished in 1882 in an effort to cut time between port cities and aid Sturgeon Bay’s shipping industry by allowing passage between Lake Michigan and Green Bay. Before the dredging and digging of the canal, ships and boats would have to go around the top of the Door Peninsula and extend their routes by hours and even days in the era of sailing schooners. In 1893, the Federal Government purchased the canal, giving the U.S. Corps of Engineers the authority to maintain water depth ensuring safe and efficient shipping passage. Maintaining water depth has been an ongoing process for this and most man-made dredging projects. Roen Salvage Company of Sturgeon Bay maintains water depths in the canal through doorcountyliving.com

Though the Door Peninsula boasts proud shores with deep water, access to many pier heads, docks and boat ramps still requires maintenance dredging. According to a recent Department of Natural Resources study, however, if every municipality and owner of shoreline property chose to carve out a channel for their recreational boating purpose, the effects would be devastating. The study, which parlayed the expertise of the Wisconsin DNR and Lawrence University, assessed the impacts of dredging along the Door County shoreline. This environmental analysis required a one-year moratorium on dredging permits in order to allow biologists time to conduct research. Not surprisingly, the study concluded that no dredging would be the most favorable option if the main consideration was ecological sustainability of our peninsula. The study, however, included cultural considerations as well. These include standards of public interest that support the interaction between the human element and the fish, flora and fauna impacted at the water’s edge.

Mike Kahr and his Death’s Door Construction company. In response to a minimal impact approach to shoreline access, Kahr, a Licensed Civil Engineer with a Civil Engineering Degree from UW- Madison, has designed what he calls an “alternate dock scenario” for a Northern Door property owner. The dock requires no permits from the DNR and allows permanent water flow through and under the structure. Kahr designed it to get around the DNR’s dredging rule. He said, “It’s not cheap but it won’t need to be moved out of the water when the season is done.” This design could replace portable piers that require annual removal to protect them from ice damage. The dock system also allows deep water access without dredging, eliminating the need for the costly maintenance of a channel. The DNR suggests that private property owners use marinas rather than continue to dredge the ecosystems off their shores. Though riparian rights do exist for shoreline property owners, a continued awareness of the effects of dredging needs to be made if more and more permits are issued each year. For now, dredging our harbors and shorelines allows people greater access to the water. Fortunately, there are individuals like Mike Kahr who are willing to take on this arduous task throughout the winter, providing safe haven to boaters for each season.

Our interaction with our shorelines is what gives us an appreciation for these ecosystems. Eventually, it also drives us to be part of this watery world with our watercraft and the need for docking and launching boats. Mandating a balance and ensuring that the public treads lightly on these shores is the job of the DNR. Maintaining deep water access remains the job of people like Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 69

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Inside The Ropes at The Masters Local Golf Course Owner Recalls His Experience

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fans around the world, the first sure sign that the new golf season is underway is the virtually commercial-free television coverage of the Masters in April. America’s most prestigious of the four PGA majors, the Masters holds a sense of magic and mystique that is “a tradition unlike any other” as the CBS tagline rightfully declares. Unmatched in exclusivity, Augusta National Golf Club (host of the Masters) located in Augusta, Georgia has turned down membership requests from the likes of Bill Gates and Michael Jordan. Unrivaled in beauty, the few fortunate who have experienced Augusta tell of an aura that no video or photograph can truly capture. The chances of personally knowing someone who has played a round at Augusta may be as slim as knowing someone who has visited the moon. The odds of stepping foot on the course or stumbling across a ticket to the Masters are a little better, but not much. The year is 1991. It is the second Sunday in April, and for most golfers around the world, this day means only one thing… Sunday at the Masters. This is the day a single champion will emerge from the elite field of the greatest golfers in the world. In victory, he will be presented with his new, custom-tailored, green jacket. His name will forever be enshrined in the sacred grounds of Augusta. And from that day forward his life will never be the same. Prior to the ‘91 Masters, six of the past nine champions have been European and the American crowd is hungry for a hometown hero. Sunday’s final twosome holds two golfers vying for the lead: crowddoorcountyliving.com

favorite and American, Tom Watson, and the small, feisty Welschman, Ian “Woosie” Woosnam. As they make their way through Amen Corner, a famous stretch of three holes on the back nine, they come to the tee box of hole 13, a par-five, dogleg left. This pivotal hole, named Azalea, has often been viewed as one of the instrumental holes in determining the Masters’ winner. Watson strikes a beautiful drive down the middle much to the American fans’ delight. Little “Woosie,” in his Celtic redplaid pants, hits a duck hook that lands in Rae’s Creek that runs along the left side of the fairway. The gallery, gathered on the opposite side, cheers at Woosman’s mishit. The soon to be champion will later proclaim that the outburst was unsportsmanlike, yet it motivated him to victory. Deeming his ball unplayable, Woosnam assesses himself a penalty, takes his drop, and grumbles under his breath, “That oughtta make the Americans happy.” Although this snide remark seems newsworthy, it was never publicized. Why? Because the only two people that heard him say that were his caddy and the nearby rules official, Peter Trenchard of Sister Bay. What led Trenchard to this improbable position inside the ropes of one of the sports world’s most revered competitions is an unusual path. This remote happenstance may be likened to being a referee at the Super Bowl or, as Peter described, “It’s like being at the World Series, and pulling a chair up right behind the pitcher’s mound.” In 1976, Trenchard purchased Bay Ridge Golf Course in Sister Bay, and continues to own, operate and live on the premises of the quaint nine-hole golf course, along with his

wife, Dianne. Many Door County residents and visitors also equate the Trenchards as being the owners of Cherry Hills Golf Course in Sturgeon Bay for nearly two decades, beginning in the mid-‘80s. With a professional background in management consulting and marketing, Trenchard has been viewed by many as an innovator in joint promotion of golf on both the local and national level. “There weren’t a lot of golf courses back then as there are now,” commented Trenchard. “I wanted to make Door County a golf destination, but promoting the game of golf in the United States was equally as important.” Years of commitment and service to the Golf Course Owners Association offered valuable networking with the who’s who on the national golf scene. Ultimately, this led to Trenchard’s election to the elite Executive Committee of the United States Golf Association (USGA), an esteemed group of only about 10 people in the country. With his three-year stint with the USGA (1990, 1991 and 1992) came the automatic opportunity to become a rules official at both the Masters and the U.S. Open. It was an unpaid, volunteer position in which Trenchard was required to pay for his own traveling expenses and time away from work on the peninsula. It required learning and knowing the intricate and mind-numbing rules of golf, about which he admits, “The testing of officials is much more stringent now than it was back then.” Rules officials dressed in suits and ties. They were assigned to one hole each day, and a long day at that, often from sunup to sundown. They were given strict orders to avoid being seen or heard by the television cameras, and were only to be available when Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 71

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Trenchard was an active rules official during the years of 1990, 1991 and 1992 at both the Masters and U.S. Open. THE MASTERS Year Champion 1990 Nick Faldo 1991 Ian Woosnam 1992 Fred Couples

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Peter, along with wife Dianne, poses for a photo outside the famed Augusta National clubhouse at the 1991 Masters.

a player needed assistance with a ruling. “I was amazed at how the golfers really don’t know the rules,” chided Trenchard. Called into action on his first day at his first Masters in 1990, the twosome of Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw approached his assigned hole, hole number three. Crenshaw’s drive on the par three landed on a sprinkler head, causing Trenchard to in-

vestigate. Peter explains, “Here comes Jack Nicklaus, who’s my hero, and walks right up to me, points a finger at me and says, ‘He gets a free drop, right?,’ and of course I said, ‘Uhhh yeah, right that’s a free drop.’”

inadvertently moved during his practice swing. This incident proved that even officials are human, and that knowing all of the rules of golf and being able to act on them in a moment’s notice is no easy task.

His agreement with Nicklaus was correct, but in the ensuing play, Trenchard admits to making an incorrect ruling in not requiring Crenshaw to return his live ball that had

Now at age 71, Trenchard reflects on small, special moments of his three years at the Masters that took place nearly 20 years ago – too many to mention. Just the simple

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FAIRWAYS memory of helping Arnold Palmer look for his ball in the bushes is one Trenchard cherishes. He smiles as he reminisces of a moment with the late Payne Stewart. Trenchard recalls almost having to put him on the clock for slow play while Stewart took a bathroom break. As Trenchard anxiously awaited his return, Stewart snuck up next to Peter and said, “I heard there’s a good game going on today, can I play?” A no-nonsense man himself, Trenchard admired the way Augusta ran their club by commenting, “If I were to have an army, I would have them run it.” He further ex-

plains that the club’s suggestion box clearly stated: “Include two items, your suggestion and your letter of resignation. We will act on one.” He recalls his first ride up stunning Magnolia Drive where an attendant directed him to park his car, reserved for officials. “Over there?” Trenchard questioned. “That’s a putting green.” The attendant replied, “No, that’s a parking lot.” During the Masters, both Trenchard and his wife received badges that allowed them access to places where only members and players were allowed. “It was like I was royalty,” recalls Dianne.

They both recall a Friday when Peter was assigned to hole 18. Due to slow play and the onset of twilight, there were no golfers between holes 16 and 18, and the crowd had dispersed. Dianne met Peter on 18, took off her shoes, and together they walked down the fairways of the final two holes. “It was a magical moment,” recalls Dianne. “The sky was just beautiful and here we were all alone, walking down the fairways of Augusta.” Says Trenchard of the stunning grounds and unsurpassed charm of Augusta, “If there is a heaven, I’m sure that’s what it looks like.”

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Fun, Casual and Familiar JJ’s/La Puerta in Sister Bay and JJ’s of Jacksonport

For me, JJ’s/La

Puerta is the closest I’ll ever come to Cheers: when I walk in, I usually know the names of many of the customers as well as staff, and vice-versa. If I order a margarita, Dave knows to make it “on the rocks with no salt,” or, if I order the Mexican beer Tecate, he wordlessly hands me the sippy cup of hot sauce to dribble on the can as I drink it. Erin and Deb know that whatever I order, I want the vegetarian version. It is one of my favorite restaurants and bars in Door County due to the fun, casual, familiar atmosphere, and because the food is consistently great and plentiful and the service fast. (Once you manage to get a seat, that is – they’ll serve 500-plus people on a busy summer night.) And, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only local that feels this way: the night I stopped in to “conduct research” for this article, the own76 Door County Living Early Summer 2010

ers and/or managers of the Sister Bay Bowl, the Mission Grille, and T. Ashwell’s were all in JJ’s/La Puerta eating dinner, chatting with each other and the staff. JJ – or James Johnson, although I suspect he wouldn’t even answer to James – started

the original JJ’s in 1978. Housed in the northerly portion of the current Sister Bay location of the restaurant, it had a basic but tasty menu reliant on burgers, fries, and shakes (all of which are still available today). Before JJ’s, the space had been a couple of different restaurants, including Lhosts’ Din-

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Behind the bar, JJ and Kristine smile for the camera.

INFORMATION JJ’S/LA PUERTA ing Room, Eileen’s, and Rudy’s, a bakery and coffee shop in the ‘50s (the original restaurant in the building). JJ recalls that when he started JJ’s, “there was a beauty shop in the building next door, Hammersmith TV and Radio was located in the southerly portion of the current restaurant [which became the original La Puerta], and the other restaurants in Sister Bay at the time were Al’s, the Carroll House, Johnny’s [now the Sister Bay Cafe], the Bowl, and the Patio.” He jokes, “Yeah, I was going to open a Swedish restaurant, but there was already one in town. No goats, no grass, no relation. I had a t-shirt that said that.”

years of teaching, we decided we were quitting and coming up here. This was about 1973 or so. We lived in what is now the Clay Bay Pottery shop those first few years, and during the summer had a pottery shop across the highway called Kiln Door that sold mostly my stuff – I was an art teacher – and we also ‘shook cherries.’” JJ says he “just kind of stayed up here,” keeping busy with a variety of other jobs those first years – such as bartending (at the English Inn, then called the Parkway) and running a sandwich shop (in Fish Creek at the Alibi dock) – a story and résumé of a sort familiar to many year-round residents.

JJ moved to Door County from Viroqua, Wisconsin. He explains, “I was teaching school in New Berlin, and my roommate was from Sister Bay; so I started coming up here with him to hang out. After about three

When he was growing up, JJ says he “held a summer job at a drive-in restaurant owned by my uncle, so even before coming here I was around the restaurant business. I was at the Alibi before I bought this res-

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ADDRESS: 10951 N. Bayshore Drive Far north end of downtown Sister Bay. PHONE: (920) 854-4513 WEB SITE: www.jjswaterfront.com (follow the “Friends” link). HOURS: During “the season,” JJ’s/La Puerta is open from 11 am until 10 pm for food (11 pm in the summer), with the bar hours extending until 2 am. The winter season schedule varies, although typical days and hours for food are Wednesday through Friday 5 to 9:30-ish, and Saturday 11 am to 9:30-ish pm. Bar hours usually extend much later. JJ’S OF JACKSONPORT ADDRESS: 6301 State Highway 57 Right in the middle of downtown Jacksonport (at County A). PHONE: (920) 823-2700 HOURS: JJ’s of Jacksonport will be operating on essentially the same schedule as JJ’s/La Puerta.

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ON YOUR PLATE taurant and also when Kristine and I started dating. We got married right around the time I bought the restaurant in 1978.”

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Favorite memories of JJ’s. JJ reminisces about “all the marriages that happened out of here,” including bartender Dave and his wife, Chandra, who used to wait tables at JJ’s. Dave recalls “the night Ivan Bridenhagen carried me behind the bar like a baby all night as I was serving drinks. Customers didn’t know what to think. Oh, and, Dick Daubner’s 50th birthday party [the Daubner family owns the Sister Bay Bowl]. You probably can’t print a description of the costume his family made him wear, but he had this hilarious costume and played his polka cello all evening for everyone. I also like it whenever we have a band – you can always see JJ dancing with people, and that’s always entertaining.” Personally, my favorite memory of JJ’s isn’t one specific instance, but rather the image that comes to mind of JJ hanging out behind the bar in a t-shirt – even in the winter – having a cup of coffee. I always think customers that don’t know him are probably wondering, “Who is this surfer dude, and why isn’t he taking my order?”

JJ recalls that he and Kristine had a candy store in the southerly part of the building for a while – called the Good Ship Lollipop – but quickly realized they didn’t want to do that any more. “I was into Mexican food, even though we hadn’t started spending a lot of time in Mexico yet at that point, and we’d been having a Mexican night in JJ’s once a week that was really popular,” he says. “So, in 1985 we added another restaurant next door, La Puerta [Spanish for “the door”], serving only Mexican food.” JJ notes that the two restaurants shared a kitchen, although the menus were totally separate: if you were at La Puerta, you could only order Mexican food, and if you were at JJ’s, you could only order off the JJ’s menu. The two eventually combined into one restaurant with one menu in 1989, much to the relief of customers, and probably staff, although the public spaces of the two restaurants were still separated completely by an internal wall until around 1997. Over 30 years after the start of their first successful venture, JJ and Kristine have opened a second JJ’s location in Jacksonport. JJ claims, “That was not a planned operation! I went to a restaurant equipment auction sale and ended up with a restaurant. I went with no intention of buying a restaurant, but the bids opened so low I raised my hand, and then I looked around and no one

Famous staff. An enormous list of Northern Door residents, past and present, have worked at JJ’s over the years, including many of my good friends. Besides eating at JJ’s as a kid, my earliest memories of JJ’s are from Rachel Manek (yes, the Rachel of Green Bay FOX 11’s Good Day Wisconsin), whose first waitressing job our first summer living in Door County was at JJ’s. Rachel lived in fear of one of the line cooks at JJ’s, who had made it her life’s mission to torment the young and inexperienced waitress. Rachel also lived in fear of her coworkers at the Hotel Du Nord (her second of three jobs that summer), who would show up for her JJ’s shifts and sit in her section and order milk shakes in every flavor, which they knew the wait staff had to make. Although Rachel’s stint at JJ’s only lasted approximately 30 days, the experience couldn’t have been too terrible, as she still happily visits JJ’s/La Puerta for dinner and drinks. put in another bid after mine!” The Jacksonport location has an atmosphere and menu similar to the Sister Bay location, both of which are sure to guarantee its success. The timing of the opening of the Jacksonport restaurant in August 2009 is eerie, in retrospect, as a few weeks later a fire in the kitchen of the Sister Bay location forced JJ and Kristine to close that restaurant for six months. JJ notes that “the entire building Kids. JJ and Kristine have four children, three girls and one boy, all of whom worked in the business growing up (and had or have menu items named after them). Their son, Jesse, is in the restaurant business himself, as the head chef of the Waterfront (right next door to JJ’s/La Puerta in Sister Bay).

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ON YOUR PLATE The “Bernie.” JJ tells the following story about the “house shot”: “We didn’t get our liquor license until La Puerta had been open a few years; people were always upset those first few years that they couldn’t have margaritas with their Mexican food. Once we finally got our license, we started serving tequila shots the way most places do, with a lime slice and salt. Then, shortly after we’d gotten the license, a friend’s brother-in-law visited from Germany, and he told us that in Germany they did tequila shots with cinnamon and sugar on an orange slice. The guy’s name was Bernie, so we named the shot after him and it’s been our house shot ever since.” Other drinks. Bartender Dave Johnson (no relation to either JJ and Kristine or the Johnsons with the goats on the roof) has worked at JJ’s/La Puerta for 17 years. He looks at me like I’m an idiot when I ask about the most popular drink, but then responds, “Regular margaritas. By far. I’ll go through anywhere from three to six of these huge regular margarita mix containers before I go through even one strawberry mix.” Dave also notes that the restaurant carries 30 to 40 different tequilas, many of which would be considered “sipping” drinks rather than shots or mixers. In addition, the evening I’m there researching, wine aficionado Tonda Gagliardo (of the Mission Grille) hesitantly asks Dave about a glass of wine, and he astonishes her with the option he presents. “Who knew JJ’s had good wine?!” exclaims Tonda, thanking and calling Dave “Bartender Extraordinaire.” was taken down to the studs and reframed, new carpet installed, anything that was smoke-filled was replaced or cleaned, etc. It was a mess.” Fortunately for all of us, if you didn’t know about the fire, you wouldn’t even notice anything was different – it still looks, feels, and tastes like the same old JJ’s. And now, we’re lucky enough to have two locations to visit.

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Savory Leek, Gorgonzola, and Bacon Custards

eeks, with their mild and sweet onion flavor, do not often find their way onto our tables, except in soups, like potato-leek soup and its cool French cousin, vichyssoise.

These rich, savory custards, however, showcase the subtle sweetness of leeks, brought out by the mellow tang of Gorgonzola cheese and the salty, smokiness of bacon. In the spring, wild leeks (or ramps) can be used in place of traditional, cultivated leeks, though they will pack a much stronger onion flavor. For a vegetarian version, omit the bacon and use a tablespoon of olive oil to sauté the leeks.

Leeks in the wild. Photo by Roy Lukes.

Makes 8 custards

Freshly picked leeks. Photo by Roy Lukes.

Ingredients 6 oz. thick-cut bacon 12 oz. leeks (about 2 large leeks, or two fistfuls of wild leeks) split lengthwise and rinsed 5 large egg yolks 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup half & half 8 oz. Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, minced 3 tablespoons Italian parsley, minced pinch of salt & pepper Over medium-high heat, render the bacon until crisp. Trim off the green tops of the leeks, just above where the leaves split, then cut into 1/2 inch slices. Leave one tablespoon of the bacon fat in the pan and sauté the leeks 7–10 minutes, until soft. Heat the oven to 325º F and let the leeks cool for at least 10 minutes. In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks until foamy, then mix in the cream and half & half. Cut up the bacon, and add it to the bowl, along with the leeks, Gorgonzola, tarragon, parsley, salt and pepper. Pour the mixture into eight 4 oz. ramekins, then place the ramekins in a baking pan. Add hot water to the pan, until it comes halfway up the ramekins. Cover the pan tightly with foil and bake 45–60 minutes, or until the center is just set.

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Canine Gourmet Sturgeon Bay’s Stove Dog Bakery

Since the

inception of the “On Your Plate” department in Door County Living, it has been the usual custom for a restaurant, chef, or local food to be featured. Of course, while going out to various eateries of the peninsula might seem commonplace to us, our pets who are stuck at home might ask (if they

could talk, of course) why their owners get to have all the fun. An enterprising couple in Sturgeon Bay shared the same thought, and sought to create treats for pets that were not only good, but also good for them as well. Welcome to the story of Sturgeon Bay’s Stove Dog Bakery. Stove Dog was founded in 1998 when Dan and Chris Saurer began baking their

all-natural dog treats and selling them at farmer’s markets throughout Wisconsin as well as on the Internet. The impetus for creating the treats was simple. “In caring for our older dog, Sam, it became obvious that there was a need for more health-conscious dog treats,” Chris says. “Dogs are prone to many of the same health concerns that humans are. We wanted our dogs to continue being healthy – and knew there was a public out there that wanted the same for their pets.” Knowing virtually nothing about the business of creating and baking dog treats when they began their endeavor, the Saurers decided to dive into the research process. “We read a lot of books on animal nutrition, talked to a lot of knowledgeable people, and checked out a lot of articles on the Internet,” says Dan. Then, the recipe search began, and the two found they didn’t have to look much further than the recipe cards of their own family. The first recipe attempted was that of Chris’s Aunty Ree’s muffins. Chris omitted the sugars and salt that the muffins called for, and found that the altered recipe would be perfect for the dog treats. From there, diabetic and sugar-free recipes were researched, and the Saurers quickly got the swing of dog-treat baking. “Our recipes evolved over time,” Chris says. Today, the Saurers depend on Asta and Charley, their two Golden Retrievers, to help tastetest the recipes. “They’re always more than willing!” Chris laughs. Stove Dog got its start in Door County when Larry and Eunice Manz, owners of Manz Specialty Foods, gave the Saurers a small corner of their store to sell their products. The treats took off and a few years after that they opened up a storefront on Sturgeon

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Bay’s Third Av enue. They operated in that location until this April, when they purchased the former Perry’s Cherry Diner building on Michigan Avenue. The new location will allow the Saurers to operate their business and bake Stove Dog’s treats in the same location (in the past, the treats have been baked off site). “To be honest, the smell of dog treats baking was the one thing that was missing from the previous location.” says Chris. The Saurers seek to keep the ingredients of their dog treats simple, using many ingredients that humans already consume a fair amount of – peanut butter, whole-wheat flour, brown rice, rolled oats, and unsweetened applesauce. “Our pets don’t deserve anything less than we ourselves would eat,” Chris says. Of course, there are a few small ingredient swaps – a bit of carob instead of any chocolate – as well as added ingredients depending on the kind of treat. “For something breath-freshening we’ll most likely add some peppermint, and we do feature a special treat called the ‘Flea-Buster Bagel,’ which features brewer’s yeast and garlic, which are both natural flea deterrents,” Dan says.

The treats are all natural, but that doesn’t stop the Saurers from creating treats that sound mouth-watering even to humans. The bakery offers two kinds of “Fetch Fries” in pizza and sweet potato flavors, as well as other signature flavors such as Banana Bites, Pizza Bites, Pumpkin Bites, and Beef Bites. In addition to the treats that the Saurers bake themselves, they also offer a number of treats that are produced by other companies – the caveat being that these companies adhere to their own mission of making the treats healthful. “We order from a company that produces a great line of doggie doughnuts and tartlets, with frosting that is yogurt-based,” Chris says. The company also has seasonal treats and flavors, so it’s entirely possible to gift one’s dog with a baseball or birthday cake-shaped treat. Stove Dog even has gifts for the most special dog occasion. “We have ‘Celebration Cupcakes’ that our customers like to buy for a dog’s birthday, or when their puppy graduates from dog obedience school,” Dan says. “Dogs should be able to celebrate milestones just like we do.” And cat owners shouldn’t feel left out either; Chris has a special Chicken Liver Brownie recipe that has been a proven hit with all felines. Stove Dog also stocks a small variety of all-natural, holistic dog and cat foods. These

dog foods range from fresh to frozen to freeze-dried, and all of them are rated high in the Whole Dog Journal, a monthly magazine that informs dog owners about natural care and training. In addition to food and treats for dogs and cats, Stove Dog also stocks a comprehensive variety of anything and everything a dog or cat owner might need – food and water bowls, leashes, collars, dog beds, books on obedience, and more. The store welcomes four-legged friends, and a colorful sign on the front door tells dogs to bring their owners in to browse. “Dogs are shoppers, for sure!” laughs Chris. “There’s a lot of sniffing that goes on – they check out every bowl on the floor. I think they’re hoping there might be a treat in one of them.” The store also features a bathhouse where pet owners can either wash their dogs themselves or have Dan professionally groom them. Chris says that two things often surprise people when they stop in at Stove Dog, the first being how reasonable the prices are. “Often times, organic or all-natural pet items are expensive, but we really try to keep our prices moderate,” she says. Bags of treats are between $7 and $9, and can last quite a while. The larger treats begin at $3. The second item is the treats themselves. “Many people come in and see that we offer frozen dog treats, or they see the little tartlets in the case and are surprised that we offer things like this, or that the treats look that fancy,” Chris says. “But personally, I don’t think our pets deserve anything less.” Stove Dog Bakery is located at 230 Michigan Street in Sturgeon Bay. For more information on Stove Dog and its products, visit their Web site at www.doorcountydogs.com or call (920) 746-9000.

Stove Dog Bakery’s Web site, www.doorcountydogs.com, offers more than just information about their treats and store. “We get asked by people who come into the store for advice on the best place to take their dogs while they’re on vacation,” Dan Saurer says. “So we decided to incorporate that into our Web site.” On it is a list of Chris-and-Dan-recommended places that one can take their dog to walk, swim, and play, along with a list of dog-friendly establishments in Door County. General Manager, Karl Bradley, behind the bar. doorcountyliving.com

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Kick Coffee 148 N. 3rd Ave. (920)746-1122 ${BLT Ladder House 38 S. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-3315 $$ ÂJ L D (T Mandarin Garden 512 S. Lansing Ave. (920) 746-9122 $$ BW L D T Mill Supper Club 4128 Hwy 42/57 N (920) 743-5044 $$ ÂD (T My Sister’s Café 325 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-1991 $BL

The Nautical Inn 234 Kentucky St (920) 743-3399 www.andysnautical.com $$ Â D ({ T Neighborhood Pub & Grill 1407 Egg Harbor Rd. (920) 743-7018 ÂL D T The Nightingale Supper Club 1541 Egg Harbor Rd. (920) 743-5593 $ ÂDT Sage Restaurant & Wine Bar 136 N 3rd Ave. (920) 746-1100 $$$$ BW { D (T Scaturo’s Café 19 Green Bay Rd. (920) 746-8727 $ BW { J B L D (T Schartner’s on the Shore 4680 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 743-2421 $$ ÂJ D (T Sonny’s Pizzeria 43 N. Madison

(920) 743-2300 $$ L D BW J(T Stone Harbor 107 N 1st St. (920) 746-0700 www.stoneharbor-resort.com $$$ Â{ J B L D (T Stone Harbor’s full-service restaurant & pub offers beautiful water views for elegant yet casual dining. With an allyou-can-eat lunch salad bar seven days a week and live entertainment every weekend, you’re sure to have a great experience here at Stone Harbor. Sunset Grill 3810 Rileys Point Rd. (920) 824-5130 www.sunsetgrilldoorcounty.com $$ Â{ J D (T Trattoria Dal Santo 147 N. 3rd Ave. (920) 743-6100 $$ BW D (T

Egg Harbor Bistro at Liberty Square 7755 Hwy. 42

Classic Cuisine • Spectacular Sunsets Locally Owned Family Restaurant! Serving omelette wraps, fresh bakery, and coffee

Open Daily 7am

Across from the Sister Bay Marina

Dinner from 5:00 p.m.

Open Nightly Reservations accepted 920-854-9419

located on Hwy 42 in Ephraim, just south of the beach

Visit our website for our monthly on-line cooking class

920-854-6621 www.goodeggsdoorcounty.com

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• • • DINING IN DOOR COUNTY (920) 868-4848 www.libertysquareshops.com $$$ BW { B L D (T Bistro 42 5806 Hwy 42 (920) 743-9463 $$$ BW D ( T J Boneyard Texas Pit BBQ 6214 Hwy 42 (920) 746-0093 Carlsville Roadhouse 5790 Hwy 42 (920) 743-4966 ÂLDT Carrington Pub & Grill 7643 Hillside Rd. (920) 868-3205 www.thelandmarkresort.com $$ Â{ J D (T Casey’s BBQ and Smokehouse 7855 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3038 $$$ ÂJ L D (T Chocolate Chicken 7821 Horseshoe Bay Rd (920) 868-3983 www.chocolatechicken.com ${L

Cupola Café 7836 Hwy. 42 (920) 868-2354 ${ Door County Coffee & Tea Co. 5773 Hwy 42 (920) 743 8930 ${LT Double Delites 7818 Hwy. 42 (920) 868-2221 $T Greens N Grains Deli 7821 Hwy. 42 (920) 868-9999 $LT The Greens N Grains Deli features a wonderful selection of vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and raw food cuisine. In its second year, the new deli also highlights a juice bar with freshly-pressed veggie juices, fruit smoothies, healthy bakery, a tea bar and organic coffees. Harbor Landing 7829 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2077 $ BW { L D T

Hof Restaurant at the Alpine Resort 7715 Alpine Rd (920) 868-3000 www.alpineresort.com $$$ Â { J B D ( Log Den 6626 Hwy. 42 (920) 868-3888 www.thelogden.com $$ Â {J L D (T Mojo Rosa’s Cantina 7778 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3247 $ÂL D (T The Orchards at Egg Harbor 8125 Heritage Lake Rd. (920) 868-2483 orchardsateggharbor.com $BLÂ Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicrobrew.com $$$ Â{ J L D Trio Restaurant Hwy 42 & County E (920) 868-2090 $$$ BW D Country French/Italian cui-

sine served in a casual bistro atmosphere nightly May - October. Enhance your dinner with a selection from our international wine & beer list. Finish with one of our homemade desserts. Limited reservations available for large parties.

Square Rigger Galley 6332 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2404 $ ÂB L

The Village Café 7918 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3342 $ BW { J B L T

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Jacksonport

AC Tap 9322 Highway 57 (920) 839-2426 $ Â{ L D T

JJ’s of Jacksonport Hwy V and Hwy 57 (920) 823-2700 $ ÂJ L D { T Travel to the Jacksonport for the liveliest setting around! Enjoy Mexican and American dishes and fantastic margaritas – a local favorite! Mike’s Port Pub & Grill 6269 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2081 $ ÂJ D T Mr. G’s Supper Club 5890 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2112 $$ ÂJ D T

Town Hall Bakery 6225 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2116 $B

The Blue Ox 8051 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2771 $ ÂL D T Coyote Roadhouse 3026 County E (920) 839-9192 $$ Â{ J L D T Custard’s Last Stan 8080 Hwy. 57 (920) 839-9999 ${

A Door County Tradition

Great Food Ice Cream Specialites Home-Brewed Draft Root Beer

Family Atmosphere Open Daily 11a.m. May-October

9990 Water Street - Ephraim, WI 54211

(920) 854-2041

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Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner ~ Traditional Fish Boils Overnight Lodging Main Street Fish Creek Toll free: 800-625-8813 Local: 920-868-3517 www.whitegull.com doorcountyliving.com

• • • DINING IN DOOR COUNTY Espresso Lane 8037 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2647 ${BLT

Pen Pub County Hwys A & E (920) 839-2141 $ Â{ L D T

Florian II Supper Club 8048 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2361 $$ Â J B D

Highland Club at Maxwelton Braes 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2321 www.maxwelton-braes.com $ ÂL D (T

Restaurant Saveur 8041 Hwy. 57 (920) 839-2708 $$$$ ÂJ L D (T Our cuisine draws from flavors from around the world with strong Latin influences and a foundation based on classic French technique. From South American churrasco to Italian Osso Buco, we truly endeavor to offer an experience that awakens your palate and excites your senses. Our wine list features hand-picked wines from around the world with strong emphasis on Chile and Argentina. We also offer a full bar with specialty items such as Brazilian cachaca, Chilean pisco, and house-made sangria. It is with utmost sincerity that we welcome you to our establishment.

P C Junction Corner of A & E (920) 839-2048 $ BW { J L D (T

Sandpiper Restaurant 8166 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2528 ${J BL

Gordon Lodge Restaurant & Bar 1420 Pine Dr. (920) 839-2331 www.gordonlodge.com $$$$ ÂB L D ( Harbor Fish Market & Grille 8080 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9999 www.harborfishmarket-grille. com $$$$ ÂB L D (T

Weisgerber’s Cornerstone Pub & Restaurant 8123 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9001 $$ ÂJ L D T Yum Yum Tree 8054 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2993 $LD

Fish Creek Alexander’s Contemporary Cuisine & Fine Spirits 3667 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3532 www.alexandersofdoorcounty.com $$$ Â{ J D (T Specializing in seafood, steaks, contemporary cuisine, catering and special events (fully licensed and insured). Bar opens at 4:00pm, dinner at 5:00pm. Sunday brunch starting at 9:30am. Bayside Tavern Main St. (920) 868-3441 $ ÂL D T For an unpredictably great time, visit Fish Creek’s favorite tavern. Serving cocktails, beer and our famous Bay-

Eclectic World Cuisine Lunch & Dinner Closed Mondays

8041 Hwy. 57 Baileys Harbor 839-2708 2) Usewww.restaurantsaveur.com the Mission ad that has the pic

the porch, but change the text on the l read:

A Door County Favorite for Over 20 Years Open for Dinner Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 5 pm Sunday Brunch beginning Mother's Day (9:30 am to 1:30 pm) Lunch Daily beginning Memorial Day Weekend

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• • • DINING IN DOOR COUNTY side Coffee. Our short-order menu features hearty homemade soups, sandwiches, burgers, home-made pizza, Friday fish fry and Smilin’ Bob’s Chili. Open daily, year round! Blue Horse Bistro & Espresso 4158 Main St. (920) 868-1471 ${BLT Cooper’s Corner Corner of Main St. and Hwy 42 (920) 868-2667 $$ ÂJ LD{ T The Cookery, Inc 4135 S. Main St. (920) 868-3634 www.cookeryfishcreek.com $$ BW J B L D T Offering a fresh twist on classic dishes, The Cookery’s menu features entrées prepared from start to finish in the restaurant’s kitchen. Lunch and dinner are prepared with fresh, local (when available) ingredients and served daily. Saturday and Sunday brunch menu featuring whole wheat

oatmeal pancakes, house made biscuits and jam, and omelets with seasonal ingredients. Outdoor porch seating available. Waterview wine bar offering light fare and desserts. Certified by Travel Green Wisconsin. English Inn 3713 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3076 $$$ ÂJ D (T Randy and Lisa Daubner (former owners of Voight’s Supper Club) cordially invite you to enjoy Olde World Class with traditional supper club portions at The English Inn. “A door county dining tradition.” Open year round. Gibraltar Grill 3993 Main St. (920) 868-4745 $$ BW J { L D T Greenwood Supper Club Intersection of County A & County F (920) 839-2451 $$$ ÂJ D T Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel 4020 Hwy. 42 (920) 868-2999

$$ { BW J B L D( Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel is a family owned and operated business located at the entrance to Peninsula State Park. Since 1998, we have been offering breakfast (all day), lunch and dinner along with free wireless Internet, vegetarian options, and beautiful outdoor patio dining. We are also pet friendly and kid friendly. Reservations accepted. Luna Café 4192 Main St. (920) 868-1133 www.lunacafe.com $ Mr. Helsinki 4164 Hwy 42 (920) 868-9898 $$$ BW D T Not Licked Yet 4054 Main St. (920) 868-2617 {LD Pelletier’s Restaurant Founder’s Square (920) 868-3313 $$ BW { J B L D (

Country French & Italian Hwy 42 Egg Harbor • (920) 868-2090

Joe Jo’s Pizza and Gelato

Specializing in home-made thin crust pizza made to order Put your taste buds to the test: offering 18 gelato ﬂavors!

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(920) 854-5455 • 10420 Water St. • North Ephraim 88 Door County Living Early Summer 2010

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• • • DINING IN DOOR COUNTY Stillwater’s by the Bay 4149 Main St. (920) 868-9962 ${JLD( Sonny’s Pizzeria 3931 Hwy 42 (920)868-1900 ${LDÂ( Summertime Restaurant 1 N Spruce St. (920) 868-3738 www.thesummertime.com $$$ ÂJ BLD{ (T Villaggio’s 4240 Juddville Rd. (920) 868-4646 $$ BW { J D ( Whistling Swan 4192 Main St. www.whistlingswan.com (920) 868-3442 $$$$ BW D (T White Gull Inn 4225 Main St. (920) 868-3517 www.whitegullinn.com $$$$ BW J B L D (T Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and traditional fish boils – picture yourselves on our patio, watching freshly caught Lake Michigan whitefish being cooked before your eyes over an open bonfire. Breakfast open to the public, as are lunch and dinner – our chefs use only the freshest of produce and other ingredients, preparing each meal carefully to order. Wild Tomato Wood Fired Pizza and Grille 4023 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3095 $ BW { J L D Newly re-opened in 2009, the Wild Tomato Wood-Fired Pizza and Grille (formerly Digger’s Pizza) is a fresh new restaurant with not only great wood-fired pizzas, salads, sandwiches and burgers, but

also a new attitude toward giving to the community, using sustainable products and creating an affordable restaurant using the best ingredients available.

Ephraim Chef’s Hat 9998 Pioneer Lane (920) 854-7081 $$ {JB L D Good Eggs South Ephraim (920) 854-6621 ${BL Good Eggs: You are one! Breakfast cabana across from the water in south Ephraim. Joe Jo’s 10420 Water St. (920) 854-5455 $JLDT Specializing in home-made thin crust pizza made to order. Put your taste buds to the test – offering 18 gelato flavors! Leroy’s Waterstreet Coffee 9922 Hwy 42 (920) 854-4044 ${BLT Old Post Ofﬁce Restaurant 10040 Water St. (920) 854-2734 www.edge-waterresort.com $BD( Second Story Restaurant 10018 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2371 www.ephraimshores.com $$ J B L D ( Summer Kitchen 10425 Water St. (920) 854-2131 $$ { J B L D Wilson’s Restaurant 9990 Water St. (920) 854-2041

${JLD Wilson’s Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor has been located in the heart of Ephraim since 1906. A classic Door County landmark that possesses the enchantment to take even the youngest visitors back in time with its old-fashioned soda fountain and ice cream specialties, home-brewed draft root beer, flame broiled burgers and juke boxes playing the classics.

Sister Bay Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant 10698 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-2626 $$ BW J B L D T Base Camp Coffee Bar 10904 Hwy 42 (920) 854-5724 ${BT Carroll House 2445 S. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-7997 $JBL DC Deli 10663 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-4514 $ BW { J L D ( Door County Bakery 10048 Hwy. 57 (920) 854-1137 www.doorcountybakery.com ${ BL T Door County Ice Cream Factory 11051 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9693 ${JLDT Drink Coffee 10647 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-1155 ${BLT Fred & Fuzzy’s Waterfront Bar & Grill 10620 Little Sister Rd. (920) 854-6699

www.LittleSisterResort.com $ Â{ J L D

(920) 854-9590 $ Â{ J L D T

Husby’s Food & Spirits 10641 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-2624 $ Â{ J B L D T

Patio Motel & Restaurant 10440 Orchard Dr. (920) 854-1978 ${LD

The Inn At Kristofer’s 10716 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-9419 www.innatkristofers.com $$$$ BW D (T The Inn at Kristofer’s offers waterfront fine dining at its best. Situated at the north end of the picturesque village of Sister Bay adjacent to the scenic Sister Bay Marina, patrons can take full advantage of the spectacular Door County sunsets over the waters of Green Bay as they enjoy the restaurant’s exceptional fine dining cuisine. Featuring Midwestern dishes inspired by French culinary traditions. JJ’s/La Puerta Restaurant 10961 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-4513 $ Â{ J L D T Travel to the north end of Sister Bay for the liveliest setting around! Enjoy Mexican and American dishes and fantastic margaritas – a local favorite! Mission Grille Intersection of Hwy 42 & 57 (920) 854-9070 www.missiongrille.com $$$$ Â{ J L D (T Exceptional cuisine and fine spirits, Gourmet Magazine Selection, Wine Spectator Award past 11 years. Moretti’s 10649 N. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-6610 $ BW { J L D T Northern Grill & Pizza 10573 Country Walk Dr.

Sarah’s Snack Shop Hwy 42, Cedar Shops (920) 854-5977 Sister Bay Bowl 10640 N Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-2841 $$$ ÂJ L D T Famous for its Friday Night Perch Fry and its Prime Rib, this throwback to yesteryear is located in the heart of Sister Bay. Open year round, the Sister Bay Bowl features a full dining room, grill and bar, and Northern Door’s only bowling alley. Sister Bay Café 10667 N Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-2429 www.solbjorg.com $$ BW { J B L D T Sub Express at Sister Bay Mobil 2579 S. Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-6700 $ {JB L DT It’s a restaurant with gas pumps! Daily lunch specials, fresh subs, pizza, breakfast bagels, muffin sandwiches, smoothies, and more. Drivethru service available. The Waterfront 10961 Bay Shore Dr. (920) 854-5491 $$$$ { ÂD( T “The Waterfront” features upscale elegant dining overlooking the beautiful Sister Bay waterfront. Our menu features Door County’s finest steaks, and innovative fresh fish and seafood. Look for The Waterfront when you’re in Door County. It promises to be a memorable dining experience!

he English Inn We help you succeed in your kitchen

The Main Course To y s f o r C o o k s 920.868.2424

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A Top of the Hill Shop Hwy 42 and Cty F - Fish Creek Open year ‘round. Seasonal hours. toysforcooks.com

BAR & Dining Room Open THE ENGLISH INN Daily: May - November $1.00 OFF Weekends: December - April Any Dinner or Special (Nightly: Christmas - New Year’s Eve) NIGHTLY FEATURES Plus Full Menu Including Over 60 Entrees. Beef Wellington served Nightly $16.95 Friday Night Fish Fry: All-you-can-eat Perch, Whitefish, Walleye, Cod, Bluegill, or Smelt 3713 Hwy. 42 Fish Creek • Call For Reservations • Gift Certiﬁcates Available 920-868-3076 •theenglishinn.com Early Summer 2010 Door County Living 89

Opening April 29!

Open Daily

FOR AN UNPREDIC TABLY

6:59 am to 9:01 pm!

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• vegetarian items • breakfast all day • outdoor patio

• reservations welcome • children’s menu FREE s • espresso bar wireles t interne

Home of the Bayside Coffee and

Smilin’ Bob’s Chili DOWNTOWN FISH CREEK (920) 868-3441

Located at the Fish Creek entrance to the Peninsula State Park (920) 868-2999 • www.juliesmotel.com relax@juliesmotel.com

door county’s premier distribution service

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Mink River Basin 12010 Hwy 42 Ellison Bay (920) 854-2250 $$ ÂL D (T Rowleys Bay Restaurant 1041 Hwy ZZ Rowleys Bay (920) 854-2385 www.wagontrail.com $$ Â B L D ( T. Ashwell’s 11976 Mink River Rd. (920) 854-4306 $$$$ Â{ J D (T The Viking Grill 12029 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2998 door-county-fish-boil.com $ ÂJ B L D T

Gills Rock/ Northport GT Coffee 12625 Highway 42 (920) 854-9907    www.GalleryTen.com $BLT Northport Pier Restaurant 215 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9911 www.wisferry.com BL Shoreline Restaurant 12747 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2950 www.doorcountydining.com/shoreline $$$ Â J L D Start at the top of the county in Gills Rock. Come to the Shoreline Restaurant, where every meal is served with a view overlooking the western waters of Green Bay. We serve lunch

Washington Island Albatross N7W1910 Lobdells Point Rd. (920) 847-2203 Bread and Water 1275 Main Rd. (920) 847-2400 ${BLDT Cellar Restaurant Main Rd. (920) 847-2655 $$ { J L D (T Deer Run Golf Course and Resort Main & Michigan Rds. (920) 847-2017 Fiddler’s Green 1699 Jackson Harbor Rd. (920) 847-2610 $ BW { L D T

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and dinner from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm, May through October, featuring whitefish and nightly specials. Along with our numerous whitefish specialties, we have many other nightly features.

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Full Bar

920.854.2950 Sorry No Reservations

Open Daily For Lunch & Dinner Full Bar

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LaPuerta of Sister

Bay

Hwy. 42, North end of Sister Bay 920.854.4513 OPEN 5:00 Tuesday-Thursday 11:00 Friday-Saturday Closed Sunday & Monday

Jacksonport

6301 Hwy. 57, Jacksonport 920.823.2700 OPEN 5:00 Tuesday-Wednesday 11:00 Thursday-Saturday Closed Sunday-Monday

MEXICAN & AMERICAN FOOD

Karly’s Bar 1265 Main Rd. (920) 847-2655 $$ Â{J L DT

~ World Renowned Margaritas ~

www.jjswaterfront.com

Nelsen’s Hall Bitters Pub W19N1205 Main Rd. (920) 847-2496 $ Â{ L D T Sailor’s Pub 1475 South Shore Dr. (920) 847-2105 $$$ Â{ D (

InnovatIve Menu • Full Bar • extensIve WIne lIst tapas Wednesdays • pasta thursdays

Sunset Resort 889 Old West Harbor Rd. (920) 847-2531 $B Washington Hotel 354 Range Line Rd. (920) 847-2169 $$$$ BW { L D (

open Wednesday through saturday at 5 pm 10947 n. Bay shore drive, sister Bay 920.854.5491 reservations appreciated www.jjswaterfront.com

have you been to our wine bar?

serving great small plates like bison sliders with cabernet onions, bacon wrapped dates, and a door county cherry and apple salad. and that’s not to mention the wine flights, wisconsin microbrews, desserts and espresso. all with a great view. lunch & dinner daily / breakfast on weekends / wine bar 4135 main street / fish creek / 920.868.3634 / cookeryfishcreek.com doorcountyliving.com

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lodgingGuide • • • STAYING IN DOOR COUNTY

Sturgeon Bay Along The Beach B & B 3122 Lake Forest Park Road (920) 746-0476 Bed & Breakfast $105 - $135 Amenities: Cable, Full Breakfast, Waterfront AmericInn Lodge & Suites of Sturgeon Bay 622 S Ashland Ave (920) 743-5898 Hotel/Motel $59-$175 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Pets With Approval, Meeting Rooms The Barbican 132 N 2nd Ave (920) 743-4854 Bed & Breakfast $115-$220 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Cable/Movies Bay Shore Inn 4205 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-4551 Resort $79-$309 Amenities: Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/ Movies, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Tennis, Boating, Fishing, Playground, Bike Trails, Meeting Rooms Beach Harbor Resort 3662 N Duluth Ave (920) 743-3191 Resort/Hotel/Motel $69-$210 Amenities: Smoke Free, Waterfront/Beach, Jet Ski & Bike Rentals, Cottages & Rooms Black Walnut Guest House 454 N 7th Ave (920) 743-8892 Bed & Breakfast $135 - $145 Amenities: Whirlpool,

Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free Bridgeport Resort 50 W Larch St (920) 746-9919 Resort $69-$299 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, HighSpeed Internet, Smoke Free, Waterfront/Beach, Wheelchair Accessible, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Indoor Pool/ Water Park, Sauna, Tennis, Fishing The Chadwick Inn 25 N 8th Ave (920) 743-2771 Bed & Breakfast $110-$135 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Movies Chal A Motel 3910 Hwy 42/57 (920) 743-6788 Hotel/Motel $34-$64 Amenities: Non-Smoking Rooms, Museum Chanticleer Guest House 4072 Cherry Rd (920) 746-0334 Bed & Breakfast $120-$275 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast Cherry Hills Lodge & Golf Course 5905 Dunn Rd (920) 743-4222 Resort $89-$155 Amenities: Restaurant, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free, Outdoor Pool, Golf Course, AAA Official Appointment Program Member The Cliff Dwellers 3540 N Duluth Ave (920) 743-4260 Resort 85-$230 Amenities: Whirlpool,

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Kitchen Facilities, Cable/ Movies, Waterfront, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Boating, Fishing, Bike Trails, Townhouses, Cottages & Rooms Colonial Gardens B & B 344 N 3rd Ave (920) 746-9192 Bed & Breakfast $100-$175 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Full Breakfast Comfort Inn 923 Green Bay Rd (920) 743-7846 Hotel/Motel $89-$145 Amenities: Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Internet, Indoor Pool, Microwaves & Refrigerators Garden Gate B & B 434 N 3rd Ave (920) 743-9618 Bed & Breakfast $50-$120 Amenities: Full Breakfast, Cable/DVD/CD, Smoke Free Glidden Lodge Beach Resort 4676 Glidden Dr (920) 746-3900 Resort $140-$375 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Waterfront/ Beach, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Tennis, Meeting Rooms Hearthside Inn B & B 2136 Taube Rd (920) 746-2136 Bed & Breakfast $65-$750 Amenities: Full Breakfast, TV/VCR, Country Dance Barn Holiday Motel 29 N 2nd Ave (920) 743-5571 Hotel/Motel $39-$70 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, Refrigerators, Cable, Pets with Approval

The Inn At Cedar Crossing 336 Louisiana St (920) 743-4200 Bed & Breakfast $75 - $190 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Restaurant, Continental Breakfast Cable/Movies, Smoke Free Inn The Pines 3750 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-9319 Bed & Breakfast $120 - $150 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free Little Harbor Inn 5100 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-3789 Bed & Breakfast $120 - $175 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free, Waterfront The Pembrooke Inn 410 N 4th St (920) 746-9776 Bed & Breakfast $80-$120 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free Quiet Cottage B & B 4608 Glidden Dr (920) 743-4526 Bed & Breakfast $180-$225 Amenities: Full Breakfast TV/VCR/DVD/CD, High Speed Internet The Reynolds House B&B 111 S 7th Ave (920) 746-9771 Bed & Breakfast $69 - $160 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free Sand Bay Beach Resort & Suites 3798 Sand Bay Point Rd (920) 743-5731 Resort $85-$299

Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Kitchen or Snack Bar, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Game Room, Fish Cleaning Facilities, Coin Operated Laundry, Meeting Facilities, Library Lounge Sawyer House B & B 101 S Lansing Ave (920) 746-1640 Bed & Breakfast $90-$200 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, TV/CD Scofield House B & B 908 Michigan St (920) 743-7727 Bed & Breakfast $84 - $220 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free Snug Harbor Resort 1627 Memorial Dr (920) 743-2337 Resort $50-$169 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Boating, Fishing, Water Skiing, Playground, Cottages & Rooms, Pets With Approval Stone Harbor Resort & Conference Center 107 N 1st Ave (920) 746-0700 Resort $99-$501 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Boating, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Snow Shoeing, Meeting Rooms, Business Traveler Services Stroh Haus B & B 608 Kentucky St (920) 743-2286 Bed & Breakfast $60

Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, Outdoor Swimming Pool, Wedding Garden, Gathering Room Westwood Shores Waterfront Resort 4303 Bay Shore Dr (920) 746-4057 Resort $79-$289 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Wheelchair Accessible, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Boating, Fishing, ATV Trails, Snowmobiling, Meeting Rooms, Business Traveler Services White Lace Inn 16 N 5th Ave (920) 743-1105 Bed & Breakfast $70 - $135 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Wheelchair Accessible White Pines Victorian Lodge 114 N 7th Ave (920) 746-8264 Bed & Breakfast $85-$150 Amenities: Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Cable. Certified Green, Chemical and Fragrance Free

Egg Harbor Alpine Resort 7715 Alpine Rd (920) 868-3000 Resort $70-$186 Amenities: Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Kitchen Facilities, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront/ Beach, Outdoor Pool, Tennis, Boating, Fishing, Golf Course, Playground, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Cottages & Rooms, Meeting Rooms

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STAYING IN DOOR COUNTY • • • Lodging facilities are listed in alphabetical order by town. Information is subject to change. We encourage readers to contact these establishments for more specific information. Inclusion in this directory should not be considered an unqualified endorsement by Door County Living. Innkeepers are encouraged to e-mail us with up-to-date information at: lodging@doorcountyliving.com. The Ashbrooke 7942 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3113 Resort $99-$210 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Sauna Bay Point Inn 7933 Hwy 42 (800) 707-6660 Resort $225-$259 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Meeting Rooms Cape Cod Motel 7682 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3271 Hotel/Motel $69-$79 Amenities: TV/ Movies, Refrigerator, Playground The Cornerstone Suites 6960 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3005 Resort $130-$220 Amenities: Whirlpool, Full kitchen, Deck Door County Lighthouse Inn B & B 4639 Orchard Rd (920) 868-9088 Bed & Breakfast $105-$175 Amenities: Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Private Deck Egg Harbor Lodge 7965 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3115 Resort $100-$325 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Non-Smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Tennis The Feathered Star 6202 Hwy 42 (920) 743-4066 Bed & Breakfast

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$110-$130 Amenities: Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, TV/VCR, Refrigerator, Wheelchair Accessible, Pets Allowed The Landing 7741 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3282 Resort $61-$233 Amenities: Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/ Movies, Smoke Free, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Bike Trails, Snowmobiling Landmark Resort 7643 Hillside Road (920) 868-3205 Resort $89-$240 Amenities: Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Balcony/Patio, Steam Room, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Tennis, Shufﬂeboard, Playground, Game Room, Fitness Center, DVD/TV, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Wireless Internet, Library, Lounge, Restaurant, Laundry, Meeting Rooms Lull-Abi Inn of Egg Harbor 7928 Egg Harbor Rd (866) 251-0749 Hotel/Motel $89-$189 Amenities: Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, NonSmoking Rooms, Bike Trail Mariner Motel & Cottages 7505 Mariner Rd (920) 868-3131 Resort $60-$140 Amenities: Kitchen Facilities, Smoke Free, Outdoor Pool, Waterfront/ Beach, Walking Trails, Bikes, Canoes and Row Boats, Cottages & Rooms Meadow Ridge 7573 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3884 Resort $130-$350 Amenities: Fireplace,

Whirlpool, Indoor/Outdoor Aquatic Center, Exercise Room, Recreation Center Newport Resort 7888 Church St (920) 868-9900 Resort $79-$257 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, High-Speed Internet, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Meeting Rooms Shallows Resort 7353 Horseshoe Bay Rd (920) 868-3458 Resort $65-$350 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, High-Speed Internet, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Outdoor Pool, Tennis, Boating, Fishing, Playground, Bike Trails, Cottages & Rooms, Pets With Approval, AAA Official Appointment Program Member

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Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2767 Bed & Breakfast $69 - $129 Amenities: Restaurant, Non-Smoking Rooms

Jacksonport Innlet Motel 6259 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2499 Hotel/Motel $50-$150 Amenities: Whirlpool, Restaurant, Lounge/ Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible, Snowmobiling Square Rigger Lodge & Galley 6332 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2404 Hotel/Motel

Awaken to the sound of waves lapping the shore. Linger over breakfast as the morning light glistens on the water. Kayak the harbor, bike to a lighthouse. Fifteen guest rooms each with in-room whirlpool, fireplace, balcony & a view of the harbor. Romance & relaxation are yours! Visit our website for honeymoon packages and virtual tours. On the shore of Baileys Harbor Door County, Wisconsin

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• • • STAYING IN DOOR COUNTY $75-$250 Amenities: Whirlpool, Restaurant, Lounge/ Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront/Beach, Sauna, Cottages & Rooms Whitefish Bay Farm 3831 Clark Lake Rd (920) 743-1560 Bed & Breakfast $115 - $125 Amenities: Full Breakfast, Smoke Free

Baileys Harbor Baileys Harbor Ridges Resort & Lakeview Suite 8252 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2127 Resort $52-$210 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible, Playground, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Snow Shoeing, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Cottages & Rooms, Meeting Rooms, Pets with Approval Baileys Harbor Yacht Club Resort 8151 Ridges Rd (920) 839-2336 Resort $79-$249 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Boating, Fishing, Tennis, Playground, Bike Trails Baileys Sunset Motel & Cottages 8404 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2218 Resort $38-$120 Amenities: Kitchen Facilities, Non-Smoking Rooms, Playground, Hiking Trails, Cottages & Rooms Beachfront Inn at Baileys Harbor 8040 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2345 Hotel/Motel $67-$169

Amenities: In-Room Coffee, TV, Internet, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront/Beach, Indoor Pool/Water Park, Sauna, Pets with Approval Blacksmith Inn 8152 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9222 Bed & Breakfast $115-$275 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast Gordon Lodge Resort 1420 Pine Dr (920) 839-2331 Resort $130-$250 Amenities: Whirlpool, Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Cable/Movies, Waterfront/ Beach, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Boating, Fishing, Tennis The Inn at Windmill Farm 3829 Fairview Rd (920) 868-9282 Bed & Breakfast $110-$125 Amenities: Fireplace & Library, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free Journey’s End Motel 8271 Journey’s End Ln (920) 839-2887 Hotel/Motel $50-$150 Amenities: Fireplace, Kitchen Facilities, Limited Food Service, Non-Smoking Rooms, Cottages & Rooms, Pets With Approval Kangaroo Lake Resort 2799 North Kangaroo Lake Dr. (920) 839-2341 Resort $125-$175 Amenities: Cottages, Kitchens, Smoke Free, Water/beach, Fireplaces, Playground, Fishing, Boating Maxwelton Braes Golf Resort 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2321 Resort $80-$115 Amenities: Whirlpool, Restaurant, Bar/Lounge, Outdoor Pool, Golf Course, Banquet Hall, Cottages & Rooms

The New Yardley Inn 3360 County E (920) 839-9487 Bed & Breakfast $105-$150 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast Orphan Annie’s 7254 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9156 Hotel/Motel $95-$125 Amenities: Kitchen Facilities, Wheelchair Accessible, Smoke Free The Rushes Resort Western Shore of Kangaroo Lake (920) 839-2730 Resort $139-$295 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Waterfront, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Boating, Fishing, Tennis, Cross Country Skiing, Playground Square Rigger Harbor 7950 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2016 Hotel/Motel $90-$120 Amenities: Microwave, Refrigerator, Water View

Fish Creek AppleCreek Resort Hwy 42 & F (920) 868-3525 Resort $52 - $250 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, High-Speed Internet, Indoor Pool, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Cottages & Rooms By-The-Bay Motel Hwy 42 (920) 868-3456 Hotel/Motel $59-$155 Amenities: Smoke Free, Water View Cedar Court Inn 9429 Cedar St (920) 868-3361 Hotel/Motel $69-$325 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Outdoor Pool, Cottages & Rooms

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Evergreen Hill Condominium 3932 Evergreen Road (800) 686-6621 Resort $89-$204 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Kitchen, Cable/Movies/VCR, Smoke Free, Indoor Pool Fish Creek Motel & Cottages 9479 Spruce St (920) 868-3448 Hotel/Motel $58-$175 Amenities: Complimentary Coffee, Cable, Water View, Cottages & Rooms Harbor Guest House 9480 Spruce St (920) 868-2284 Resort $115-$275 Amenities: Fireplaces, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/ Movies, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Boating, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling Hilltop Inn Hwy 42 & County F (920) 868-3556 Resort $79-$199 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Restaurant, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/ Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling Homestead Suites 4006 Hwy 42 (800) 686-6621 Resort $75-$189 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Playground, Meeting Rooms Julie’s Park Café & Motel 4020 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2999 Hotel/Motel $49-$71 Amenities: Restaurant, Cable, Smoke Free, Pets Allowed, Trailer Parking

Little Sweden Vacation Resort Hwy 42 (920) 868-9950 Resort $175-$350 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Tennis, Playground, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Snow Shoeing, Cross Country Skiing Main Street Motel 4209 Main St (920) 868-2201 Hotel/Motel $49-$96 Amenities: Cable, Themed Rooms, Smoke Free Parkwood Lodge 3775 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2046 www.parkwoodlodge.com Resort $55-$217 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible, Indoor Pool, Tennis, Playground, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling Peninsula Park-View Resort W3397 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2633 Resort $49-$199 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, High-Speed Internet, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible, Outdoor Pool, Cottages & Rooms Settlement Courtyard Inn 9126 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3524 Resort $72-$224 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast, Kitchen Facilities, Lounge/Bar, Cable/ Movies, High-Speed Internet, Wheelchair Accessible, Smoke Free, Outdoor Pool, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Snow Shoeing, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling

Thorp House Inn & Cottages 4135 Bluff Ln (920) 868-2444 Bed & Breakfast $75-$215 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Breakfast, TV/ VCR, Cottages, Rooms & Beach House The Whistling Swan Hotel 4192 Main St (920) 868-3442 Bed & Breakfast $135 - $185 Amenities: Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, High-Speed Internet, Smoke Free White Gull Inn 4225 Main St (920) 868-3517 Bed & Breakfast $155-$295 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, Restaurant, Cable/ Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible

Ephraim Bay Breeze Resort 9844 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9066 Resort $53-$169 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront/Beach, Outdoor Pool, Cottages & Rooms Eagle Harbor Inn 9914 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2121 Bed & Breakfast $69-$237 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Kitchen Facilities, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Meeting Rooms Edgewater Resort 10040 Water Street (920) 854-2734 Resort $79-$419 Amenities: Whirlpool, Restaurant, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront/Beach, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Cottages & Rooms

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STAYING IN DOOR COUNTY • • • Ephraim Guest House 3042 Cedar St (920) 854-2319 Resort $75-$185 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free The Ephraim Inn 9994 Pioneer Lane (920) 854-4515 Bed & Breakfast $110-$195 Amenities: Full Breakfast, Smoke Free Ephraim Motel 10407 Hwy 42 (920) 854-5959 Hotel/Motel $45-$95 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Outdoor Pool, Playground Ephraim Shores 10018 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2371 Resort $75-$210 Amenities: Whirlpool, Restaurant, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Waterfront/ Beach, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Playground Evergreen Beach Resort 9944 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2831 Resort $75-$140 Amenities: Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront/Beach, Outdoor Pool, Playground French Country Inn of Ephraim 3052 Spruce Lane (920) 854-4001 Bed & Breakfast

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$65-$100 Amenities: Fireplace, Breakfast, Smoke Free, Common Area Harbor View Resort 9971 S Dane St (920) 854-2425 Resort $130-$185 Amenities: Fireplace, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Cottages & Rooms High Point Inn 10386 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9773 Resort $80-$328 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Meeting Rooms The Juniper Inn B & B N9432 Maple Grove Rd (920) 839-2629 Bed & Breakfast $85 - $195 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Breakfast, TV/VCR Lodgings at Pioneer Lane 9996A Pioneer Lane (800) 588-3565 Hotel/Motel $65-$175 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible Pine Grove Motel 10080 Hwy 42 (800) 292-9494 Hotel/Motel $91-$108 Amenities: Whirlpool, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair

Accessible, Waterfront/ Beach, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool Somerset Inn 10401 Hwy 42 (920) 854-1819 Resort $59-$169 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool Spruce Lane Lodge 3038 Spruce Lane (920) 854-7380 Hotel/Motel Amenities: Studio Suites with Kitchen Trollhaugen Lodge 10176 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2713 Hotel/Motel $67 -$155 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Breakfast, Kitchen Facilities, Smoke Free, Cottages & Rooms, Hiking Trail, Cable/DVD/ CD, AAA Approved, Log Cabin, Wi-Fi Village Green Lodge Cedar Street (920) 854-2515 Bed & Breakfast $85-$170 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast, Cable /Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Outdoor Pool Waterbury Inn 10321 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2821 Resort $85-$187 Amenities: Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/

Movies, Smoke Free, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Playground, Snowmobiling

Sister Bay Birchwood Lodge 10571 Hwy 57 (920) 854-7195 Resort $79-$219 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Tennis, Snowmobiling, Meeting Rooms Bluffside Motel 10641 Bluffside Ln (920) 854-2530 Hotel/Motel $39-$150 Amenities: Coffee & Doughnuts, Cable/TV, Refrigerator Century Farm Motel 10068 Hwy 57 (920) 854-4069 Hotel/Motel Amenities: Pets Allowed Church Hill Inn 2393 Gateway Dr (920) 854-4885 Resort $65-$174 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Full Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Meeting Rooms Coachlite Inn of Sister Bay 2544 S Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-5503 Hotel/Motel

$45-$125 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms Country House Resort 2468 Sunnyside Road (920) 854-4551 Resort $70-$330 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Limited Food Service, Continental Breakfast, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, High-Speed Internet, Non-Smoking Rooms, Wheelchair Accessible, Waterfront, Outdoor Pool, Tennis, Meeting Rooms Edge of Town Motel 11902 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2012 Hotel/Motel $40-$80 Amenities: Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Pets with Approval The Inn At Little Sister Hill 2715 Little Sister Hill Rd (920) 854-2328 Resort $79-$179 Amenities: Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Bike Trails Inn On Maple 2378 Maple Dr (920) 854-5107 Bed & Breakfast $85 - $125 Amenities: Full Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free Liberty Park Lodge 11034 Hwy 42

(920) 854-2025 Resort $65-$149 Amenities: Fireplace, Continental Breakfast, Cable TV, Use of Boat Slips, Beach, Game Room, Cottages & Rooms Little Sister Resort 10620 Little Sister Rd (920) 854-4013 Resort $75-$165 Amenities: Fireplace, Limited Food Service, Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/ Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Waterfront, Tennis, Boating, Fishing, Playground, Bike Trails, Cottages & Rooms, Meeting Rooms Moore Property Services 10553 Country Walk Drive (920) 854-1900 Resort $120-$455 Amenities: Kitchen Facilities, Cable/TV, NonSmoking Units, Waterview, Indoor Pool, Tennis, Washer/Dryer, Dock Nordic Lodge 2721 Nordic Dr (920) 854-5432 Resort $60-$160 Amenities: Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Indoor Pool, Bike Trails, Cottages & Rooms Open Hearth Lodge 2669 S Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-4890 Resort/Hotel/Motel $59-$125 Amenities: Whirlpool,

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• • • STAYING IN DOOR COUNTY Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Indoor Pool Patio Motel 10440 Orchard Dr (920) 854-1978 Hotel/Motel $42-$74 Amenities: Restaurant, Cable/Movies, Non-Smoking Rooms, Playground Pheasant Park Resort 130 Park Ln. (920) 854-7287 Resort $88-$274 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Kitchen, Smoke Free, Outdoor Pool, Indoor Pool, Exercise Facilities, Game Room, Children’s Play Area, Conference Room Scandinavian Lodge 10506 Hwy 57 (920) 854-7123 Resort $90-$260 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible, Fitness Cen-

ter, Indoor Pool, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Tennis, Playground, Bike Trails, Meeting Rooms Village View Inn 10628 N Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2813 Hotel/Motel $45-$95 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, Cable/Movies, All Non-Smoking Rooms , Refrigerators, Downtown Location Voyager Inn 10490 Hwy 57 (920) 854-4242 Hotel/Motel $55-$95 Amenities: Whirlpool, Cable/Movies, NonSmoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Sauna Woodenheart Inn 11086 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9097 Bed & Breakfast $85-$129 Amenities: Fireplace, Full Breakfast, TV Yacht Club at Sister Bay 10673 Regatta Way

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(866) 951-0974 Resort $107-500 Full kitchen, Fireplace, Indoor Pool, Fitness Center, Tennis, Marina, Waterfront, Hiking Trails, Non-smoking, Cable/ Movies

Maple Grove Motel of Gills Rock 809 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2587 Hotel/Motel $65-$85 Amenities: Non-Smoking Rooms, Pets with Approval

On The Rocks Cliffside Lodge 849 Wisconsin Bay Road (888) 840-4162 Hotel/Motel $305 - $775 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Full Kitchen, TV/VCR, Waterview

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The Parkside Inn 11946 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9050 Hotel/Motel $59 - $79 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, TV/VCR

Shoreline Waterfront Motel 12747 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2606 Hotel/Motel $59-$119 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Smoke Free, Waterfront

Anderson’s Retreat 12621 Woodland Drive (920) 854-2746 Resort Amenities: Swimming Pool, Fishing, Outdoor activities Cedar Grove Resort P.O. Box 73 (920) 854-2006 Resort $275-$2350 Amenities: Full Kitchen, Beach, Tennis, Boat Slip Rental, Exercise Room, Playground Hillside Inn of Ellison Bay 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2928 Hotel/Motel $48-$98 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Smoke Free, Wheelchair Accessible Hotel Disgarden B & B 12013 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9888 Bed & Breakfast $65 - $125 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, TV/VCR, Smoke Free, Waterfront

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Wagon Trail Resort & Conference Center 1041 Hwy ZZ (920) 854-2385 Resort $59-$359 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Restaurant, Kitchen Facilities, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Tennis, Boating, Fishing, Playground, Bike Trails, Hiking Trails, Cross Country Skiing, Snowmobiling, Cottages & Rooms, Meeting Rooms

Gills Rock Harbor House Inn 12666 Hwy 42 (920) 854-5196 Bed & Breakfast $69-$199 Amenities: Fireplace, Whirlpool, Continental Breakfast, Refrigerator, Microwave, Gas Grill, Satellite TV, Sauna, Bike Rental, Boat Ramp, Pets Allowed, Cottages & Rooms

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Bitter End Motel 1201 Main Rd. (920) 847-2496 Hotel/Motel Amenities: Refrigerator, Microwave, Restaurant Deer Run Golf Course and Resort 1885 Michigan Road (920) 847-2017 Resort $79-$100 Amenities: Continental Breakfast, Restaurant, Lounge/Bar, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Golf Course Dor Cros Inn 1922 Lobdell Pt. Rd. (920) 847-2126 Resort $78-$157 Amenities: Kitchenettes, Grills, Cabins & Rooms Findlay’s Holiday Inn 1861 The Inn Road

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(920) 847-2526 Hotel/Motel $95-$135 Amenities: Full-Service Restaurant Gibson’s West Harbor Resort & Cottages 2206 West Harbor Road (920) 847-2225 Resort $30-$90 Amenities: Waterfront, Family-Friendly, Rooms & Cottages Sunset Resort 889 Old West Harbor Rd. (920) 847-2531 Resort $94-$112 Amenities: Breakfast, Non-Smoking, Tennis, Waterfront/Beach, No Phone & TV in Rooms, Bonfire Pit, Nature Trail The Townliner 1930 Townline Rd (920) 847-2422 Hotel/Motel $64-$115 Amenities: Kitchen, Refrigerator, TV Viking Village Motel Main Rd. (920) 847-2551 Hotel/Motel $65-$120 Amenities: Fireplace, Kitchen Facilities, PetFriendly, Grills The Washington Hotel, Restaurant & Culinary School 354 Range Line Rd (920) 847-2169 Hotel/Motel $89-$179 Amenities: Fireplace, Continental Breakfast, Restaurant, Cooking School, Private 3-Bedroom Cottage on Property.

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Main Street Motel

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a stretch to say that Nedra Reinhard has hundreds of extended family members, and she met them all at her Fish Creek lodging establishment, The Main Street Motel. For nearly 30 years she has been welcoming guests to her motel, cleverly “hidden” in one of the best spots in town, just steps from Founder’s Square. When the motel first opened, the biggest challenge was having people find the place since most cars would turn right at the base of the Fish Creek hill. Slowly, people discovered her doorcountyliving.com

then five-room motel, by turning left, which has grown into the 30-room destination of today. Before opening The Main Street Motel, Nedra was busy working for her husband Bill’s business, Reinhard Plumbing; coowned the Edge of Park cottages with the Sohns for almost 10 years; and raised three children. It was her late son Paul who encouraged Nedra to get back into lodging. His reasons were simple. “He said to me, ‘Mom, you love to visit with people and you love to decorate,’ so I thought, perfect,” Nedra recalls.

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FEATURED ACCOMMODATION Wanting to set her motel apart from others, Nedra began using her flair for decorating to create individually-designed rooms and still does so. Each room has its own particular theme ranging from Light Houses to Bird Houses, Teddy Bears, Cherries, Apples, Geraniums and Roosters. There is not a detail that is overlooked; the themes are complete down to the tissue boxes, valences and light switches. Even the check-out signs are custom – Nedra’s mom hand painted them in watercolors. The guests are sometimes reluctant to try switching rooms once they find a theme that they like. However, there is one repeat customer from Milwaukee who deliberately chooses a different room on each visit in an attempt to find the best one. The results so far aren’t conclusive since she has changed her mind more than once. Nedra knows what amenities should become absolute necessities and firmly resists certain others. “I told myself that I would sell the motel the day I had to add phones to the rooms, but then we did. I said the same thing about coffee makers in the rooms, but eventually did add those, too.” Not ever wanting to be a Holiday Inn or a cookie cutter hotel, she wants to find the right balance of what people are really looking for. Instead of whirlpool tubs for relaxation, guests can walk down to nearby Sunset Park for a stunning view of the water. Guests can also enjoy the patio area which faces Cottage Row; there they can either log on to their laptops (a concession to modern convenience) or have a conversation. Where you will mostly see evidence of the antiquated and charming way things are done at the Main Street Motel is in the lobby. You can forget about seeing a slick computerized reservation system. All reservations are done by hand, in pencil no less. Nedra’s daughter, Deb Krause, an innkeeper herself at the Bay Breeze Resort in Ephraim, marvels at what she calls the Dinosaur Chart. A large white chart has the days of the month on one side and the rooms on the other and reservations are made and kept in this sim98 Door County Living Early Summer 2010

ple grid fashion. “My mom has been taking reservations like this for 30 years.” Nedra thinks it’s funny that Deb calls her system the Dinosaur Chart, saying, “I must look at that chart 35 times a day. I know some people think it’s crazy, but it works for me.” Not only does she keep all the dates straight, she has an uncanny ability to memorize her guests’ preferences for their favorite rooms. Those calling for reservations who have not yet been initiated into the Main Street Motel club naturally ask for a reservation confirmation number…to which the proprietress will reply, “Ah, sure. The reservation number is Nedra.” Since she handles all of the reservations and decorates all of the rooms, it is no surprise that she is there to personally receive her guests at check-in. When return guests enter the lobby, they expect to see Nedra behind the desk. After filling out the guest registration card (another blast from the past), there is time to catch up with her extended family. “One of the coolest things about having my place as long as I have is that I have met the next generation of people coming through the door. I really get to know my customers,” Nedra explains. As involved as Nedra is, she can’t run the 30-room motel on her own. She has a hard working, loyal staff who complement her efforts. The head of housekeeping, Diane Ray, has worked at Main Street Motel for 25 years. Diane’s husband Jim worked with Nedra for 20 years and still does lawn care. Her staff has heard Nedra’s philosophy many times through the seasons: “I always tell them, ‘I am only as good as you are.’” Those key words have helped the motel keep the same high standards as when they began.

ready bright from the full windows facing Main Street, is being remodeled. Customers will surely notice the spring green walls, the new carpeting and the new cabinetry. What will be more important though is that they see the familiar family photos of Bill, Nedra, Lori, Deb and Paul hanging in the same spot as always. Only then will it feel like they are being welcomed into their home away from home.

INFORMATION WEB SITE: www.mainstreetmoteldc.com ADDRESS: 4209 Main Street, Fish Creek, WI 54212 PHONE: (920) 868-2201

As the new season draws near, Nedra is in decorator mode once again. The lobby, aldoorcountyliving.com

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