DOOR COUNTY NEWSWIRE
Door Community Auditorium Hosts Door County Premiere of A Cherry Pie Christmas
Fish Creek, Wis. (October 1, 2025) – On Saturday, December 13 at 7 p.m., Destination Door County, Travel Wisconsin, and Door Community Auditorium team up to present the Door County public premiere screening of A Cherry Pie Christmas, a film […]
Read MoreAlpine Resort Hosts Rocktoberfest October 10-11
Egg Harbor, Wis. (October 1, 2025) – Alpine Resort is hosting its Rocktoberfest during Pumpkin Patch Festival weekend, October 10-11, featuring live music under the Alpine’s big outdoor waterfront tent to close out its Concerts in the Tent season. Legendary horn […]
Read MoreMidsummer’s Music Awarded NEA Grants for the Arts: Music!
Sister Bay, Wis. (October 1, 2025) – Midsummer’s Music is proud to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a “Grants for the Arts: Music” award of $15,000. This grant will support the […]
Read More100+WWC Next Giving Event October 27
Total awards of $786,000 over nearly 8 Years of Giving! Door County, Wis. (September 29, 2025) – The next quarterly Giving Event of the 100+WWC Giving Circle will be held in person at Donald & Carolyn Kress Pavilion Great Hall, […]
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UNCOMMONLY FINE WRITING ABOUT THE COUNTY
Readers Most Welcome Here
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. —Carlos Ruiz Zafón By Jerod Santek, Founding & Artistic Director, Write On, Door County Fall is full of exciting new opportunities at Write On, with many […]
Read MoreWhich Came First—the Trails or the Ales?
By Coggin Heeringa, Crossroads at Big Creek It started as sort of a joke: “Which came first—the trails or the ales?” That question was inspired by our upcoming fundraiser Trails and Ales, scheduled for Saturday, September 6, from 12:30–3:30 p.m. During this unique event, local […]
Read MoreJourney with Joan
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Things are changing—some quickly and some with glacial slowness—at Crossroads at Big Creek, and this week our programs will reflect on some of those changes. So what is glacial slowness? […]
Read MoreHow to Make Fireworks Less Frightening for Pets
4th of July Tips from the Wisconsin Humane Society. With Independence Day firework shows kicking off this week, The Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) has tips to make sure your pets have a stress-free holiday. First, WHS does not recommend taking your […]
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DOOR DINING NEWS
By Marise Redmann (Originally published in 2023 Door County Go! Guide) A life well-lived is even better when it involves great food. For couples, it can also be a shared bond. Gabrielle and AJ Dillon, for instance, who share both a life and a love of great food. Gabrielle is a photographer and political science […]
Read MoreDC MUSIC NEWS
Column 2, June 12, 2025 by Jim Berkenstock Walter Preucil, charter member of Midsummer’s Music and our outstanding cellist for the first 29 years, used to say, “Everything is connected.” If there was a connection to be had, he would find it. He certainly would in our upcoming program featuring Mozart, Reicha, and Dvořák. And it […]
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February 6, 1934 – October 3, 2023 Jean Wideroe Berkenstock, 89, passed away with her husband at her side on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL. She is survived by her husband of nearly 50 years, James Turner Berkenstock, a daughter, Nina Swanson, a stepson, Paul Berkenstock, grandchildren Jake Hoogheem, Keven […]
Read MoreNORBERT BLEI
September 18, 2023 By Norbert Blei Working in a converted chicken coop north of Ellison Bay, for 40+ years writer Norbert Blei (8/23/1935 – 4/23/2013) chronicled Door County through the lives of its inhabitants. A revised edition of DOOR WAY: The People in the Landscape, the first book in Blei’s “Door Series,” was published August […]
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