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Legendary Chicago Bluegrass Band The Special Consensus Performs at DCA June 28

June 23, 2025

Fish Creek, Wis. (June 23, 2025) – On Saturday, June 28, at 8 p.m., Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present The Special Consensus in concert on its Main Stage. Chicago-based quartet The Special Consensus is the crown jewel of the Midwestern […]

Raise a Glass to the Past at the 11th Annual Root Beer Festival

June 23, 2025

Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (June 23, 2025) – The Door County Historical Society invites the public to take a flavorful trip back in time at the 11th Annual Root Beer Festival, held Saturday, July 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Heritage Village in Sturgeon Bay. […]

Women’s Fund Supports School-Age Programming

June 19, 2025

Door County, Wis. (June 19, 2025) – The Women’s Fund of Door County Child Care Initiative is supporting summer school-age programming in a big way. Doorway to Learning was awarded two grants for its Summer Camp running now through August […]

2025 Sturgeon Bay Celebrates 4th of July

June 19, 2025

Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (June 19, 2025) – Let’s celebrate! Sturgeon Bay is gearing up for a spectacular 4th of July celebration. Join in the Independence Day festivities along the water at Sunset Park beginning at 5 pm on Friday, July […]

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Migrating Birds in Spring

May 7, 2025

By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. At Crossroads, we observe birds almost daily, but the first few weeks of spring migration are different — special and important. Each spring, we watch migrating birds not only for […]

What Happens When We Share Our Stories

May 2, 2025

After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. – Philip Pullman By Jerod Santek, Founding & Artistic Director, Write On, Door County Is it any wonder that Sharing Our Stories can be abbreviated SOS? […]

Spring Green-Up

March 13, 2025

By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, and folks around County Door are celebrating this weekend! At Crossroads at Big Creek, we’ve tailored our programs to align with St. Patrick’s Day and […]

Celebrating Women Writers

March 10, 2025

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker Last weekend, twelve women gathered in our Library Classroom, all strangers to the others in the room. They came together for […]

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Dining with the Dillons

July 18, 2023

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 […]

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CZECH YOUR CONNECTIONS

June 13, 2025

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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Jean W. Berkenstock

October 18, 2023

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 […]

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NOTEBOOK: DOOR COUNTY IN SEPTEMBER

September 18, 2023

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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