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Fishstock Series Features Pacific NW Singer/Songwriter Brittany Jean on Sunday, July 13

July 9, 2025

Fish Creek, Wis. (July 9, 2025) – Fishstock Concert Series has announced that the 3rd concert of its 2025 season will feature a July 13 performance by Pacific Northwest-based singer/songwriter Brittany Jean. While she largely performs her own songs from […]

DCA Presents Sara Evans, “One of the Best Hard Country Singers Left in Nashville,” on July 16

July 9, 2025

Fish Creek, Wis. (July 9, 2025) – On Wednesday, July 16, at 8 p.m., DCA will present acclaimed Nashville-based country singer Sara Evans on its Main Stage. Over the last two decades, Missouri native Sara Evans has carved a successful […]

Birch Creek Announces 2025 Summer Jazz Ambassador Concerts

July 9, 2025

Egg Harbor, Wis. (July 9, 2025) – As Birch Creek Music Performance Center celebrates its landmark 50th season, the Jazz Ambassador concert series returns with an exciting lineup of community performances across Door County. From mid-July to mid-August, audiences will […]

Steeped in Amour: Romantic Trios for the Heart

July 9, 2025

Sister Bay, Wis. (July 9, 2025) – Midsummer’s Music is at it again—mixing beloved classics with hidden gems in a way only it can. Its latest concert series, The Language of Love: French Piano Trios, is a romantic romp through the […]

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How to Make Fireworks Less Frightening for Pets

July 2, 2025

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 […]

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 […]

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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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