Beach People Keeps Summer Alive By Laurel Ciohon If you’re starting to get the fall or winter blues with these drizzly days and cooler temperatures, a trip to Beach People in Ephraim or Fish Creek could be the key to keeping your Door County summer alive! Step into either store and immediately be swept away […]
Treasures Galore: Bargains Unlimited
Treasures Galore: Bargains Unlimited By Laurel Ciohon Bargains Unlimited in Sister Bay is an amazing place for finding treasures at unheard of prices. Located next to the Scandia Village Senior Living Community, nearly all proceeds of the fantastic resale store benefit Scandia’s residents and staff. Items are constantly changing each day as new amazing donations […]
Beautiful & Inspirational Jewelry: Angela Lensch Gallery
Beautiful & Inspirational Jewelry: Angela Lensch Gallery By Laurel Ciohon As I stepped into the gorgeous space that is Angela Lensch Gallery, I was instantly in awe. Natural light and track lighting made each piece of jewelry and art in the gallery pop from every angle. The attention paid to even the smallest details is […]
Eagle Bluff Lighthouse
Eagle Bluff Lighthouse Beginning in 1868 this brick lighthouse, perched on a 76 ft. high bluff, guided schooners and steamboats passing through the Strawberry Channel. It is now a museum with some of the ‘keepers’ original furnishing and authentic period antiques. Docents provide guided tours of the lighthouse and grounds. A park sticker is required. […]
The Living Past: Commercial Fishing in Door County
The Living Past: Commercial Fishing in Door County by Trygvie Jensen Commercial fishing is one of the oldest professions known to man. The industry has survived for nearly two hundred years on the Great Lakes. Commercial fishermen are our living past, but confronting an uncertain future. They epitomize the American Dream: independent, ambitious, and hardworking. […]
THE WRITER’S LIFE – Roadside Gardens, Birdfeeders, Wind Chimes…Silence
THE WRITER’S LIFE Roadside Gardens, Birdfeeders, Wind Chimes…Silence -By Norbert Blei Though I’ve never been much of a gardener, flower or vegetable, I appreciate their presence in my midst, whether from a distance or visiting friends with flower gardens glowing in color throughout the seasons, not to mention gifts from vegetable gardens–asparagus, beans, spinach, lettuce, […]
A Fifty-Year Reminiscense
A Fifty-Year Reminiscense By Hjalmar R. Holand (Abridged version of an essay written by author H. R. Holand in 1948…remembering Door County as it was in 1898.) It is fifty years this summer since I first saw the Door Peninsula. I was then a student at the University of Wisconsin and thought that the Madison […]
“The Bridges of Madison County” Comes to Peninsula Players
FISH CREEK, WI, July 26, 2017 — Audiences are likely to be swept away by the life-changing, four-day love affair in the lush musical “The Bridges of Madison County” at Peninsula Players Theatre July 26 through August 13, 2017. One of the most romantic stories ever written, “The Bridges of Madison County” first captured the […]
Harpeth Rising Returns to Woodwalk Gallery on Aug. 11
‘Chamberfolk’ trio of violin, cello and banjo takes journey thru original music EGG HARBOR, WI — Harpeth Rising is on tour promoting their brand new album, ‘Against All Tides,’ and will perform at Woodwalk Gallery in Egg Harbor on Friday, Aug. 11. Woodwalk Gallery features contemporary art and musical performances in an intimate, historic barn […]
Experience Award-Winning Jazz Musicians at Birch Creek
EGG HARBOR, WI – Birch Creek puts a whole new twist to the meaning of summer music academy, with their elite lineup of faculty members from across the country working with students in a century-old barn turned concert hall. On July 16th, students and faculty from Nevada to New York, Canada, and ten other states […]
