By Jude Genereaux What better way to honor the past and celebrate the continuing energy of the little Town that COULD, than with the opening of a new Town Hall in January of their 150th year? In preparation for the summer celebration, and to commemorate the actual anniversary, residents have bannered the streets with flags […]
Midsummer’s Music Presents Mozart and Brahms Quintets
Door County’s Midsummer’s Music continues its 29th season with a series of concerts dedicated to the extraordinary quintets of Mozart and Brahms from Sunday, June 23 through Wednesday, July 3. The program includes Mozart’s Quintet for Horn and Strings in E-flat Major, K.407, and Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major, K.581, and Brahms’ Quintet No. 2 for […]
Birch Creek Offers Two Music Programs for Adults
Birch Creek Music Performance Center, nationally known for its summer music academy for advanced student high school musicians, has expanded its programming to include two music programs for adults: Adult Band Camp (August 15-18) and Chamber Music Retreat (August 22-24.) “Wow! What a fantastic experience I had at Adult Band Camp,” said Carl Rauch, 2018 […]
DCA Announces “Pay What You Can” Program with Support from Al Johnson’s
With support from Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) is pleased to announce a community outreach program for the 2019-20 Main Stage Season: The Al Johnson’s 70th Anniversary “Pay What You Can” Ticket Program. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik opened its doors in 1949, and in honor of the business’s […]
6th Annual Uncork Summer Food-Wine-Music Festival Returns June 22
Door County’s sole outdoor “foodie” festival is celebrating its sixth anniversary this year with unique new food vendors and the “soft launch” of an associated low-key cheese festival. Scheduled for Saturday, June 22, Uncork Summer will once again take place on the beautiful grounds of Wickman House in Ellison Bay. There is a minimal $10 […]
DIY…Door County-Style
By Laurel Ciohon Even on vacation, some people have to stay practically busy with a project, and that’s where DIY (do-it-yourself) art studios come in. Two new studios have recently opened in Ephraim – but they’re as different as night and day. Clink!, located at 10331 North Water Street (Hwy 42), is a DIY craft […]
Woodwalk Concert Series Season Opener ‘The Rough and Tumble’ June 21
Woodwalk Concert Series is pleased to start off 2019 with The Rough And Tumble. The dumpster-folk, thrift store-Americana duo, consisting of Mallory Graham & Scott Tyler, have been hobbling around the country in their 16’ camper since 2015, when their Nashville landlord left them without heat during an ice storm for 12 days. They picked up […]
4th of July Safety Tips for Your Pets
For many people, nothing beats lounging in the backyard on the Fourth of July with good friends and family including the four-legged members of the household. While it may seem like a great idea to reward Rover with scraps from the grill and bring him along to watch fireworks, in reality some festive foods and […]
Creating a National Park in Door County
By Bob Bultman Famously, the Door Peninsula is part of the Niagara Escarpment, the ‘Great Arc’ of ancient dolostone cliffs that sweeps hundreds of miles from eastern Wisconsin north into the Upper Peninsula, and then arches east into the province of Ontario and south into Upper New York State. The most famous site is Niagara […]
Washington Island’s Stavkirke: How a Small Island Community Came Together and Built a Dream
By Jude Genereaux It is fitting that “STAVKIRKE, The story of Washington Island’s Norwegian Replica”, comes to us from the pen of Dick Purinton, one of Washington Island’s finest writers and keeper of island history. Purinton’s fresh-off-the-press collection takes us through the inspiration for and construction of the uniquely beautiful Stavkirke, translated “stave church” and […]
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