2019 Wisconsin State Champion Live Auctioneer Jenny Gehl will lead the live online auction of 10 celebrated Door County artist-decorated violins Sister Bay, Wis. (September 29, 2020) – Midsummer’s Music, Wisconsin’s longest running summer chamber music series, celebrates its 30th season with an online gala featuring special guest guitar, banjo, and mandolin superstar Eric Lewis and performances by […]
Peninsula Pet of the Week: Kitty the Stallion
Meet Kitty the Stallion, a 3-month-old kitten available for adoption from the Wisconsin Humane Society Door County Campus as a “working cat.” Cats like Kitty the Stallion are deeply under-socialized, want nothing to do with people, and get extremely stressed when confined. They thrive in a “working” environment where they can patrol a barn, stable, […]
Peninsula Music Festival: THE SYMPHONY SERIES – Subscribe, Renew, Reserve
Join Peninsula Music Festival next August for the Peninsula’s première musical attraction of the summer! Kicking off the nine-concert Series with an Opening Night commemorating the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, and a Grand Finále honoring the Festival’s Norwegian roots in works by Sibelius, Grieg, and Nielsen, your experience of these timeless masterpieces, thrilling conductors, […]
Midsummer’s Music Virtual Season By-the-Numbers
In a completely re-imagined summer season, Midsummer’s Music streamed 30 concerts in six programs from August 5 to September 13. Nine socially distanced musicians — violinists David Perry and Ann Palen, violists Sally Chisholm and Allyson Fleck, cellists Paula Kosower, Greg Sauer, and Ryan Louie, pianist Jeannie Yu, and clarinetist Daniel Won — presented 24 […]
Northern Sky receives support from Wisconsin Arts Board and 100 Women Who Care – Door County Chapter
Northern Sky Theater is pleased to announce that it has received a matching grant of $11,000 from the Wisconsin Arts Board to support its ongoing commitment to writing and developing new musicals as well as an $8,000 CARES Act Grant as a form of emergency support due to the pandemic. The CARES Act Grant […]
The Names in the Orchard by Tom Davis
Door County Almanak, No. 2, 1985 The shape of the conversation remains the same. Its timing varies only slightly from year to year, beginning as an offhand remark in mid-summer, by September swelling in proportions like an apple tree loaded with fruit, then dropping off gradually, like windfalls, through the autumn. It is heard in […]
Sturgeon Bay’s Thrills on Third
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (September 17, 2020) – Thrills on Third is reimagined for 2020, which will take place on Saturday, October 31 from 10am–12pm. NEW this year is the Sturgeon Bay Spooky Scavenger Hunt! Pick up your Scavenger Hunt map at the Destination Sturgeon Bay Welcome Center beginning October 5. Return your map to the […]
Piggy on a Bun
Recipe Compliments of the Hitching Post Bar & Grill. Fall brings kids back to school (whatever that may look like this year), nights get shorter, and time just seems to run out regardless of what we’re doing! So, if you’re trying to stay on top of things and meal prep a bit, this “Pig +” recipe from […]
11th Annual Celebrate Women! Event
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (September 17, 2020) – The Women’s Fund invites everyone to participate in their virtual Annual Celebrate Women! event – Planning to Survive and Thrive 2020 – this fall as the annual luncheon moves to their website. The Celebrate Women! luncheon raises funds for sustainability grants that support non-profits serving local women and girls. The Women’s […]
Climate Change Coalition’s Fall Tree Planting Project
Door County, Wisconsin. (September 17, 2020) – Planting trees is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to combat global warming, and this fall the Climate Change Coalition of Door County (CCC) is once again helping Door County do its part. The CCC is distributing nearly 900 trees through local schools, environmental organizations, churches, […]
