Tickets are now on sale for both the 2019 Door County Spring and Fall Lighthouse Festivals, June 7-9 and October 12-13. Each festival is comprised of land-based, boat, and adventure tours that together reach all eleven of the historic lighthouses of Door County. Many of the tour excursions are unique to the Lighthouse Festival weekends, […]
Sister Bay Hosts Annual Easter Egg Hunt April 20
Get your picture taken with The Easter Bunny at the 12th Annual Sister Bay Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 20, at 10:30 am. Hunt for colorful eggs with candy inside at Waterfront Park in downtown Sister Bay. Find a Golden Ticket egg and win a special prize basket. Hop over to the library with the […]
Bulbs and Bugs Programs at Crossroads
It will definitely be spring at Crossroads this week, at least on their Lecture Hall screen. On Tuesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 11 (7:00pm), Master Gardeners will bring Mark Konlock, Director of Horticulture at the Green Bay Botanical Garden to Crossroads, to present Bulbalicious – Adding Spring Blooming Bulbs to Your Garden. Wild Ones of the […]
TAP Opens Season Next Week with ‘Shooting Star’
Third Avenue Playhouse opens the 2019 season with Shooting Star, written by American playwright Steven Dietz. The play has a simple plot: two college lovers, Elena Carson (Amy Ensign) and Reed McAllister (Doug Mancheski), are unexpectedly reunited when they’re snowed in at an airport. Elena has stayed true to her hippie-ish, counter-culture path, while Reed has […]
Casting Announced for Northern Sky Theater’s 2019 Summer Season
Northern Sky Theater announces its acting company for the 2019 Summer Season in Door County, Wisconsin. Northern Sky’s summer season includes three musical comedies playing in rotating repertory from June 12 through August 24 at the outdoor amphitheater in Peninsula State Park. Returning company members include Corrie Beula Kovacs, Alex Campea, Doug Clemmons, Lachrisa Grandberry, […]
Local Door County Author Releases Fifth Historical Romance Novel
On March 27, 2019, local Door County resident and author, Katherine Hastings, released her latest romance novel. The Arch Pirate blends fact with fiction in this 17th century historical romance. Based on the real-life pirate Captain Henry Avery, Hastings crafted her own romantic tale around the events that led to Captain Avery pulling off the […]
Southern Door Open Audition Call for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
The Southern Door Community Auditorium is proud to announce the re-birth of tjhe Door County community musical with the upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors July 19-21, 2019. This is a call to performers to audition at one of two open audition dates: Sunday, May 19 from 2:00-7:00 p.m. or Monday, May 20 […]
Door County Environmental Council Lecture: Safe Lawns
The folks at Crossroads at Big Creek are enthusiastic fans of science. They make a big deal about trying to base their decisions on scientific data. Recently there was a radio report about a lawsuit against Monsanto and the difficulty the jury was having due to the lack of good scientific data. Crossroads often wonders […]
‘The Play’s the Thing’ Concludes with ‘The Gentleman Thief’
“When you are discovered by a householder–with revolver–in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted. – P.G. Wodehouse Peninsula Players Theatre presents a reading of “The Gentleman Thief” a […]
Tree Planting Collaborations Celebrate Earth Day
Here’s an item for your next round of Door County Nature Trivia: How many trees have the Climate Change Coalition of Door County (CCCDC) and partner organizations planted in the county since 2016? The answer is an astonishing 10,000-plus. For the fourth year in a row, the CCCDC, the Forest Recovery Project (FRP) and The […]
