By Coggin HeeringaInterpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. With August winding down and the sun setting a bit earlier each day, members of the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society are increasing their efforts in KEEPING THE DOOR DARK. Their monthly public viewing program in August will be a special “Dark Skies Viewing Night.” Clearly, amateur […]
Brookfield East Student Wins 2023 State Park Vehicle Admission Sticker Design Contest
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has announced that Brookfield East High School senior Brooke Salomone is the winner of the 2023 Wisconsin State Park and Forest vehicle admission sticker design contest. Salomone’s design features a compass with different recreational themes available throughout Wisconsin’s state park system. The winning design will be printed on state park and […]
New Food Options Abound Throughout Peninsula
Despite Obvious Challenges, 36 New Ventures Debut 2020-2022 By Marise Redmann Find this article in the 2022 Door County GO! Guide. It could have been all that pacing the home front last year that got people thinking, or maybe the dissolution of a job or business created a new opportunity. Whatever it was, we are […]
Summer Explorers — Crickets & Other Invertebrates
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. This time of year at Crossroads at Big Creek, any time of day, but especially in the evening, the cricket chorus can be quite musical. And folks who participate in upcoming Evenings at Crossroads Programs will certainly enjoy their concerts. Crickets don’t make their music to entertain […]
What We All Need
By Jim Berkenstock, Artistic Director, Midsummer’s Music Musical Fireworks, Passionate Outbursts, Stunning Virtuosity …. Only a few performances remain until our early August break, but Jeepers—are they dynamite! I just came from a rehearsal of our Lush and Thrilling Romantic Poetry program that opens Wedneday evening at Sister Bay Moravian Church. J.J. Koh was rehearsing the Weber Clarinet Quintet […]
The Peninsula Music Festival’s 70th Season Symphony Series
BY KENNETH KAPP, Shepherd Express, Milwaukee, Wis. The 70th Anniversary Season of the Peninsula Music Festival began Oct. 1, 2021, and wraps-up August 2-20, 2022, with the Symphony Series featuring nine spectacular symphonic concerts. Christoph Ptack, PMF’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is the third in the festival’s storied history to lead the year-round organization. With […]
Oak Gall Reminds Us of Inspiring Words Which Changed History
By Coggin Heeringa, Program Director/Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. On July 3 back in 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.” Adams was explaining that a resolution for independence had been approved by the Continental Congress […]
English Connections and a Close Call
By Jim Berkenstock Our English Connections program, which starts with the first of four concerts this Thursday, is “connected” largely by one person—Charles Villiers Stanford. Stanford and Edward Elgar were the two greatest English composers at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. However, Stanford was also a great teacher who thereby connected with a large group […]
Students Participate at Crossroads on Earth Day
By Coggin Heeringa, Program Director/Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. During the Sunrise Elementary School Earth Day last week, 219 students became “Crossroads Habitat Healers” by pulling buckthorn plants from the conifer forest near the Council Ring. They also participated in stream studies, viewed a program on “Dark Skies” in the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society’s planetarium, created […]
May is Archaeology Month in Wisconsin
By Coggin Heeringa, Program Director/Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. May is Archaeology Month in Wisconsin and Crossroads is celebrating. Truth is, we usually offer archaeology outreach in May, not due to a state designation, but because we are (reasonably) sure that the soil will have thawed. This year, we have received a generous grant […]
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