By Coggin Heeringa, Program Director/Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek At this time most winters, Crossroads at Big Creek is cloaked with mounds of snow. This year, we still have numerous mounds, but they are not snow. They are the trunks and branches of Rhamnus frangula, the dreaded glossy buckthorn, an invasive species. The lag in winter snow, […]
Fishing 101: What Every Ice Fisher Visiting Sturgeon Bay Must Know
By Kenneth Reaves, Courtesy of SturgeonBay.net Wisconsin is my home, and I learned to fish in the waters around here! Sturgeon Bay is well-known and has a special place in my heart. You can fish year-round, but I grew to love ice fishing. It’s very different to what I learned as a kid with my […]
5 Fun Things to do in Door County This Winter
Article by Door County Coffee Co. With Winter upon us, we are in for a few months of colder temperatures, beautiful snowfalls, and lots of good coffee! People often think Door County does not have much to offer in winter – but that is not the case at all, we have beautiful sights to see […]
January Notebook
By Norbert Blei Working in a converted chicken coop north of Ellison Bay, for 40+ years writer Norbert Blei (8/23/1935 – 4/23/2013) chronicled Door County through the lives of its inhabitants. A newly-revised edition of DOOR WAY: The People in the Landscape, the first book in Blei’s “Door Series,” was published August 2010 and is […]
Ruminations on the Coming Winter Solstice
By Coggin Heeringa, Program Director/Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek In other years … more normal years … Crossroads at Big Creek has celebrated the Winter Solstice (December 21) with a bonfire at our Council Ring. And we will do so again in future years. Last year, standing outside the circle, I enjoyed listening to the […]
The Long Dock
by Janet Hough McCray Door County Almanak, No. 5, 1990 As I reach the Labor Day of my life, I think back on all the summers I have spent in Door County and of the tremendous effect these golden seasons have had on my life. In sorting out these recollections, probably the most potent and […]
Birchwood Hall – Summer, 1914
by Barbara Larsen Door County Almanak, No. 5, 1990 Evening shadows were lengthening. Although the sky was still bright blue over the bay, the dense woods surrounding the dirt road leading from Birchwood Hall into Sister Bay kept the sun’s rays at bay. Mamie Hedeen shivered as she hurried along the rough stony trail. It […]
The Cove Estuary: Otters, Great Blue Herons & Opossums, Oh My!
By Coggin Heeringa, Director, Crossroads at Big Creek Last weekend at Crossroads, between Leadership Landing (our kayak launch) and the Utah Street Bridge, an otter was fishing in The Cove Estuary. This was hardly surprising. We’ve been seeing these sleek mammals ever since we acquired The Cove Preserve. There, where the water from Big Creek […]
Gift Guide for the Door County Lover
By Door County Coffee & Tea Co. Is there someone on your list this year that LOVES Door County? Ok, we know everyone loves Door County, but if you are shopping for a Door County fanatic, you are in luck. We have put together the TOP-SELLERS not only for Door County Coffee, but other great […]
BINKHAVEN: Despite Amazing Architecture and Design, Still Solidly Under the Radar
By Jude Genereaux Even for the many people who have lived and traveled within Door County for decades, the name “Binkhaven” may not quite register. That will likely end soon, since this once very private Ephraim estate is about to go public. A 1950s dream mission of Dean and Marilynn (“Bink”) Madden, Binkhaven was envisioned […]