By Coggin Heeringa, Director, Crossroads at Big Creek While we miss the school groups coming out to Crossroads at Big Creek for their spring field trips, we are thrilled that families are using our preserve…and it has been fun to communicate with kids online. Tim from Sturgeon Bay asks: “How do the sandhill cranes know […]
Five DIY Uses for Coffee Grounds at Home
We love our coffee. Door County Coffee Co. has been roasting coffee in Door County for 27 years and aren’t stopping! The only problem with coffee is when it’s gone. We hate to throw away those grounds of goodness after they have done their job. But WAIT – don’t throw them away! There are plenty […]
A Message from Door Community Auditorium
By Cari Lewis Thank you for being an important part of Door Community Auditorium! DCA’s board, staff, and program committee look forward to unveiling our 2020 Main Stage Season to our closest friends next week. This year, in lieu of our traditional season preview party, sponsors, Auditorium Society members, volunteers, playbill advertisers, and community ambassadors […]
Meet Savory Spoon’s Guest Chef Laurie Conrad
By Janice Thomas Baking during quarantine is both incredibly enjoyable and slightly challenging for me. On the one hand, I find baking to be a very pleasant pursuit. It creates a feeling of coziness in my kitchen, which is usually pretty fun, and in the end, we wind up with something delicious. On the other hand, baking […]
Coffee Chat: A Practicing Musician
I was going to devote this Coffee Chat to another subject, but then I got something in the mail that made me change my mind. It has to do with the drastic disruption in our normal lives that is taking place … and specifically with regard to our livelihoods. Everyone who has a job has […]
The Green Hills of Earth
By Coggin Heeringa, Director, Crossroads at Big Creek We’ve eagerly been anticipating green at Crossroads at Big Creek. Already, mosses in the forests, buds in the garden, stems of the shrubs are showing green. And in the night sky, a green object has just passed the orbit of Mars and it’s coming our way. It’s […]
Crossroads Provides Calming “Refuge of Sanity” During Coronavirus Crisis
By Coggin Heeringa, Director, Crossroads at Big Creek For quite a long time, the Door County community has used Crossroads at Big Creek as a “refuge of sanity.” For now, though our buildings and restrooms are closed, we welcome people to get in touch with nature as they exercise or just de-stress. Our trails are open […]
Midsummer’s Music Artistic Director Jim Berkenstock’s presents his second Coffee Chat: Edvard Grieg
Last week, for our first Coffee Chat, I focused on one of the two parts of our big celebration this summer – Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Today, I thought I would go to the other half, which is the 30th anniversary for Midsummer’s Music. In addition to the works we are featuring by Beethoven, we are […]
Laura Sawosko Serenades Us ‘Home’
By Laurel Ciohon In the midst of the chaos that is Covid-19, many of us are looking for a glimpse of positivity anywhere we can find it, whether it’s neighbors helping neighbors with grocery shopping, uplifting photos on social media of how people are spending their time in quarantine, watching a happy movie, or Facetiming […]
A Door County Commercial Fisherman’s Perspective
by Trygvie Jensen According to Gills Rock commercial fisherman Jeff Weborg, “One of the biggest misconceptions of a commercial fisherman is that he’s rich simply because when you get a good lift everyone seems to know about it, and therefore assumes your making a lot of money, but what they don’t realize or hear about […]