January 2024 | Volume 5, Issue 1 By Kathleen Harris In the spring of 1949, Helen Hoeppner Sohns could not have imagined the consequences of her phone call to Warren Davis. Sohns was a long-time teacher at Ephraim School. Davis was a friend and summer resident who had become part of the fabric of Ephraim over many decades. […]
Great Beginnings
By Jerod Santek, Founding & Artistic Director, Write On Door County The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen Saved to my desktop is a letter from the Internal Revenue Service, stamped JAN 03 2014 and addressed to Dear Applicant. […]
Fish Tales Lecture Series
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Eyes will be on the skies this week at Crossroads. Many folks seem to be longing for snow clouds, but next Saturday, it would be splendid if the skies would clear for the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society’s Viewing Night. But looking ahead to next week, we […]
Write On, Door County: Setting the Course for Our Second Decade
By Al DeGenova, Executive Director, Write On Door County Ten years! Write On is proud to celebrate this significant anniversary, but we are even more excited to look forward to future plans and dreams that can only happen with your support. During this holiday season we find ourselves experiencing a deep sense of gratitude to you. […]
5 Tips for Planning Your Door County Vacation
Submitted by The Landmark Resort Whether you’re a first-timer or looking for a refresher course in all things Door County, follow these tips to enjoy your trip to the fullest! Do your research. With so much to do and so little time, it’s important to know what exactly you want to do while you’re here, and […]
Hexagons: 6-Sided Crystals of Water We Call Snowflakes
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. The topic for the Saturday Science program this week is “Hexagons.” It may seem to folks that we at Crossroads are obsessed with hexagons—the six-sided polygons that show up in everything from honeycombs and ancient coral fossils to the mirrors on the James Webb Telescope. […]
Oscar Wilson and the Giant Candy Cane
By Kathleen Harris, Ephraim Historical Foundation, ephraim.org According to Wilson family lore, one long ago Christmas Oscar Wilson (1871-1948) decided to surprise the village children by hanging a giant candy cane in the Moravian Church. Uncle “Oc,” as he was known, was a candy maker by trade who had come from Milwaukee to to Ephraim in 1906 […]
Tree Rings
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. This weekend, Crossroads will ring in the New Year! Appropriate to the celebration, our Saturday Science Program will feature “Annual Rings,” and at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, we host the Wild Ones/Master Gardener Last Sunset of 2023 Hike, which will start from the Collins Learning […]
Door and Kewaunee Counties Lead the Region in 100% Fish Movement
Lindal Fisheries, Dramm Corporation and Dan’s Fish sign pledge to prevent waste and promote the sustainable use of Great Lakes fish Three more local companies—Lindal Fisheries, Dramm Corporation and Dan’s Fish, Inc.—signed on to the “100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge” today, publicly committing to using 100% of each commercially caught Great Lakes fish productively by 2025. As […]
The Longest Night of the Year
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. With the exception of our friends in the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society who think fifteen hours of darkness is a good thing, most of us, regardless of our ancestry or religious beliefs, long for light during this dark part of the year. At the exact […]
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