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August 2024
Pollinator Garden Tour
Wild Ones Board member Don Gustafson welcomes visitors to his AMAZING Native Pollinator Garden and shares his experiences and expertise when the garden is at it peak beauty. Don will explain the value of using native plants in a home landscape. Not to be missed. Free to Wild Ones and to non-members. Don and Joy live at 4850 Bay Shore Drive. If coming from the South (Sturgeon Bay) it will be beyond Burmingham’s Restaurant but before Quarry. Turn right on Bay Shore…
Find out more »Peninsula Music Festival: “Titan” with soprano Jacquelyn Wagner
Titan: The festival’s final concert features Strauss’s Four Last Songs with soprano Jacquelyn Wagner and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, entitled Titan. Find out more or get tickets at musicfestival.com
Find out more »What’s Your Story?
Sunday, August 25, 2 – 4 pm: What’s Your Story?: Prose Open Mic Share your fiction, essays or memoir excerpts in this open mic hosted by Tony Smith and Rosemary Steubi. Free. For more information, visit www.writeondoorcounty.org or call 920-868-1457.
Find out more »Monarch Tagging Day
Join with Wild Ones-Door Peninsula and Crossroads for our annual monarch tagging program. Starting in the lecture hall, Naturalist Karen Newbern will describes the monarch life cycle and migration patterns. Then (hopefully, migration tends to be weather driven) participants are invited to help capture and tag these stunning orange and black butterflies which are on their way to Mexico. Instructions, nets and tags provided. No reservations necessary. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »David Perry, Jeannie Yu—Chausson Concerto!
Sponsored by Sandy Zingler. Write On, Door County poet is Ed DiMaio. One of the most dramatic and rapturous works in the literature concludes our season. You will be swept away by Chausson’s surging and impulsive masterwork, expertly and passionately realized by our soloists, David Perry, violin, and Jeannie Yu, piano, framed by our string quartet including Ann Palen and Cole Randolph. It’s a unique work, orchestral in concept and monumental in scope. Fellow Frenchman Théodore Dubois’s Quintet, featuring oboist…
Find out more »Mark Edgar Stuart at Fishstock Music Series
8/25 Mark Edgar Stuart at Fishstock Music Series Lovable and literary, smart yet plain-spoken, heartening, funny, and always memorable, Mark Edgar Stuart is a resilient and relaxed artist, both sage and seasoned. You’ll have a tough time finding a more widely-embraced modern singer-songwriter in Memphis – Stuart’s enthusiasm for his adopted hometown and what it offers is magnetic, and his songs will stick with you. Prior to each show, acclaimed local guitarist George Sawyn will play in the outside seating area…
Find out more »Memoir Mondays
Monday, August 26, 10 – 11 am: Memoir Mondays A creative lab for seniors to encourage them to write their life stories. Free. ADRC, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay. For more information, please visit www.writeondoorcounty.org or call 920-868-1457.
Find out more »OutWiGo! The Trails of Newport Challenge Hikes
Tue., Aug. 27th - OutWiGo! The Trails of Newport Challenge Hikes – 9 am. Join the park naturalist on this weekly hike. All are welcome to participate, enjoying the health benefits of hiking. You’re encouraged to hike at your own pace. This week’s hike will be the Newport Trail an easy, 3.5-mile loop. Park at Lot 2. Find out more at https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/events/96081
Find out more »Publication Celebration
Tuesday, August 27, 4 pm: Publication Celebration Join author Judy DuCharme to celebrate the release of her tenth book. For more information, please visit www.writeondoorcounty.org or call 920-868-1457.
Find out more »Romance and Rapture
Sponsored by Mary Ann & Peery Duderstadt The Women’s Fund of Door County is a supporting sponsor for this program. This program is inspiring, heart-rending, vivacious, captivating, and life-affirming. Sakari Vanderveer is one of the leading female black composers of our time and an inspiring leader in bringing young children to embrace playing string instruments. Mel Bonis (who used the masculine form of her name to gain acceptance) fought great odds to become one of France’s esteemed composers alongside classmates…
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