Area: Baileys Harbor
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The summer of 2011 marks Door Shakespeare’s 14th season of offering classic theater to audiences in the garden at Björklunden. Just as Shakespeare’s troupe brought drama to life on a stage under the open sky, so does Door Shakespeare under a canopy of stars and trees, with an apron of lawn and wings of shrubbery. […]
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Two days later, the hangover from our first winter storm is still being felt, with school canceled at Gibraltar, Sevastopol, and Southern Door, and delayed in Sturgeon Bay. When the blizzard arrived Saturday
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Doyle Touts Door County Beach Restoration Projects at Ridges
Governor Jim Doyle touted progress on a grant for beach restoration in Door County in an appearance at the Ridges Sanctuary this morning in Baileys Harbor.
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The Polka King – A True Door County Character
The late Freddie Kodanko (or Freddie K, as he is remembered around these parts) was a man who wore many hats: potato farmer, spider dancer, crate builder, bean farmer, ballpark DJ, cat lover, among others. The hat I’ll always remember was a large, blue, puffy, jewel-studded crown. This crown was also accompanied by a long […]
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Lee Traven was eager to meet me for an interview one Wednesday morning in September [2008], but his time for conversation was limited. By the time he and I met at 9:00 am, Traven had already finished a meeting with one of the many committees on which he serves, discussing the ways in which the […]
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Bobby McCullough was a preschooler in 1954 when Birds Park came into his life, but he remembers very clearly driving north through Baileys Harbor in his family’s 1947 Buick, when his mother suddenly exclaimed, “Oh, my God, isn’t that wonderful!” The wonderful thing she’d sighted was a funny old concrete house, painted white and blue, […]
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Door County Agriculture: The Gray-Aire Dairy Farm Among the Last Northern Door Dairies
In 1987 Door County was home to 14,000 milk cows, according to Door County Agriculture Agent Dean Volenberg. By 2002, the population had declined to 9,300. Of that dwindling number of dairy cattle, today 42 are to be found at the Gray-Aire Dairy Farm located near Baileys Harbor. Once milk farms dotted the top of […]
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Door County Agriculture: The Krowas Orchard – A Century on the Land
The Krowas family stays rooted to the soil.
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A Glimpse of Door County Wineries
People are drawn to Door County for a lot of reasons – restaurants, shopping, scenery, and of course, all things cherry – but you don’t find many people who come here with wine on the brain.
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I couldn’t have imagined, when we found an old cottage we loved on Kangaroo Lake 16 years ago, that the history of this place and its people would lay claim to my life for nearly a decade. When our neighbor, Wil Anschutz, learned that I am a writer, he suggested that I research a history […]
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A Century on the Shore: Harbor Fish Market and Schram’s Dance Hall
The Harbor Fish Market and Grille in Baileys Harbor opened just 10 years ago, but the building the restaurant calls home, which stands in much the same form as the day it was built, will be celebrating it 100th anniversary this September.
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Clean Air Act: AC Tap goes smoke free
It’s part of the price you pay for a night on the town. Drink too much, you get a hangover and, if you’re responsible, a quest for a ride back to your car the next morning.
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Door County’s Outdoor Attitude: Efforts grow to increase county’s active elements
Door County is becoming increasingly well-known as a locale for sports such as wind-surfing, kite-boarding, and biking, shifting the peninsula brand in a new direction.
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“Serving” the Community: Northern Door Volleyball
Anyone who’s ever driven down County Highway A on a Wednesday night during summer has probably witnessed it. At one moment, you’re driving down a dark, unlit, and somewhat desolate highway surrounded by the crickets and moonlight, and then, all at once, like a beacon rising from the shadows, the volleyball courts appear. The sight […]
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Finding the Flavor of Life: Restaurant Saveur
Combining classic French culinary training with a Chilean family history, and a Wisconsin upbringing with flavors inspired by travel around the world, William and Loreto Marks of Restaurant Saveur have created a unique and exciting new dining experience in downtown Baileys Harbor. As the opportunity they had been searching for unexpectedly presented itself two winters […]
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Donna Brown: The Artist as Philosopher
Plato considered “art” to be nonsense, a form of play not to be taken seriously. Aristotle, writing a generation after Plato, saw things differently. He saw “art” as a means of understanding and comprehension. He saw it as a way of widening the mind’s access to the world. It may be play, but it is […]