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Area: Washington Island

  • Door County’s Kind of Skyscrapers

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    The tallest natural point in Door County is not the scenic Sven’s Bluff or the ascent from Ellison Bay. It is an 860-foot mound in the town of Brussels on the county line between Door and Kewaunee. The mound is just a smaller brother to an 870-foot mound in Kewaunee. On a clear day, climbing […]

  • Abigail Edmonds. Rock Island.

    A Weekend On Rock Island

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    Gabe arrived at my house with a sleek, lightweight backpack. His gear has special names that make us sound like adventurers—the pack is an Osprey Exos, with a Stoic tent and Therm-a-Rest RidgeRest sleeping pad packed inside. I carried a frameless pack that my parents bought in 1991 for a backpacking trip that was derailed […]

  • North of the Tension Line. Washington Island. Book Review.

    Book Review: ‘North of the Tension Line’

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    Nearly everyone who has taken the ferry to Washington Island has wondered what life might be like there, a fantasy filled with ambivalence because of the remoteness of that spread of land surrounded by water. While the location in some respects evokes a cozy romantic folksiness, a sense of protection far from the madding crowd, […]

  • Emersons on Washington Island

    Framed

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      Minnow Emerson takes his grandsons, Hobbs, 5, and Walter, 3, out in a canoe for the first time on the waters of Washington Island. Submitted by Anne Emerson.

  • Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

  • Washington Island

  • Washington Island Ball Park

  • Washington Island Chamber of Commerce

  • Legion Hall

  • Karly’s Bar and Cellar Restaurant

  • Washington Island Fire Department

  • Washington Island Farm Museum

  • Washington Island Recreation Center

  • Trueblood Performing Arts Center

  • City of Sturgeon Bay Logo

    City Garbage Routes Delayed For Labor Day

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      City of Sturgeon Bay: Finance/Purchasing & Building Committees meet at 4 pm on Sept. 8. The Cable Advisory Council meets at 4:30 pm on Sept. 10. The Community Protection & Services Committee meets at 5 pm on Sept. 10. City garbage routes will be delayed one day due to the Labor Day holiday. Monday’s […]

  • Katie Sikora, bottling

    Making Old World Cider in the New World: Island Orchard Cider

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    Bob Purman was 11 when he made his first bottle-conditioned product, a root beer. “Within three days of bottling, I’d be in bed at night and two floors down in the basement, I could hear the pop and then a geyser hitting the ceiling,” he said.

  • Historic Door County Summer Camps

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    Happy campers…Door County was full of them in the 1920s. Its forests, fields and bays reverberated with Reveille at dawn and Taps at dusk. From the Mabel Katherine Pearse modern dance camp on Washington Island to the rustic Adventure Island Camp off the shores of Ephraim to Camp Meenahga in Peninsula State Park, Door County […]

  • Smokin’!

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    Ask Kansas City or Memphis about barbecue tourism. They’ve known for years there is money to be made in smoked meats. Plenty of other places are establishing themselves as ’cue destinations, such as Alabama, where the state Tourism Department declared 2015 the Year of Barbecue, and Washington Island, where Death’s Door BBQ draws competitive BBQ […]

  • 50 Years of Icelandic Horses

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    Two Icelandic immigrations came to Washington Island, one human and one animal. The most celebrated immigration began in 1870 when four young Icelandic men found work on Washington Island. They encouraged countrymen to follow, soon making this an Icelandic settlement. Nearly 50 years ago, in 1964, a group of friends gathered at the home of […]

  • Thordarson’s Rock Island Boathouse: A Door County Treasure

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    Patty Williamson takes us through history and inside the stunning walls of Rock Island’s majestic Thordarson boat house.