Category: People
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Fish Creek Artist Kathy Glasnap Dies at Age 66
Well-known Door County artist and gallery owner Kathryn “Kathy” M. Glasnap, 66, passed away Aug. 28, 2015 at Door County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the daughter of the late Carl and Marcie Glasnap.
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Sister Bay’s Tony Gonzales Finds A Different Kind of High
“In some ways, drug addiction and endurance sports are similar; they both take you to this strange place, far outside usual reality. But it’s more complex than that.
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Meet Death in Door County Authors
A number of authors have used the Door County peninsula as a setting for their fiction; among the earliest and best known to do so is LaVyrle Spencer in her 1990 romance Bitter Sweet. But more recently, murder mysteries have scattered their clues on the terrain. Patricia Skalka’s Death Stalks Door County (2014) is the […]
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Kim Souther: Door County’s Avant-Garde Cellist
When Kim Souther was in sixth grade, she sat down with her band teacher and expressed her interest in switching from piano to oboe. She loved the mellow sounds of the instrument in Peter and the Wolf, the musical children’s story written by Sergei Prokofiev, and wanted to emulate that sound for her school band. […]
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Door County’s Peter Pan: Dave Ellmann
For most of the past 40 years, Dave Ellmann has rolled into Door County in May, fresh off a winter waiting tables in Florida or Hawaii, back to do the same here, his Door County Farmhouse waiting for his return. The anticipation of summer buzzes, calling Ellmann home, where he is a walking, breathing symbol […]
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Mother Nature’s Artist – Algoma’s Kirsten Christianson
When Algoma environmental artist and teacher Kirsten Christianson walks the shore of Lake Michigan, observing the ebb and flow of the water, the crisp color of the sky, the bright leaves of summer trees, she is noting nature’s structure as much as she is appreciating it. When she returns home, she will bring those mental […]
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A Sculptor’s Life: The Evolving Work of Deb Dendler
Deb Dendler has always had an interest in using her artistic talents to demonstrate the human condition. It is evident in the dozens of terracotta, bronze and relief sculptures lining the shelves of her countryside art studio in Fish Creek. These sculptures are more than lumps of clay, porcelain and bronze shaped to represent her […]
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Hank Eckert: Door County’s Member of ‘The Greatest Generation’
Tom Brokaw described them as “the Greatest Generation, who grew up in the United States during the deprivation of the Great Depression, and then went on to fight in World War II.
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Steve Fischer, Last of a Varnishing Breed of Boat Craftsmen
Steve Fischer’s business ad reads “Fischer & Daughters Boat Works…Last of a varnishing breed.” But you won’t see Fischer’s daughters, Alex, 24, and Lucy, 19, working alongside him as he sands and varnishes wooden boats for Door County customers. The addition of daughters to his business name was wishful thinking on Fischer’s part. “I pretty […]
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To say high school culture today is completely opposite of what it was in the days when Boy Meets World and Freaks and Geeks were a mainstay in American homes would be an understatement. When having a bachelor’s degree is touted as a necessity, it leaves little in the way for soon-to-be-high school alumni to […]
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The Man Behind the Lens: Bernie Hagedorn
The soft scripted word “Hagedorn” shines softly in gold on the corner of the large prints. There are images of old empty farmhouses in the dead of winter, bright white sailboats leaning dangerously close to deep blue water, a large bumblebee enjoying the nectar of bright pink thistle. True to the old adage, these pictures […]
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Ollie Skrivanie, a retired attorney and resident of Fish Creek, tenderly holds a small stone sculpture in the palm of his hand. It is an unusual item, clearly handcrafted, about four inches long and suggestive of some type of animal. When Skrivanie identifies it as a birdstone, the uninitiated may be apt to say, “Huh?” […]
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In this year’s Philanthropy Issue we bring you the stories of four people inspiring others in our community. Carrying on Bo’s Legacy Annika Johnson On Sept. 28, 2012, Sister Bay resident Bo Johnson, 13, died after a yearlong battle with Extramedullary Acute Myeloid Leukemia. It was a battle that brought together the entire Door County […]
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Last August, Jody, 39, was diagnosed with cancer and was told there is no effective treatment for her. Since then she has had multiple surgeries. “They keep cutting and pasting me back together,” she said. “I was feeling like the walking dead or a sitting duck.” In November she was at a dinner party where […]
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Retreats for Breast Cancer Patients
“Most of my energy was devoted to physically healing my body while my spirit remained bruised and damaged. Thank you for the gift of allowing me to ‘Take a breath.’” “The opportunity to laugh, cry, relax, and be with women who know what I’m going through has been incredible!” Those are two responses from women who […]
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A Focus on Quality and Quantity of Life
Dr. David Groteluschen, a medical oncologist with Green Bay Oncology, views himself as a guide helping people navigate a world skewed by a cancer diagnosis. “I don’t think medicine is always about fixing people,” he said. “I think it is about guiding people and figuring out the best way to take care of our life. […]
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Is there a word more frightening than cancer? Cancer is the general name for a group of more than 100 diseases that start with abnormal cells growing out of control and invading other tissue. While cigarette smoking and sun exposure are two known causes of cancerous cells, there is still much that is not known […]
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Time – It’s About How You Spend It
“There’s no more generous act than giving your time. Money, you can make more of it, but time is a very finite item for each of us, and we can spend it wisely or we can spend it foolishly, but it will spend all the same.” Grace Rossman of Thrivent Financial, one of the 12th […]
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Father Tony is Philanthropist of Year
Father Anthony Birdsall – or Father Tony as he is known – retired from the Corpus Christi Parish in Sturgeon Bay on Sept. 1, 2008, but continues to have an impact on the people of Door County, as evidenced by his being named the 2014 Philanthropist of the Year at the Door County Community Foundation’s […]
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Door County has become a haven for silent sports, or sports that promote participation over spectating. With several bike rides, runs and multi-sport events popping up throughout the peninsula, it has also created a ground for fundraising. The Treatment Trail Run is a weeklong series of 5k running races throughout Eastern Wisconsin from Wauwatosa to […]