Category: People
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PowerFlour Makes Scarce Food More Nutritious
Door County is known as a charitable community, but not everyone gives locally. Some, like John Herlache and members of the Sturgeon Bay Rotary Club, work with a non-profit that reaches across the globe called PowerFlour International. “When you’re talking about PowerFlour, you’re talking about malnutrition, prevention and treatment,” Herlache said. “It concerns digestion.” Food […]
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Leading by Example: The Fight of Bo Johnson
In this year’s Philanthropy Issue we bring you the stories of seven people inspiring others in our community. We start with one who is with us only in spirit, but what a spirit he is. There were times during his chemotherapy treatments that Bo Johnson didn’t understand why he was going through such a painful […]
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Charity Defense Council launched to Redefine how we Judge Charitites
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is fighting to reign in executive compensation, going so far as to create a task force to review compensation packages for a special class of the state’s executives. In an era where the gap is large between rich and poor, and in which the middle class has seen incomes stagnate, […]
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Volunteers Honored at Golden Heart Awards
The first thing I hear when we want to recognize volunteers is “Oh, no…not me. I really don’t do that much. I just help where I can.” That’s the thing about volunteers. They minimize their importance because they truly believe that they’re not doing enough! Volunteers volunteer because they care. They care about the people […]
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Anne Emerson, 2012 Philanthropist of the Year
Anne Haberland Emerson said she doesn’t wake up each day thinking about how she can help people. “I’ve only done things I thought were exciting and fun,” said the woman who left her job at the University of Chicago Press in 1969 to help her mother open a gallery in Fish Creek…and never left. But […]
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Staring Death in the Face, With a Smile
[Editor’s Note: This article has been reprinted with permission from Myles Dannhausen’s blog “Learning Chicago.” This post from November 27, 2012 can be found online at http://mylesdannhausen.
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Local Food Movement Brings Young Folks Back to the Farm
Meg Goettleman apologizes as she breaks away from our conversation. A customer waves as she walks down the small hill behind Goettleman’s home, and now Meg has gone to greet her. She shares a big laugh with Meg, then a hug, as she approaches the small barn, inside of which the week’s treasure awaits – […]
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Paul Sowinski recalls seeing The Beatles when he was four or five on The Ed Sullivan Show in his childhood home in Wausau and thinking: “Screaming women – that’s what I want.” Though “screaming women” is not the profile of most Door County live music crowds, Sowinski has made a name for himself and gathered […]
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Ping Wu’s Sister Bay photography shop is elegant yet cheerful with silver grey walls and a simple conference table. Curtains with a colorful, yellow, vintage print make the windows pop. But when you enter, your eye is immediately drawn to the wall of vibrant color wedding photographs, quintessential Door County scenes with textured backdrops of […]
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Upon entering Patty Degenhardt’s bright, colorful gallery featuring an array of large abstract paintings, small-scale bronze sculptures, and ceramic mugs, bowls, and plates, one may assume she represents a number of artists. “I love to do it all, obviously,” she smiles. “I think there is an optimum medium for every idea you have. Sometimes I […]
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Bo Johnson: He Stole Victory From Defeat
Bo Johnson, the 13-year-old boy whose fight with leukemia inspired his community and whose message of kindness touched people across the state and beyond, died early this morning.
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We both wanted to return to Door County,” Karen Peterson said. “It’s a great place to work”…and a great place to live. Karen Carlson and Shawn Peterson grew up in Sturgeon Bay but did not become a couple until after college at University of Wisconsin – Stout. When they decided to put down roots in […]
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Back in the day, I’d say 80 percent of the men who lived around here could play,” says Dale Graf of the accordion. Graf, who grew up in Jacksonport, goes on, “The mothers would want the kids out of the kitchen, and would say ‘You’re in my way, go out and practice your accordion.’ That’s […]
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I didn’t have to ask Jan Harlow a lot of questions. I showed up at Aqualand Camp Resort to talk to the owner, Mike McAndrews, to get a feel for the place, and after a few minutes he stopped talking and said, “you know what, I should just take you down to meet Jan and […]
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Gilbert Family Farm Meets Big Business
I lie to myself. When I buy milk, or an ice cream cone, or a hamburger at the pub, I like to imagine the picture of a Holstein in a pasture flanked by stone fences, happily grazing from the lush green grass of Wisconsin. I like to picture this cow basking in the summer sun […]
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Ula Noble: A Woman Before Her Time
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Noble House sits on the corner at the foot of the Fish Creek hill. Alexander Noble built the home in 1875, his 22-year-old daughter Ula designing the floor plan. In a sense this act served as an emblem for her life, as well as for those […]
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Caleb Whitney and Kristen Peil
Walking inside the Baileys Harbor home of Caleb Whitney and Kristen Peil, one gets a sense of what kind of people they are. The house is open and vibrant – bright coats of yellow, blue and green coat the walls where artwork hangs – and work projects and papers take up space in the living […]
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The Remarkable Life of Artist Gerhard Miller
For most boys, growing up in Sturgeon Bay in the early years of the 20th century – whooping through the woods, skating, sailing and swimming – being felled by polio at age 10 would have been a tragedy. For Gerhard Carl Friedrich Miller, once the agony of recovery was over, his illness led directly to […]
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Hanne Gault: Stranger in Both Worlds
“If I had it to do over again,” Hanne Gault said, “with the wisdom that age begets I wouldn’t have made the move.” In 1955, at age 17, Gault accepted the invitation from an aunt to travel from Denmark to work for one year as a maid in a wealthy home in Massachusetts. “I was […]
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Dorothy Scott has toured with Grammy-winning Glen Hansard, played onstage with the highly-political Sinéad O’Connor, had work featured in the Sundance movie AKA and considers Carole King a personal friend. She also founded a Door County children’s choir. “She has singlehandedly molded a young group of girls into a fantastic and extremely professional choir,” said […]