Category: Indoor Activities

There are still openings in Lawrence University’s 2015 summer seminar series at Bj?rklunden. Take a vacation with a focus. Choose from one or more of the following: June 14-19 • Class, Caste, and Calidad: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America June 21-26 • Learning the Language of the Earth: Recognizing Rocks and Minerals July 12-17 • The Book of Kells and the Golden Age of Irish Art • The Beatles…Four Lads Who Shook the World July 19-24 • A Guided Tour Through the History of the American Musical Theater • Rebels, Heretics, and Eccentrics in Jewish History July 26-Aug.

Door County Chef Terri Milligan is lending her culinary expertise to guests of The Eagle Harbor Inn. Her “Spring Locavore” Culinary Weekend is slated for June 5 – 7.

As the weather warms and more people return to Door County, Junction Center Yoga is offering two Saturday morning yoga classes each week. The typical summer schedule began on April 25 with Level 2 Yoga from 7:30 – 9 am and Level 1 Yoga from 9:30 – 11 am.

The Clearing Folk School introduces this year’s schedule of one and two-day summer and fall Workshop Program classes. Classes begin June 16 and run through Nov.

Although your cup of Joe may get you going in the morning, there is one beverage that is far more widely consumed for its caffeine and antioxidant properties: tea.

“If you can walk and know your right from your left you’ll do fine,” stated Mike Grill about square dancing. Grill is president of The Door County Folk Alliance.

On April 25 at 7:30 pm, Ministry Door County Medical Center and the Door County YMCA invite the community to attend their Beatlemania Dance with music provided by The Cavern Beat, the well-known Beatles tribute band.

Blaine Tornow wants to talk seitan and tempeh with you, and if either is a regular part of your diet, you are definitely part of the community he is trying to bring together through his April 24 vegan and vegetarian potluck in Sister Bay.

Samuel L. Clemens, the “father of American literature” more commonly known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is perhaps best known for his great American novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

On April 21 at 4:30 pm, the Movies That Matter film series at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County presents The Unknown Known. This film by Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War) offers a mesmerizing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key architects of the Iraq War, and a larger-than-life character who provoked equal levels of fury and adulation from the American public.

The theme of classic, socially stimulating card games continues in tournament fashion at the Door County Brewing Co. on April 11. Hot on the heels of their fun-filled cribbage tournament, the brewery promises an equally hearty, afternoon-erasing time with one of Wisconsin’s oldest and nuanced card games, Sheepshead.

Walking on water, 60-second ice cream and objects floating in mid-air are just some of the marvels of science the nationally-known Mind Trekkers of Michigan Technological University will bring to the Door/Kewaunee Science and Engineering Festival on April 11, 9 am – 4 pm, at the Southern Door High School gym.

Inequality For All, an award-winning documentary about income inequality in our nation and the way it has shaped our economy and democracy, will be shown at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in north Ephraim on April 10 at 4:30 pm and 7 pm.

On April 17, the Kiwanis & Rotary Clubs of Northern Door host their sixth and final travel adventure film of the season, Worlds of the Maya, with an exploration to Belize and Guatemala.

What promotes less stress, depression, and fatigue while simultaneously lowering anxiety, high blood pressure, and worry, and doesn’t come in pill form? Mindfulness.

Temple Grandin, an innovator, author, activist and leading advocate for autistic communities, will speak on April 29 at Southern Door Community Auditorium, 2073 County DK, Brussels at 6:30 pm.

The Door County Maritime Museum will chronicle some amazing “tails” and the enduring human-canine relationship in a new exhibit “Sea Dogs” which will open at the Sturgeon Bay museum in May.

In the summer of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project was underway. Through this movement, hundreds of white college students from the northern United States descended upon Mississippi to help integrate the state’s segregated political system.

Crossroads at Big Creek will feature a series of events including pike watching and a lecture on garden pests. On March 27 at 1 pm and March 28 at 10 am, a hike to Big Creek might result in seeing Northern Pike in the water.