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Door County Living Early Summer 2022 – Volume 20, Issue 1

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  • A Journey to Acceptance: Owen Alabado and Northern Door Pride

    As a young adult, Owen Alabado despised being gay. A first-generation U.S. citizen of Filipino descent, he wanted to be “normal” and accepted and have a family one day. But in 1990s Janesville, Wisconsin, there were few resources for him and little representation of homosexuals in his community or mainstream culture, much less celebrations centered […]

  • Ramping Up for Spring

    After being confined indoors or adventuring through the frozen Door County landscape for the last five months, my heart goes pitter-patter with the first signs of spring.  The lake breeze shifts and starts blowing the warmer air in from the south. Certain spring ephemerals start to peek through the last traces of winter, the bits […]

  • Between the Bays: Exploring the Cana Island Lighthouse

    Nestled on 8.7 tranquil acres between Moonlight Bay and North Bay in Baileys Harbor is one of the most recognizable and celebrated sights in Door County: the Cana Island Lighthouse.  Connected to the mainland by a water-covered, natural-rock causeway, the 89-foot structure – once merely composed of clay Cream City bricks – is now also […]

  • Healthy Made Easy: Guilt-free eating at Get Real Cafe

    Sunshine streams through the high windows of Sturgeon Bay’s Get Real Cafe, illuminating the colorful dishes coming from the open kitchen: a quinoa salad topped with red onions and avocado, an Italian sandwich with sun-dried tomatoes and artichokes, a bowl of pork-curry vegetable soup with garbanzo beans and mushrooms bobbing on the surface. The place […]

  • Cherryland USA

    Door County is synonymous with cherries. Cool spring weather makes the peninsula an ideal cherry-growing climate, and as Memorial Day nears, the most-asked question of spring is always, “Are the cherry trees blooming yet?” The 2,500 acres of beautiful, white blossoms usually paint the countryside in mid- to late May, starting on the southern part […]

  • Rediscovering Vermouth

    If you’re a cocktail drinker who has never given much more than a passing thought to vermouth, you have a lot of company. “Americans generally treat vermouth as something that is supposed to be in the drink, but that they don’t want to taste in the drink,” said Kendall Johnson, bar manager at Waterfront Restaurant, […]

  • Golf by Design – the Origins of Door County’s Courses

    Who designed Door County’s golf courses? Do-it-yourselfers, famous architects – and nature This is part one of a two-part look at the people behind the design of Door County’s 10 golf courses. Part two will be found in the Summer edition of Door County Living, available July 1.  Door County’s nine public golf facilities and […]

  • Bluebirds of Happiness

    Have you ever heard of the Bluebird of Happiness? Every time I see a bluebird, it makes me happy. Most people have never seen one close up, but if you maintain and monitor a bluebird trail, you know the joy of seeing these birds using your nest boxes. “The Bluebird of Happiness” is a song […]

  • Boomerang: Cam Fuller’s athletics journey brings him back to northeastern Wisconsin

    Cam Fuller’s athletics journey has taken him from the golf greens of Door County, to courtside at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, to now overseeing nearly 600 student-athletes and coaches at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.  Fuller – a 2008 graduate of Sevastopol school and three-time Packerland Conference Player of the Year […]

  • Much More than a Country Doctor: Horace Franklin Eames

    Doc Eames is still a familiar name in some parts of Door County, even though he died nearly 85 years ago. But Horace Franklin Eames was not always a doctor. Born on May 30, 1859, in Masham, Québec, he moved at age 17 with his parents, William and Asenath, to a farm in Clay Banks, […]

  • A Tribute to a Home for Music

    When Butch’s Bar burned down Feb. 22, Sturgeon Bay lost more than a bar. Two people who lived in the apartments above the bar lost their lives, and seven others lost their homes. Many creatives lost a stage.  Three weeks after the tragedy, 20 musicians came together at the Sturgeon Bay Fire Company with the […]

  • One Note at a Time: Peninsula Symphonic Band

    Not long after being named the new director of the Peninsula Symphonic Band (PSB), Jason Palmer sat down for coffee with his soon-to-be predecessor to get the lay of the land he was about to enter. Before moving to Door County in 2018, home for Palmer and his wife, Jamie, had been the Fox Valley […]

  • The Evolution of Glass Artist Deanna Clayton

    Glass artist Deanna Clayton doesn’t look for traditional ways to create in glass. Twenty-five years into her career as a glass artist, she continues to push the limits of the materials she uses and continues to take artistic risks in pursuit of growth.  “I like to get an idea, and try it, and see what […]

  • Storybook House: The Carey’s cozy cabin on Chapel Lane

    When Deb and Dan Carey began  designing their second home in Baileys Harbor,  they weren’t focused on space. They bucked the HGTV trends that dot the peninsula’s fields and shorelines – there’s nothing “modern farmhouse” about it.   “We wanted it cozy, warm, inviting,” Deb said. “And we wanted it to fit in with this street. […]

  • A Visual Builder: Hal Prize photography judge Lars Topelmann

    You’ve probably seen Lars Topelmann’s photography. You might even have stopped to ponder his images for a while as you flipped through the pages of a magazine in the waiting room at your dentist’s office, or took a second glance at a billboard.  But you probably didn’t know his name, and you almost certainly didn’t […]