Category: Features
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Beyond Preservation: Ridges Sanctuary’s New Vision
The Ridges Sanctuary hopes to build a new interpretive center, but it must raise another $150,000 by Oct. 26 to buy the property.
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Talking Transportation at Door County School Districts
It’s big. It’s yellow, and many people say they learned just as much on it as they did in school. “It” in this scenario is the school bus, with the (hopefully) friendly driver, imitation leather seats and “camera” used to fool children into behaving.
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Being in the “young adult” stage of life, I’m physically capable of most things. I work to maintain my physical health, and the solitude of steady foot falls with my heart pounding in the middle of the park provide moments of near perfection.
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The 9/11 attacks and the American response created its own language. In the days, weeks and years to follow a lexicon of 9/11 emerged, its words weaving their way into everyday speech and use in pop culture.
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Stalking Tranquility – Door County’s Hunting Tradition Alive and Well
When you ask a seasoned hunter what he likes most about his sport, don’t assume the answer is bagging a 30-point buck. More than likely he will mention the tranquility of the woods, the closeness to nature. Civilized man often works inside a building and travels inside a vehicle. Sometimes his only opportunity to commune with […]
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In addition to taking home a bushel of Door County apples this fall, take home some apple facts. 1. The average person eats how many apples a year? a. 37 b. 42 c. 65 d. 83 2. The largest apple ever picked weighed: a. 1 pound, 14 ounces b. 2 pounds, 9 ounces c. 3 […]
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Making applesauce from home is one of the dead-simplest recipes ever; it is a wonder that the sauce-in-a-jar companies survive when the apples start falling from boughs in autumn. Peeling the skins is generally the only part that takes any effort at all, and that is taken to task with a good peeler and a […]
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The Next Generation of Apples: Honeycrisp and SweeTango
Frequents of local fruit stands may have tasted the crisp, clean flavor of a Honeycrisp apple or the sweet-tart blend of a SweeTango apple, but their little-known histories provide a new look into an age-old industry. Developed at the University of Minnesota in 1960, the Honeycrisp apple brought new life into the struggling apple-growing industry. With […]
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The Seaquist Family: Six Generations Raising Apples for 150 Years
The first Seaquist to raise apples in Door County was Anders, a native of Sweden, who came across Green Bay in the early 1860s with Sophia, his wife, two sons and a very seasick cat. He built a log cabin on a hill east of Ephraim and went to work cutting wood he sold to […]
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Apples: Door County’s Other Fruit
Door County is more than cherries. The peninsula’s orchard industry also boasts a bountiful fall harvest of apples.
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When Bill Laatsch joined the geography faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay in 1966, his specialties were the Arctic and mountainous areas of the world. Advised to choose a local community for research, he became fascinated by the Belgian settlements between Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay, with their unique building style and culture and their intense devotion to family and church.
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One word: Coffee. We thrive on it in our daily lives, during our work week and on vacation. At home: French pressed or drip pot? On the run: Independently owned or Starbucks? Whether we’re ordering a specialty coffee or a regular cup of medium roast, taking it “for here” or “to go,” sipping alone or with friends, for many people it’s an integral part of the day.
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Around the World in 11 Years: Jake Kodanko’s life on land and sea
Some people learn geography studying maps; others, like Jake Kodanko, learn hands on. From 1943 to 1954 he served in the Merchant Marines, “traveling all over the world,” he recalls, “visiting 56 different countries, some several times.”
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Most visitors to Door County with children have their “P.C.” story. Whether they ate a burger delivered by train, hosed off Rosie the Pig Dog or cruised around the woods in a pedal-cart, the restaurant located at Peninsula Center has built a reputation founded on the tenets of community.
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Door County League Baseball’s Unwavering Hold
Many locals and visitors to Door County know the names of those who established the towns and gave birth to what Door County is today. Those names – Increase Claflin, Alexander Noble, Justice Bailey, John Eliasen and Andreas Iverson, and others – will never be erased.
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A Man of Three Worlds: Dr. Phil Hansotia
Dr. Phil Hansotia is not the first physician to attend patients and to write poetry. Pediatrician-poet William Carlos Williams is well known by students of literature.
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Drawing Lines: Door County’s Geographic Rivalries
Baileys Harbor vs. Sister Bay. Southern Door vs. Sturgeon Bay. North vs. South. The rivalries that influence Door County relationships.
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As The Karen rumbles out from the Henriksen Fisheries dock into Lake Michigan, the late spring sky is beginning to brighten, the air fresh, the water a mirror, but the sun is sleeping in. “I tell my crew that tourists pay lots of money to see something like this,” Charlie Henriksen says. But the crew, […]
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By definition, fireworks are a spectacle, something people go to watch and enjoy. But as human as we all are, we tend to overlook those behind the flares of bright light and, in the case of the Baileys Harbor fireworks, the ones who originally started shooting them off for their love of it – not for money.
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Traveling with a Purpose: Meg Vermillion
To celebrate her 70th birthday, Meg Vermillion traveled from Ellison Bay to Tanzania in East Africa to help build the foundation for a new medical clinic and install water retention systems.