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ART The Beat Goes On: The Happening of Pen Art 014

by Gary Jones

The Man Behind the Lens 024

by Alyssa Skiba

Art Auction 030 CAMEO 020 A Bird in the Hand

by Laurel Duffin Hauser photography by Len Villano

LITERATURE 032 Journal As Historian

by Alyssa Skiba

MUSIC 036 Found the Lost

by Alyssa Skiba / photography by Len Villano

DOOR TO NATURE 040 Birds of Color

article and photography by Roy Lukes

HABITATS 044 A Shack-Chic Shanty

by Jan Mangin

ON YOUR PLATE Ancient Nectar of Gods: Honey 060

by Jess Farley / photography by Len Villano

Anything But Plain: Nielsen-Massey Vanilla 106

by Laurel Duffin Hauser photography by Len Villano

IN YOUR GLASS 066 Mead: A Taste of Honey

by Jim Lundstrom

OUTDOOR 086 Eyes on the Sky

by Jim Lundstrom / photography by Len Villano

The Bees Knees 052 Pollination, honey harvesting and the secret life of bees

by Jackson Parr / photography by Len Villano

Getting Connected 070 In 1993, Door County briefly moved to the forefront of the internet thanks to a group of local innovators who went where telecom giants wouldn’t.

by Myles Dannhausen Jr. / photography by Len Villano

TOPSIDE 098 True Grit

by Jim Lundstrom / photography by Len Villano

FAIRWAYS 104 Golfing Innovations 2015

by Sean Zak

FEATURED ACCOMMODATION 118 Historic Gem In Sturgeon Bay Reborn as Foxglove Inn

by Patty Williamson, PhD photography by Len Villano

NAMES 126 How Sturgeon Bay Got Its Name cover The Ox-eye Daisy, or Leucanthemum vulgare, is a sure harbinger of spring. It is also known as common daisy, dog daisy and moon daisy. Photo by Len Villano. above A beehive’s brooding cells house young bees. Nonfertilized eggs become the male drone bees, whose only purpose in life is to mate with the queen bee. Once the drones mate they will die and fall to the ground. The queen will continue to lay eggs in the brooding cells for up to five years.

Female worker bees maintain the cells and feed and care for the young bees. Photographer Len Villano visited Washington Island beekeeper Steve Waldon, who owns the hive.

by Jim Lundstrom

DOOR LENS 128 photography by Len Villano

EDITOR’S NOTE 011 CONTRIBUTORS 013 RESTAURANT GUIDE 110 LODGING GUIDE 120

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Let’s Spring Into Early Summer ground, I realize the spring naysayers were right.

So, welcome to the Early Summer Issue of Door County Living.

We’re all abuzz here at Door County Living with the prospect of summer, and we hope to create a buzz among readers with this latest issue.

As we sat at our conference table discussing this issue you hold in your hands, we talked about how to define the first issue of the year of Door County Living (I’m not counting the Philanthropy Issue that comes out earlier in the year because it is a very different animal).

Traditionally the first glossy magazine of the year has been known as the Early Summer Issue, but in reality it is issued in the season most people know as spring.

We were split between those who believed in faithful representation, and, thus, that it should be called the spring issue, and the rest who maintained that spring is an unknown thing here in Door County. The latter group argued that we have winter, then a slightly less severe winter with naked trees and brown grass on top of frozen ground, and then summer. Spring, they maintained, is a concept that does not compute here. Spring is when those who live here year round go on vacation to somewhere warmer before the busy season begins. Spring just does not excite the senses the way early summer does, they said.

As I look out of my office window today at the Grackles and Red-winged blackbirds in the naked trees and foraging on the brown and still frozen

One of the features, by Jackson Parr, looks at the incredible world of honeybees. While appreciated for the honey they produce, honeybees serve a much bigger role in the U.S. economy — one-third of our food supply depends on pollination by honeybees. According to a July 2014 White House report, “honeybees account for more than $15 billion through their vital role in keeping fruits, nuts and vegetables in our diets.”

Jackson also looks into the health benefits of honey, while Jess Farley shows us how to cook with honey. We also take a look at the oldest fermented beverage in the world, the honey-based drink known as mead.

Myles Dannhausen Jr. introduces us to the folks — a librarian, two computer geeks, a tourism promoter, and a consultant with a tech obsession who wanted out of the city — who brought internet connectivity to the county in the 1990s.

Inside you will also find a story about a moveable shack, another about “the last of a varnishing breed,” and another about a group of high school students who are making their mark as a band.

Getting us in the spirit of awakening from a long, mostly monochromatic winter, Roy Lukes introduces us to the colorful birds that arrive at this time of year. And don’t miss photographer Len Villano’s potent weather photos.

Happy early summer!

Jim Lundstrom Editor Early Summer 2015

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CONTRIBUTORS

Contributing Editor MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. is a Door County native now living in Chicago, where he is a freelance writer and editor. The former Peninsula Pulse news editor remains heavily involved with the Door County Half Marathon, Peninsula Century Spring Classic and Fall Challenge, and the Door County Beer Festival. He can be reached at myles@ ppulse.com or on Twitter: @MylesPulse.

Food and cooking is JESS FARLEY’S creative outlet. Labeling herself a hobby chef, she has the opportunity to share her passion by contributing to On Your Plate, the foodie column published in Door County Living. This experience allows Jess a creative outlet while developing recipes and learning more and more about food. There’s a lot of love in Jess’s life, even outside of work.

She’s a supermom to her young son, and they spend days exploring Door County’s forests, farms and towns. They share affection for the land and water.

It’s family, natural beauty and Lake Michigan that continues to keep Jess here. Her personal mantra: “smile often and enjoy every moment because not a minute of this beautiful life should be wasted.”

LAUREL DUFFIN HAUSER is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and two children in Sturgeon Bay. She is interested in local history and, increasingly, in how people collaborate to make the communities they love vibrant. She worked for many years on the staff of the Door County Land Trust and is co-chair of the Sturgeon Bay Skatepark Initiative.

Award-winning writer GARY JONES has taught at the University of Wisconsin — Platteville. He and his wife of many years spend summers in Northern Door.

A stranger to satisfaction, RYAN MILLER is a starving artist and prefers it as such, excessively exploring… exercising his imagination to keep creatively fit.

JIM LUNDSTROM is buzzing with anticipation for his third summer in Door County.

ROY LUKES has been photographing nature more than 50 years, writing weekly nature stories since 1968 and helping people become better caretakers of the Earth. He holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Lawrence University and was awarded the Chancellor’s Medallion in recognition of his environmental advocacy from University of Wisconsin — Oshkosh.

After many summer seasons, JACKSON PARR is proud to call Door County home. He enjoys a spot of honey with his tea, on his toast and in his writing.

ALYSSA SKIBA is the Arts, Entertainment and Literature Editor for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living and is proud to have exercised all three segments of her job in this issue, exploring the passion of local musicians, photographers and journal keepers, past and present.

An artist, musician, recording engineer and producer, LEN VILLANO left a promising career in architecture years ago to devote his life to capturing the beauty of nature on film. Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary is now the focus of Len’s work.

Since 1992, PATTY WILLIAMSON and her husband have spent April through November on Kangaroo Lake, and the license on their van reads LVDCWI. Patty has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English and a master’s and doctorate in education administration. When not writing, she spends her time traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and needlework, researching her Irish roots and volunteering at Zion United Methodist Church, Northern Sky Theater and Door Shakespeare.

SEAN ZAK is an assistant editor at GOLF Magazine and Golf.com in New York City, where he has learned that writing about golf is just as difficult as playing it. Although he may have graduated to the Big Apple and is falling in love with the city, he’ll know it will always lack one important thing from his adolescence: the Door County sunset.

Top to bottom: Myles Dannhausen Jr. Jess Farley. Laurel Duffin Hauser.

Gary Jones. Ryan Miller. Jim Lundstrom. Roy Lukes. Jackson Parr.

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ART by Gary Jones

The Beat Goes On: The Happening of PenArt 1965 exhibit celebrates culture, times of art school’s beginning

“T

he times they are a ­changin’,” sang Bob Dylan in 1964, referring to the controversies surrounding Vietnam, civil rights, and even entertainment. More than one Volkswagen Beetle sported the bumper sticker “Make love not war.”

During this maelstrom of social change, something exciting was happening in Fish Creek: the birth of an art school.

What began as the dream of colorful artistic visionary Madeline Tourtelot is now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

The Peninsula School of Art has become a Door County institution with a reputation that extends far beyond the peninsula it calls home.

An alternative educational movement was already taking place during that era, “especially relevant to art education,” explained Peninsula School of Art Executive Director Catherine Hoke. Students were “looking for places outside the traditional setting for studying art.”

The school’s mission statement, to “provide enriching educational experiences to participants of all ages and abilities that broaden individual perspectives and foster a community dedicated to the transformational power of the visual arts,” is a direct response to that reality, as the school teaches art through workshops, exhibits and community programs.

Located at the northern bend in Highway 42 in Fish Creek next to the Northern Door YMCA, the campus includes classroom and gallery space along with gardens and a gazebo. Kay

1 McKinley, director of marketing and exhibitions, has organized a celebratory exhibit, “The Beat Goes On: The Happening of PenArt, 1965” that opens May 22.

McKinley’s intent is to “create the feeling of that time, not a timeline,” an undertaking that has involved a year of planning and taken her to the Madeline Tourtelot Archives at the art school, to NBC Learn (an online education subscription service), and to The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.

Modern technology will assist McKinley in her goal, with flat-screen televisions projecting NBC news footage from the 1960s of The Beatles, President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act, an interview with Martin Luther King Jr. following the march on Selma, the

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escalation of the troops in Vietnam, and the launch of a Titan rocket.

McKinley interviewed 14 people who were involved with the early history of the school and has created a composite video that brings together cultural elements that are not “an exhaustive representation” but give “a feeling of what is was like to be involved.”

Enlarged images from the beginnings will hang in the gallery, along with reproductions of Tourtelot’s columns written for the Door County Advocate.

One of Door County mixed-media artist Skye Ciesla’s 10.5­-foot banners with Bob Dylan lyrics will add another dimension to the exhibit, as will a display of work by early artists at the school.

Technology has allowed the manipulation of vintage media for innovative effects. Tourtelot’s short art films, which have been digitized, will

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3 Madeline Tourtelot . . .

Remembered Paul Burton’s new book Madeline Tourtelot . . . Remembered tells the history of the Peninsula School of Art. In 1964 when Tourtelot was 50 years old, Burton said, she bought three-and-a-half acres of land at the northern end of Fish Creek, and with her architect husband constructed two buildings for what in 1965 became the Door Harbor School of the Arts, an artistically successful venture but one financially unviable.

Visitors to the exhibit will not only learn about the school’s history and the role played by Madeline Tourtelot, but may observe documentation of contemporary exercises in creativity that embrace the spirit of the school.

1 Peninsula School of Art’s first classrooms. 2 Instructor Heini Hagemeister, UW — Green Bay professor. 3 Madeline Tourtelot with Chicago musician Harry Partch.

4 Tourtelot with her plein air painting of a Door County orchard circa 1965.

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Although the school closed in 1971, Tourtelot continued to support visiting artists. In 1978 she donated land and buildings to the Peninsula Arts Association that by 1980 re-established the school that has continued to be a focal point for art in Door County to the present.

be projected from a concealed digital device while an actual vintage projector from the Tourtelot archives will offer the verisimilitude of historic authenticity.

One of them, The Return of the Poet, was filmed in Door County and will feature recognizable landmarks.

Madeline Tourtelot “touched the lives of everyone with whom she interacted,” Burton stated. “With her platinum hair, careful dress and makeup, and her outgoing personality, she charmed us all, especially when driving through Ephraim in her Jaguar with the top down and the wind blowing her hair.”

A number of Tourtelot’s art films, McKinley explained, showed artists at work, but used creative filmmaking rather than traditional journalistic techniques.

Another film, Windsong, features Tourtelot as a dancer. The original 35 mm film has been converted to a video that “will be rear projected on a holographic type of screen,” McKinley explained, and feature an interview of Tourtelot discussing the production of the film with Chicago musician Harry Partch.

Tourtelot led a reclusive life after her stroke in 1984, he added, died in 2002, and is buried in the Ephraim Moravian Cemetery with her husband.

Burton’s book includes contributions

by Virginia Jones Maher, Director of the Madeline Tourtelot Archives and Study Center at the Peninsula School of Art, and is offered by Stonehill Publishing of Ephraim, 2015. It is available at the Peninsula School of Art; all money collected from sales will be donated to the school and the archives/study center.

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Art School Reflections “I took a drawing class at the art school when I was 13,” Door County artist Liz Maltman recalled. “We drew eggs. I was very shy, but I loved that class!

The instructor took my mother aside and told her to be sure I kept doing art. What he said made my day!”

This was 1965, the first year of the art school, and she did make art, but practical art — making clothing and creating interior designs until, at age 50, she began taking classes at the Peninsula School of Art and for the past 10 years has worked not only as an artist, but an instructor there.

While her portraits and landscapes have won prizes, she is especially proud of the fact that she is invited to participate in the school’s plein air competition.

“I’m an outdoors-type person,” she said. “I like the changing conditions, the challenges. My favorite way to work.”

The art school has been a positive experience for her.

“I might not have been an artist without it,” she said.

Sculptor Bob Merline began his career teaching art at Gibraltar High School during the same era that Tourtelot began her fledgling art school across the street at its present location.

“When I first came to Door County, the art school was connected with the University of Wisconsin,” Merline said. “I took classes for credit and that’s how I got started on my MFA.” One summer, he recalled, “she offered me a stipend to come to the school and work with other artists in residence.” Their assignment was to produce work for an end-of-season show for their own benefit.

Merline also taught at the art school. Money he earned, along with a recommendation that Tourtelot wrote, helped make his MFA a reality.

He remembers Tourtelot as “an extremely intelligent and vivacious woman, a very engaging person, always promoting and contributing to the arts of Door County in an open and non-judgmental way, accepting a broad range of artistic visions and styles.”

She was also a very social woman, he added, and “lived her life the way she wanted to live it.” In conservative Door County, “she was kind of a ‘wild woman,’” he joked, “but a wellmeaning and generous lady.”

Potter Bruce Grimes was also an artist in residence and an instructor at the art school. For a time he was an art professor at University of Wisconsin ­— Green Bay. He has been a renaissance man in that his career has taken him to a number of universities and involved him not only in art, but both academic and athletic administration and even work with a nonprofit archeology center.

An artist at heart, “I have always taught at least one class,” he said, “and I always am doing my ceramics.”

He has fond memories of Tourtelot, “a patron of the arts,” he said, “bringing in young artists, encouraging them.

She wanted people who were creative around her. She was a very social person. At parties at her house you got to meet national figures,” not only artists, he explained, but those in other areas of the arts.

“She loved Door County,” he said, “loved bringing the arts there, nurturing them. She was a very special person.”

“I met Madeline in 1968 when I moved to Door County to help my mom open Edgewood Orchard Galleries,” Anne Emerson recalled. “She was extremely encouraging and we had a long friendship that began that summer.”

The beginning of that relationship, however, was not without a bit of excitement.

“Madeline rented the barn that is now [Edgewood Orchard] gallery from my mother as space for the art school’s painting classes, and what had been the orchard caretaker’s house near the barn [now the Emersons’ home] as living space” for artists, she continued. Because this was the era of the ’60s, “it became something of a commune which brought a visit of [then] Sheriff ‘Baldy’ Bridenhagen and a phone call to my mom which pretty much ended that arrangement!”

But that dramatic episode led to the opening of Edgewood Orchard Galleries the next summer, she added, a family enterprise that is now in its third generation of management.

“Madeline hummed with creativity,” Emerson said. “The art school became a center and Madeline pulled everyone in — painters, poets, potters, filmmakers, photographers, sculptors, musicians and scientists. All ages were present as a number of faculty (many from UW — Green Bay and UW — Milwaukee) were there with their families. “[My husband] Minnow and I learned so much during those times and met people who had a lasting influence on us. We’re grateful and happy the school continues to thrive!”

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One of the problems that she encountered was learning that the interview had been audio rather than videotaped prior to the WTTW-­T V Chicago public television airing of the film. Subsequently she had to layer the film projection with the recorded conversation.

“We feel fortunate to have the Peninsula School of Art just a few miles down the road from us,” said Nell Jarosh, who along with her husband JR now runs Edgewood Orchard Galleries. “It brings artists and art lovers to the community and adds to Door County’s reputation as an arts destination.”

Visitors to the exhibit will not only learn about the school’s history and the role played by Madeline Tourtelot, but may observe documentation of contemporary exercises in creativity that embrace the spirit of the school and its dedication toward promoting the arts in people of all ages.

In addition, she points out the reciprocal arrangement that exists when artists exhibiting at her gallery sometimes

“The Beat Goes On,” Hoke explained, is actually part two of a year-long celebration. “We Love Art; We Have a Dream” is part one of a program already in progress. The school’s monthly Family Art Days have also been focused on the 50-year anniversary, providing young people with copies of the artwork of artists of the 1960s such as Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson and Mark Rothko to serve as inspirational models for the budding artists as they create work of their own.

“What started as a sixweek summer program has evolved into a yearround program of visual arts experiences for participants of all ages and ability.”

— Catherine Hoke Above left: Peninsula School of Art Executive Director Catherine Hoke. Photo

by Len Villano. Above right: Peninsula School of Art today. Submitted photo.

teach at the art school and in turn bring their students on field trips to the gallery. From a personal perspective, she notes that the art school has great youth programming that not only benefits her twin daughters but all the children of Door County.

Hoke observed that while the mission has remained the same, the means of achieving it have shifted.

“The audience has grown significantly,” she pointed out, and subsequently “programming has expanded exponentially since we began …

What started as a six-week summer program has evolved into a year-round program of visual arts experiences for participants of all ages and ability. I am excited about new faculty and new programs,” she said, knowing that the beat will go on as long as people love art and have dreams.

“The Beat Goes On: The Happening of PenArt, 1965” runs from May 22 to July 11, 2015 at the Peninsula School of Art, 3900 County Road F, Fish Creek. The gallery is open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Saturday.

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A Bird in the Hand

llie 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?” and be no closer to knowing what this odd but compelling creature is.

Help for the hapless may begin with the fact that birds have, through time and across cultures, been revered as messengers, tools for communicating with the gods, a means of bridging two worlds. Skrivanie’s talisman could well be thought of in the same way, as a messenger from a world different from our own.

Birdstones are small (most ranging from four to seven inches in length) prehistoric carvings that roughly resemble the form of a bird. They were created during the Late Archaic (3,000 – 1,000 BC) and Early Woodland (1,000 – 500 BC) periods and although they are considered to be the highest form of prehistoric Native American art, they are relatively unknown. According to Skrivanie, this is due, in part, to their rarity; only 5,000 are known to exist.

Skrivanie saw his first birdstone at a Native American artifact exhibit in Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1970 and felt an immediate sense of “kinship,” both with the creator of the piece and with the collectors who have cared for and treasured it. At the same show, Skrivanie met Judge James R. Beer, a renowned collector of prehistoric artifacts and President of the Genuine Indian Relic Society. The encounter started Skrivanie on what has become a lifelong passion for birdstones.

Skrivanie and Beer are now, 45 years later, collaborating on a book about birdstones.

The first recorded discovery of a birdstone was in 1840. Most birdstones are found in the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River watershed (very few are found elsewhere) and most are discovered along waterways or in plowed fields. In Earl C. Townsend, Jr.’s

Birdstones of the North American Indian (BNAI) and in a recent special issue of Prehistoric American, descriptions of individual birdstones are accompanied by the details of their discovery. One birdstone was found in the back of a farm “along Bachelor Creek” where arrowheads had been collected previously. Others were discovered by farmers sowing wheat or plowing corn. One turned up in a load of gravel, another on a shale bar in Erie County, Ohio. One wily woman in Madison County, Ohio waited in near zero temps to purchase a coal bucket for a quarter at a farm auction because, at the bottom of the bucket, there sat a beautiful blue and gray slate birdstone.

(Townsend’s tome, published in 1959, is considered the “birdstone bible.”

Only 700 copies were printed, making it as much of a collectible as the art it chronicles. Skrivanie’s oft-referenced copy sits close at hand.)

In addition to being rare, part of the birdstones’ appeal is the mystery that surrounds their existence; no one is quite sure what purpose they served.

Most birdstones have perforations drilled into their base and the birdstone community has long debated the purpose of these holes. One theory holds that the stones were used as handles for an atlatl, or device for throwing spears.

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Proponents of this theory, Townsend being one of them, argue that the birdstones “‘feel good’ in the hand, as if they were made to be fitted therein.”

This, they argue, would also explain the fact that the perforations are often damaged. Skrivanie disagrees.

“The beauty and craftsmanship that goes into these pieces, the time it must have taken to create them and the care with which materials were chosen all lead me to think they were treasured ceremonial objects.”

Unless a birdstone is found in situ, this mystery is unlikely to be solved.

For all their appeal, birdstones have not been widely embraced by the world art community. Some are in museums and galleries, but most, according to Skrivanie, “are held by private collectors — farmers, teachers, oilmen, judges, lawyers, university presidents, coal mine workers, doctors, and almost every known occupation.” At one time, a handful of collectors held a large percentage of the available pieces. This has changed over the years due to, in Skrivanie’s words, “the three Ds — death, divorce and division. The three Ds have allowed more collectors to be involved even though their collections are smaller.”

If birdstones are rare, their collectors are rare birds, too. Skrivanie conjectures that the desire to collect might “satisfy a sense of personal aesthetics and act as a kind of security against uncertainty.” He describes his collecting as a journey.

“At first it was an excellent way to escape the stresses and strains of work.”

Soon, it became a passion. “I became a little crazy. I caution all collectors to avoid the affliction I call ‘blind dog in the butcher shop.’ You can passionately pursue to such an extent that you become careless and indiscriminant, until the day someone tells you that you have some fakes, reproductions or restored objects!”

Part of Skrivanie’s journey included the decision to concentrate his efforts on collecting only high quality pieces.

“Of the 5,000 birdstones discovered, 80 percent are broken. The 900 to 1,000

Skrivanie holds the Hirzel Birdstone (named after one of its previous custodians, Eugene Hirzel), a favorite in his collection. It was found in Monroe County, Michigan in 1930.

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That leaves 100. Fifty of these are ‘5s, 6s and 7s.’ The remaining 50 are ‘8s, 9s and 10s’. I wanted the ‘10s.’”

He at one time held what were considered to be the second, third and fourth best specimens in the world.

While Skrivanie adheres to Somerset Maugham’s philosophy that “if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it,” neither is he dismissive of the collector who chooses other criteria and he is particularly respectful of collectors who have “personal find” collections.

“Even if their collection is not of the highest quality, they have a special connection to it, having made the discoveries themselves.”

Skrivanie is now considered one of the preeminent birdstone collectors in the world. He co-edited and is credited with being the driving force behind the aforementioned Birdstone Special Issue of Prehistoric American, the most significant publication on birdstones since Townsend’s BNAI. Skrivanie’s personal collection once numbered 13; it is now down to seven (he blames a “momentary mental weakness” for at least one of the sales. As with much of Skrivanie’s life, there is a story there, but space dictates saving it for another time).

One doesn’t have to do much reading on birdstones to know that Skrivanie’s love for individual birdstones is a common experience among collectors.

“No two are alike,” he explains. “They each have their own personality and you become very attached and drawn to certain ones.”

Educator, historian and author Richard Sisson posits that the appeal has something to do with the “countenance of these objects, whether prayerful, regal, proud, alert, or simply ‘perky.’”

Skrivanie laughs while recalling an experience he had years ago.

“I fell in love with a specimen owned by a family in Waupaca and it was bad. I never did get the family to sell it to me — their grandfather had found it but, I was given ‘visiting rights!’”

Earl C. Townsend, Jr. puts the fascination with birdstones in a broader context with his assertion that “the study of archeology in any form gives some basis for a better understanding of human life. This alone justifies the time and effort spent on the subject, for man cannot know too much about the experience of his predecessors if he is to improve himself.”

While this is indisputably true, Skrivanie is quick to note that where collecting is concerned, there is a selfishness that’s freeing. “The only one you have to make happy is you!” Collecting birdstones has clearly made Oliver Skrivanie a happy man.

“Each bird is a reminder of the joy of living on this island earth.”

Ollie Skrivanie is a retired attorney/CPA who lives in Fish Creek. He practiced law and accounting for 37 years in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. In addition to birdstones, his interests include reading, basketball, film noir movies, occasional games of Horse in the driveway, golf twice a week if weather permits, grandchildren and breakfast every Friday at either Pelletier’s or the White Gull Inn with a group of retired men, “the geezers.”

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The Man Behind the Lens Bernie Hagedorn and Northern Door’s first photography studio

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 are worth a thousand words. But these aren’t just words for the subjects — the farmhouses, the sailboats, the bumblebees, the banked rowboats — these photos speak about the humble photographer who captured these moments up and down the peninsula.

His name was Bernard Hagedorn — better known to the Door County community as Bernie — and although he passed away more than a decade ago, his contributions to the community can be found in high school yearbooks and family photo albums in the furthest reaches of Northern Door, not to mention meeting minutes from the 1960s of the Sister Bay Village Board and the county zoning committee.

He was a photographer who kept his camera within arm’s reach and his mind open to possibilities, whether for his hobbies, his business (Hagedorn Studio) or the community he chose to call home. Bernie was a man of great humor who rarely, if ever, spoke of himself, instead choosing to talk about his love of Ephraim sunsets, The Ridges’ flowers, bees, boats, goldfinches and, more than any of those, his wife Estelle, daughter Celeste, and when they came along, his grandchildren.

“Dad had a great sense of humor. He loved to tell jokes,” Celeste recalled.

“People gravitated to him because he was very easygoing. He was a very private person though. He didn’t talk about himself at all. He would never say, ‘I was this’ or ‘I did that.’ Never. He loved his grandchildren and me and his wife. He would talk about that kind of thing — never ever about himself.”

But to say he was never spoken about would be false. His name finds itself

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on many things Sister Bay and Door County related (he was credited for helping bring sewer and water to the Village of Sister Bay five decades ago), even though he wasn’t a native of the peninsula.

Bernie was born in February 1919 in Royal, Iowa. In the early 1940s, he met and married Estelle Bogaczyk, who he met at a facility that made naval radio equipment during World War II. In 1946, Estelle gave birth to the couple’s only child, Celeste, and just five weeks later, the couple packed up their belongings and moved to an 80-acre farm operated by Bernie’s parents in Ellison Bay to raise and tend cherry trees, cows and crops.

The farm life proved to be difficult and when a second income was needed to support the two families, Bernie turned toward photography. It was a passion he had developed as a high school student and refined as an apprentice for a Park Ridge, Illinois photographer.

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Bernie set up Hagedorn Studio in his living room and quickly became the goto man for local weddings, graduations, high school photos, baby pictures and family reunions. As the only photographer north of Sturgeon Bay, it was no surprise that he was highly sought after.

a Catholic wedding in the morning and maybe somebody in the afternoon had one at their house … then he could go back in the late afternoon to do a 5:00 for their reception and then he could get on the last ferry to go to Washington Island…he always had several in a day so he was all over the county.”

“He had as many as four weddings a day,” Celeste recalled. “The people really set their weddings around him … in those days, the Catholic weddings were always in the morning so he would have

Aside from shooting the photos, he also developed them, retouched the negatives, printed them and, before colored pictures were easily accessible, hand-colored the prints.

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In 1956, the family moved off the farm and into Sister Bay. Bernie rented a building on North Bay Shore Drive, dedicating half of it to his studio and the other half to a Scandinavian imports gift shop (Scandinavian Village Gift Shop).

Using her secretarial degree, Estelle operated the gift shop and did bookkeeping for Bernie’s studio, and the family lived in the back.

“They ran this business 24/7 together,” Celeste said.

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Despite a robust schedule traversing the county to capture the moments of Door County residents, Bernie maintained photography as a hobby.

He was fiercely dedicated to shooting in the early morning light and on overcast days, which he lauded for their ability to make color more vivid — two tried-and-true measures that helped Bernie capture many awards, including for his most widely exhibited and published photograph, “Evening Calm.”

In 1969 in response to the gift shop’s growth, Bernie designed and had built a new location for Scandinavian Village Gift Shop on South Bay Shore Drive (what is now Frykman Studio Gallery). He maintained his photography studio in his original location until 1971, when Bernie had a home built near the gift shop and operated his studio out of the basement.

From the moment he moved to the village, he was a tireless servant of his community, serving on the Sister Bay Village Board as a trustee and as president (1963 – 1970) along with the county zoning committee and 26 door county living

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These notable contributions, built on his knack for forward thinking, were honored during the Sister Bay Fall Festival in 1987 when Bernie was honored as Sister Bay Citizen of the Year.

“He was a planner because he could think, ‘What would be best for this county? What would be best for the gift shop? What would be best in the future?’ Not just today or next week but years from now,” Celeste said.

He and Estelle enjoyed bowling and golfing, though his biggest passion was being behind the lens. He also had a special gift for growing awardwinning Peace roses, a talent not unnoticed by one flower company that began sending Bernie rose seeds to grow in Door County to test the soil conditions. While any gardener would revel at the recognition, Bernie’s pride for his roses was different.

“He was always proud because my mother’s birthday was October 3rd and he always tried to have roses growing for her birthday so he could give her a bouquet,” Celeste said.

While Celeste’s role in her parents’ business was donning a Scandinavian outfit and working in the gift shop, she occasionally had a place in her father’s photography.

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blouse, we’re going to go here to take a picture,’” Celeste said.

But it wasn’t always work for the young Celeste, who enjoyed accompanying her father on his photography outings, whether they were for hobby or work (he also freelanced for the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Door County Advocate). There is one particular outing, during which Bernie was taking a photo for the newspaper, that stands out for her — it involved Helms Haven and a blue-eyed movie star named Jeffrey Hunter.

“One morning he woke me up and said, ‘Do you want to go over to Helms Haven?’” Celeste said. “Staying at Helms Haven was Jeffrey Hunter — he was in the King of Kings movie. I was in high school so it was like, ‘Oh, a movie star!’ So we go over there and dad was going to take a picture for the paper and there was Jeffrey Hunter with his beautiful blues eyes and this baby blue blazer and white slacks on.

I got to go along and meet him. For a young high school kid, that was a big deal.”

Bernie retired his studio in 1983 and the gift shop in the early 1990s but the life within his years never slowed down. When he reached 80 years old (in 1999, three years after Estelle died), he picked up a paintbrush and began watercolor painting — a newfound passion that he continued until his death in 2002 at the age of 83.

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The cameras that captured countless images of Door County’s nature and people were inherited by Celeste and remain in pristine condition. Some of his prints are available for sale during the summer at Corner Of the Past in Sister Bay. As for his legacy and how the humble man from Iowa is remembered here today? Perhaps his daughter says it best.

“He was a very artistic, creative, caring, quiet person who loved to tell jokes and loved to be with people,” Celeste said. “It was a wonderful life.”

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Door County Living Creative Director Ryan Miller created this year’s painting, “Butterfly Effect,” which depicts a budding philanthropist in a field of colorful butterflies. Inspired by the publication’s theme of cancer, the painting incorporates the colors of the many cancer awareness ribbons.

The oil pastel (30” x 15” framed to 36” x 20”) will be on display during the summer of 2015. For viewing and other information, contact the Door County Living office at (920) 839-2120.

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LITERATURE by Alyssa Skiba

Journal As Historian For the most part, anyone who takes pen to journal paper does so under the assumption that the thoughts and musings they pour forth are for their eyes only. However, as history and the publishing industry have shown us, journals of bygone eras have been a tremendous asset to our understanding of the cultures and individuals who came before us.

Take, for example, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the first known American Indian literary writer who took it upon herself to record traditional Indian stories and poems in her journal — a journal that just a generation-and-ahalf later would become the key source for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s bestseller The Song of Hiawatha.

Perhaps the most famous modern example is 1947’s The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. In it, Anne writes to her diary (written as though speaking to an imaginary friend, “Kitty”) about daily life as she and her family hide during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. There are words about her relationships with her father, mother and sister, her dislike for the individuals she shared a room with, and her uncertainty about the direction in which her budding romance with a young man was headed.

But beyond the highly unique circumstances of the aforementioned journals, they offer to us more than just historical facts about the times; these writings also infuse something that is unique to journaling — a sense of place and humanness that any of us could relate to.

A 1964 journal of Margaret Eames. Courtesy of the Egg Harbor Historical Society. Photo by Len Villano.

“The thing about Anne Frank’s diary, despite the fact that their chance of doom is ever present, she still writes about and has time to be an ordinary human being,” award-winning writer and frequent Peninsula Pulse (sister publication of Door County Living) contributor Justin Isherwood says.

“There’s a sense of falling in love, of not liking some people. The people are acting like people, despite the fact that they are faced with the most gloomy of fates.”

In retrospect, it is easy to look at those published journals and diaries with a sense that the individual must have known their perspective was more valuable than the average Joe’s. But unless the diary was published by the author, Isherwood points out that a century ago, propriety dictated keeping

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one’s thoughts to oneself, usually through use of a journal.

On a smaller scale, long-ago journals of our own family members may provide an insight into where we came from. Isherwood points to his own grandfather’s daily journal, its pages marked with dates ending in 1900, 1901, 1908 and so on. For the most part, the farmer used his pages to keep track of the farm’s math — how much the young cows sold for at the fair, how much he paid for pigs, when his family commenced harvesting rye.

“This journal was his psychologist and it’s not that he spoke often about his own mind but you can tell just sometimes the way he’d talk about the weather being ‘damned miserable.’ And you think, okay, does that reflect his own mind?” Isherwood says.

got up at 5:45 and came to the store at 7:30.”

Other entries detail her visitors for the day, how busy she was making beds, the tasks she took on at the store (Mondays were laundry day), who called to pay their bill and how much it was, and who invited her over for supper, along with what they enjoyed at the meal.

It was a life of a woman seldom idle.

Sometimes she was so busy, she only wrote three lines. But she still wrote.

The journal entries of “Miss Munda” and her relatives were, though basic, telling of the times, as documented in A Memoir of the Aslag Anderson Family In Ephraim, by Marianne Kellman (with contributions by Helen Timmons).

Of particular note was a journal entry in 1901 in which “Olive wrote that Mr. Cook from Menomonie gave Adolph a ride in his automobile,” and another at a later date, when Munda attended a women’s suffrage meeting in Sister Bay “and wrote in her diary that she would ‘have to think about it.’”

In this way, journaling reveals the daily life of our ancestors with small glimpses into how their minds worked. It gives us a sense of how the world operated at the time, what was important, how their time was spent, and reminds us of the importance of keeping records of our own time today — a time when Facebook records our daily updates, Instagram captures the scenes around us, and technology is at our fingertips in a more convenient and faster way than pen and paper.

When we peruse the selection of old journals at museums, we are looking into the daily lives of people we never knew. But somehow, reading their thoughts brings them to life in a way nothing else could.

Historical organizations throughout Door County recognize this, many

of them boasting small collections of journals from the peninsula’s early settlers. The Ephraim Historical Foundation has several boxes of diaries from Ida “Miss Munda” Anderson, the sixth child born to Aslag and Greta Anderson, who owned and operated the Anderson Store in Ephraim.

Like the journals of many, it reveals a simple life centered on the happenings at the store and life on the peninsula.

She wrote everyday, opening her entries with a description of the weather and what time she awoke.

“This is a beautiful morning,” an entry from October 23, 1940 reads. “Sun shining so bright. The wind is from North West. Just a nice little breeze. The Bluff looked beautiful where the sun shone on it. The foliage was beautiful. I

Mrs. Alice Lundberg, wife of Charles Alexander (Alex) with whom she operated the successful Lundberg Store (general store and chandlery) in Fish Creek, is the owner of several diaries owned by the Gibraltar Historical Association. These “A Line A Day — Five Year” diaries provided just four lines of space for each day, which Alice separates with the use of pencil and black or blue pen.

Her diaries were a way of tracking when she went to church and who delivered the sermon, her guests, who wrote letters to her, and when she had her hair “shampooed and set.”

Several names appear throughout her diaries — Lucille, Grace, George, Bill — people who undoubtedly had a positive presence in her life based on her entries. Her daughter, Alma, was of special note, particularly in a February 1927 entry in which Alice documents the beautiful gifts her daughter gave her for Valentine’s Day: “Red tulips on table in dining room. Sweet Peas in Living Room in vases.”

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Emotions or not, she was recording her time in a way that sheds light on her character. Diaries and journals were, and continue to be, a place to share emotional vulnerabilities, thoughts, musings, annoyances, or to delve deeper into one’s psyche.

Isherwood himself uses a daily journal as a way to tend to his inner self — his demons, what he’s done, what he hasn’t done, what he’s failed at. His studies in psychology taught him that part of being a healthy human being is having an ongoing dialogue with oneself, something that can be achieved through daily writing.

“I think part of being a good, whole healthy human being is having that medium where you can have that dialogue,” he says. “In this case, you’re talking to yourself. Or you’re talking to your grandchildren, your greatgrandchildren.”

Perhaps the best part of journaling is the simplicity of doing it — all that’s needed is a writing utensil and paper.

But for the more creative types, look no further than Muriel Foster’s Fishing Diary. This exceptional diary by English diarist Muriel Foster is as much a piece of art as it is a log on the conditions and catches of her fly-fishing days. Colorful renditions of lures, landscapes, ducks and fish accompany her insight and poetry in a way that matches a new segment of journaling in today’s world — that of the collage journal in which people sketch and collect flowers or other mementos to include with their writing.

On the other hand, the advent of the internet spawned countless ways for individuals to bring their journals into the digital era. One Google search of “journaling” brings up 12.3 million search results (in 0.27 seconds, nonetheless), a majority of which encourage online blogs and websites.

But with technology updates imminent and ever changing, there is greater concern for the potential for it all to be wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Isherwood references a recent early morning BBC radio program he heard

about the risk humans have of losing the details of their lives because of technology.

“How long does that information remain viable before erosive forces at the atomical level corrupt it and it’s lost?”

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“What we have invested as families and beyond, as institutions in a record may be lost,” he added. “Fifty years from now, there may be a big black hole of what happened in people’s lives, what happened to companies because some of the economic data is just lost because it’s no longer kept in a physical form or paper form.”

Not that keeping a journal in a physical form necessarily guarantees survival into the 22nd century — there is always the risk that a fire, flood or the simple act of relocation could take away the physical forms. But at the end of the day, a journal is your chance to live in the moment — to write about what you’ve encountered, your struggles, your dreams.

Isherwood sees journaling as perhaps the fairest form of literature — a hobby that is undertaken by individuals who feel their time deserves a fair record without the pressure of trying to create the next great novel.

“Sooner or later, you’re doing it for yourself,” Isherwood said. “You’re not trying to pretty things up, you’re not in search of the great novel, you’re not trying to sell anything, you’re just recording it at the basic, average mean.”

How does one start? If you ask Isherwood, it’s simple — ask yourself what mattered today. As for what’s important enough to land in a museum someday? Well, that’s for a future generation to calculate.

“Yes, it may turn into something quite valuable down the road if it survives, if people keep it and cherish it and see that it survives,” Isherwood said. “Any person’s journal will turn into gold eventually. They always will. They still work on a daily basis for the person doing it. Sometimes I think the very act of writing, no matter what you write, is some measure of health. You’re slowing your person down enough to record the day, even if it is the price of hogs.”

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desire a reality. At that point in time, Connor recalls there wasn’t “a whole lot of music happening at Gibraltar.”

Then one day, he heard about a group of musicians at Sturgeon Bay High School — juniors Tommy Hauser and Ryan Mueller, and sophomore Levi Burglund.

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 explore their interests in a way that doesn’t show up on their report card. Just ask Gibraltar High School junior Connor MacDonald, frontman of Door County band Found the Lost.

“I got a hold of them and we started playing together, just jamming on the songs that I wrote up in my room,” Connor recalled.

“In high school you’re really busy with everything your teachers and parents want you to do,” Connor said during a recent phone conversation. “They want you to be in all these extra programs that look good for college. They’re not going to say, ‘Oh, being in a band will look good on your college resume!’

They’re not going to say that because it’s not a school function or a school program.”

He might be right, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t made the time to be part of something that he won’t be graded for. Connor has long been a solo songwriter — his bedroom is his writing studio and the thoughts that run through his mind inspire his lyrics.

Like most high school teens, it is a creative outlet that takes him away from the rigorous schedule of classes and extracurriculars.

But unlike most, writing songs for his eyes only wasn’t enough. He wanted a musical platform and last spring, he set his sights on finding a way to make that

“It was really interesting because prior to him coming to us…I had only met him twice before at the skate park in Sister Bay,” Tommy Hauser said.

“I barely knew him and it was really cool because through music, you don’t even need to know someone to feel comfortable, sit down and go through music with them.”

Along with that group was Connor’s friend and fellow Gibraltar High School jazz band member Dan Jacobs.

In the beginning, Connor would write out a basic map of his songs with guitar and vocals, and bring it to the table, where the other four would help him fill out the sound. Though it’s taken a little longer for that songwriting collaboration to kick in, there was an immediate connection among the band at their first show.

“After our first show, we all just fell in love with playing with each other,” Connor said. “Everything was just gelling really well.”

With MacDonald on vocals, Jacobs and Hauser on guitar, Mueller on bass, and Burglund on drums, Found the Lost was created.

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We got together, we found each other and now we’re discovering more about each other and writing. It’s been a constant flow of new discovery and findings.

— Connor MacDonald

Local high school band Found the Lost rehearsing in their studio in Sturgeon Bay. (Left to right) Levi Burglund (drums), Ryan Mueller (bass guitar, backing vocals), Tommy Hauser (rhythm guitar, keyboards), and Dan Jacobs (lead guitar, backing vocals, synths). (Sitting) Connor MacDonald (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard).

The group might say bringing five teenagers from two different high schools together for twice-weekly practices is easier than designating a genre under which they fit. Connor considers the band a “melting pot” with a host of influences spanning the better part of the past century, from jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Chet Baker to UK-based electronic music duo Disclosure and psychedelic hypnogroove rockers Tame Impala.

“We’re kind of like a melting pot because we all listen to different music so I think we all put our own sound into the compositions,” Connor said.

“It’s a bunch of people with different influences getting together and jamming. It’s kind of making something that would probably fall under the genre of alternative rock. It’s pretty loud.”

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MUSIC Just as quickly as Found the Lost was created, it was on some of the biggest stages a high school band could hope to land on, from Launchpad competitions to Summerfest.

While one big gig led to the other (the band placed in the top three at Launchpad regionals, the prize for which was a Summerfest time slot), it underscores the dedication needed by a group of teens whose time is stretched among various academics and extracurriculars (at two different high schools, nonetheless) to make their music happen.

The group had barely been together a couple months when, with a stock of exactly three songs under their belt, they submitted a recording to the Wisconsin School Music Association’s high school alternative music competition, Launchpad.

They placed in the top three against 14 other bands at the regional competition in Wauwatosa and from there, moved onto the state competition at The SETT in the University of Wisconsin — Madison’s Union South in June 2014.

There they faced off against the other two top-placing bands from the Milwaukee regionals along with nine bands from the three other Launchpad regional competitions (held in Sun Prairie, Chippewa Falls and Chilton).

“That was really crazy because we had barely been playing together,” Tommy said. “None of us were expecting to be doing that kind of stuff that fast. We were kind of blown away by how fast everything was happening.”

While Found the Lost didn’t take the top prize, which included the prestigious Les Paul Launchpad Award, an additional Summerfest slot, a professional recording session, and a Yamaha equipment package for their school, the value for the five teens was meeting other musicians and getting their message out.

“Competition isn’t something a musician looks for,” Connor said. “It was just a fun thing to do to go meet other musicians and get our sound out there, get our message out there, and just play, just experience people watching you and listening to you and vibing off you. That’s the reason we wanted to do it. We didn’t really care about getting studio time. It would’ve been nice but we can record ourselves.”

The competitions also gave the five individuals a chance to come together as a unit and define their show style, which Connor describes as “high energy but very personal.”

With Launchpad and Summerfest behind them, the group has set their sights on writing, defining their message and sound, and recording at The Tambourine Lounge in Sturgeon Bay. They hope to have an EP out in 2015 and as they’ve been doing all along, continue finding one another through music.

“Found the Lost is discovery, finding new pathways as far as writing,” Connor said. “We got together, we found each other and now we’re discovering more about each other and writing. It’s been a constant flow of new discovery and findings.”

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DOOR TO NATURE article and photography by Roy Lukes

We in the north live in a monochromatic world most of the winter. Black, white and gray are the dominant colors, with leafless trees and snow-covered landscapes. Even many of the birds are black and white, such as the Chickadees, Juncos, Nuthatches and most Woodpeckers. Our only really colorful birds here all year are the Cardinals, but they are not abundant and are only to be found in localized areas.

Fortunately we have the pines, spruces and firs to liven up the winter world with their colors. Once the snow has melted and small hints of green appear, I know exactly where to go on our property in search of the first wildflowers in bloom, the Hepaticas, and often that’s the time when we can expect to see and hear our favorite migratory birds returning.

Like old friends, the species that return in late April and May are some of our most colorful favorites. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Scarlet Tanagers are some of the brightest. One of the very earliest, the male Red-winged Blackbird, sports bright red-orange shoulder patches (or “epaulets”). A study done in the past indicated that male Redwings with the deepest colored and largest patches were able to claim the best nesting and breeding areas, and naturally attracted more females.

Several years ago, during the peak of spring migration, Charlotte counted nine male Indigo Buntings grouped closely in our front yard, some at the birdbaths on the ground and others on the nearby platform feeders. Years ago we were fortunate to have a pair take up nesting in our raspberry patch near the tops of the canes at about waist level.

How exciting it was to so easily watch their progress from day to day.

People tend to be disbelievers when told that Blue Jays, Indigo Buntings and Eastern Bluebirds lack blue pigment in their feathers. Their quick reply is, “Well, how come they look so blue

then?” It all has to do with the air vesicles within the blue feather-barbs and the presence of dark pigment (melanin) situated beneath these airfilled, color-reflecting units, serving as an absorbing screen.

All the natural light falling on these feathers is absorbed except the blue rays, which have very short wave length.

As a result, only the blue rays are reflected to our eyes. If you were to hold a blue feather up to the light (generally toward the sun) so as to receive transmitted rather than reflected light, the feather would appear gray or black.

Make a 180-degree turn and view the feather away from the sun — it appears blue!

Years ago we visited our friends, Harold and Verna Wilson, who were wintering in Florida. Being a dedicated bird bander, Harold was banding birds the day we arrived. One of his captives turned out to be a brilliant male Painted Bunting decked out in a combination of blue, green, yellow and red, almost as though a committee that couldn’t make up its mind had designed it.

A few years later a bird accidentally flew into our opened garage and allowed me to easily capture it for a closer look and to take some pictures of it while being held in the hand. Imagine our surprise to learn that it was an immature male Painted Bunting, far out of its normal southerly range. Charlotte jokingly made the comment that perhaps the bird was looking for Harold Wilson!

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One of our friends was searching for morel mushrooms along the edge of a woods several years ago when he accidentally discovered a female Whippoor-will nesting as they do on the ground. What a great lesson we had in appreciating the effectiveness of cryptic colors as we tried in vain to locate the bird for photographing, about as difficult as it was to distinguish the Killdeer’s eggs among the stones along a roadside.

As soon as the Baltimore Orioles return to the county this spring, make a point of seeing how many colors, feet and legs included, you can see on this flashy bird, especially on the more colorful male. Once in a while an Orchard Oriole appears on a feeder in northern Door County. This bird can range from yellow in the immature to a dark orange in mature adult males.

The bird whose return we patiently wait for is the Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

The flaming gorget (GOR-jit), the red throat patch of the male, is so interesting and strikingly beautiful to study. When it is sitting in dim light or shadows the throat feathers look black.

If the sun hits these feathers, they glow a brilliant sparkling red.

Common Grackles seem to be nearly all black but in certain light you can see hints of iridescent purples, violets and blues in the feathers. Most birds in the blackbird group are dull black or brown.

One member that is more colorful is the Eastern Meadowlark, which nests in the field to the west of our home.

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1 It took many years for the Scarlet Tanagers to learn to eat orange pulp and grape jelly that was set out for the Orioles.

2 Eastern Bluebirds are great parents, both working to feed all the young in the nest.

3 The Fox Sparrow loves to scratch on the ground searching for its food.

4 A male Indigo Bunting at the birdbath shows its paler colored lower mandible.

5 This male Ruby-throated Hummingbird sits in good light to reveal the brilliant red of its throat feathers.

6 Occasionally an Orchard Oriole will appear at our feeders and is gone a day later.

7 This mature adult male Baltimore Oriole has the deepest orange color.

8 A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak enjoys sunflower seeds.

9 The Summer Tanager nests in Illinois but can range as far as Door County during spring migration.

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Door County lays claim to many nesting species of sparrows: the White-throated, Song, Swamp, Chipping, Clay-colored, Vesper, Grasshopper, Savannah and Field.

It takes a little study and effort to tell them apart by their plumage. All tend to be quite brownish with only small subtle field marks by which to differentiate them. Fortunately their songs are very distinctive and help with identification.

There is one sparrow, the colorful Fox Sparrow, which remains with us for only brief periods during its migratory flights. The cinnamon browns and gray streaks give beautiful contrasting hues to this elusive sparrow.

Apparently our property contains precisely the habitat that strongly appeals to the Scarlet Tanagers, for they nest here every year. The dripping birdbath that we provide as soon as the weather warms is greatly to the Tanagers’ liking. They accept very quickly the photographing blind I set up a dozen feet from the birdbath. Some of my favorite birdbathing pictures are of the Scarlet Tanagers, so thoroughly soaked to the skin that I wonder how they can fly.

A southern breeding bird has visited Door County on several occasions.

The Summer Tanager is sometimes in a transition plumage and it makes for real excitement to see one in the yard. The young males can be a combination of reds and yellows, but they usually don’t stay for more than a few weeks in spring.

Once the Baltimore orioles and Rosebreasted Grosbeaks begin nesting, their brilliant far-reaching songs lace the woods with beauty and serenity.

Spring and summer, rich with the delicate musical arias of these and other nesting birds, keeps Charlotte and me close to home!

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A Shack-Chic Shanty The Ahnapee Menagerie

by Jan F. Mangin HABITATS

In the month of February some years ago, I placed the following ad in the Kewaunee County Star — “WANTED: Small farm outbuilding to move to my property.”

I had purchased this three-acre parcel just north of Algoma in the late 1980s.

My husband Jim and I had been staying in an older mobile home that had come with the property, but now I visualized a getaway set further back from the road and something with character. After viewing scads of tumbledown shacks and various dilapidated old barns, I became more than discouraged.

Lee, a retired science teacher, lived on a beautiful farmstead approximately one mile away. Lee needed a new garage/ workshop. He had an old granary that he had been planning to take down because it sat right where he wanted to build. After spotting my ad, his first reaction was, “Naw, they’d never want that old building!” But he had a special inkling and he ventured to call me.

His phone message was, “I have an old granary. It is just the building you are looking for.”

“Right,” I said, disgruntled and disbelieving.

So Jim and I drove north from our home in Prairie du Sac. I squelched any hopeful expectations and prepared for another disappointment. When we pulled into Lee’s driveway, we beheld a simple structure that appeared to be intact. Lee came out of his house and we all went inside the old granary that had been his workshop. In the midst of it, I felt myself developing a relationship with this symbolic, sturdy little shelter.

The granary was 20’ x 30’ and oneand-a-half stories high. Its interior construction had never been covered over and its post-and-beam framework was fully visible: hand-hewn, square-cut beams mortised into hefty corner posts and secured with wooden pegs. Fat roof joists of cedar and tamarack logs, some with the bark still on, crossed the Early Summer 2015 45

space to rest atop the sidewall beams.

All the hand-hewn beams, Lee told us, had been salvaged from an old barn, approximately 100 years ago. This meant that the amazing post-and-beam framework of this granary probably dated back to the first European settlers.

Jim snatched his pocketknife and started poking into everything — the posts, the beams, the ceiling joists — on the hunt for wood rot and hoping that he would fail to find it. I stood in the center of the space wanting to understand what it was that I was feeling then went upstairs feeling like a kid on a treasure hunt. I knew that we had found it. With his hands stuffed into his pockets, Lee had been watching us and then he said an incredible thing: “If you move it, you can have it.”

It was an eye-popping moment.

After returning home to Prairie du Sac, I brought out the graph paper to explore room layouts, window placement, a loft space, and thoughts as to the exterior.

I found a company based in Wausau that had impending business in the area after the ground had dried out to move the building.

Mid-June, a curious parade made its way from Lee’s place to ours. None of us had realized the granary was only resting on its floor. Our mover worried about perching it on the flatbed trailer, that without its floor on a windy day, the granary would be “as vulnerable as a box kite!” Thankfully moving day was not a windy day. The boss and his team secured the building, delivered it, and set it in place.

Then: Jim and Jan Mangin in the process of turning a former granary into comfortable living quarters. Submitted photos.

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The consensus by everyone — except for me — was to dig a basement and set the building on a foundation. I had wanted to do this project on a shoestring and did not want to tap into my savings. I told them, “Just set it on the ground nice and simple. The way it is at Lee’s place!”

On the other hand, by having a basement, the furnace and water heater would be out of the way, there would be storage space, and if there were to be a tornado, we would open a hatch in the floor and go down below.

I had to search my soul, long and hard.

I relented.

“OK. A basement. But with glass block windows and one where a person can crawl out.”

In the meantime, Lee was removing the old floorboards at his place.

For just $500, I had found a dandy 1980, red, one-ton Ford pickup truck and we brought the floorboards over.

The old beat-up boards were perfect for a distressed floor in the kitchen and dining area, but needed to be scraped, laid down, sanded, then applied with two coats of primer, three coats of paint, and three coats of clear polyurethane.

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Since the granary measured 20’ x 30’, in reality there was no room for a decent-sized bathroom. Out came the graph paper. With a 12’ x 20’ addition, there could be a generous bathroom plus a bedroom. We decided to go ahead with it. After the granary was lowered onto the foundation, the shed roof addition was constructed along with two porches.

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Next we removed the layers of siding down to the original wood boards and had the builder cut generous openings for windows, large expanses of glass to integrate with the beauty all around. We insulated, house-wrapped and tar-papered.

While Jim worked with the builder, I drove my truck around in search of cedar slab wood that could be salvaged for free from the portable sawmills in the area. This would be used for the exterior siding. Stacked out-of-doors during the following winter and spring and exposed to the raw elements, the bark loosened from and peeled off the slab with ease. Given the other demands, siding the granary took three summers altogether but it was so satisfying and actually fun.

As soon as the granary and the foundation were one unit, we steel-brushed, cleaned and clear-coated the interior cedar ceiling joists that ran from side-to-side, and the massive notched-and-pegged framework. With two coats of a glossy polyurethane finish, warm and vibrant tones of amber emerged from within them like magic.

Next, we insulated between the interior studs and covered the walls with heavy plastic sheeting.

We removed two ceiling joists in the living room area to open up a nice 10-foot section of vertical space, 20 feet to the peak. We hung an old weathered porch swing at one end of the living room by using heavy chain plus two 12-inch long heavy springs. The loft space, now reduced by 10 feet, was still a generous 20’ x 20’ area with 4-foot sidewalls, the roof line ascending to 10 feet. The loft is where we can watch television at night or for guests to sleep under a cozy peaked and beamed ceiling.

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The stairway to the loft is set against a butternut-paneled wall. The stair treads are 4-foot long ash logs sawn in half again, length-wise. The thick, heavy wooden side-stringers are 3” x 8” x 10’ pier-planks that washed up onto the shore of Sturgeon Bay after a violent storm. The old planks were waterlogged of course and we almost killed ourselves trying to lug them to the truck. We stored them in the Belgian brick schoolhouse that is also on the property (we had originally planned to restore the schoolhouse, but that is another story).

When first finding those massive planks, we had no idea as to how we might use them but they turned out to be a lucky find for this project.

Electricity, heat and plumbing came next as well as bathroom fixtures and kitchen appliances. With heat in the building, we were able to work on the weekends during the winter months and then sleep in the warm and rustic loft under the roof.

Painting by L.H. LaMont

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We bought some beautiful weathered barn board for $250 and Jim paneled the entire upper-half of the granary with it, laying the boards horizontally and fitting them meticulously by scribing against the post-and-beam framework. From a local sawmill we had purchased native woods of butternut, black walnut, white ash, white cedar and aspen. We installed the walnut horizontally in the living room and the same with the butternut on the interior walls that wrap around. Because of a disease going through the Wisconsin butternut trees, we were happy to get some for posterity’s sake. We painted the aspen wood pantry a light taupe, the kitchen and dining area a warm cream, and the old plank floor a soft pumpkin color.

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When removing the exterior siding, we had quite a surprise.

Beneath it, the granary was covered with 2’ x 4’ metal panels intended to keep the mice from coming in and feasting on grain. Some of the panels were embossed with a brick pattern, so charming for wall covering in the kitchen/ dining area. It was very difficult trying to work with these “charming” metal panels. It involved cutting them to match the brick pattern and to fit around wall plugs, light switches and window openings.

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Jim and I were just two wacky people on a mission but we started with an idea, a vision, and the adventure of doing it.

We moved from one thing to the next thing and didn’t look back. We like the idea of caring for a historic schoolhouse with its own story and a granary with a past. We’ve come to call our patch of land The Ahnapee Menagerie.

Photo by Dan Burke

One of our like-minded friends gave us a heavy door with a beveled glass window that he found in some reconstruction debris on the University of Wisconsin — Madison campus.

Painted red, it is the front door and opens into the kitchen.

For $25, I rescued some folksy shutters and window boxes from a cheese store, soon to be demolished in our hometown of Prairie du Sac. They flank two sets of old windows at the southeast corner of the granary. These old-timey shutter-style windows had been propped against a tree at a nearby farm, along with a sign that said, “Take us.”

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We used a cement board prep-material in the tub enclosure and paneled this with a vinyl product that looks like old tin ceiling. We drywalled where I would wallpaper above painted wainscoting in the bedroom. The ceilings in the addition are tongue-and-groove painted aspen, the same in the pantry.

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The Pollination, honey

Bees

harvesting and the secret life of bees

Knees

by Jackson Parr  photography by Len Villano

In Volume VI of Wisconsin Beekeeping, dated February 1929, Sturgeon Bay resident Herman Reichard writes, “I think that beekeeping is very good for the orchard man; as the bees help pollinize the cherry and apple bloom. I had fifteen hives of bees in 1927 and my orchard and those of my near neighbors yielded more fruit per acre than those that were a mile or more away.”

Reichard, a self-proclaimed “beginner in beekeeping,” saw the service that his beekeeping provided to a county that depended on successful orchard crops. Today, cherry and apple orchards account for 3,200 acres of land and $5 million of the Door County economy.

Nearly a century later, many other Door County residents have embraced the task of providing pollination to the peninsula, whether they know it or not.

Max Martin got his start beekeeping by problem solving with potato seeds at the Peninsular Agricultural Research Center in Sturgeon Bay. “I work on wild potatoes. We keep the true seed but we increase it. We hand pollinate all of it,” said Martin.

“I thought, ‘Man there’s got to be a better way to pollinate this other than someone literally sitting there pollinating hundreds, sometimes thousands, of flowers by hand.’ I thought, ‘I’m going to try honeybees.’

I called the local beekeeper and Paul Eggert brought a frame of honeybees out.”

Martin explained how the honeybees didn’t touch the potatoes because there was no nectar in them. The bees just clustered by the corners of the enclosed potato room trying to get out.

“He then brought me a box of bumblebees, we put them in with the potatoes and they just pollinated.

Bumblebees are not that interested in nectar but they’re very interested in pollen and they’re a bigger bee so they can handle the heavy pollen. So the bumblebees just went nuts,” said Martin.

Paul Eggert became Martin’s mentor and last year, Martin harvested more than 1,000 pounds of honey for sale and for his favorite lunch, peanut butter and honey sandwiches.

As the weather warms, bees are building up their hives for another

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season of pollination and honey production. Beekeepers like Martin and dozens of others in the county help the bees grow their colonies while getting paid in honey.

Yet this deal has become stressed since the 2006 discovery of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which has caused the unexpected death of millions of honeybees throughout the country. The cause of CCD is unknown but believed to be associated with poisoning from pesticides, genetically modified crops, and pathogens that spread quickly through a packed colony.

The threat has already led to a two-year ban on neonicotinoids, an insecticide linked to CCD, throughout the European Union in 2013 and similar initiatives in the United States. The 2014 Farm Bill will provide emergency assistance to “eligible honeybee losses,” including loss due to CCD, in excess of normal mortality.

Beekeeper Max Martin with a hive frame.

The leading theory on CCD deals with varroa mites and their parasitic effect on bees. These mites were introduced to the United States in 1989.

“If you talk to older beekeepers, they never had to treat for these diseases but in the 1980s a lot of people got out of beekeeping because they had all these diseases,” said Martin. Today, Martin frequently performs simple tests on his hives to check for varroa mites and other diseases.

Although the massive death of honeybees might cause a price hike in honey, the greater importance lies in honeybees’ inability to pollinate as much. Almond trees are completely unable to self-pollinate without bees and most other blossoming fruit relies on it. Honeybees pollinate more than $15 billion worth of American crops each year.

Pollination is the process of the anther (male part) of a flower being transferred to the stigma (female part) of another flower, thus providing grounds for reproduction. While bees are the most productive pollinators, pollen can be spread by birds, a gust of wind, or a child running through a field of daisies.

When a honeybee lands on a flower to gather pollen and nectar for the hive, some of a flower’s pollen clutches to its hairy legs and gets carted off to the next place the honeybee lands. It is then deposited, allowing for the receiving flower to reproduce. Flowers have adapted to become more colorful and aromatic to entice a bee to land and pollinate.

While pollination may be the most important asset bees provide to agriculture, it’s not the reason they travel in the first place. They are simply looking for food.

Pollen provides all essential nutrients a bee needs to survive — carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals.

Honey, or nectar with most of the water evaporated, is stored in the hive as food throughout the winter while there are no flowers to forage pollen from.

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grows larger than the rest in the hive and also grows reproductive organs, allowing it to lay eggs.

2 Bee bread, honey and royal jelly are on the menu for any honeybee hive. Bee bread is a combination of pollen and honey that provides the main source of food for a hive. Pollen provides all essential nutrients a bee needs to survive — carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals. Honey, or nectar with most of the water

3 evaporated, is stored in the hive as food throughout the winter while there are no flowers to forage pollen from.

Worker bees also secrete a white gel substance called royal jelly to feed the queen bee and the first meals of new bee larvae. By consuming royal jelly exclusively, the designated queen bee

A queen bee in a honeybee colony can lay up to 2,000 eggs each day for nearly five years. The new bees are cared for by the worker bees, which are also tasked with cleaning the hive, feeding the young, and foraging for nectar.

When a bee draws nectar out of a plant, it is stored in its belly. Upon returning to the hive, the bee transfers it to another worker bee that begins evaporating the water. Nectar’s 80 percent water content must be evaporated before it turns into the thick consistency of honey. Bees fan their wings to speed up the evaporation process before depositing it into gridded cells called honeycomb. The honeycomb is covered with wax until it is needed as food for the winter season.

A colony typically needs 100 pounds of honey to survive through the winter.

In northern Wisconsin, beekeepers stop extracting honey on the first of September, allowing for the hive to build up stores for the winter. With the introduction of CCD, fewer bees are returning to their hives with bellies full of nectar and the hive does not have enough honey to survive the winter.

But if a hive can thrive, beekeepers reap benefits by means of honey sales.

Beekeepers harvest the remaining honey in a hive that is not needed for the bee’s survival.

1 A sugar bar Max makes for the hive to help feed the bees throughout the winter. 2 Max shows the hive frame with egg cells. The larger cells in the middle are for drone bees. 3 A special screen with small holes keeps the queen bee from moving too high up the hive.

“I generally steal heavy,” said Martin, who harvests more honey than bees can afford to survive through a winter.

To compensate, Martin cooks a thick block of white “candy,” a combination of sugar and corn syrup, for the bees to feed on.

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Most beekeeping in Door County is done recreationally with the added benefit of honey surplus for roadside sales or farmers markets. Although the honor system at a vacant stand on a rural county road may appear as a convenient yet unproductive business practice, direct farmer-to-consumer sales, which include farmers markets and pick-yourown operations, amounts to $1.2 million for the Door County economy.

Herman Reichard had sweet success in 1929. “We have been selling our honey at $1.50 per 10-pound pail and 80 cents for a 5-pound pail and it seems no matter how large a quantity one has he can always sell it,” Reichard wrote.

Today, visitors driving down any county highway might pay $4 for a one-pound jar, but most beekeepers will tell you that they are not in it for the money.

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“It’s all pretty much recreational,” said Martin. “They say there are about 2.5 million hives in the U.S. In order to be counted in that, you either have to be registered or you have to belong to a club that registered. Most of the people that have hives in Door County are not registered.”

Protective gear keeps Max Martin safe while checking on his bees.

is most popular given the abundance of clover fields in response to incentives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Farm Service Agency.

At the grocery store, you might see the majority of a shelf dedicated to the mild golden-colored bottle simply labeled “Honey.� This generic brand-name honey is a variety of clover honey, made from bees that pollinate clovers. Clover honey

Under the Conservation Reserve Program, these agencies pay farm owners the market rental price to take their land out of agricultural use, under 10- or 15-year contracts, in hopes of enriching

the soil and providing wildlife habitat. At the beginning of 2015, Door County had 2,968 acres of land in the program.

Clover, being drought and cold tolerant as well as naturally returning nitrogen to the soil without the use of fertilizer, is the ideal candidate for these conservation programs. With an incentive to plant clover, honeybees find it in abundance

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ON YOUR PLATE by Jess Farley / photography by Len Villano

Ancient Nectar of Gods: Honey

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oney has been written into historical documents in many world cultures as far back as 2100 B.C. It was the very first sweetener incorporated into food and drink. Not only was honey used in consumables it was also highly regarded as a currency in ancient times and used

Honey Mustard Salad Dressing 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 Tbsp honey 2 Tbsp Dijon mustard 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar salt and cracked fresh pepper to taste Mix all ingredients in canning jar.

Cover jar with a lid, vigorously shake and pour over your favorite salad.

Any extra dressing can be stored in your refrigerator for up to one week.

Pan Roasted Honey Dijon Carrots Serves 4 as a side dish 1 lb. carrots cut into halves 1 – 2 garlic cloves sliced 2 Tbsp olive oil splash of dry white wine (I used Southern Comfort out of desperation) 2 Tbsp butter 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard 2 tsp honey handful fresh chopped Italian parsley salt and pepper to taste Optional: pinch of crushed red peppers added with the parsley.

Heat cast iron pan to high heat.

Add olive oil, enough to cover the bottom of the pan. Add carrots, sauté for 2 to 3 minutes. Add white wine, honey and Dijon. Coat the carrots, reduce heat to simmer, cover and steam for 5 minutes.

Remove cover, add garlic and

for its medicinal purposes. Honey has been called the nectar of the gods. It is versatile and adds complexity to your cuisine when substituted for traditional sugar. I love it in my coffee.

Raw local honey is readily available here in Door County. The majority of

honey found in our region is wild clover — light in color and mild in flavor, which makes it versatile when incorporated into your kitchen practice.

I included examples of how to include honey into your everyday recipes. Sweet and savory. Enjoy!

continue tossing carrots until they are golden brown. Add parsley, crushed red pepper (optional), salt and pepper to taste.

Spicy Peanut Coconut Shrimp Preheat oven to 450 F

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You will need a parchment lined sheet pan.

1 lb. raw shrimp — peeled, deveined, washed and dried (approx. 16 – 20 shrimp) 3/4 cup panko 3/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut sprinkle cayenne pepper 2 Tbsp peanut butter 1 Tbsp honey squirt of sriracha (chili sauce) 1 tsp tamari or soy 2 Tbsp canola or grapeseed oil Mix panko, shredded coconut and cayenne in a shallow bowl. Set aside.

In a separate bowl, whisk together peanut butter, honey, sriracha, tamari and oil. Dip the shrimp in the peanut butter mixture, then roll the shrimp in the coconut/ panko breading. Place the breaded shrimp onto the prepared sheet pan. Continue until all shrimp are breaded. Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 15 minutes; flip half way through the bake time.

Enjoy paired with the Cilantro Basil Yogurt Dip.

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Fresh Ginger Citrus Chutney Makes a very refreshing dessert or would be great on top of grilled fish or chicken.

1 clementine 1 orange 1 grapefruit 1 Tbsp honey 1/2 tsp grated ginger 3 Tbsp shredded fresh mint salt Optional: toasted pecans and shredded coconut Peel, segment and remove the membranes on the citrus fruit. Toss in a bowl. Add the shredded fresh

mint, honey, grated ginger (I use a Microplane for this) and a tiny pinch of salt. Add toasted pecans and shredded coconut if you wish.

Cilantro Basil Yogurt Dip 8 oz. container plain Greek yogurt 1 Tbsp honey chopped cilantro and basil (approx.

3 Tbsp.) juice of 1/2 lemon salt to taste Mix all ingredients together in a small bowl and let it sit for a half hour or more so the flavors blend together.

Substitute Honey for Sugar Traditionally baking recipes are written to incorporate cane sugar as the sweetener. You can easily swap in honey for any recipe.

Honey adds complexity and layers to whatever it is you are baking.

It also has potential to decrease the sweetness and round out the flavors. Obviously, honey is liquid and cane sugar is not so you will have to consider that when making the substitution. Here are simple guidelines to follow from cooks.com: Fructose levels are higher in honey than sugar, which means you will not need as much honey to get the desired sweetness.

Substitute 1 cup honey for 1 cup sugar for the first cup and then 2/3 cup honey for every additional cup of sugar substituted.

Reduce the baking temperature by 25 F, as honey browns faster than sugar.

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Add a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda for each cup of honey added when baking soda is not already included in the recipe.

and thus it becomes the honey commonly found at the grocery store.

besides clover are basswood, buckwheat and wildflower.

“The orchard men plant sweet clover for a cover crop… a good crop of clover means a good crop of honey,” wrote Reichard when the practice of planting clover was still used despite the Conservation Reserve Program not being established until the 1950s.

Basswood, or Linden, honey is the product of blossoms from the basswood tree. Its light, water-white color is contrasted with a strong biting flavor, almost like fruit that is barely ripe. It is best paired with lighter fruits, vanilla ice cream, or fromage blanc cheese.

During the establishment of the program in the 1950s, beekeeping provided another asset that explains the increase to more than five million hives across the U.S.

Buckwheat honey contrasts to the traditional clover in almost every way.

Its black color and thick consistency resembles molasses with malty tones and a lingering aftertaste. It is best used in baked goods or as an addition to homemade BBQ sauce.

“If you think about the war times, there was no sugar. If you could produce your own honey, you were doing well as far as sugar goes in the house,” said Martin.

Today, the concept of honey goes beyond some extra sugar in the home. A variety of flowers and fruit plants means a variety of honey flavors. The most popular honey varieties in Wisconsin

Wildflower honey comes in several sub-varieties, as its name suggests. It is a conglomerate of many species of flowers and blossoms. Its color and taste reflect the season and plants blossoming at the time honeybees are harvesting nectar. Generally, it is darker than clover continued on page 64

The variety of wildflowers gives the bees something different to feed on and perhaps that taste will return to your kitchen table in a golden jar.

When substituting a cup or more of honey, reduce the liquids by 1/4 cup to begin. Depending on the recipe you may have to experiment with this.

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Beehives in a Sister Bay orchard help to pollinate the cherry trees.

Honey and Health Honey has a storied history in medicine. The oldest human scriptures from Sumer, an ancient civilization that stood on modern-day Iraq, included honey as a primary ingredient in wound-healing concoctions. This prescription lasted until the first part of the 20th century, with honey dressings as a part of daily wound care.

Use of honey in wound healing is still practiced in parts of the world today.

But as most doctors began dressing their patients in the latest technology and putting honey in their mugs of tea, belief in the internal health benefits of honey consumption evolved. It is now understood to be an effective cough suppressant, shown in several studies to beat fancy drugs in easing nighttime coughs in children and improving sleep. The mechanism for this benefit is unclear, but is believed to lie in the way honey can coat the throat. The coating decreases the sensitivity of sensory fibers, which will then suppress the coughing mechanism in the brain.

This cloudy benefit, however, is steeped in a “time-honored” tradition, as the Mayo Clinic describes it, rather than science. Observing a child coughing in their sleep lacks sound evidence.

Moving forward with concrete science, nutrient content of honey has been a new hallmark in the search for honey’s healing power.

Honey is known to have antioxidant properties.

Antioxidants function to prevent or delay cell damage from free radicals. The human body produces free radicals in everyday activity from strenuous exercise to breathing and digesting food. Antioxidants latch onto free radicals and neutralize them to prevent their destructive properties.

Honey varieties contain different health properties based on what their source is. The cute golden bear sitting on the top shelf at your grocery store is produced from clover, which is the standard, mass-produced and most abundant honey. Bees that pollinate clover fields will produce this light, mild and sweet variety that holds sedative properties perfect for that herbal tea before bed.

Darker honeys such as honeydew, manuka and buckwheat contain antioxidant properties.

Buckwheat honey, second only to clover in Wisconsin’s honey production, increased levels of antioxidants in a study of 25 participants over 29 days. Other studies revealed buckwheat honey to contain 10 times more antioxidant power than clover honey.

Most Americans get their antioxidants from fruits and vegetables. While it isn’t wise to substitute a spoonful of honey for an apple, replacing table sugar with honey as a sweetener is a way to get an antioxidant punch in your diet.

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honey with a sweet but earthy taste.

Pairing with food depends on the current blossoms but it is hard to go wrong with a dollop in morning tea.

To get specific flavors of honey, beekeepers can bring their hives to an area where a large number of a single blossom is growing.

“People that want to say, ‘We have basswood honey’ and that type of thing, they actually will think, ‘Ok, the basswood is starting to blossom this week,’” said Martin. By taking their hives to an area thick with basswood trees, “any honey put in for the next two weeks, if there’s a lot of basswood around, you’ll say its mostly basswood honey. Then

Door County Beekeepers Club Beekeeping in Door County, despite its growth in popularity, has remained a recreational hobby for most. Commercialism only goes as far as the local farmers markets or a roadside stand where passersby pay for glass Mason jars of honey on the honor system. While there is no plan to expand the business of beekeeping, enthusiasts throughout the county are mobilizing into a “Beekeepers of Door County” club.

In February, a group of 33 seasoned, amateur and bee-curious residents gathered at Crossroads at Big Creek to gauge interest in forming a club.

“A bee guild is a place for people to connect, to share knowledge and get experience from others,” said Pam Voss, who is new to beekeeping.

Voss and several others volunteered to get something organized to answer the growing interest in northern Door County.

“The closest place to go for something like this is Green Bay,” said Voss. “So they brought the guy from Green Bay up to speak and he didn’t have time to do it himself but said he would be willing to help.”

The unofficial meeting received no press and was promoted only by word of mouth. “The purpose of the gathering was to find out if beekeepers would like to have a Door County club,” said Fish Creek beekeeper Ann Norz. The interest was there and the group plans to meet officially before planning a series of monthly meetings to exchange ideas, concerns and sting-stories.

Bees work the hives at Steep Creek Farm.

you’ll take that off, take it home, extract it, label it and say it’s basswood honey.”

Martin doesn’t specify varieties of honey, instead labeling his jars “Summer mix” to combine the flavors of all of Door County’s wildflowers and blossoms.

But what about cherry blossom honey?

Door County, the cherry mecca of the Midwest, would be the natural candidate for this floral-flavored variety.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t fall in the timeline for honeybees building up their hives.

“Anything that blossoms early in the season, very rarely will you find honey labeled that,” said Martin. “They just don’t have extra bees around to store honey. In the cherry blossom in May,

Interested beekeepers or those looking to see what the hobby is about should contact fishcreekhoney@gmail.com for more information.

that’s when they’re still trying to increase their hive size so they can eventually get enough bees so they can continue to rear young and start storing for next year.”

Martin advises those in the county to help their local beekeepers fight the collapse of their colonies by following a few simple steps. Tell your beekeeping neighbor when you are spraying your lawn or doing lawn care beyond trimming the hedges. This gives the beekeeper the chance to protect their hives from the potential harms of fertilizers and pesticides. Keeping part of your lawn in a wild state by not mowing it like a putting green will provide natural vegetation to give native pollinators a place to build their nests.

Finally, by planting gardens with a

variety of wildflowers and pollen-heavy plants, you can give a new source of energy to the bees and their young.

“Imagine eating only oatmeal every day,” said Martin. “That’s what it’s like when these bees go to an orchard and all they see are almonds or all they see are blueberries.”

The variety of wildflowers gives the bees something different to feed on and perhaps that taste will return to your kitchen table in a golden jar.

Sources for this story include: The National Honey Board, Slate.com-Why Is So Much Honey Clover Honey, Harvard School of Public Health, Wisconsin Beekeeping, United States Department of AgricultureAgricultural Research Service Early Summer 2015 65

IN YOUR GLASS by Jim Lundstrom

Mead: A Taste of Honey “The Meathe is singularly good for a consumption, stone, gravel, weak-sight, and many, many more things. A chief burgomaster of Antwerp used for many years to drink no other drink than this and though he were an old man, he was of extraordinary vigour, had always a great appetite, good digestion and had every year a child.” ­— The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened, a 17th century English cookbook

believed a river of mead awaited them in heaven.

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ou can thank Odin and recycled mead for all the bad poetry in the world.

According to Norse mythology, Odin stole the “mead of poetry” from the giant Suttungr by drinking all three vats of the precious inspirational mead. He then turned into an eagle to fly back to Asgard, home of the gods, pursued

by Suttungr, who turned into a much larger eagle. Just as Odin was about to enter Asgard to regurgitate the mead into waiting vats, he accidentally excreted some mead, which fell to Midgard — the world of humankind. The excreted mead is considered the source of inspiration for bad poets, while Odin personally dispenses the mead of inspiration to true poets.

Mead — also known as honey wine, nectar of the gods and ambrosia — is the world’s oldest fermented beverage.

In addition to its known use among Norsemen, it has been traced to ancient China and India, and is referenced in ancient Greek texts. Ancient Celts Above: An illustration of Odin, in the shape of an eagle, stealing the Mead of Poetry from Suttungr, from an Icelandic 18th century manuscript. Public domain image.

Its popularity around the world can probably be attributed to how easy it is to make a batch. Honey, water and yeast are all you need. Of course, early mead was fermented with naturally occurring wild yeasts; it wasn’t until 1857 that Louis Pasteur identified yeast as the cause of fermentation, causing brewers to cultivate yeast.

Mead has been dragged into the 21st century on the tailcoat of the craft beer evolution/revolution, and like craft beer, modern versions of mead are taking endless variations, with a variety of honeys, flavor additions and techniques such as aging in oak barrels. You can find sweet mead, dry mead, sparkling mead, fruity mead, spiced mead, hopped mead — really, it’s only limited by the imagination of the mead maker.

“That’s one of the things that surprises people,” said Colleen Bos, of Bos Meadery in Madison. “There’s such an incredible variety in what you can do just starting with honey as the base ingredient, then using fruits or spices or herbs. You can just go in so many different directions with it.”

As with many who have grown up with the craft beer evolution/revolution, Bos came to mead through homebrewing.

“I’m a Charlie Papazian-initiated homebrewer,” she said, referring to the man who wrote the book that has

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introduced so many to homebrewing since it first appeared in 1984 — The Complete Joy of Homebrewing.

“I started working through the book.

It became quite a passion for me,” Bos said.

Papazian includes mead recipes in his book, so when Bos had tried all the beers she could think of, she decided to give mead a try.

But she came to it with some knowledge.

“I do have two Master’s degrees in medieval history, so there was a certain special interest in mead from having taught Beowulf and things like that, which gave me a little bit of insight into mead,” she said.

“I made the first batch and really liked it a lot. It was a citrus honey mead with a little vanilla in it,” she said. “It was very dry and I liked that a lot. When I went out and tried to find commercial meads to buy, most of them were pretty sweet.

I liked the drier mead, so over time I started to develop the idea that it would make sense to start making mead for the drier mead market.”

Actually, her first thought was to open a brewery that also made mead. In 2006 she went through beer school at the prestigious Seibel Institute in Chicago.

“I continued to work on a business plan and look at the market and felt like it made sense to just focus on mead,” she

And then there is a whole other group of mead fanciers.

Submitted photo.

“We have found that there’s a whole group of folks who watch Game of Thrones or who have read those books,” Bos said. “They talk about mead in the books. There’s a whole younger demographic that are into that series that have an interest in mead as a result of that. It’s funny how popular culture can impact those things.”

said. “It’s taken a long time to get where I’m at. You learn an awful lot along the way, taking entrepreneurial training courses and learning more about business and researching the permits and things you need like that.”

In 2012 she began producing mead commercially and on Feb. 15, 2015, Bos Meadery opened a tasting room on Washington Avenue in Madison.

“We’re off to a great start,” she said of the tasting room. “I’ve been really delighted at the number of people who are interested in mead and are looking to have an experience. We’ve also just had people walk in off the street who know nothing about mead — we’re in a nice central location. They are curious about mead. And we’ve had really wonderful reactions.

“I’ve actually heard from people who had the same experience I had, that they like mead but they find the commercial meads a bit too sweet. And they’re excited to find a commercial mead on the drier end of the spectrum.

I think there are a lot of people who expect it to be like a beer and are quite surprised that it’s not exactly like wine, not exactly like beer. It’s its own category.”

Despite it being its own unique category, the craft beer community is a target market “because they are very open-minded,” Bos said. “I do think it is building on the craft beer revolution, and I find craft beer drinkers are very open to taking in a very distinctive flavor.”

Last year Bos Meadery was contracted by the Brown County Renaissance Faire to produce a mead specifically for the event.

“We got some wonderful reactions from that,” she said.

Bos looks forward to expanding the idea of mead.

“I think one of the most exciting horizons that I see for myself is working more with different varietals of honey,” she said.

“I’ve had some folks in who have tasted our Buckwheat Mead and are amazed at how different it is from mead made with honey from Wisconsin wildflowers.

Buckwheat is a dark honey that has a distinctive, almost malty flavor. We’ve used cranberry blossom honey to make mead and have gotten some great reactions with that as well. I would love to play with more varietals of honey.”

You can really see mead’s tie to craft brewing when Bos talks of her next release, and you know that low-alcohol session beers are all the rage in craft brewing.

“One of the things we’re going to try to do for the summer months is come up with a low-alcohol mead. What we call a session mead,” she said. “The first batch is going to be infused with Door County cherries. We think it’s going to be very popular, especially since there is so much interest in the craft beer community. They’re used to something that is beer strength. We’re trying to come up with a mead that is the strength of beer but still has that honey flavor, and, of course, Door County cherries have a real nice finish to that.”

A Mead Renaissance Renaissance fairs are one place you are sure to find mead. The Door County Renaissance Faire began selling mead last year, according to William Hitt, tavernmaster of the Olde Knights Tavern at the fair.

“When we started, we did not initially get the wine license to enable us to serve mead, only fermented malt beverages,” Hitt said.

So the first few years of the festival, attendees could drink 1554 Black Ale and Fat Tire from the New Belgium Brewing Company of Fort Collins, Colorado. Or if they didn’t like beer, they could choose from Bud Light and some hard lemonades.

Organizers did obtain a wine license for the 2013 event, but too late to obtain mead for that event.

Later that year, while attending the Minnesota Renaissance Festival in Shakopee, Minnesota, Hitt met Jim Bird, the owner of J-Bird Wines, a Minnesota-based mead maker, sole provider of mead for that renaissance fair.

Hitt said Bird has a dozen meads at the Minnesota event, and he was taken with one in particular called Egypt’N, a mead made with honey, hibiscus tea, and lemon.

“My second favorite was their HoneyRhubarb, which seems to be the favorite of the Ladies of the Court,” he said.

Before the 2014 event, Hitt made a trip to J-Bird Wines and returned with 20 gallons of mead for the Door County Renaissance Faire — 10 gallons of Egypt’N, 5 gallons of Honey-Rhubarb, and 5 gallons of straight Honey Mead.

“As it turned out, it went very well,” he said.

“We were totally out of mead before noon on the third day of the four-day fair. We plan to obtain the same varieties for this year’s fair. The only real question is what quantity, as we must pick it up in May when the winery has its sale, and then be able to store it properly until the fair on June 27 & 28 and July 4 & 5 this year. We’d like to use closer/ local sources for our products but until they are available with the same or similar quality and taste we must do what we have to.”

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IN 1993, DOOR COUNTY BRIEFLY MOVED TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE INTERNET THANKS TO A GROUP OF LOCAL INNOVATORS WHO WENT WHERE TELECOM GIANTS WOULDN’T. By MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR. Photography by LEN VILLANO

SINCE THE DAWN OF THE INTERNET ERA, SMART MINDS HAVE STRUGGLED TO ENTICE THE NATION’S LARGEST COMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES TO IMPROVE CONNECTIONS ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEAD END THAT IS DOOR COUNTY. OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THEY HAVE BYPASSED OUR RURAL OUTPOSTS, WHILE MUCHBALLYHOOED PROJECTS TO DO IT WITH PUBLIC HELP HAVE PROVEN LITTLE MORE THAN PIPE DREAMS. But in the early 1990s, thanks to an unlikely confluence of minds — a librarian, an introverted computer geek, a tourism promoter, and a consultant with a tech obsession who wanted out of the city — Door County carved out a spot at the forefront of education and tourism technology. Here is how it happened.

Miriam Erickson always kept an eye on the future.

“It probably came from my father,” she said. “I grew up on a farm, but we were a progressive family. My father was always learning, always taking classes at the University of Wisconsin — Extension.”

Erickson came to Gibraltar School in 1960 as a home economics teacher, but by the early 1970s she could see that the subject was going to be phased out.

If she wanted to have a job, she needed new skills and a new specialty, so for two summers she spent weekdays at UW — Milwaukee, earning her Masters in Library Science in 1974.

“I always loved books, loved learning, so it seemed natural,” she said.

Erickson returned to Gibraltar as the librarian, commanding the room from behind delicate eyeglasses, but tough as a football coach. She would become the unwavering force that drove Gibraltar into the connected age, and in 1979 succeeded in getting a terminal installed that connected Gibraltar to the library at UW — Green Bay (UWGB).

Not all of her teaching colleagues shared her enthusiasm. Some feared technology would carve away at their jobs, refusing to even use a computer. At least one administrator scoffed at the costs associated with the new technology, and many parents in the community said what parents of every generation say when education changes, “Well, we learned just fine without that stuff.”

When budgets were particularly tight in the 1980s the school created a committee that examined expenses line by line and determined the terminal and other technology was a luxury. One administrator came into Erickson’s library and called the computers “just toys,” but Erickson didn’t dwell on the naysayers.

Miriam Erickson embraced technology as an educational tool for Gibraltar School students.

“I knew this technology was the way things were going, and my philosophy was to work with the people who were positive and wanted to move ahead,” she says. “I wanted to be on par with the Early Summer 2015 73

Greg Swain dove deeply into computers as a student at Gibraltar and eventually developed a program for room reservations used by innkeepers throughout Door County.

“I WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE WHAT I DID BECAUSE I WOULDN’T HAVE HAD THAT EXPOSURE. YOU CANNOT OVERSTATE THE ROLE MIRIAM PLAYED IN MOVING THE INTERNET FORWARD IN THE SCHOOLS. SHE WAS THE ONE WHO KEPT PLUGGING FORWARD.” school districts in Neenah, Appleton, and the best schools in the region.”

Erickson didn’t know the ins and outs of how the terminal and computer networks functioned, but it turned out it was better that she didn’t. It didn’t bother her that her students’ knowledge surpassed her own, and throughout the 1980s her students ran much of the school’s network. One of those students was a self-described “introverted computer geek” named Greg Swain.

Swain spent hours of his high school years in front of a screen, tinkering, figuring out how the bulky machines worked, and dabbling in programming.

“I was shy, I didn’t go out for sports,” he said. “I was the geek. My introversion kept me into computers. Guys went out to party and I would hunker down in the glow of my computer monitor.

If I ended up in a conversation with someone, I’d talk their ear off about computers or the program I was working on and they’d say something like, ‘Would you just shut up about this stupid program! It’s never going to do anything.’”

Gibraltar purchased a laptop computer in 1981, which meant Swain no longer had to write his code on paper. He graduated that year and moved on to UW — Green Bay, where he majored in computer science and found similar minds in his professors and fellow

computer geeks who made toiling in the green glow of the screen if not cool, then at least normal.

By 1984 Swain created a groundbreaking DOS (Disk Operating System) program called Lodgical Solution that allowed lodging facilities to manage their reservations on a computer with a lightweight, graphical interface.

“Before that, we all had reservation books, and if you spilled your coffee on it you were in trouble,” recalled former innkeeper and Door County Chamber of Commerce President Bob Hastings.

Swain developed Lodgical Solution with his parents’ resort, the Bluffside Motel in Sister Bay, in mind but it soon became a must-have for every resort, hotel and B&B in Door County. He said it wouldn’t have happened without the access to technology he received in high school.

“If it wasn’t for Miriam, I probably would be working as a paramedic or a nurse,” Swain said. “I would never have done what I did because I wouldn’t have had that exposure. You cannot overstate the role Miriam played in moving the internet forward in the schools. She was the one who kept plugging forward.”

Swain founded Bay Lakes Information Systems and soon his software was working wonders for innkeepers around the state, but there was a missing link.

“These innkeepers in Door County would tell me that if they didn’t fill

their rooms by a certain date, they were screwed,” Swain explained.

Visitors already on the peninsula often found vacancies by calling the visitor bureau or by calling resort after resort hunting for an open bed. Innkeepers didn’t have a way to let the bureau or their fellow lodging managers know that they had rooms available.

Swain’s solution was to create INNline in 1990, a program that connected all of the county’s Lodgical Solution users into a single database of availability.

Innkeepers could now dial into a modem stored in Swain’s bedroom at his parents’ house and share their vacancies. When they dialed in with their information, the program pushed back every other users’ vacancy information.

At about the time Swain’s program was growing ubiquitous on the peninsula, a developer at the University of Minnesota named Mark McCahill coined the term “surfing the internet.” Erickson was hard at work making sure her students would know what the phrase meant. She fought for bigger technology budgets within the school and for grants from outside, including the groundbreaking Rural Datification Grants, designed to help small rural schools bring the internet to their students.

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When John McMahon and his family moved to Door County in 1993, he used his connections as a longtime employee of IT giant Cisco to connect Gibraltar School. He is pictured at his new business, Door County Brewing Co. in Baileys Harbor.

access that allowed them to interact with the teacher. This enabled a small school to offer advanced classes to talented students that it couldn’t afford to provide on its own. It was a forerunner of everything you can get online now.”

Gibraltar was deemed too small for the grant. Erickson was devastated but not deterred, and her quest to take the school to the technological forefront soon found another helpful torchbearer.

When John and Angie McMahon moved to Door County from Chicago with their two young sons in 1993, they expected to give up many of the conveniences

and advantages of life in the city, but they weren’t willing to sacrifice their children’s education.

McMahon was working for Cisco Systems, a giant technology provider for some of America’s largest companies.

He was one of their early employees, selling the latest technology to workplaces racing to keep up with the new pace of business. They arrived in Door County just as Gibraltar lost out on the first round of Rural Datification Grants.

When McMahon caught wind of that, he saw an opportunity to make an immediate contribution to the school that would educate his sons.

“Just because we were moving to a small, rural community didn’t mean we didn’t want our children to have

access to the technology of larger urban schools,” McMahon recalled.

Thanks to his experience, access and success at Cisco, he was in a position to donate the hardware — routers, terminals and servers — that the school needed.

“It was in part for the schools, but also to benefit our family and kids as much as anyone,” McMahon said. “When you move to a place like Door County, you expect to lose some of the luxuries of the city, but if you’re in a position that you can bring some of that technology here, you want to do it.”

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the peninsula’s schools. This time it worked, and Door County schools were soon among the best connected in the country.

“Miriam was aggressive,” McMahon remembered. “She was more instrumental than anyone in making it happen. She was a bulldog and that put Door County schools at the forefront of education technology.”

As Greg Swain was developing his skills and Miriam Erickson was fighting for technology funding, Rick Gordon and

his wife Joan were feeling the pull to return home to Door County. Each had roots on the peninsula that stretched back generations and after 20 years working with companies around the world in electronics, controls and computers, home was calling loudly to Rick.

By then computers were becoming a bigger part of commerce, even for small businesses in a remote tourist community like Door County, but few people on the peninsula knew much about maintaining them. Gibraltar High School was still teaching typing on actual typewriters (and would continue to do so until 1995), and Northern Door locals weren’t thrilled to drive

30 minutes to an hour to get their computer problems fixed.

“Locals kept telling me that we needed a computer store up here, so I opened Door County Computer in 1991 as a little project,” he said. He’d made enough money as a consultant over the years to free up time to invest in this side project, one that fascinated him to the point that he was soon spending 12 to 14 hours a day fixing, tinkering and learning about new computers while chipping at the edges of this burgeoning new thing called the internet.

“Working as a consultant was what I did for a living,” Gordon recalled. “But this was what was invigorating. To me

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it was all about starting this thing from scratch, from absolutely nothing, and seeing what I could do with it, where it was going to go.”

Gordon also began working for Gibraltar, Sevastopol and Southern Door Schools, helping to manage their networks and technology infrastructure.

It was fortuitous timing. With Erickson and McMahon clearing the way to bring internet to the schools, Gordon would help install the infrastructure and get it up and running in 1993.

It was a huge step at the time, but would be the first of several larger steps in the year to come.

As Gordon worked on connecting the schools, Door County Chamber of Commerce President Bob Hastings was investigating what the internet could mean for tourism.

“By 1993 it was clear that the internet was going to be huge for tourism,” recalled Hastings, who has since retired to Florida.

Hastings saw potential for the internet to become a portal for visitors to get even more immediate access to vacancy information, improving their experience.

“At the time, we didn’t have cellphones,” Hastings recalled. “If you came up here without a room, you had to stop at a phone booth or go desk to desk.

You could drive 100 miles through the county looking for a place to stay.”

In 1993, he asked the handful of people on the peninsula who understood the internet, including Swain and Gordon, to join him and secretary Karen Raymore for a meeting. He wanted to see if this group of local minds could get the internet beyond the schools and out to be used by the businesses of Door County.

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immediate money in it for them and they had other priorities, but Rick and Greg thought they could do it.”

Gordon and Swain didn’t know exactly how to pull it off, but they were excited by the challenge and soon they were spending hours around their dining room tables tossing ideas around.

Eventually, someone had to stick their neck out and Gordon did, investing thousands in a 56K dial-up line that would allow multiple businesses and people to dial in for internet access. It was a risky investment for a business without a model, particularly one in a rural, disconnected area.

When he got it up and running in 1994 he called Swain. “I’ve got a dial-up you can log into! Try it out,” he said.

“That was amazing at the time,” Swain recalled. “That was the gateway to getting people connected.”

There still wasn’t a whole lot available on the early World Wide Web. It consisted of about 10,000 websites, all text-only without graphics or images.

Nonetheless, Gordon had created a connection, and with banks of 32k dialup speeds now available at the school, businesses and private residences could dial into the WiscNet connection as well.

For Hastings and the Chamber, this opened a world of possibility. They purchased and installed touch-screen kiosks throughout the county, where tourists searching for last-second rooms could search availability countywide simply and quickly. It was the first such system in the country.

“That’s everywhere now, but we were the first destination in the country to have that capability,” Hastings said.

In 1994 Gordon launched his own internet service provider, dubbed RickNet but officially known as Online Door County, venturing out on his own to sell dial-up access to homes in Northern Door. While cable companies and telecom industry paid scant attention to Northern Door County, Gordon built a network, eventually serving 4,000 customers via dial-up

WIRELESS SERVICES FILL CONNECTIVITY GAP IN DOOR COUNTY In April of 2014, Rick and Joan Gordon sold their Internet Service Provider to a group led by Kevin Voss, Jim Matson and Gordon’s longtime employee Nate Bell.

Voss is one of many Door County residents who love the lifestyle and people of the peninsula, but can’t afford to be completely unplugged from their work. Before discovering wireless broadband service, Voss was on the verge of selling Door County property, frustrated by the lack of connectivity.

Charter cable internet service is only available along main corridors. That leaves the thousands of residents in rural parts of the peninsula in a lurch. Some residents turned to service through satellite providers, while others began using Cellcom’s wireless internet service.

Online Door County rolled out wireless broadband service in 2003, providing high-speed access through line-of-sight connections to towers throughout the peninsula.

When the business became available, Voss jumped at the opportunity to become an owner and expand the service.

“High-speed internet access is becoming more and more important every day, for business and tourism,” he said.

“Our goal is to allow people to come up here and have the same level of service they can get back home.”

In the year since re-launching as Door County Broadband, the new owners have brought the installation price down to $99, with prices as low as $49 per month. They’ve also expanded their seasonal plans to make their services more attractive to the thousands of part-time residents who don’t need year-round service.

Bell was instrumental in the evolution of Online Door County from a dial-up system to a wireless broadband provider. He spearheaded NEWWIS expansion and infrastructure enhancements as its network administrator for 15 years, and is now the chief technology officer of Door County Broadband. Co-owner Matson is also the owner of Beacon Marine in Sister Bay. The company now has 50 transmission sights throughout the county and is adding more, enabling them to fill gaps in service area with each new site.

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By 1995 the internet ballooned to 100,000 pages, and a year later it was 500,000. The ranks of those who doubted its influence were rapidly dwindling.

Northern Door County was online and it got there from the inside out, enabled by a fortunate intersection of federal funding, private enterprise, generosity and the needs of education, without help from the multi-national corporations that would come to dominate telecommunications but had scant interest in the small towns of Door Peninsula.

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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 much knew when my daughter Alex was born that I would go with Fischer & Daughters, hoping that some day they would want to learn or carry on the business. I’m not ruling that out yet,” Fischer said. “They live in Minnesota. They’ll come for a day and

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then they’re ready for Sturgeon Bay or Green Bay or Milwaukee. It’s just too quiet for them. Probably about when they’re 30 they’ll come back and say, ‘Door County is awesome.’”

In the meantime, Fischer works sans daughters.

“I would love to have employees and get bigger, but I have to put my name on the work. I just haven’t found anybody.

I guess I’m anal about what I put my name on. I have to be there at every part of it,” he said, which is probably

the reason why he has become a wellestablished presence in the wooden boating community.

“There is a group of wooden boat owners in Door County. If it weren’t for Steve, I don’t know if we could keep going,” said Bill Jacobs, a boating writer who spends six months in Door County and six months in Florida.

Jacobs said the last thing he does here before heading south is to pull his boat — which since last year has been a 27-foot wooden sailboat — out of the

water and deliver it to Fischer to have it redone for the next season.

“Steve really supports us well and is a unique resource to have,” Jacobs said. “Steve is a great guy. He’s a Door County original as far as I’m concerned, that rarified group of people who really make it what it is.”

Fischer is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota. Before coming to Door County, he ran a boat maintenance business in Marina Del Ray, California, for 11 years. He and his wife at the time

were looking to buy a house in Los Angeles, but his wife’s father called to tell them about a motel he ran across that was for sale in a place called Door County.

“I came up here and fell in love,” Fischer said. “I saw all the boats and said, ‘I could live here. I could do this.’

I didn’t know anything about the motel business, but we pushed some financing and got an SBA loan. The next thing I knew I was moving to Sister Bay from Los Angeles.”

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Fischer quickly hooked up with Russ Forkert, whose father owned Anchor Marine.

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In 2004, Fischer decided to set up shop under his own name.

“It took a while to let people know I was alone,” Fischer said. “It’s been 10 years since I left Yacht Works and I’ve been doing it 25 on top of that. It’s been up and down. I would finish projects for people and they wouldn’t need me anymore so I’d have to find new clients. There’s always kind of a turnover. I think it took five years before I had the confidence that I could do this up here year round. Some years have been great. Some years have not been so great.

You start wondering about getting a job at the Pig or cleaning rooms again. I just seem to get by. But right now things are booming. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m scheduling some stuff a year ahead. It’s really fantastic.”

Fischer has had boat owners in the past who wanted to save costs by interning with him and learning how to do the work on their own.

“They usually only last a couple hours,” he said. “It’s really labor intensive. It’s physically demanding as well. Some of the materials, you need to be careful. It can be mindless sometimes. The most common question is, how do I have the patience to do what I do? It’s kind of a love-hate thing. I can take something that doesn’t look so great and make it look absolutely beautiful. The plumber or electrician, you don’t really see their work. Everybody sees my stuff.”

And seeing his work is often a great selling point for more work.

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“I might be on one dock for a couple months. I’ve done a couple boats at Fish Creek right on the sidewalk. Everybody walks by and sees how good it looks. Just by doing some boats I get more jobs just being there at the dock. Somebody sees what I’m doing and they ask me about working on their boat,” he said. “And not a lot of people do what I do. On my car and ad it says I’m the last of a varnishing breed. It’s a little bit more of a specialty than painting. I’ve been doing it for 35 years, so I’m getting better at it.”

Knowing that the varnish man is the last on the boat owner’s long list of maintenance and upkeep, Fischer said he is willing to work out arrangements with boat owners.

“I can do whatever people want to do,” he said. “I give them that option. Let’s do what we need to do to keep it floating.”

Don and Jean Thompson of Door County Bakery had their 1965 Thompson Runabout restored by Fischer in installments.

“It was in really good shape, but it needed to be taken to the next level,” Thompson said. “Steve worked on that boat for three winters now and it’s complete. It’s in show shape. It’s a 1965 18-foot runabout made in Peshtigo. Beautiful, beautiful work he did. He restored it to its original tone, and it’s great.

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Golfing Innovations 2015 It was only a few years ago, back in 2008, that Apple released its App Store with the popular phrase “There’s an app for that,” changing the way technology worked at our fingertips. The reach quickly extended to communication, health, finance, weather and even sports.

Want to run for 30 minutes at an eightminute per mile pace? There’s an app for that. Or maybe take slow motion video flying off a ski jump? There’s an app for that. Like logging baseball stats in real-time? There’s an app for that, and just about everything else. This is the technologically innovative world we live in, and golf is no different.

In fact, it’s possible no other sport has been more deeply affected by growth in technology. Pull Grandpa’s clubs from the attic and you’ll quickly understand.

Grandpa may have passed the game on to his grandsons, but nowadays, they’re playing it much, much differently. Here are a few innovations rapidly changing the game in 2015:

VENTURE HEAT starting at $130

In Door County, and the rest of Wisconsin for that matter, the golf season is often a short one, made frustratingly so by Mother Nature’s

colder side. Winter generally extends into April and arrives far too early in October, shrink-wrapping the golf season to fit around Memorial and Labor Day. Golf junkies, though, will tee it up as soon as they see snow recede from the bunkers. What remains is the motion that torques an aging body 80-100 times on a windy, rainy 40-degree Sunday. For those days when the golf term “stinger” takes on a completely new meaning, there is Venture Heat clothing.

With batteries lining (though seemingly hidden) the inside of the clothing, energy is transferred to the wearer,

much like hand-warmers, only these are permanent hand warmers that cover the body and feature an off switch. The chargeable inserts keep the body warm and, most importantly, loose for the duration of any four to five-hour round.

Venture Heat is available in the form of jackets, vests, long-sleeved shirts and pants, and completely lowers the rigidity of any early spring or late fall round.

Fashionable on and off the golf course and made with winter sports in mind, the heated clothing might be secretly designed for the Wisconsin golfer, too, who needs to shovel the driveway after that mid-April snowstorm.

a tough lie in the rough. This all means faster rounds and fitter golfers. Check and check.

ZEPP GOLF $149

While the Apple Watch might be the most attractive piece of wearable technology found at golf courses this year, it won’t be the most helpful. The watch will almost surely have GPS capabilities designed for those golfers, which sounds great, but as much as it might help golfers locate their errant drives, Zepp Golf will keep them from missing the fairway in the first place.

THE GOLF BIKE starting at $795

There’s a conundrum in the game of golf. Those who shy away from the sport generally cite unfair requirements from their day and their wallet, sometimes both. Unable to create a lower price index for the generally expensive hobby, Higher Ground Golf Co., creators of The Golf Bike, want to at least make the hours spent at a golf course more efficient.

So they’ve created a way to burn carbs while making birdies. The shame of choosing a Saturday foursome instead of a Saturday workout is a thing of the past. So, too, is riding in a cart all day.

With a bag fashioned to the back of The Golf Bike, the only thing missing is a golfer looking for some exercise.

Its wheels are designed to spread the tread widely, limiting any damage to the course while also providing enough grip to cruise through rough, fescue and any other golf course topography. Offroading never sounded so fun.

“There is nothing that can duplicate what this can do,” Todd May, creator of the bike, said. “I get nine holes in within an hour, with exercise that doesn’t impact my knees, ankles and joints as I get older.”

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Golf bike photo: Courtesy of Higher Ground Golf Co. Zepp Golf photo: Courtesy of Zepp Golf.

Foursomes are also no longer bound to the pairs of two players riding in the same golf cart. Four Golf Bikes is just like four individual golf carts, and you no longer have to sit and wait across the course as slow-playing Steve battles

Zepp Golf is a tiny, neon green device (about the size of quarter) that, once clipped onto a golfer’s glove, begins analyzing every swing via motion sensors embedded within. Synced with any mobile device, Zepp Golf takes over as a teacher.

Each swing appears on the device in 360 degrees of manipulative visuals.

But that’s just eye candy. Each swing is then scored on a 100-point scale with a set of golf jargon measurements like club speed, hand plane, tempo, etc. Club plane below par? The app offers tips and drills for improving every facet of the swing. It truly can function as a talking, testing, teaching professional both in your pocket and on your wrist. Unlike a teaching pro, though, there’s no talking head know-it-all peering over your shoulder. It’s much, much quieter; so insignificant that you’ll forget it’s even there, grading your every swing.

Finally, once those swings feel up to snuff, one final test remains: comparing them with swings of Tour winners Keegan Bradley and Brendan Steele.

Welcome to the big show.

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ON YOUR PLATE

by Laurel Duffin Hauser / photography by Len Villano

Anything But Plain: Nielsen-Massey Vanilla A Family’s History in the Vanilla Trade

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et’s imagine for a moment that it’s Door County Trivia Night and the Food and Wine Category has been chosen.

The question reads: “What do Egg Harbor resident Cam Nielsen, the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez, Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Jefferson and a 12-year-old freed slave have in common?” A turn of the card yields the answer: “They’ve all played a role in bringing us the world’s most popular flavor.” Extra credit goes to those who guess that that flavor is vanilla!

Cam Nielsen is the retired president and matriarch of the Nielsen-Massey company, one of the world’s largest and most respected producers of Madagascar Bourbon pure vanilla extract, vanilla paste, whole beans and other vanilla-based products.

Founded as Massey’s in 1907, the Chicago-based company manufactured aromas for cleaning chemicals. Cam’s father-in-law, Chatfield Nielsen, became involved in 1917 and steered the company toward the vanilla trade. “I guess he liked the smell of vanilla more than the smell of detergents!” Cam surmises.

Whatever the reason, it turned out to be a propitious move. The company is now one of the top three buyers of vanilla beans in the world and is often judged number one in quality.

Cam, a social worker by training, began working alongside her late husband, Chat Nielsen, Jr., in 1979.

“When you’re in a family business, you live and breathe it together. We did trade shows for many years and I learned a lot that way.”

In 1981, Nielsen-Massey expanded from wholesale supply to retail for home consumers thanks to a suggestion from Chuck Williams of Williams-Sonoma.

“He convinced us to give the retail market a try and featured us prominently in one of his catalogs.”

Cam laughs at the memory. “The phone started ringing off the hook and we never looked back.”

They later added botanical pure flavor extracts such as almond, orange and lemon to their offerings.

Cam explains that when Chat took a leave of absence for bypass surgery, “we had a lot of decisions to make. He looked at me one day and said, ‘I think you could run this company.’” After his death in 1992, she did just that.

“When I look back, I’m so grateful to have married a man who believed women were smart and qualified. He became my mentor once we knew we would never grow old together; he taught me everything I know about vanilla. There were many competitors who believed Nielsen-Massey would be gone within a year of Chat’s death.”

With satisfaction, she states, “We proved them wrong.”

Under Cam’s direction, the company added new product lines and opened its first international manufacturing facility in the Netherlands. Cam lived in the Netherlands for more than a year to oversee the process.

Along with establishing a successful business, Nielsen-Massey has amassed a following of loyal customers. Sharon Peterson, chef/owner of 136 Restaurant and Wine Bar in downtown Sturgeon Bay, is one of them.

“I go through a gallon of Nielsen-Massey vanilla every two weeks,” she states.

“I’ve tried other brands, but now it’s the only one I’ll use. It’s the best-tasting vanilla available.”

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Peterson is a self-proclaimed “vanilla addict” and admits to adding vanilla to “just about everything.” (See sidebar for 136’s Baked Oatmeal with Orange Vanilla Crème and Rhubarb Sauce featuring Nielsen-Massey vanilla.)

Beth Nielsen, Cam’s daughter and Nielsen-Massey’s chief culinary officer, explains why the liberal use of vanilla makes sense. “Vanilla is Mother Nature’s MSG [monosodium glutamate]. While it has its own great flavor, it really shines as a flavor enhancer and melder.”

She was asked recently in a radio interview to name one recipe she wouldn’t use vanilla in. She laughs, “It took me awhile to come up with an answer. I use it in everything — savory dishes, salad dressings, anything with a tomato base because it cuts acidity. I finally said ‘Eggs Benedict’ ’cuz I stick to the classic recipe for that!”

HISTORY OF VANILLA — A CONQUEROR, A QUEEN, A SMUGGLER AND A SLAVE Although vanilla is sometimes described as “just plain,” that’s a misnomer. With between 250 and 300 distinct flavor compounds, pure vanilla has a depth and complexity mirrored by its history.

First grown in Mexico by the Totonaco Indians, vanilla made its way to Europe when Cortez conquered the Aztecs (who had earlier conquered the Totonacos) in 1520. Along with jewels and other riches, Cortez collected cacao and vanilla beans, ingredients necessary for a delectable drink called Chocolatl.

For 80 years, vanilla was used solely for this delicacy. Fortunately for us, Queen Elizabeth had a sweet tooth and a clever apothecary, Hugh Morgan, who helped satisfy his liege’s cravings by using vanilla as a flavoring of its own.

The next advance in vanilla came nearly 200 years later when an unknown entrepreneur smuggled vanilla vines from Mexico, the only place they grew, to the Bourbon Islands, hoping to increase production. Unfortunately, he left behind the tiny Melipone bee needed for pollination. So, while the vines flowered, they produced few pods.

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Baked Oatmeal, featuring Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Recipes courtesy of 136 Restaurant and Wine Bar 1/2 cup canola oil 1/2 cup walnut oil 1 1/4 cup sugar 4 eggs 2 Tbsp cinnamon 1 Tbsp Nielsen-Massey vanilla 1 Tbsp Meyers rum 1 Tbsp Grand Marnier 1 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup milk 1 1/4 cup cream 6 cups oatmeal (not quick cook or instant) Combine all ingredients in mixer with paddle attachment and mix thoroughly on low speed. Pour into greased 9” x 13” glass pan. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Serve with Orange Vanilla Crème and Rhubarb Sauce, if desired.

Serves 12.

Orange Vanilla Crème 1 cup sour cream 1/2 Tbsp Nielsen-Massey vanilla bean paste 1 Tbsp Door County maple syrup 1/2 Tbsp Grand Marnier 1/2 Tbsp orange zest 1/2 Tbsp cream 2 1/2 Tbsp sugar Combine all ingredients in blender for 15 to 30 seconds.

Rhubarb Sauce 4 cups sliced rhubarb 1/3 cup Grand Marnier 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup sugar 1 Tbsp lime zest Cook first four ingredients in covered saucepan over medium heat for 15 minutes until rhubarb is soft. Cool slightly. Combine cooked ingredients in blender with lime zest for 15 – 30 seconds until smooth.

136 Restaurant and Wine Bar is located at 136 N. Third Ave, Sturgeon Bay and is open Monday through Saturday 7:30 am to 9:00 pm.

fertilize the vanilla orchid without the bee, but his method was too laborious for commercial purposes. The access to vanilla we enjoy today is thanks to an adolescent slave boy named Edmond Albious who, in 1841, separated the male anther from the female stigma with a blade of grass or small stick and rubbed the pollen over the stigma with his thumb. His revolutionary procedure is still used today. (Legend has it that Albious died in poverty, uncompensated for the contribution he made to culinary history.) The last figure mentioned in our trivia question, Thomas Jefferson, is credited with bringing 200 vanilla beans to the United States from France in the late 1700s. His recipe for vanilla ice cream was recently rediscovered.

VANILLA ORCHIDS, PODS AND BEANS Most of the vanilla Nielsen-Massey purchases is from Madagascar, the largest of the Bourbon Islands. Vanilla production accounts for more than half of the island’s economy and is grown on family farms. A family of four can successfully farm about an acre of vanilla vines. Since each vanilla orchid opens for only a few hours, the farmers check their crops daily. If the flower is not pollinated during those few hours, no pod will grow.

When vanilla pods are fully developed, farmers brand them with pins stuck into small pieces of cork in a pattern unique to each family. The brand stays with the bean through the curing process.

After the green pods are harvested, they are immersed in hot water. The farmer then begins a process of laying the beans in the sun to warm during the day and wrapping them in blankets or straw mats to sweat at night. This happens over and over again, with the entire curing process taking between three and six months. The cured beans are bundled into bunches of 60 to 100 and shipped to production facilities.

It is at this point that Nielsen-Massey really distinguishes itself. Cam explains that “most manufacturers use heat and pressure to extract flavoring from the beans. We use a cold process that’s much gentler on the flavor components and can take up to five weeks rather than days.”

Most of the world’s vanilla comes from five areas — Madagascar, Mexico, Indonesia, French Polynesia and

Uganda. According to Cam, “Each region has its own distinct taste and characteristics depending on the soil. Mexican vanilla is a bit spicier.

Madagascar beans produce the creamy, sweet flavor we love.”

Cam recently retired from her role as president of Nielsen-Massey and is pleased that all of her children — Craig, Beth and Matt — now run the company and represent the third generation of Nielsens to do so. Beth describes her mother’s leadership as both “inspiring and empowering” and notes that Cam remains active on the NielsenMassey board of directors and with the Nielsen-Massey Foundation, an entity created to assist with education and leadership in the culinary arts and aid in the development of sustainable environmental practices.

Cam speaks from experience in saying “a family business is like having another child. It is always part of your life; it’s on your mind 24/7.” When asked about the fringe benefits of a life in the vanilla trade, she can name many.

“Our children certainly grew up knowing more about vanilla than their peers! They also learned that there’s a line of continuity that passes from generation to generation even amidst the ups and downs.”

And then there are the people she’s met through Nielsen-Massey.

“I’ve been privileged to know so many wonderful chefs and customers and people who dream of creating their own gourmet food companies.”

The final benefit? “So much great ice cream.”

Nielsen-Massey products are available in Door County at Cornucopia Kitchen Shop, Sturgeon Bay; Main Street Market, Egg Harbor; and The Main Course, Fish Creek.

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Historic Gem In Sturgeon Bay Reborn as Foxglove Inn The grand old house on North Third Avenue lives again. It was built in 1877

by Thomas H. Smith, a businessman who was instrumental in building the first bridge across Sturgeon Bay. His son, Leathem Smith (also to play a prominent role in Sturgeon Bay history) grew up here. The Smith family owned the property until the 1950s, when it became a boarding house called Colonial Inn. Later, Doc Tong bought it as the home for his family of eight children while maintaining his dentist’s office next door.

The property had been owned by Baylake Bank for many years when sisters Carri Andersson and Kelly Catarozoli bought it in the fall of 2013.

The bank had done a magnificent outside transformation. After an initial two months in business, Carri and Kelly

closed the inn until a grand opening last April, when they revealed a complete inside renovation that created seven suites with updated baths, new paint and wallpaper. In just a year, guests’ evaluations have earned the inn the top spot on Trip Advisor’s list of 23 B&Bs and inns in Sturgeon Bay. Forty of the 41 reviews gave the Foxglove Inn five stars out of five, mentioning highlights such as the 12-foot ceilings, ornate original plaster work, the gorgeous fireplace in every suite, the amazingly comfortable beds with high-end linens, whirlpool baths, wonderful toiletries and scrumptious breakfasts (best bacon ever!).

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and the goodies — chocolate-covered strawberries, hot cookies or other delicacies — come out just after 3:00 pm every afternoon. Carri notes that they’re happy to accommodate food preferences and allergies.

The first couple married at the inn praised Carri and Kelly for creating the perfect setting in their suite — the one with the piano, arched-dome bay window and Waterford chandelier — for helping them with every detail of the small, private event, and even serving as readers during the ceremony.

“We’ll be spending every anniversary in the Foxglove Suite,” the newlyweds wrote.

“The wedding was so beautiful,” Kelly says. “There wasn’t a dry eye in the room.”

The sisters’ great-grandparents were pioneer settlers in Door County, and the new inn owners often visited relatives here when they were growing up. As an adult, Kelly moved to Portland, Oregon, and worked in marketing for Better Road Club — “a sort of green AAA.” She also has a degree in interior design and experience in real estate. Carri ran a small floral design business from her home in their native Milwaukee.

“We’d talked about going into business together for more than a decade,” Carri says. “After I moved to Sturgeon Bay three years ago, it sort of fell into place.

It was an act of faith on Kelly’s part.

She’d never seen the house when we bought it. We developed our business plan in many late-night phone calls.”

The inn is located at the northern end of Sturgeon Bay’s historic shopping district.

Guests can walk to stores, the waterfront, theaters and other downtown activities.

“We feel that the preservation of historic buildings is so important,” Kelly says. “We’re excited that we have

the privilege of not only providing hospitality to people, but also preserving a wonderful old home.”

The sisters comprise the entire staff of the inn. They are very detail oriented.

“We think guests notice the personal touches, all the little things,” Carri says.

Fortunately, they are also committed to the hard work involved with restoring and maintaining an historic property.

Unlike their favorite TV show, Downton Abbey, there’s no “below-stairs” staff to ring for.

“The first time I cleaned out a fireplace, I felt like Daisy,” Kelly laughs.

Both women are avid gardeners and can’t wait to turn their attention to restoring the once-elegant gardens.

Future plans also include the possibility of an eighth suite — a three-seasons cottage in the backyard.

“We want our guests to feel at home in an atmosphere of comfortable luxury,” Carri says.

This comment from guests who spent their first holiday season as a married couple at the inn last December indicates that the goal is being achieved: “What earned this place five stars, in our opinion, was the simple luxury and coziness that our suite offered without the stuffiness and impersonal environment that comes with some fivestar hotels.”

Finally, what would an old inn be without a mystery? It’s a tradition for Foxglove guests to write their names and the date of their visit on a dollar bill, hide it in their suite, and leave elaborate clues to its hiding place. One room is now known to hold at least 15 hidden dollars. Some guests, Carri says, are reluctant to leave if they haven’t discovered the hidden treasure.

The Foxglove Inn 344 North Third Ave. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235 (920) 746-9192 foxgloveinn@gmail.com foxglovedoorcounty.com

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Lodging facilities are listed in alphabetical order by town. Information is subject to change. We encourage readers to contact these establishments for more specific information. Inclusion in this directory should not be considered an unqualified endorsement by Door County Living. Innkeepers are encouraged to e-mail us with up-to-date information at: info@doorcountyliving.com.

BAILEYS HARBOR Deck, Fireplace, High Baileys Harbor Ridges Resort & Lakeview Suite 8252 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2127 ridges.com Cottage, Resort $52-$210 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly, Playground, Snow Shoeing, Snowmobiling, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Baileys Harbor Yacht Club Resort 8151 Ridges Rd (920) 839-2336 bhycr.com Resort $79-$249 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Sauna, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Baileys Sunset Motel & Cottages 8404 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2218 Cottage, Resort $38-$120 Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Playground Beachfront Inn at Baileys Harbor 8040 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2345 beachfrontinn.net Hotel/Motel $67-$169 Cable/Movies, High Speed Internet Access, Microwave, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Water View, Waterfront Blacksmith Inn On the Shore 8152 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9222 theblacksmithinn.com Bed and Breakfast $145-$305 Continental Breakfast,

Speed Internet Access, Smoke Free, Water View, Whirlpools Gordon Lodge Resort 1420 Pine Dr (920) 839-2331 gordonlodge.com Resort $130-$250 Bar, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fishing, Fitness Center, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools

Orphan Annie’s 7254 Hwy 57 (920) 839-9156 Hotel/Motel $95-125 Kitchen, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible Square Rigger Harbor 7950 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2016 Hotel/Motel $90-$120 Microwave, Refrigerator, Water View

The Inn at Windmill Farm Gustave’s Getaway, 1887 3829 Fairview Rd (920) 868-9282 Historic Log Home 1900windmillfarm.com 2604 Grove Rd - Office Bed and Breakfast (920) 839-2288 $110-$125 Cottage Fireplace, Full Breakfast, $135-$195 Smoke Free Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Fireplace, The Rushes Resort High Speed Internet Access, Western Shore of Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Pet Kangaroo Lake Friendly, Smoke Free (920) 839-2730 therushes.com Journey’s End Motel Resort 8271 Journey’s End Ln $139-$295 (920) 839-2887 Boating, Cross Country journeysendmotel.com Skiing, Fireplace, Fishing, Cottage, Hotel/Motel Fitness Center, Indoor $50-$150 Fireplace, Kitchen, Limited Pool, Kitchen, Playground, Food Service, Non-smok- Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools ing Rooms, Pet Friendly Kangaroo Lake Resort 2799 N Kangaroo Lake Dr (920) 839-2341 Cottage, Resort $125-$175 Boating, Fireplace, Fishing, Kitchen, Playground, Smoke Free, Water View Maxwelton Braes Lodge 7670 Hwy 57 (920) 839-2321 maxweltonbraes.com Cottage, Resort $89-$169 Bar, Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fishing, Golf, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Meeting Room, Microwave, Non-smoking Rooms, Refrigerator, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Snow Shoeing, Snowmobiling, Tennis, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools

EGG HARBOR Alpine Resort 7715 Alpine Rd (920) 868-3000 alpineresort.com Cottage, Resort $80-$219 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Fishing, Golf, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Restaurant, Tennis, Waterfront Bay Point Inn 7933 Hwy 42 (800) 707-6660 baypointinn.com Resort $225-$259 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpools

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Cape Cod Motel 7682 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3271 doorcountynavigator.com Hotel/Motel $69-$79 Cable/Movies, Playground, Refrigerator Door County Cottages/ Cottage Retreat 7574 Relax Ln (920) 868-2300 Cottage $100-$550 Fireplace, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Pet Friendly, Whirlpools Door County Lighthouse Inn B & B 4639 Orchard Rd (920) 868-9088 dclighthouseinn.com Bed and Breakfast $105-$175 Deck, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Egg Harbor Lodge 7965 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3115 eggharborlodge.com Resort $100-$325 Fireplace, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Tennis, Whirlpools Landmark Resort 7643 Hillside Rd (920) 868-3205 thelandmarkresort.com Resort $89-$240 Bar, Cable/Movies, Deck, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Restaurant, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Whirlpools Lull-Abi Inn of Egg Harbor 7928 Egg Harbor Rd (866) 251-0749 lullabi-inn.com Hotel/Motel $89–$189 Biking Trails, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Whirlpools

Meadow Ridge 7573 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3884 meadow-ridge.com Resort $130-$350 Bike Rentals, Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Deck, Fireplace, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Tennis, Whirlpools Newport Resort 7888 Church St (920) 868-9900 newportresort.com Resort $79-$257 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Fireplace, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Shallows Resort 7353 Hoseshoe Bay Rd (920) 868-3458 shallows.com Cottage, Resort $65-$350 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/ Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Playground, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Shipwrecked Brew Pub & Inn 7791 Highway 42 (920) 868-2767 shipwreckedmicrobrew. com Hotel/Motel $79-$119 Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Restaurant The Ashbrooke 7942 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3113 ashbrooke.net Resort $99-$210 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools

The Cornerstone Suites 6960 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3005 Resort $130-$220 Deck, Kitchen, Whirlpools The Feathered Star 6202 Hwy 42 (920) 743-4066 featheredstar.com Bed and Breakfast $110-$130 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools The Landing 7741 Hwy 42 (920) 868-3282 thelandingresort.com Resort $61-$233 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Whirlpools

ELLISON BAY Bayview Resort & Harbor P.O. Box 73 (920) 854-2006 Resort $120-$250 Boating, Fitness Center, Kitchen, Playground, Tennis Hillside Inn of Ellison Bay 11934 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2928 Hotel/Motel $48-$98 Bar, Continental Breakfast, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible Hotel Disgarden B & B 12013 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9888 Bed and Breakfast $65-$125 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free, Waterfront Norrland Resort 12009 Hwy 42 (920) 883-9033 Cottage, Resort $60-$125 Boat Rentals, Boating, Fishing, Grill, Water View, Waterfront

LODGING GUIDE Rowleys Bay Resort & Vacation Homes 1041 Hwy ZZ (920) 854-2385 rowleysbayresort.com Cottage, Resort $59-$359 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Playground, Restaurant, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools The Parkside Inn 11946 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9050 theparksideinn.com Hotel/Motel $59-$79 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast

EPHRAIM Bay Breeze Resort 9844 Hwy 42 (920) 854-9066 baybreezeresort.com Cottage, Resort $53-$169 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Waterfront, Whirlpools Eagle Harbor Inn 9914 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2121 eagleharborinn.com Bed and Breakfast $69-$237 Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Sauna, Whirlpools Edgewater Resort 10040 Water St (920) 854-2734 edge-waterresort.com Cottage, Resort $79-$419 Cable/Movies, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Sauna, Waterfront, Whirlpools Ephraim Guest House 3042 Cedar St (920) 854-2319 ephraimguesthouse.com Resort $75-$185 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Ephraim Motel 10407 Hwy 42 (920) 854-5959 ephraimmotel.com Hotel/Motel

$69-$129 Grill, Bike Rentals, Hiking Trails, Refrigerator, Microwave, High Speed Internet Access

Waterfront, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools

Somerset Inn 10401 Hwy 42 (920) 854-1819 somersetinndc.com Ephraim Shores Resort 10018 Hwy 42 $59-$169 (920) 854-2371 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, ephraimshores.com Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Resort Outdoor Pool, Smoke Free, $75-$210 Cable/Movies, Fitness Cen- Whirlpools ter, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Spruce Lane Lodge Playground, Restaurant, 3038 Spruce Lane Smoke Free, Waterfront, (920) 854-7380 Whirlpools Hotel/Motel Kitchen Evergreen Beach Resort 9944 Hwy 42 The Juniper Inn B & B (920) 854-2831 N9432 Maple Grove Rd evergreenbeach.com (920) 839-2629 Resort juniperinn.com $75-$140 Bed and Breakfast Cable/Movies, Non-smok- $85-$195 ing Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Playground, Waterfront Full Breakfast, Whirlpools

By-The-Bay Motel Hwy 42 (920) 868-3456 Hotel/Motel $59-$155 Smoke Free, Water View Cedar Court Inn 9429 Cedar St (920) 868-3361 Cottage, Hotel/Motel $69-$325 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Whirlpools Evergreen Hill Condominium 3932 Evergreen Rd (800) 686-6621 homesteadsuites.com Resort $89-$204 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Smoke Free, Whirlpools

Julie’s Park Cafe & Motel 4020 Hwy 42 (920) 868-2999 juliesmotel.com Hotel/Motel $55-106 Cable/Movies, Pet Friendly, Restaurant, Smoke Free Little Sweden Vacation Resort Hwy 42 (920) 868-9950 Resort $175-$350 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Cross Country Skiing, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snow Shoeing, Tennis, Whirlpools Main Street Motel 4209 Main St (920) 868-2201 mainstreetmoteldc.com Hotel/Motel $49-$96 Cable/Movies, Smoke Free

Fish Creek Motel & Cottages 9479 Spruce St (920) 868-3448 fishcreekmotel.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel Parkwood Lodge $58-$175 3775 Hwy 42 Cable/Movies, Compli(920) 868-2046 mentary Coffee, Water View parkwoodlodge.com Hotel/Motel Harbor Guest House Harbor View Resort $79-$199 9480 Spruce St 9971 S Dane St (920) 868-2284 High Speed Internet (920) 854-2425 harborguesthouse.com Access, Microwave, ReVillage Green Lodge Cottage, Resort Resort frigerator, Complimentary 10013 Poplar Street $130-$185 $157-$378 Coffee, Grill, Indoor (920) 854-2515 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Boating, Cable/Movies, Pool, Playground, Tennis, villagegreenlodge.com Kitchen Cross Country Skiing, Whirlpools Bed and Breakfast Fireplace, Kitchen, Smoke High Point Inn $105-$240 Peninsula Park-View Free, High Speed Internet 10386 Hwy 42 Cable/Movies, CompliResort (920) 854-9773 mentary Coffee, Fireplace, Access , Waterfront W3397 Hwy 42 highpointinn.com Full Breakfast, Grill, Limited Hilltop Inn (920) 854-2633 Resort Food Service, Microwave, Hwy 42 & Cty F Cottage, Resort $80-$328 Outdoor Pool, Refrigerator, (920) 868-3556 $49-$199 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair hilltopinndc.com Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Accessible, Whirlpools Resort High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Waterbury Inn $79-$199 Kitchen, Limited Food SerOutdoor Pool, Playground, 10321 Hwy 42 vice, Non-smoking Rooms, Cable/Movies, Cross Smoke Free, Whirlpools (920) 854-2821 Outdoor Pool, Wheel Chair Country Skiing, Fireplace, Lodgings at Pioneer Lane waterbury.com Accessible, Whirlpools Kitchen, Non-smoking Resort 9996 Pioneer Ln Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Settlement Courtyard $85-$187 (800) 588-3565 Restaurant, Snowmobiling, Inn & Lavender Spa Cable/Movies, Fitness Cenlodgingsatpioneerlane.

Whirlpools 9126 Hwy 42 ter, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, com (920) 868-3524 Playground, Smoke Free, Homestead Suites Hotel/Motel settlementinn.com Snowmobiling, Whirlpools 4006 Hwy 42 $65-$175 Resort (800) 686-6621 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, $72-$224 FISH CREEK homesteadsuites.com Non-smoking Rooms, Bar, Biking Trails, Cable/ Resort Wheel Chair Accessible, Apple Creek Resort, Movies, Massage Spa, $75-$189 Whirlpools Motel & Suites Cable/Movies, Continental Continental Breakfast, Hwy 42 & F Pine Grove Motel Cross Country Skiing, Breakfast, Cross Country (920) 868-3525 10080 Hwy 42 Fireplace, High Speed Skiing, Fireplace, Fitness applecreekresort.com (800) 292-9494 Internet Access, Hiking Center, Indoor Pool, KitchCottage, Resort pinegrovemotel.com Trails, Kitchen, Limited en, Limited Food Service, $52-$250 Hotel/Motel Food Service, Outdoor Meeting Room, Outdoor Cable/Movies, Cross $91-$108 Pool, Smoke Free, Snow Pool, Playground, Sauna, Country Skiing, Fireplace, Cable/Movies, Fitness Shoeing, Snowmobiling, Smoke Free, SnowmobilHigh Speed Internet AcCenter, Indoor Pool, Wheel Chair Accessible, ing, Whirlpools cess, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Whirlpools, Laundry Snowmobiling, Whirlpools French Country Inn Of Ephraim 3052 Spruce Lane (920) 854-4001 innsite.com Bed and Breakfast $65-$100 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free

Trollhaugen Lodge 10176 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2713 trollhaugenlodge.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $79-$169 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Hiking Trails, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Smoke Free, Whirlpools

The Whistling Swan Hotel 4192 Main St (920) 868-3442 whistlingswan.com Bed and Breakfast $135-$185 Bar, Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access, Restaurant, Smoke Free Thorp House Inn & Cottages 4135 Bluff Lane (920) 868-2444 thorphouseinn.com Bed and Breakfast, Cottage $75-$215 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Whirlpools White Gull Inn 4225 Main St (920) 868-3517 whitegullinn.com Bed and Breakfast $155-$295 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Restaurant, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools

GILLS ROCK Harbor Light Inn 12666 Hwy 42 (920) 421-2233 harborhousedoorcounty. com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $79-$129 Boating, Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Fireplace, Fishing, Grill, High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Microwave, Pet Friendly, Playground, Refrigerator, Water View, Whirlpools Maple Grove Motel of Gills Rock 809 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2587 Hotel/Motel $65-$85 Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly On the Rocks Cliffside Lodge 849 Wisconsin Bay Rd (920) 840-4162 Hotel/Motel $305-$775 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Kitchen, Water View, Whirlpools The Shoreline Resort, Motel & Condominiums 12747 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2900 Hotel/Motel $79-$139 & $195-$300 Boating, Cable/Movies, Deck, High Speed Internet Access, Water View, Waterfront

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LODGING GUIDE Jacksonport Innlet Motel 6269 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2499 dcty.com Hotel/Motel $50-$150 Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Restaurant, Snowmobiling, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Square Rigger Lodge 6332 Hwy 57 (920) 823-2404 squareriggerlodge.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel $75-$250 Bar, Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Sauna, Waterfront, Whirlpools Whitefish Bay Farm 3831 Clark Lake Rd (920) 743-1560 whitefishbayfarm.com Bed and Breakfast $115-$125 Full Breakfast, Smoke Free

SISTER BAY Birchwood Lodge 10571 Hwy 57 (920) 854-7195 birchwoodlodge.com Resort $79-$219

Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Snowmobiling, Tennis, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools Bluffside Motel 10641 Bluffside Ln (920) 854-2530 Hotel/Motel $39-$150 Cable/Movies, Complimentary Coffee, Refrigerator Century Farm Motel 10068 Hwy 57 (920) 854-4069 Hotel/Motel $40-$75 Pet Friendly Church Hill Inn 2393 Gateway Dr (920) 854-4885 churchhillinn.com Resort $65-$174 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Full Breakfast, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Whirlpools

Relax & Refresh

Coachlite Inn of Sister Bay 2544 S Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-5503 coachliteinn.com Hotel/Motel $45-$125 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Kitchen, Non-smoking Rooms, Whirlpools Country House Resort 2468 Sunnyside Road (920) 854-4551 Resort $76-$326 Continental Breakfast, Deck, Fireplace, High Speed Internet Access, Outdoor Pool, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Tennis, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpools Double S Lodge 11086 Hwy 42 (929) 854-3253 Bed and Breakfast $225 - $275 Edge of Town Motel 11902 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2012 Hotel/Motel $40-$80 Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Pet Friendly

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Inn On Maple 2378 Maple Dr (920) 854-5107 innonmaple.com Bed and Breakfast $85-$125 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free Liberty Park Lodge 11034 Hwy 42 (920) 854-2025 libertyparklodge.com Cottage, Resort $65-$149 Boating, Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Waterfront Little Sister Resort 10620 Little Sister Rd (920) 854-4013 littlesisterresort.com Cottage, Resort $75-$165 Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Playground, Restaurant, Tennis, Waterfront Moore Property Services 10553 Country Walk Dr (920) 854-1900 Resort $120-$455 Cable/Movies, Indoor

Pheasant Park Resort 130 Park Ln (920) 854-7287 pheasantparkresort.com Nordic Lodge Resort 2721 Nordic Dr $88-$274 (920) 854-5432 Fireplace, Fitness Center, thenordiclodge.com Indoor Pool, Kitchen, MeetCottage, Resort ing Room, Outdoor Pool, $60-$160 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Continental Breakfast, Scandinavian Lodge Indoor Pool, Smoke Free, 10506 Hwy 57 Wheel Chair Accessible, (920) 854-7123 Whirlpools scandlodge.com Resort Open Hearth Lodge $90-$260 2669 S Bay Shore Dr Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, (920) 854-4890 Fireplace, Fitness Center, openhearthlodge.com Indoor Pool, Kitchen, MeetHotel/Motel, Resort ing Room, Outdoor Pool, $59-$125 Cable/Movies, Continental Playground, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Wheel Chair Breakfast, Indoor Pool, Accessible, Whirlpools Non-smoking Rooms, Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Non-Non-smoking Rooms, Tennis, Waterfront

Whirlpools Patio Motel 10440 Orchard Dr (920) 854-1978 patiomotelandrestaurant. com Hotel/Motel $42-$74 Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Playground, Restaurant

The Brodd’s Little Cottage 2182 Seaquist Rd (920) 854-2478 thelittlecottage.com Cottage $90 High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Microwave, Refrigerator, Smoke Free

Ashbrooke JUST FOR THE TWO OF YOU

The Ashbrooke features a distinctive variety of one and two room suites for your luxury, privacy and enjoyment.

Awaken to the sound of waves lapping the shore. Linger over breakfast as the morning light glistens on the water.

Kayak the harbor, bike to a lighthouse.

Fifteen guest rooms each with in-room whirlpool, fireplace, balcony & a view of the harbor. Romance & relaxation are yours!

Visit our website for honeymoon packages.

On the shore of Baileys Harbor Door County, Wisconsin

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Catering to adults, The Ashbrooke creates an elegant retreat for couples looking for a uniquely different Door County vacation.

Ashbrooke

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The Inn at Little Sister Hill 2715 Little Sister Hill Rd (920) 854-2328 doorcountyinn.com/ littlesister Resort $79-$179 Biking Trails, Cable/Movies, Kitchen, Outdoor Pool, Playground, Smoke Free, Wheel Chair Accessible Village View Inn 10628 N Bay Shore Dr (920) 854-2813 village-view.com Hotel/Motel $45-$95 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Refrigerator, Smoke Free Voyager Inn 10490 Hwy 57 (920) 854-4242 voyagerinndc.com Hotel/Motel $55-$95 Cable/Movies, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Whirlpools Yacht Club at Sister Bay 10673 Regatta Way (866) 951-0974 sisterbayresort.com Resort $107-$500 Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Smoke Free, Tennis, Water View, Waterfront

STURGEON BAY Along The Beach B & B 3122 Lake Forest Park Road (920) 746-0476 Bed and Breakfast $105-$135 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Waterfront

AmericInn Lodge & Suites of Sturgeon Bay 622 S Ashland Ave (920) 743-5898 Hotel/Motel $59-$175 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Indoor Pool, Meeting Room, Pet Friendly, Sauna, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Bay Shore Inn 4205 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-4551 bayshoreinn.net Resort $79-$309 Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/ Movies, Fishing, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Playground, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Beach Harbor Resort 3662 N Duluth Ave (920) 743-3191 beachharborresort.com Cottage, Hotel/Motel, Resort $69-$210 Bike Rentals, Jet Ski Rentals, Smoke Free, Waterfront Black Walnut Guest House 454 N 7th Ave (920) 743-8892 blackwalnut-gh.com Bed and Breakfast $135-$145 Continental Breakfast, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Bridgeport Resort 50 W Larch St (920) 746-9919 bridgeportresort.net Resort $69-$299 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fishing, Fitness Center, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Limited Food Service, Outdoor Pool, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront, Wheel Chair Accessible, Whirlpools

Chal A Motel 3910 Hwy 42/57 (920) 743-6788 chal-amotel.com Hotel/Motel $34-$64 Non-smoking Rooms Chanticleer Guest House 4072 Cherry Rd (920) 746-0334 Bed and Breakfast $120-$275 Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Limited Food Service, Whirlpools Cherry Hills Lodge & Golf Course 5905 Dunn Rd (920) 743-4222 Resort $89-$155 Full Breakfast, Golf, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Smoke Free Colonial Gardens B & B 344 N 3rd Ave (920) 746-9192 colgardensbb.com Bed and Breakfast $100-$175 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Limited Food Service, Whirlpools Comfort Inn 923 Green Bay Rd (920) 743-7846 Hotel/Motel $89-$145 Continental Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access, Indoor Pool, Microwave, Refrigerator, Whirlpools Garden Gate B & B 434 N 3rd Ave (920) 743-9618 doorcountybb.com Bed and Breakfast $50-$120 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free

Glidden Lodge Beach Resort 4676 Glidden Dr (920) 746-3900 gliddenlodge.com Resort $140-$375 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Sauna, Smoke Free, Tennis, Waterfront, Whirlpools Hearthside Inn B & B 2136 Taube Road (920) 746-2136 Bed and Breakfast $65-$750 Full Breakfast Holiday Music Motel 30 N 1st Ave (920) 743-5571 holidaymusicmotel.com Hotel/Motel $99-$140 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access, Microwave, Pet Friendly, Refrigerator, Smoke Free Inn The Pines 3750 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-9319 innthepinesbb.com Bed and Breakfast $120-$150 Cable/Movies, Continental Breakfast, Fireplace, Limited Food Service, Smoke Free, Whirlpools Little Harbor Inn 5100 Bay Shore Dr (920) 743-3789 littleharborinn.com Bed and Breakfast $120-$175 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Smoke Free, Waterfront, Whirlpools Motel 57 1160 Green Bay Road (920) 746-8000 Hotel/Motel $79-$89 High Speed Internet Access, Kitchen, Microwaves, Refrigerator, Complimentary Coffee

Quiet Cottage B & B 4608 Glidden Drive (920) 743-4526 quietcottage.com Bed and Breakfast $180-$225 Cable/Movies, Full Breakfast, High Speed Internet Access

Bar, Biking Trails, Boating, Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Fitness Center, Hiking Trails, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Meeting Room, Non-smoking Rooms, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant, Sauna, Snow Shoeing, Water View, Waterfront, Whirlpools

Sand Bay Beach Resort & Suites 3798 Sand Bay Point Rd (920) 743-5731 sandbaybeachresort.com Resort $85-$299 Fireplace, Fishing, Indoor Pool, Kitchen, Laundry, Meeting Room, Sauna, Whirlpools

Stroh Haus B & B 608 Kentucky St (920) 743-2286 Bed and Breakfast $60 Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Meeting Room

Sawyer House B & B 101 S Lansing Ave (920) 746-1640 bbonline.com/wi/sawyer/ Bed and Breakfast $90-$200 Cable/Movies, Fireplace, Full Breakfast, Whirlpools

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How Sturgeon Bay Got Its Name

Above: A 20th century aerial view of Sturgeon Bay, with both the railroad bridge and steel bridge in view. Left: Union Street in Sawyer, now Madison Street on the west side of Sturgeon Bay. The photo was taken from the corner of Oak Street looking down toward the bridge. Middle: An old street scene of downtown Sturgeon Bay, taken from the corner of Kentucky looking toward Jefferson.

Right: An old plat map shows the sturgeon-like appearance of the bay. All images courtesy of the Door County Historical Museum.

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Thanks to Father Claude Allouez’s dedicated journaling of his experiences as a Jesuit missionary and explorer of North America, we know that when he served as missionary to the Potawatomi Indians in 1669, he portaged across the peninsula at a place he referred to as “La Portage des Eturgeons,” or The Portage of the Sturgeons.

What we don’t know is whether he gave it that name because he saw sturgeon during his portage or if that is the name the Potawatomi gave to the area we now know as Sturgeon Bay. Nineteenth century Door County historian Charles I. Martin had another thought about the origin of the name.

As was the habit at the time, a settled region often was known by the name of the first settler, so the east side became known as Graham. The west side was first known as Bay View, but since there was already a Bay View in the Milwaukee area, the west side became known as Sawyer, probably after Frank Sawyer, an early settler on that side.

“By glancing at a large water chart or map, it will be seen that the outline of the bay, as a whole, does look very much like a huge sturgeon,” he wrote in his 1881 History of Door County, Wisconsin.

By 1855, a committee had been formed to look into organizing a county and Graham was chair of that committee.

His brother, Robert Graham, became postmaster of the growing community that same year.

While the area remained a portage and trading station, it would be another 200 years before the first settler called the area home, and that first settler was a 32-year-old Ohioan named Oliver Perry Graham, who settled in the area in 1848 and in 1850 built the first home on the waterfront about where Pennsylvania Avenue runs.

In his Door County history, Martin says in its embryonic years, the settlement was known simply as “the trading post at Sturgeon Bay,” and eventually became known as Sturgeon Bay.

At the time, the area was “one grand forest of pine,” according to Hjalmar R. Holand’s History of Sturgeon Bay, Door County Wisconsin.

“For a year Graham dwelt here alone with his family, a hermit in a wilderness of pine. His nearest neighbor was David Greenwood, who lived on the Sawyer side of the bay. There was also Peter Sherwood, a quiet, genial old man, who lived on Sherwood’s Point, about six miles down the bay. A half-mile south of him at the head of Sawyer Harbor lived Frank Sawyer, an Indian trader and trapper who had just located there. Seven miles farther west Robert Stephenson, another Indian trader, lived at Little Sturgeon, while far to the northward, at Fish Creek, Increase Claflin held undisputed sway,” Holand wrote.

However, that name must not have been elevated enough for some because in 1857 the east side settlement was organized as a town and the name was changed to Otumba, which Charles Martin says is the name of a city in Spain. Several other historical references claim Otumba is the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in the area, but, in fact, it is an ancient Aztec city state where on July 14, 1520, Hernando Cortez and his conquistadors routed a much larger force of Aztecs in what is known as the Battle of Otumba.

What it had to do with the young settlement in northeastern Wisconsin is lost to history.

In 1860, a petition was started to change the name from Otumba to Sturgeon Bay and the County Board approved the name change on February 13, 1860. The rest, as they say, is history.

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