Door County Style

Local swimmer, Margaret Carroll, swam across Death’s Door on Sunday, August 22, while raising $500 for the Door County YMCA.

Carroll set out from Northport very early in the morning and swam the 4 miles across to Washington Island, stopping midway to take a break near Pilot Island.  Mike Boryk accompanied her in his boat during [...]

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The Ridges Sanctuary, Wisconsin’s oldest member-based nature sanctuary, honored its invaluable volunteers at a reception Sunday, August 15.
The Ridges Sanctuary in Baileys Harbor has an extraordinary corps of volunteer workers, who in the past year have donated more than 3500 hours, doing everything from trail maintenance to stream monitoring, office work to invasive species control [...]

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It’s monarch butterfly time at Crossroads at Big Creek.
Monarchs in all stages of development fill our flowery meadows. In the Collins Learning Center, we have been larvae-sitting and are thrilled to report that many of the caterpillars have metamorphosed into crystalides… beautiful  jade green studded with gold. We know that the gold comes from a chemical in the milkweed [...]

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Marne Kaeske will give a short introduction on using GPS technology to map the locations of invasive species to be added to the Door County mapping project.
Wikipedia explains it clearly: “The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides reliable location and time information in all weather and at all [...]

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With just a few days left to go, Door County Humane Society staff and supporters are hard at work putting the finishing touches on this year’s “Bark in the Park.”

The eagerly anticipated annual fundraiser will be held on Saturday, August 28 at Sunset Park in Sturgeon Bay.
Registration opens at 9 am, rain or shine. The [...]

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Door County nature enthusiasts have an opportunity to learn more about a most unusual insect.
The monarch butterfly is one of only a few insects that migrate to a warmer climate for the winter. Their unique wing structure and yearly life cycle makes it possible to travel thousands of miles to wintering areas in Mexico and [...]

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“If you ever have a chance to hear Mary Pierce in person, please do so! She is a very powerful keynote speaker.”
The first annual “Celebrate Women!” luncheon sponsored by the Women’s Fund of Door County will take place on Wednesday, September 1 at the Stone Harbor Resort in Sturgeon Bay. Registration starts at 11 am, [...]

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Bren Sibilsky, an Algoma sculptor and painter, has been awarded “Best of Show” in sculpture for “Daedalus” in the most recent Manhattan Arts International show entitled “The Healing Power of Art 2010.”
The show received artwork from every continent and has over 50 artists. In 2008, Bren was a finalist in the Healing Power of [...]

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On stage at Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, August 18 through Sept. 5, is Alan Ayckbourn’s futuristic comedy, “Comic Potential.”
In the foreseeable future, television actors are replaced with programmable robots, and Jacie, an android star, is slated for the scrap heap when a programming glitch is [...]

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Isadoora Theatre Company is excited to announce open auditions for their fall production, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.  Directed by Henry Timm, the show calls for four men and two to four women.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a new adaption by Jeffrey Hatcher of the R.L. Stevenson classic novella.  Hatcher’s intriguing adaption uses four [...]

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