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is back Issue: Winter: 2005- 06
Door
County Living - a magazine that celebrates the area's unique culture and
lifestyle is available at select locations throughout the Peninsula. Through
its coverage of home & garden, boating, leisure & recreation,
dining, fashion, culture, and the arts, Door County Living entertains
its readers by highlighting the many wonderful things the Peninsula has
to offer.
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A Restaurant for All Seasons:
Sage Restaurant &Wine Bar
By Sam Perlman
A sage is defined as “one venerated for experience, judgment
and wisdom.” Mitch Wise, chef and owner of Sage Restaurant
& Wine Bar in downtown Sturgeon Bay, despite the obvious pun
on his own last name, is a restaurateur who certainly isn’t
lacking in any one of those characteristics.
Sage, which opened in 1998, is the
only intimate, urban-style restaurant in Door County’s only
city. Located in the heart of Sturgeon Bay’s busy Third Avenue
downtown shopping district, the restaurant occupies the former home
of the Ace record shop. Wise says he was attracted to the building
for two reasons: “the location and the floor.” The funky
linoleum was all that Wise retained before designing and creating
his intimate dining room and bar area.
(more)
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Location and Longevity: A History of Two
Cheese Factories in Door County
By Allison Vroman
It seems that no matter how many yellowed pages
are flipped back through the history books, Door County is remembered
for growing fruit. However, cherry and apple blossoms are not the
only agriculture to speckle the horizons of Door County’s
history.
Door County has had a rich, agricultural tradition
over the years which includes contributing to Wisconsin’s
image as The Dairy State. (more)
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Archives
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issue features:
Snowshoeing the Door
By Peder Nelson
Snowshoeing provides the means for truly discovering
those places on both our cognitive and paper maps. For those
who love being outdoors and for those who aren’t sure,
snowshoeing affords the freedom from groomed ski and snowmobile
trails and is a great way to stay in shape through the winter
months.
Romantic images of explorers and trappers of
varied cultures abound when we think of snowshoeing. Indigenous
people and pioneers were able to access the wilderness with
their large webbed shoes. In the depth of the winter season,
snowshoes will allow you to explore those areas that may be
too overgrown for walking in the summer and fall. Although beautiful
trails and paths exist in our parks, for this assignment I chose
the rivers less traveled. A winter snowshoeing trek on a river
can be just as rewarding as canoeing or kayaking in summer and
fall. A landscape adorned in snow can provide everything from
an exhilarating snow squall to the tranquility of hearing only
your breath and steps as your muted sounds soak into the silence
of a thick woods. (more)
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Connecting Two Worlds
The Washington Island Ferry Line
By Myles Dannhausen, Jr.
The distance from Northport pier, on the northern
tip of the Door peninsula, to Washington Island's Detroit Harbor
is just a few miles, but in so many ways the two may as well
be worlds apart.
Between the shores run the foreboding waters
of Death's Door, which earned its moniker in the days when sailing
vessels lacked the power and technology to maneuver as they
do today. Yet it's not just the waters of Lake Michigan that
separate the two worlds, nor the dangerous shoals lurking beneath
them. Somewhere in the vaunted expanse lie so many of the conveniences
and connections that those of us on the mainland take for granted
and Washington Island residents have chosen to leave behind.
(more)
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Stovewood
Pioneer Construction
By Mariah Goode
Between roughly the late 1880s and World War I,
a type of construction known as “stovewood” was employed
in the United States. Stovewood, Richard W. E. Perrin writes in
Historic Wisconsin Buildings: A Survey in Pioneer Architecture 1835-1870,
“appears to be the only type of log construction that does
not have any clear-cut antecedents in European building history.
Its origins can only be traced to Canada
where itinerant lumberjacks erected such structures in their logging
camps early in the nineteenth century.” And, he continues,
“while scattered examples have been located throughout the
United States, Wisconsin seems to have an exceptional concentration.”
Furthermore, while stovewood buildings did exist in southern Wisconsin,
they have largely disappeared – Door County, according to
John Kahlert in Early Door County Buildings and the People Who Built
Them 1849-1910, “is one of the few places in the United States
where examples of [the] unique but gradually disappearing form of
pioneer wood construction know as ‘stovewood’ can still
be found.” (more)
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The Energy of Objects
Local Sculptor Stephanie Evans
By Sheila Sabrey-Saperstein
One of the best things about an artist’s community
like Door County is that it’s not only a supportive and safe
haven for established artists, but it also occasionally pulls its
resources together and launches a brand new career. This happened
with sculptor Stephanie Evans, whose work can currently be experienced
exclusively at Fine Line Designs Gallery in Ephraim.
And her work is truly to be experienced, not simply
viewed. Stephanie’s medium is “hand built ceramics”
realized in the form of life sized, three-dimensional dresses, each
with its own personality. When you approach one you feel like you’re
meeting a new friend. (more)
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