2010's Best Kids' Spot: The Farm

Like many other Door County transplants, I’m a former summer kid who now makes the peninsula my year-round home. The memories I made and the experiences I had during long-ago family vacations forged such a powerful connection, that when I decided to leave a corporate magazine job eight years ago, I knew there was only one place I wanted to live, work, and raise my family. More

Peninsula Profile: Q & A Interview with Tony Butala

Tony ButalA was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and began singing professionally at the age of seven. He has never stopped singing. He was a member of the famed Mitchell Boys Choir and for the past half-century has been the one constant for The Lettermen, one of the most enduring singing trios in pop music history. The group has made numerous appearances at the Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek and is scheduled for another return engagement in late November. It’s a return home of sorts for Butala who is a part-time resident of Door County. He sat down at his boyhood home in Sharon, PA, for a telephone interview with Door County Magazine. More

Taking the Plunge

Step foot on the Door Peninsula in the winter, and you will no doubt be awed by the transformed shoreline. On the bay side, the warm blue waters of summer disappear, replaced by an expansive field covered in snow — complete with vehicles and fishing shacks. On the lakeside, water remains water, only deathly cold. But the shore becomes an alien planet, ever changing. Sometimes gentle, slow waves tinkle like invisible ice shards clattering together. Other times, icy waves crash onto frozen shelves spraying everything in their wake. More