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Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof
Befitting its role as Wisconsin's thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the "Door of the Dead," which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of freshwater in the world.

It is also the idyllic paradise "north of the tension line," that sends many unsuspecting tourists spiraling into an addiction that lands them in a summer home. The variety of nature's splendors and terrors is matched by the cast of characters that has risen up among them. In Door County Tales, these characters are given free rein, which seems only proper in a place where one might walk out of a restaurant and see goats grazing on the roof.

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Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof
Befitting its role as Wisconsin's thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the "Door of the Dead," which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of freshwater in the world.

It is also the idyllic paradise "north of the tension line," that sends many unsuspecting tourists spiraling into an addiction that lands them in a summer home. The variety of nature's splendors and terrors is matched by the cast of characters that has risen up among them. In Door County Tales, these characters are given free rein, which seems only proper in a place where one might walk out of a restaurant and see goats grazing on the roof.

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Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof

Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof

by Arcadia Publishing
Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof
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Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Befitting its role as Wisconsin's thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the "Door of the Dead," which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of freshwater in the world.

It is also the idyllic paradise "north of the tension line," that sends many unsuspecting tourists spiraling into an addiction that lands them in a summer home. The variety of nature's splendors and terrors is matched by the cast of characters that has risen up among them. In Door County Tales, these characters are given free rein, which seems only proper in a place where one might walk out of a restaurant and see goats grazing on the roof.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781609492342
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 06/03/2011
Series: American Chronicles
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 609,778
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Gayle Soucek is an author and freelance editor, with several books and numerous magazine articles to her credit, including Marshall Field's: The Store that Helped Build Chicago and Chicago Calamities: Disaster in the Windy City, both books published by The History Press. She once served as managing editor for the Chicago art and entertainment biweekly, Nightmoves. She and her photographer husband divide their time between their home in a Chicago suburb and their second home in Baileys Harbor. As a child, Gayle first discovered her latent acrophobia on a climb up Eagle Tower during a family vacation. She's pretty sure that the claw marks she left on the railings remain to this day.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bob Erickson 7

Introduction 9

Part I By Land and Water

The Quest for Land 13

The Prophesy of the Door 23

Lighthouses: Beacons of the Storm 33

Part II The Bay Side and Beyond

Sturgeon Bay and Southern Door 47

Sister Bay 57

Fish Creek and Peninsula State Part 64

Ephraim and Chambers Island 73

Egg Harbor 80

Part III The Quiet Side of the Door

Jacksonport 87

Baileys Harbor 94

The Towns of Liberty Grove 107

Washington Island 117

Epilogue: Door County Today 123

About the Author 127

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