On a warm summer afternoon in 1927 off South Haven, Michigan, an old barge began taking on water. Helpless to staunch the flow and realizing the vessel would sink, the crew escaped to the accompanying tug and watched as the ship slipped beneath the surface of Lake Michigan. Its loss unlamented, its career unheralded, it slumbered on the sandy botto more...
The Cana Island Lighthouse is one of the most picturesque of any lighthouses still operating on the Great Lakes today. The beautiful peninsula of Door County has a long and bountiful tradition of maritime history, including its many lighthouses. Cana Island has illuminated the coastline on the Lake Michigan side of Door County for over 100 years. C more...
This out-of-print and difficult to find Door County fishing book is now available through The Peninsula Bookman. This book has become a sort of cult classic for a segment of the fly-fishing community. The copies offered here are in new condition. more...
The beauty of the wild places of Door County, Wisconsin, is expressed in innumerable ways - in light filtering through a stand of beech, cedar, and hemlock trees, in shimmering water at dawn, in the delicate grace of a single maidenhair fern. Here in ninety-four paintings by seventy artists, the glory of the peninsula's natural areas is expressed i more...
Pauli Wanderer writes in Boulder, Colorado, and in an old house near Gills Rock, Wisconsin, where she can still hear an occasional ferry whistle. A former columnist and contributing editor for Country Home magazine, she has also published three novels for young adults. This book, originally published in 1985, was her homage to Door County.
On the eve of tourist season in the resort community of Door County, Wisconsin, a killer is targeting young blond women, leaving their strangled bodies along the desolate Mink River. The killer ritualistically arranges the bodies to mimic sleep, except for the long blond hair, brushed over their faces. And his deadly calling card - a purple ponytai more...
A Comprehensive History of the Door Peninsula. Volume One From the beginning to 1930.
Three quarters of a century have passed since the last comprehensive history of the Door Peninsula was published. Hjalmar Rued Holand wrote such a book in 1917. Since then the Door Peninsula and the rest of the world, for that matter, has changed so much
Paul and Frances Burton take the reader on a tour of some of the interesting people, places and buildings that provide Door County with such a rich history. Subjects range from barns, Belgians, and barrel making, to lumberjacks, cheese making, hermits, and winter apparel in the old days. This book rewards both permanent residents and visitors with more...
With its magnificent forests, bluffs, and shoreline and its breathtaking views of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Door County's Peninsula State Park is one of the Midwest's most popular attractions. Established in 1909, it was Wisconsin's second state park and a key to pioneering efforts to build a state park