Here is a book describing Door County's most common and best loved wildflowers, as well as many that are not-so-common and a few that are extremely rare.
With over 250 beautiful color photographs, the book presents an uncomplicated way to identify and enjoy wildflowers. It's meant to be a casual companion - fun yet inforative. With little knowled
Door County is the final resting place of many shipwrecks.
Jon Paul Van Harpen takes the lure of shipwrecks through photographs and brings them to life with the fascinating stories of peril and salvation. He has been involved with diving and shipwreck archaeology for over 30 years. From the treasure galleons off Florida to the schooners of the Gr
This comprehensive reference guide will introduce you to all 103 species of North Woods dragonflies and some common damselflies. It’s the first guide exclusively for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and northwestern Ontario. Here is some of the fascinating knowledge you’ll gain about the “winged dragons”:
This charming book will appeal to young and old alike. The characters and plot are entirely fictional, but those well-acquainted with Door County may find both landscape and personalities in the story familiar.
When fourteen-year-old Cleo Hardin decides to run away from her summer job in Door County, Wisconsin, she doesn't realize how difficult i
In 1884. the Joliet, Aurora and Northern Railroad was formed to connect the growing industrial cities of Joliet and Aurora. This system evolved into the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. By 1893, it encircled Chicago and Waukegan, via Joliet, to Porter Indiana. The railroad developed into a prosperous subsidiary of U.S. Steel at the beginning of t more...
For more than a generation, lumbering marked the path and set the pace in Wisconsin's growth from a frontier community into the great commonwealth it had become by the turn of the century. Empire in Pine is a comprehensive study of that industry, whose output soared from a few thousand board feet in 1830 to the stupendous total of four billi more...
With its natural, unspoiled beauty, strong Norweigan heritage, and spiritual values of both the Moravian and Lutheran Churches, the villages of Ephraim has long been considered the jewel of the Door County peninsula. Featuring over 200 classic images, many from the archives of the Ephraim Historical Foundation, Ephraim presents the landscape more...
In a combination of history and legend, anecdote and fact, the story of the Ephraim Yacht Club is told. You will learn how a group of dedicated sailors and yachtsmen came together to establish a little yacht club, which has lasted for one hundred years. The camaraderie that forged the club is still unmistakable. The
In April of 1849, a year after Wisconsin achieved statehood, a twenty six year old divinity student set sail from Stavanger, Norway, en route to America. Andreas (Andrew) Iverson, and his young wife, Laura, emigrated to Milwaukee to begin a new life. In 1850, Andrew was ordained a Moravian minister and charged with spreading the gospel among the ma more...