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The vanished, barely-there and never-there courses Call them ghost courses. Old brochures, aerial photos of forest clearings and unusual mounds on hotel grounds are all that’s left of several golf […]

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The tiny land snails that cling to Door County’s Niagara Escarpment have outlived the woolly mammoths and mastodons that roamed this landscape more than 10,000 years ago.  Surviving sheets of […]

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Many exhale the moment they pass the Welcome to Door County. Others don’t feel that sense of relaxation until they cross the bridge or get on the ferry. And for […]

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You can excuse the early settlers, indigenous peoples and cartographers for choosing simple, practical names for Wisconsin’s 15,000 lakes. Who had time for the poetic, or the whimsical, when crops […]

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by BRENNAN CHRISTIANSON Between the tip of the Door peninsula and the shore of Plum Island lies a body of water known as the Porte Des Morts Passage, or Death’s […]

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