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the Wisconsin Historical Society

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and Wisconsin Public Television.

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- On <i>Wisconsin</i>
<i>Hometown Stories</i> :

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A county surrounded by water,

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and destined to be
a tourism hotspot.

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Built up
by a vast harvest of trees

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and fish.

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A county transformed

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by cherries,

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art,

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and land conservation

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on <i>Wisconsin Hometown Stories:</i>
<i>Door County</i>

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- Major funding for

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<i>Wisconsin Hometown Stories:</i>
<i>Door County</i>

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is provided
in part by

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Phillip J. Hendrickson

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in memory of
his beloved wife, Betsy;

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with additional support from

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Dwight and Linda Davis
Foundation;

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Bruce and Grace Frudden,

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in honor of ancestor
Peter Rowley;

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John and Gisela Brogan;

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O.C. and Pat Boldt;

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John & Nell Herlache
Community Impact Fund

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and the Education Fund

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of the Door County
Community Foundation,Inc.;

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Annie and Dick Egan

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Friends of
Wisconsin Public Television;

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and the Wisconsin History Fund,

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supported in part

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by the National Endowment
for the Humanities.

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- As seen from space,
Wisconsin's thumb of land,

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Door County,

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juts out between
Lake Michigan and Green Bay,

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part of a rock formation
called the Niagara Escarpment.

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- The Niagara Escarpment is

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about a 1,000-mile long
ridge of rock that runs

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through Door County,

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all the way up into the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan,

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into Ontario, Canada,
and ends around Niagara Falls.

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It's actually the rock
that Niagara Falls flows over.

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And if you look
at the rocks here,

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you'll see there are
these really beautiful,

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tall cliffs on the western
side of the peninsula.

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The cliff is called
an escarpment

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because it's
a steep vertical cliff.

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- Glaciers formed
the peninsula of Door County

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during the last ice age.

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- When the ice hit
that ridge of rock,

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it actually split it
into two different lobes

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that then actually carved out
Lake Michigan and Green Bay

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because of the
Niagara Escarpment.

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- As the glaciers retreated,

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Paleo-Indians
arrived in the area

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now known as Sturgeon Bay,
and set up camp sites.

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Here, archeologists found spear
points and stone tools,

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used over 10,000 years ago
to hunt and process large game.

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Archaeologists also found
evidence throughout the county

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of many groups and tribes,

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drawn for thousands of years,

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to the rich hunting and fishing
grounds of Door County.

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Many of the early
European settlers

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came to the remote islands
north of the peninsula,

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taking advantage of waters
teeming with fish.

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- By 1860, there was close
to 200 people on Rock Island,

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200 on St. Martin's.

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And, of course, the boats
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wooden boats, Mackinaw boats.

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They were light boats,

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a lot of them were
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so with a man on each side,

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you could pull them right up
on any beach, any gravel beach.

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And you didn't need a dock,
and that was important,

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because you wanted to
be close to your fishery.

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After all, you either rowed
or you sailed, not easy.

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And especially
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then you rowed, period.

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Of course,
with the Mackinaw boats,

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everything was done by hand,
you pulled the nets by hand.

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Deadly work, you know.

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But that's the history
of the fishery.

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There was an awful lot
of hard work in it.

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- Asa Thorp, after a season
of making barrels

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for the fishermen
on Rock Island,

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boarded a steamer
bound for Green Bay.

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- And the captain was sort of
telling him his woes

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about how difficult it is
to run this side of the bay.

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There were no villages,
there were no docks.

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So they would have to anchor,
send the men into the shore

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and collect driftwood
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And the captain said,
"If a guy were smart,

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this is where he'd put a dock."

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- Thorp took the advice,
and built a dock,

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and eventually a sawmill,
at Fish Creek,

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to take part in the harvest
of the heavy forest

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that covered Door County.

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- Very, very deep forest;
very mature forest.

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North, was largely pine;
very good pine.

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And then they had hemlocks
along on the sandy shores.

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And in the swamps,

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they had the cedar.

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And then, they also had
maple and birch and tamarack.

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A person would buy
maybe 2,000 acres

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and they would get a sawmill
into the area.

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doesn't have
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so all the logs had to be
transported to the shore.

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And around the area
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at one time,
there were 60 docks

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and there were
about 66 sawmills.

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- Using the variety
of local woods,

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local shipbuilders
built schooners

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to carry the lumber to market.

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Many of the boats traveled
around the tip of the peninsula,

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through Death's Door,

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the treacherous passage
that gave the county its name.

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- When you were
going to Chicago,

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if you could go through
Death's Door,

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instead of coming up to
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you might save a day of sailing.

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And, of course,
a lot of these skippers

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had great confidence
in their own ability.

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And it didn't always
work out so well,

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because that's
a very treacherous water.

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When you get strong winds,

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quite often

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the current is into the wind
very strong,

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and you can't see it.

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When you get
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and you've got all your sail up

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and you're not going ahead,
you're in big trouble.

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Big ships, 150-footers...

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<i>The Resumption</i> went aground
on Plum Island.

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Beautiful big ships, you know.

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There were three of them
went aground on Pilot Island

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within a couple weeks
in one fall.

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So there are
dozens of shipwrecks

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on that Death's Door passage.

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- As the loggers moved on,

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families began to settle
onto the land, and build farms.

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- And it was a tough go.

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The hardships are beyond
our imagination, really.

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There were places they could get
enough topsoil to plant crops,

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and they did-- there was quite
a bit of farming up here.

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But it was a tough
kind of farming.

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- First, they had to
clear the land,

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and then pull the stumps,

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and a huge, labor-intensive--
Terrible, you know.

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And then when they put
the plow in the ground,

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all they got was rocks.

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(laughing)

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- So if you drive through the
county, in almost any village,

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you will see beautiful,
constructed stone fences,

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and thrown-together
stone fences.

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- Those are symbols

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of hard-gained cropland.

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- As farms developed,

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villages grew up
around the loading docks.

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The settlers built schools,
and churches,

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and endured long,
and often brutal, winters.

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- A lot of disease.

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A lot of them died of

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whooping cough, tuberculosis,
plague.

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But we owe them a tremendous
debt of gratitude,

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and we cannot appreciate
what they went through

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to settle this area.

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(fiddle music)

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- This is our
great grandpa and grandma.

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Francois.

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That's "Francis" of course,
but... Francois Evrard.

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And her name was
Florentine Patris.

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- In 1853,

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the first of thousands
of Belgian immigrants

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began to settle

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in southern Door, Brown,
and Kewaunee counties.

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- And they created

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an ethnic island,

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here in northeast Wisconsin.

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- They were persuaded to settle
in the area

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by Father Edward Daems,

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a Catholic priest
who spoke the Belgian language

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of Walloon.

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- The reason that
they all came here
was the language.

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It was a cultural element

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that made it so appealing.

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(speaking in Walloon)

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- Grandma only talked Walloon,
so I still talked with her,

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and I'm glad I did.

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And my mother and I
talked Walloon.

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The day she died,

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we still had
a conversation in Walloon.

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- The land had not been settled
for good reason.

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It was heavily forested,

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and it was just
a very difficult place
to make a living.

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But they persevered.

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(speaking in Walloon)

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- As the Belgians
cleared their land,

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they also produced
wooden shingles

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to bring in much-needed cash,

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and built a dock
to transport goods.

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- Years ago, there was a boat

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by the name of the <i>Dennessen</i> .

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And they'd take their shingles

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and a cow, or anything they had,
to haul it.

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They'd take it
down to Green Bay.

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They'd put it on the boat,

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and then the people,

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some people want to come visit
their relatives up here.

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They'd take the boat
and they'd go down over there,

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and then, vice versa.

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(fire roaring)

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- In 1871,

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on the same night
as the Chicago Fire,

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the Great Peshtigo Fire swept up
both sides of Green Bay.

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A dry forest and high winds

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whipped small fires
into an inferno,

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that spread through
the Belgian community.

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(horse whinnying frantically)

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- Wind came up and ignited
all of these small fires

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to become one big fire,

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and it just kept
growing and growing,

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and it was like
a tornado of fire.

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(fire roaring)

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- My great grandfather
and great grandmother

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grabbed woolen blankets,

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and they were going
down into the well.

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And the fire went over them
and on the side of them.

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And they came out of the well,

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and said they looked around,

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and all they could see
was burned land.

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There was nothing--

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There was nothing left of what
they had worked so hard to do.

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- With many killed,
and hundreds homeless,

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the Belgians slowly began
to rebuild their farms

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on the rocky, burned over land,

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and made the most
of the resources that were left.

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- Now any forest fire:

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it will destroy the foliage,
it will char the bark,

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but it won't consume the tree.

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And so the Belgians
spent winters rescuing timber.

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And then, a building boom
took place here.

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Those are log houses.

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They covered them
with locally-made brick.

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Now, we don't have to
go to Quebec,

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or we don't have to
go to Europe

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to see classic examples
of folk architecture.

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It's right here
in northeast Wisconsin.

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- There are small little chapels

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dotted along
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It is a practice that was
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- The chapels,
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have some characteristics.

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A alter at the end of
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and then a number of
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Tremendous symmetry.

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They were an important part

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of the religious fabric
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The Belgians are very religious.

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A lot of the life then
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revolves around
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- I lived right next door,

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so I'd have to come to church...

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...a lot.

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They'd send me: "Oh, you'd
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"It's a good day for you
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- We were all Catholic.

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The Lutheran-- You didn't--
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outside your religion.

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I know when I was
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my mother didn't even want me
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that was not Catholic.

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As Wisconsinites, we know

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that we have a plethora

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of ethnic islands here.

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But most of them have eroded,
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The Belgians have not.

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- I guess the thing
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working together,
because they always worked.

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The thrashing crew was made up
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everybody came to help.

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No matter what,

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you always had people to help,
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- We had a bunch of men
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and they put up the barn.

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And that night,

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the rafters are up,
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and blew it down.

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And all the neighbors came over
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They all pitched in,
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took the nails
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and two days after,
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All the neighbors
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- They worked hard,
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Good times, dances,

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and maybe when there were
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Funerals were big things,
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Everyone just seemed to be happy
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You could visit with people,
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- The ethnic island
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within the area
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still exists.

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They have retained
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on this land
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And that's just remarkable.

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volunteer here at PBSert, a

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Wisconsin, watching along

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Wisconsin Hometown Storiesf

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a place that that we allut

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state, whether you live

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come from out of state to

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there's no place quite like

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really love about PBS I

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would make a documentarye

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such a hyper local placeof

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many of us. And yet, youso

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is not going to make anel

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County, right? This is

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Wisconsin can do, and it

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viewers like you who say, I

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this and who call and make

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support to vote with their

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happen. Please give us a

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call 1-800-236-3636.

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a part of the communityI'm

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Wisconsin. And thank youPBS

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tonight. And if you're

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gift, well, I've got some

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fantastic ways to thank you

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watching this film, you're

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a little bit more about the

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Well, we've got at the $10

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choose to be thanked with

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It dives deeper intoes book.

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to stories about theecks,

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the cherries and how theyof

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Also, you know, some funnty.

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stories like those goats on

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that's the book at the $10

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$10 a month level, you cane

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Door County Hometownthe

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or this beautiful print of

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curvy road in Door County

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would look great on youror

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at the $10 a month level or

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You'll get all of thesel.

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throw in the Wisconsin

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a call 1-800-236-3636.ve us

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volunteer here at PBS, a

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sitting here tonight're

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we have been talking about

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County is for so many of us

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Door County holds such aies.

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families histories andny

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if you are one of thoseso

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County in your heart as one

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that you are enjoying thise

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much as we are. And if as

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today is a great day to do,

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this amazing local program

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goes along with it allow us

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like this so you can keep

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we're able to bring you. So

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Hometown Stories is a is a

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we've taken you all over

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Beloit and Appleton ando

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many more. One thing thatie,

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producers have gone around

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documentaries, boyhese

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their communities, of their

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tell these stories. And to

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I bet I'm speaking for you,

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those stories, right? I

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different part of our state,

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together into the beautiful

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This programing is made.

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with your dollars, you call

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support programs liket to

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if that's how you'retories.

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a call 1-800-236-3636.e us

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supporter of PBS Wisconsin

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we'd love to thank you.

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some fantastic ones thate

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at the $10 a month level,y

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between that Door County

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into the history of Door

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County Hometown Stories,or

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print. I want to talk as

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print. It's reallyout this

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watercolor and ink. It's by

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this road. It's such ariven

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County. And anytime you

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was talking about theegina

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families, taking trips to

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this hanging on the walle

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conversation starter thatt

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about those stories. Whene

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when you're rememberingr,

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Door County. So it would be

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Again, that's at the $10 a

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month level. We'd love to

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these gifts, and we'llee of

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example of how PBSrfect

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history teacher, and weble

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learned so much about the

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learning more about Door

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here to be a classroom that

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whenever works for you, and

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whatever interests you. So

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any of the levels thatner,

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maybe tonight's the night

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whatever that looks like to

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result that you see for a

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the the film. But there'ss

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creating that film. Right.

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represents a truee process

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go into the community. They

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their photos. And theries,

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They preserve and sharele.

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of us simply would not rest

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Madison. Maybe I'll go tos

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sessions just just to hear

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process continues, the, the

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that partnership is madend

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>> When was the last time

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Wisconsin to support the

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love? Or maybe you'rew and

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Thank you so much. Consider?

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$10. And then if you give

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levels, we'd love to thank

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again, at the $10 a month

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of the Door County Talesice

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Stories, Door County DVD.

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program that you'rehe

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print of highway 42, thate

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the $20 level, $20 a month.

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all of these gifts, as well

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Lighthouses DVD. So

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thank you with tonight. Soo

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1-800-236-3636.at

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a program like Wisconsinout

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programing it. It sparks

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Based on this first segment,

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questions now than you did

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Fire or about Belgiantigo

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invitation to go deeper.n

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is so hard to find. And,t

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are in of sound bites and,

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hard to get that depth and

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the storytelling that you

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that, if that matters to if

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is the time to give us a call.

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?

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?

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?

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- In 1872, work began
on clearing the land

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for a canal

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that would connect Sturgeon Bay
with Lake Michigan.

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The canal would
create a big shortcut,

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reducing the need to travel
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and through
the Death's Door passage.

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With the canal,
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a busy Lake Michigan
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Schooners would tie together,
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in what became known
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The shipbuilding and ship repair
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and shoreline rock quarries

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now had a direct route
to Lake Michigan markets.

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With easier access,
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began to take hold
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and the Green Bay side
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With almost 300 miles
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much of it considered
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it was only a matter of time,

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before tourists
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the cool breezes and beauty
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In Fish Creek,
dockmaster Asa Thorp,

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sold fuel to steamboats,

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and also ran
a small boardinghouse.

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- The lumbermen, the salesmen,
anyone that came to the village,

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he would put up.

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And soon, the people
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when they came into the village.

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So as they were
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they would walk up
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and people loved
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and how lovely this little
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and it felt so good...

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And soon they started asking Asa

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if they couldn't stay
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I think he must have been
a very ingenious guy,

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and that's the next thing
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He built a very fine hotel.

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It just seem that that was the
way the village was going to go,

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and so that the fishing
and lumbering village

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of the late 1800s
quickly became--

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By 1905, 1910,
people were building hotels.

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They were already up.

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- Just to the north,
in Ephraim,

526
00:27:38,926 --> 00:27:42,296
village residents were amazed
when a ship's passenger

527
00:27:42,362 --> 00:27:46,667
inquired about staying
in the village overnight.

528
00:27:46,733 --> 00:27:50,337
- And asked the dockmaster
if there was someplace to stay.

529
00:27:50,404 --> 00:27:52,739
He was told,
"No, there were no hotels."

530
00:27:52,806 --> 00:27:55,275
And he suggested that
he might run down

531
00:27:55,342 --> 00:27:57,211
to the Widow Valentine's house,

532
00:27:57,277 --> 00:27:59,847
but he better hurry because
the boat was going to leave

533
00:27:59,913 --> 00:28:02,049
and he'd be stuck
if she said, "No."

534
00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:04,885
She said, "Yes," and
he stayed for a couple of days.

535
00:28:04,952 --> 00:28:07,955
- And other villagers
noticed that,

536
00:28:08,021 --> 00:28:11,291
"Wow, this is
a source of money."

537
00:28:11,358 --> 00:28:14,928
- That is when tourism
became a thought

538
00:28:15,596 --> 00:28:17,564
in the minds of several people.

539
00:28:17,631 --> 00:28:21,068
And after <i>The Advocate</i>
published an article--

540
00:28:21,134 --> 00:28:22,736
I believe this is what it said:

541
00:28:22,803 --> 00:28:25,372
Ephraim wants a good hotel,

542
00:28:25,806 --> 00:28:28,175
and tourists would be plenty.

543
00:28:28,242 --> 00:28:31,578
And Fordel Hogenson,
who was a Norwegian immigrant,

544
00:28:31,645 --> 00:28:34,715
decided that
that would be what he would do.

545
00:28:34,781 --> 00:28:37,351
He was a skilled carpenter,

546
00:28:37,417 --> 00:28:40,153
he was a captain
of his own schooner,

547
00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:42,322
he also fished for a living,
and made some money,

548
00:28:42,389 --> 00:28:43,891
he also did some lumbering.

549
00:28:43,957 --> 00:28:48,295
Everybody did everything in
those days, because they had to.

550
00:28:48,362 --> 00:28:51,665
So he decided that he would
add onto his house,

551
00:28:51,732 --> 00:28:54,001
and he added a little more,
and a little more,

552
00:28:54,067 --> 00:28:57,604
until finally,
he enough space for 80 people.

553
00:28:57,671 --> 00:29:01,475
The bedrooms were minimal,
chamber pots under the bed,

554
00:29:01,542 --> 00:29:03,844
but they served
three meals a day,

555
00:29:03,911 --> 00:29:06,413
and every meal was wonderful.

556
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,583
- And others were
adding onto their houses

557
00:29:09,650 --> 00:29:11,451
and permitting people
to come and stay.

558
00:29:11,518 --> 00:29:14,988
- Soon, new hotels
began to spring up

559
00:29:15,055 --> 00:29:19,726
all around the peninsula,
and Washington Island.

560
00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:22,596
The Goodrich
Transportation Company,

561
00:29:22,663 --> 00:29:25,599
began to bring in
boatloads of tourists,

562
00:29:25,666 --> 00:29:30,604
running regular routes
from Chicago and Milwaukee.

563
00:29:30,671 --> 00:29:33,841
- And they used the large
steamship, the <i>Carolina</i> .

564
00:29:33,907 --> 00:29:36,243
And they had sleeping quarters,
a big dining room.

565
00:29:36,310 --> 00:29:38,011
It was really a nice ship.

566
00:29:38,078 --> 00:29:41,415
This big <i>Carolina</i>
would lumber in to the dock,

567
00:29:41,481 --> 00:29:43,250
and completely
overpower the dock.

568
00:29:43,317 --> 00:29:44,852
At the big event,
of course,

569
00:29:44,918 --> 00:29:47,821
the captain would blow his siren

570
00:29:47,888 --> 00:29:49,289
coming around the bend,

571
00:29:49,356 --> 00:29:51,692
and villagers would
drop what they were doing

572
00:29:51,758 --> 00:29:53,093
and rush down to the dock

573
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,629
and see who was showing up,
what they were wearing.

574
00:29:55,696 --> 00:29:57,865
- And everybody would
flock down to the dock,

575
00:29:57,931 --> 00:30:00,434
because someone interesting
might be on the boat,

576
00:30:00,501 --> 00:30:04,371
or some thing that they had
ordered might be on the boat,

577
00:30:04,438 --> 00:30:07,474
and maybe they wanted to ship
something out on the boat.

578
00:30:07,541 --> 00:30:11,178
Big excitement
when the boats came in.

579
00:30:11,245 --> 00:30:13,380
- But lots of people came.

580
00:30:13,447 --> 00:30:15,849
And they'd stay
two to three weeks, a long time.

581
00:30:15,916 --> 00:30:17,284
Some stayed the whole summer.

582
00:30:17,351 --> 00:30:19,686
And they were escaping
the summer heat

583
00:30:19,753 --> 00:30:23,824
in Chicago, Milwaukee, and my
wife's family's from St. Louis,

584
00:30:23,891 --> 00:30:26,126
and that's why they came up.

585
00:30:26,193 --> 00:30:28,295
It was a place
where people could come

586
00:30:28,362 --> 00:30:32,032
and lay back and relax
and enjoy nature.

587
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,135
You went on picnics,
you fished,

588
00:30:35,202 --> 00:30:37,871
you spent time on the water

589
00:30:37,938 --> 00:30:39,606
doing whatever,

590
00:30:40,607 --> 00:30:42,809
and enjoyed
good meals at these hotels.

591
00:30:42,876 --> 00:30:45,179
Those were really good times
for those people.

592
00:30:45,245 --> 00:30:49,049
And there were some very wealthy
people who came up here.

593
00:30:49,116 --> 00:30:53,787
And by 1921, there were
11 major, old-timey hotels

594
00:30:55,822 --> 00:30:57,357
in Ephraim.

595
00:30:57,424 --> 00:30:59,860
On the American plan,
all your meals were provided.

596
00:30:59,927 --> 00:31:02,930
- Three meals a day
for a lot of people;

597
00:31:02,996 --> 00:31:04,898
That's a lot of work.

598
00:31:05,499 --> 00:31:07,968
And so, local people
had to be hired,

599
00:31:08,035 --> 00:31:10,604
women in particular,
who didn't have jobs.

600
00:31:10,671 --> 00:31:13,240
People didn't hire women
for anything in those days.

601
00:31:13,307 --> 00:31:16,109
So, people who were
known to be good cooks

602
00:31:16,176 --> 00:31:18,946
would be asked if they
would help cook for the summer.

603
00:31:19,012 --> 00:31:21,615
Other people would be asked if
they could do housekeeping.

604
00:31:21,682 --> 00:31:23,116
So the man of the family would

605
00:31:23,183 --> 00:31:25,986
take care of the outside work,

606
00:31:26,053 --> 00:31:28,856
and the ladies would
take care of the inside.

607
00:31:28,922 --> 00:31:31,491
There are some who say
the women did it all.

608
00:31:31,558 --> 00:31:35,262
The women really were the heart
and soul of these old hotels.

609
00:31:35,329 --> 00:31:38,765
Tillie Valentine ran
the Anderson Hotel--

610
00:31:38,832 --> 00:31:40,100
I mean really ran it.

611
00:31:40,167 --> 00:31:44,538
Eugenia Smith at the Eagle Inn--
stern taskmaster.

612
00:31:44,605 --> 00:31:50,043
Serena Olson at the Hillside,
Augusta Olson at the Pine Grove.

613
00:31:50,110 --> 00:31:53,313
They managed the place,
they were cooks, greeted people,

614
00:31:53,380 --> 00:31:56,817
did the book-keeping,
and managed the kitchen,

615
00:31:56,884 --> 00:31:58,552
and managed the help.

616
00:31:58,619 --> 00:32:00,387
It was a big deal.

617
00:32:00,454 --> 00:32:03,724
A lot of money flowed into
Door County through tourism,

618
00:32:03,790 --> 00:32:05,459
and still does.

619
00:32:06,159 --> 00:32:09,396
- How wonderful that there
is such a thing as a tourist.

620
00:32:09,463 --> 00:32:11,932
It gives all of us a livelihood.

621
00:32:11,999 --> 00:32:13,667
(chuckling)

622
00:32:15,836 --> 00:32:17,504
?

623
00:32:20,807 --> 00:32:25,345
- In 1908, noted
landscape architect John Nolen

624
00:32:25,412 --> 00:32:26,880
toured Wisconsin,

625
00:32:26,947 --> 00:32:31,752
in search of the best places
to develop state parks.

626
00:32:32,052 --> 00:32:35,789
- In Door County, Nolen
and the new State Parks Board

627
00:32:35,856 --> 00:32:39,826
arrived to inspect the land
that would eventually become

628
00:32:39,893 --> 00:32:42,029
Peninsula State Park.

629
00:32:42,696 --> 00:32:47,067
The board members were struck
by the site's possibilities

630
00:32:47,134 --> 00:32:48,735
for recreation,

631
00:32:48,802 --> 00:32:53,974
and as a place for city people
to reconnect with nature.

632
00:32:54,041 --> 00:32:57,744
In his final report,
Nolen explained

633
00:32:57,811 --> 00:33:00,180
why Wisconsin
should move quickly

634
00:33:00,247 --> 00:33:03,717
to preserve the land
for a state park.

635
00:33:04,985 --> 00:33:08,322
- "It is wild, and as yet,
unspoiled,

636
00:33:08,789 --> 00:33:12,893
"with alternating interests
of woodland and cliff,

637
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,628
"bay and land.

638
00:33:15,329 --> 00:33:18,465
"It sweeps from point to point--

639
00:33:18,532 --> 00:33:21,001
"here a beach of fine sand,

640
00:33:23,704 --> 00:33:25,372
"there of gravel.

641
00:33:27,174 --> 00:33:31,645
"Then, in contrast,
precipitous limestone bluffs,

642
00:33:31,712 --> 00:33:35,415
"rising to a height
of a hundred feet or more.

643
00:33:35,482 --> 00:33:39,486
"Almost at each step,
a new vista is opened,

644
00:33:40,621 --> 00:33:43,657
"a new composition afforded.

645
00:33:43,724 --> 00:33:47,194
"The vegetation is rich,
and varied.

646
00:33:47,628 --> 00:33:51,431
"Extensive forests
cover large tracts.

647
00:33:52,032 --> 00:33:54,134
"With the purest of air,

648
00:33:54,201 --> 00:33:57,504
"laden with the fragrance
of balsam and pine,

649
00:33:57,571 --> 00:34:00,007
"it is no exaggeration to say

650
00:34:00,073 --> 00:34:02,709
"that the broad beauty
of the scenery

651
00:34:02,776 --> 00:34:05,579
"is not surpassed in Wisconsin."

652
00:34:05,646 --> 00:34:07,314
(bird calling)

653
00:34:08,949 --> 00:34:10,617
- Jens Jensen,

654
00:34:10,884 --> 00:34:13,820
another nationally-known
landscape architect,

655
00:34:13,887 --> 00:34:17,024
also made his mark
on Door County.

656
00:34:17,558 --> 00:34:19,026
After a long career

657
00:34:19,092 --> 00:34:22,663
as superintendent and designer
of Chicago parks,

658
00:34:22,729 --> 00:34:25,899
and as a landscape designer
for wealthy clients,

659
00:34:25,966 --> 00:34:30,137
Jensen retreated to Ellison Bay,
in northern Door County,

660
00:34:30,204 --> 00:34:34,174
to start a folk school
he called, "The Clearing."

661
00:34:34,241 --> 00:34:37,444
- He intended it to be
a clearing of the mind,

662
00:34:37,511 --> 00:34:40,848
a place where things
would become clear to you

663
00:34:40,914 --> 00:34:42,716
out in nature.

664
00:34:42,783 --> 00:34:44,685
He wanted a place...

665
00:34:45,352 --> 00:34:48,021
He called it, "On the edge
of the wild... somewhere,

666
00:34:48,088 --> 00:34:50,257
"high up
on a hill or a bluff,

667
00:34:50,324 --> 00:34:53,060
"with a view
of a large expanse of water,

668
00:34:53,126 --> 00:34:55,128
"with a setting sun."

669
00:34:55,629 --> 00:34:58,232
He felt people
had to be out in nature

670
00:34:58,298 --> 00:34:59,666
in order to be human.

671
00:34:59,733 --> 00:35:04,304
People need this, in an
increasingly urbanizing society,

672
00:35:04,371 --> 00:35:07,508
they get removed from it,
and we still need this.

673
00:35:07,574 --> 00:35:11,478
He was passionate,
and he was a visionary.

674
00:35:12,079 --> 00:35:15,249
He envisioned that whole
corridor from the Indiana border

675
00:35:15,315 --> 00:35:18,952
all the way up past Milwaukee
as being one large city someday,

676
00:35:19,019 --> 00:35:22,890
and we need to preserve
some areas as wild areas.

677
00:35:22,956 --> 00:35:27,528
But he wanted people
to be out in them, using them.

678
00:35:28,262 --> 00:35:31,098
- As Jensen continued
building "The Clearing,"

679
00:35:31,164 --> 00:35:35,802
another call for preservation
began in Bailey's Harbor.

680
00:35:35,869 --> 00:35:38,105
In 1924, Albert Fuller,

681
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,509
a botanist for
the Milwaukee Public Museum,

682
00:35:42,576 --> 00:35:45,078
visited the Range Light
lighthouse station

683
00:35:45,145 --> 00:35:47,648
outside of Bailey's Harbor.

684
00:35:47,714 --> 00:35:51,718
- He had gotten reports of
rare orchids in that area.

685
00:35:51,785 --> 00:35:55,455
Fuller was astonished
by what he found.

686
00:35:56,190 --> 00:35:59,560
The forty acres of land
on the lighthouse property

687
00:35:59,626 --> 00:36:01,595
teemed with an astounding array

688
00:36:01,662 --> 00:36:05,532
of wild orchids
and other rare plants.

689
00:36:05,599 --> 00:36:10,470
- He came up with 25 of the
40 native orchids of Wisconsin

690
00:36:10,537 --> 00:36:12,906
right here
on the original 40 acres.

691
00:36:12,973 --> 00:36:16,977
He really knew
this was something special.

692
00:36:17,511 --> 00:36:20,881
- Over time, the waves and
currents of Lake Michigan

693
00:36:20,948 --> 00:36:24,418
had formed a series
of ridges of land.

694
00:36:24,952 --> 00:36:28,922
- And in between are these
unique wetlands called swales.

695
00:36:28,989 --> 00:36:32,059
And depending on the soil type

696
00:36:32,125 --> 00:36:34,094
and the hydrology
and the vegetation,

697
00:36:34,161 --> 00:36:36,396
they can be open like this one,
like a sedge meadow,

698
00:36:36,463 --> 00:36:37,998
or they can be a bog.

699
00:36:38,065 --> 00:36:39,466
And that's what
makes it so unique,

700
00:36:39,533 --> 00:36:41,702
is that in this small area,

701
00:36:41,768 --> 00:36:43,804
you've got one plant community,

702
00:36:43,871 --> 00:36:46,039
then another plant community
in the swale,

703
00:36:46,106 --> 00:36:49,009
and then could be a totally
different plant community
on the next ridge.

704
00:36:49,076 --> 00:36:52,746
And so the geological formations
with the ridges and swales

705
00:36:52,813 --> 00:36:55,582
has created this unique setting

706
00:36:55,649 --> 00:36:59,219
for a lot of different
flora and fauna.

707
00:36:59,653 --> 00:37:02,489
- During the Great Depression
of the 1930s,

708
00:37:02,556 --> 00:37:04,358
the coast guard turned over

709
00:37:04,424 --> 00:37:07,394
the forty acres of land
surrounding the Range Lights

710
00:37:07,461 --> 00:37:09,263
to the county.

711
00:37:09,329 --> 00:37:10,898
- And up came the idea:

712
00:37:10,964 --> 00:37:13,834
let's make a campground
out of the ridges.

713
00:37:13,901 --> 00:37:16,904
And they were going to
build a road,

714
00:37:16,970 --> 00:37:19,506
and they brushed it,
they cleared it out,

715
00:37:19,573 --> 00:37:21,241
and one by one,

716
00:37:21,308 --> 00:37:24,745
people began objecting
to what they were seeing.

717
00:37:24,811 --> 00:37:28,682
And probably the
loudest objector was Emma Toft.

718
00:37:28,749 --> 00:37:31,285
She hated what they were doing.

719
00:37:31,351 --> 00:37:33,887
The story,
which was concocted about her

720
00:37:33,954 --> 00:37:37,624
standing or sitting in front
of the bulldozers was not true,

721
00:37:37,691 --> 00:37:39,359
but she said,

722
00:37:39,826 --> 00:37:41,228
"It made a good point.

723
00:37:41,295 --> 00:37:44,231
"I would've done it
if I had to."
[chuckling]

724
00:37:44,298 --> 00:37:47,267
- And Albert Fuller
got wind of that,

725
00:37:47,334 --> 00:37:49,703
and started this real
grass-roots movement

726
00:37:49,770 --> 00:37:51,905
to protect the 40 acres.

727
00:37:51,972 --> 00:37:54,474
He started to work
with a lot of the local people

728
00:37:54,541 --> 00:37:56,610
like Jens Jensen,
who had started "The Clearing."

729
00:37:56,677 --> 00:38:00,647
Through the Bailey's Harbor
Woman's Club,

730
00:38:00,714 --> 00:38:01,949
they started to
have these meetings,

731
00:38:02,015 --> 00:38:04,117
and Albert Fuller would come in
and present.

732
00:38:04,184 --> 00:38:06,119
"Don't develop this area.

733
00:38:06,186 --> 00:38:09,823
"It's very unique
with its orchids, its diversity,

734
00:38:09,890 --> 00:38:11,558
"and preserve it,

735
00:38:11,825 --> 00:38:13,327
"and make it a destination

736
00:38:13,393 --> 00:38:15,596
"that people can come in
and appreciate it."

737
00:38:15,662 --> 00:38:18,265
- In a way,
he was pleading with them:

738
00:38:18,332 --> 00:38:19,600
This place is special,

739
00:38:19,666 --> 00:38:21,468
needs preserving.

740
00:38:22,236 --> 00:38:24,571
And they listened to him.

741
00:38:24,938 --> 00:38:26,940
- On October 4th, 1937

742
00:38:27,441 --> 00:38:29,042
The Ridges started,

743
00:38:29,109 --> 00:38:31,979
filed articles of incorporation,

744
00:38:32,045 --> 00:38:34,648
and worked with
the Door County Parks Committee

745
00:38:34,715 --> 00:38:37,851
to protect
the original 40 acres.

746
00:38:40,420 --> 00:38:43,423
- The volunteer group
quickly began a campaign

747
00:38:43,490 --> 00:38:46,894
to purchase a buffer of land
around the 40 acres,

748
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,230
inspiring future
preservation efforts

749
00:38:50,297 --> 00:38:53,100
in Door County,
and beyond...

750
00:38:53,634 --> 00:38:57,905
- That vision that they had
created a real ripple effect.

751
00:38:57,971 --> 00:39:00,807
- It was one of
the first of its kind.

752
00:39:00,874 --> 00:39:03,277
Quite a few groups
used The Ridges

753
00:39:03,343 --> 00:39:05,913
as the model to copy from.

754
00:39:05,979 --> 00:39:10,784
- Emma Toft went on
to become a conservation legend

755
00:39:10,851 --> 00:39:13,353
for her decades of work
at The Ridges,

756
00:39:13,420 --> 00:39:15,088
and her relentless efforts

757
00:39:15,155 --> 00:39:19,393
to preserve her family's
old growth forest land.

758
00:39:21,562 --> 00:39:25,599
Jens Jensen went on to lead
an effort to locate and purchase

759
00:39:25,666 --> 00:39:30,504
wild land in Door County,
to be preserved as county parks.

760
00:39:30,571 --> 00:39:34,208
- So, we have these special
parks in Door County,

761
00:39:34,274 --> 00:39:36,176
that are kind of wild.

762
00:39:36,243 --> 00:39:37,778
Ellison Bluff,

763
00:39:37,845 --> 00:39:41,381
up the road a bit is Door Bluff
Headlands County Park.

764
00:39:41,448 --> 00:39:46,520
Cave Point, down by
Whitefish Dunes, is another one.

765
00:39:46,587 --> 00:39:47,955
- Albert Fuller went on

766
00:39:48,021 --> 00:39:52,092
to join Aldo Leopold
and other UW-Madison biologists

767
00:39:52,159 --> 00:39:56,897
to start what would become
the State Natural Areas program,

768
00:39:56,964 --> 00:40:01,134
protecting Wisconsin's
endangered landscapes.

769
00:40:01,201 --> 00:40:04,271
- He took this idea that
was started in Bailey's Harbor

770
00:40:04,338 --> 00:40:08,008
to protect land
for its natural beauty,

771
00:40:08,575 --> 00:40:12,613
but also to start preserving
land for flora and fauna,

772
00:40:12,679 --> 00:40:14,314
and they've protected

773
00:40:14,381 --> 00:40:18,852
well over 350,000 acres
throughout Wisconsin.

774
00:40:19,419 --> 00:40:22,356
(waves lapping, bird chirping)

775
00:40:25,058 --> 00:40:26,727
?

776
00:40:30,898 --> 00:40:35,169
- In the 1860s, Door County
farmer Joseph Zettel

777
00:40:35,235 --> 00:40:37,504
began planting apple trees,

778
00:40:37,571 --> 00:40:40,174
and after 30 years,
he and his family ran

779
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:44,711
what was then the largest
orchard in Wisconsin.

780
00:40:45,846 --> 00:40:48,448
In his decades
of growing apples,

781
00:40:48,515 --> 00:40:52,119
Zettel never lost
a crop to spring frost,

782
00:40:52,186 --> 00:40:55,689
due to the effect
of Lake Michigan and Green Bay,

783
00:40:55,756 --> 00:40:57,591
on the local climate.

784
00:40:59,059 --> 00:41:00,861
His fruit-growing success

785
00:41:00,928 --> 00:41:03,630
attracted the attention
of Emmett Goff,

786
00:41:03,697 --> 00:41:06,366
professor of horticulture
at UW-Madison,

787
00:41:06,433 --> 00:41:08,101
and Arthur Hatch,

788
00:41:08,168 --> 00:41:10,971
a fruit-grower
from Richland Center.

789
00:41:11,038 --> 00:41:14,308
They set up
an experimental fruit farm,

790
00:41:14,374 --> 00:41:15,776
near Sturgeon Bay,

791
00:41:15,843 --> 00:41:21,248
and word soon spread of their
success in growing cherries.

792
00:41:21,315 --> 00:41:24,518
- My grandfather got interested
in some of the trees

793
00:41:24,585 --> 00:41:27,254
that were planted
down near Sturgeon Bay

794
00:41:27,321 --> 00:41:29,223
about 130 years ago.

795
00:41:30,891 --> 00:41:33,360
He made the three day trip
down to Sturgeon Bay

796
00:41:33,427 --> 00:41:34,695
to see those trees.

797
00:41:34,761 --> 00:41:38,131
He came back all enthused
about the possibility

798
00:41:38,198 --> 00:41:42,135
of raising cherries
up here in northern Door County.

799
00:41:42,202 --> 00:41:44,204
He ordered 700 trees.

800
00:41:44,771 --> 00:41:47,574
- Of course, farmers were
looking for something else to do

801
00:41:47,641 --> 00:41:51,478
besides milk cows and
the things that they were doing.

802
00:41:51,545 --> 00:41:53,213
The farms around
our neighborhood,

803
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,516
some had five acres,
some had ten acres.

804
00:41:55,582 --> 00:41:58,151
Just a little orchard
back in the corner somewhere.

805
00:41:58,218 --> 00:41:59,620
And they had then

806
00:41:59,686 --> 00:42:02,122
a product that they could sell
at a roadside stand.

807
00:42:02,189 --> 00:42:06,560
Years ago, it wasn't uncommon
for people to trade at a store.

808
00:42:06,627 --> 00:42:08,028
I'll have some cherries,

809
00:42:08,095 --> 00:42:12,032
and maybe I can buy some oatmeal
or something with it.

810
00:42:12,099 --> 00:42:15,235
One of the first ways
of marketing, of course,
was pick your own.

811
00:42:15,302 --> 00:42:17,771
Where a family would come up
on a Sunday with their car

812
00:42:17,838 --> 00:42:19,706
and pick cherries,
take them back home,

813
00:42:19,773 --> 00:42:21,441
and they'd can them,
preserve them.

814
00:42:21,508 --> 00:42:22,709
Jam and jelly.

815
00:42:22,776 --> 00:42:24,578
Of course, you have
to take the pits out,

816
00:42:24,645 --> 00:42:27,548
but they found ways
of doing that.

817
00:42:27,614 --> 00:42:32,186
Hair pins work for that,
in case you want to try it.

818
00:42:32,252 --> 00:42:34,988
Cherries are prone to diseases.

819
00:42:35,055 --> 00:42:36,690
There was bugs that
would get in cherries.

820
00:42:36,757 --> 00:42:39,326
The first fungicide to use:

821
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,163
blue vitriol
or copper sulfate.

822
00:42:43,230 --> 00:42:45,899
That was something that
you would mix in with water,

823
00:42:45,966 --> 00:42:48,168
along with hydrate lime
and arsenate of lead.

824
00:42:48,235 --> 00:42:51,371
You'd stand on top
of the sprayer,

825
00:42:52,339 --> 00:42:55,375
and as the team of horses
pull that thing down the row,

826
00:42:55,442 --> 00:42:57,444
you would stand up there
and spray the cherries.

827
00:42:57,511 --> 00:43:00,781
Of course, the thing would
blow back on the guy

828
00:43:00,848 --> 00:43:02,216
that was doing the spraying.

829
00:43:02,282 --> 00:43:05,152
He was as blue as the cherry
trees were, when they got done.

830
00:43:05,219 --> 00:43:08,956
Everything was blue
from the blue vitriol.

831
00:43:09,022 --> 00:43:12,192
Suddenly, there were
a couple of people,

832
00:43:12,259 --> 00:43:16,029
a Reynolds and a Martin
Orchard Company,

833
00:43:16,096 --> 00:43:19,333
that decided
to go into it big time.

834
00:43:19,733 --> 00:43:21,602
Finally,
the Martin Orchard Company

835
00:43:21,668 --> 00:43:23,670
got to be 1,000 acres.

836
00:43:25,472 --> 00:43:27,574
As the market developed

837
00:43:27,641 --> 00:43:28,976
it occurred to somebody,

838
00:43:29,042 --> 00:43:32,546
maybe we ought to try to
commercially can these things.

839
00:43:32,613 --> 00:43:34,748
They used to take the cherries
into the factory

840
00:43:34,815 --> 00:43:36,216
and they'd go on a belt.

841
00:43:36,283 --> 00:43:39,353
They'd have people
sitting along this belt that

842
00:43:39,419 --> 00:43:43,891
would pick out the bad cherries,
pick out the stems, leaves.

843
00:43:43,957 --> 00:43:45,826
Then they go
through the pitters.

844
00:43:45,893 --> 00:43:48,996
The little thing goes down
and pokes the pit out.

845
00:43:49,062 --> 00:43:52,099
I remember as a youngster,
we'd go to the factory

846
00:43:52,165 --> 00:43:54,234
and then we'd have to wait
to get unloaded.

847
00:43:54,301 --> 00:43:57,070
The line would be a bend
a half a mile long or something.

848
00:43:57,137 --> 00:43:59,506
Waiting, and you'd get
all the news

849
00:43:59,573 --> 00:44:01,975
in the neighborhood,
and all this sort of thing.

850
00:44:02,042 --> 00:44:05,746
These boxes of cherries,
they held four pails.

851
00:44:05,812 --> 00:44:07,314
We had two boys.

852
00:44:07,381 --> 00:44:08,949
They'd get on the truck

853
00:44:09,016 --> 00:44:10,951
and they would
unload the boxes for you.

854
00:44:11,018 --> 00:44:13,086
One guy would pick up
the box on the truck

855
00:44:13,153 --> 00:44:15,455
and throw it to the guy
that dumps it in the tank.

856
00:44:15,522 --> 00:44:17,424
He'd take the box
and throw it to the guy

857
00:44:17,491 --> 00:44:19,126
that stack it
back on the truck again.

858
00:44:19,193 --> 00:44:21,962
There was a box in the air
all the time.

859
00:44:22,029 --> 00:44:25,265
The boxes weighed
50 pounds a piece

860
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:29,069
and they could go through
100 boxes in no time.

861
00:44:29,136 --> 00:44:31,338
One of the interesting parts
of it was

862
00:44:31,405 --> 00:44:33,473
how are you going to get
these devils picked

863
00:44:33,540 --> 00:44:35,409
once you got them on the tree?

864
00:44:35,475 --> 00:44:38,545
It gets to be a big job
picking the cherries off.

865
00:44:38,612 --> 00:44:42,049
It was a great opportunity
for the neighbor kids

866
00:44:42,115 --> 00:44:44,651
to come over and pick cherries

867
00:44:44,718 --> 00:44:47,287
and get paid so much
for a ten pound pail.

868
00:44:47,354 --> 00:44:48,856
Not only that,

869
00:44:48,922 --> 00:44:51,491
but families would come and pick
for just money.

870
00:44:51,558 --> 00:44:52,893
One guy told me one time

871
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,828
that the family
would pick cherries

872
00:44:54,895 --> 00:44:57,531
and it bought the coal
for the winter.

873
00:44:57,598 --> 00:44:59,566
Finally, it got
to the point where

874
00:44:59,633 --> 00:45:02,970
even the local people weren't
enough to pick the cherries.

875
00:45:03,036 --> 00:45:06,974
I remember having the Indian
families coming from Oneida

876
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,843
and so many areas west of here.

877
00:45:10,110 --> 00:45:11,912
Horseshoe Bay Farms

878
00:45:11,979 --> 00:45:15,516
needed about a hundred people
for three weeks.

879
00:45:15,582 --> 00:45:17,184
So what they did
is they started

880
00:45:17,251 --> 00:45:19,486
the concept
of a cherry camp.

881
00:45:19,553 --> 00:45:23,891
They recruited
13- to 17-year old young boys

882
00:45:23,957 --> 00:45:25,726
to come here to pick cherries.

883
00:45:25,792 --> 00:45:29,162
They promoted it
as coming to a camp.

884
00:45:29,229 --> 00:45:31,498
You had to pick
your room and board

885
00:45:31,565 --> 00:45:32,833
every single day,

886
00:45:32,900 --> 00:45:34,701
which was
seven pails of cherries.

887
00:45:34,768 --> 00:45:36,637
They had baseball fields.

888
00:45:36,703 --> 00:45:38,672
They had boats and canoes.

889
00:45:38,739 --> 00:45:40,541
They had a swimming beach.

890
00:45:40,607 --> 00:45:43,977
The big attraction
of cherry camp to the kids was

891
00:45:44,044 --> 00:45:48,315
the camp counselors
were Green Bay Packers.

892
00:45:48,382 --> 00:45:51,318
- The Mexican families
used to travel

893
00:45:51,385 --> 00:45:53,187
from one end of the country
to the other.

894
00:45:53,253 --> 00:45:56,723
They'd start in Texas and
they'd follow the crops up.

895
00:45:56,790 --> 00:45:58,158
They'd work in the sugar beets.

896
00:45:58,225 --> 00:45:59,993
Then they'd go and work
in strawberries.

897
00:46:00,060 --> 00:46:03,997
Then they'd end up in cherries.
Then they'd head back to Texas.

898
00:46:04,064 --> 00:46:05,599
The whole family was out
picking cherries.

899
00:46:05,666 --> 00:46:08,302
Little kids were
climbing up in the trees.

900
00:46:08,368 --> 00:46:09,503
The whole family--

901
00:46:09,570 --> 00:46:11,271
They would actually
look at this as being

902
00:46:11,338 --> 00:46:13,941
a pretty important opportunity
for them to make some money.

903
00:46:14,007 --> 00:46:15,909
Well that went along

904
00:46:15,976 --> 00:46:19,379
until the war
came along, World War II.

905
00:46:19,446 --> 00:46:21,715
The local people were gone,
the people were gone to war.

906
00:46:21,782 --> 00:46:26,687
A lot of people were busy: war
plants, and this sort of thing.

907
00:46:26,753 --> 00:46:28,989
One of the first things
that happened:

908
00:46:29,056 --> 00:46:31,658
we had people from Jamaica,

909
00:46:31,725 --> 00:46:33,994
Jamaicans picking cherries.

910
00:46:34,061 --> 00:46:35,729
Probably one of
the most interesting groups

911
00:46:35,796 --> 00:46:37,698
we had picking cherries was

912
00:46:37,764 --> 00:46:39,867
German World War II prisoners.

913
00:46:39,933 --> 00:46:42,236
These were German troops
in Rommel's army

914
00:46:42,302 --> 00:46:44,705
that got captured
in North Africa.

915
00:46:44,771 --> 00:46:48,775
We had camps that had
the prisoners in them.

916
00:46:49,510 --> 00:46:52,112
- Back in the early fifties,
and so on,

917
00:46:52,179 --> 00:46:54,548
was really the heyday
of the cherry industry

918
00:46:54,615 --> 00:46:56,316
here in Door County.

919
00:46:56,383 --> 00:46:58,585
There were 700 growers
growing cherries

920
00:46:58,652 --> 00:47:00,220
here in Door County
at that time.

921
00:47:00,287 --> 00:47:04,825
We'd raise up to 50 million
pounds in Door County.

922
00:47:04,892 --> 00:47:08,729
12,000 migrants
would come into the county

923
00:47:08,795 --> 00:47:11,331
to harvest that fruit by hand.

924
00:47:11,398 --> 00:47:15,068
- So, the place kind of
got to be known as Cherryland.

925
00:47:15,135 --> 00:47:17,471
We had the Cherry Blossom
Festival.

926
00:47:17,538 --> 00:47:19,139
People would drive up
from all over,

927
00:47:19,206 --> 00:47:20,374
drive around the country

928
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,075
and look at
the beautiful cherry blossoms.

929
00:47:22,142 --> 00:47:23,877
The whole county was white.

930
00:47:23,944 --> 00:47:27,781
Then there was
the Cherry Blossom Queen.

931
00:47:27,848 --> 00:47:30,651
Then we had
Cherryland Festival

932
00:47:30,717 --> 00:47:33,921
where there would be a
celebration, come to Cherryland.

933
00:47:33,987 --> 00:47:36,423
We had a Cherryland airport.

934
00:47:36,490 --> 00:47:39,193
The Cherry Road out at
Sturgeon Bay heading north,

935
00:47:39,259 --> 00:47:41,662
the whole road
was lined with cherry growers.

936
00:47:41,728 --> 00:47:42,996
Door County was Cherryland.

937
00:47:43,063 --> 00:47:44,665
It was!
It was Cherryland.

938
00:47:44,731 --> 00:47:46,533
It was an industry.

939
00:47:46,867 --> 00:47:49,436
It really kept people busy.

940
00:47:59,813 --> 00:48:01,215
volunteer here at PBSert, a

941
00:48:01,281 --> 00:48:03,650
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942
00:48:03,717 --> 00:48:05,853
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943
00:48:06,687 --> 00:48:09,022
the fact that these about

944
00:48:09,623 --> 00:48:12,192
depth to your knowledge ofh

945
00:48:12,559 --> 00:48:14,895
nuance. If we were doingh

946
00:48:15,729 --> 00:48:18,232
Door County and like,me of

947
00:48:18,298 --> 00:48:20,734
you think of? You know, It

948
00:48:20,801 --> 00:48:22,936
be on the board somewhere

949
00:48:23,003 --> 00:48:25,339
the board. But I bet the on

950
00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:28,976
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951
00:48:29,042 --> 00:48:31,278
segment how, of course,

952
00:48:31,778 --> 00:48:34,448
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953
00:48:34,515 --> 00:48:36,984
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954
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955
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00:52:34,688 --> 00:52:36,857
breathtaking footage of

1030
00:52:36,924 --> 00:52:39,393
dives into the history ofp

1031
00:52:40,027 --> 00:52:42,563
including a bunch we know

1032
00:52:42,629 --> 00:52:45,299
so a little more deeperunty,

1033
00:52:45,866 --> 00:52:48,435
specifically around these

1034
00:52:48,836 --> 00:52:51,638
a call at 1-800-236-3636.e us

1035
00:52:53,073 --> 00:52:55,542
a sustainer, there are sos

1036
00:52:57,511 --> 00:52:59,847
that you get that we are so

1037
00:53:01,081 --> 00:53:03,884
part of PBS Wisconsin.ing a

1038
00:53:03,951 --> 00:53:06,420
This monthly program book

1039
00:53:06,787 --> 00:53:09,256
month, and so you can check

1040
00:53:10,090 --> 00:53:12,492
programs you'd like to see.

1041
00:53:12,559 --> 00:53:15,028
it's a quick view into what

1042
00:53:15,462 --> 00:53:17,931
So if you haven't joined us

1043
00:53:19,032 --> 00:53:21,502
today. Like we're saying,

1044
00:53:22,135 --> 00:53:24,271
impact to allow us to an

1045
00:53:25,506 --> 00:53:27,941
incredible programing. Sos

1046
00:53:28,008 --> 00:53:29,910
with us tonight watchingere

1047
00:53:29,977 --> 00:53:32,312
of your programing is PBS

1048
00:53:33,514 --> 00:53:35,849
watch on Passport, all of

1049
00:53:36,984 --> 00:53:39,553
your support. You helpse of

1050
00:53:40,654 --> 00:53:43,123
help support all of theseu

1051
00:53:43,190 --> 00:53:45,759
us a call at (800) 236-3636.

1052
00:53:48,562 --> 00:53:51,131
being honest, I would falle

1053
00:53:52,266 --> 00:53:54,935
my PBS programing theset of

1054
00:53:55,002 --> 00:53:57,804
But, you know, it mightids.

1055
00:53:57,871 --> 00:54:00,674
like Wisconsin Hometownrams

1056
00:54:01,475 --> 00:54:03,677
an educational impact asing

1057
00:54:03,744 --> 00:54:06,213
break about the, thee last

1058
00:54:06,547 --> 00:54:09,016
documentaries and engaging

1059
00:54:09,082 --> 00:54:11,752
their stories. It goestting

1060
00:54:12,286 --> 00:54:14,621
a program like this, weake

1061
00:54:14,688 --> 00:54:16,924
also generate a bunch of

1062
00:54:17,624 --> 00:54:19,860
that local kids in these

1063
00:54:20,894 --> 00:54:23,564
resources for learningreat

1064
00:54:24,364 --> 00:54:26,600
impact of the worky. The

1065
00:54:27,334 --> 00:54:29,903
Wisconsin goes well beyond

1066
00:54:30,704 --> 00:54:33,273
already knew that. I thinku

1067
00:54:33,774 --> 00:54:36,443
the quality programing that

1068
00:54:37,244 --> 00:54:39,713
matters to you, if you care

1069
00:54:40,380 --> 00:54:42,850
impact all over the state,

1070
00:54:44,685 --> 00:54:47,020
Have your money doubledl.

1071
00:54:47,087 --> 00:54:49,556
The number is therebreak.

1072
00:54:52,125 --> 00:54:54,661
>> Now is the perfect time

1073
00:54:54,728 --> 00:54:56,964
was saying, your impactd

1074
00:54:57,030 --> 00:54:59,266
will you be giving a gift

1075
00:54:59,833 --> 00:55:02,302
that you know and love, yet

1076
00:55:02,636 --> 00:55:05,105
twice the amount. And we'd

1077
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:07,941
of these fantastic gifts. I

1078
00:55:08,008 --> 00:55:10,477
more about this booke bit

1079
00:55:10,544 --> 00:55:12,746
gorgeous. So Door County

1080
00:55:12,813 --> 00:55:15,015
and goats on the roof, ifes

1081
00:55:15,082 --> 00:55:17,751
these amazing archivals all

1082
00:55:19,620 --> 00:55:21,989
pages. So there's lots more

1083
00:55:22,055 --> 00:55:24,258
themselves. You know, a

1084
00:55:24,324 --> 00:55:26,727
words. So we've got lots of

1085
00:55:26,793 --> 00:55:29,363
then just looking throughd

1086
00:55:29,730 --> 00:55:32,399
starts with an overview of

1087
00:55:32,466 --> 00:55:35,035
kind of goes community by

1088
00:55:35,102 --> 00:55:36,870
what are these? What aret

1089
00:55:36,937 --> 00:55:39,640
that you that you visited?

1090
00:55:39,706 --> 00:55:41,909
little bit more about?n a

1091
00:55:41,975 --> 00:55:44,478
sister Bay, Fish Peak, Fish

1092
00:55:44,545 --> 00:55:47,447
Jacksonport, Baileys Harbor,

1093
00:55:48,415 --> 00:55:50,751
So lots to enjoy at thisl.

1094
00:55:51,318 --> 00:55:53,887
a call at 1-800-236-3636.s

1095
00:55:57,057 --> 00:55:59,526
watchers who has tuned ine

1096
00:56:01,428 --> 00:56:03,463
you've never picked up the

1097
00:56:03,530 --> 00:56:05,666
make a pledge, we areto

1098
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,469
We would love to have young.

1099
00:56:09,536 --> 00:56:12,105
sustaining member. It's so

1100
00:56:12,539 --> 00:56:15,108
talking about educational

1101
00:56:16,543 --> 00:56:19,112
PBS Wisconsin has to offert

1102
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,015
becoming a sustainer, in

1103
00:56:23,116 --> 00:56:24,985
the programs you love, but

1104
00:56:25,052 --> 00:56:27,387
community as well. I know

1105
00:56:27,821 --> 00:56:30,490
kiddos have recently gotten

1106
00:56:31,391 --> 00:56:33,727
And so a couple of yearsn.

1107
00:56:34,895 --> 00:56:37,431
what brought me to become a

1108
00:56:37,497 --> 00:56:40,033
sitting there joining us

1109
00:56:40,100 --> 00:56:42,269
picked up the phone yet or

1110
00:56:42,336 --> 00:56:45,005
tonight. PBS wisconsin.org

1111
00:56:46,573 --> 00:56:49,042
call, talk to one of thesea

1112
00:56:49,376 --> 00:56:51,945
here tonight at (800)2have

1113
00:56:53,814 --> 00:56:55,816
>> And when you do make

1114
00:56:56,183 --> 00:56:58,519
whatever amount is right

1115
00:56:59,353 --> 00:57:01,355
that's right for PBSt

1116
00:57:02,923 --> 00:57:04,992
afford five dollars a month,

1117
00:57:05,058 --> 00:57:07,694
"Airwaves" magazine andyou

1118
00:57:07,761 --> 00:57:09,897
Maybe you can afford to

1119
00:57:11,131 --> 00:57:13,467
and give $100 a month ande

1120
00:57:14,635 --> 00:57:17,204
beyond PBS Wisconsin works

1121
00:57:19,773 --> 00:57:22,109
all do what we can. We alle

1122
00:57:22,910 --> 00:57:25,245
understand that it's not

1123
00:57:25,779 --> 00:57:28,248
like you have to do forrate

1124
00:57:28,649 --> 00:57:30,984
cable subscription orur

1125
00:57:31,618 --> 00:57:34,087
what you can and being part

1126
00:57:34,655 --> 00:57:36,790
making this community

1127
00:57:37,391 --> 00:57:39,960
you are in the director'sif

1128
00:57:40,460 --> 00:57:42,663
give that $100 a monthe to

1129
00:57:42,729 --> 00:57:44,965
you're in that $5 a month

1130
00:57:45,599 --> 00:57:48,068
because all of it combines

1131
00:57:48,735 --> 00:57:51,405
it is, bringing you stories,

1132
00:57:51,972 --> 00:57:54,441
with programs likenities

1133
00:57:54,842 --> 00:57:57,311
Give us a call right now.s.

1134
00:57:57,644 --> 00:58:00,214
the support that we receive

1135
00:58:00,581 --> 00:58:02,816
state of Wisconsinr the

1136
00:58:03,684 --> 00:58:06,186
supporting the work of PBS

1137
00:58:06,253 --> 00:58:08,555
that you know and love. Now,

1138
00:58:08,622 --> 00:58:10,657
remember that your impact

1139
00:58:10,724 --> 00:58:12,926
friends, those neighbors

1140
00:58:12,993 --> 00:58:15,562
about supporting PBSongly

1141
00:58:17,064 --> 00:58:19,266
us a call, visit online,ve

1142
00:58:19,333 --> 00:58:22,035
you'll double that impact.o,

1143
00:58:22,102 --> 00:58:24,204
with these fantastic gifts,

1144
00:58:24,271 --> 00:58:26,707
month level, you can choose

1145
00:58:26,773 --> 00:58:29,343
the Hometown Stories, Door

1146
00:58:29,676 --> 00:58:32,145
choose the watercolor can

1147
00:58:33,313 --> 00:58:35,782
a minute just opened up. So

1148
00:58:36,717 --> 00:58:39,186
home. Like, do you know why

1149
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,189
Bay? It's on page 57 ofster

1150
00:58:43,290 --> 00:58:45,425
tell you. You've got tog to

1151
00:58:45,492 --> 00:58:47,828
find out why it's calledo

1152
00:58:48,395 --> 00:58:50,864
call, 1-800-236-3636.s a

1153
00:58:51,899 --> 00:58:54,134
So I think we all want to.

1154
00:58:55,235 --> 00:58:57,704
be. So if you haven't given

1155
00:58:58,772 --> 00:59:01,341
to become a sustainer.time

1156
00:59:02,042 --> 00:59:04,778
incredible stories that not

1157
00:59:04,845 --> 00:59:07,181
we're talking about will

1158
00:59:07,848 --> 00:59:10,184
the state and beyond. There

1159
00:59:10,250 --> 00:59:12,586
can find programing like

1160
00:59:13,253 --> 00:59:15,923
to continue bringing thesep

1161
00:59:16,757 --> 00:59:19,226
are joining us for thef you

1162
00:59:19,793 --> 00:59:21,929
you've been a long time

1163
00:59:22,229 --> 00:59:24,898
have some really wonderfule

1164
00:59:25,432 --> 00:59:27,901
for becoming a sustaineryou

1165
00:59:27,968 --> 00:59:30,637
book that's resonating with

1166
00:59:31,872 --> 00:59:34,541
Lighthouses, whatever that

1167
00:59:35,442 --> 00:59:37,678
consider giving a calle

1168
00:59:38,378 --> 00:59:40,714
also make wonderful gifts,

1169
00:59:40,781 --> 00:59:43,350
reach us at (800) 236-3636.

1170
00:59:45,886 --> 00:59:48,555
some righteous indignation

1171
00:59:49,523 --> 00:59:51,992
tell us where sister Bayot

1172
00:59:53,227 --> 00:59:55,796
on the right. Oh, yes. Here

1173
00:59:55,863 --> 00:59:58,332
peering across the waves.

1174
01:00:00,300 --> 01:00:02,769
Listen, we've got a fewer.

1175
01:00:03,270 --> 01:00:05,839
challenge. Break! It is not

1176
01:00:05,906 --> 01:00:08,475
next 30 seconds. Even if you

1177
01:00:10,077 --> 01:00:12,145
By the time we go back tol.

1178
01:00:12,212 --> 01:00:14,448
in the queue is enough to

1179
01:00:15,015 --> 01:00:17,317
When you call, there's a

1180
01:00:17,384 --> 01:00:19,720
nearly at our goal. Thank

1181
01:00:20,554 --> 01:00:22,756
support. We're going to be

1182
01:00:22,823 --> 01:00:25,292
But again, if you call now,

1183
01:00:25,659 --> 01:00:27,761
money doubled to support

1184
01:00:27,828 --> 01:00:29,763
like Wisconsin Hometown

1185
01:00:29,830 --> 01:00:32,165
Beloit and Appleton andd

1186
01:00:32,666 --> 01:00:35,002
Madison. Coming up next,

1187
01:00:35,903 --> 01:00:38,372
participate by callingou

1188
01:00:39,173 --> 01:00:41,842
[MUSIC]36-3636. Thank you.

1189
01:00:55,923 --> 01:00:57,591
?

1190
01:01:01,929 --> 01:01:03,730
After World War I,

1191
01:01:03,797 --> 01:01:07,568
dozens of returning veterans
received federal funding

1192
01:01:07,634 --> 01:01:11,772
to study art
at the Art Institute of Chicago.

1193
01:01:12,973 --> 01:01:14,241
Two of their professors,

1194
01:01:14,308 --> 01:01:17,744
Frederick DeForest Schook
and Frederick Victor Poole,

1195
01:01:17,811 --> 01:01:19,379
decided to start a summer school

1196
01:01:19,446 --> 01:01:21,114
for the veterans,

1197
01:01:21,448 --> 01:01:23,350
in Bailey's Harbor.

1198
01:01:23,984 --> 01:01:26,854
- There were a number of
World War I veterans that came.

1199
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,489
First they stayed in tents.

1200
01:01:29,556 --> 01:01:31,191
Then later,
some of the doughboys

1201
01:01:31,258 --> 01:01:34,928
stayed at a hotel
that was right nearby.

1202
01:01:35,796 --> 01:01:37,998
They would go around an paint.

1203
01:01:38,065 --> 01:01:42,269
They would paint scenes
looking out from the bluff tops,

1204
01:01:42,336 --> 01:01:43,704
looking out over the lake.

1205
01:01:43,770 --> 01:01:45,439
They would paint
the old buildings,

1206
01:01:45,506 --> 01:01:49,510
and some of
the interesting elderly people

1207
01:01:50,244 --> 01:01:51,512
that lived in Door County.

1208
01:01:51,578 --> 01:01:54,815
But they would go out
in the field a lot

1209
01:01:54,882 --> 01:01:56,450
because of
the area's scenic beauty.

1210
01:01:56,517 --> 01:01:58,852
It was great for artists,
still is.

1211
01:01:58,919 --> 01:02:01,321
They were quite a group.

1212
01:02:01,388 --> 01:02:04,224
They would come in to town
and go to the dances

1213
01:02:04,291 --> 01:02:06,193
at Washebek's Hall,

1214
01:02:06,260 --> 01:02:09,730
where there usually was
a polka band.

1215
01:02:10,297 --> 01:02:11,999
And they were active
in the parades,

1216
01:02:12,065 --> 01:02:14,301
which were traditional
during the 4th of July

1217
01:02:14,368 --> 01:02:15,769
at Bailey's Harbor.

1218
01:02:15,836 --> 01:02:19,306
They would have dances
with some of the local gals,

1219
01:02:19,373 --> 01:02:23,510
and they would dress up
in various costumes.

1220
01:02:24,344 --> 01:02:26,547
- Both professors,
Schook and Poole,

1221
01:02:26,613 --> 01:02:28,982
built cottages
in Bailey's Harbor,

1222
01:02:29,049 --> 01:02:32,119
and became among
the first of many artists

1223
01:02:32,186 --> 01:02:34,121
to make the move to Door County.

1224
01:02:34,188 --> 01:02:35,856
?

1225
01:02:37,124 --> 01:02:39,092
As improved transportation

1226
01:02:39,159 --> 01:02:40,894
brought more visitors
to Door County,

1227
01:02:40,961 --> 01:02:45,399
it also brought about
a need for more things to do.

1228
01:02:45,465 --> 01:02:47,100
- There wasn't very much to do.

1229
01:02:47,167 --> 01:02:49,002
In fact, we used to laugh about,

1230
01:02:49,069 --> 01:02:51,605
"What in the world
would people do in the summer

1231
01:02:51,672 --> 01:02:53,607
"if they didn't like
sitting on a rocking chair

1232
01:02:53,674 --> 01:02:57,511
"on the front porch
and looking at the water?"

1233
01:02:57,578 --> 01:03:00,781
- In 1935,
the sister and brother team

1234
01:03:00,848 --> 01:03:03,150
of Caroline and Richard Fisher

1235
01:03:03,217 --> 01:03:05,886
started
the Peninsula Players,

1236
01:03:05,953 --> 01:03:09,790
producing plays in the garden
behind a Fish Creek cottage.

1237
01:03:09,857 --> 01:03:12,192
- They felt people
were interested,

1238
01:03:12,259 --> 01:03:14,194
they had an audience
and it was coming,

1239
01:03:14,261 --> 01:03:17,497
so that when the Wildwood
Camp for Boys came for sale,

1240
01:03:17,564 --> 01:03:19,433
they purchased it.

1241
01:03:19,499 --> 01:03:23,437
- The camp would provide housing
for the actors and crew,

1242
01:03:23,504 --> 01:03:27,541
and space to build a stage,
designed by C.R. Fisher,

1243
01:03:27,608 --> 01:03:30,644
Caroline and
Richard's father.

1244
01:03:30,711 --> 01:03:34,081
- And the first acting company
got out wheelbarrows, axes,

1245
01:03:34,147 --> 01:03:36,550
and helped the tradesmen
build and set up

1246
01:03:36,617 --> 01:03:39,586
the first stage house
that we had here.

1247
01:03:39,653 --> 01:03:41,588
"Mama Fisher"... Lydia Fisher

1248
01:03:41,655 --> 01:03:43,957
was a graduate
of the Pratt School of Design,

1249
01:03:44,024 --> 01:03:46,293
and actually designed
most of the costumes that

1250
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:50,230
the Peninsula Players produced
for most of the first decades.

1251
01:03:50,297 --> 01:03:51,765
When Caroline and Richard
started,

1252
01:03:51,832 --> 01:03:54,601
they worked as a team
in selecting the casts

1253
01:03:54,668 --> 01:03:56,170
and the company members.

1254
01:03:56,236 --> 01:03:59,039
They were producing
ten shows a summer,

1255
01:03:59,106 --> 01:04:00,774
one a week.

1256
01:04:01,308 --> 01:04:04,111
Caroline could convince people
to donate things.

1257
01:04:04,178 --> 01:04:05,646
She'd knock on the doors
and say,

1258
01:04:05,712 --> 01:04:07,714
"Can I borrow
that sofa or that painting?"

1259
01:04:07,781 --> 01:04:09,249
And people would do that.

1260
01:04:09,316 --> 01:04:13,954
Caroline was really the heart
and the energy of the players,

1261
01:04:14,021 --> 01:04:18,425
and what kept Peninsula Players
thriving for so many years.

1262
01:04:18,492 --> 01:04:20,160
?

1263
01:04:20,494 --> 01:04:23,363
- In Sturgeon Bay,
the late Gerhard Miller

1264
01:04:23,430 --> 01:04:25,666
developed his skills
as a painter,

1265
01:04:25,732 --> 01:04:27,434
while at the same time,

1266
01:04:27,501 --> 01:04:30,771
running his family's
clothing store.

1267
01:04:30,838 --> 01:04:33,473
I'd call myself
'one of the local yokels,'

1268
01:04:33,540 --> 01:04:36,877
'cause I think I've sold
clean underwear and socks

1269
01:04:36,944 --> 01:04:39,313
to almost every man
in Door County.

1270
01:04:39,379 --> 01:04:43,083
I was expected to
go into the clothing store

1271
01:04:43,150 --> 01:04:45,319
and continue on with it.

1272
01:04:45,385 --> 01:04:47,020
I went in in 1927

1273
01:04:47,087 --> 01:04:49,423
and I was in it until 1959.

1274
01:04:50,724 --> 01:04:53,627
And I was painting
all the time.

1275
01:04:54,361 --> 01:04:57,264
It was a dual career
at that time.

1276
01:04:57,331 --> 01:04:58,932
And it was a lot of work,

1277
01:04:58,999 --> 01:05:01,401
because I had to get up
early in the morning and paint,

1278
01:05:01,468 --> 01:05:03,604
and then I'd come home at noon
and grab a sandwich,

1279
01:05:03,670 --> 01:05:05,806
paint until
I had to go back to work,

1280
01:05:05,873 --> 01:05:07,841
and then I'd paint
in the evening.

1281
01:05:07,908 --> 01:05:12,579
My type of painting is in the
field of imaginative realism.

1282
01:05:12,646 --> 01:05:15,782
For instance,
one of the subjects

1283
01:05:16,283 --> 01:05:19,019
in one of the reproductions
we have

1284
01:05:19,086 --> 01:05:23,323
is of a buggy in front
of an old weathered barn.

1285
01:05:24,625 --> 01:05:27,461
Actually, the buggy was
from up near Sister Bay,

1286
01:05:27,528 --> 01:05:30,898
the barn was from down in
the southern part of the county,

1287
01:05:30,964 --> 01:05:33,300
but you put
the two of them together,

1288
01:05:33,367 --> 01:05:35,302
you're creating the picture.

1289
01:05:35,369 --> 01:05:38,372
You're not taking
a photograph.

1290
01:05:38,805 --> 01:05:41,275
- After decades
of disciplined effort,

1291
01:05:41,341 --> 01:05:43,911
Miller began to sell
enough of his paintings

1292
01:05:43,977 --> 01:05:45,479
to make a living.

1293
01:05:45,546 --> 01:05:48,415
He opened a gallery,
and inspired other artists

1294
01:05:48,482 --> 01:05:51,385
to make the move to Door County.

1295
01:05:51,818 --> 01:05:55,789
- There was a time when I had
the only gallery in Door County.

1296
01:05:55,856 --> 01:05:58,692
I think he became
<i>the</i> major artist

1297
01:05:58,759 --> 01:06:00,994
of his time in this area.

1298
01:06:02,029 --> 01:06:05,866
- I was drawn to this place
in part by Gerhard Miller,

1299
01:06:05,933 --> 01:06:08,068
because he was working
in a vocabulary

1300
01:06:08,135 --> 01:06:11,071
that I understood
and appreciated,

1301
01:06:11,138 --> 01:06:12,840
and which I enjoyed painting in.

1302
01:06:12,906 --> 01:06:16,376
So I figured there was
a career potential for me here,

1303
01:06:16,443 --> 01:06:18,779
and that proved to be the case.

1304
01:06:18,846 --> 01:06:23,350
So it was beginning to evolve
into an art community,

1305
01:06:23,417 --> 01:06:27,754
though it was the place
I think that drew us.

1306
01:06:27,821 --> 01:06:30,123
The closeness to nature,

1307
01:06:30,190 --> 01:06:32,526
living really in nature,

1308
01:06:33,060 --> 01:06:36,597
is very important to me,
almost indispensable.

1309
01:06:36,663 --> 01:06:39,299
And I'm also very
interested in history,

1310
01:06:39,366 --> 01:06:42,803
Fortunately, I had
at the bottom of the hill

1311
01:06:42,870 --> 01:06:44,538
Anderson's dock.

1312
01:06:44,605 --> 01:06:49,943
Schooners coming in and out
was an endless subject for me.

1313
01:06:51,311 --> 01:06:52,980
?

1314
01:06:54,147 --> 01:06:55,749
- In the 1960s,

1315
01:06:55,816 --> 01:06:59,286
artists exploring
new approaches to modern art,

1316
01:06:59,353 --> 01:07:02,656
found a home
at the Peninsula School of Arts,

1317
01:07:02,723 --> 01:07:05,192
started and built
by Chicago artist

1318
01:07:05,259 --> 01:07:07,261
Madeline Tourtelot.

1319
01:07:08,695 --> 01:07:11,999
- Madeline took it upon herself
to found this school

1320
01:07:12,065 --> 01:07:14,868
and bring a group
of artists in residence here

1321
01:07:14,935 --> 01:07:16,603
starting in 1965.

1322
01:07:17,304 --> 01:07:22,409
- Adopted by a wealthy aunt, who
nurtured her artistic talents,

1323
01:07:22,476 --> 01:07:26,813
Tourtelot was free
to dedicate her life to art.

1324
01:07:27,247 --> 01:07:31,151
- She had a lifetime connection
to the Art Institute in Chicago.

1325
01:07:31,218 --> 01:07:33,086
She was able to travel to Paris.

1326
01:07:33,153 --> 01:07:34,855
But her family
had a home in Ephraim,

1327
01:07:34,922 --> 01:07:37,224
so she had
this ongoing connection

1328
01:07:37,291 --> 01:07:40,360
throughout her life
to Door County.

1329
01:07:40,427 --> 01:07:42,129
- Brimming with ability,

1330
01:07:42,196 --> 01:07:45,499
Tourtelot achieved success
in many art forms,

1331
01:07:45,566 --> 01:07:47,401
including music and painting,

1332
01:07:47,467 --> 01:07:50,671
designing screen prints
on fabric,

1333
01:07:50,737 --> 01:07:55,142
as well as photography
and experimental filmmaking.

1334
01:07:55,209 --> 01:07:57,644
- Some of the younger artists
that she brought in

1335
01:07:57,711 --> 01:08:00,981
in the late 60s and early 70s
were abstract artists,

1336
01:08:01,048 --> 01:08:02,816
they were experimental artists,

1337
01:08:02,883 --> 01:08:06,086
they were large-scale sculptors.
(welding rod arcing)

1338
01:08:06,153 --> 01:08:09,022
And she encouraged
experimentation and exploration.

1339
01:08:09,089 --> 01:08:12,326
That was very much part
of the philosophy of the time.

1340
01:08:12,392 --> 01:08:15,829
And so,
it brought the outside world

1341
01:08:15,896 --> 01:08:17,531
into Door County.

1342
01:08:17,598 --> 01:08:20,901
- And she was an outsider,
but people accepted her

1343
01:08:20,968 --> 01:08:22,236
even though

1344
01:08:22,302 --> 01:08:24,137
she had platinum blonde hair,

1345
01:08:24,204 --> 01:08:25,873
shapely figure,

1346
01:08:26,139 --> 01:08:28,642
drove a Jaguar
with the top down,

1347
01:08:28,709 --> 01:08:31,378
and her platinum hair
flowing in the wind...

1348
01:08:31,445 --> 01:08:33,480
...and maybe a scarf.

1349
01:08:33,547 --> 01:08:35,449
- Madeline's mission was to

1350
01:08:35,516 --> 01:08:37,417
foster an appreciation
for the arts,

1351
01:08:37,484 --> 01:08:40,687
as well as to provide access
to education in the arts.

1352
01:08:40,754 --> 01:08:42,356
So, right from the beginning,

1353
01:08:42,422 --> 01:08:45,058
it didn't matter whether
you were three years old

1354
01:08:45,125 --> 01:08:46,527
or 60 years old,

1355
01:08:46,593 --> 01:08:48,829
there was a place hare
at the school for you,

1356
01:08:48,896 --> 01:08:50,430
and so we began by
teaching children's classes,

1357
01:08:50,497 --> 01:08:52,099
weekly kids' classes.

1358
01:08:52,165 --> 01:08:55,269
- She found more creative energy

1359
01:08:55,335 --> 01:08:59,706
from collecting these creative
souls around her,

1360
01:08:59,773 --> 01:09:01,875
and that fed her creativity,

1361
01:09:01,942 --> 01:09:05,012
and in turn,
it fed their creativity.

1362
01:09:05,078 --> 01:09:07,047
- She loved to have
dinner parties.

1363
01:09:07,114 --> 01:09:08,882
Her delight was

1364
01:09:08,949 --> 01:09:11,318
in bringing
disparate groups of people

1365
01:09:11,385 --> 01:09:13,053
who she...

1366
01:09:14,121 --> 01:09:17,357
...she sensed
a thread among them.

1367
01:09:17,925 --> 01:09:20,594
So there would be scientists,
and musicians

1368
01:09:20,661 --> 01:09:23,130
and writers and painters.

1369
01:09:24,031 --> 01:09:27,201
She would put us all together
in a room,

1370
01:09:27,267 --> 01:09:30,537
and then make
these beautiful dinners.

1371
01:09:30,604 --> 01:09:32,739
And the conversations

1372
01:09:33,407 --> 01:09:34,842
were so enlivening,

1373
01:09:34,908 --> 01:09:38,245
and the things that
it would lead to, and...

1374
01:09:38,312 --> 01:09:41,148
She was fabulous,
and I credit her,

1375
01:09:41,215 --> 01:09:44,551
in my lifetime,
with being the spark

1376
01:09:45,252 --> 01:09:47,354
helping to make Door County

1377
01:09:47,421 --> 01:09:50,657
an authentically creative place.

1378
01:09:55,162 --> 01:09:56,830
?

1379
01:10:00,934 --> 01:10:02,436
(waves crashing)

1380
01:10:02,503 --> 01:10:04,171
- By the 1970s,

1381
01:10:04,438 --> 01:10:06,974
Door County's
traditional way of life

1382
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,610
would undergo big changes.

1383
01:10:11,445 --> 01:10:14,481
- There was over 400 fishermen
at the turn of the 20th century,

1384
01:10:14,548 --> 01:10:17,718
and it stayed that way
until about the 1950s,

1385
01:10:17,784 --> 01:10:20,153
and then it slowly
started to decline

1386
01:10:20,220 --> 01:10:23,290
due to invasive species
entering the Great Lakes.

1387
01:10:23,357 --> 01:10:25,292
It's just something that's

1388
01:10:25,359 --> 01:10:27,661
just a mere shadow
of what it once was.

1389
01:10:27,728 --> 01:10:30,030
You've got maybe
a handful of fishermen left,

1390
01:10:30,097 --> 01:10:33,233
maybe five in Door County,
compared to 400.

1391
01:10:33,300 --> 01:10:36,170
It was the main industry
at one time,

1392
01:10:36,236 --> 01:10:38,005
surpassing logging and farming,

1393
01:10:38,071 --> 01:10:43,644
and it just managed to be part
of the essence of Door County.

1394
01:10:48,148 --> 01:10:53,754
- In 1969, <i>National Geographic</i>
magazine featured Door County

1395
01:10:53,820 --> 01:10:55,422
in an article called

1396
01:10:55,489 --> 01:10:57,958
"A Kingdom So Delicious."

1397
01:10:58,425 --> 01:11:00,394
- And, of course,
with a distribution

1398
01:11:00,460 --> 01:11:02,996
of <i>National Geographic</i> ,
it got the word out on

1399
01:11:03,063 --> 01:11:08,302
what a beautiful and wonderful
retreat Door County was.

1400
01:11:09,136 --> 01:11:11,705
- "A Kingdom So Delicious?"

1401
01:11:12,172 --> 01:11:13,240
Wow.

1402
01:11:13,307 --> 01:11:15,409
That brought a lot of people
to this kingdom.

1403
01:11:15,475 --> 01:11:19,847
- That seemed to open
the floodgates for tourism.

1404
01:11:19,913 --> 01:11:21,682
- It just brought out

1405
01:11:21,748 --> 01:11:24,518
all of the attributes
of the county,

1406
01:11:24,585 --> 01:11:26,687
and emphasized them and it--

1407
01:11:26,753 --> 01:11:29,556
Well, if I were a developer,
that's where I would have gone

1408
01:11:29,623 --> 01:11:31,692
right then, is to Door County.

1409
01:11:31,758 --> 01:11:35,662
- And there was no effective
zoning, no land use plan,

1410
01:11:35,729 --> 01:11:38,198
nothing in place to stifle

1411
01:11:38,866 --> 01:11:40,634
all this new development.

1412
01:11:40,701 --> 01:11:44,204
- At the same time,
Manitowoc Shipbuilding

1413
01:11:44,271 --> 01:11:47,007
bought two Sturgeon Bay
shipyards.

1414
01:11:47,074 --> 01:11:49,510
The new
Bay Shipbuilding Corporation

1415
01:11:49,576 --> 01:11:51,945
created hundreds of jobs,

1416
01:11:52,012 --> 01:11:55,215
building freighters
and other Great Lakes ships.

1417
01:11:55,282 --> 01:11:58,919
With thousands of new
year-round residents,

1418
01:11:58,986 --> 01:12:01,522
and tens of thousands
more tourists,

1419
01:12:01,588 --> 01:12:04,958
local governments began to
consider controlling growth,

1420
01:12:05,025 --> 01:12:08,195
through land use planning
and zoning laws.

1421
01:12:08,262 --> 01:12:12,232
- And we've grown so fast
the last seven years,

1422
01:12:12,299 --> 01:12:13,800
that we're going to stop

1423
01:12:13,867 --> 01:12:15,536
and take a good hard look

1424
01:12:15,602 --> 01:12:17,337
at the progress we've made,

1425
01:12:17,404 --> 01:12:21,742
and evaluate the things
that have been accomplished,

1426
01:12:21,808 --> 01:12:25,712
and then, do more planning
for the future.

1427
01:12:28,916 --> 01:12:30,584
- To provide a blueprint

1428
01:12:30,651 --> 01:12:33,353
of lands needing protection
from development,

1429
01:12:33,420 --> 01:12:37,424
UW-Madison ecologist Jim
Zimmerman, and his wife Libby,

1430
01:12:37,491 --> 01:12:39,259
began an inventory

1431
01:12:39,326 --> 01:12:42,529
of the vegetation and ecosystems
of Door County.

1432
01:12:42,596 --> 01:12:44,464
- And he knew everything,

1433
01:12:44,531 --> 01:12:47,434
it seemed, about the outdoors.

1434
01:12:48,268 --> 01:12:51,338
He knew every plant
and every tree.

1435
01:12:51,405 --> 01:12:55,909
- Unbelievable,
that he was able to identify

1436
01:12:55,976 --> 01:12:57,845
the areas that were

1437
01:12:57,911 --> 01:12:59,847
ecologically very significant.

1438
01:12:59,913 --> 01:13:01,181
Unbelievable!

1439
01:13:01,248 --> 01:13:03,784
I don't think there was
another person in the world,

1440
01:13:03,851 --> 01:13:06,286
other than Jim Zimmerman,
who could do that.

1441
01:13:06,353 --> 01:13:10,324
That really required a knowledge
and a discipline

1442
01:13:10,390 --> 01:13:12,392
and a dedication to do that.

1443
01:13:12,459 --> 01:13:16,797
And probably,
his greatest single achievement

1444
01:13:16,864 --> 01:13:18,532
was he developed

1445
01:13:19,066 --> 01:13:20,801
a map of Door County

1446
01:13:20,868 --> 01:13:26,306
identifying all the places that
were environmentally important.

1447
01:13:26,373 --> 01:13:30,210
- We assembled them
into township-size maps.

1448
01:13:30,277 --> 01:13:32,579
- People could look
at those maps

1449
01:13:32,646 --> 01:13:34,414
and see exactly
where they lived,

1450
01:13:34,481 --> 01:13:37,251
and what their
particular area was like,

1451
01:13:37,317 --> 01:13:40,988
if it was bordering
on a wetland, and so forth,

1452
01:13:41,054 --> 01:13:44,858
and it made them aware
of what was going on

1453
01:13:45,526 --> 01:13:48,729
in their own community,
and what needed to be protected.

1454
01:13:48,795 --> 01:13:51,565
- We had several meetings with

1455
01:13:51,632 --> 01:13:54,968
'Jim Zim,' as we called him,
as a presenter.

1456
01:13:55,035 --> 01:13:58,172
And there was always
a full crowd.

1457
01:13:58,238 --> 01:14:02,476
I think Jim was aware
that nothing is forever,

1458
01:14:03,677 --> 01:14:05,646
that things are changing,

1459
01:14:05,712 --> 01:14:09,950
and once they're gone,
they're gone forever.

1460
01:14:10,584 --> 01:14:13,487
- A new awareness
of lands needing protection

1461
01:14:13,554 --> 01:14:17,057
led to the formation
of the Door County Land Trust,

1462
01:14:17,124 --> 01:14:19,426
a local group that now protects

1463
01:14:19,493 --> 01:14:21,094
over 7,000 acres

1464
01:14:21,161 --> 01:14:24,097
of sensitive and scenic lands.

1465
01:14:24,164 --> 01:14:25,832
[bird call]

1466
01:14:34,908 --> 01:14:37,010
In spite of all the changes,

1467
01:14:37,077 --> 01:14:39,646
Door County continues
to rely upon

1468
01:14:39,713 --> 01:14:41,582
many of the same resources

1469
01:14:41,648 --> 01:14:44,418
as generations in the past.

1470
01:14:46,653 --> 01:14:49,122
And the county's
setting and history

1471
01:14:49,189 --> 01:14:53,093
continue to provide
a lasting identity.

1472
01:14:54,261 --> 01:14:56,964
Villages still face the water,

1473
01:14:57,030 --> 01:15:00,834
built on the sacrifices
of the pioneers.

1474
01:15:03,403 --> 01:15:04,938
The draw to the land,

1475
01:15:05,005 --> 01:15:06,940
and the connection to the water

1476
01:15:07,007 --> 01:15:09,810
continue as they always have.

1477
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:15,816
(children chattering excitedly)

1478
01:15:15,883 --> 01:15:17,885
Door County remains a place

1479
01:15:17,951 --> 01:15:20,654
to restore the connection
with nature.

1480
01:15:20,721 --> 01:15:22,656
- We can put him in
by the grasshoppers.

1481
01:15:22,723 --> 01:15:24,391
He'll be fine.

1482
01:15:27,394 --> 01:15:29,796
- The great diversity
of the land,

1483
01:15:29,863 --> 01:15:32,900
with many of its wild places
now protected,

1484
01:15:32,966 --> 01:15:36,436
will endure
for generations to come.

1485
01:15:38,639 --> 01:15:40,307
?

1486
01:15:45,445 --> 01:15:49,483
The landscape still inspires
artists of all kinds,

1487
01:15:49,550 --> 01:15:53,220
and the artists, in turn,
create another landscape,

1488
01:15:53,287 --> 01:15:54,955
of art.

1489
01:16:01,028 --> 01:16:04,398
And the arts
continue to flourish,

1490
01:16:04,464 --> 01:16:06,667
one thing leading to another,

1491
01:16:06,733 --> 01:16:09,770
kept afloat by local support.

1492
01:16:12,139 --> 01:16:14,408
Not on the way to anywhere else,

1493
01:16:14,474 --> 01:16:17,444
Door County remains
a destination,

1494
01:16:17,511 --> 01:16:18,979
a getaway,

1495
01:16:19,046 --> 01:16:20,781
and a place for fun.

1496
01:16:20,848 --> 01:16:22,983
(cheers and laughter)

1497
01:16:24,418 --> 01:16:26,553
But constant through it all,

1498
01:16:26,620 --> 01:16:27,888
is the beauty

1499
01:16:27,955 --> 01:16:30,257
that defines Door County.

1500
01:16:31,491 --> 01:16:33,160
?

1501
01:16:39,199 --> 01:16:43,537
(birds chirping,
boat brushing against dock)

1502
01:16:45,906 --> 01:16:48,275
volunteer here at PBSert, a

1503
01:16:48,342 --> 01:16:50,777
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1504
01:16:50,844 --> 01:16:53,180
Door County as much as Ies

1505
01:16:54,214 --> 01:16:56,783
watching it, knowing quite

1506
01:16:57,384 --> 01:16:59,520
and I think you came out

1507
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,489
more. And really, if yout

1508
01:17:02,556 --> 01:17:05,125
you watch PBS Wisconsin.hy

1509
01:17:06,093 --> 01:17:08,161
looked at Airwaves magazine

1510
01:17:08,228 --> 01:17:10,664
program, or you're justut a

1511
01:17:10,731 --> 01:17:12,766
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1512
01:17:12,833 --> 01:17:14,768
what else would youonsin,

1513
01:17:14,835 --> 01:17:17,371
value about PBS Wisconsin?

1514
01:17:17,437 --> 01:17:19,907
Wisconsin is that it after

1515
01:17:21,175 --> 01:17:23,844
connected just a little're

1516
01:17:23,911 --> 01:17:26,146
around you. And if thatd

1517
01:17:28,348 --> 01:17:31,018
that if that feels rightif

1518
01:17:31,084 --> 01:17:33,420
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1519
01:17:34,188 --> 01:17:36,423
call and make a pledge of

1520
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1521
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1522
01:17:42,696 --> 01:17:45,032
gift of support this that

1523
01:17:45,732 --> 01:17:47,968
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1524
01:17:48,569 --> 01:17:50,904
And these gifts, thesek you.

1525
01:17:50,971 --> 01:17:52,806
opportunity to dive, to

1526
01:17:52,873 --> 01:17:55,209
into this Door Countyper

1527
01:17:56,109 --> 01:17:58,579
County as well as some Door

1528
01:17:59,346 --> 01:18:01,682
about them. So at the $10 a

1529
01:18:02,182 --> 01:18:03,884
choice of this book, your

1530
01:18:03,951 --> 01:18:06,420
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1531
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,356
Take a closer look at the

1532
01:18:09,857 --> 01:18:12,092
photos in here from theg

1533
01:18:13,527 --> 01:18:16,096
history diving a little bit

1534
01:18:17,331 --> 01:18:19,466
month level, you can takea

1535
01:18:19,533 --> 01:18:21,935
Stories Door County, the

1536
01:18:22,002 --> 01:18:24,471
you're enjoying right now.

1537
01:18:24,538 --> 01:18:27,007
level, this print by James

1538
01:18:27,808 --> 01:18:30,143
that iconic curvy road.d

1539
01:18:30,878 --> 01:18:33,347
we'll thank you with all of

1540
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1541
01:18:37,351 --> 01:18:39,586
that's at $20 a month. So

1542
01:18:40,387 --> 01:18:42,055
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1543
01:18:44,691 --> 01:18:47,027
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1544
01:18:48,362 --> 01:18:50,697
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1545
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1546
01:18:55,269 --> 01:18:57,738
coming up soon in Hometown

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so many people will be know

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you know, David talked. And,

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that's something that PBS

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one else can. The programs

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you into these localat take

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build that connection and

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corners of the state that

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about. So if you're not a

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you're enjoying tonight's

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Visit us online. a call.

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really wonderful group of a

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to take your call. You can

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(800) 236-3636.

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the program, we wereent of

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arts culture in Door County,

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think there was a quote. I

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authentically creative

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PBS Wisconsin, right?f is

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programing or the dramas or

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history programing, PBSe

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to kind of encapsulate what

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Wisconsin programsBS

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else on television, it's

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curiosity, and having aing

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idea, and I hope thatthat

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that Wisconsin idea,idea,

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community of folksin this

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don't forget that.consin,

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evening. So we've got athis

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we've got the Door County

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instead of the book, or you

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Jens Jensen Road. I found

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fantastic. Also, at the $20

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thank you with all of these

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lighthouse DVD. And now

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can give tonight. Now I'mou

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some fantastic volunteers.h

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them. You've been seeingt

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your call this evening. So

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1-800-236-3636. You can

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online, so visitgifts

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sustaining gifts. We knowt

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sustaining gifts have on

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not the only way to give.

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donor doesn't work for you,

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your IRA with a qualified

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There are so many ways that

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priorities, and we hoper

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that you've enjoyed. I hope

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have explored Door County.

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sustainer is probably one

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support PBS Wisconsin. Asto

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really great ways to thank

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you gifts make amazinghank

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you love too. Maybe those

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Door County with everyt

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>> Now really is the call

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we'd love to hear from you.

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you know it. We'd love to,

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these gifts. So at the $10

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can choose from the Dooryou

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program that you've enjoyed

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print of highway 42 at thet

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love to thank you with all

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well as the Wisconsin as

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it before, but this is oned

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Wisconsin original

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iconic lighthouses that's

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If you'd like to learn more

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know it's also got the I

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another amazing lighthouse

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amazing stories about the

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for so many years. That'st

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We'd love to add that DVD

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So give us a callou.

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>> Hometown stories lives

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Wisconsin. And so do you

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donors and our community of

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families across Wisconsin.

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donors, if you are not aese

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give us a call tonight and

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find such incredible localu

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dive into places like Door

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incredible stories of the

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us. Generations of families

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Wisconsin. And now is yourS

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Become a supporter today.

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You can reach us atference.

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we have such a wonderfuln,

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love PBS Wisconsin as much

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tonight at (800) 236-3636.

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whole community to make a

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Hometown Stories Doorn

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residents of Door County

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stories and theirh their

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ideas. It, of course, takes

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always list at thethat we

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And, you know, I know you.

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program, and then you hear

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kind of tune out. But youou

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tune out. Pay attention tot

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folks are stepping up and

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this community. And you

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that community is you. All

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PBS Wisconsin who ares of

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can $5 a month, $20 a month,

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key to making a programso

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takes a community to make a

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Stories. It takes awn

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Wisconsin as well. And so

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public media and give us a

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1-800-236-3636. Thanks fory,

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[MUSIC]pport.

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?

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- Major funding for

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<i>Wisconsin Hometown Stories:</i>
<i>Door County</i>

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is provided
in part by

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Phillip J. Hendrickson

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in memory of
his beloved wife, Betsy;

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with additional support from

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Dwight and Linda Davis
Foundation;

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Bruce and Grace Frudden,

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in honor of ancestor
Peter Rowley;

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John and Gisela Brogan;

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O.C. and Pat Boldt;

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John & Nell Herlache
Community Impact Fund

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and the Education Fund

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of the Door County
Community Foundation,Inc.;

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Annie and Dick Egan

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Barb and Mike Madden

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CastlePierce;

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Friends of
Wisconsin Public Television;

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and the Wisconsin History Fund,

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supported in part

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by the National Endowment
for the Humanities.