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that is surrounded by water,
and it's a hub for shipbuilding on the Great Lakes.
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- John: I'm in Sturgeon Bay, and with a population
of just under 10,000 people,
it is the largest community in Wisconsin's Door County.
This city on the east side of Wisconsin
is about three hours north of Milwaukee,
right in the middle of Door Peninsula,
and it's surrounded by water.
It's split in two by a bay of the same name, Sturgeon Bay,
and you have Lake Michigan on the east
and the bay of Green Bay on the west.
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
The city of Sturgeon Bay is on both sides
of the bay, right, Emmy?
- Emmy Fink: It is; so first,
what was established was the community of Graham,
on the east side of the bay.
That was in the 1850s, and settlers came from Europe,
Scandinavia, but it officially became Sturgeon Bay in 1883.
- How did the other side of town come about?
- Emmy: So that area was known as Sawyer.
- John: Okay. - Emmy: And the only way
to get there was on a toll bridge,
which was also a railroad.
Well, in time, the friends on both sides of the bay
decided to just merge together,
but they liked that Sturgeon Bay name,
so they kept that.
- Really a beautiful area, but the problem:
hard access to Lake Michigan.
- It's hard to imagine, but the bay did not go
through to Lake Michigan, so, just think,
these ships had to make this dangerous journey
up through the top of the peninsula
and back down, which that area is known as Death's Door.
- Had you heard of Death's Door before?
- Only because they're a distilling company,
but, you know, you do a little history, and...
- You know. - Now I know, but, yeah,
then the canal was built.
They brought it over to Lake Michigan,
and it really put Sturgeon Bay on the map.
- John: And just look around.
You can tell that it's still a working waterway.
- Emmy: Absolutely.
It's all maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers,
and there is such a story here,
such a legacy behind shipbuilding,
and they are so proud of that shipbuilding legacy
on the Great Lakes.
- So much to learn. - It's beautiful.
- John: Let's learn more, Emmy, okay?
- Emmy: Okay.
- John: We couldn't come to Sturgeon Bay
without talking about shipbuilding.
- Justin Slater: Fincantieri Bay shipbuilding.
- John: Fincantieri is what I heard.
- Is that it? - Yes, sir.
- John: Where are we going first?
- Justin: Today, we're gonna go up to the top
of our large gantry crane.
We call it Big Blue. - John: Why do you call it that?
'Cause it's blue, right? - Justin: It's big and blue.
And it's used in the process of building the ships here
and supporting our repair process.
- Oh, hello! - So.
- You have a graving dock.
You also have a floating dock, you told me.
- Justin: Yeah, so-- - John: And the floating dock,
what's the difference?
- Justin: So a graving dock is built
below the surface of the water.
The floating dry dock is filled with water, sinks,
and then pumped out.
- Can we talk history about this place?
- Justin: Bay Shipbuilding started life in 1902
in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
- John: Okay. - Justin: In 1968, the ships
were getting too big for the river that they were on,
so they moved the shipbuilding facility
up here to Sturgeon Bay,
and then in 2008, Fincantieri purchased Bay Ship,
Marinette Marine, and a couple of repair yards
and formed the Fincantieri Marine Group
in the United States.
- John: Can I get on a ship? - Justin: Certainly.
We're able to go on the Herbert Jackson today.
- John: What's the Herbert Jackson do?
- Justin: So it is a bulk carrier.
It operates here on the Great Lakes.
It came in for some repairs. - Man: We made it.
- John: Wow, this thing's huge.
What does this carry?
- Man: This carries mainly iron ore.
- John: How many people work on this thing?
- Man: Twenty-five. - John: Twenty-five.
- Man: Thirty.
There's Cole.
- John: Hey, my name's John. - Cole: Cole.
- John: Good to meet you. - Cole: Likewise.
I'm the officer in charge of the navigational watch.
That's my official title.
- That's your chair right there?
- Yep. - Where do you nap?
How are you?
I'm John, good to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. - You're the captain?
How long you been captaining?
- Three weeks. - Three, what?
- Three weeks ago. - What the--
- What's going on here? - Man: I know, John.
- John: It's a good gig, huh? - Cole: It is, great gig.
- John: Thanks for talking to me, you guys.
- Captain: Thank you. - John: Have a good season.
- Captain: Thank you. - John: Thank you.
- Emmy: Have you noticed a theme around town?
Nope, they're not sturgeon; they're bass.
Bass around the bay.
There are 27 of these fish all around town.
If you would like to lure one in yourself,
go on the online auction.
It actually benefits the local art programs.
- People in Sturgeon Bay are committed to being awake.
There are three coffee shops on this block alone.
It's called Little Seattle.
To Little Seattle here in Sturgeon Bay.
- John: So Waterfront Mary is who?
- Patti Hanson: Our daughter. - Your daughter?
- Our youngest daughter, we named it after her.
- Was she like, "Well, thank you?"
Let's talk about what goes on here.
- Jon Hanson: We have a restaurant, full menu,
plus we do a fish boil six nights a week.
- Six nights a week. - Yes.
- John: You couldn't have a more beautiful spot.
When did you take this place?
- Jon: We bought it in 1992, and we opened it
about six, seven months afterwards.
- Patti: We picked Sturgeon Bay for obvious reasons,
and we've never left.
- Jon: 'Cause it's such a fantastic place to live.
- John: We're here for a fish boil,
just so you know. - Emmy: ? Yes, we are. ?
- John: We're very excited.
So let's talk process.
What's gonna happen?
We have a big pot of boiling water.
- Mike Jensen: Yes, sir.
So what I'll do is I will go grab the potatoes and carrots.
- John: Okay. - Mike: Drop 'em in there,
put one pound of sea salt in it,
let it cook for 10 minutes.
- John: What kind of potatoes are they?
- Mike: Baby reds. - John: Baby reds.
- Mike: Yep. - And why don't you put
the onions in now, too?
- Those will be coming in about three minutes.
Onion in for another 10 minutes.
- I feel like we're doing Survivor or something.
- Mike: Yeah, kind of.
- And you can tell it looks good?
- Yeah, it's looking great.
Everything's moving around, water's good.
- Here goes the cod. - Here it goes.
- You're the cod people. - We are the cod people.
- Do they do cod at other places?
- No, we are the only ones in Door County
that actually do cod.
That'll go in for 10 minutes.
Let her cook for a little bit.
I'll ring a bell, and then the show goes on.
[bell ringing]
Come on down for the fish boil!
Welcome to Waterfront Mary's, folks.
I'm Mike, I'll be your boil master tonight.
How is everyone?
- John: And what do you then throw on to flame it?
- Mike: Kerosene. - John: Kerosene.
- Mike: Two, three. [fire whooshes]
[cheering and applause]
- John: So then that's all served on one platter?
- Mike: A plate will come out with potatoes, carrots, onions.
- John: Okay. - Mike: Marble rye bread,
lemon, melted butter. - John: Uh-huh.
- Mike: And then when you're done with that,
then we'll bring you out
the Door County cherry pie a la mode.
- There you go. - Hey, guys.
- Wow! - We're very excited.
- Emmy: It looks fantastic.
Mmm, poor man's lobster.
- Poor man's lobster. - Emmy: I love the idea of cod,
and I love that this is the only place that they do it.
This is delicious!
Mike did a great job. - John: Emmy's packing it on.
Are there seconds?
[Emmy and John laughing]
There are three lighthouses in Sturgeon Bay.
Two can be seen from the north entrance to the canal.
This one right here is like the postcard of Sturgeon Bay.
It is the North Pierhead Light,
and it's one of the most photographed things
in all of Door County.
That is the Canal Station Lighthouse,
so different than its neighbor.
This is what I really think of when I think of a lighthouse,
and the third one's on the opposite end
of the peninsula, the entrance to Sturgeon Bay.
It's called the Sherwood Point Lighthouse.
So Sherwood and Canal are only open one time a year.
That's during the annual Lighthouse Walk.
It happens in June, but you can't get in that house.
Why?
Because that's a private house.
Somebody bought that lighthouse at an auction for $44,000.
I paid more for my Volkswagen!
I did.
There is a whole lot of history right here
on the waterfront in Sturgeon Bay.
- There is.
So we're at the Door County Maritime Museum.
Ten floors to explore,
and I'm telling you, I don't think
I've ever seen a vertical museum.
- John: Vertical, yeah. - Emmy: I mean, every floor
is gonna be a new story.
- John: Okay, I'll start at the tenth floor.
I will do all of the even floors.
You will do the odd floors. - But why?
You're the odd one.
I'll take even.
- No, no, no, I'll do the even.
She just called me odd.
No, come on, come on.
- Kevin Osgood: This is the highest
indoor observation point in all of Door County.
- John: Floor 10, and if you were to say this
is what floor 10's about, what would you say?
- Kevin: The working waterfront of Sturgeon Bay.
You see it moving, you see the ships,
you see the pleasure craft, you see the hotels, everything.
You start at the top, and then you start
to descend back through history and learn
how we got where we are today.
- Here we go. - Absolutely.
Where it all started.
- Kevin, So this floor is all about the peninsula.
- Kevin: The whole area was carved out by glaciers.
- Emmy: 400 million years ago.
- This has been here so long,
and we're so lucky to have it, and we need to take care of it,
and that's the message we want everyone to take away.
- Emmy: I love it. - Kevin: This is 8.
This represents the people of the peninsula,
and almost 80% of this floor focuses
on the Native Americans that first came here
and hunted here and lived here.
- John: This really honors that.
- And it also shows what happened,
how things transitioned.
This one starts where the previous floor leaves off.
- Emmy: Mm-hmm, I absolutely love maps.
- You're looking at a map that was done in the 1850s,
so a lot of it was just guesswork.
So lighthouses were really important
because the charts were really not that helpful,
so you needed to know where you were with lighthouses.
After navigation, there was commerce, right?
- John: Yeah. - Kevin: The major industries
that were here, you know, the fur trade,
limestone quarries, logging, even ice harvesting.
- And commercial fishing, which still goes on.
- Commercial fishing, yes, absolutely still goes on.
- And tourism.
- Kevin: All the resources that were here for trade,
how do you get it to the cities around the Great Lakes?
So shipbuilding with wooden ships was first,
easily transitioned to metal rivets and welding,
and then World War II came along,
and this became a boom town.
At one point during the war, they were turning out
a new ship every five days from shipyards in Sturgeon Bay.
- What a beautiful legacy.
- Kevin: This floor is all about recreational boating.
It's been a part of life in Sturgeon Bay
from the earliest days.
- John: Kayaks and paddle boats.
- Kevin: And canoes. - John: Canoes.
- Kevin: You can see Life magazine did a big spread
on recreational boating here.
- We're bringing everything full circle
on this floor because it's the web of life.
- Kevin: This is all the life that's in the water here.
- We're gonna learn about this fish right here.
- The lake trout.
These are the invasive species. - Emmy: Wow.
- Kevin: And then there's introduced species.
One of those-- salmon.
- I'm learning so much.
- Kevin: This is where the shipwrecks are,
and Door County's 300 miles of shoreline
has more than 250 shipwrecks around it,
and you know what the number-one reason is?
- Fierce storms.
- Human error. - Human error.
- Kevin: Human error.
Now you're sinking, you're on the bottom.
[John laughing]
The message on the first floor sort of summarizes everything.
All the industry, all of our tourists, everything.
You either come here or work here because of our connection
to the water, and we have to take care of it.
- Did you know there were tunnels built
underneath the street all over downtown Sturgeon Bay?
Why were these tunnels built?
[playful music]
- Beneath 3rd Avenue,
there was a series of underground tunnels
that carried steam.
Were you thinking Prohibition tunnels?
Not everything in this state is about booze, people.
- John: Let's first talk about the building.
Historic building built when?
- Reagan Smoker: 1884. - John: On 3rd Avenue.
- And this used to be Cedar Street.
Hence, Cedar Crossing.
- John: I was wondering.
Was this your business before you came here seven years ago?
- So I was in retail management.
I came from the East Coast, big city.
Came back to where my grandparents grew up.
Came for the summer, loved it,
and this was a great opportunity to kind of come back
and slow things down in a different way for me.
My uncle and I, he was truly talking
about something that he wanted to do when he retired.
- John: Take over? - Reagan: 2017 is when
we took over, and we gave it a little fresh space
to the restaurant and to the bar.
- You have a bar, you have a restaurant,
you have an inn, you have a bakery.
- Reagan: We do.
- John: And do you run all of it?
- Reagan: I do, yes.
We have a lot of amazing people in here.
It is not just me. - John: Okay.
She really likes you guys. [all laughing]
So there's nine rooms. - Yeah.
- John: But before they became nine rooms,
were they apartments up there? - Reagan: There were.
The shopkeeps lived upstairs.
We definitely wanted to freshen.
- John: Yeah. - Reagan: We just wanted
to make it homey, the doilies.
- John: Doily, it brings the image.
We're going into the restaurant.
If it's packed out, how many people are in here?
- Reagan: So we have, between the restaurant and the bar,
we're gonna have about 80 people in our building.
Frank is our "deer" friend. [laughing]
- John: Ta-da!
It's pretty cool!
I know what you're thinking.
It's a little over-the-top with that wallpaper.
I don't care; I love it.
- Reagan: This is a great building to celebrate in.
I feel like that's what we really like to do here.
It's the little things in life, but what we do is
just give people a smile.
- Sturgeon Bay has two downtowns,
the east side and the west side,
and you can get to both by the historic steel bridge.
It opened in 1931, and there was an effort
to demolish this bridge, but local musicians
and their friends, such as Jackson Browne,
came together for something called
the Steel Bridge Songfest in 2005,
and they saved this bridge,
and they continue that effort to preserve
this historic architecture.
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[MUSIC] sic]
She's a singer/songwriter, she's
She's a singer/songwriter, she's a teacher.
How are you? - Cathy Grier: I'm great.
Nice to meet you.
- I'm really excited to meet you.
How did this happen for you?
- Cathy: As a songwriter, I heard
about the Steel Bridge Song Festival in 2016,
and so I drove all the way from New York City
out here for a week, and while I was here,
somebody said, "You're gonna move here."
And then I looked around at the real estate,
and I said, "Maybe I will." [both laughing]
- John: There you go.
- ? The right track ?
- If I were to ask, like, how do you describe
yourself as a musician?
- Cathy: Eclectic, feeling, heartfelt advocate
of doing music to help people bridge
ignorance, hate, love, all those things,
and I think as long as you open yourself up
and ask questions, you can agree to disagree,
but we can always find that one common thing.
- John: Blues, do you love blues?
- Cathy: Yeah, that's my main focus,
but I don't think of myself as a true blues player.
I am blues in heart and soul, and I love the blues style.
[cheering and applause]
[blues guitar music] ? Oh... ?
- So being from New York,
does this at all feel like home to you,
or is it really different?
- Cathy: So I was in New York City for 20 years,
but before that, I was in Paris and South of France
for almost 10 years, and I've traveled so much
in my life that I'm home wherever I make my community.
- John: Yeah, yeah. - Cathy: Yeah.
I just happen to love what I do,
and I happen to be a performer, so...
- John: And don't you feel lucky doing it?
- Cathy: Absolutely.
Sometimes, I call people out of the audience.
- Really? - Yeah, why not?
- Yeah.
[cheering and applause]
- And I have a cigar box.
I go out in the audience, and sometimes I take it off
and hand it to people and ask them to play it.
- John: Here you go. - Cathy: Yeah.
[playing blues]
Yeah, you got it.
Oh, yeah! [chuckles]
- Oh, yeah. - Cathy: Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
[applause]
- The Holiday Music Motel is quite the landmark
because of its retro decor.
It was the first motel built in Door County in 1952,
so every room looks different.
It has its own collection of mid-century modern furniture.
We're talking lampshades, bathroom tile.
You name it, they do it right.
Especially artists and musicians,
they love to come here.
Apparently, they really channel their creativity.
- It wouldn't be a main street
without a little shopping.
Oh, wait, you don't know what you're looking for?
Well, have I got the place for you.
3rd Avenue, the Marketplace.
They've got everything.
[gasps] Resort wear!
You do know what you're shopping for,
and it's for your kids?
Oh, no, oh, your grandkid?
Well, then you gotta come to the Dancing Bear
'cause you'll find it in here.
I am sitting in front of my favorite shopping.
It's like this thrift consignment shop,
where talk about finding anything and everything.
Like this.
Like, this is for sale, this great little bench.
I just don't know if there's room in the crew van.
Gail, would you mind sitting on the roof of the van?
- Again?
- John: We're at Door County Forgeworks.
You're a forger.
- Ric Furrer: Blacksmith, usually.
Blacksmiths historically were making tools
for the village that they lived in.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- So what's a forge?
- Ric: Forge is the item that does the heating.
Think of it like an oven.
- John: And what do you forge?
- People ask me mostly for swords and knives,
so that tends to be what I focus on now.
- John: Can we take a look?
- Ric: We have pieces that I've made.
Here, pull that one out of there.
- John: Can I? - There's a chef's knife.
- Wow, I love the design.
It's really cool.
So will this ever be used?
- I hope so. - By you?
- Well, I'd rather sell it.
- You would? - But--
- So this is what we have here! [both laughing]
- So here is a kitchen cleaver.
- There you go. - Look at this!
This is gorgeous.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- You are gonna experience a little bit
of hot reality here. - I can't wait.
You have a look in your eye of pity for me.
Do you know? [Ric laughing]
- I forge, mostly now, it's pattern-welded steel
because that's what people ask me to do.
- It's cooking! - It is warm.
So what's happening is the water is
boiling out of the borax.
- John: Borax. - Ric: Yeah.
And it chemically cleans the steel.
- John: That looks like cotton.
- Ric: It is, but it can withstand
a tremendous amount of heat.
- John: What does somebody who learns
that art of blacksmithing, like, what do they--
is there a path they usually take?
- Ric: There are apprenticeships that were historically done.
That's changed a little bit now.
There are blacksmith programs at universities now.
- Can I get it? - Yes.
- I'm bringing it over. - Yes.
- John: Oh, my God, look at this thing!
Is there something you'd rather make?
- Ric: Well, I have projects that I enjoy doing,
but I really enjoy the idea of the next project,
not the reality of the current one.
- My heart--
My heart is...
- Ric: Blacksmiths do the heavy, hot work...
- John: Yeah.
- Ric: Because the resulting piece is black.
There are whitesmiths.
They're the ones that do the finish work.
Lather, rinse, repeat, that's all it is,
but we'll probably do that two more times,
and then I'll take over under Baby Hugey there.
- John: Okay.
- Ric: And that hits three times a second
with about 80 tons of force.
- John: You do it.
[hammer striking]
- Ric: So that's kind of what you're gonna end up with
with that cherry handle.
- John: Very cool. - Ric: Yeah.
- John: Yeah, there's some steam, right?
- Ric: That's smoke.
Lift it up, there's your quenched knife.
So that's hardened.
So there's your... - John: Oh, my God, look at me!
- Nice! - Yep.
- It looks good, doesn't it?
- That'll work well in a kitchen.
- Whenever I hear the word "forge" now,
you are what I will think of.
- Aww. - Just so you know.
This is what a forge guy looks like.
[both laughing] - John: Oh, you're good.
- Here's my Sturgeon Bay tip.
We found this adorable chapel-turned-restaurant
called Dromhus.
Now, it means "dreamhouse" in Swedish,
and you know what sounds dreamy to me in Swedish?
These meatballs.
Mm, dreamy!
- John: This has gotta be a very important building
because it originated on this side of town,
which is the west side,
and then they moved it to the east side
and moved it back to the west side to save it,
to preserve it.
What is that building?
- You know, you could've just asked me.
I have the answer.
It's the Door County Granary Building.
It was built in 1901, and the reason
it's so special is because it's one of the last remaining
wooden granary elevators on the Great Lakes.
Pretty special. - So smart.
Emmy Fink.
It's an orchard.
It's called Robertson Orchard.
It began in 1879.
I was raised on-- in a neighborhood
in the city of Milwaukee,
so if I ask you a question that you're like,
"You've gotta be kidding me," I just don't know, okay?
How many different types of cherries are there?
- Kris Robertson: You gotta be kidding me.
[John laughing]
- John: How many generations have been farming this land?
- Kris: My son Skipp is a fifth generation.
- John: He's the fifth. - Kris: Yeah.
- Let's talk about the responsibility
of the fifth generation running the orchard.
Do you feel it?
- Skipp Robertson: I feel it, John.
- Do you?
So were you raised on this land?
- I was. - Yeah.
So you know cherry farming, huh?
- Yeah, I've been here for 67 years.
- I have been here since I was born.
- I see that Skipp has some kids,
so I'm sure there's generations to come, yes?
- Kris: Yep.
- Do you believe that this will continue?
- If they like it. - If they like it.
Apples is what I hear,
but cherries is really kind of your focus, yes?
- Cherries, yeah.
- Montmorencys and Balatons
are the two types of tart cherries that we have.
- Lindsey Robertson: Using those more for baking,
for pies, those kind of things.
- Skipp: And in reality,
it should really be called semisweet.
- So then we have 25 different varieties
of sweet cherries.
- Sweet cherries more for eating
right off the tree or, you know, having a snack at home.
- John: He said as a kid, he liked the sweet cherries,
but not anymore. - He used to sit on the shaker.
His teeth were just black from eating cherries, stained.
- Is that right? - Yep.
- We haven't even touched on your apples yet.
- Skipp: We have apples as well. - John: What kind of apples?
- Lindsey: Ginger Gold, Redfree, Zestar,
Honeycrisp, Cortland.
- Cortland, Wealthy.
- Jonamac, Idared. - Paula Red.
Did you say McIntosh?
And we have three different varieties of pears, as well.
- Did you know what you were getting into?
- I did know what I was getting into.
- Oh, good. [all laughing]
- They need some time, don't they?
- Ah, they need a little bit of time.
I'd probably, say, give it three more weeks.
Tart cherries are self-pollinating.
Sweet cherries need to have a cross-pollinator with it.
- So this guy's smaller, it seems.
Why?
Is it because it's younger? - If we let a sweet cherry
just keep growing, it'll get over 30 feet tall.
- Yeah. - And the same thing
with the tart cherries.
I grew up here.
To me, I didn't realize how good I had it as a kid,
being able to walk out of the house,
go right out to the tree, grab something that looked riper
than the rest, and eat it and enjoy it.
- John: The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
You've heard that before, right?
- Of course I have. [John laughing]
- John: Good job.
- I am always up for an active adventure,
and here at Potawatomi State Park,
they have everything.
You can rent bikes, kayaks, paddleboards, you name it.
It also is the start of the Ice Age Trail.
It's a thousand-mile journey following
the last continental glacier in Wisconsin.
Such an awesome place.
Put it on your bucket list.
[upbeat music]
You know, with our Wisconsin roots,
we've made so many trips up to Door County,
but when I'm driving up and I see the Sturgeon Bay sign,
I always think, "the beginning!"
- Well, that's funny because I have come up here
where Sturgeon Bay was the beginning,
the middle, and the end.
I mean, I really love this community.
- All right, I'm coming with you the next time.
- Good, let's do it!
No kids though, okay? - Emmy: Okay.
- John: Don't bring the dog.
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- We are here at Potawatoma-- Potawatoma--Potawatoma--
I can't do it!
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La la la hoo!
- Kevin: No, I don't wanna walk with John.
[all laughing]
- Taking one for the team again.
- Woman: Get outta here.
- Announcer: We thank the underwriters
of John McGivern's Main Streets
because without them, we couldn't make this show.
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Explore, play, shop, stay.
Visit Oconomowoc!
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- Yes, Greendale is beautiful on the outside,
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or exploring your creative side?
Come on in!
You just gotta see Greendale!
- The Wisconsin Northwoods are calling.
One word, one place.
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- Announcer: John McGivern's Main Streets is grateful
for additional financial support from:
Horicon Bank: the Natural Choice,
West Bend Insurance Company: the Silver Lining,
our nonprofit, the Friends of Main Streets,
and from the Friends of PBS Wisconsin.
Thanks, underwriters!
- They can tell who the new guy is.
Take a look at the boots.
I still have my price tag on.
[all laughing]
- Announcer: The following program
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To give your support, call us at 1-800-236-3636
or visit us at pbswisconsin.org.
[inspirational music]
- This program is brought to you
by the combined resources
of the Wisconsin Historical Society
and PBS Wisconsin.
[waves crashing]
[delicate piano]
[seagulls calling]
- Brendon Baillod: Lighthouses occupy that sort of wistful part of our imagination.
- Kevin Osgood: There's a mystique about them.
There's an aura about them.
- Neil Howk: A magical place.
- Narrator: Soaring towers.
Rugged landscapes.
Wisconsin lighthouses stand watch
over Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.
- Kevin Osgood: The Great Lakes are inland seas.
They are massive.
- Monumental beacons.
Shining light on a bygone era.
From the first people to venture the lakes
to the dedicated keepers willing to risk their all.
- Neil Howk: The aspect of danger.
The aspect of sacrifice.
- Ken Wardius: People depended on them day in and day out.
- Icons of Wisconsin's rich maritime past.
- Cathy Green: Lighthouses are inseparable
from the history of the state
- Brendon Baillod: Without lighthouses,
Wisconsin doesn't happen.
- Marvelous construction.
Breathtaking views.
- Barb Wardius: They're really something to behold.
- Kevin Osgood: There's nothing else like them.
- Wisconsin Lighthouses.
[waves breaking]
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- Announcer: Funding for Wisconsin Lighthouses
is provided by
the David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund,
Dr. Henry Anderson and Shirley Levine,
the Ruth St. John and John Dunham West Foundation,
Jan Botz and Tom Lippert,
the Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation,
A.C.V. and Mary Elston Family,
Slater Family Fund,
Barb and Mike Madden,
Obrodovich Family Foundation,
The Great Lakes Foundation,
Ruder Ware,
the Fund for Lake Michigan,
Trust Point,
Wisconsin Coastal Management Program,
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
donors to the Focus Fund for Wisconsin Programs,
and Friends of PBS Wisconsin.
[waves brushing shore]
[pensive piano music]
- Narrator: The crashing waters of Lake Michigan
surround a small, forested island
with steep dolomite cliffs.
Deep within the rustic landscape
lives a pioneer of Wisconsin's maritime history.
- Tina Jacoby: You're walking through the woods on the trail.
You come right over that last crest,
and you see this picture-perfect lighthouse standing there.
It's pretty amazing to see.
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- The Pottawatomie Lighthouse,
located at the tip of the Door County Peninsula on Rock Island.
Built in 1836 and then replaced 20 years later
with the existing structure seen today:
a 41-foot tower with attached keeper's quarters.
- Tina Jacoby: As it stands today,
the house is set up around 1910.
So, you can kind of picture the lighthouse keepers at that point
living there.
As you're walking through the house,
you get to see the kitchen, the parlor, the bedrooms.
You kind of feel like you're at home, which is kind of fun.
And then, the best part is going up to the lantern room.
- A view of the water reaching beyond the horizon.
A summer day.
Whitecaps flashing on the surface.
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An idyllic location,
home to Pottawatomie Lighthouse.
Chosen not for its grand view but for its utter necessity.
- Mark Kuehn: It was a matter of life and death.
[waves breaking, ominous music]
[ring-billed gull makes high-pitched squeals]
- Ted Karamanski: Well, it'd be a big mistake
to underestimate the Great Lakes.
[waves blast lighthouse]
- Cathy Green: These are just as treacherous as the oceans.
- Brendon Baillod: Violent storms blow up, and, you know,
if you don't run for your life, you're gonna be in trouble.
- Surging waters and rocky formations
make the Great Lakes
a perilous force of nature.
- Katrina Phillips: Unless you've been there
or you've lived there,
you don't really understand
the power that these lakes have.
[strings and percussion build in intensity]
- Cathy Green: It's estimated that there are
well over 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes
- Brendon Baillod: The Great Lakes
are really a nautical graveyard
compared to anyplace else in the world.
[intense strings and percussion]
[bubbles in water column]
[waves brushing shore]
- A tiny, secluded island in that nautical graveyard
would become pivotal to the story of Wisconsin
and home to the state's very first lighthouse,
Pottawatomie.
- Kevin Osgood: In the early 1800s,
before Wisconsin was even a state,
the stone that was coming out of the quarries here,
the lumber that was coming out of the forest,
all of that needed to go other places on the Great Lakes
for the construction of cities.
The schooners
moving the stone and timber around the Great Lakes
would have to go through Death's Door.
- Death's Door Passage is a narrow channel
of shallow waters and strong currents
between the mainland peninsula of Door County
and Washington Island.
A notorious waterway that lived up to its ominous name.
[foreboding strings]
- Kevin Osgood: The shipping industry was losing too many ships,
and it was costing 'em money.
So, it was critical to get a lighthouse built
in this particular location.
- Tina Jacoby: In 1834,
the mariners had requested and petitioned
the federal government
to build the Pottawatomie Lighthouse on Rock Island
that would mark the safe passage.
That safe passage became known as "Rock Island Passage."
- Situated just northeast of Washington Island,
the deep waters off Rock Island
held the potential for a safe route around Death's Door.
However, in the early 1800s,
this region was still considered America's frontier.
Building Pottawatomie Lighthouse
would be a venture into the unknown.
[dire piano music]
- Ted Karamanski: This was a time when
there was absolutely no charts of Lake Michigan.
- Kevin Osgood: Captains had to navigate without the lighthouses.
And they're carrying the materials to these remote places
to build lighthouses.
It was absolutely no easy task.
- Tina Jacoby: The stones were quarried from the island itself.
They would haul them up to the site.
They used wood from the island.
And just with manpower,
they put that lighthouse together.
- Kevin Osgood: That human spirit of just pushing forward
and knocking down the darkness and moving ahead.
[fast, tense piano]
[water lapping shore]
[pensive music]
- Inaugurated in 1836,
Pottawatomie Lighthouse was a trailblazer.
The very first lighthouse on all of Lake Michigan.
Remaining in operation until 1988.
- Tina Jacoby: The Pottawatomie name
comes from the Native Americans
that were living in the area.
Pottawatomie means "keepers of the fire."
The mariners would connect with that light
as they were going through the passage
and relying on that to be there every night.
- Waiting just on the horizon
was a golden era of Wisconsin's maritime history.
- Kevin Osgood: Pottawatomie Lighthouse
lit a way to growth and development.
It would provide that beacon into the future,
for the entire state of Wisconsin.
[plucky guitar and banjo]
- Brendon Baillod: Lighthouses had opened up the state for settlement,
and people began to bring their families west.
You had to come by boat.
There was no other way.
- Ted Karamanski: Schooners were literally
the covered wagons of the Great Lakes frontier.
- The Great Lakes were the superhighways of the past.
Forming one of the highest concentrations of lighthouses
anywhere in the world.
- Brendon Baillod: In the 1800s,
the volume of vessel traffic on the Great Lakes
was easily 20, 30 times what it is today.
[waves lapping gently]
- Most Wisconsin lighthouses
began service between 1850 and 1900.
From Lake Michigan's Southport Lighthouse
in bustling Kenosha
to Wisconsin's northernmost point --
Devils Island Lighthouse on Lake Superior.
These beacons lit the way for mariners
for nearly 150 years.
Burning brightly due to a technological leap
in the 19th century.
- Ken Wardius: Fresnel lenses revolutionized lighthouses
throughout the world.
Engineering marvels.
- Barb Wardius: It's a series of polished glass prisms
that bend and refract the light
in and then out onto the body of water.
- The Fresnel lens projected further and brighter
than ever before.
The powerful beam was instrumental
in the creation of an integrated network of lighthouses
along Lake Michigan,
linking them like a chain.
- Mark Kuehn: All lighthouses on Lake Michigan
are all within sight of each other.
Each beam crosses over,
so you never lose sight of a lighthouse
as you're coming down the lake.
- Tasked with keeping this innovation working smoothly
was the lighthouse keeper --
an employee of the United States Lighthouse Service.
- Barb Wardius: Early lighthouse keepers were called "wickies."
- Ken Wardius: They trimmed a wick in the lantern
to keep the flame the right height
so that it would burn evenly and brightly.
- The wick and lantern were fueled by oil,
which the keeper repeatedly carried to the top of the tower
in buckets.
A counterweight mechanism would then rotate the Fresnel lens
around the burning wick.
- Barb Wardius: It was a giant cuckoo clock mechanism
that would have to be wound every three to four hours.
So, you would never get a full night's sleep.
- Mark Kuehn: You were busy all day long.
You just weren't working at night.
The lens had to be spotless to the touch of a glove.
They would have to record the weather.
They'd have to record ship passings.
And then do any kind of maintenance
on the house or the grounds.
- Tina Jacoby: The lighthouse keepers had
an ingrained sense of service
because that's what it was.
It was the lighthouse service.
They were in service to the federal government
and to keep the mariners safe.
- The keeper and the mariner shared a sacred trust --
the light would remain steadfast in its duty.
Beacons of hope in a raging storm.
And treasured works of art decorating the shoreline.
- Bob Mackreth: The leading American historian of lighthouses
in the 20th century,
F. Ross Holland, wrote,
"Nation's largest and finest collection
"of historic lighthouses is contained within
the boundaries of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore."
Absolutely.
- Off Wisconsin's north shore in Lake Superior
lies a group of islands adorned with otherworldly beauty.
The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
Twenty-one islands, eight lighthouses
surrounded by deep forests and natural wonders.
- Neil Howk: The Apostle Islands, they are remote.
You are definitely away from the hubbub of everyday life.
- Brendon Baillod: They're not little port town lighthouses, right?
They tend to have to be tall.
They have to be, you know, pretty conspicuous
because they have to be seen from a distance.
- Punctuating the horizon,
the Apostle Islands lighthouses
historically guided large vessels
along the shipping lanes of Lake Superior.
Today, they keep watch over a public treasure.
- Neil Howk: The best place to view the islands from
is the top of a lighthouse tower.
Places like Devils Island and Raspberry Island
and the north end of Outer Island,
those give us a look at what perhaps
northern Wisconsin looked like 300 years ago.
A pristine area.
On someplace like Raspberry Island,
you can easily be the only person that's on that island,
surrounded by acres of wilderness.
[gentle waves]
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- In the late 1800s, a keeper named Francis Jacker
lived alone at Raspberry Island Lighthouse.
- Bob Mackreth: He liked it.
I mean, it gave him plenty of time
to pursue his artistic interests.
He was a talented artist.
He was a composer.
- Jacker, a German immigrant,
married an Ojibwe woman named "Ikwesens,"
who later went by "Catherine."
A committed partner,
Catherine stayed back on the mainland with their sons,
while Jacker lived on Raspberry Island
to tend the light.
- Bob Mackreth: He also wrote articles on Ojibwe folklore
that were published in anthropological journals
over in Germany.
He was absolutely a Renaissance man.
But the one thing he wasn't very good at was operating a boat.
[thunder crashing]
- Neil Howk: In September of 1887, a storm blew up.
And he had left the boat tied up to the dock.
He hadn't put it away in the boathouse.
So, he jumped out of bed, runs down to the dock,
and he jumps into the boat
with the intention of sailing it to the boathouse.
The problem is that
he got pushed a little bit too far offshore.
- Bob Mackreth: He loses control of the boat.
Next thing you know, he's washed up on the beach at Oak Island.
- Neil Howk: The wind wrapped around
and it swamped the boat on the beach
and filled it up with sand.
It was unusable.