Craig Sterrett

2 months ago | doorcountypulse.com | Craig Sterrett

File photo by Craig Sterrett. For customers of the Sturgeon Bay Post Office, it’s a familiar scene. The “Fruits of Sturgeon Bay” mural up high on the wall has greeted people since 1940. But those people may not know that the scene was created by Santos Zingale, one of Wisconsin’s masters of social realism. The painting was commissioned as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, one of 3,000 installed in post offices throughout the United States.

Nov 14, 2024 | doorcountypulse.com | Craig Sterrett

Members of the Bonnie Braes Women’s Golf League play. File photo by Katie Sikora. The Bonnie Braes Thursday-night league has been putt-putting along for 40 years now, building a community of women who have fun while also raising funds for Door County causes. The league continues to welcome newcomers and players of all abilities. It has attracted players from golf enthusiasts like Sharon Koessl to Stephanie Heald-Fisher, granddaughter of longtime past Maxwelton Braes owners Harry and Lois Ridings.

Nov 11, 2024 | doorcountypulse.com | Craig Sterrett

The Door County Maritime Museum lists more than 270 shipwrecks surrounding the peninsula and nearby islands, but most took place a century ago. That is, said museum director Kevin Osgood, if you don’t count the pleasure boats that strike Dunlap Reef near the shipyard in Sturgeon Bay. The last major shipwreck on Lake Michigan took place in fog and snow in November of 1960, when the Liberian freighter Francisco Morazan ran over the wreck of another freighter, the Walter Frost.

Nov 11, 2024 | doorcountypulse.com | Craig Sterrett |Myles Dannhausen

A plaque at the foot of the Michigan Street Bridge. Photo by Craig Sterrett. Sturgeon Bay’s Michigan Street bridge, often just called the Steel Bridge, is a veterans memorial. During dedication festivities on July 4, 1931, Milwaukee- and Green Bay-based military officers unveiled bronze plaques affixed to each end of the bridge, and local Civil War veterans rode in the parade.

Oct 31, 2024 | doorcountypulse.com | Craig Sterrett

Kevin Wehrenberg is turning Stone Hedge Golf Course into a destination. Photo by Rachel Lukas. One of Door County’s sportiest courses is about to add some of the world’s best golf holes. A year from now, Stone Hedge Golf and Pub owner Kevin Wehrenberg plans to open an indoor golf facility, billiard hall and game room in an addition adjacent to the clubhouse on the east side of Egg Harbor.