Podcasts about peninsula pulse

What happens when a community landmark reaches a turning point? In this episode, Dave Eliot – co-founder/publisher of the Peninsula Pulse and chair of the Baileys Harbor Town Board – joins Debra Fitzgerald for an in-depth conversation about the tough decisions ahead facing the town pertaining to the marina. Eliot unpacks the challenges and potential solutions, including a proposal to relocate the marina to Anclam Park.

The Peninsula Pulse's annual Sustainability issue, out on April 18, contains the stories and voices of people across Door County who are working in some aspect of the climate-preparedness realm, whether through observations, data collection or actions. One of those voices and stories comes from Charlie Henriksen, a commercial fisherman for 50 years, owner of Henriksen Fisheries since 1987, and Henriksen's Fish House, a retail operation, since 2022. In “Changing Waters,” Henriksen wrote for the Pulse about Door County's fishing industry and how it's navigating a new normal. Here, he talks with Debra Fitzgerald about the state of the fisheries, sharing knowledge gleaned from a life lived on the water.

Baking is a science, according to Peninsula Pulse reporter Eleanor Corbin, who has a long lineage of bakers in her family, and was herself bit by the baking bug as a young girl helping in her mom's kitchen and pie shops. Eleanor offers some great baking tips, utensils she can't live without, how to roll the perfect pie crust – and so much more that will be helpful for this baking-mad season (and beyond). She also talks about her reporting on bakers around Door County and what it takes for them to meet the Thanksgiving demand for pies.

When Larry Mohr retired in 2022, he did what most people do - knocking items off a long-delayed to-do list. But then he got bored, and when he came across a TED Talk on a more intentional approach to retirement he got inspired. That led him to taking photos for the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living this summer. He joins Myles Dannhausen Jr. to talk about that and more.

Peninsula Pulse reporter Eleanor Corbin joined the staff, Aug. 1, with a freshly minted Political Science degree from Grinnell College in Iowa. She served as editor-in-chief of her college paper and was a student journalist for three years. She drove cross-country to Door County from her California home to begin her journalism career on the peninsula. Here, she talks with Debra Fitzgerald about what inspires and challenges her as a reporter, why she wanted to make journalism her career, and why she selected Door County to start.

Herb Gould has covered big-time college and professional sports for the Chicago Sun-Times for four decades, but this summer he has fallen in love with Door County League Baseball as he sought out the stories of the league for the Peninsula Pulse. Myles Dannhausen Jr. talks to him about the league, its quirks, and the people who make it go.

Debra Fitzgerald and Myles Dannhausen Jr. talk about memorializing the people who've made Door County – Door County, the rumors floating about Rowleys Bay Resort at the top of the peninsula, a hard-working couple's path to home ownership, and the Peninsula Pulse's Aug. 2 candidate coverage in preparation for the Aug. 13 primary election.

Newly 80-years-old, Charlotte Lukes recalls the courtship that led to her marriage to Roy Lukes, and the life they lived at the Ridges Range Light. Introduced to the peninsula's magic by her husband, Roy Lukes, Charlotte has carried on their legacy in many ways since his death in 2016, including through their Peninsula Pulse column, Door to Nature. She has also branched out on her own, becoming one of the county's most knowledgeable mushroom guides (several are coming up in August at The Ridges, Björklunden and Whitefish Dunes).

There are some 1,000 music performances happening in Door County between June and October and we have them all for you in the Peninsula Pulse's Summer Music Preview – Part I (June through July, out now) and Part II (August through October, out July 26). Pulse arts & entertainment reporter Sam Watson joins Debra Fitzgerald to talk about what it takes to pull that together. We'll also introduce you to the Pulse's summer intern, Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism student and Gibraltar High School graduate, Betsy Lecy.

Freelancers and part-time writers help Peninsula Pulse staff round out coverage of the county and Mike Bacsi is the latest such member, covering Door County restaurants and the dining scene. Mike and his wife, Patti, transplanted to Door County during the pandemic, retiring to a vacation home they'd long loved. So many others also take this leap of faith, some doing so more successfully than others. Debra Fitzgerald talks with Mike about this journey (and they of course talk about Door County restaurants along the way).

Golf.com senior writer Sean Zak joins the podcast to talk about his new book, Searching in St. Andrews: Finding the Meaning of Golf During the Game's Most Turbulent Summer. The Sturgeon Bay native (and former Peninsula Pulse golf contributor) talks to Myles Dannhausen Jr. about covering the battles between LIV and the PGA Tour, exploring the birthplace of the game, and the nuances of the tour the public rarely sees.

Water-born illnesses aren't new to Door County, as Ephraim Historical Foundation director Cody Schreck wrote in a recent History Hub column in the Peninsula Pulse. He joins the podcast to talk to Myles Dannhausen Jr. about an e coli outbreak in Ephraim in the 1950s, plus a little history about an estate on Horseshoe Island and 75 years of the Ephraim Historical Foundation.

Chicago-based artists Ellen Holtzblatt and Mary Porterfield join Debra Fitzgerald for a conversation about their two-person show at the Miller Art Museum: Vestiges of the Tide. Both artists contemplate a topic in their work that brings awareness to what many of us prefer not to face: senescence, or the process of deterioration as we age, and who we'll be in our final years. The public can meet the artists and view the show March 1. See the Peninsula Pulse for more.

Debra Fitzgerald talks with Emma Chamley, the 2023 summer intern for the Peninsula Pulse, who arrived a few weeks ago and is already into her beat covering various entertainment and outdoor activities. Emma is a double journalism/political science major going into her junior year at Butler University in Indianapolis who has spent summers in Door County since she was a baby. She talks about her interests in journalism, why she applied for the internship and what she's looking forward to experiencing while spending a summer with us. Also see Chamley's introductory column in the June 9 issue of the Peninsula Pulse.

Voters will weigh in on two constitutional amendments April 4 that pertain to the criminal justice system and Joan Korb – a career criminal prosecutor, executive director of the Wisconsin District Attorney's Association, and author of the periodic Legal Brief column for the Peninsula Pulse – talks with Debra Fitzgerald to explain what those amendments mean and what a ‘yes' or ‘no' vote would achieve.

Andrew Kleidon talks with Pulse editor Debra Fitzgerald about two islands reported in the March 10 issue of the Peninsula Pulse. One of the islands is the creation of artist Lee Mothes, yet has all the trappings of a real place, including the ability to buy and develop land. The other island off the tip of the Door peninsula is, depending who you talk with, a stinking outpost with inhabitants that pollute the water and deplete the fishery, or a necessary sanctuary and nesting spot for colonial birds.

Andrew Kleidon is joined by Mike Orlock, author of the Peninsula Pulse's film column Mike at the Movies, to round up all of the best picture Oscar noms before the Academy Awards.

Tom Groenfeldt has written about the arts, business and technology for the Peninsula Pulse, but he got his start in Door County many years earlier as an intern for the Resorter Reporter. He talks to Myles Dannhausen Jr. about his stint as Chan Harris's roving summer photography intern whose job was to capture scenes for the cover and inside pages of the publication.

Speed of Dark (She Writes Press, 2022) by Patricia Ricketts opens with a black man getting off Metra train in Northbrook, Illinois to search for someone who might be hiding in the woods. Mosely Albright works in a Mission house helping drug addicts, alcoholics and those who are down on their luck. The reverend has asked him to search for one of the men who isn't capable of surviving in the freezing cold. The man he finds is a different one though, and he's gone when Mosely wakes up, stiff and frozen the next morning. He's forgotten the way back to the station and knocks on Mary M. Phillips's door to ask for a glass of water and directions. Mosely has the gift of seeing when people need help, and he knows that Mary Em is desperate. He wants to help her, but the lake, (Mishigami – its Ojibwe name) wants her in its icy waters. Told by Mary Em, Mosely, and Mishigami, Speed of Dark is a story about human connection, the plight of the great lakes, and the power of kindness, friendship, and love. Patricia Ricketts inherited a lifelong love of music, the written word, the visual arts, and healthy arguing from her Irish Catholic household. While teaching English to many wonderful students, Patricia raised two fine daughters and a stand-up son and now has six beautiful grandchildren who live in the Kansas City area. Throughout her life, she penned essays, short stories, poems, and novels; however, her passion for writing escalated after being awarded a scholarship for creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. Since then, she has had short stories published in New Directions, Slate, Meta, Blue Hour, Realize Magazines, and on NPR's “This I Believe” website. The Peninsula Pulse awarded her third place among hundreds of entries in its short story contest. She is currently working on a new novel, tentatively titled The End of June. Patricia lives in Chicago with her partner, artist and photographer, Peter M. Hurley. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Speed of Dark (She Writes Press, 2022) by Patricia Ricketts opens with a black man getting off Metra train in Northbrook, Illinois to search for someone who might be hiding in the woods. Mosely Albright works in a Mission house helping drug addicts, alcoholics and those who are down on their luck. The reverend has asked him to search for one of the men who isn't capable of surviving in the freezing cold. The man he finds is a different one though, and he's gone when Mosely wakes up, stiff and frozen the next morning. He's forgotten the way back to the station and knocks on Mary M. Phillips's door to ask for a glass of water and directions. Mosely has the gift of seeing when people need help, and he knows that Mary Em is desperate. He wants to help her, but the lake, (Mishigami – its Ojibwe name) wants her in its icy waters. Told by Mary Em, Mosely, and Mishigami, Speed of Dark is a story about human connection, the plight of the great lakes, and the power of kindness, friendship, and love. Patricia Ricketts inherited a lifelong love of music, the written word, the visual arts, and healthy arguing from her Irish Catholic household. While teaching English to many wonderful students, Patricia raised two fine daughters and a stand-up son and now has six beautiful grandchildren who live in the Kansas City area. Throughout her life, she penned essays, short stories, poems, and novels; however, her passion for writing escalated after being awarded a scholarship for creative writing from the University of Edinburgh. Since then, she has had short stories published in New Directions, Slate, Meta, Blue Hour, Realize Magazines, and on NPR's “This I Believe” website. The Peninsula Pulse awarded her third place among hundreds of entries in its short story contest. She is currently working on a new novel, tentatively titled The End of June. Patricia lives in Chicago with her partner, artist and photographer, Peter M. Hurley. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Andrew Kleidon talks with Debra Fitzgerald about the cruise ship that came to town, the 32 awards the Peninsula Pulse received at the Wisconsin Newspaper Association contest and the transportation utility that Gibraltar has created to help pay for road maintenance.

Andrew Kleidon talks with Peninsula Pulse editor Debra Fitzgerald about some of the news of the day, including who's running in the upcoming elections, what's happening with the Niagara Escarpment and the latest effort to help solve the affordable housing shortage.

Peninsula Pulse editor Debra Fitzgerald talks with high-performance architect and home builder Virge Temme upon the occasion of Temme's retirement from building sustainable and net-zero homes in Door County; and what's next for an architect who still wants to change the world one house at a time.

Before the Year in Review issue of the Peninsula Pulse is available this week, Andrew Kleidon and Myles Dannhausen Jr. sit down to go over the biggest stories from the year. Topics of discussion include: How restaurants navigated the labor shortage, steps forward on internet access and affordable housing, an ambitious year in theater, and much more. Plus, our predictions on what 2022 has in store.

Few destinations offer the experience found in Door County – great wages for seasonal work, easy proximity to beaches and incredible outdoor experiences, great nightlife, and as much work responsibility as you want to take on. That's why Peninsula Pulse is launching a workforce recruitment campaign to put the peninsula back on the agenda of high school students, college students looking for summer jobs, and parents who want to see their kids make money, take on a challenge, and get great work and life experience. Myles Dannhausen Jr. is joined by David Eliot to talk about their experiences working as young adults in Door County, and the need they are seeing to bring a stronger workforce back. Then, a conversation with Peninsula Filmworks intern turned Pulse photographer Rachel Lukas about her experience working in the county for the first time, and why she's chosen to stay.

Morgan Mann and Steven Rice from the Door County Library stopped by the Peninsula Pulse recording studio to talk with Grace Johnson about the featured books, event highlights and 15 years' worth of Door County Reads. There may even be a few trivia questions, too!

Andrew Kleidon and Myles Dannhausen Jr. share sneak peaks of the Winter 2021 Door County Living Magazine, and the Peninsula Pulse's newest publication, the 1846 Review, a literary magazine which contains this years Hal Prize winners. Also, a look back at the past as the historic ship, the SS Badger, returns to Bay Shipbuilding. And, a reflection on the life of Ephraim artist Franne Dickinson, who passed away in October.

For the past few months the Peninsula Pulse has been working in support of the team at Wisconsin Watch on a series of articles examining how a climate “tug of war” is driving extreme shifts in Lake Michigan's water levels. Wisconsin Watch reporter Mario Koran speaks to Myles Dannhausen Jr. about what he learned reporting on the issue from Door County. The first story is available here: “The Water Always Wins”: Calls to protect shorelines as volatile Lake Michigan inflicts heavy toll

Door County expert and editor of the Peninsula Pulse, Myles Dannhausen wraps up our series with a lot of laughs, a few seltzers, and tons of great stories.

Storytellers wanted! Want to get published in 25,000 copies of the Peninsula Pulse and in the inaugural 8142 Review, the new literary journal from the Peninsula Pulse and Write On, Door County?  The Hal Prize offers prizes for works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography. Work will be judged by a prestigious panel of writers and photographers.  Coburn and Tad Dukehart will lend their eye to the photography contest in 2021. Coburn is the multimedia director for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, and Tad retired to Door County after a 40-year career in news photography in Washington DC.  Faith Adiele takes on the mantle for nonfiction this year. Adiele has won a Pen Award, been featured in a documentary for PBS and was Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun. She has worked in collaboration with HBO's Calm, where her story was read by actor Idris Elba. Lan Samantha Chang joins this year's lineup as the fiction judge. This Appleton native is is the director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark Wunderlich, the author of four books and winner of the Rilke Prize, will judge poetry. He is a member of the Literature Faculty at Bennington College in Vermont, and where he became the first director of Poetry at Bennington. He is the recipient of Writers at Work Award, the Jack Kerouac Prize and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the MacDowell Colony. Prizes First place in all categories receives $250 and a Hal Prize mug from Clay Bay Pottery Second place in all categories receives $100
Third place in all categories receives $50 The 8142 Review will be published in November 2021, when winners are announced. Visit www.thehalprize.com to enter and for more information.

David Eliot and Thomas McKenzie became co-founders of the Peninsula Pulse in the summer of 1996. In this episode of the Story of the Pulse, Andrew Kleidon is joined by Eliot and McKenzie, who share stories about meeting at Lawrence University, their eventual move to Door County and the first five years of the publication.

David Eliot and Thomas McKenzie became co-founders of the Peninsula Pulse in the summer of 1996. In this episode of the Story of the Pulse, Andrew Kleidon is joined by McKenzie to talk about his recollection of spending time with his uncle, James McKenzie, backstage at the Peninsula Players Theatre, his meeting Eliot at Lawrence University, and how the Pulse was born.

Andrew Kleidon is joined by Special Issues Editor Grace Johnson and Vanessa McGowan, musician and Pulse music writer, to talk about everything you can find within the 2021 Summer Music Preview. This years issue is full to the brim with featured musicians, including two bands presented by the Peninsula Pulse, weekly live music, performance venues, interesting band names, and more. For more live music, concerts, and more, check out the events calendar at https://doorcountypulse.com/events/

Andrew Kleidon and Myles Dannhausen chat about some of the new businesses and experiences available this year, from Myles' jaunt up the newly completed Eagle Tower, a look inside the Dorr Hotel, and a few shoutouts from the New Business issue of the Peninsula Pulse, available now.

Andrew Kleidon is joined by Pulse Co-Founder David Eliot and his dog, Oxford, to talk about the history of the Peninsula Pulse. On this episode, Dave takes us back to 2008, where a conversation was taking place around a table at Al Johnson's that would lead to the very first Door County Half Marathon, and the formation of the Peninsula Pacers, which would bring thousands of new faces to Door County to run, bike, play hockey, and drink good beer for years to come.

Andrew Kleidon is joined by Pulse Co-Founder David Eliot and his dog, Oxford, to talk about the history of the Peninsula Pulse. On this episode, Dave goes over the last five years, coming to call Bailey's Harbor home, how the community has changed, and how it's stayed the same. Also, in 2020 after years of construction to create the Pulse's final home, Dave sits alone in the office one March morning after sending the staff to work from home in response to rapidly increasing cases of COVID-19 in America, wondering when – or if – the newly finished office will be full again.

A few short years into the publication of the Peninsula Pulse, Myles Dannhausen Jr. saw within its pages, not only stories that spoke to him as a young adult in Door County, but an opportunity to grow his fledgling family business, Dano’s Peninsula Pizza through advertising. Luckily for him, when Pulse founder David Eliot walked through the doors of Dano’s for the first time, he saw an opportunity in Dannhausen as well – free pizza. Over 25 years later, Eliot and Dannhausen are business partners, and on this episode of the Door County Pulse Podcast Dannhausen remembers the early days of the Pulse, how his contributions grew beyond pizza to writing, and the journey he and Eliot have gone on together as the Pulse evolved.

Andrew Kleidon sits down with Pulse Co-Founder David Eliot and his dog Oxford to tell the story of the Peninsula Pulse. Over the years the Pulse offices have been located all across the county, save for a few spots. In this episode Dave recounts the first five years of the paper, all of the many offices the he's worked out of, and the people who've come and gone through the doors.

Andrew Kleidon sits down with Pulse Co-Founder David Eliot and his dog Oxford to tell the story of the Peninsula Pulse. In a time when artists, restaurants, and concert venues weren't posting every upcoming event on social media, how did a fledgling newspaper find stories to tell each issue? Where were young people hanging out in the late 90's in Door County, and are they still there today?

Andrew Kleidon sits down with Pulse Co-Founder David Eliot and his dog Oxford for the first time on the Door County Pulse Podcast to tell the story of the Peninsula Pulse. On this episode Dave recounts his youth, how he reinvigorated both his high school and college newspapers with a shift to digital layouts, and how he, along with Tom McKenzie and a small group of young artists, came to publish the very first issue of the Peninsula Pulse newspaper in 1996.

Andrew sits down with Door County's first certified cicerone Sophie Nelson to talk about interesting beer facts, what a cicerone is and what the lengthy certification process entailed, and how she's been able to put her knowledge to practice in the county and within the pages of the Peninsula Pulse in her column: Suds with Sophie.

Andrew is joined by Peninsula Pulse reporter, social media editor, and local musician Celeste Benzschawel to talk about her past endeavors in music, as well as what she's been doing to exhibit her talents now. Stay tuned until the end for a performance by Celeste.

Andrew Kleidon and Alissa Ehmke talk all about the 2019 Hal Prize. Every year the Peninsula Pulse invites people of all ages, backgrounds and artistic abilities to submit stories, photographs and poems for a chance to be published in our annual Hal Prize literary and photography issue. The Hal Prize is held in the spirit of the late Hal Grutzmacher, a professor and Door County bookstore owner, by offering commentary and encouragement to promising writers and photographers.

It seems like there's a festival every weekend in Door County this time of year! Andrew and Myles recap the Door County Beer Festival and Peninsula Century: Spring Classic, and prepare for this weekend's Uncork Summer, and Wine Fest. Also this week: Recall Petitions Filed Against 2 County Supervisors for Millpond Votes, The Village of Sister Bay Rescinds Assembly-Hall Zoning, The Granary is scheduled to move back across the bridge on July 24th, and a special Graduation Issue of the Peninsula Pulse comes out today, featuring the 2019 graduates, and noteworthy Door County alumni.

Andrew Kleidon and Myles Dannhausen are joined this week by Aleah Kidd to discuss the challenges they've faced hunting for a house in Door County. Plus, the team talks about updates to the upcoming highway reconstruction project, and new columns featuring the DCVB and DCEDC in upcoming issues of the Peninsula Pulse.

Andrew Kleidon and Myles Dannhausen are back to recap this weeks news, and give you a glimpse at the upcoming issue of the Peninsula Pulse and Door County Living Magazine. We go over the county board's decision not to follow in the footsteps of a number of counties in putting Marijuana on the referendums, the upcoming road construction and what it will mean for Fish Creek Businesses, and take a look inside the upcoming issue of Door County Living Magazine. For our feature this week Andrew, Matt, and Aleah discuss Cherry Lanes, Door County's new Arcade Bar and Bowling Alley.

Andrew Kleidon and Myles Dannhausen are back this week to discuss some interesting news featured in this week's Peninsula Pulse. Andrew also sits down with Alissa Ehmke about her recent interview with US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Our feature this week centers around the DNR's sketches of the new Eagle Tower design, featuring a 60-foot observation tower and a 1,000-square foot observation deck .

This week on the Door County Pulse Podcast Andrew Kleidon is joined by Myles Dannhausen, writer and editor for the Peninsula Pulse, to talk about the future of the Weborg fishing property in Gills Rock, and the registration for the 2019 Door County Half Marathon. For our feature this week, we discuss the sale of the iconic Horseshoe Bay Farms to a family that hopes to put it into a non-profit to make it a community space.

This week Andrew Kleidon has a sneak peak at some of the articles you'll be able to read in this week's issue of the Peninsula Pulse, as well as an interview with Peninsula Filmworks Intern Sam Kersebet. We talk growing up in Door County, seeing the county from a new perspective, and what it's been like telling the stories we've documented here all summer long.

Andrew Kleidon is joined this week by Myles Dannhausen to talk about the news you can read in this weeks issue of the Peninsula Pulse. Talking points include: The new staircase leading from the bluff to the water in Ports Des Morts park. The County League Baseball Championships between Sister Bay and Egg Harbor. Our feature this week is the approval of the new Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park.

This week Andrew Kleidon is joined by Jackson Parr to talk about food truck litigation, the cost of the winter storm Evelin, Ephraim's speed limit, and Door County Underground. In our interview this week, Andrew talks with Matt Marcon, the new Multimedia Manager for the Peninsula Pulse about his time in New York, and what brought him back to Door County.

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